Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-04-15
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England Gets the Largest share CT
Americas surplus Products.


England Gets the Largest share CT
Americas Surplus Products.
The exports OF American hams
amounted last year to I5o,0o0. 008
pounds, valued at Sl2.o00,00o, and l03.-
eo0,oo0 pounds Of this total were sent
10 6reat Britain. The other countries
with which there was considerable
trade in American hams We're Canada.
Cuba and Belgium The exports OF
bacon TO Europe last year amounted to
4-5,Qo0.O00 pounds OF the value Of $50
100000. More than three-quarters of
the product was sent to the United
Kingdom, and among other countries
Brazil rook an important place, with
imports from this country of 2o.O00,-
600 pounds, Germany following with
100000. Canada with 100000. Cuba
with 100000 and France with 4,O00.-
o00.
The expectation Of lard is still an
other important item Of American com
meree, amounting last year 10 100000
eco pounds. of the value of So. 000.0 600.
In the consumption of this article OF
American export the supremacy OF the
IIEtaE
in ham and bacon, for. although 2oo,-
GOO pounds, about 70 per cent. of the
total, went to England. Germany was
d consumer to the extent oil 1870. COO. 600.
or nearly rs per cent Of the total.
France followed with 32.e00.000. Cuba
with 26,000,000 and Brazil with 10000
pounds. IN this particular item Of ex-
ports, as in other items. Cuba as a mar
ket for American produce has lost its
Importance since the outbreak of the
Cuban war, and furnishes each month
steadily diminished market
The expectation of fresh beefamount-
ed last year to 225,O00.000 pounds. of
the value of S19.000.000, and substan-
tally all of this, except an infinitesimal
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 ne-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 year
A very large market for American
tallow, the expectation Of which in
creased enormously last year, was found
in France, to which S,600,000 pounds
We're sent Germany took G,7o0.o00
pounds, the Central American states.
100000, the West Indian islands, ex-
elusive of Cuba, Porto Rico and Hayti,
1,250,000, and Mexico, 100000. The
United Kingdom, ut the head of the list
in tallow, as III other articles of
produce in the provision trade.
took 100000 pounds, or about
40 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-4o,-
100000 pounds of the 60,000,0o0 pounds
exported. Germany took 100000
pounds, France, 100000, and Africa
3,5O0,000; 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
a year.