Norwich bulletin., 1921-11-14
FOREIGN WORLD DEMANDING
 WHILE FOODSTUFFS

While the world can wear its old clothes for another season and even get along with last years automobile, it must have food, and as a consequence, says the Trade Record of the National City Bank our exports of foodst uffs continue to show increases in quaHti- ty in all of the more iInporta..t arlic-es.
 Corn exports in the nine months end ing with September are Io5.60e, ,0t0 bushels against only 100000 Tn ibe same months of last year. anl will show 8 bigger total In the caler.dar year 1921 than at any time in the past twenty years. Wheat exports in the nine months ending with Septem- Der were rearly 300, 0,o10,G0J bushels (in- cluding flour in terms of Wile1U as against about 200, ,055 J99 in tlIe same n:cntils oI last year, and it IS quite apparent that the carrier year in ine History cf our export trade. Rice also makes by far dts highest record in 1921, the quantity for the nine months ending with September being 4SG.oo0.- COG pounds against 294,000, ,060 in the same months Of last year, and 393, ,00o,- former high record in rice exportation. GOO in the full calendar year 1920, the Barley cxpoI ts are aiso far in excess of those of the same correspo ldinE month Of 1920, though in oats and rye there l is a material decline in quantity as well as value.
 ] The demand for meats is not as g cat l proportio- ately as for cereas. The quantity of bacon expo:t.,d shows a i slight decline but tha. of narns and | shoulders q marked increase, while ia- shows 8 total of 7Ie. e.GO0,J00 pcInds against iSt, DOG. .0O0 ia the same months of last V ar and seems likely 70 ex- ceed 1,0Oo, o,O00,0Oo pour4ds in the calen- l dar year 1921 as against former high record of slightly less than 800, ,0o0,- i 900 in 1919. In fresh beef we are get i ting back to pre-war conditions, and { the quantity exported in the nine rnoutns eadIng with September, 192i is only I-2 million pounds against a little less than 100000 in the yeai 1 preceding the ESr. Dleo oil shows 2 l total Of FOG, ,000,000 cpnds agains
 49,eo0. 300 in the same months Of I,- year, ani eott-''15sed oii of which iht exportatIo Ia afe clliet.y ussd for food
 shows 2 total Df z3l .aYv p00 pounds q the nine n:Jl .ls Of lj1t against l13,, 000,000 in tce same months of .as year.
 Europe is of course the chief desti nation of the foodstuffs being exported in such large quantities, the larges
 ever III NI1edL anu rice ana the larS est for twenty years in the case O 4 corn. In the eight months ending witt August, the latest period for which full
 details are available, Europe took 175
 100000 bushels of wheat exported
 in the form of flour a considerable
 percentage went to the Latin Ameri
 can countries. Of the corn exported
 Bufope's share was less thau in tn
 case of wheat, though nearly one hal
 Of the big exports of corn are HOW be
 ing sent to that continent. Europe i
 also making favorable acquaintance
 with our rice, of which We have on.,
 become large exporters In very rccen
 years. Germany having taksA 54,0B5.ce
 pounds of the rice exported in l?2t
 the latest year for which details ai,
 available; Greece 35,ae0,ga) pourns
 Belgium 2o,o0o,O ,Ooe; an1 Francs 2o.0ed.
 0eo pounds