The Indianapolis journal., 1898-11-14
BETTER FOR FARMERS.
Value of BreadstufRs Exported Has
Broken the Record.

Broken the Record.
| Special to the indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Nov 1S.--The farmers of
the United States will receive during 1898
more money from abroad for their products
than in any preceding year. A statement
cultural products just issued by the treas
ury Bureau of Statistics shows that in the
item of breadstuffs alone the exports for the
ten months ending Oct 81 1885, amounted
to $3.50, ,2S7, 455, which is $65,OOO,OOO greater
than in the corresponding months of last
year and $3s, 100000 in excess Of the excep-
tional year 1892. Provision exports also
show good record, being for the ten
months of 1898 S162 $50 64S, against $146 607 039
in the corresponding months of last year
| and $123, sos, 568 in 1892 Cotton exports for
the ten months are $13, OO0,O 600 in excess Of
last year and the number of pounds is
| larger than in any corresponding period in
the history of the country.
The expectation of practically all classes
of farm products has increased In wheat
corn, rye, oats, oatmeal, cotton, bacon,
hams, lard, oleomargarine, fresh beef and
many other articles of farm production the
expectations of the ten months are not only
in excess of those Of the corresponding
months of last year, but larger than in any
previous year.
The demand for American corn which has
been subject of especial attention of late,
seems to be steadily increasing The Oc-
tober exports amounted to II, 547s s155 bushels,
against 7,979,0S7 in the corresponding months
of last year, and for the ten months
amounted to 1700S6, 500 bushels against 1876,
356S13 in the ten months of the preceding
year. Nearly all the European countries
seem to be developing taste for our corn,
Great Britain, which took less than 4O,O00,-
600 bushels in nine months of 1896, having
taken 5S,000,000 bushels in the nine months
of 1898; France increased from less than A.
coo, 000 bushels in 1896 to over S00o 900 bushels
in 1898; Germany from less than 1900 900
bushels in 1896 to over 100000 bushels in
1S98 To British North America the exports
of corn were less than 5000, 600 bushels in
the nine months of 1886, while they are over
2lO00,000 bushels in 1898, though it is prob
able that considerable percentage of this
is sent into Canada in transit and passes
thence to European ports. The hot coun-
tries do not appear to take kindly to our
corn. The Central American States, which
in nine months of 1897 purchased IOS, ,634
bushels, took but 1888 bushels in 1898; the
South American countries, which in the nine
months of 1897 took $3.50 bushels, took but
S2,710 bushels in 1898; the West Indies
dropped from 564. 45O bushels in 1897 to 55l,-
$50 bushels in 1898, while Mexico, which
took 245 bushels in 1886, dropped to q
7s7,051 in 1897 and to 17.4O9 bushels in 1885,
the large reduction in Mexican purchases
being due in part, however to better crops
in the last year than in the two preceding
years.
American oatmeal is rapidly making for
itself market abroad. 1t was only d little
over a quarter of a century ago that the
manufacture of oatmeal in the United
States was begun. its use being suggested
by the fact that during the war period the
production of rice in the United States was
materially reduced, thus leading to the es-
tablishment of oatmeal mills which have
not only cultivated the American taste in
this direction, but made for the American
product place in the markets of the world
The expectation of oatmeal in 1855 was but
1929 29s pounds in 1892 209OS, l90, in 1896 3S,-
592, 504, in 1897 47Sl0,251 and in the fiscal year
1898 S.. 500 go pounds. The large proportion
of this goes to Europe, Great Britain having
last year taken more than one-half of the
total quantity exported, Netherlands about
one-ffth, the remainder being distributed
to Germany. Austria Hungary, Sweden and
Norway, Denmark and Italy. while u con-
siderable quantity went also to the British
West Indies and British Africa
The following table shows the exports of
breadstuffs provisions and cotton in the ten