Foreign Markets for American Agricultural Products

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: important industry there. In some of the other countries I Iltte mentioned our oleo oil is used quite extensively for the same p'.rpoh J. EXPORTS OF DAIRY PRODUCTS. DECREASE OF AMERICAN BUTTER EXPORTS. Q. (By Mr. A. L. Harris.) You may state, if you can, what effect this increase in the export of oleo oil had on the dairy interests of the country.?A. I was about to refer to the exportation of the dairy products, butter and cheese, as presenting the most striking example of decline in our agricultural export trade. I have tried to cover some of the most important instances of increase in the products I have already mentioned. Butter and cheese present the most striking cases of loss, and to illustrate the falling off that has occurred I wish to give a few figures from our export records. Going back to 1880 we find that there was an annual export of nearly 40,000,000 pounds of butter. I will give the exact figures, which are 39,237,000 pounds, valued at $6,691,000. That year represented about the height of our export trade in butter. In 1890 the exports were 29,748,000 pounds, valued at $4,187,000, a decline of nearly 10,000,000 pounds for the decade. In 1895 our exports had dropped as low as 5,599,000 pounds, valued at $916,000. That was about the low-water mark in our butter export trade. For the last two or three years the trade has been picking up a little. In 1899 we exported about 20,248,000 pounds, worth $3,264,000. Q. (By Senator Kyle.) Still very much less than in 1890 A. Only about one-half what we exported twenty years ago. CAUSES OP DECREASE OF AMERICAN BUTTER EXPORTS. Q. (By Mr. A. L. Harris.) Is that quantity accounted for solely on account of the increase of the export of oleo oil A. No. Q. To what other cause can you attribute that falling off...

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