Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1901 — FARM EXPORTS OF 1900. [ARTICLE]

FARM EXPORTS OF 1900.

Agricultural Department Issues Feme Interesting Figures. The foreign market section of the Agricultural Department has compiled atatistlcs showing the distribution of the agricultural exports of the United States for the years from 1893 to 1900. The report shows that there were a dosen countries tn 1900 to each of which the United States exported over $10,000,000 worth of domestic farm produce. The United Kingdom purchased $408,000,000 and Germany $134,000,000 worth. The agricultural exports to the United Kingdom were the largest on record excepting those of the extraordinary year of 1898, when a value of $439,000,000 was attalne<k In trade with Germany the exports for 1900 were decidedly in excess of any previously reported, and show an increase of nearly 100 per cent in the five years* period. Next in order to the above named countries in 1900 were the following: The Netherlands, $52,000,000, these figures being exceeded only in 1899 by less than $1,000,000; France, $45,000,000; Belgium, $33,000,000, as against $31,000,000 in 1896 to France and $18,000,000 to Belgium during the same year; Italy, $24,000,000; Canada, $21,000,000; Japan, over $15,000,000; Denmark, nearly $15,OOO,000; Cuba, $14,000,000, as against $4,000,000 in 1896; Spain, $lO,500,000, as against a trifle less than* $10,000,000 in 1896; British Africa, $lO,SOO,OOO. Exports ranging in value from $5,515,000 down went to more than a dosen other different countries. The total exports of domestic farm produce to Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawaii, and the Philippine Islands in 1900 had an aggregate value of over $20,000,000, aa compared with only $6,200,000 in 1896. South America was the only contingent •to which United States agricultural exports for the last five years show a decline—from $11,286,000 in 1896 to SB,452,000 in 1900. The most striking gain was in our exports to Asia, rising from $5,785,000 in 1896 to nearly $23,000,000 In 1900. The principal part of American agricultural exports in 1900 found a market in Europe, sales to European countries having an aggregate value of $739,000,000. With the exception of the phenomenal year 1898, when they reached $762,000,000, these figures are the largest on record. In 1896 they were $503,000,000. To th various North American countries the exports in 1900 were $55,000,000 In 1899 $58,000,000, and in 1890 $44,000,000. The ten principal items in our agricultural export trade for 1900 were: Breadstuff! $262,744,078 Cotton 242,988.978 Meat products 178,761.471 Live animals 43,686,031 Tobacco 29,422,871 OU cake and cake meal 10,806.802 Vegetable oils 1f1.845.0M Fruits and nuts 11,642,662 Dairy products 9,228.520 Seeds 7,088,982 Others 81,067,079 Total $844,610,530 Of meat products $107,021,000 went to the United Kingdom and $32,708,000 of live animals to the same country.