Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1916 — EXPORTS OF FOODSTUFFS [ARTICLE]

EXPORTS OF FOODSTUFFS

Decline $0:1,000,000 as to Shipments to European Countries, Washington, May. !).—Europe’s foodstuff purchases in the United States, as shown in figures published today by the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce, have fallen off sharply within the last few months, compared with the enormous shipments that crossed the Atlantic in the first year of the war. Foodstuff exports’ in the nine months ending with March show a decline in Value of $63,000,000 from the corresponding period of the year before. Shipments of meat and meat products increased, totalling within, the nine months $180,000,000, against $ 1 32,000,000 the year before, but d eel in ing area (Ist tu ff ex ports . red u ced she aggregate value of food shipment.- from $956,000,000 to $893,00 0.0 On