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Show I BEEF EXPORTS : MAKE BIO DROP i American Cattle No Longer (Factor in World Commerce Big Food Demand. Washington. Oct. 18 Exit the Am- crican cattle and beef as a factor iu I world commerce This virtually Is I the declaration of tho United State3 I bureau of foreign and domestic com merce. which announced today tha( I such exports had droppet? in lees than I a decade to a startling extent. In 1904 the bureau's statisticians ' found, this country sent cattle and t beef abroad to the value of more than IB twenty-four millions of dollars during I. the eight months ending with August f In the corresponding eight months this year a scant million dollars In g such products have gone to the lard era of the peoples of other lands W As an aggravating act accompany I ing the falling off in exports the Uni- ted States has been forced to draw more and more largely on other coun-t coun-t tries for beef and beef animals, savs the bureau. This demand for food from outside has been met mosth by Mexico, which, in spite of internal I troubles, has been able to send approximately ap-proximately 393.000 bead of cattle In- to the United Stales Despite the seeming scarcity of cattle cat-tle the bureau declares the prices of beef animals have fallen steadily. The exports are said to acknowledge 1 that the average housewife, after scan ulng her butcher bill, may question the declaration. They fall back on the old adage, however, that "figures I cannot lie." |