Arizona republican., 1904-10-31
WHEAT EXPORTS
Low Record Is Being EStab-
 IiShed This Year
SOME FACTS AND FIGURES
Less Than One-fiffh as Much as Last Year Is Being Sent Out Of the coun- try-One ofthe Causes Is a Growing Home Consumption.

Washington. Oct. sO-Wheat exports from the United States see1n likely to reach. in the current year. their low
 est point in the history of the export trade for many years. Figures pre- pared by the department Of commerce and labor, through it's bureau Of sta l tis-i-s, show exports during the nine
 months ending with September Of less than 10 million bushels. as against 55 millions in the corresponding months
 Of 1903. 96 millions in the correspond
 ing months Of 1902. and 15s millions Ia ! the corresponding months Of 1901 ! Thus the exDortatIon of wheat fin ta. nine months ending with Septeu5er is l but Oue-fifth that of the correspond ] ing months of 1903. al0ur oue-teutl ! that Cf the corresponding months ot ! 1902, and but about one-fourteen- -h as l much as that Of the c0rrespondlug months of 1901.
 Even the flour exports are beginning ! to shou the effect Of the great short i ase in the wheat supply available for | eXportation. and for the nine months J ending with Septem5e-. 1904. they ] amounted to only million barrels. ] speaking in round terms. against lsl millions in the cores bonding mo-tls ! of 1903. and over 14 millions iu the coz ] responding months of 1901. Flour ex- . ports are less readily affected by ! shortage of wheat than are thoze of l wheat itself During the past decade i flour exports for the nine months ] period have but twice fallen below 10 million barrels, but in the nine months p arr- but g million barrels Wheat export
 ed during the decade had never fallen below ahoIt 50 million bushels for the nine months period. and ranged from
 that amount to about 40 million
 bushels for the period under consId- | eratIo7. Int amounted in the nine
 months ending with September. 1904
 10 only 9,I62,722 bushels.
 In ordinary crop years about one
 half of the wheat exported goes in the
 form of flour, but in years in which the expOrtations of wheat are Ii-ht. a
 much larger proportion is turned into
 flour before being sent The flour ex-
 port statements of the bureau of sta
 tist5cs are z-ated in barrels. and thes-
 are reduced to terms of wheat bv
 reckoning one barrel Of flour as the
 equivalent of 41z bushels Of wheat 4 comparison of the wheat and flour ex-
 ports from 1894 to 1904 shows that in
 average years the quantity Of wheat
 exported in tae form of flour does no- ! differ greatly from the quantity ex-
 ported as flour when stated in terms
 or wheat. In heavy crop years the proportion of wheat exported in the
 form of flour is small in light crop
 years the proportion of wheat exported
 in the form of flour is very large. Tn
 IsO1' with an a5normally large wheat
 crop. the flour exports for the nine . months represented about Ss million bushels of wheat. while the exports or
 wheat in the natural state amounted
 to nearly 132 million bushels
 During the first nine months O. 1908 however. with a small surplus of wheat
 for ezTortatiOn, 60 million bushels of
 wheat were exported in the form Of
 four and bat 55 millions exported ia f ! the natural state Tn the nine months
 ending with September. 1904. the quan- a 1 dty of wheat exported in the form Of , flour is over 70 million bushels. while during the same time but 70 million P bushels have been exported in the ua-
 iural state. In the full fiscal wears f from 1899 to 1904 the percenrr-e os . the wheat exports which were sent in ? the form ot flour has been In 1899. s SI per cent; in 1900. s6 per cent Tn ! 1901. S9 per cent; in 1902. S4 per cent ln 1903, fl per cent and in 1g8s. 6s
 per cent.
 This marked reduction in the exports ] l C2 wheat during 1904 is discussed by ! the chief of the bureau of statistics in [ l his. annual review, as follows
 9 The reduction in the exportatfon of % wheat in the fiscal year 1894 to a point 0 below that of any year since 1881 can . not be charged to shortage in pro - 1 auction in the preceding year. since n the wheat crop of 1903 was larger than s the average of the last five years and - 1 was the largest in the history Cf the P l country, with the exception of the
 crops of 1898, 1901 and 1902 The wheat k crop of 1904 was but 33.0o0 o00 bushels f below that of 1908 while the exports ol r the fiscal year 1904 fell S2.09o.000 beIoa e those Of 1903. the reduction in exports - in the fiscal year 190i being much Q | greater than the crop reduction of thc
 calendar year 1903 The reduction Ir ,. exports seems to be due chiefly Go ths e L steadily increasing consumption by ths - home population. while the further I fact that the supply of several or th. { other wheat producing countries Of ths - world was unusually large in 1905 re- q dUced to some extent the Europeaa 20 de - mand upon the United States and fur. $ nished wheat to the European rnarSe q at prices below those made in th,
 United States by the growing demand.
 upon the home market