Crop Export Movement and Port Facilities on the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts

Excerpt from p. 602, Vol. XVII, Experiment Station Record: A discussion is given of the regions where these materials of commerce are produced in the United States, of the primary markets or trade centers in the interior where they are concentrated, of the movements from the primary markets to the various Atlantic and Gulf ports, and of the facilities for handling these products at these ports. It is shown that the proportion of the export of cotton and wheat exported from the Gulf ports has gradually increased during the last twenty years, whereas the proportion exported from the Atlantic ports has declined. From 1884-1888, 44 per cent of the cotton exported was shipped from the Gulf ports and 55 per cent from the Atlantic ports. During the same time 2 per cent of the wheat exported was shipped from the Gulf ports and 59 per cent from the Atlantic ports. In 1904, 65 per cent of the cotton and 55 per cent of the wheat exported were shipped from the Gulf ports and only 33 per cent of the cotton and 20 per cent of the wheat exported were shipped from the Atlantic ports.