The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1911-03-23
FEBRUARY PRODUCTS OF FARM

February expectation of farm pro-
ducts show a marked increase when
compared with those of the cores
ponding month last year, according
to figures just received by the Bu-
Peau OF Statistics, Department of
Commerce and Labor. Corn, wheat,
flour, other breadstuffs, and meat
and dairy products all show very
large increase in February 1911,
compared with February, 1910. The
quantity of corn exported in Febru-
airy, 1911, was practically 10 "A mil
lion bushels, against Alp million in
February Of last year; of wheat. f-3
million bushels, against million a
year ago; of flour 839 thousand bar
reFs, against 523 thousand in Feb
ruaFy, 1910; meat and bread pro-
ducts 1904 million dollars in value.
against .93-4 million one year ago;
and cotton, 410 million pounds,
against 1859 million pounds in the
corresponding month Of last year.
En- the eight months ending with
February corn exports show also a
large increase, being for that period
35 3-4 million bushels against 22f-2
million in the corresponding period
year earlier. Wheat exports, how
ever. show a marked decline. being
in the 1911 period 1913 million
bushels, against 1913 million in the
corresponding period of 1910. The
outward movement of flour in the
1911 period is about the same as
year ago, while other breadstuffs,
show total export of 6t-2 million
dollars in value in the 1914 period,
against 4f-2 million in the cores
nonding period of the prior year.
Meat and dairy products exported
in 1911 period differ but little
from those of 1910; and cotton ex-
ports aggregated 501 million dollars
in value in the 1911 period, against
34S million year earlier. Cattle,
hogs and sheep from the sole class
showing a decline in both the month
of February and the eight months
ending with FEBRUARY, the value
thereof exported in February, 1911,
being S34 thousand dollars, against
million in February, 1910, and
in the eight months ending with
February, 1914, 7 million dollars,
against 1912 million in the CORES
ponding period of the preceding
year.
One notable feature of the recent
exports of breadstuffs is that the
value of corn exported is far in ex-
cess of that of wheat, being in the
month of February, 1911, 52-3 mil
lion dollars worth of flour. For
the eight months period, however,
exports of wheat and flour in COM
bination are larger in value than
corn exports, the value of wheat ex-
ported in the eight months ending
February, 1914 being II million dol
lars, and of flour, 80 3-4 million
while the value of corn exported is
1884 million. While the exporta-
ton of wheat during the s months
ending February, 1911, has been
much less than that of the cores
ponding period of last year, and
far below lne annual average OF the
past decade, the figures will not
make the lowest record of our ex-
ports OF that article. The totaF
exports in the month of February
Ia million, indicating that for the
fiscal year ending June, 20, 1911,
the total will range between 20 and
30 million bushels, while the ex-
norts of wheat in the fiscal year
1905. following the very short crop
of 1904, amounted to only Is mil
lion bushels, however, that the ex-
norts of the fiscal year 1911 Will,
with the single exception OF 1903,
he smaller than in any year since
1869 when the total was IL IL MIL
lion bushels.