Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-14
At Low DUTIES
Germany VIII Admit American
BreadStuffs.
Another Foreign Marekt to Be
Opened to Our Farmers.
Details of the Treaty Not Yet
Made Public.

Made Public.
The Price of Wheat VIII Undoubtedly BE
Dollar, If Not More, No Matter How
$50, 900, 900 Worth of Our Breadstuifs
and Their Products May BE Taken An
nualIy.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 14.-For the farmer
especially most important commercial
treaty has just been completed with
Germany 1t is believed in official circles
that 1t will operate more largely to our
advantage than any treaty we have, or
may acquire, as it provides a foreign
market for wheat and rye, and -four, and
their products-probably the largest
surplus produced by the American farm
ers. The details of the treaty are not
made public. 1t is understood that
this government awaits publicity on the
lart of Germany. The treaty was taken
to President Harrison, it is stated, while
he was recently at Saratoga, by General
John w. Foster, for the state depart
ment, and Baron Won Mumm, for the
German government, aud that ofici al
has been notified of its approval by the
latter.
Enough is learned of the provisions of
the treaty to state that it gives very
large and important concessions for the
entry into German ports of our cereals,
especially wheat ana rye, and the pro-
ducts thereof The duty levied upon
these articles by Germany is very heavy,
the duty on wheat and rye being about
thirty-two cents bushel, and on wheat
and rye flour and corn meal about one
and one-half cent pound. The special
rates given us in the treaty are said to
be very far below those named. Ger
many did not want to give us free ad-
mission Of those articles because it
would BET too large q concession to the
United States and too great discrimin-
alton against France, Roumania, Servia,
European Turkey, Canada and Rus
sia, which are large exporters
to the German empire. The first
five countries named averaged during
the past five or six years exports of rye
alone aggregating about 5000, 900 bush
els year, while Russia sent Germany
more than 20,000,000 bushels in 1890.
The exports of the United States to that
country averaged about 1000, 900 bush
els year. Our imports from Germany
in 1890 amounted to $9S, ,837, ,699, and in
1891, $97 ,316, 1888. In 1890 our exports
to Germany amounted to $94, ,315,2 ,215,
and in 1891, $91 ,684 1881, an increase of
81, 500, ,766. Germany has for many years
imported the bulk of her breadstuffs
and we have been trying to furnish
them, but have had nothing to trade.
We now give them concessions on sugar
by our new tariff law and Germany
takes of 80 much of the duty she has
levied upon all of our breadstuffs that
we will practically have monopoly and
can supply her to the exclusion of any
other country.
The concessions we get are so great
that overproductions in other countries
will not materially affect our market
there. We are undoubtedly entering
upon an era of dollar wheat. and it
promises to stay there. Throughout the
Kingdoms of Germany there was last
year not only very short crop of wheat
and rye, but potatoes and everything
else that could in a degree take the
place of our breadstuffs. Our wheat,
rye and corn have been pouring into the
ports of Germany recently and paying
the present high tariffs, and 1t is be-
lieved that they will stream in at very
much greater rate after January next,
when the provisions of the treaty
go into effect and our breadstuffs
pay the exceptionally low rates.
Bread is today so per cont. dearer
in Germany than it was FIVE years
ago, and potatoes are so per cent higher
than last year. Germany imported in
1890 breadstuffs to the value of $42,-
58,015, and last year $l7652,6 ,6S7. OF
these amounts we supplied in 1890, $4,
1924, ,99l, and in 1891, $2,042, ,404. 1t is
now believed that with the immense ad-
vantages that we will have over all other
countries under this new treaty, we can
supply nearly all of Germany's bread
stuffs, or an average of from $25, ,000,0 900
to 100000 900 year. With the aid of
our other commercial treaties, this
would provide a market for our entire
surplus at better figure than our farm
ers have received in the most favorable
years, like the present one, for instance.
The constant breadstuff demands Of
Germany, are four times as great as all
foreign producers can supply, making it
absolutely imperative that she should
look to this country for her supplies.
MAJ. VTso Cnr,, Rraad for fha