The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1878-08-28
THE MARKET or THE WORLD.
CURTOSITIES OF AMERE
CAN EXPORTING TRADE.


OATMEAL, AND GERMANY WITT
LAGER BEER.
From an article under the sboy'
caption, published in the New forl
Times Of the 10th inst, we make th'
following extracts:
In all American exDorts-includ
lug breadstrTs-since the foundation
of the Republic three commoditie:
have stood forth prominent in amount
and v~slue-cottou, tobacco, sne
cheese, aud Of these cotton has beer
King. Yet viii it be believed that II
1884 an American ship which car
ried s bags Of cotton into Liverpool
was seized on the ground that Sc
much cotton could not be the produc'
of the United States? 10 the fiscal
wear 1860. during which the largest
cron was raised and the greatest
quantity exported, l,767,6s6,33t
pounds were sent abroad, over
1865 900. 600 going 10 Great Britain
Tobacco to the amount Of $4,000
mounds were exported as early q;
le2l. Since 1890 we have sent
abroad 1929, 1913 bogsheads, equal &c
$4,000. 900, 600 pounds. To trans.
port this vast product would, 1t j:
estimated, require l9,05S ships, carry
ing 500 bogshesds each, or a yearly
average Of PIG vessels of that capaci-
ty. VIII somebody put that in his
pins and smoke it? Last year, ac-
cordinc to the official report of the
Commissioner Of Internal Revenue,
a greater quantity Of manufactured
tobacco, and more cigars and cigar
cites, were removed directly from the
manufactures for expectation than
during any presious year of which
an account has been kept by the In
ternal Revenue Office. The excess
in tobacco over the year preceding
was nearly 10000 600 pounds. OF
the total amount, England takes over
100000 pounds; Australia comes
next. Germany next, and the United
States of Columbia next. There is
scarcely any spot Ia the civilized
world to which we do not export our
manufactured tobacco direct. In
Germany the clippings CT refuse OF
the cigars made in this country have
recently found a profitable market at
from 2 to 5 cents per pound. For
mefly these clippings were allowed
10 accumulate in American manu-
factories for months, till some speeu-
lator happened along and took the
lot for q song. Now agents have
been sent cut through Canada to buy
I'D all they can Cad with q view 20
shipping it to Europe. Immense
quantities Of American made cigars
have, within the past year, been sold
in England, where they are eagerly
purchased as cheaper and more suit
ed to the popular taste than any
cigar heretofore imported into that
country. One day in March last a
single shipment was made aggregat'
ing I4I, geo, and it is estimated that
the trade already returns at the rate
Of 81, 600, 600 per year, equal TO an
annual profit of $4,000. One firm
in this city has even started a fac.
tcry exclusive for the making OF
cigars for export to England. The
foreign demand for American cheese
exhibits q growth unparalleled by
nny farm product, except, perhaps
cotton. AS recently as 40 years age
the exports amounted to but 4ll,33S
pounds. Last year they reached the
enormous aggregate Of l07, 364,G6G
pounds. II this was loaded On draysi
each carrying one ton and occupying
eight yards, the line would extend
2l4 miles, or a greater distance than
from Washington TO New York. II
the shipment were regular during
every secular day in the year the
movement to the wharves for ship
ment would exceed l72 tons. The
quantity Of milk used in the produc.
ton of l07, 0O0, 900 pounds Of cheese,
may be computed by those having
leisure and sufficient agricultural
knowledge. Aine-tenths Of this vast
amount finds q market in Great
Britain, which formerly stood
pre-eminent in the reputation Of her
dairy products. Our dairymen have
succeeded in initiating the size, gen.
eral appearance, and even the flavor
of the English product so closely
that, being able to sell at a much
lower price, they have actually beat
en- the Englisbmen on his own
ground. New York State, by the
way, deserves the major portion of
the credit for this triumph, over 10
per cent. of the cheese manufactured
in this country being the product of
her factories. In Germany a demand
for American cheese has also sprung
up, but it has been too recent to per-
nit of the presentation of results ac-
complished.
On the subject Of breadstuffs there
is no need to enlarge here. Every
child knows that this country has
been for some time the grsnary of
the world. Nor will the ordinary
newspaper readers require 10 be in
formed that American fresh meat
aud mutton, both slaughtered and on
the hoof, have within a comparative
ly short time, to quote an English
newspaper, deprived the English
farmer Of his last resource, his stall
wart OK" and made the national
roast beef a common thing 10 many
a British household where it was a
rarity before. Our refrigerator ton
age which was but 5000 tons is 1876,
is o $4,000 tons. This covers
oysters. butter, fruits, eggs, canned
goods, and a thousand and one other
p~erishable articles of food, the ex-
port trade in which is increasing
enormously from year TO year. If
this thing keeps on it will not be long
before America is the bntcher's shop
and grocery store, as well as the
grausry and mandatory, of the
world. What will be thought of the
Cuited States shipping PLAN pudding
TO England, potatoes TO Ireland oat-
meal to Scotland, toys to Nuremberg,
and lager beer to Germany? Yet
such are the facts, and they are no
more astonishing than the now thrice
told tale Of the regular and profitable
sale of American cotton goods in
Manchester and American cutlery
and hardware in birmingham. The