apples exported from the United States. The total value of apples exported to the United Kingdom in 1924 was $16,958,000, as compared with $11,995,000 in 1923. The exports of canned meat find their largest market in the United Kingdom. The principal items in this trade are canned sausage and canned pork products. Soups, beans, and asparagus are preferred in the canned-vegetable group. Canned salmon is an important item in the canned-food trace with the United Kingdom. Exports in 1924 amounted to 37,185,000 pounds valued at $5.962,000. CANADA Although, on the basis of the United States exports statistics, Canada has become the second largest market for American foodstuffs, such is not actually the case. The large transshipment trade has already been referred to. The extent of the transshipments in the principal products entering into the foodstuffs trade with Canada is shown in the following table: Since the United States export statistics are for calendar years and the Canadian import figures are for fiscal years they will not agree exactly, even for those products which are not reshipped to any extent. On the other hand, a three-year average is given in both cases, so that the difference on account of the years should not be great. The outstanding discrepancies are shown by wheat and rye. During the calendar years 1921-1923 the United States reported an average of 26,752,000 bushels of wheat and 8,770,000 bushels of rye as going to Canada, whereas Canada showed imports for consumption during the fiscal years 1922-1924 of an average of only 168,000 bushels of wheat and 2,000 bushels of rye. Only about a third of the corn reported as going to Canada and less than a fourth of the bacon. ham, and shoulders is for consumption; but most of the lard, eggs. and dried fruit exported to Canada is consumed in the country. PRINCIPAL FOODSTUFFS EXPORTED TO CANADA FROM THE UNITED STATES 1 1 Most of the grain and meats is for transhipment to Europe. * Includes all fresh fruit except citrus fruits, pineapples, and apples. 3 Exports of barreled apples amounted to 35,936 barrels valued at $137,103 in 1924, as compared with 42,190 barrels at $172,251 in 1923. Citrus fruits make up the leading group of foodstuffs exported to Canada for consumption within the country. Oranges make up 90 per cent of these shipments. The exports of oranges to Canada amounted to 2,267,018 boxes, valued at $7,550,000, in 1924. Apples and other fresh fruit such as pears, grapes, peaches, and berries, are the next most important products exported to Canada. Boxed apples predominate in the apple trade. Canada is the largest market for canned vegetables from the United States. The Canadian production of vegetables is limited, and consequently the per capital demand for canned vegetables is large. Soups, corn, and beans are the principal products in this trade. The exports of canned fruit are smaller than those of vegetables. The chief items of canned fruit sent to Canada are pineapples and peaches. GERMANY Germany is, in reality, the second largest market for American foodstuffs. Some allowance must be made for reshipment, as Hamburg and Bremen are important transshipping ports, and a considerable amount of foodstuffs exported to these points finds its way eventually to Poland, Czechoslovakia, Austria, and even as far as the Balkans. Corn, grain. Commodities Quantity in Value in thousa 1923 1924 1923 1904 ..pounds.. 376,789 308,541 $46, 353 barrels. 1,247 1,861 6,288 bushels.. 2,386 7,150 2,781 -pounds.. 8,557 126, 581 720 .do... 96, 382 45, 517 11, 133 .do.... 31, 813 63,392 bushels.. 112 4,756 .do.. 11, 509 4,290 2,858 85 10,868. pounds.. 3,420 20, 044 374 do.. 12, 686 16, 161 1.482 do. 86, 298 95, 664 1,922 ..boxes.. 34 619 78 -pounds.. 2,294 bushels.. 5,491 698 4,681 1 The exports of barreled apples amounted to 51,565 barrels, valued at $233,620, in 1924, and 4.042 bara valued at $20.142, in 1923. Lard is by far the most important foodstuff exported to Germany from the United States and makes up between a third and a half of the value of the total food products going to that country. The exports of lard to Germany amounted to 308,541,000 pounds, valued at $40,972,000, in 1924, as compared with 376,789,000 pounds, valued at $46,353,000, in the previous year. Germany takes about one-third of the total lard exported from the United States, but because of the transshipment trade mentioned above, this is not all consumed within the country. Sausage casings and bacon are exported to Germany in considerable quantities. That country is the largest market for sausage casings. The principal grains exported to Germany are wheat, barley, rye and corn. The exports of wheat flour usually exceed in value those of the grain. Germany is the largest market for American rye. The outstanding feature of the foodstuffs trade with Germany in 1924 was the phenomenal increase in the exports of dried fruits, of which prunes comprise the dominating item. The shipments of prunes to Germany in 1924 amounted to 89,792,087 pounds, valued at $4,240,106, as compared with 2,311,749 pounds, valued at $119.954 in 1923. This extraordinary increase was due, to a considerable extent, to the inability of Germany to get its accustomed supplies from France and Yugoslavia. All other dried fruits were exporte to Germany in much larger quantities than usual in 1924, as the following table shows. EXPORTS OF DRIED FRUITS TO GERMANY FROM THE UNITED STATES The only dried fruit exported to Germany in smaller quantities 1924 than in 1912-13 was apples, and even that product, which second to prunes in the dried-fruit trade with Germany, was hipped in much larger quantities last year than in the immediately receding years. Although the 1924 shipments are not likely to be uplicated for some time, it is probable that the exports of dried uit to Germany will continue at or above the pre-war level. Apples re the only fresh fruit exported to Germany to any extent. 924 shipments were much larger than those of the preceding year, mounting to 619,209 boxes and 51,565 barrels at the total value f $1,753,589. The Germany is the largest market for canned milk from the United tates. These exports consist principally of the unsweetened vaporated type. Exports of evaporated milk to Germany in 1924 mounted to 61,174,047 pounds valued at $5,033,874, as compared ith 1,106,838 pounds of condensed milk. Exports of powdered ilk amounted to 1,111,199 pounds. Oleo oil and cottonseed cake and meal are the only other large items n the foodstuffs trade with Germany. That country was second only to Denmark as a market for cottonseed cake and meal in 1924. THE NETHERLANDS The Netherlands is also an important transshipment country, and t is difficult to say what proportion of the foodstuffs. exported to hat country is consumed therein. Such products as cereals and neats are exported from the United States to the Netherlands, from whence they are reshipped to Germany, Belgium, and other western and central European countries. PRINCIPAL FOODSTUFFS EXPORTED TO THE NETHERLANDS FROM THE 1 Exports of barreled apples amounted to 3,879 barrels at $16,526 in 1924, as compared with 3,997 barrels at $16,616 in 1923. Wheat grain and flour were the leading items exported to the Netherlands in 1924, but these are reexported to a considerable extent. There is also a considerable transshipment trade in the other cereals-rye, barley, and corn. The Netherlands is a large market for animal fats and oils. The principal item in this class is lard, but large quantities of neutral lard, tallow, and oleo oil are also exported to that country. Bacon is the only meat product of importance exported to the Netherlands The importance of linseed cake in the trade with the Netherlands is a striking feature. That country is the largest market for this feedstuff, although it takes very little cottonseed cake. Some linseed meal also enters this trade but the quantity is small, amounting in 1924 to only 6,358,196 pounds, as compared with 400,581,750 pounds of cake. Cottonseed oil is exported to the Netherlands but the quantity is very much smaller than in pre-war years. The Netherlands is an important market for dried fruit. As in the case of Germany, prunes are the chief item, followed by apricots. apples, raisins, and peaches, in the order named. Exports of apples make up a considerable figure. Shipments of this fruit in 1924 amounted to 294,580 boxes and 3,879 barrels, to the total value of $780,948. Other leading products in the foodstuffs export trade with the Netherlands are canned milk, refined sugar, rolled oats. oatmeal, oats, and rice. CUBA Cuba is the fifth largest market for foodstuffs exported from the United States. The principal features of the Cuban foodstuffs trade are the diversity of its purchases and the per capita amount of its imports. Most of the foodstuffs exported to Cuba from the United States may be classed as manufactured or semimanufactured. The only important exceptions are eggs, potatoes, beans, and corn. The leading foodstuffs exported to Cuba during the past two years are shown in the following table: PRINCIPAL FOODSTUFFS EXPORTED TO CUBA FROM THE UNITED STATES |