The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-23
EXPORT TRADE IN
 MEAT ENORMOUS Amounted to S10O,OOO,OOO in
 Past Eleven Months LARD IS THE LEADER
Bacon Is the Second Largest Export and the United. Kingdom Is Uncle Sam's Best
 Customer.

Washington, June 2-(SpeciaD FIX ports of meats and meat products from the United States in the eleven months ending with May aggregated over 1S0 mill lion dollars The ten months for which complete figures have been presented by the department of commerce and labor through it's bureau of statistics show total of 166 millions, and as preliminary figures for May indicate a total of over Is millions for that month this would make the total exports of meats and meat products up to June i about 12 million dollars, with one month remain ing to complete the fiscal year, These figures for eleven months show a larger exportation of meats and meat products than in the corresponding period of any other year in the history of our export trade, and show an increase of practically 60 per cent when compared with the fig ures for the corresponding months of 1896. a decade earlier.
 This large increase occurs in all of the principal products, but is especially noticeable in lard, oleo oil, salted pork, fresh beef and fresh pork. The value of lard exportations in the ten months end ing with April, 1S96 was 2s1a million dol lars in the corresponding period ending with April 1906, 1t was 511s millions, hay ing thus nearly doubled in ten years. Exports of fresh beef increased from a little less than 15 million dollars in the ten months ending with April, 1896, to practically 20 millions in the same months of 1906; hams, from 91s millions to 161a millions; oleo oil and oleomargarlne, from 71a millions to practically 15 millions; salt ed pork, from 31a millions to practically 10 millions Canned beef exports show but little increase during the decade the value in ten months of 1896 being mil lion dollars and in the same months of 1906 a little less than 5s4 millions. Ex- ports of bacon also show but a slight in- crease the value in the ten months end ing with April 1896, being practically 20 million dollars and in the corresponding period of the present fiscal year 291a mil lions
 Lard Is Leader.
 In order of magnitude, the exportation of meats and meat products are, for the ten months ending with April 1906: Lard, 511R million dollars; bacon, 29 millions; beef fresh, practically 20 millions; hams, 16 2-3 millions; oleo oil and oleomargarine, 15 millions; salted pork, 10 millions; canned beef. 5s4 millions; salted beef, 4 millions; tallow, a little less than 4 mil lions; sausage castings 2A millions; and fresh and canned pork, million dollars each. Thus the total value of meat and meat products exported in the fiscal year 1906 will approximate 200 million dollars and will probably exceed that of any earlier year
 All parts of the world are purchasers of American provisions. The lard exports of 1905 went direct from the United States to 75 different countries and colonies, the largest quantity to the United Kingdom, valued at 171s million dollars; to Ger many, about 15 millions; 10 Netherlands, practically D millions; to Belgium, 2A millions to Cuba, 1a4 millions; while the remainder went in sums of less than 1 million dollars value to various other countries and colonies. prctically every European country being a purchaser to a greater or less extent were all of the countries of North and South America and the principle countries of Asia and Oceania.
 Bacon Stands Second.
 Bacon, which stands second in impor- tance in the value of meat products ex- ported, goes largely to the United King dom, which took in 1905 practically 21 mill lion dollars worth out of the total of 251h million dollars worth exported. The next largest purchaser was Belgium. a little over 1 million dollars worth, fol-