Milford chronicle., 1903-10-30
ODDITIES OF EXPORTING.
tome OF the Things American Enc
ternrise SeIIn In Eoreic-n Lnnds

tome OF the Things American Enc
terprise SELLS In Foreign Lands.
We send Dakota seed TO Russia, from
which she raises wheat to compete with
our own product in the markets of the
world. To plant, cultivate, reap and
harvest her crops, we send to Russia
nearly one-half our total exports of ag-
ricultural machinery. This year we
have already shipped some $4,000 tons
of these implements to the land of the
czar. In former years all this passed
through the ports of New York and
Philadelphia. but Il fractional increase
in freight rates between tae lakes and
the east has diverted the trade to
southern ports, while experiments are
being made in direct shipments from
Chicago 10y way of the lakes, the st.
| Lawrence river and the Atlantic ocean.
The cotton plant first came to Ameri-
ca from Asia; now the greater part of
| the central Asian crop is grown from
| American irrigation system. Yankee
gins clean the fiber. American COM
pounds press the cotton into bales
wrapped with American bands, and
finally the cotton finds its way to Mos
COW over a railroad built with Ameri-
can capital and is turned into cloth by
secondhand machinery from an Ameri-
can cotton 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 Amer.
lean grapes to the acre is a common
yield in central Asia, and as the Ameri-
can vine is free frem parasites it is !
being introduced everywhere the world
over, from South Africa to northern |
China 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 re-
moved.
No oriental fable is stranger than |
the accomplishments Of the up to date
Yankee drummer In Bagdad, the
home of Aladdin, he offers new Ameri-
can lamps that burn either Russian or
Ohio oil for the old battered bronze
tallOw burners of the Bagdad house
wife, AID as these time worn oriental
lamps find a ready sale in New York
the cnterprisinS drummer who intro
duced the American lamp to Bagdad
was we'll repaid for his trouble. Now.
however American lamps are becom-
ing drug in the Bagdad market, and
the supply Of old lamps is rapidly Civ
ing out as our lamp trade with Turkey
increases.
A Connecticut firm manufactures
sacred scarabei for the Egyptian
tourist trade. The little charms are
carved and even chipped by machin-
cry, colored in bulk to simulate age
and shipped in casks to the Moslem
dealers in Cairo. The Arabians 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 they artfully
discover these scarabei before the
very eyes of tbe Yankee tourist and
sell him for an American dollar an ar
ticle manufactured at a cost less than
a cent, perhaps within a stones throw
Of his own home. For enterprise it
beats wooden nutmegs. - Golfers !
Weekly.