New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-08-20
IMPORTATION WANTED ABROAD.


IMPORTATION WANTED ABROAD
II must be gratifying to the feelings Of every
American that the fame of our products and in
yentions is 30 rapidly spreading among the older
nations of the world. Every few months, we learn
of inquiries, made by this Government or that,
as to the merits of csAtlantic inventions, and not
infre quenty our artisans are offered great induce
ments to 20 abroad. Thus Russia has used the
talents of Ross Winans in building engine, and
constructing railroads, has commissioned Mr.. Webb
to build frst-class frgate, and has invited the
makers of farm implements to send thither their
wares for sale. Thus, too, Great Britain, which
might fairly be supposed to possess the greatest
mechanical ingenuity and resour ,es uses thousands
of American reapers and mowers where che uses
one of home inventions; our sewing machines are
making their way into every town in preference
to those invented by Thomas and other British
mechanics; and even English newspapers are
printed on American cylinder presses. So, too,
in France, cunning in invention, our reapers,
mowers sewing machines and horse-cars, are tax
ing the lead of the market, aud the demand for
Belgium knew nothing about cutting grass by
machinery until the year before last, when one Of
Nourse, Mason g. Co.'S Eagle mowers was
put in operation on farm in Hainault, nor any
thing of reaping machines until 1856, when
McCormick's reaper, somewhat anglicised, won
the gold medal of the Central Agricultural Society.
Within twelvemonh, we have known of an
application made by benighted old Spain,
through her Consul at this port, to American agri
cultural implement-makers to create a museum Of
their wares at Madrid, and other principal cities.
At the Cape of Good Hope, our Boston plows bore
off nearly all the prizes at the agricultural exhibition
last Fall, in the face of sharp competition by tho
leading English houses and we are personally ac-
quainted with one indigo planter in India, whose
stubborn soil is inverted by Yankee plows. The
circle widens every year, and our agricultural
journals and societies are becoming the main in
struments for increasing our inventive prestige
abroad.
As if to cap the climax of our triumph, the
proud directors of the Royal Agricultural College
at Cirencester, England, have come to US for in
formation. We learn from the July number of
The Bulletin of our State Agricultural Society that
an inquiry has been made of Col. B. P. Johnson,
in relation to the various American reapers and
mowers, and for particular description of each.
To further the object in view, We quote from The
Bulletin, and urge the parties interested to for.
ward the desired information to Albany Col.
Johnson says:
awe shall be unable answer this latter request unless the
various Ill full and
detailed their machnesthe prices at which sold &c
Wherever this done, viii forward the account 80 given to
correspondent who gish: the information so that he can
"Tte Grain Binder Of Shewoodw shall remit description
Of and shall be glad to hear that becomes successful there
as IL IL here
The Secretary has also recently received re-
quest from the Imperial Government of Russia for
information in regard to the high qualities of the
trotting.horses of the Unitd States, which have
attracted attention in Russia. He is making the
necessary examinations, and in due time will for.
ward the report to the proper authorities.
In view of these facts, we sincerely hope that
American inventions and farm products will be
adequately represented at the Worlds Fair, which
is TO be held in London in 1862. The complete sue
cess of the first has encouraged the authorities and
people of England to make even larger expendi-
lures and arrangements and there is no reasonable
ground to doubt the presence of still greater and
more cosmopolitan multitude than in 1851. If
with such meager show of our Inventions, we
could reap such decisive victories before, why,
with barely decent effort on our part, should not
our triumph in the forthcoming Great Exhibition
be complete