The Hawaiian gazette., 1905-01-20
EXPORT BREADsTUFFs.

States IN 1904 seem likely to be less
than one-half in value those exported
in 1908. These figures relate to the
calendar year and are based upon the
eleven months preliminary statement
issued by the Department of Commerce
and Labor through its Bureau OF sta
tistica The figures of the November
advance statement Of exports Of bread
stuffs, provisions, cotton and mineral
oils issued by the Bureau of Statistics
show that the total value of bread
stuffs exported in the eleven months
endins with November was, in round
terms, "a million dollars. against 176
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 APP
proximate the total to indicate clearly
the relative value of the breadstuifs
exported in the present year as COM
pared with those of last year. Thus.
the preliminary figures indicate that
the value of breadstuffs exported dur
ing the eleven months period was less
than one-half 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 a total of less than one-half that
for the Immediately preceding calendar
year.
Despite the fact that the breadstuffs
exported will show 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
year. This, of course. means that in
other articles there has been an adj
vance sufficient to nearly offset the
great loss in exports of breadstuffs.
and the figures of the Bureau of Sta
tistics seem to justify this conclusion.
For the eleven months ending with No
vember the preliminary figures show
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 GA million dollars in the
value of manufactures exported as
compared 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 |
mately one hundred millions in the
value of breadstuffs exported will be
nearly or quite offset by an increase in |
manufactures and raw cotton, the bulk I
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-
liminary 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 12,219173,
as against 67,7S9,731 in the correspond
ing months of 1903; of -four, 1885, 467
barrels, as against 17,102, 75S barrels in
the same months of last year; of corn,
3S,314,9S4 bushels, as against S6,659,0l3
in the same months of last year, and
of oats, 1,026,245 bushels, as compared
with 1,415,075 bushels in the CORE
spending eleven months of 1908. This
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
reduced the words demands for bread
stuffs of the United States.