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Show Agricultural Products Shipped to All Parts of (he World Washington, Jan. 11 Nine billion dollars' worth of agricultural products have Loen exported from the United States during the last ten years, those exported In the fiftcal year 1909 having hav-ing alone amounted to practically 900 million dollars, against lyss than 800 million lu 1S99. The above statement summarizes the results of a special compilation made by the Bureau of Statistics of tho Department of Commerce and Labor La-bor showing tho exports of the principal princi-pal products of agricultural origin In i he period from 1809 to 1909. Tho i exports of agricultural products as a f whole have increased from 7S5 million mil-lion dollars in 1S99 to fc9$ million In 1909, the highest record having been made in 1907, when the total exceeded exceed-ed one billion dollars, or, to be exact, 1,049 million. While the general agricultural group thus shows a gain of over 100 million dollars during the decade under un-der review, It must not be understood that the growth applies to all or even a large share of the Important Items. On the contrary, most of the staple farm products used for food, such as brcadstuffs, meats, and live cattle, show decreased exportatlons during the period, the loss In that line of articles having been more than offset by the great Increase In cotton and certain comparatively new Industries whose chief development has occurred occur-red In the last few years, notably cotton seed oil, corn oil, oil cake and oil cake meal, oleomargarine, lard, compounds, sujar and molasses, fruits and nuts, etc. Cotton, the largest Item in the agricultural agri-cultural group, shows a total exportation exporta-tion In the last ten years amounting to 3,051 million dollars, Its .annual exports ex-ports having Increased from 210 million mil-lion dollars In 1809 to 4S1 million in 1907 and 417 million In 1909. This Increased exportation Is due. In some degree, however, to higher prices pre- I vailing In more recent years. In 1899 the average export price of upland cotton was 5.6 cents per pound; Jn 1909, 9.1 cents. Breadetuffe, second In Importanco In the list of agricultural products exported, show a marked decline, the value of their exports having decreased decreas-ed from 274 million dollars In 1899 to 1G0 million In 1909. The principal Items decreased from C9 million dollars dol-lars to 25 million; wheat, from 104 million to 68 million; wheat flour, from 72 million to 51 million; and oats, from 10 million to lesa than 1 million. This decline in exportation reflects increased local consumption vi Drcaoai ui is, as iiiusuiii.fu wmi rtu-ence rtu-ence in wheat, production of which has materially Increased meantime. Meat and dairy products constitute the tilrd largest class in the srroup of farm products exported. Their exports ex-ports have, on the whole, been better bet-ter maintained during the decade than has been the case with cotton or breadstuffs. In 1S09 the total exports of meat and dairy products were valued val-ued at 17G million dollars; In 1909, 167 million, while In 1907 and 1908 the totals were 202 million and 193 million, respectively. Exports of bacon ba-con decreased from 42 million dollars In 1S99 to 2S million In 1909; hams Increased, from 21 million dollars In 18P9 to 24 million in 1909; lard Increased In-creased from 42 million to 53 million; oleo aud oleomargarine, from 10 million mil-lion to 19 million; while fresh beef declined" from 24 million dollars In 1899 to 13 million in tho fiscal year which ended last June, and other beef, Including tallow, from 11 million dollars dol-lars In 1R99 to C million In 1909. The jrenerol group, animals, shows a decrease In exports during the decade de-cade from 38 million dollars In 1899 to 23 millions In 1909. Cattle were the chief factor in this decline, the value thereof exported bavins decreased from 31 million In 1899 to 18 million durlnf 1909, while horues decreased from 5 million dollars to 3 M million. mil-lion. In certain other classes included In the agricultural group tho exports during dur-ing the decade show a marked Increase. In-crease. Oil cako and oil cake meal, for example advanced from 15 million mil-lion dollars In 1899 to 26 millions In 1909; cotton soed oil, from 12 million to 21 million; fruits and nuts, from 8 million to 17 million, and leaf tobacco, to-bacco, from 26 1-2 million dollars to 31 million. Tho distribution of atncultural products pro-ducts of the United SUtes covers bo many countries that detailed enumeration enumer-ation thereof Is Impracticable within the limits of this condensed statement. state-ment. Briefly, however, it may be said that American wheat and flour go chiefly to Europe, the - United Kingdom taking more than a third of each, wbllo large quantities of flour go to Cuba and other West Indies, Central America, Brazil, Japan and tho Philippines. For American corn the United Kingdom is tho largest purchaser, exports thereto being about equal to the value of those to the Netherlands, Germany, and Canada Can-ada combined. American meats, while widely distributed, find their largest direct markot in tho United Kingdom, which took, in the fiscal year 1909, practically nine-tenths of the beef, over one-half of the tallow, 85 per cent of the bacon and ham3, and nearly 30 per cent of the lard, for which latter article Germany also affords a large market. American cattle go almost exclusively to the United Klmniom, and In lesser num-W.ra num-W.ra to Morico, Canada, and Belgium; American swine are exported mostly to the West Indies and Bermuda and Mexico; while American horses and mules ere sent chiefly to Canada and to the United Kingdom. Cotton 6oed oil from the United States goes almost al-most exclusively to Europo, Italy and tho Netherlands being the largest markets, while the United Kingdom and Germany are also important countries coun-tries of destination. Europe took fnl- 1 ly 25 million dollars' worth of American Am-erican tobacco, out of a total export ' in the fiscal year 1909 of 31 million. For American cotton Europe Is also the largest foreig-n market, over nlne-lenths nlne-lenths of tho cotton exports going to that grand division. - ' |