The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-11-23
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 American Farm Tools.


 your legs over the handle bars. American Farm Tools.
 We sell several handred thousand dol lars worth of American machinery to the Swiss every year. Our sewing ma chimes are humming away in the cottages on the Alps and our mowers and reapers cut the crops on the plains. Our leading agricultural implement factories have their head offices at Zurich, and their travellers go from place to place drum ming the farmers. I am told there is a good opening for Amertcan blows. and see our hay rakes and spades sold in many of the towns. The introduction of such things is slow. The Swiss are con- servative
 They are the same that their fathers
 have been;
 They. see the same sights their fathers They drink the same streams, they feel the same sun
 And they do the same deeds their fsthers have done.'
 I have seen blows used here which ex- actly correspond to those in the Scrip lures, having one handle and wooden point shod with iron. I have seen men and women moving with scythes, and a few miles further on found women riding American sulky rakes, saw a woman blowing with a sulky blow, two cows doing the pulling, and in the same region found moving machine drawn by two fine draft horses from Germany. American Desks and Office Furniture.
 Switzerland has plenty of wood and its people are skilled in handling 1t, but they cannot make furniture as low as our fac tories. No European carpenter can com pete with us, and the result is that American furniture is pushing its way into all parts of Europe. This is especi- ally so of American roll-top desks files and unit book cases, whifh are often sold in connection with American typewriters There are large American furniture stores In Zurich and Basel, and roll-top desks are sold here in Geneva, The goods come knocked down, as the freight from New York to Switzerland is 1 cent per pound Some of the desks come overland from Antwerp and Havre, but others arc shipped to Rotterdam and are sent up the Rhine on barges.
 American Coal for the Swiss.
 Switzerland is spending millions of dol lars every year for fuel for its homes and factories. It buys coal for it's homes and factories. It buys coal of England, Germany. Belgium and Austria, and it is believed that it might p-ofitably pur- cHdSe OI us. The coal could be sent to Rotterdam and up the Rhine to Switzer- land at a comparatively low rate. At present Germany sells 900,O 900 tons of coal here every year, France and Belgium about 100000 tons each. and in addition there are thousands of tons from Austria and England.
 As to the American shoe there is no doubt but that it's sale might be largely increased. It IS claimed that our shoe is too expensive for the Swiss, but found five stores in Zurich selling Massa- chusetts and Chicago 8 shoes for high prices, and doubt not they can he sold all over the country. The consuls tell me that the Swiss need a thicker sole than that found on the ordinary American shoe. The roads here are rocky and hard on the feet A duty of about a dollar a pair is charged, and this must be taken into consideration in fixing the prices.
 Working the Swiss Markets.
 I had an interesting chat as to Ameri- can trade the other day with Consul hie- berknecht at Zurich. Mir. Lieberknecht is well-known country editor of Gene see, H., who was appointed by President Mckinley to represent us at Zurich He is good business man and is full of com mon sense views of Switzerland and the Swiss. Said he: