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THE CEREALS IN AMERICA 



Other five years preceding. The total exportation for the five 

 years 1898-1902 was approximately 160 million bushels of grain, 

 while that of the five years immediately preceding was but little 

 more than half that amount, — something less than eighty-three 

 million bushels. 



Ninet}^-two per cent of this great export trade is handled 

 by nine ports, named in the order of their importance, as 

 follows : Baltimore, New York, Philadelphia, New Orleans, 

 Boston, Newport News, Chicago, Norfolk and Portsmouth, and 

 Detroit. 



The export trade in maize meal is also fast assuming large 

 proportions. The average annual exportation of this product 

 for the five years 1898-1902 was nearly 800 thousand barrels 

 (3,200,000 bushels), more than twice that for the years 1893- 

 1897. New York, Newport News and Baltimore, in the order 

 named, handled the bulk of this trade. ^ 



The important importing countries have been Great Britain 

 and Ireland, Germany, Netherlands, Canada, Denmark, Belgium 

 and France. Cuba has imported more than a million bushels 

 of grain annually during the five years 1 898-1 902. Other 

 countries which export important quantities of maize are 

 Argentina, Roumania and Russia. 



365. Marketing. — The legal weight per bushel of maize in 

 most States is fifty-six pounds per bushel, although the usual 



B C 



A. one-hole hand sheller ; B, two-hole power sheher: 



Types of shellers for tarrr 



C, itinerant power sheller, nnc.c-e with four to eight holes for 



* U. S. statistical Abstract, 1902, pp. 301-303. 



ing in the ears. 



