EXPORTS DECLINE

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2398, 7 April 1931, Page 5

EXPORTS DECLINE

CIIAVK SiITCATTOX (Per Press Association). Washington. April a. The Department of Agriculture Inis announced that gravity of Die situation confronting Iho American farmer in endeavouring to dispose of his pro ducts abroad is mplmslsed by the fact that the expprt of the prinet principal agriculltira-1 products droppel enormously in the first few months of the current fit-seal year. Dominant features of the export trade were ilastie reductions in Iho .export of wheat and wheat flour. ,The report states that the wheat grain experls in ’February were only 137.000 bushels—the lowest month since .Tune, 105. During the eight months ended February 28. 103 T. only mi. 807.000 bushels of wheat, were exported, with a value of 51.562.000 dollars, compared with the previous similar eight an nths. in which the figures were 73,212.000 bushels, value 1 at 93,083.000 dollars.