The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-06-13
OUR GREATEST YEAR.
Exports of Farm Products Exceed
ANY Previous Year in Our History.

Washington, June 13.-The farmers of
the United States are drawing upon
ey in the fiscal year which ends with
this month than in any preceding year
in the history of the country Even the
high water mark OF 1892, when our ex-
ports of agricultural products amount
ed TO $799, 32S, z32, will be surpassed by
the record Of the year which closes with
this month.
The preliminary reports of Nav ex-
portations which have reached the bu-
reau OF statistics make it quite appar-
ent that the agricultural exports of the
year viii be considerably in excess of
$SG0. 600 900, the total for the year being
likely to reach $685.. 600 00O Never be-
fore have the exports of agricultural
products reached the $500 600 900 line,
and never but twice have they been as
much as s700, 0OO.0 geo. the two occasions
in which they passed the $780, 000, 600 line
being in 1881 and 1882
Compared with the last fiscal year.
the increase in exports of agricultural
products will be fully $3.50. o0O, 900, and
compared with the preceding year the
increase will be over $3.50. 0OO, 600. while
the total will be fully 50 per cent in ex-
cess of that of the fiscal year 1895.
In breadstuffs alone the exports of
the year. will amount to nearly 81, 600. 900
for each business day, and will be more
than 800 000, 900 in excess of last years
exports of breadstufs. Nearly all ar
ticles classed a breadstuffs have par
ticfpated in this increase.
OF wheat the value Of the exports of
the fiscal year 1898 will be more than
double those of the fiscal year 1897,
while the increase in -four will be near
~ 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 Of the country,
while the total exports of corn for the
year for the first time Will pass the
200, 600, 0O0 busheI line, the total in only
three preceding years having reached
100 900 600 bushels. Corn meal oats and
oatmeal and rye show a striking in
crease, the gain in oatmeal being more
than so per cent over last year and
that of oats 100 Per cent, while in rye
the gain is also phenomena1ly large.
In provisions, in which term are in
cluded beef. hog and dairy products.
there is also a marked increase, the to-
tai exports of provisions for the year
being likely to reach $3.50 600, 0G0 in val
lie. Most of this increase however, is
in hog products. Expectations of ba-
con, which were 1874 1S7. lat in value last
year, being likely to reach S44, 900 GEO this
crease, being likely to reach $37, GOO 600
this year, or a gain of nearly SIS, 600, 900.
Live beef seems to be gaining in pop
uIarity with our foreign customers, the
exports of beef cattle having increased
materially. while those of beef either
fresh, canned or sailed have failed to
show any Increase, in most cases a de-
cided falling off being noticeable.
The exports of beef cattle during the
first ten months of the fiscal year were
379 663 pounds. against 3104 78 pounds in
the corresponding months of last year,
while fresh beef in the same period fell
from 242, 16S, 034 pounds in ten months
of 1897, to 227, 434, 373 pounds in the cor
responding ten months of 1888 Sailed
beef shows a fall Of 81 per cent for the
year. and canned beef from 46, 349. 006
pounds in the ten months of 1897, to 34,-
011.129 pounds in the ten months of
1898