St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1893-02-23
OUR MANUFACTURES ABROAD.
Written for the CALIFORNIAN

accurate opinions, there is remark
able unity OF sentiment about the
superior quality of American mechan-
ical appliances employed in many
pursuits,
In Australia, wood-choppers and
lumbermen will make use of no other
than the American axe.
The BARRIERS in European cities use
the well-known clippers" OF United
States origin, 50 universally employ
ed in our own barber shops. In
Southern Italy the plows of our
manufacture are acknowledged to be
superior to anything made in
Europe.
The plumbers fixtures in the palace
steamships Teuton'c and Majestic,
in service between New York and
Liverpool, were ordered by their
English builders from a Philadelphia
firm.
A street railway company in
Quebec, whose rolling stock was once
built in Ontario, has contracted with
a New York house for additional cars.
1t is found that the latter are 1900
pounds lighter than their Canadian
rivals. We read in a London paper
that "American-made tailors scissors
are preferred even in Sheffield, for
they are much superior either to the
English or German makes"
An American trolley electric system
on street railway in Bremen,
Germany, has given such satisfac-
ton that it has been decided to ex-
tend it's use to all the lines in that
city.
A few months since steamer cor
poi.ation on the st. Lawrence river
announced, as one of its attractive
features, a splendid new passenger
steamer then building in one of the
yards at New York.
In Mexico, in many lines OF trade,
the reputation of American goods is
so we'll established, that there is no
real competition from other nations.
Our agricultural implements create
a favorable impression wherever
they gain entrance. In Russia the
scythes of local manufacture are said
to be so defective that they are
seldom ever employed; this is credi-
BILE, for the nations OF Western
Europe, on the continent at least,
with all their facilities for produc-
ton, still use a type of scythe and
snath which a Vermont farmer
would be ashamed to have seen on
his premises. There is no manner
of doubt that American farmers
have the best forms and lightest
weights in agricultural implements,
in the world; and all things con-
sidered, the most efficient.
A statistician of wide reputation
has calculated from precise reports,
that with wages in the Dakotas at
$25 the month, a buShel of wheat
costs the producer forty cents; while
in Germany with wages at Sc the
month to grow the same quantity
of wheat costs eighty cents. In 1916,
the then consul-general of the United
States at Paris wrote that in the
city of Washington, D. c., at that
time, the price of a barrel of Virginia
or Maryland flour, the product OF
slave labor, was SO, and the value OF
a ton of iron 500. Can anyone
contrast these prices with those
quoted today, and not recognize the
influence of superior methods of pro.
duction and distribution prevailing
at this moment? The increased use
OF binding time in the West has
stimulated an enlarged production
OF sisal hemp for its fiber. 1t an
pears that the machinery, mainly OF
English origin, hitherto in use TO,
the separation of this fiber from the
leaf, has not been altogether salts.
factory. The process required a
double handling of the material
and was slow and expensive. The
lrrepressible American comes to the
front with a machine entirely auto.
matte 1t takes the leaves as fast as
the operators can supply them and
delivers the fiber into receptacle
completely and beautifully cleaned
1T works smoothly, easily and rapid
~ Its capacity is enormous, for in
IN place of $50 pounds from the old
the new machine produces daily nm,
der favorable conditions, 1000
pounds OF fiber
a similar report reaches us from
Cuba. Two seasons ago this island
increased its sugar product from
$4,000 to $4,000 tons, in one
! year. COmDetition had ;,,,.:,