The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-10-24


view to shipping II to Europe.
Immense quantitiesof American made
cigsrs have, within the past year, been
sold In England, where they eagerly pur'
chased as cheaper and more suited to the
popular taste than any cigars heretofore
imported into that country. Onone day
in March last single shipment was made
aggregating l4l 900, and II is estimated
that the trade already returns at the rate
of $4 100000 per year, equal to an annual
profit of $l20,000. One firm in this CITY
has even started factory exclusively
for the making Of cigars for export TO
England
The foreign demand for American
cheese EXHIBITS a growth unparalleled by
any farm product, except, perhaps,c s,cotton.
AsreCently as forty years ago the exports
amounted to but All 338pounds, Last year
they rearhed the enormous aggregate OF
l07, 1854 ,066 pounds. If this were loaded or
drays, each carrying one ton, and occu,
plying eight yards, the line would extend
244 miles, or greater distance than from
Washington to New York. II the ship
ment we're regular during every secular
day ia the year the daily movement to
the wharves for shipment would exceed
l72 tons.
The onanlity of milk used in the pro-
duction Of l07 1000 600 pounds OF cheese
may be computed by those having lei
sure and sufficient agricultural knowl.
edge. Nine. .tenths of this vast amount
finds a market in Great Britain, which
formerly stood pre- eminent in tine repu'
talion Of her dairy products Our dairy
men have succeeded in initiating the
aize, general appearance, and even the
favor of the English production so close
ly, that being able to sell at much low
er price, they have actually beaten the
Englshman on his own ground New
York State, by che way, deserves the
major portion of tue credit for This trl'
umph, over 70 per cent. of the cheese
manufactured in this country being the
product of her factories. In Germany
demand for American cheese has also
sprung up, but it has been too recent TO
permit of the presentation of the results
accomplished.
On The subject of breadstuffs there is
no need to enlarge here. Every child
knows that this country has been for
some time the granary of the world
Nor will the ordinary newspaper reader
require to be informed that American
fresh meat and mutton, both slaughtered
and on the hoof, have, within Compar-
atively short time, to qnete an English
newspaper, deprived the English far
mer of his last resource, his stalwart OK,
and made the national roast beef COM
mon thing in many British household
where it WAS rarity before.
0nr refrigerator tonnage, which was
but 5000 tons in 1876 is now 2S 900 tons
This covers oysters, butter, fruits, eggs,
canned goods, and a thousand and one
other perishable articles of food, the ex-
port trade of which is increasing enor
mously from year to year. If this thing
keeps on it will not be long before Amer
lea is the butchers shop and grocery
store as we'll as the granary and manu-.
factory of The world,
What will be the thought Of the Uni
ted states shipping plum pudding to Eng.
land, potatoes to Ireland, oatmeal 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 reg
u lar and profitable sale of American cot.
ton goods in Manchester, and American
cutlery and hardware in Birmingham.
The business of making and canning
plum pudding for export is regularly car
ried on at Dover, DEL, and elsewhere -
The trade is not new one, and exDorts
are regularly made to England. A Pail
adelphia firm sell large quantities Of
mncemeat in the same country.
Steamer agents FAY that potatoes to
Ireland are the commonest thing in the
world, and the business Of shipping
them has been of long duration.
On April 20 the Devonia took LOO
bags of oatmeal to Glasgow, from which
it must not be inferred that this is by |
any means an isolated instance, but the |
first one the writer happened upon in |
his search for an example.
The export trade in toys which |
amounted last year to over 81 900 900, |
began some five or six years ago through |
some presents sent abroad. Now nearly |
every steamer carries large quantities.
The principle articles of export are the |
mechanical or ''Clock-work" and the |
steam toys, but there are also large ship. |
ments of tin and wooden toys, most of |
which class were formerly ex ported from |
England or Germany. Wood is much |
cheaper in America than in Europe, and
machines work faster than hands.
Very few mechanical toys are now i'm
ported, and only the finer French and |
Bustrian work for shoA pieces in win
dows American ingenuity has also mul'
tiplied the varieties of mechanical toys, |
and the American manufacturers Of the |
clock mechanism have met all overtures |
for the purchase of the detached works |
by European dealers by demanding pri |
ces which are practically prohibiJory
In May last firm of German brewers
sent Cask of American lager beer to |
Count Bismarck, and in due time reCeiv-
ed letter from him through the Ger
man Consul thanking them, Since the
reception Of the letter the firm have re-
ceived several orders from German
houses for samples of lager beer, and the
head of the concern has sailed for Eli
rope to make arrangements for its regu-
lar export.
The Englishman has long had Ameri-
can turkeys regular at Christmas, and he
likes them. In January last a famous
English house sent an agent to this coun-
try with orders to ship regularly every
week 30 barrels of the finest quail, prai
rie hens, grouse, woodcock, wild turkeys.
canvas. back ducks, and other American
game that he could procure. The enter
prise has proved a great success. Buff
10 and antelope meat, venison and sal
mon are also among the innumerab ar.
ticle of food sent from this country, not
only to England, but to nearly every 9TH
er civilized nation.
It would be objectionable to close this
paragraph, incomplete as it necessarily
ia, without mention of the fact that
Boston company are turning out 900
cans, equal to $4,000 pounds, Of baked
beans and Goldfish balls daily, and that it
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