The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-06-13
FOOD: OF. THE WORLD
EUROPE POURS MILLIONS INTO
= Is F,e!A1IER1CA'S ,COFFERS ~.
Farmers Of the United States Are
Drawing Upon Other Parts of the
World for More Money for Fiscal
Year That Ends This Month Than
in Any Preceding Year in History
of the Country.

WASHINGTON, June 1.-THE farm
erS of the United States are drawing
upon other parts of the world for more
money for the fiscal year that ends
with 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 prod
ucts amounted to $799, 392, 522 will be
surpassed by the record of the year
which closes with this month The
preliminary reports of May eXporta-
tons which have reached the bureau
of statistics make it quite apparent
that the agricultural exports of the
year will be considerably in excess of
$SO0,OOO,0OO, the total for the year be-
ing likely to reach 1895, 600, 0O0
IS A RECORD BEATER.
Never before have the exports of
agricultural products reached the $780,
100000 line, and never but twice have
they been as much as $709, 900, 900, the
two occasions in which they passed the
500, 900 line being in 1881 and 1892
Compared with last fiscal year the in
crease in exports Of agricultural prod
ucts will be fully $150000,0O0 and COM
pared with the preceding year the
increase will be over $3.50, 000,O0O while
IN
excess of that of the fiscal year 1895.
In breadstuffs alone the exports Of
the year will amount to nearly $1,000
600 for each business day and will be
more than $100,000,000 in excess of last
years exports of breadstuffs Nearly
all articles classed as breadstuffs have
participated in this advanceetaoi rdl
participated in this increase.
TREMENDOUS WHEAT EXPORTS
In wheat the exports of the fiscal year
1898 will be nearly double those of the
fiscal year 1897. while the increase of
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 history of
the country, while the total exports of
corn for the year, for the first time,
will pass the 100000 900 bushels line. the
total in only three preceding years
having reached 10O.0OOOOO bushels.
COrnmeal, oats and oatmeal and rice
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 pheno-
menally large.
HOG PRODUCTS GREAT.
In provisions, in which term are in
cluded beef hog and dairy products.
there is also a marked increase, the
total exports of provisions for the year
being likely to reach 100000, 900 in val
Tie. Most of this striking increase,
however, is in-hog products, exports of
bacon, which were S34, S17,147 in value
last year, being likely to reach S44, OOO,-
600 this year, and lard showing a SINH
lar increase, being likely to reach $751;
100000 this year, or a gain of nearly
$S,000,000. Live beef seems to be gain
ing in popularity with our foreign GUS
toners, the exports of beef cattle hav-
ing increased materially, while those of
| beef, either fresh, canned or sailed,
have failed to show any increase, in
most cases a decided falling off being
noticeable. The exports Of beef cattle
during the first ten months Of the fiscal
year were 379,610, against 3d. 1S in the
corresponding months of last year,
while fresh beef in the same period fell
| from PAP, 16S,0 34 pounds in ten months of
1897 to 227, 434,37 pounds in the CORE
spending ten months of 1885, Sailed
beef shows fall of S5 per cent for the
year, and canned beef from 46.349, COG
pounds in the ten months Of 1897, to
S4,011 ,129 pounds in the ten months Of
! 1895.