The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-01-18
EXpORr BREADsTgFFs.

Bread stuffs exported fromt the UNITED
states in 1904 seem likely 10 be les
than one-half in value thoke exported
in 1868. These figures r2late to TN
calendar year and are based upon tn
eleven months prslimthary statemen
issued by the Department of Commerc'
and Labor through it's Bureau OF sta
4;stics The figures of the November
advance statement of exports OF oreao-
stuffs. provisions, cotton and mlneFa
oils issued by the Bureau of Statistics
sbow that the total value of bread
ztpffs exported in the eleven months
ending with November was, IN rouho
terms. % million dollars, against 40
millions in the corresponding eleven
months Of last year.
These figures are preliminary and
cover only the more important ports
of the country, but sufficiently ap-
nroxfrnate the total to indicate clearly
+ha relative value of the breadstuhs
exported in the present year as COM
pared with those Of last year. Ihls'
the preliminary figures indicate thae
tho vaJua of breadstuffs exported dur
ing the eleven months period was less
than one-haIf that of the correspond
ing months of 1903, and seem to JUSTIFY
the estimate that the complete report
for the full calendar year will also
show total of less than one-half that
for the Immediately preceding calendar
year.
Despite the fact that the breadstuffs
exported will show a fall of practically
100 million dollars for the entire cal
endar year. indications now are that
the total exports will differ but little
from those of the preceding calendar
wear. This, of course, means tnat III
other articles there has been an ao-
vance sufficient to nearly onset the
great loss in exports of breadstutfs,
and the figures of the Bureau OF sta
fistics seem to justify this conclusion.
For the eleven months ending with NO
yember the preliminary figures snow
an increase of 10 million dollars in
value of mineral oils exported and IA
millions in the value of cotton export
ed. while ten months figures show an
increase of 81 million dollars in the
value of manufactures exported as
roronared with the corresponding
months of the preceding year.
In the single month of October manu-
features showed an increase of ten
million dollars over October of last
year; and should the November and
December figures show approximately
like gains the increase in manufactures
alone for the calendar year would ex-
coed seventy-five million dollars. Thus
the figures available at the present
time indicate that the loss of approx i
mately one hundred millions in the
value of breadstuffs exported viii be
nearly or quite offset by an increase in
manufactures and raw cotton, the bulk
of the increase, however, being in man
ufactures. chiefly iron and steel, cop
per- mineral oils and cotton goods.
This decrease in exports of bread
stuffs occurs in all the important class
es grouped under the general title of
breadstuffs, but is especially marked
in regard to wheat. Comparing the pre- .
1iminary figures of the present year
with the preliminary figures of last
year the total number of bushels of
wheat exported in the eleven months
ending with November, 1904 is stated
by the Bureau of Statistics at 12,219,17
as against 67,7S9, 731 in the corresponds
ing months of 1903; of flour, 10,6S6,467 f
barrels, as against II, 102, 75S barrels in
the same months of last year; of corn, -,
80, 9S4 bushels, as against S6,659,013 ,
In the same months of last year, and O
of oats. 1,026,245 bushels, as compared i,
with 1,415,075 bushels in the CORE T
spending eleven months of 1903. This 9
falling off in exports of breadstuffs, as ;
has been already and frequently indi- :
Gated, is believed to be due, first, to !
a slight reduction in the home produce
ton; second, to a material increase in
home consumption, and third, to I'M
usually large wheat crops abroad which a
reduced the worlds demands for bread
stuffs of the United States :
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