The Republican journal., 1911-07-13
Growth in Expectation of Meat
Products.

prices of meat and dairy products are
accompanied by increased expectations.
The latest figures of the Bureau of Sta
tistics Of the Department Of Commerce
and Labor show large increases in ex-
ports Of meats in the month of May,
1911, when compared with the same
month a year ago. The total exports OF
meats for the II months of the fiscal
wear is still in some cases below those Of
year ago, but for the single month of
May, in which the export prices are ma
terially below those of year ago, the
increase is strongly marked. In the
case of lard, for example, of which the
export price in May 1911, was according
to figures of the Bureau of Statistics,
92 cents per pound, against 1877 cents
in May last year, the quantity exported
in May 1911 is more than double that Of
the corresponding month last year, the
total being 81 1-2 million in May 1911,
against 26 1-2 million in the correspond
ing month of 1910 Bacon, of which the
average export price in May 1911 was
1913 cents per pound, against 1873 cents
per pound in May of last year, shows
also large increase in the quantity ex-
ported, the total for May being II million
pounds, against IL million in the cor
responding month last year, though for
the II months ending with May 1911, the
total is less than in the same months Of
the prior year, being 1877 1-3 million
pounds, against 144 million in the cores
ponding months Of 1910. Hams and
shoulders of which the average export
price in May 1911 is lis cents per pound
against 14.6 cents per pound in May 1910,
show total expectation in May of the
current year of II million pounds against
IL million in the corresponding month
of 1910, the total for the II months end
ing with May being slightly below that
of the same months in 1910. Fresh beef
which shows but slight reduction in the
export price, 10 cents pound in May
1911 against 1913 cents per pound in May
1910, shows but slight increase in guam
tity, exported, being for May 1911, 4 1-2
million pounds against a little over
million pounds in May, 1910. Beef sailed
or picked, of which the export price in
May, 1911 is 7.3 cents per pound, against
81 cents per pound in May, 1910, shows
total exports for May of the current year
amounting to 3 1-2 million pounds,
against IL in May of the preceding
year. Butter also shows a marked de-
cline in export price, and an equally
marked advance in the quantity export
ed, the export price in May, 1911 being
POT cents per pound, against 25.5 cents
in May, 1910, the quantity exported in
May, 1911 being 4S7 thousand pounds,
against 331 thousand pounds IN May,
1910. Cheese, of which the export price
in May, 1911 was lis cents per pound,
against 15.5 in May, 1910, shows exports
of nearly million pounds, against about
ID million in May, 1910. Cattle, which
are exported chiefly for meat purposes,
show 10000 head exported in May, 1911,
against little less than 1000 in May of
last year. Indications are that the total
value of meat and diary products for the
fiscal year ending June Both, 1911, will
be about $50 million dollars, against
100 IL million in 1910, and 166 1-2 million
in 1909. This high figure Of $50 million
dollars worth of meat products exported
in the fiscal year 1911, will not, however,
equal that of earlier years, especially
1906 and 1907, when the total exports
of meat product passed the 200 million
dollar line.
What are the countries to which these
exports are sent? The Bureau of Stats
tics figures show for the II months end
ing with May, $50 million pounds of lard
sent to the United Kingdom, 1873 million
to Germany, and 81 million to Cuba.
Butter, which is going out of the coun-
try just now in much larger quantities
than usual, goes chiefly to the Central
and South American countries and the
West Indies. Of the 1-2 million pounds
of butter exported in the II months
ending with May, l l-3 million went
to the West Indies and Bermuda,
against little over l million in the
corresponding months of the prior
year. Cheese exports are widely dis
trlbuted, England being the largest
market, with the West Indian Islands,
Mexico, and Panama next, the smaller
quantities going to China, Japan and the
Philippine Islands. Condensed mix ex-
ports average about l million pounds
month, and the value for the full year
will amount to about l million dollars,
going, of course, chiefly to the tropics,
the largest single customer being Cuba,
and next in order the Philippine Islands,
Panama, Mexico, Asiatic Russia, China,
and Canada, this statement, as to coun-
tries of distribution, being based upon
the export figures Of the fiscal year 1910.
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