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AMERICAN EXPORT CORN (MAIZE) 
IN EUROPE. 
INTRODUCTION.. 
PRODI i I l<>\ wi> i:\i'i >RT8 ' >r CORN. 
Statistics as given in the various Yearbooks of the Department <>f 
riculture show thai the quantity of corn (maize) produced in the 
United States during a period of ten years, from 1898 <<> 1907, inclu- 
. was 23,092,986,802 bushels. During the Bame period there 
were shipped out of the counties where it was grown 1,733,298,990 
bushels, or 20.5 per rent of the production, the remaining "'.>.. "> per 
cent presumably being used on the farm or in the counties where it 
w as grown. 
For a corresponding period of ten years beginning duly l, 1898, 
and ended June .'in, 1908, the domestic exports of corn (corn meal 
not included) were 1,060,856,485 bushels, or 1.6 per cent of the 
production and 22.4 per cenl of the quantity shipped out of the 
counties where grown, the quantity shipped out of the producing 
counties constituting practically the whole of the possible commerce 
in corn of the 1'nited State-. 
I UK VALUE ok III K EXPORT TRADE in <<u:n. 
Corn i-. in number of bushels, the principal grain that enters into 
the export grain trade of the United State-. The percentage of corn 
that i- exported, while hut- a small proportion of the total production, 
is in point of the percentages of the possible commerce in corn, the 
QUmber of bushels exported, and the money values involved jiii 
enormous trade, which naturally has an important bearing upon the 
presenl and prospective wealth of the country. The prices that are 
obtainable for the corn exported are naturally influenced to a greal 
degree by the quality and condition of the corn at the time it is laid 
down in foreign countries, and the foreign prices obtainable have in 
turn been an influential factor in fixing its dome-tic value-. 
i i BOPI IH OOMP1 \i\ i - 
For several years an increasingly large number of more or less 
forcible and persistent representations were made to the Secretary 
of Agriculture and other officers of the Federal Government, to the 
effect that much of the grain, and especially the corn, that was being 
exported from the United State- was not being delivered abroad in a 
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