Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1900-01-19
FOOD FOR THE WORLD
Enormous Exports of Amer
lean Farm Products.
ENGLAND TAKES THE LIONS SHARE
-Four Years Figures show an Aver
age Annual Export of SGG3.53G,-
COLOR This the United King
dom Took sixty Per Cent.

dom TOOK sixty Fer cent.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.-Mr Frank
II. Hitchcock, chief of the foreign mar
kets division of the agricultural depart
mcnt 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 1891 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 $G63, 1916, 201. OF these
enormous exports about GO per cent found
q 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 S4O3, ,So4 a
year. Great Britain alone took more than
one-half of all our agricultural exports
the consignments credited to that coun
try forming about 90 per cent of the total
shipments and having an average annual
value of $780,, 407, 701.
Germany, which ranks next to the
United Kingdom as market for the
products of American agriculture, re-
ceived about 10 per cent of the exports
for 1S94-9S, the average yearly value
amounting to $S6,320,274.
France, with purchases that averaged
S43,9SS, 100 a year, or about &C per cent
of the total, was the third country in i'm
portancc. These three countres-the
United Kingdom, Germany and France
received together nearly % 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 3.6 per
cent Canada 80 per cent. Italy ID per
cent and Spain - per cent. The average
annual values of the exports to these
countries were: Netherlands. SOS. SOB
1oi Belgium, S23. ~ 600: Canada. SOB.
O2O.J1i: Italy, $l4,2G4. 424. and Spain,
S9,761,S!0. Brazil took ST, 25S, 100; Cuba,
$6,0N).S24: Denmark, $5,99O,952 teXports
to that country doubling during the five
year period; the British West Indies,
1921 ,65I; Mexico, S4.G36. 1856; British
Africa, 81. 1875, 800, and European Russia,
81 ,06O, 23G.
These figures show that with very few
exceptions the leading foreign countries
materially increased their purchases of
American agricultural products during
1918. In the total value of the agrcul.
tural exports there was an advance from
$685., G33. 147 in 1894 to 1858, 507. 942 in
1898, making n gain of SOD .S74 .195. The
countries of destination that contributed
most to this increase were the United
Kingdom. Germany, France, Belgium,
Canada, the Netherlands, Japan, Italy,
Denmark and British Africa.
Our exports Of farm products to the
United Kingdom increased $50, 5SS, S54
during the FIVE years, to Germany $46,-
Al 1893 and to France $33, 415,2OS.
The summary brings out the fact that
about SO per cent of all the farm produce
shipped from the United States during
the five years mentioned was marketed
in Europe, the annual average being
$3.50 ,9O7.