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CORN 



Terminal Export Markets. The principal terminal-export markets 

 are New York, New Orleans, Baltimore, Galveston, Boston, San 

 Francisco, Philadelphia and the Canadian ports on the St. Lawrence. 

 About fifty per cent of the corn exported goes through New York, 

 New Orleans and Galveston. 



The exportation from southern ports accounts for much of the 

 corn being spoiled when it reaches the European markets. The cli- 

 mate is warmer and the degree of humidity much higher on the Gulf 

 coast; corn stored and shipped from these ports enters the vessel in 

 condition favorable to heating. The inspection of corn at present be- 

 fore loading is doing much to insure against shipment of grain that is 

 damaged. The following tables show the amount of corn exported 

 and imported by different countries for a term of years. 



TABLE NO. 66 

 EXPORTS OF CORN FROM THE UNITED STATES, 1867 TO 1914 INCLUSIVE 



Year Bushels 



1867 16,026,947 



1868 12,493,522 



1869 8,286,665 



1870 2,140,487 



1871 10,676,873 



1872 35,727,010 



1873 40,154,374 



1874 35,985,834 



1875 30,025,036 



1876 50,910,532 



1877 72,652,611 



1878 87,192,110 



1879 87,884,892 



1880 99,572,329 



1881 93,648,147 



1882 44,340,683 



1883 41,655,653 



1884 46,258,606 



1885 52,876,456 



1886 64,829,456 



1887 41,368,584 



1888 25,360,869 



1889 70,841,673 



1890 103,418,709 



Year Bushels 



1891 32,041,529 



•1892 76,602,285 



1893 47,121,894 



1894 66,489,529 



1895 28,585,405 



1896 101,100,375 



1897 178,817,417 



1898 212,055,543 



1899 177,255,046 



1900 213,123,412 



1901 181,405,473 



1902 28,028,688 



1903 76,639,261 



1904 58,222,061 



1905 90,293,483 



1906 119,893,833 



1907 86,368,228 



1908 39,013,000 



1909 38,114,100 



1910 44,072,200 



1911 63,533,000 



1912 32,627,000 



1913 46,923,000 



1914 7,296,000 



