The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1878-11-28
QUE EroR NOUS ExPoRrs.

Six months, In ADVANCE, 7a
QUIZ ENORM0Us EXPORTS.
From the New York Sun.
OF the foreign commerce of tho
country, New York continues to do
more than all the other ports combined.
During the past fiscal year New York
received 81 per cent. in value OF the
the ports of the United States, while
of the total exports for the same year
more than Al per cent. were shipped
from our harbor. During the nine
months since Jan. l, the imports of
merchandise have been to the value o
$2l46SO,O 600, while the exports foot up
nearly $264, 100000. The September
exports of domestic produce from this
port are unprecedented, reaching $32,-
lO4,8SO. 81. TIT
During the year ending june 80,
1878, the exports ofgoods, the produce
and manufacture of the United States,
were greater than ever before in the
history Of the country, the value being
$3.50. .683, ,79S, value of foreign products
exported, $14,2OO, ,402, we have an ag-
gregate of $694. 1884, 200. During the
same period the imports fell to $437,-
O5l .533, establishing an excess in the
value of exports over imports of $247-
832.667. This wide disparity between
the inward and outward movement
has created a condition of the trade
balance more extraordinary than any
thing hitherto experienced.
The exports of wheat and flour from
Atlantic and Pacific ports since Jply
l have been equal to SO, 356, ,239 bushels
of wheat, against Is, ,39S647 bushels for
the corresponding period in 1877. The
exports of wheat from San Francisco
during September are the largest on
record, much having been shipped to
France, where the deficiency of the
home crop will be great. The United
States will probably have a surplus of
12O.OOOOOO bushels of wheat from the
crop of 1878 available for export.
A constantly increasing portion of
England's external supplies of cereal
and animal food goes from this country
and there is no reason for supposing
that this market for our products has
reached the maximum of its demand.
for while England imported last year
$5OO,O0OOOO of those articles, we ex-
ported thither during the year ending
June 80, 1877, only $50, 1000, 600. This
leaves margin of $3.50, 600 open
for our competition. Large, therefore
as we have been wont to consider our
trade with England in food staples,
there is yet ample room for an exten-
sion of it provided we can successful
ly compete with other agricultural
countries in the cost of production
and transportation.
The large and steady increase of the
Europe cattle movement from this side
to Europe excites much attention
abroad. Hamburg papers announce
that American exporters contemplate
extending their operations to some of
the more important ports of the west
ern coast of the Continent. One of
the places they have in view is Ant
werp, through which large trade is
anticipated with the densely populated
manufacturing centers of Belgium,
aud with the chief towns of Rhine
land and Westphalia. Hamburg, hith-
erto an important place for the export
of cattle to England, is now become
an importer of cattle from the United
States. The trade with England has
made beef dear. Berlin, with its mill
lion of people, is only hundred and
sixty miles from Hamburg, whence
the American importations could cas-
lily be forwarded by rall.
Since the first of May last and up to
the 1st of September an average of
three thousand cattle week have been
shipped from Montreal, Boston, New
York, Philadelphia and Baltimore. A
large portion of :these-some $4,000
head, were shipped from Boston be-
cause the Cunard and Warren steam
ship lines have taken their old boats
and torn out the inside so as to make
them exclusively fitted for carrying
cattle from that port. At present the
British market can and will take, live
and dressed, four thousand head of
cattle week from the United States.
With abundant crops of grain, and,
we may say, millions of live stock, this
branch of our export trade promises to
assume vast proportions in the imme-
diate future. Nebraska and Wyoming
are great cattle raising points of the
United States. The valleys of the
Platte and its tributaries have oyer a
million cattle grazing in them.
That the volume of our present large
export movement will be sustained
and increased appears probable from
the fact of our annually increasing
crops, our vast undeveloped resources
and the stimulus which the exortation
of all sorts of food products, especial
~ wheat, corn and animals. has re.
ceived from the reduced costs0f trans
portation from the interior to the sea-
board.
A POOR man on his death bed made
his will. He called his wife to him
and told her of its provisions. Il
have left he said, my horse to my
parents, sell it and hand over the