The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-06-23
What We Send Abroad.

IN Y. Teegram.1
While Europe is pouring into these United
States millions of gold and thousands Of immi-
grants during the first week of the present
month 17,790 immigrants landed at Castle
Garden1, thls country is every year augment
ing its exports to the old world. One of the
recent shipments to Europe is wild game from
the West The trade has already assumed
considerable proportions. The principal points
of shipment are Chicago and st. Louis. Last
years business in the former city is estimated o.
S1,500,000, and in the latter considerably over
S1,0OO,00O. The shipments consist chiefly Of
quails, praire-chickens and wild turkeys. The
birds, closely packed in barrels, are put In
charge of the stewards of transatlantic steam
ers Ordinarily the bulk of the shipments Is de-
livered fresh and sound Venison Is also
shipped across the Atlantic, but till now in small
quantities. The export trade of wild game Ia
yet in its infancy. Various Chicago and st.
Louis dealers confidently predict that before
a great while 1t will reach at least S10000,OO0
per annum. cf-"
There is no department OF the worlds larder
which Brother Jonathan cannot fill, The alarm
among British farmers about the sharp COM
cheese, etc., with their products in their own
markets continues to form the groundwork
for numberless editorials in the English pa
pers. 1t is not easy to see how the problem of
high land rents and successful competition
with American food products grown on land
that pays no rent, is to be worked out by the
British farmer. He must pay every year to
o landlord larger sum per acre in the form of
rent than the cost of good unimproved Iowa
farm. The English farmer pays heavy taxes
and helps support in luxury the family of his
landlord. The final triumph of the American
producer in England is, it appears, to be
reached in the expectation of oranges from
Florida. The Pail Mall Gazette states that
box of this fruit was sent as an experiment
from Jacksonville, and, although the voyage
occupied three weeks the oranges arrived In
good condition in London, and were pro-
nounced to be much finer in quality than
those from Spain and Portugal, to which the
English are accustomed. As the British
farmer cannot raise oranges himself, he will
probably welcome this new importation with
out grumbling. There is no reason why the
transportation could not be accomplished in
much less time than three weeks if the trade
will warrant it.
There is in the last English budget, as the
annual financial statement of the British gov
ernment is called an item of no inconsidera-
BILE interest to our grain trade. 1t indicates
that John Barleycorn Is Dowlng his head to
King Corn. The chancellor of the exchequer,
in speaking of the substitution of beer duty for
the malt tax says: "Maize has begun to be
used for brewing, and l understand that the
result is not only satisfactory, as regards the
beer that proceeds from it, bat also as regards
this point: that the residue is found to be more
valuable for the feeding of cattle than the res
idue obtained from other grains" If, as Mr..
Gladstone intimates, maize or Indian corn is
to be generally used in English breweries, the
export demand cannot but be largely in
creased. Nat
The exports of machinery and manufactured
goods are steadily growing. OF late years lc-
comotives have been sent to Russia, South
America and Australia. And now comes an
other customer. The Rogers locomotive works
shipped last week nine locomotive engines to
Spain for the Valleneuva and Barcelona rail-
way. The material was loaded into the steam
er at pier No. H. East River.
America is making herself known in Europe
by the most powerful of modern influences,
that of material interest. The sovereign pow
ers are compelled to recognize America as their
equal. They would prefer to judge of it on a
par with Brazil, or Spain, or Australia or In
dla; but imperious facts forbid.