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Show I GREAT FOREIGN BUSINESS OF UNITED STATES. Europe's misfortunes have done much to cause the absorption of our surplus food products. In the nine months of the present fiscal year, the United States has exported 1411,000,-000 1411,000,-000 of breadstui fs. is compared with $123,000,000 worth in the same period a year aco. We have shipped $24,000,000 of corn. $02,000,000 of oats, $260,700,000 of wheat, $68,000,000 of flour. $8,000,-1 000 of canned beef. S9.000.00i' of fresh beef, $31,000,000 of bacon. $1S. '"0,000 of hams. $44,000,000 of lard. .3,000,000 Of pork, $57,000,000 of oil, $18,000,000 of gasoline The total in this group is $956,623,-"ft $956,623,-"ft as compared with $154,159,000 in the same group a year ago. or an increase in-crease of over $800,000,000 This wonderful cleanup of America's Amer-ica's surplus products should bring crcat prosperity. |