The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-06-03
AMERICAN MACHINERY.
Ii Is Fast Becoming Favorably
known in the West of France.

WASHINGTON, June I'm a further
series of extracts from the forthcoming
Volume of Commercial Relations, dealing
with United States trade i'm France. Consul
Britain, of Nantes, notes the development
of the trade in sAmerican machinery in
western France. During the past season,
he says about 500 reapers, mowers and
horse-rakes, arrived at that port. American
mowers give good satisfaction, and the in
creased prices asked for farm labor will
stimulate the sale of such machinery in the
future. The American mower was a COM
mon sight last summer. In regard TO the
advantage gained by exhibiting machines,
the consul says:
Last month. representative of a New
England factory made an exhibition of
meat choppers in one of the Nantes stores.
and during the afternoon about twenty of
various sizes were sold. The Nantes house
has since sold more than 200 of these ma
chimes. If some company were to make an
exhibit of wringers, and show their work.
ing. i am satisfied il would be found a
profitable enterprise. There are no wiring
ers sold or offered for sale here, with the
exception of d few heavy English ma
chimes.
Consul Covert, of Lyons, says: 1.-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
only by a protective tariff. American
stoves, base-burners and smaller heating
stoves, hnd a steady market here, the
French make being unable TO replace them.
American saws and other wood-cutting in
struments are pronounced the best in the
world because Americans are the greatest
wood using people. American WrencheS are
seen in some stores, but the German article
Is the most common, on account 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 pre-
fer 10 buy the Ohio or Illinois harvesting
and haying machines, notwithstanding the
increased cost"
Consul Tourge, of Bordeaux, says: 1.-The
fastest time made by any railway, il is
Bayonne, where run of 123 miles is made
every day In l2S minutes. 1t is quite to the
credlt or American mechanics 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 consists of preserved
forms or alimentary products, which are
grown In the greatest abundance in the
United States, and are often of much sI-
perior quality. Prominent among these are
canned or bottled peas and string beans
There is not particle of difference between
them and the products of American gar
dens, continues Mr.. Tourgee, except that
the French beans and peas are of the small
est varieties and are put up while they are
but half matured and very soft; also they
are packed with great attention to artistic
enect The cans are not filled by machin-
cry and the vegetables are not handled
with a scoop shovel: everything is done nv
hand and the wages of the girls who do
this work depend as much on the appear-
ance or the bottles as on the number filled