The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-05-23
FARM SURPLUS
OF THE NATION
Value of 81, 5OO,O0O,00O Out
side of Feed For Stock.
ENGLAND BEST CUSTOMER
SMALL PORTION or CORN CROP
EXPORTED.

Washington, May 22.-The depart
ment Of agriculture has issued a report
on "The Nations Farm Surplus" pre-
pared by George X. Holmes, chief Of
the division of foreign markets. 1t
gives $4. 500 600. 900 as a conservative es-
innate of the value of the farm prod
ucts of this country not fed to live
stock in 1903. on the basis of the census
valuation The value of the exported
farm products Of this country was in
1903, S91S,479,45f, and the highest value
reached during the last eleven years
was 1891, 62S.331. i'm 1901, due chiefly TO
cotton. The value of the exported farm
products Of this country is concentrated
mostly in "a few principal products OF
ID in 1903 cotton constituted SO per cent,
grain and grain products % per cent,
meat and meat products and live anil
mails "a per cent. these products equal
ing over So per cent of the exports OF
farm products last year. Adding to-
baccO, whose exports were valued at
over $35, 600; oil cake and oil cake
meal. SO 639, 279: fruits and mats, over
$4,000, 900 and vegetable oils over SIS
600. 600, gives a total of eight classes of
products, each with an export value Of
over Sl0,000.000, that comprise almost
90 per cent Of the farm exports of 1903.
Cotton Exports.
Within recent years. ending at 1903,
the cotton exports have been between
three and four billion pounds and the
exported fraction Of the crop has been
between SO and Il per cent for a long
series Of years. The fraction of the
wheat crop exported in the last dozen
years has been about 81 to Al per cent,
and the exported wheat and -four have
yearly averaged somewhat more than
-00.00e030 bushels since 1897, which pc
ri0d for many years the quantity was
usually so 900 900 to 100 600 600 less. Only
a small portion of the corn crop is eX-
ported as corn, the highest percentage,
II per cent, being for 1893. Notwith-
standing the small percentage. the ex-
ported bushels reach 100, 600 600 to 200,
Q00.00 The beef exports weighed $50.
900. 600, pork exports sol. 900 900, lard ex-
ports weighed $50. O00. O0O cleo oil ex-
ports 126.000000 pounds and tobacco
568,000000. Butter and cheese exports
have decidedly declined within two or
three years. The report says that with
in few years the results Of an enor-
nous extension Of orchard planting
VIII begin to be shown. and some of
these results may be in a much in-
creased fruit surplus for export The
exports Of animal matter are losing
ground relatively with corresponding
gain by vegetable matter.
Where the Surplus Goes.
Taking up the destinations of the
surplus, the report says the United
Kingdom takes about 0ne-baIf Ger
many about one-sixth. and France. The
Netherlands, Belgium Canada and
italy from to 8 per cent each. China
ia recent years takes a million dollars
worth annually and they 90 to Russia.
China, Korea and Greenland and Ire
land and other remote portions of the
earth. From IS to 80 per cent Of the
total goes 10 Europe, S to 9 per cent TO
North America and less than per
cent each TO Asia, South America, AZ
RIGA and Oceanica.
The report also takes up the compe-
tition of this country in foreign mar
kets, showing that this country fur
nishes 80 per cent Of the United King
dom's imports of farm products. thus
leading in these imports. The United
states has a long lead over it's com
petitOrs as a puTVeyOr Of meat and
meat products and live animals, is like
wise pre-eminently conspicuous i'm the
United Kingdoms imports of cereals
and cotton, but is far behind its com
petitors iu dairy products. in German
imports the United States leads with
% per cent i'm all farm products. s. per
cent i'm cereals. furnishes barely three
quarters OF one per cent OF dairy prod
ucts. contributes the principal portion
of the maize. two-dfths Of oil cake and
oil cake meal, bat is exceeded i'm wheat
-four supply by Austria-Hungary. and
makes bare showing i'm barley and
only little over 2 per cent i'm fruits.