The evening times., 1899-07-17
AMERICAS Flour TRADE
Banner Record Made During the
Past Fiscal Year.
While Expectations of other Bread
sfuffs show u Reduction, the Mil
lcrs Did a Bigger Business Abroad
Than Ever BefOre-Mach OF the
Product Was Sent to the Orient.

its manufacturers generally, lave made
their banner record in the fiscal year
1899, says, a report from the Treasury Bu-
reau Of Statistics. While wheat, corn.
oats, cornmeal, oatmeal. rye and, in fact.
all lines, OF breadstufis show reduction
in expectation by reason of the decreased
demand abroad, -four alone shows an in
crease, and not cnly an increase, but
reaches the highest point in the history
of flour expectation. For the fiscal year
the total expectation Of flour is over lS,-
000, 600 barrels, representing over SO,000,-
Geo bushels of wheat, while TO preceding
year in the history of American exporta-
-tions shows great foreign trade In
flour.
While flour is not included with manu-
factures in the general Classification OF
the Treasury Bureau OF Statistics, being
retained under the general term bread
stuffs" the fact that American labor ana
the results OF American enterprise entef
into its transition frcm wheat 10 -four and
thus proves advantageous TO labor anu
business enterprise adds to the satisfac-
tion with which Americans will note the
steady growth in the expectation Of foir,
even in the face OF the reduced demand
abroad for breadstuffs The shortage in
breadstuffs in other parts CT the world In
1897 and 1898 caused as wei known,
general advance in prices, and the better
crops OF the year just past resulted in
lower prices and less demand for our
breadstuffs. This fact accounts for the
reduction in Americas expectation In
other lines of breadstuifs. and tEat flour
exports should have continued TO increase
in h. fac Nf radmrrinn in Mt her lines
is especially gratifying to those interested
in seeing American labor participate as
largely as possible in the pronts OF Ameri-
can expectations.
The average price per bushel OF wheat
exported during the fiscal year 1889 was
! 74.I7 cents, and the average prize per
bushel for the wheat exported in the form
/ Of -four was SI.57 cents, calculating
! that four and a half bushes Of wheat are
| utilized in the production OF a barrel of
! -four. This adds l2.g cents TO the aEoInt
of money received for each blshei OF
wheat sent abroad in this form, thus
bringing TO American Industry over Sl0,-
G0U. .UUO during the year as compensation
to the enterprise which transformed tie
I s.. .GeO.Co0 bushels Of grain into the $780,
eC0 barrels OF -four exported.
/ The expoi tation OF -four from the United
1 States has made its chief development
since 1879. Prior to that date American
millers followed the old process of 1890 in
the manufacture of -four, while European
millers were experimenting with and bring
{ ing 10 success the modern roller mill
! methods. As a result the foreign -four
trade of the United States met with serious
/ reverses during the period from 1880 TO
/ 1875, European consumers preferring TO
! buy the wheat and themselves transform il
! into -four b. their new process which the
l,l ,l.a,
! adopted.
Writing OF this period of depression in
the export trade CT American -four, Charles
/ A. Pillsbury says that, while our millers
! in 1854 sent ! $4,000 barrels of -four to
Great Britain alone, they sent in 1855 only
2c0 eco barrels TO all Europe" and that
! while during the five years ending with
1890 over - per cent of the value OF wheat
| and -four exports was flour, in the five
years 1S70-'75 only 27.s per cent OF wheat
! and -four exports was in -four In 1875 the
| expectations of wheat flour were 1873, l2S
barrels; in 1880. 6.0l1,4 barrels; in 1885,
10 CAS- Jas: in 1880, l., ,23l, III; in 1895, 15,-
26S. ss2 and in 1899, will be about 1S,300,-
coo barrels. the exact figures having not
yet been completed by the Treasury Bureau
of Statistics.
| While there is a gratifying increase in
the expectation OF flour in every direction,
| the most strongly marked growth is to-
| ward the Orient. The expectations of flour
| to Hongkeng in the year 1899 will consid-
( erably exceed 10000 barrels, while in
1889 the number was but 37S, ,634. Flour for
Hongkong goes mostly TO China. though
considerable quantities are shipped direct
from Hongkong 10 Japan, the Philippines,
| and various islands Of Oceanica-
| To japan direct American exports of
-four have grown from 1857 barrels in
1889 to about 90. coo in 1899; to all Asia
| fTcm 41S, ,353 barrels in 1889 TO about L.
| 75c eco barrels in 1899 To South America
the growth has been less rapid, the total
! for 1889 b5ing Ices. l6I barrels. while that
for 1889 will he but z little more than the
| figure Cf a decade ago. Germany, to which
| this country sent but 13.009 barrels OF -four
| in 1889 takes in 1929 nearly 100000 barrels,
this being a large increase over last year.
| Netherlands, TO which. America sent but
| -, eco barrels in 1889, took in 1898, over
| coo. coo barrels. the figures for 1899 not
being yet completed. To the United King
| dom, American exports of -four in 1889
| we're 5.27la44 barrels. and in 1899 will
| exceed I0C00, Geo barrels.