Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-06-16
UNPRECEDENTED EXPORTS.
Foreign Money for American Farmers
Over Eight Hundred Million for
the Current Year.

| WASHINGTON, June 13.-The farmers
of the United States are drawing upon
other parts of the world for more
money in the fiscal year which ends
| with this month than in any preeed-
| ing year in the history of the country
Even the highwater mark of 1892,
when our exports of agricultural prod
| ucts amounted to S799, 32S ,232, will be
surpassed by the record of the year,
which closes with this month The
preliminary reports of May exporta
tions which have reached the bureau
of statistics make it quite apparent
| that the agricultural exports of the
year will be considerably in excess of
| $500, 1000, 600, the total for the year be-
ing likely to reach $685., 900, 600 Never
before have the exports of agricultural
products reached the $500, 900 900 line,
and never but twice have they been as
much as $500, 000, 900, the two occasions
in which they passed the 500, 900, 600
line being in 1881 and 1892
Compared with the last fiscal year,
| the increase in exports of agricultural
products will be fully $3.50, 900, 900, and
compared with the preceding year the
increase will be over $3.50, 600, 900, while
| the total will be fully so per cent. in
excess of that of the fiscal year of 1895.
In breadstuffs alone the exports of
the year will amount to nearly 81 ,O0O,-
600 for each business day, and will be
more than 500, O0u, 900 in excess of last
years exports of breadstuffs. Nearly
all articles classed as breadstuffs have
participated in this increase. OF wheat
the value of the exports for the fiscal
year 1898 will be more than double
those of the fiscal year 1897,
while the increase in flour will be
nearly so per cent, and of corn nearly
so per cent. in value. May exports OF
corn were larger than those of any
other month in the history sof the
country, while the total exports of
corn for the year for the first time will
pass the 200 900, 900 bushels line, the to.
tai in only three preceding years having
reached 100, 900, 900 bushels. Cornmeal,
oats and oatmeal and rye show stril1.
ing increase, the gain in oatmeal being
more than 60 per cent. over last year,
and that of oats 100 per cent, while in
rye the gain is also phenomenally
large.
provisions, in which term are in,
StooCO OSSA5 mug IIAo Val pLcooSOoh
also show a marked increase, the total
exports of provisions for the year be-
ing likely to reach $16O, 900, 900 in value.
Most of this increase, however, is in hog
products, expectations of bacon which
were $34, 49,, 147 in value last year, be-
ing likely to reach $44, 00O,00 this year
and lard showing a similar increase,
being likely to recach $37, 200, 900 this
year, or a gain of nearly So, 600, 900.
Live beef seems to be gaining il
popularity with our foreign customers,
the exports of beef cattle having in.
creased materially, while those of beef
either fresh, canned or sailed, have
failed to show any increase, in most
cases a decided falling off being no.
ticeable.
The exports of beef cattle during the
first ten months of the fiscal year were
379,G63, against 310,478 in the CORE
spending month of last year; while
fresh beef in the same period fell from
242, JOS, O34 pounds in ten months of
1897, to 227, 434. 1913 pounds in the COR
responding ten months of 1898. Sailed
beef shows fall of S5 per cent. for the
year, and canned beef from &c, 349, COG
pounds in the ten months of 1897, to
"a, O11,129 pounds in the ten months of
1898.