Evening star., 1898-06-13
BANNER YEAR FOR EXPORTS.
Agricultural Products Sent Away
VIII BE over S>0O.000.Oe0.

The farmers of the United States are
draw & 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 country. Even the high
water mark of 1892. when our exports of
agricultural products amounted to S199.
32S, ,232, will be surpassed by the record OF
the year which closes 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 SS00.oC0.o00, the
total for the year being likely to reach
SS31,tO0O0o. Never before have the eX-
ports of agricultural products reached the
sSG0,oc0,o00 line, and never but twice have
they been as much as $700,ooo,00O. the two
occasions in which they passed the $500
ooo,o1J line being in 1881 and 1892. Com
pared with the last fiscal year the increase
IN exports of agricultural products will be
fully SlJ0,GD,o0o, and compared with the
preceding year the increase will be over
s25o, 10000, while the total will be fully
30 per cent in excess of that of the fiscal
year 1895.
In breadstuffs alone the exports of the
year will amount to nearly 100000 for
each business day, and will be more
than 500 ,0G0, 900 in excess of last years
ciassed as breadstuffs 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 -four
will be nearly 30 per cent and of
corn nearly 50 per cent in value. May
exports of corn We're larger than those
OF any other month in the history of the
country, while the total exports of corn
for the year for the first time will pass the
20o0O0,OO0 bushel line, the total in only
three preceding years having reached the
1Oo,eoO0oo bushels. Cornmeal, oats and oat-
meal and rye show a striking increase the
gain in oatmeal being more than Go per cent
over last year, and that of oats 100 per
cent while in rye the gain is also phenom-
enally large.
In provisions" in which term are in
Guided beef, hog and dairy products, there
Is also marked increase, the total exports
of provisions for the year being likely to
leach $lG0,0o0,000 in value Most of this
increase, however, is in hog products ex-
portations of bacon, which We're 34lS1 li7
IN value last year. being likely to reach
sH,uo,oo0 this year, and lard showing
similar increase, being likely to reach S37.-
ooo,oO this year, or gain of nearly 5000
Goo Live beef seems to be gaining in popu-
larity with our foreign customers the ex-
ports OF beef cattle having increased ma
terially, while those of beef. either fresh
canned or salted, have failed to show any
increase, in most cases decided falling
OH being noticeable. The exports of beef
cattle during the first ten months of the
fiscal year We're 319,663, against 3IO41S
POUNDS in the corresponding months OF last
year while fresh beef in the same period
feli from 242, 16S, 034 pounds in ten months
OF 1877 to 9l, 43i.373 pounds in the CORE
spending ten months of IS3S. Sailed beef
SHOWS fall of 30 per cent for the year
and canned beef from 46 34a COG hounds in
the ten months of 1897 to 34ull l1g pounds
In the ten months of 1898.