UNITED STATES WHEAT EXPORT.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXX, Issue 15003, 25 May 1909, Page 2

UNITED STATES WHEAT EXPORT.

The Argentine Vice-'Uonsul at Wash* ington has sent to the .Minister of Argentine Foreign Affains a report in which he deals with the oxport of wheat and maize from the Unified States during 1908. He states that the Unified States exported last year, In roitnd figures. 92,000.000 bushels, a tota\l far below that of the exports of the same grain from Argentina which, according to cabled advices from Buenos Ayres, reached 140,000,000 bushels '.'luring the same period. * Still greater, he points ovfij;, is the difference between the exports of maize from the United States in 1)008 and those from Argentina. The United States exported 37,000,000 fimshels,' while Argentine exports of that'cereal .pere nearly double that quantify. 1 \ In his report, he points out that the e:\ports of maize from the United States are diminishing yearly—sibce m 19(30 they reached 100,000,000 bushels—and? this in spite of the fact that the pro 4 uction of maize in the States reaches the enormous total of bushels yearly. , ' Tint' United States does not export, either* barley or linseed, and last year, exporAsd .13,000,000 barrels of flour as agaiusfJ 15,000,000 in 190 i. The I otal value of the exports of wheat, A’our and maize in 1908 was re- ’ 91,000,000 dollars, 61,000,000 dollars aapd 25.000,000 dollars gold. Meat aH'd dairy products were exported to the v '.mount of 160,000,000 dollars in 1908, aa against 175.000,000 in 1907; fl nd 187,00l\(000 in 1906. I The expo?. 4s of cattle, sheep and pigs in 1908 reached 25,000,000 dollars, as against dollars in 1907 and 37,000,000 dollars in 1906. The export* of cotton were very large in 1908, the Altai being 8,430,000 bales valued at 438,U56;395 dollars, gold. Tho report c;l ncludes with the remark that so far At gentina does not compete with the Sl ates in cotton-growing, although Chacl> cotton is- of better, quality than tha & grown in tire northern Republic.