The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1911-03-23
FEBRUARY EXPORTS OF FARM
PRODUCTS.

WASHINGTON, D. c., March 10th. Feb
ruary expectations of farm products
show marked increase when compared
with those of the corresponding month
last year, according to the figures just
received b. the Bureau of Statistics, De-
partment of Commerce and Labor. Corn,
wheat, flour, other breadstutfs, and meat
and dairy products, all show very large
increase in February, 1911, compared
with February, 1910. The quantity of
corn exported in February, 1911, was
practically 10 3-4 million bushels, against
4 IL millions in February of last year;
of wheat 1-3 million bushels, against l
million year ago; of flour, 839 thousand
barrels, against 523 thousand in Febru-
ary, 1910; meat and dairy products, 10
ga million dollars in value, against Sd
millions one year ago; and cotton, 40
million pounds, against 1859 million pounds
in the corresponding month of last year.
In the months ending with February.
corn exports show also large increase,
being for that period IS 80 million BUSH
els against % IL millions in the corre-
spending period year earlier. Wheat
exports, however, show marked de-
cline, being in the 1911 period 10 1-3 mil
lion bushels, against SO 1-3 millions in the
corresponding period of 1910. The out
ward movement of flour in the 1911
period is about the same as year ago,
while other breadstuffs, show a total ex-
port of 1-2 million dollars in value in
the 1911 period, against 4 IL millions in
the corresponding period of the prior
year. Meat and dairy products exported
in the 1911 period differ but little from
those of 1910; and cotton exports aggre-
gated SOL million dollars in value in the
1911 period, against 348 million year
earlier. Cattle, hogs and sheep form the
sole class showing a decline in both the
month of February and the months
ending with February, the value thereof
exported in February, 1911. being 1924
thousand dollars, against 1-3 million ir
February, 1910, and in the months end
ing with February, 1911, Z million dol
lars, against 10 IL millions in the CORE
spending period of the preceding year
One notable feature of the recent ex
ports of breadstuffs is that the value Of
corn exported is far in excess of that Of
wheat, being in the month Of Feb, 1911
5 2-3 million dollars, against little ovel
l million dollars worth of wheat, and
ga million dollars worth of flour. Fo1
the months period, however, exports
of wheat and flour in combination are
larger in value than corn exports, the
value of wheat exported in the months
ending February, 1911, being II million
dollars, and of flour, 80 3-4 millions while
the value of corn exported is 10 3-4 mil
lions. While the expectation of wheat
during the months ending February,
1911, has been much less than that of
the corresponding period last year, and
far below the annual average of the past
decade, the figures will not make the
lowest record of our exports of that
article. The total exports in the
months ending February, 1911, are IS 1-3
million bushels, and in the single month of
February, Il million, indicating that for
the fiscal year ending June 80, 1911, the
total will range between 20 and 80 million
bushels, while the exports of wheat in
the fiscal year 1905, following the very
short wheat crop of 1904. amounted to
only 1-3 million bushels, the lowest
record of wheat exports in many years.
1t seems probable, however, that the ex-
ports of the fiscal year 1911 will, with
the single exception of 1905, be smaller
than in any year since 1869, when the
total was II 2 million bushels.