The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-06-25
Record Reached In the
Eleven Months Ending
With May When the Ship
ments Aggregated $780,
100000
SENT ALL THE WORLD OVER
GREAI BIITAIN IS THE LAR
GEST PURCHASER OF AMERI-
CAN MEAT PRODUCTS, IT'S M
PORTS REACHING 100000.

WASHINGTON, June %, 1906
Exports of meats and meat products
from the United States in the eleven
months ending with May aggregate
over $18O,09OOOO The ten months for
which complete figures have been pre-
sented by the Department of Commerce
and Labor through its bureau of statis-
tics show total of S166, 900, and as
preliminary figures fer May indicate a
total of over $16OOO,0OO for that month,
this would make the total exports Of
meats and meat products up to June L
about $1S2, 100000, with one month re-
naming to complete the fiscal year.
These figures for eleven months show a
larger expectation of meats and meat
products than in the corresponding peri
cd of any other year In the history of
our export trade, and show an increase
Of practically 90 per cent. when compar-
ed with the figures for the corresponding
months of 1896, decade earlier.
This large increase occurs in all of the
principal products, but is especially no.
ticeable in lard, oleo oil. salted pork,
fresh beef, and fresh pork. The value
of lard expectations in the ten months
ending with April, 1896. was $2S,500.-
eco: in the corresponding period ending
with April. 1906. it was $51,500,000,
having thus nearly doubled in ten years.
Exports of fresh beef increased from a
little less than $15,OO0,OO0 in the ten
months ending with April 1896. to prac-
tjcally $20.OOO,000 in the same months
of 1906; hams. from S9,5O0O00 to $16,-
500, 600; oleo oil and oleomargarine. from
S7.5O0O00 to practically S15,0O0,OOO;
salted pork from $3,500,000 to practically
$1OOOO,0OO Canned beef exports show
but little increase during the decade, the
value in ten months of 1896 being So
100000. and in the same months of 1906
little less than s5,750,O00. Exports of
bacon also show but slight increase,
the value in the ten months ending with
April. 1896, being practically $4,000
600. and in the corresponding period of
the present fiscal year $295OoO0o.
In order of magnitude, the expectation
| of meats and meat products is, for the
| ten months ending with April, 1906:
Lard, S51.5Oo,O0O; bacon $29.000,O00;
beef, fresh, practically $20,0Oo,0O0
BIS, SIG, 10000; oleo oil and oleomar-
garine, S1500u,000; salted pork, $1O,00O,-
600; canned beef, s5750OOo; salted beef,
100000; sausage castings, $2,250,0OO;
and fresh and canned pork. million dol
| lars each. Thus the total value of meat
and meat products exported in the fiscal
year 1906 will probably exceed that of
any earlier year.
| All parts of the world are purchasers
of American provisions. The lard ex-
ports of 1905 went direct from the United
States to seventy-tiye different countries
| and colonies. the largest quantity to the
| United Kingdom, valued at $170OO,000;
| to Germany, about SIS, 100000; to Meth
erlands. practically $5,000O00; to Bel
gium. $2250,OO0; to Cuba, $1,750,000,
while the remainder went in sums less
! than S1,00o,O00 value to various other
countries and colonies, practically every
European country being purchaser to
a greater or less extent, as were all the
| countries of North and South America
and the principal countries of Asia and
and Oceanica.
Bacon, which stands second in import
anee in the value of the meat products
exported. goes largely to the United
Kingdom, which took, in 1905 practically
| $21, 100000 worth out of the total $25,-
900, 900 worth exported. The next largest
purchaser was Belgium, little over
million dollars worth, followed by Meth
erlands to the value of about half a mil
| lion dollars and Cuba a half million.
Of fresh beef the United Kingdom is the
principal purchaser. the value thereof
taken in 1905 having been S22,O21.-
GAP out of total expectation of
i S22.13S, $3.50. Hams show the next
largest total, and of the S21.500,000
worth exported in 1905, $19,5O0OO0 went
to the United Kingdom about one-half
million dollars worth to Belgium and
half a million dollars worth to Cuba
0lepmargarine and oleo oil. the latter
used for the production Of oleomargarine
rank neN'4 to hams in the total value of
meat products exported, amounting in
ten months of 1906 10 practically S15,-
100000, the bulk Of which is oleo oil.
This q goes chiefly to the butter