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Show I EM EXPORTS MEATPRODUCTS CHICAGO, Dec. 16. E. A, Cudahy. president of the Cudahy Packing company, com-pany, in his annual statement to the stockholders made public today, cites figures showing that the packing industry in-dustry broke all records in the ten months of the current year in the exportation ex-portation of fresh beef and products. The Cudahy company's gros sales for 1 the fiscal year ending November 2. 1918, were $286,660,791.48. as against $184,811,423.34 for the preceding year. , "The largest exportation of fresh beef in any year prior to tho present year was 352.000.000 pounds in the fls-cal fls-cal year 1901," said Mr. Cudahy, "then ( dwindling down year by year to only 6,000,000 pounds in the year imme- , diately preceding the war Avhile the ( total for the JLen months ending with October of the current year was 417,-000.000 417,-000.000 pounds. "Pork products also show a new high record in quantities as well as in values. The total quantity of bacon exported in the ten months ending , with October. 191S, was 906.000,000 pounds against a former high record 1 of 593,000,000 pounds in the full fiscal 1 year 1916. Hams and shoulders In ' the same ten months were 47S, 000,000 pounds against 287,000,000 pounds In the fiscal year 1916." "In 1913 our company paid to the ; farmers of the United States some ' $75,000,000 for the animals purchased. 1 This year, and for a volume and 1 weight approximately 33 1-3 per cent ' greater, we have paid more than $180,- 1 000,000. In 1913 we paid to our om- ! ployos some $7,000,000 for wages and 5 salaries. This year we have paid ! them In excess of $15,500,000. Our net profits as compared to 1913 arc in about the same ratio to our turnover 1 as in that year." |