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Show TWENTY MILLION BARRELS OF FLOUR Export for the Year 1003 Exceeded That of Any Previous Year Story Told in Figures. (Special to Tho Tribune.) WASHINGTON. Feb. 19. Flour exports ex-ports from the United States in 1003 were larger than in any preceding year in the history of our commerce and aggregated ag-gregated practically 20.000.000 barrels. The value of the flour exports also exceeded ex-ceeded that of any preceding year, with the exception of 1892 and 1S93, when the value slightly exceeded that of 1903, but the quantity exported was materially less. The total number of barrels of fiour exported from tho United States ln the fiscal year 1903 was 19,716,631, valued at $73,756.-10-1, while ln 1893 the number of barrels was 16.620,339, but the value was $76,49-1,317. prices of that year being materially higher than those of 1903. In the calendar year 1903, ending with the month of December, the total exports ex-ports of flour amounted to 19.551,411 barrels, bar-rels, valued at $75.1S8,O50. This calendar-year calendar-year statement glveo the very latest figures fig-ures of flour exports, and a comparison of these llgures with the wheat exports of tho calendar year indicates that considerably con-siderably more than one-half of the wheat exported In the calendar year 1903 was turned Into flour beforo exportation. expor-tation. The total value of the wheat exports ex-ports of the calendar year 1903 was $59,-329,411, $59,-329,411, and that of the flour exports, V75.1SS.050. A study of the wheat exporlatlons of the United States during a long term of years dlsclo&aa some very Interesting facts. Prior to the development of tho great wheat fields of tho United States, which occurred subsequent to 1S60. a very large proportion of tho Mirplus wheat of the country was exported ln the form of flour. From 1790 to 1860 no Instance occurs In which the exports of wheat equaled In value those of flour. Beginning with 1S61, however, wheat exports ex-ports exceeded ln value those of flour, and this was almost constantly, tho case down to 1890. Since that time, however, flour exports have on many occasions materially exceeded ln value those of wheat, though ln j'ears of large cropa the unusual surplus naturally found its wny abroad In tho form of wheat, since the capacity of tho mills could not conform con-form to the annual fluctuations In production. pro-duction. The growth In flour exportation exporta-tion has therefore been steady, whllo that of wheat not turned Into flour has fluctuated with the urplU3 crop availa-hlo availa-hlo for, exportation. |