New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-01-15
OUR AGRICULTURAL EXPORTS
FIGURES SHOWING TO WHAT coUN-
TRIES THEY GO.

Washington Jan 14-Frank H. HitchcocK'
chief of the Foreign Markets Division Of the Ag-
ricultural Department. has prepared an interest,"
ing collation. of figures showing for the hfSt
time the respective amounts of our agricultural
exports which go to the several countries OF
Europe and to other countries. The period
covered is from 1894 to 1898. The statement
shows that the agricultural products exported
from the United States in the five years had an
average annual value of $6633362Ol
OF these enormous exports about 60 per cent
found a market in the United Kingdom and its
various dependencies. The sum paid by the
British people for the American farm produce
purchased in the period mentioned reached as
high as $403, 9j3, S54 year. Great Britain alone
took more than one-half of all our agricultural
exports. the consgnments. credited to that coun-
try forming about % per cent of the total ship
ments and having an average annual value OF
1862 407, 7O1
Germany, which ranks next to the United
Kingdom as market for the products OF Amer
lean agriculture received about ID per cent OF
the exports for 1894 to 1893 the average yearly
value amounting to $S6.320.2T4. France. with
purchases that averaged S43 9SS. 100 year, or
about &C per cent of the total. was the third
country in Importance These three countries
the United Kingdom, Germany and France-re-
ceived together nearly 20 per cent Of the total
agricultural exports.
After the three countries just mentioned. the
Netherlands Belgium, Canada, Italy and Spain
afforded the most important markets. The
Netherlands bought 43 per cent of the total
Belgium, 36 per cent; Canada 80 per cent;
Italy. % per cent, and Spain. Is per cent The
average annual values Of the exports to these
countries were: Netherlands. S2SSO3156; Bel
gium S23 731 500; Canada $23O20511; Italy,
$14 264 1914 and Spain. 50 761 80 Brazil took
$6,25S. 729; Cuba, $6.099, S24; Denmark, S0'99O'-
952 exports TO that country doubling in the
five-year period); the British West Indles.
5.241, 657; Mexico, $4.636. 4S6; British Africa
ST. 13S 900, and European Russia, $4O6O23 go The
average yearly exports to Hong Kong were
valued at SO, 800. 5SS and those to japan at
SO. 4O7, 800. For Portugal the average annual
record was $2,7O9,694; for Sweden and Norway
So $50 $40; for Hayti. $2.2S1. 966, and for Brit
fish Australasia, $2030SO4
The other countries to which the United states
sent agricultural products in 1S94-'9S having an
average yearly value in excess OF $l,OOVOOO
were Austria Hungary, Venezuela. British Gui-
ana Puerto Rico, the Hawaiian Islands and the
French West Indies. These figures show that
with few exceptions, the leading foreign coun-
tries materially increased their purchases or
American agricultural products in 1871 eo. In
the total value of the agricultural exports ther1
advance from S6S6O33t4I IN ms. lSSt 10
$3.50 5O1 942 in 1893, making gain OF ELISA
1876 The countries of destination that con-
tributed most to this increase were the United
Kingdom Germany, France, Belgium, Canada,
the Netherlands, Japan, Italy, Denmark and
British Africa. The exports of farm PToducts
to the United Kingdom increased SSZ,9SS,o)f IN
the five years, to Germany S46,44l,3 $50, and TO
France $50, 415,20S.
The summary brings out the fact that about
IS per cent of all the farm produce shipped
from the United States in the five years men
toned was marketed in Europe. the annual
average being 1886 95S 901 In 1898 1t reached
as high as $T61 S707S2. showing an increase OF
S1956S8 800 over the value for 1891 OF the
remaining u per cent the chief part went to
Canada and the other North American coun-
tries averaging annually S4S, 1242ol or slightly
more than per cent Of the total. The RECORDS
for the five years show only slight gain. south
America took only LIP per cent of the total
the average yearly value being Sll,3S9, l6I, and
were less in 1898 than in 1894. To Asia there
was a marked increase in the five years, the
value advancing from So. sol ,O99 in 1894 to
81 467 $40 in 1898. They formed 1.16 per cent
of the total for the five years.
The shipments of agricultural produce to
Africa although constituting less than 1 per
cent of the total also showed a noticeable IN
crease In 1898 the value amounted to 50, To-
59S as compared with only S1,416S2O in 1881
This was a gain Of $S0TS,TIS. To Oceania there
were agricultural exports averaging S3,394,StSS
a year The value for 1898 was S3,04O,46l,
while that for 1894 was only $1,963, las.