Show I = OUR EXPORTS J OUREXPORTSI I i tI 1 f 1 I f iDtcrestiog Collation of fFig i re Regarding Farm ij Pro I nets I 1 I j W ERE IT All GOES j Best Customer is UniiedaKingj f I dom and its Dependencies I I I I I TAKE SIXTY PER CENT I British People During Years 1894 tc 1898 Paid the Farmers America as High as 8403953954 a Year Great Britain Alone Took More than OneHalf of all Our Agricultural Agricul-tural Exports Consignments Credited Cred-ited to that Country Forming About 55 Per Cent of the Total Shipments Germany was Our Next Best Customer Receiving > About 16 Per Cent Average Yearly Value Being 886320254 France I Comes Next the Three Receiving Nearly 75 Per Cent of Our Total i Washington Jan 14Mm 1 Frank I Hitchcock chief of the foreign markets division of the Agricultural department depart-ment has prepared an interesting collation colla-tion of figures showing for the ilrst time I the respective amounts of our agrlcul tural exports which go to the several i countries of Europe and of the other i I continents The period covered is 1SS1 > > to 3SOS J The statement shows that the agrl i fM 1 cultural products exported froinvthov > v I I J1Jt tat UI11g the thCI h1 ran J1 r-an average annual value oCfGtfaoSSSOl i I Of these enormous exports about CO percent cent found u > market In the United Kingdom and Its various dependencies LIKE OUR FARM PRODUCTS I The sum paid by the British people for the American farm products purchased pur-chased during the period mentioned reached as high as 5403955951 a year o Great Britain alone took more t n onc half of all our agricultural exports tho consignments credited to that country forming 53 per cent of the total shipments ship-ments and having an annual value oC t 3407701 FRENCHGERMAN PURCHASES Germany which ranks next to tho United Kingdom as a market for tho products of American agriculture received re-ceived about 16 per cent of the exports for 1S919S the average yearly value amounting to SG32025l I France with purchases that averaged 13938791 a year or about G6 per cent o the total vas the third country In Importance These three countries tho J I United Kingdom Germany and France received together nearly 75 per cent i of the total agricultural exports fr I OTHER IMPORTANT MARKETS h After tho three countries Just mentioned men-tioned the Netherlands Belgium Canada Can-ada Italy and Spain afforded the most important markets The Netherlands bought 13 1 per cent of the total Belgium SO per cent Canada 3G per cent Italy 22 per cent and Spain 15 per cent I The average annual values of the exports ex-ports to these countries were Netherlands SZSEB31f I l1chhlnl Z3v3ieai 1 Canada 23020077 italy H2 < rU2I J Spain 97t317DO j 1 BRAZIL A CUSTOMER Brazil took G2GS729 Cuba 0059824 Denmark 5930932 exports to that country doubling during the five years 1 The British West Indies i241657 Mexico 1 Mex-ico lCrC4SC British Africa 31 1138920 and European Russia 4OG02oG The avorTgo yearly exports to Hongkong wero valued at 353D5SS and those to Japan at 407SOO For Portugal the J I average annual I record was 52709694 for Sweden and Norway 2085519 for Hayti 2218966 and for British Austral asia 2030804 The other countries to which the United States sent agricultural products pro-ducts during 1S949S having an average yearly value In excess of 1000000 were AustriaHungary Venezuela British Guiana Porto Rico the Hawaiian Islands and the French West Indies INCREASED PURCHASES The figures show that with very few exceptions the leading foreign countries coun-tries materially Increased their purchases pur-chases of American agricultural exports ex-ports during 189498 In the total value of the agricultural exports there was an advance from 030633717 In IS94 to 853307942 in 1S9S making a gain of 1871195 The countries of destination destina-tion that contribute most to this increase In-crease were the United Kingdom Germany I Ger-many France Belgium Canada the Netherlands Japan Italy Denmark and British Africa Our exports of farm products to the United Kingdom Increased S5SSSi1 1 during the five years to German 4b 411338 and to France S3341520S MARKETED IN EUROPE The summary brings out tho fact that about SS per cent of all the farm produce shipped from the United States during the live years mentioned woo marketed In Europe the annual aver being 580958907 In 1S9S It reached age as high as 701870782 showing an Increase of 195688838 over the value for 1891 crease Of the remaining 12 per cent tho choice went to Canada and other North American countries average innuallv 4S7 > 4257 or slightly more than 7 Jrer cent it the total The records i rec-ords for the five years show only a gain slight South America took only 172 per confi > f the total l the average vcArly valu to t PL doing 11389761 and wero I Jess In 1SOS 1J han ISMSJUPM SHIPMENTS TO ASIA TojABls UJMC Was a marked increase L 01 the flvv years the value advancing e rpm 38015 8 In 1894 to 14671319 In 353 They formed 1 Hi per cent of the jolsil for the five years The shipments of agricultural pro luce to Africa although constituting I oss limn i per cent of the total also 8 In 1S9S showed f noticeable Increase life value amounted to 59795593 as lie compared with only S171C820 In ISO I This was a gain of 38078778 I To Oceania there wero agricultural I 3 export aggregating 53S91S6S a year I The xllrt1 value reJntn JSIH was 34 < MGl while that for JS34 was only Sla63l48 I |