Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-06-12

CORN EXPORTS BOOMING.
A Rapidly Widening Market Abroad
for American Msise-Ensland
Oup Rest Cuafomer


for American 1Iaise-EnEland
H. Our Best Customer. 1,
WASHINGTON. June 1.-American corn
is evidently making rapid progress in pub
lie favor. May exports Of corn were larger
than those Of any month in the history OF
the country and the total exports for the
fiscal year will be. more than double those
Of any preceding year except 1897, and
largely in excess of that year. Reports to
the bureau Of statistics show that the
expectation Of corn for the fiscal year end
ing with this month will considerably ex-
ceed 200,000,0OO bushels and when 1t Is re-
membered that IN only three preceding
years In the history Of the country have
the exports OF corn reached the 10000 0O
bushel mark, 1t will be seen that the gains
in exports during the present year have
been very great. The first year in which
the corn exports reached the 1O0,OOOOO0
bushel line was 1880 when they were 1OS-
4S,709. In 1895 they were 101, 100. .375 BUSH
els; in 1887. 17s, 81. .4N bushels. and in 1888
will doubtless reach. If not exceed. 210,000.-
900 bushels. The shortage In other classes Of
breadstuffs abroad and the high prices Of
wheat and flour have evidently turned at
'tention to American corn, the exports dur
ing May having averaged fully 100000
bushels for each business day, the aver,
age for the preceding months of the year
being less than II. 900, 900 bushels per month.
and during 1897 being less than 100000
bushels per month; while in 1896 the aver
age was less than 100000 bushels per
month. Indeed the expectation of corn in
1898 will, measured by quantity, exceed that
of wheat in any year in the history of
the country, except 1892. though, of course,
in value or per cent Of domestic, product,
exported corn falls far below wheat.
Great Britain is our largest customer in
regard to corn as in most other of our ex-
ports. The total expectations to the United
Kingdom for the first ten months of the
present fiscal year being 6S,066.775 bushels,
out OF total of 163.654.1S4 bushels. The
next largest customer is Germany, which
took in the ten months in question 20 ,876
bushels, while all other countries of Eu-
rope took less than 100000 bushels. Brit
ish North America 15,105,053 bushels. and
Cuba 1,045. .472 bushels. Mexico, which I'M
ported about 100000 900 bushels Of corn from
the United States in 1897. took but 1ls, ,SS3
bushels in the first ten months of the pres
ent year. 4
The shortage in breadstuffs in other parts
Of the world is also being felt in its effects
which Is the present fiscal year VIII be
more than double that of any preceding
Of for hat ehe
being 67,4H.246 pounds of oatmeal and S.
9f6,n2 bushels of oats. against 40.451027
oats in the corresponding ten months of
1887. -, .<~ -.
The following table shows the exports Of
corn during the past ten years. the fg-
ures for 1888 including but ten months Of
the fiscal year. The exports of cornmeal
are included in the statement, being reduced
to the bushei unit by the usual method of
the bureau of statistics, which calculates
that each barrel of meal represents four
bushels Of corn, -four being calculated at
the rate Of four and half bushels Of
wheat to each barrel of horr.