Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1898-06-16
BEATS ALL RECORDS.
Value of Exports of Products of the
United States for the Past Year
VIII Exceed $500, 900. 900.

Washington. June 1s.-The farmers OF the
United States are drawing upon other parts
OF the world for more money in the fiscal
year which ends this month than in any
preceding year In the history of the coun-
try. Even the high-water mark OF 1892,
when our exports OF agricultural products
amounted to 1873, S2S .232, will be surpassed
by the record of the year which closes
with this month The preliminary reports
OF May expectations which have reached
the bureau OF statistics make il quite APP
parent that the agricultural exports OF
the vea- will be considerably in excess of
$SO0,OOO,O00 the total for the year being
likely TO reach $685.. 900 900. 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,-
600, the two occasions in which they passed
the S7O0,0OO.000 line being in 1881 and 1892.
Compared with the last fiscal year the in
crease in exports of agricultural products
Will be fully $4,000, 900, and compared with
the preceding year the increase will be
over $3.50, 900 600, while the total will be fully
so per cent. in excess of that of the fiscal
year 1895.
In breadstuffs alone the exports of the
year will amount to nearly 81 100000 for
each business day and will be more than
Sl0o, 100000 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 ex-
ports Tor the fiscal year 1893 will be more
than double those of the fiscal year 1897;
while the increase in -four will be nearly 50
per cent. and of corn nearly 50 per cent. in
value. May exports of corn were larger
than those of any other month in the his
tory of the country, while the total exports
OF corn for the year for the first time will
pass the 200,00O,000 bushel line, the total in
only three preceding years having reached
100 000, 900 bushels. Cornmeal, oats and oat-
meal and rye show a striking 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 included
beef. hog and dairy products. there is also
a marked increase, the total exports of
provisions for the year being likely TO reach
S160, 600 600 In value. Most of this increase,
however, is in hog products expectations Of
bacon, which were $34, 1S7,147 in value last
year, being likely to reach $44. 600 this
year, and lard showing a similar increase.
being likely to reach $37, 200, 600 this year, or
a gain of nearly 100000. Live beef seems
to be gaining in popularity with our for
eign customers, the exports of beef cattle
havine increased materially, while those of
beef. either fresh. canned or sailed, have
failed to show any increase, in most ca ses
a decided falling of being noticeab BILE. The
exports of beef cattle during the first ten
months of the fiscal year were S79, 663,
against S10,4Ts in the corresponding months
of last year, while fresh beef In the same
period fell from PAP. 034 pounds in ten
months of 1897 to 227, 434, 1873 pounds in the
corresponding ten months of 1898. Sailed
beef shows a fall of IS per cent. for the
year and canned beef from As, 349, O06 pounds
in the ten months of 1897 to "a. oh, 129 pounds
in the ten months of 1898.