The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-06-13
ODDITIES OF EXPORTING.
What We Send Abroad and What We
Get-Reciproeity in Lamps.

we send Dakota seed to Russia.
from which she raises wheat to com
pete with our own product in the mar
kets OF the world. To plant. cultivate
reap and harvest her crops we send to
RUSSIA nearly one-half our total ex-
ports OF agricultural machinery. This
year we have already shipped some
$4,000 tons of these implements to the
lana OF the car. In former years all
lnls passed through the ports of New
I ofk and Philadelphia, but a fractional
increase IN freight rates between the
lakes and the East has diverted the
trade TO Southern ports, While expert :
ments are being made in direct Ship
ments from Chicago by way of the
lakes' the 81. Lawrence river and the
Atlantic ocean.
The cotton plant first came to Amer
lea from Asia; now the greater part of
the Central Asia crop is grown from
American cotton seed. American cuIti-
Vators till the soil, which is Watered
by an American irrigation system.
yankee gins clean the fibre, American
compounds press the cotton into bales.
wrapped with American bands. and
finally the cotton finds its way to
MOSCOW over railroad built with
American capital, and is turned into
cIoth by secondhand machinery from
an american cotton factory, to compete
abroad with American prints.
Another regular article of export to
central Asia is the Ohio grapevine
cutting. The vineyards Of Central Asia
are al offshoots from American vines,
ana the fru1t is priced above all others
IN Russia proper for it's deIicacy and
flavor. Twenty to thirty tons Of Amer
lean grapes to the acre is a common
yield in Central Asia, and the Ameri-
can vine is free from parasites, it be-
ing introduced everywhere the world
over, from South Africa to Northern
emma and Japan. We still export to-
bacco plants to Russian Asia, so that
the Russian tobacco, grape, cotton and
wheat crops are all American, once
removed.
NO Oriental fable is stranger than
the accomplishments of the up-to-date
Yankee drummer. In Bagdad. the
nome or Aladdin, he offers new Ameri-
can lamps that burn either Russian
or OHIO oil, for the old battered bronze
talioW-Durners Of the Bagdad house
wife, and as these time-Worn Oriental
lamps find a ready sale in New York.
the enterpris1ng drummer who intro
duced the American lamp to Bagdad
was we'll repaid for his trouble. Now.
however, American lamps are becom-
ing drug on the Bagdad market. and
the supply of old lamps is rapidly Civ
ing out, as our lamp trade with Tur-
key Increases.
A Connecticut firm manufactures
sacred scarabaei for the Egyptian
tourist trade. The little charms are
carved and even Clipped by machin-
cry, cclored in bulk to simulate old
age, and shipped in casks to the Mos
lem dealers at Cairo. The Arabian
guides are the chief buyers, MANY of
them being adopts at Sailing" the
sands at the base Of the pyramids or
about the sacred temples, where thew
artfully discover these scarabaei be-
fore the very eyes of the Yankee tour
list, and sell him for an American dol
lar an. article manufactured at a cost
OF less than cent, perhaps within a
stone throw OF his own home. For
enterprise it beats wooden nutmegs.
Golfers Weekly.