Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1891 — The Foreign Market. [ARTICLE]

The Foreign Market.

The McKinleyites take every occasion to belittle the foreign market, but all the same tho foreign market goes on proving its value to our farmers. Our total exports of beef, hog, and dairy products during April reached a value of 59,536,059, against exports in April, 1800, of £9.379,706. The totals for the four months ending April 30 have increased from §42,148,694 for 1890 to £44,346,900 for 1891. The exports of breadstuffs during April were valued at

$12,373,857. asrainst $15,543,919 hi satfl® month last year For the ten months ending April 30 the breadstuffs exported were valued at $97,626,753, agalust *8126,170,289 the same time in'lß9o. Poor crops at home last year left a smaller surplus of breadstuffs for export than usual; but the foreign demand is now raising prices in the homo market.