Evening journal., 1915-08-06
FOODSTUFFS SHOW
BIC EXPORT Increase
U. S. Reports at Same Time
Show Falling Off in
Cotton Shipments
DEMAND FOR
OATS IS GREAT

WASHINGTON. Aug 6.-Upward of
s4o0 coo 600 increase in exports of food
stuis to the credit OF the United States
during the fiscal year ending June 30.
1918. WIS offset TO considerable extent
BY the loss Of s235ooo.ooo in cotton ex-
ports during the same period, according
to the monthly bulletin OF the Depart
mont oi Commerce, issued on Tuesday
The bulletin gives the export figures for
the fiscal year loll-l5. and, for compan-
son. the leures for the previous year.
and at ihc same time the figures fol
June. 1915, and June. 1914
Not all the increase IN values OF these
exports was due 10 increased quantities,
e certain proportion being due TO the
higher nuocs prevailing. Brcadstuiis
cottonsccd oil live food animals, meat
and dairy products were some of the
food products showing most notable adj
vancc- IN value.
Oats Exports in Lead.
A detailed scrutiny Of the figures
in various lines of trade shows plain
" the effect of the war on the Euro
pean demand for foodstuffs and other
raw materials. The greatest single
advance in export values Is made by
oats Exports of oats In 1915 jumped
more than eighty times above those
IN 1914 and the value OF oats eX-
ported IN the single month Of June
1915 is eight times as much as the
entire export crop in 1914 The de-
tailed figures are For the fiscal year
ending 1914, 1881 for the fiscal
year ending 1915. $50. ABS, ,963 for the
month OF June 1914. S93,S25: for the
month of June. 1915, S5,769,06S
Next to oats. the most spectacular
advance in values was made by the
exports of canned and fresh beef
canned beef increasing by more than
"A TO 1. and fresh beef by "a TO I.
Evidently Europe's armies have been
living on American beef and feeding
their horses with American oats.
The detailed figures for canned
beef are: For the fiscal year 1914.
S452124; for t914-15. l,966.2O0;
for June 1914 -s27749; for June.
1915. Sl,257658 more than twice as
much as during tLe entire year OF
1914. For fresh beef 1894.
S7S3.04s; for l9l4-15, $2t,6t9,144;
for June. 1914, S72.259; for June.
1915. S6.255. nearly one-third the
total for the entire year and nearly
ninety times as much as In the same
month of the previous year.
Increase Of Breadstulis.
Next 10 these lines. wheat and corn
exports gained more than any others.
being nearly quadrupled the figures
for wheat being: 1884, SS7 903.-
OH; for 19l4-15. 1882, 1865, ,49S; for
June 1914. S7,079,976; for June.
1915 $12.906.952
Breadstufs as whole nearly
Quadruplod in value. the figures be-
ing For 1854. S156,7S1 .9S5; for
19l4-15, s55S662.579. for June. 1914.
S12.672.7S4; for June. 1915 S2S.S22.-
67e
Flour showed no such spectacular
rise as this. although exports in
creased heavily. going for the year
from $4,000. 295 to S93574,2S0 and
IN the month of June increasing to
s. 922,664. against S3.991 $40 for tho
previous year Corn exports went up
nearly six times from S6.70l 996 to
S37694475 on the year. and from
Sfl0.760 in June, 1914, TO SS151 .9S1 in
June. 1915. II Is noticeable that the
greatest Increases were made in lines
which hitherto had formed only a
comparatively small portion of the
export trade.
On the other hand. the fall in cot
ton was from S610.446. 96S to s376. Pa
4eI This was largely due 10 the
fan In price. however. as the num-
Der Of bales exported fell only from
9.165,030 to S.426.287.
Figures OF exports in other lines Of
trade are scarcely less interesting
and significant. Picked and salt
beef. which hitherto had formed much
the greater portion OF the American
export trade in meats. advanced so
per cent. from S2.2SA097 TO SS.376.
454 Thus, after being valued in
1914 at double that Of the exports of
fresh and canned beef together. in
1915 this product fell back to less
than one-tenth their combined value.
Value of Pork Exports.
Pork products as a whole advanced