The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-02-27
OUR PROVISION TRADE.
England Gets the Largest share OF
| Americas Surplus Products.


The exports of American hams
amounted last year to 130,o0o,oOu
pounds, valued at $12,OOO,Oo0, and 1885,
100000 pounds of this total were sent
to Great Britain. The other countries
with which there was considerable
trade in American hams were Canada,
Cuba and Belgium. The exports OF
bacon to Europe last year amounted to
425.OOO,OO0 pounds, of the value of $780,
100000. More than three-quarters of
the product was sent to the United
Kingdom, and among other countries
Brazil took an important place. with
imports from this country of 100000
900 pounds, Germany followinga with
100000. Canada with 100000, Cuba
with 100000 and France with 4,00O,-
600.
The expectation of lard is still an
other important item of American COM
merce, amounting last year to 100000
COO pounds, of the value of $34,000,O00.
In the consumption of this article of
American export the supremacy of the
United Kingdom is less marked than
in ham and bacon, for, although 2O0,-
900 pounds, about 40 per cent. of the
total, went to England, Germany was
consumer to the extent of 120,00O,000,
or nearly 25 per cent. of the total.
France followed with 81, 100000. Cuba
with 26,0OO,00O and Brazil with 13,O0O.-
pounds. In this particular item of ex-
ports, as in other items, Cuba as n mar
kct for American produce has lost it's
Importance since the outbreak of the
Cuban war, and furnishes each month
II steadily diminished market.
The expectation of fresh beefamount-
ed last year to 225,000,000 pounds, of
the value of S19.00O0O0, and substan-
tally all of this, except an infnitesimal
portion sent to the West Indies, was
taken by Great Britain. In the export
alton of sailed beef from the United
States to foreign countries one-half only
vas sent to the United Kingdom, the
balance being distributed among West
Indian islands, Germany, Canada and
South American countries, the amount
exported to Cuba amounting to less
than $500 worth In a year.
A very large market for American
tuiioN, the eNpOTtutlOn OF winch IN
creased enormously last year. was found
in France, to which 100000 pounds
were sent. Germany took 100000
pounds, the Central American states.
100000, the West Indian islands, en-
elusive of Cuba, Porto Rico and Hayti,
100000, and Mexico, 100000. The
United Kingdom. at the head OF the list
in tallow, as in other articles of
produce in the provision trade,
took 1S,0oo,000 pounds, or about
10 per cent. of the total Amer
lean expectation. More than two
thirds of the exports of American
canned products of meats and provi
sions were taken by Great Britain--40.-
100000 pounds of the 10000 900 pounds
exported. Germany took 7,50O,000
pounds, France, 5,400,000, and Africa
},500,000; 100000 pounds were sent to
Canada and 100000 pounds to Asia and
Oceanica, being the article of American
commerce which, it would seem. is
most widely diffused among the coun-
tries of the earth. There is, practically,
no expectation of American mutton,
and very little of fresh pork. The Amer
lean expectation of canned salmon
amounted last year to 100000
pounds, and the American expectation
OF oysters amounts to about 100000
4 year.