The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-01-15
Interesting Showing Made By
Agricultural Department.
ENGLAND IS BIG BUYER
TOOK So PER CENT OF SHIP
MENTs FROM AMERICA.
Average Annual Value Of Farm Ex-
Ports for the Period From 1894
to 1898 Was 1868, $50, 2O1-The
Value of Shipments to the Vari-
Gus Foreign Countries,


Washington, Jan, 1A-Mr Frank H.
Hitchcock. chief Of the foreign markets
division of the agricultural department
! has prepared an interesting collation. Of
figures showing for the first time the
respective amounts Of our agricultural
/ exports which go to the several coun-
] tries Of Europe and of the other conti-
nents. The period covered IS 1884 II
+ 1898
The statement shows that the agri-
cultural products exported from the
United States during the flYe years
/ had an average annual value Of $685.
I 53S POI. OF these enormous exports
about 60 per cent found market in
( the United Kingdom ard its various
j dependencies. The sum paid by the
British people for the American farm
products purchased during the period
mentioned reached as high as S403, s93,-
S54 a year. Great Britain alone took
more than one-half of all our agricul-
/ tural exports. the cOnsignments credit
ed to that country forming about 50
! per cent Of the total shipments and
| having an annual value of 1852, 4Ol ,40l.
Germany, which ranks next TO the
United Kingdom as a market for the
products of American agriculture, re-
I
for 1S94-9S, the average yearly value
amounting TO ss6,320,254.
France and Other Countries.
France, with purchases that averaged
S4.98S. 791 a year. or about &C. per cent
of the total was the third country in
Importance. These three countries
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, Can
ada, Italy and Spain afforded the most
important markets The Netherlands
bought 43 per cent Of the total; Bel
GUM. SO per cent: Canada. SIS per
cent; Italy, % per cent, and Spain, Is
per cent. The average annual values
Of the exports to these countries were:
Netherlands. SIS, sos, 156, Belgium, $685.,
| 731 500; Canada, $23,020,077; Italy, $l4,-
! 264 424: Spain, 50, 76l, 100. Brazil took
| Sc. 25S. 729: Cuba. Sc, 099, S24: Denmark,
: s.. 800, 952 exports TO that country dOub-
! ling during the five years.; the British
/ West Indies 1924, 657; Mexico. S4,6S6,-
/ 1856; British Africa, S413S, 800, and Euro
pean Russian, 81, 060. 236 The average
/ yearly exports 10 HOngkOng were val
ued at IS. $50 sos, and those to Japan at
/ SO, 407 800 For Portugal the average an
nual record was s.. 709. 694; for Sweened
l and Norway. S2,6S5,549; for Hayti, 81
2S1.966. and for British Australasia, 81
/ $50, S04.
The other countries to which the
United tSates sent agricultural prod
ucts during 1S94-9S having an average
/ yearly value in excess of 81 600. 900 were
Austria-H Hungary, Venezuela, British
Guiana. Puerto Rico. the Hawaiian ISL
ands and the French West Indies.
Increased Their Purchases.
The figures show that. with very few
exceptions. the leading foreign cOUn-
/ tries materially increased their pur-
chases of American agricultural prod
ucts during 1S94-9S In the total value
of the agricultural exports there was
an advance from $685. 633. 747 in 1894, to
! SS5S, 507, $40 in 1885, making a gain of
/ 1921. S74 1875. The countries of destina-
/ ton that contributed most to this in
| crease were the United Kingdom, Ger
many, France, Belgium, Canada, The
/ Netherlands, Japan, Itaiy, Denmark,
and British Africa
/ Our exports Of farm products to the
/ United Kingdom increased So. 58S, S54
/ during the five years; to Germany, $780,
/ AL 3S, and to France. S33, 415, 20S.
! The summary brings out the fact
/ that abOu. IS per cent Of all the farm
J produce shipped from the United States
/ during the five years mentioned was
marketed in Europe. the annual aver
/ age be t1g 1886, 95S, 907. In 1898 it reach
cd as high as S761 .S70,7S2. showing an
! increase Of S195. 1855. 93S over the value
J for 1894. OF the remaining y per cent
/ the choice went to Canada and other
North American countries, average
| annually, s4S, 81. or slightly more
/ than per cent of the total The rec
/ ords for the five years show only a
/ slight gain.
South America Was Light.
South America took only LIZ per cent
| of the total, the average yearly value
/ being S11, $50, ISL, and were less in 1895
than in 1894.
! To Asia there was marked increase
] in the five years. the value advancing
/ from S3,S0l SOS in 1894 to st4,671.349 in
/ 1888. They formed Liz per cent Of the
I total for the five years
! The shipments of agricultural prod
i ucts to Africa. although constituting
/ les5 than 1 per cent of the total. also
I showed a noticeable increase. In 1895
| the value amounted to S9795. 59S. as
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