[388]Wheat exports from the Union to Europe:
| Year | Million bushels | Year | Million bushels |
| 1868-9 | 17·9 | 1885-6 | 57·7 |
| 1874-5 | 71·8 | 1890-1 | 55·1 |
| 1879-80 | 153·2 | 1899-1900 | 101·9 |
(Juraschek’s Uebersichten der Weltwirtschaft, vol. vii, part i, p. 32).
Simultaneously, the price per bushel wheat loco farm (in cents) declined as follows:
| 1870-9 | 105 | 1896 | 73 |
| 1880-9 | 83 | 1897 | 81 |
| 1895 | 51 | 1898 | 58 |
Since 1899, when it had reached the low level of 58 cents per bushel, the price is moving up again:
| 1900 | 62 | 1903 | 78 |
| 1901 | 62 | 1904 | 92 |
| 1902 | 63 |
(Ibid., p. 18).
According to the ‘Monthly Returns on External Trade’ (Monatliche Nachweise über den Auswärtigen Handel), the price (in marks) per 1,000 kg., was in June 1912:
| Berlin | 227·82 | London | 170·96 |
| New York | 178·08 | Odessa | 173·94 |
| Mannheim | 247·93 | Paris | 243·69 |