The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1911-08-03
EXPORTS OF FARM PRODUCTS
DURING THE FISCAL YEAR
rorY


Exports of farm products will aggre-
gate billion dollars in the fiscal year
which ends with the month of June. The
governors fiscal year has for many years
ended at the middle of the calendar year, !.
the purpose being TO give opportunity to
classify and arrange the years figures in
time for consideration BY the congress
whose regular date Of meeting is the first
Monday in December, thus the Bureau q
Statistics of the Department of Coming
and Labor presents It's detailed
report of commerce for the yea
June goth. Figures for ii of the
of the fiscal year 1871 are now
and show exports of cotton
dollars, foodstuff 334 million
tobacco IS million, total
months ending with May 96s n
lars, making it quite apparend
sum added for the month of
bring the total exports of farm
during the fiscal year 1917 abov
lion dollar line.
Cotton as above indicated, is b.
largest single item, SAT million
worth being exported in the
ending with MAY, indicating
total of the full fiscal year will
mate 600 million, against a
in the fiscal year 1910, and
in the former high record
This very large increase I'M
cotton exports In the fiscal
that of any earlier year is
the high prices, the qua
exported in 1917 being ma
in 1909 or 1907, while TIN
coed by more than MILD
of the year in which the
greater than in 1917. The az
port price of domestic cotton in M
was 1871 cents per pound, and feS
months ending with May, r4.s cen
pound; against I4.2 cents in the Con
year 1910; IL .cets in 1854; Ir.4 Gets in
1908; and less than 6 cents per pound in
1895; 1898 and 1899, these figures being =
in all cases for the cotton year ending with
August 3Ist D
Meat and dairy products also show a
marked increase in value of exports in the
fiscal year 1917, when compared with the
Immediately preceding year, being for
the II months ending with May, 1872 y
million dollars; against no million dol 9
lars, against million for the correspond 4
ing month of last year This increase is j
due in nearly all cases to larger guam
titles, the prices being in most cases low 4
er than last year. For example the aver
age export price of bacon in the month of
May, 1911, is 1913 cents per pound; against
1873 cents per pound in May of last year;
hams, II.S cents per pound, against I4.s
cents in May year ago; lard, 9z cents
per pound, against I2.7 cents in the cor
responding month last year; butter 2o.7
cents per pound, against ass cents in May
70 Re r.
pound, against 1876 cents in May last year.
OthSr articles showing an increase in
value of exports in the fiscal year r9rr over
that of the corresponding period of the
preceding fiscal year are fruits, 20 million
dollars against II ga million year ago;
corn, SO million, against million in the
corresponding period of 1910; while cotton
seed oil, oil cake and meal, and flour show
slight. advances in the total value of ex-
ports when compared with the correspond
ing period of last year. though wheat
shows marked decline in the months
ending within May, 1917, being but ri Ia
million dollars in value, against All
million in the corresponding months of
1910.
Europe is, of coAgse the chief purchaser
Of these exports of fam products Most of
the cotton goes to Europe, comparatively
small quantities, however, going to Can
ada and japan, and Europe is also the
chief suctomer for whebt cotton seed oil,
oil cake, live cattle, anY tobacco. Of meat
and dairy products, theS south and Central
American countries, Mexico, and the West
Indian Islands take Considerable guam
titles, though more than \ alf of the meats
go to Europe
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