Connecticut western news., 1880-11-03
SUPPLY OF PROVISIONS.
WHAT THE UNITED STATES SENDS TO GREAT
 BRITAIN.


 The growth of our export cattle trade with Great Britain has been remarkable. The first American cattle for the Englis butcher were carried over tho ocean in 1863. At the start great prejudice OK isted against the introduction of meat from the United States, and many ef- forts, Parliamentary and otherwise, were resorted to ill order to curtail it's rapid growth. Stories wero manufac tured as to plaques existing in Ameri can cattle regions, but the demand ill creased constantly. In 1879 there were landed at British ports 535 cargoes of animals, consisting of 76, IF cattle, 119,- $50 sheep, 15, 1S0 swine; and the amount involved that year in the American trade, for beef alone, was $7,382, ,91C. present year tho value of the live cattle imported into England from this coun- try has been $22, 73O, 3S5. In other di- rections American trade is making the same satisfactory progress. Thus the amount expended i'll Great Britain, in 1879, for American flour was $25, ,59S,- 600, as against, ln 1877, $7, TAG, 405. For seven months, ending July 31st, 1880, America furnished 3,812, 729 hundred weight of flour, valued at $15, ,215, 445. A London correspondent of the New York Times, writes:
 It may be said of the American trade that while the American meat is well comed at the table of the aristocratic and wealthy in London, as we'll as at humber boards, the cheese of the United States finds its way to the homes of the poor. For midday meal the farm hand has pot of beer, rasher of ba- con, some bread and bit of American cheese. Some one remarked at the American Exchange, day or two since, that 1t was Q pleasant thing to notice the good feeling existing between England and America. Better keep it up," dryly interposed a Western gentleman present, "for if we get mad we will starve them to death over here." The same activity and growth in the meat and provision trade with Great Britain is noticeable in many other branches of business. European capital is seeking investment ill Americain greater amounts than ever before since the days of the war. The words American Goods Sold Here, are hung in countless stores and shop windows, and the widest bull in Wall street could scarcely, in his most imaginative moments, have hoped to sec so great demand for the products of his country as there is to-day in Great Britain. Canned fruit and actors photographs, sewing machines and cock tails, washing machines and Blue Point oysters Qs dozen), find a market and ready terms. Oysters from America may be had in many restaurants in Lon- don, and the lover of the bivalve has ample opportunity to gratify his taste in that regard. The well known par tiality for the American oyster by the Prince of Wales may have had some thing to do with the growth of this trade. now increased from few bushels year to thousands of barrels annually. Ameri- ca just now is the fashion and "has the call" Passing out of Smithfeld market the other morning, the writer heard "coster " loudly believing, "'Ere is yer Hamerican happles," and, turning, saw displayed for sale the "rusty- coats "- russet apples-of American school-boy days.