The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1903-05-28
ODDITIES OF EXPORTING.
What We Send Abroad and What We Get
Reciprocity in Lamps.

What q Send Abroad and What We Get
Reciprocity in Lamps.
We send Dakota seed to Russia from
which she raises wheat to compete with
our own product in the markets of the
world. 10 plant, cultivate, reap and
harvest her crops, we send to Russia
nearly one-half our total exports of
agricultural machinery. This year we
have already shipped some $4,000 tons
of these implements to the land of the
Gar. In former years all this passed
through the ports of New York and
PHILADELPHIA, but fractional increase
in freight rates between the Lakes and
and the East has diverted the trade to
Southern ports, while experiments are
being made in direct shipments from
Chicago by way of the Lakes, the st.
Lawrence River and the Atlantic
Ocean.
The cotton plant first came to Amer
lea from Asia; now the greater part Of
the Central crop is grown from
American cotton seed. American cul-
tivators 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 final
ly the cotton finds its way to Moscow
over a railroad built with American cap
ital, and is turned into cloth by second
hand machinery from an American cot
ton factory. to compete abroad with
American prints.
Another regular article of export to
Central Asia is the Ohio grapevine cut
ting The vineyards OF Central Asia
are all offshootS from American vines,
and the fruit is priced above all others
in Russia proper for its delicacy and
flavor. Twenty to thirty tons OF
American grapes to the acre is a COM
mon yield N Central Asia, and as the
American vine is free from parasites,
it is beng introduced everywhere the
world over, from South Africa to
Northern China and Japan. We still
export tobacco plants to Russian Asia,
so that the Russian tobacco, grape, cot
ton 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
home of Aladdin, he offers new Amer
lean lamps that burn either Russian or
Ohio oil. for the old battered bronze
tallow-b burners of the Bagdad house
wife, and as these time-Worn Oriental
lamps find a ready sale in New York,
the enterprising drummer who intro
duced the American lamp to Bagdad
was well repaid for his trouble. Now,
however, American lamps are becoming
drug in the Baedad market, and the
supply of old lamps is rapidly giving
out, as our lamp trade with Turkey
increases.
A Connecticut firm manufactures
sacred scarabaei for the Egyptian tou-
rist trade. The little charms are carved
and even Clipped by machinery, colored
in bulk to simulate age, and shipped in
casks to the Moslem dealers at Cairo.
The Arabian guides are the chief buy
ers, many of them being adopts at
Sailing" the sands at the base of the
pyramids, or about the sacred temples,
where they artfully discover the scara-
baei before the very eyes of the Yankee
tourist, and sell him for an American
dollar an article manufactured at cost
of less than cent, perhaps within a
stones throw of his own home. For
enterprise it beats wooden nutmegs.-
Golfers Weekly