Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-11-20
FOOD EXPORTS TO EUROPE
INCREASE.

in October of this year amounted to
S3S, PAT, $40, according to statistics made
public today by the bureau of foreign
and domestic commerce, an increase of
nearly $25, 600, 600 over figur S fer Oc-
tober, 1913. Exports of fresh beef also
more than doubled during the month,
figures this year being $s3, $40, as against
$3G, S63 in October, 1913.
In spite of the tremendous increase
in food shipments, exports as a whole
did not measure up to last years figures.
The total for the month as recorded at
the 10 chief ports of the United States
amounted to $S3, 513, 466, as against
$147, 1873, 016 the previous year.
For the week ending November d.
however, exports at these ports totaed
SAL, 5S7, $780, and officials of the com
tinuance of the marked improvement in
American export trade already noted
this month and upon which the feeling
of confidence in the bright future open
ing before American industries is based
The districts selected handle nearly 80
per cent of the nations export trade,
and the tabuations show that the bal
ance in favor of this country on inter
national trade stood last Saturday at
$32, 392, PA for the first half of Novem-
Der. Imports last week totaled $25, =
70,9S.
While the great improvement in eX-
ports, shown for the day of last Satur-
day by the daily Geographic report the
treasury department receives from the
ten big custom houses, was not con-
tinued for yesterday the average was
considered good. Mondays figu es
We're exports 1856, 299; imports
"a, 442, 800. The daily average exports
in November, 1913, were Sc, 9S3, 1926;
imports $4,923,379.
Figures on the exports as to character
and destination will not be obtainable,
as Secretary McAdoo ordered manifests
of foreign-bound shipping withheld from
publication for periods of thirty days,
beginning October 28.
1t was stated at the commerce bureau
that the increase in November exports
probably would show breadstuffs and
fresh meats still to be in greater de-
mand, while treasury department Off
Gals believed cotton exports had so
increased in the last two weeks that
they now approached 10000 bales a
week The daily statement for Monday
notes the shipment from Baltimore to
Liverpool of l ,749 bales of cotton.
SO great has been the European de-
mand for breadstuffs that wheat, corn,
barley, oats and flour are going across
the Atlantic from every port in the
United States. Huge shipments have
been made from San Francisco via the
Panama canal. The total export bust
ness in breadstuffs for the ten months
ending with October this year was
$204, PIG, AIS as against $40, 220, $40 for
the like period of 1913. a-r-
Export trade in mineral oils showed
marked decline last October probably
because of the seizure of many oi-laden
ships by the British cruisers on the
grounds that ships bound for neutral
countries, such as Italy and Holland,
actually We're destined for the use of
the German army. Oil exports last
month totaled $l1, 975, S46 while the
October figure for 1913 was $l5, 053, 900.
The decrease in all exports for he
ten months period was 1912, 129, 30l and
for 1914, 5000, SO2, $50.
The greatest single increase in the
October export among the breadstutfs
was in wheat, which rose from seven
million bushels in 1913 to nineteen mil
lion bushels in 1914. Exports of oats
jumped from $23, $40 to 50, 322, 155, while
corn shipments increased from 1914, 285
to 1858, 812
Cotton exports for October, 1914,
were valued at SEQ, 420, 043, as against
$107, 1915, 1877 in October, 1918. The de-
crease for the ten months period in
cotton shipments alone between 1913
and 1914 amounted to 1927, $50, 74S.
A feature of the export of oils is that
despite a tremendous decrease last Oc-
tober in cargoes of Illuminating and
lubricating oils, gasoline, naphtha, and
other fuel oils We're shipped in larger
quantities than in 1913. Fuel oil, excu-
sive of gasoline and naphtha, was
shipped to the extent of over Ga, 900, OOO
gallons last month, while October figures
for 1918 were AZ, 500, 900.