The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1879-01-18

made aggregating l4l ,OOO and u IL estl
mated that the trade already returns at
the rate of $4,000 900 per year, equal TO
an annual profit Of S126,OOO. One firm
in this city has even started factory ex-
clusively for the making Of cigars for ex-
port to England.
The foreign demand for American
cheese exhibits a growth unparalleled by
any farm product, except, perhaps, cotton.
As recently as forty years ago the exports
amounted to but All 1888 pounds. Last
year they reached the enormous aggregate
Of 107 7,3Gi,G66 pounds. If this were
loaded on drays, each carrying one ton,
and occupying eight yards, the line would
extend 244 miles, or a greater distance
than from Washington to New York. If
the shipment were regular during every
secular day in the year, the daily move
ment to the wharves for shipment would
exceed 172 tons.
The quantity of milk used in the pro-
duction of 107 1000, 900 pounds Of cheese !
may be computed by those having leisure
and sufficient agricultural knowledge.
Nine.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 sue
ceeded in initiating the size, general ap-
pearance, and even the favor of the Eng |
lish production so closely, that being able
to sell nt much lower price, they have
actually beaten the Englishman on his own |
ground. New York State, by the way,
deserves the major portion of the credit
for this triumph, over seventy 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 re-
cent 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 comparatively short time,
to quote an English newspaper, "deprived
the English farmer of his last resource, his
stalwart OK, and made the national roast
beef common thing in many British
household where it was rarity before.
Our refrigerator tonnage, which was but
5000 tons in 1876, is now $4,000 tons.
This covers oysters, butter, fruit, eggs,
canned goods, and a thousand aud one
other perishable articles of food, the export
trade of which is increasing enormously
from year to year. If this thing keeps on
it will not be long before America is the
butchers shop and the grocery store as
well as the granary and mandatory of
the world
What will be thought of the United
States shipping plum pudding to England,
potatoes to Ireland, oatmeal to Scotland,
toys to Nuremberg, and lager beer to Ger
many? 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 business of making aud canning
plum pudding for export is regularly car
ried on at Dover, Del. and elsewhere.
The trade is not new one, and exports
are regularly made to England. A Phil
adelphia firm sell large quantities of minee-
meat in the same country.
Steamer agents say that potatoes to Ire.
land are the commonest thing in the world
and the business of shipping them has
been Of long duration.
On April % the Deyonia took LOO
bags Of oatmeal 10 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 amount
ed last year to over 81 100000, began
some five or six years ago through some
presents sent abroad Now nearly every
steamer carries large quantities. The
principal articles of export are the mechan-
ical or "clOckwork" and the steam toys,
but there are also large shipments of tin
and wooden toys, most of which class were
formerly exported from England or Ger
man. 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
Austrian work for show-pieces in windows.
American ingenuity has also multiplied
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 Euro
pean dealers by demanding prices which
are practically prohibitory.
In May lasta firm of German brewers sent
a cask Of American lager beer to Count Bis.
marck, aud in due time received a letter
from him through the German Consul
thanking them. Since the reception of
the letter the firm have received several
orders from German houses for saaiples Of
lager beer, anu {, head Of the concern
has sailed for Europe to make arrange
ments for its regular export.
The Englishman has long had American
turkeys regularly at Christmas, and he likes
them. In January last famous English
house sent an agent to this country with
orders to ship regularly every week fifty
barrels of the finest quail, prairie hens,
grouse, woodcock, wild turkeys, canvas
back ducks, and other American game
that he could procure. The enterprise
has proved great success. Buffalo and
antelope meat, venison and salmon are al
so among the innumerable articles of food
sent from this country, not only to Eng
land, but to nearly every other civilized
nation.
1t would be objectionable to close this
paragraph, incomplete as il necessarily is,
without mention of the fact that Bos.
ton company are turning out 5000 cans,
equal to $4,000 pounds, of baked beans
and Goldfish balls daily, and that il finds
large demand for both specialties in Eug-
land, France, West Indies and South A.
merica.
Room is lacking to pursue the subject
to the extent it deserves, but there are
numerous other points 10 the American
export trade that must be both novel and
curious to tho general reader. Take the
item Of collins, for instance. Collins and
caskets in the latest styles have long been