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Show American Corn Exports Likely to Break Record American corn Is apparently gaining favor with our neighbors In other parts of the world. The exports of 1 corn, says tho trade record of tho Na-Uionul Na-Uionul City bank of New York, are now I j running at a rate which suggests that , the fiscal ear, 1922. may "break the record" in the asportation of tills most Important of our cereal crops, and certainly In the sums of money which ; it brings into th" country. The March 1 exports of corn were 22.000.tntO bush- j ! els against 13,000,000 In the eame I months of last year, and In the nine months ending with March. 135, 000,- 000 tigalnst only 3C.nOO,000 in the same months of th- preceding year. I suggesting that the total for the fiscal year, 1 may perhaps surpass the banner year, lOO when the corn ex- porLs wore 213.000.000 bushels, w hile th- value of the 1921 exports Is $53 -1 000.000 against SS5.000.0OO In the for-, for-, nier high record year, 1900. Even this big total of $03,000,000 worth of corn exported in 1921 does n..t include that sent abroad in othei j forms, for the corn meal and flour ox-ported ox-ported in l'.t21 was about: $3.50.000 In value, and the gluucoso and corn sugar sug-ar produced from corn aggregated $6,-5ou, $6,-5ou, 000 in value, carrying the total ftvnnrt V:lllr ,.f enm ;,n,l 111 I , I'd, 1 1 1 f-1 in 1921 above the 100,000.000 line, against less than $90,000,000 in tho I former high record year, 1900, and an average of $45,000,000 a year in tho period from 1900 to the ond of 1920. This estimate of over $100,000,000 v.Tth of corn and its products exported ex-ported In 1921 docs not attempt to Includes In-cludes the meats, for lt Is our big corn crop that makes the United States the world's biggest producer and xporter of meats. Whether prohibition has had anything any-thing to do with any efforts which the corn products of the United States ! may have made t push Ih-ir ..l- -abroad, cannot bo determined, though it is a fact that the pie-pi ohlbltlon use of corn in distilling and brewing ranged as high as 50.00n.000 bushels a year At least the raU. at which the. sports are now runnin. 22.ooo.000 bushels per month, is at a rate far in excess of tho average exportation of the two high record years. 1898 and 1900, which 'wore the only years In the history' of our export trade In which the total exports crossed the 200,000.-nQo 200,000.-nQo l.ii.ih. l line whilf tl." ilii of the corn exports for the nine months ending end-ing with March. 1 922. $8 7,000,000. Is greater than that of any full year, preceding pre-ceding except 1921, when lt stood at $93,000,000 for corn alone. t At least apparent that the fiscal year. 1922, which ends with June, will far exceed any preceding year in the value I of corn exported , and approximate $130,000,000 to aay nothing ol the corn products which may bring ihe total to-tal up to $150,000,000 lor this most important of our cereal crops. |