Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1901-06-03
OUR MACHINES USED.
AMERICAN FARM IMPLEMENTS
USED SOME IN FRANCE.
Other Goods Also Meet With Some
Favor, According to Reports
of Certain Consuls.

Washington, June Bin a further
series of extracts from the forthcom-
ing yolue 2 of commercial relations
dealing with United States trade in
France, Consul Britain, of Nantes,
notes the development of the trade
in American machinery in Western
France. During the past season, he
says, about 500 reapers, mowers and
horse hay rakes arrived at that port.
American mowers give good salts
faction, and the increased prices
asked for farm labor will stimulate
the sale of such machinery in the
future. The American mower was
common sight in the hay fields last
summer. In regard to the advantage
gained by exhibiting machines, the
consul says:
Last month representative of
a New England factory made an ex-
hibition Of meat choppers in one Of
the Nantes stores, and during the af-
ternoon about 20 of various sizes
were sold. The Nantes house has
since sold more that 200 of these
machines.
IF some company were to make
an exhibit of wringers, and show
their working, | am satisfied it would
be found a profitable enterprise.
There are no wringers sold or of
fered for sale here, with the exeep-
tion of a few heavy English ma
chimes.
Consul Covert, Of Lyons, says:
"The houses of this district which
some years ago furnished fine French
hardware to the United States have
almost entirely lost that trade within
the last two decades, and they are
enabled to hold their own market
here only by a protective tariff.
American stoves, base burners and
smaller heating stoves find a steady
market here, the French make being
unable to replace them.
American saws and other wood
cutting instruments are pronounced
the best in the world, because Amer
leans are the greatest wood-using
| people American wrenches are
| seen in some stores, but the German
article is the most common, on ac-
count of its cheapness. Agricultural
implements of American pattern and
! bearing an American name are met
with in every county fair, and are
| highly priced. They are often made
in France, on account of the high
tariff duty. Farmers tell me that
they prefer to buy the Ohio or Hi
nois harvesting and haying machines.
| notwithstanding, he increased cost"
Consul Tourgee, Of Bordeaux,
says:
The fastest time made by any
railway. it IS said, is on the road be-
tween this city and Bayonne, where
run of 123 miles is made every day
in l2S minutes 1t is quite to the
| credit of American machines that the
honor Of making this run is accorded
to American locomotives"
The consul notes, as a curious fact,
that one of the chief exports from
| Bordeaux to the United States con
sists of preserved forms of alimen-
tary products which are grown in
the greatest abundance in the United
| States, and are often of much SUI
perior quality. Prominent among
these are canned or bottled peas and
string beans There is not a particle
Of difference between them and the
products of American gardens, con
tinues Mr.. Tourgee, except that the
French beans and peas are of the
smallest varieties, and are put up
while they are but half matured and
very soft; also, they are packed with
great attention to artistic effect The
cans are not filled by machinery and
the vegetables are not handled with
a scoop shovel; everything is done
/ by hand. and the wages of the girls
who do this work depend as much
on the appearance of the bottles az
on the number filled.