Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-06-16
FUNDS FOR FARMERS.
The Part Our Agriculturists Take
In Feeding the World.
ALL PREVIOUS RECORDS SMASHED.
Last Year Witnessed the Expectation oi
the Greatest Amount In yalue OF
Produce and Provisions Ever
Reached In Our History.

WASHINGTON, June i9.-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 preced-
ing year In the history of the country.
Even the highwater mark OF 1899,
when u exports of agricultural prod
ucts amounted to s7e0, 1928, 2S2, Will be
surpassed by the record OF the year,
which closes with this month. The
preliminary reports Of May axporta-
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
$500 600, 900, the total for the year be-
ing likely to reach SS55 100000. Never
before have the exports of agricultural
products reached the $500, 900 600 line,
and never but twice have they been as
much as 500, 00O, 900, the two occasions
In which they passed the 800. 600, 600
line being In 1884 and 1883.
Compared with the last fiscal year,
the increase in exports of agricultural
products will be fully $3.50, 900, 600, and
compared with the preceding year the
increase will be over $3.50, o00, 500, 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 9 l,0Oo,-
900 for each business day, and will be
nor than 500, 600, 900 In excess of last
years exports of breadstuffs Nearly
all articles classed as breadstufPs have
participated In this increase. OF wheat
the value Of the exports for the fiscal
year 1893 will be more than double
those of the fiscal year 1897,
while the increase In flour will be
nearly 80 per cent, and of corn nearly
30 per cent In value May exports of
corn were largey than those Of any
other month In the history Iof the
country, while the total exports of
corn for the year for the first time will
pass the 200, Oo0 ZOO bushels line the to-
tai in only three preceding years having
reached 1oO, 0OO, 900 bushels Cornmeal,
oats and oatmeal and rye show q strik-
Ing increase, the gain In oatmeal being
more than 80 per cent. over last year,
and that OF oats 100 per cent, while In
rye thS gum 10 d1So AuAAy
large.
provisions" in which term are in
cluded beef, hog and dairy products,
also show d marked increase, the total
exports Of provisions for the year be-
ing likely to reach $3.50, 600, 900 In value.
Most ofthis increase, however, Is In hog
products, expectations of bacon which
were S34, 1s7, lat In value last year, be-
ing likely to reach e44 ,0OO,O 900 this year
and lard showing a similar increase,
being likely to Secach S37, 600, 900 this
year, o a gain of nearly $1,000, 900,
Live beef seems to be gaining in
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
579, 1888. against $40. ATS in the CORE
spending month of last year; while
fresh beef in the same period fell from
242, los, 034 pounds in ten months of
1897, to 227, 434 1878 pounds in the cor
responding ten months of 1893. Sailed
beef shows a fall of IS per cent for the
year, and canned beef from AZ, $40, OO6
pounds in the ten months of 1897, to
34,0l1, 1870 pounds in the ten months of
1909