Show UNITED STATES IS I 1 BY WAR GREAT AMOUNT OF foodstuffs BEING SENT ACROSS WATERS TO WARRING NATIONS value of last weeks exports double that of a year ago the demand for wheat cheat being highest in history of country washington wash ington wars demand on american granaries mills and packing houses as shown friday tn in an analysis analysts by the department of commerce resulted in record exhortations exportations of 0 breadstuff breadstuffs bread stuffs a meats and other food articles during september many trade currents broken by the european upheaval have shifted to the united states prance france demanding immense quantities of fresh beef south america and europe buying large amounts of flour while nearly all the markets formerly supplied from other sources are importing millions of pounds ol of american sugar the value of foodstuffs sold abroad last month was nearly double that of september a year ago when the total was the war demand for wheat brought exports for the three months ended with september to the highest point ever reached in any corresponding period total exports including flour in terms of wheat in the three months aggregated bushels corn com pared with bushels la in that period a year ago for september the exports of flour were about normal but the wheat sold abroad was more than twice that exported during the same month a yeat yea ago the wheat total was bushels france bought bushels the netherlands while other european nations bought bushels more than bushels were exported to canada while another effect of the war was shipment of bushels to brazil exports of fresh beet beef in september amounted to pounds eleven times that sent abroad in september 1913 the poun pounds ds of canne canned beef exported was eight times the amount sold in september last year |