The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-11-15
EATING CORN AND TMEAL.
Foreign Demand for the American
Products increasing.

WASHINGTON, Nov. li.-Special.-An
official statement regarding the exports
Of principal agricultural products, SHOWS
that in the item OF breadstuffs alone the
exports for the ten months ending Octo-
Der 81, 1888. amounted to $3.50 231, 455, which
Is So, eco, coo greater than IN the CORES
ponding months of last year and sS,Oe,-
900 in excess OF the exceptional year
1892. Provision exports also show a good
record, being for the ten months OF 1928
1852, $50, 6i3, against $3.50 ,039 In the cor
responding months OF last year and Sl23.
sos. 56S In 1892 Cotton exports for the ten
months are sl3.000O0O in excess OF last
year and the number Of pounds Is larger
than in any corresponding period in the
history of the country.
The demand for American corn which
has been especially subject OF attention
of late. seems 10 be steadily increasing
The October exports amounted 70 l25E,-
l55 bushels. against 7.g79,0S7 in the CORES
bonding months Of last year and for the
ten months amounted to 700S6,j sos bushels
against 1856. 356 373 In the ten months OF
the preceding year.
Nearly all the European countries seem
10 be developing a taste for our corn,
Great Britain, which took less than 10000
900 bushels In nine months Of 1886. having
taken 100000 bushels in the nine months
Of 1Sgs: France increased from less than
4O0oo0 bushels in 1896 10 over 100000
bushels in 1895: Germany. from less than
100000 bushels tn 1896 TO over 32009,0o0
bushels in 1898. To British North Amer
lea the exports OF corn were less than
100000 bushels in the nine months OF
1896. while they are over 2l,00O,o0o bushels
in 1898. though il Is probable that con-
siderable percentage of this IS sent into
Canada in transit and passes thence TO
European ports.
The hot countries do not appear 20 take
kindly to our corn. The Central Ameri-
can States, which IN nine months Of 1891
purchased 1893 63i bushels. took but ei,5a3
bushels in 1898: the South American coun-
tries, which in the nine months OF 1881
took ~. $50 bushels, took but 32.lO bushels
in 1898: West Indies dropped from J6ff5O
bushels in 1897 to 1856 bushels in l9so'
while Mexico, which took S7i9,2i5 bushels
I'm 1896. dropped 10 2,l9105l in 1897. and 10
l7,409 bushels in 1898. the large reduction
in Mexican purchases being due m part.
however, to better crops in the last year
than in the two preceding years.
American oatmeal is rapidly making for
itself a market abroad. II was only q 1T
tie over century ago that the manufac-
ture Of oatmeal in the United States was
begun, its use being suggested by the
fact that during the war period the pro
ductlon of rice in the United States was
materially reduced, thus leading to have
not only cultivated the American taste In
this direction. but made for the Ameri-
can product Il place IN the markets Of the
world.
The expectation Of oatmeal IN ISIS was
but 4. 800 2g3 pounds; IN 1892, 20.H0s, 1870.
in 1896. ~ 592. J04. in 1891 47,3l0,25l, and
In The fiscal year 1898 s3.JOo27O pounds.
The large proportion Of this goes 10
Europe Great Britain having last year
taken more than one-half ot the total
quantity exported. Netherlands about one
6fth. the remainder being distributed 70
Germany. Austria Hungary. Sweden and
Norway. Denmark and Italy. While a
considerable quantity went also 20 the
British West Indies and British Africa.