CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1898-06-16
Why Farmers Are Happy.

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ers 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 pre-
ceding year in the history of the
country. Even the high water mark
of 1892, when our exports of agri-
cultural products amounted to S799,-
32S. .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 makes
it quite apparent that the agricul-
tural exports of the year will be con-
siderably in excess of SS0O,OOO,oO
the total for the year being likely to
reach 1895, 100000. Never before
have the exports of agricultural pro-
ducts reached the $500, 100000 and
never but twice have they been as
much as $700,ooO,00o, the two occa-
sions being in 1881 and 1892. Com
pared with the last fiscal year the in
crease in exports of agricultural pro-
ducts will be fully $50, 100000, and
compared with the preceding year the
increase will be over $3.50, ,0O0, 900,
while the total will be fully SO per
cent. in excess of that of the fiscal
year of 1895.
In the breadstuffs alone the export
of the year will amount to nearly
81, 100000 for each business day, and
will be more than Sl00,0o0,000 in ex-
cess of last years exports OF bread
stuffs. Nearly all articles classed as
breadstuffs have participated in this
increase. OF wheat the value of the
exports of the fiscal year 1898 will
be more than double those of the fis-
cal 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 his
tory of the country, while the total
exports Of corn for the year for the
first time viii pass the 20o,00o,ooO
bushels line, the total in only three
years having reached i00o0,poo
bushels.
Cornmeal, oats and oatmeal and rye
show a striking increase, the gain in
oatmeal being more than 60 per cent
over last year and that of cats 100
per cent. while in rye The gain is also
phenomenally large.
In provisions in which term are
included beef, hog and dairy products,
there is also marked increase, the
total exports of provisions for the
year being likely to reach $50, 0,00o,-
600 in value. Most of this increase,
however, is in hog products, exporta-
tions of bacon, which were S34, ,lS7,-
l47 in value last year, being likely to
reach Sl4, 100000 this year, and lard
showing a similar increase, being like
ly TO reach S37, 600, 900 this year, or
a gain OF nearly Ss,0oo,ooo.
Live beef seems to be gaining in
with our foreign customers,
the exports Of beef cattle being in
creased materially, while those of
beef, fresh, canned or salted, have
failed to show any increase, in most
cases decided falling off being
The exports of beef cat
tie during the first ten months of the
fiscal year were 376, ,663, against 3l0,-
AIS in the corresponding months of
last year, while fresh beef in the same
period fel from PAP, l6S,o3i pounds
in ten months of 1897 to 22T, ,434, ,375 !
pounds in the corresponding ten
months of 1898. Salted beef shows
a fall of 81 per cent. for the year,
and canned beef from i6,349, 9,ll6
pounds in the ten months of 1867 to
34,oll,l29 pounds in the ten months
of 1898.
A Delightful Party.