The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1906-04-17
OUR AGRICULTURAL EXPORTS.
Highest Records for This Country
5.. Are Now Being Made.

>, Washington, April 12.--Agricul-
tural products are now making their
highest record III the expectations of
the United States, and should the
present rate continue during the re-
mfainder Of the fiscal year the total
expectation Of such products will in
1906 for the first time cross the bill
lion dollar line. In the eight months
ending with February, for which the
Department of Commerce, through it's
bureau Of statistics, furnishes the de-
tailed figures, the value Of agriculture
al products exported amounted to
$70O,000,000, which is a total consid-
erably in excess of the figures for
similar period in any preceding year.
Contrasting the figures Of 1906 with
those of 1896 and 1901, the growth is
strongly marked. The total value Of
agricultural products exported for
the eight months ending with Feb
lruary, 1906, was $70O,000,000; in
1896, the total was but 1900, 900,
and in 1900, $57O,0OO,OOO, while the
largest total previously shown for
the eight months ending with Febru-
airy was 1864, 100000 in 1902. The to-
tai for the eight months ending with
February, 1905, was but $568,000,000.
This growth occurs in all Of the
three great groups which form the
bulk of agricultural exports, viz,
broadstuffs, cotton and provisions, the
latter term including meats and dairy
products. The largest increase oc-
ours in breadstuffs in which the gain
is SIC, 100000; provisions show gain
Of $33, 100000, and cotton gain Of
$3O,O00,000, each compared with the
corresponding months Of the immedi-
ately preceding year. The group
W.breadstuffs includes wheat, wheat
-four, corn, oats, barley, and other &C.
reals, cereal preparations for table
food, etc, and in nearly all of these
articles there is marked growth in
the eight months ending with Febru-
ary, 1906, compared with the corre-
spending months of the preceding
year. Wheat shows All increase from
$50 in the eight months ending
with February, 1905, to $22,621 1853
in the eight months ending with Feb
ruary, 1906; flour, All increase from
$26, ,723, 1929 to $42,09S,842; corn,
from $27, 7,O1O,6O1 to $46,760,572; oats,
from $405, 1888 to $11 ,255, ,229; barley,
from $3,991, I'll to $6,749,364, AMI
corn meal from $685. to $1,O43,-
297. The increase in exports Of
wheat is chiefly due to the shortage
in our own supply which existed in
1905, and return to normal condi-
tions in 1906. In the eight months
ending with February, 1905, only
4,196,000 bushels Of wheat were ex-
ported, while in the same months
ending with February, 1906, the
number of bushels exported was 27,-
467, ,298. Of flour the exports for the
corresponding months Of 1905 and
1906 were 5,853,5O7 barrels and o.
7S5,399 barrels. OF corn the quanti-
ty exported in the eight months end
ing with February, 1905, was 50,-
93S, ,169 bushels, and in the same
months of 1905, SS,234,903 bushels,
while Of oats the total exports in the
eight months of 1905 was 959,941
bushels, and in the same months Of
1906, 32,714,453 bushels.
These increases in the exports Of
breadstuffs occurred chiefly in the
movement to European countries. To
the United Kingdom corn exports in
creased 14,000,000 bushels; oats, 49,
100000; wheat 6,5O0,000, and flour
100000 barrels. TO Geramny corn
exports increased 100000 barrels.
TO Germany corn exports increased
100000 bushels; oats, about g.
900, 900; wheat about 2,500,0O0, while
-four shows but small increase.
Cotton shows an increase Of $780,
100000 value in exports during the
eight months ending with February,
1906, compared with the correspond
ing months of last year, but a de-
crease in quantity, the total number
of bales exported in the eight months
ending with February, 1906, being
5,399,O55, against 5,s79,327 in the
same months last year. The increase
in value Of exports by countries oc-
ours in tho movements to the United
Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy,