The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1900-01-19
FOODFOR THE WORLD
Enormous Exports Of Amer
lean Farm Products.
ENGLAND TAKES THE LIONS SHARE
Four Years. Figures Show an Aver
age Annual Export of $6G3,536,-
2O1-Of This the United King
dom Took Sixty Per Cent.

2O1-Of This the United King
dom Took Sixty Per Cent.
| WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.-Mr. Frank
| IL. Hitchcock, chief of the foreign mar
kets division of the agricultural depart
ment, has prepared an interesting COLA
ton of figures showing for the first time
the respective amounts of our agricultural
exports which go to the several countries
of Europe and to other countries. The
period covered is 1894 to 1898. The state
ment shows that the agricultural prod
ucts exported from the United States
during the five years had an average an
nual value of 1868, 536, POI. 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 the American farm
produce purchased during the period men,
toned reached as high as O3,933, S04
year. Great Britain alone took more than
one-half Of all our agricultural exports,
the consignments credited to that coun-
try forming about 50 per cent of the total
shipments and having an average annual
value of 1852, 407, 7O1.
Germany, which ranks next to the
United Kingdom as a market for the
products of American agriculture, re-
ceived about 10 per cent of the exports
for lS94-9S, the average yearly value
amounting to $S6,320,274.
France, with purchases that averaged
S43,9SS, 100 year, or about sc per cent
of the total, was the third country in i'm.
p0rtance. These three cOunIies-the
United Kingdom, Germany and France
received together nearly IS per cent of
the total agricultural exports.
After the three countries just mention
ed the Netherlands, Belgium, Canada,
Italy and Spain afforded the most i'm
pOrtant markets. The Netherlands bought
4.3 per cent of the total, Belgium SO per
cent, Canada 80 per cent, Italy ID per
cent and Spain 1.5 per cent. The average
annual values of the exports. to these
countries were: Netherlands, $2S,S03,-
1856; Belgium, 500, 731 500; Canada, $23,.
020,517; Italy, $14,264, 424, and Spain,
$9,7G1 $50. Brazil took $G,25S, 100; Cuba,
5000, S24; Denmark, So, ,952 exports
to that country doubling during the five
year period; the British West Indies,
1921, 657; Mexico, $4,636, 1856; British
Africa, 50, 13S, 500, and European Russia, |
$4,000, 236.
These figures show that with very few
exceptions the leading foreign countries |
materially increased their purchases OF
American agricultural products during
1S94-S. In the total value of the agricul
tural exports there was an advance from |
$685., 633,7 47 in 1894 to $S5S, 5O7 ,942 in |
1893, making gain of 1921 ,S74 1876. The
countries of destination that contributed
most to this increase were the United .
Kingdom, Germany, France Belgium,
Canada, the Netherlands, Japan, Italy, I
Denmark and British Africa.
Our exports of farm products to the
Lifted Kingdom increased $50, 5S8, S54
during the five years, to Germany $40,
AL ,33S and to France $33, POS.
The summary brings out the fact that
about So per cent of all the farm produce
Slipped from the United States during
the five years mentioned was marketed
in Europe. the annual average being
S5S6. 95S, 9O7