The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-01-15
EXPORTS TO ASIA
INCREASE ON FARM PRODUCTS OF
ELEVEN MILLION DOLLARS IN
FIVE YEARS
MARKET In THE ORIENT
NOTABLE GAINS SHOWN IN FIGURES
JUST MADE PUBLIC AT
WASHINGTON
COLLECTED FOR FIRST TIME

Average Yearly Value of Farm Prod
ucts Sent Out of the United States
An the periOd Named More Than
Six Hundred Million DOIIars-Eng-
land the Largest Consumer of
American Produce.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.-Frank H.
Hitchcock, chief Of the foreign markets
division of the agricultural department,
has prepared interesting figures, showing
for the first time the respective amounts
of our agricultural exports which go to
the several countries of Europe and of
the other continents. The period covered
is 1894 to 1898.
The statement shows that the agricul-
tural products exported from the United
States during the five years had an aver
age annual value of 1868 536, ,201 OF these
enormous exports about 60 per cent found
market in the United Kingdom and its
various dependencies. The sum paid by
the British people for American farm
produce, purchased during the period
mentioned, reached as high as s403, ,953, 1854
q year Great Britain alone took more
than one-half of all our agricultural ex-
ports, the consignments credited to that
country forming about IS per cent of the
total shipments and having an average
annual value of 1852, ,4O7,701.
Germany, which ranks next to the
United Kingdom as a market for the
products of American agriculture, re-
ceived about 13 per cent of the exports
for 1S94-1S9S, the average yearly value
amounting to $S6,32o,274.
France, with purchases that averaged
t43,9SS, 79O a year, or about Sc per cent of
the total was the third country In i'm
portance. These three countries-the
United Kingdom, Germany and France
received together nearly 75 per cent of
the total agricultural exports.
After the three countries just mention
ed, the Netherlands, Belgium, Canada,
Italy and Spain afforded the most impor-
tant markets. The Netherlands about 43
per cent of the total; Belgium, 36 per
cent; Canada 35 per cent; Italy, % per
cent, and Spain 1.5 per cent.
ANNUAL AVERAGES.
The average annual values of the ex-
ports to these countries were: Neither
lands, SIS, 500, 1856; Belgium, $23, ,731 1863; Can
ada, $23,O2O,517; Italy, $14264, ,424, and Spain
s9,761.S7O Brazil took $6,25S,729 Cuba,
$6,O99,924 Denmark, $500 952 exports to
the country doubling during the five-year
period; the British West Indies, $5,241, ,657 :;
Mexico, $4,636 1856; British Africa, 81, 13S, ,92O,
and European Russia $1,000, ,236. The av-
erage yearly exports to Hong Kong were
valued at $S555,5SS and those to Japan at
$S,4O7,SOO. For Portugal the average an
nual record was $2,70s,694; for Sweden and
Norway, s2,6S5,549; for Haiti, $2,2S1, 966, and
for British Australasia $2,030804.
The other countries to which the United
States sent agricultural products during
1S94-1S9S having an average yearly value
in excess of 81, 100000 were Austria Hun
gary, Venezuela, British Guiana, Puerto
Rico, the Hawaiian islands and the
French Indies
These figures, with very few exceptions,
show that the leading foreign countries
materially increased their purchases OF
American agricultural products during
1S94-189S In the total value of the agricul-
tural exports there was an advance from
$636 $685. 747 in 1894 to $685. ,942 in 1898, max
ing a gain of $221, ,S74, 1876. The countries
of destination that contributed most OF
this increase were the United Kingdom
80 Germany France Belgium, Canada, the
Netherlands, Japan, Italy, Denmark and
British Africa.
Exports of farm products to the United
Kingdom increased $50, $751; ,S54 during the
five years to Germany, SAG, al, ,33S, and tc
France $S3, ,415,20S.
FARM PRODUCE.
The summary brings out the fact thai
about SO per cent of all the farm produce
shipped from the United States during the
five years mentioned was marketed ir
Europe, the annual average being 1856, ,s58,
907. In 1898 it reached as high as $76l, $40,
1872, showing an increase of $685. 5SS, ,939 ovel
the value for 1894 OF the remaining i
per cent the chief part went to Canada
and the other North American countries
averaging annually $4S, 4,257, or slightly
more than per cent of the total. Soutf
America took only 1.72 per cent Of the to-
tai value being 81, ,3S9.761, and less in 1SS
than In 1894.
To Asia there was a marked increase
during the five years, the value advanc
ing from s3S01 1893 in 1894 to $14,671, ,349 II
1898 They formed 1.6 per cent of the tota
for the five years.
The shipments of agricultural products
to Africa, although constituting less thar
per cent of the total, showed a notice
able increase. In 1898 the value amounted
10 SO, 795, ,59S, as compared with only $1,716,
800 in 1894. This was gain of $S,079,77S
To Oceanica there were agricultural ex
ports averaging S3.394,s6S a year. Th'
value for 1898 was So, $40, 461, while that fol
1894 was only 81 1853 148