272 AGRICULTURAL EXPORTS OF UNITED STATES. 
AGRICULTURAL EXPORTS OF THE UNITED STATES. 
The average annual value of the agricultural produce 
exported from the United States during the five years 
1895-99 amounted, according to the Customs Returns of that 
country, to £144,765,000. Of these exports about 88 per 
cent. went to European countries, the United Kingdom 
receiving 53°4 per cent., or nearly four times the amount sent 
to Germany, which ranked next in importance; France took 
6°2 per cent.; and Holland, Belgium, Italy, Spain, and 
Denmark together received about 13 per cent. The largest 
market outside Europe was afforded by Canada; that country 
having taken 3°6 per cent., or 45,202,300. 
More American farm produce is sold to the United 
Kingdom than to all other countries combined. During 
1895-99 the average annual value of such produce sold to 
British customers was £77,262,900. Breadstuffs, meat pro- 
ducts, and raw cotton form the bulk of the trade. The yearly 
shipments of breadstuffs averaged £23,371,500 in value; of 
cotton, £21,6068,300; and of meat products, £17,957,500. 
Among breadstuffs sent to the United Kingdom wheat 
and wheat flour were the chief items: the shipments 
of wheat in the grain amounted to £9,689,000, and those 
of wheat flour to £7,207,700. Indian corn, or maize, 
ranked next, with a value of £4,453,750 ; oats were shipped to 
the value of £928,300; and barley to the value of £454,600. 
Of the meat products bacon was decidedly the most impor- 
tant, the average annual shipments to British ports amounting 
in value to £ 6,232,100. Next to bacon came fresh beef with 
a value of 44,364,200, and lard valued at £2,665,800, while 
the hams shipped were valued at £2,635,600. In addition to 
the meat products there was exportation of live stock of the 
annual value of £7,541,500, consisting largely of cattle for 
slaughter. There was also an export of dairy products worth 
£,1,008,300 a year. 
After breadstuffs, cotton, meat products, and live animals, 
the most important agricultural export to the British 
market during 1895-99 was tobacco. ‘The shipments of this 
