Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-01-15
FARM PRODUCTS
SENT ABROAD.
Interesting Figures ofwhat Amer.
lean Farmer Sells TO Foreigners.
O6S'530,2Ol IN EACH YEAR.
wore Than Half Bought By Britain
aud Her Dependencies Trade
with Other Nation.

"e'''ns''h' Jan h-Mr Frank II.
Hitchcock, chief the foreign market,
division Of the agricultural depart.
ment, has prepared an interesting cola.
ton Of figures showing for the first t,ms
the respective amounts Of our agrlcul.
tuml exports which 20 to the several
countries Of Europe and Of the othsr
continents. The psHol covered "a Iso,
TO 1875,
The statement shows that the agri.
cultural products exported from tho
United States during the five years had
an average annual value OF ysG $50 2oi
Of these enormous experts about 60 Der
cent found market in the United
Kingdom and lis various dependencies
The sum paid by the British people
Tor the American farm products pur.
chased during the period mentioned
reached as high as SiO3.ss2.sa a year.
Great Britain alone took more than
one-half OF all our agricultural exports
the conslgnments credited TO that coun-
try forming Is per cent OF the total
shipments ana having an annual value
Of 1852, iO,, 1Ql.
Germany, which ranks next 10 the
United Kingdom as market for tho
products Of American agriculture. 70.
ceiyed about l6 per cent of the exports
for 1888, the average yearly value
amounting to SS6.32024.
France, with purchases that averaged
Si5,sSS,'sl a year. or about sc per cent
Of the total, was the third country In
Importance. These three c0untries--the
United Kingdom, Germany and France
received together nearly IS per cent
OF the total agricultural exports.
After the three countries Just men.
toned, the Netherlands, Belgium, Cam
ada, Italy and Spain afforded the most
important markets The Netherlands
bought 4.S per cent Of the total, Belgium
SO per cent, Canada 5G per cent, Italy
s.2 per cent and Spain l.5 per cent.
The average annual values OF the ex-
ports 10 these countries were:
Netherlands .."".".... .n..s2S,S0 ,ls6
Belgium ..,.,.. .,..,..,...,,. 25,lal,tt9
ChhaQa .,.,s,',,. '.,,,. .,..,., ljV-VIVu
ltaly '..'..'',,," ,'.'.,... ., lf-b4.}-A
spain .'.'','. ,'..,'.. .,...,,,, v,lbl,t1
Brazil took sG,25s.72s, Cuba l6Ogg,g9i
Denmark S5s9O,gJ2 exports to that
country doubling during the five years)
The British West Indies i2,2il,g 5i, Mex.
leo A636,iS6 British Africa AlSSs.0
and European Russia A,OGQ,236 The
average yearly exports TO Hongkong
were valued at 8,555,bss, and those 10
Japan at S3,iO7sQQ For Portugal the
average annual record was s2i0J6gi,
for Sweden and Norway S2.6s5, 5ig, for
Hayti S2.llS966, and for British Auslral-
asia s2,QS0S0i-
The other countries 10 which the
United States sent agricultural prod
ucts during lSs4-gs having, an average
yearly value in excess Of N,Og0VR we're
Austria Hungary, Venezuela, British
Guiana, Porto Rico, the Hawaiian
islands and the French West Indies
The figures show that, with very few
exceptions, the leading foreign eoln'
tries materially increased their pur-
chases Of American agricultural eX-
ports during iSsi-gs In The iotal value
OF the agricultural exports there was
an advance from BS665J,li1 In 1884, 10
sS5S.507. 9i2 in 1895, making gain OF
s22l,S74,l9j The countries Of destina-
ton that contribute most Of this In
crease were the United Kingdom Ger
many. France, Belgium, Canada, the
Netherlands, Japan. Italy, Denmark
and British Africa.
our exports Of farm products 70 we
United Kingdom increased Nz5ssssf
during the fve years, 10 Germany Wv
4il,33S and 10 France SSSilbtVs
The summary brings our lhe tact
that about IS per cent Of all the iarm
produce shipped from the United States
during the five years mentioned was
marketed IN Europe, the annual aver.
age being 1856, s5s9Q1 In ls% i reached
as high as S7el.S70.5S2, showing an IN
crease OF slsj.5sS,g3S over the Waite ior
1891 OF the remaining Y per cent me
choice went 10 Canada ana otuel
North American countries aVerase
annually slS72i.25l or slightly more
than 7 per cent OF the total The rec
ords for the FIVE years show ohy a
slight gain ,.
south America took only liz per cent
Of the total the average yearly Vaias
being 81 .sSs.76l and We're less u lssS
than 1894. s.
To Asia there was a marker lhcresse
in the five years, the value adVaLcIs
from ss.s0l. ssS In 1894 70 Aiels4s W
1895. They formed liz per cent oil 'ns
total for the five years. -,
The shipment Of Agricultural ,, pro-
uce. 10 Africa, although consl'uslns
less than / per cent Of the lo'9l s ,.sS
showed a noticeable Increase. II lSs
the value amounted to @,ls'oS ,o5,
compared with only Nlls.s-e IN WI
Tbs was a gain Of $S'Q7SI@ ,,,.,,
10 Oceanica there we're agr'eu'suis'
exports aggregatng SCANS ysS n.
The value Tor 1885 was SagisL "A"'