Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1911-03-22
STATISTICS OF GREAT VALUE.
Facts Concerning tho February Elk.
ports Of Farm Products.

80 u ISNT
ports Of Farm Products.
February expectations 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 Blu
real Of Statistics, Department Of Com
merce and Labor.
Corn, wheat, -four, other bread
stuffs, and meat and dairy products,
all show a very large increase in Feb
fuary, 1911, compared with Febru-
airy, 1910. The quantity OF corn ex-
ported IN February, 1911, was prac-
tlcally 10M MILAN bushels, against
AZ million in February Of last year;
of wheat, l 1-3 million bushels,
against l million n year ago; Of -four
$4,000 barrels, against $4,000 In
February, 1910; meat and dairy
products 10A million dollars in
value, against OK million one year
ago, and cotton, 410,0O0,O 900 pounds,
against 100 100000 pounds in the
corresponding month OF last year..
In the eight months ending with
February corn exports show also a
large increase, being for hat period
35A million bushels against 22h
million In the corresponding period a
year earlier. Wheat exports, how
ever. show a marked decline, being
In the 1911 period Is 1-3 million
bushels, against 80 1-3 million in the
corresponding period Of 1910.
The outward movement Of -four in
the 1911 period Is about the same as
a year ago while other breadstuffs
show a total export OF 6h million
dollars in value in the 1911 period,
against AZ million in the cores
ponIjng period Of the prior year
Meat and dairy products exported
in the 1911 period differ but a little
from those Of 1910; and cotton ex-
ports aggregated $501,O0O,0 in
value In the 1911 period, against
34S,000,000 a veal earlier.
Cattle, hogs and sheep form 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 $4,000, against 1 1-3
million dollars in February, 1910,
and in the eight months ending with
February, 1911, $7,O00.OOO against
~$1O,50O,000 in the corresponding
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, 5 2-3 mil
lion dollars, against a little over one
million dollars worth of wheat, and
3& million dollars worth Of -four.
For the eight months period, how
ever, exports Of wheat and flour in
combination are larger in value than
corn exports, the value Of wheat eX-
ported in the eight months ending
February, 1911, being SIT 900,
and OF flour, 32A million, while the
value of corn exported Is 19A mil
lion. While the expectation of wheat
during the eight months ending Feb
ruary, 1911, has been much less than
that Of the corresponding period last
year, and far below the annual aver
& Of the past decade, the figures
Will not make the lowest record of
our exports Of that article. The total
exports in the eight months ending
February, 1911, are IS 1-3 million
bushels, and In the single month Of
February, l 1-3 million, indicating
that for the fiscal year ending June
80, 1911, the total will range be-
tween 20 and 80 million bushels,
while the exports Of wheat in the
fiscal year 1905, folio wing the very
short crop of 1904, amounted to only
4 1-3 million bushels-the lowest
record OF wheat exports in many
years. 1t seems probable, however,
that the exports Of the fiscal year
1911 will, with the single exception
Of 1905, be smaller than in any yea
since 1869, when the total was 17h
million bushels.
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