The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-26
ODDITIES or EXPORTING.
What We Send Abroad and What
 We 0et.-Reciprocity in Lamps.

What We Send Abroad and What
 We 0et.-Reciprocity in Lamps. Golfers Weekly.
 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 har- vest her crops, we send to Russia nearly one-half our total exports of agricultural machinery. This year we have already shipped some 5000 tons of these imple- ments to the land of the Czar. In form CT years all this passed through the ports of New York and Philadelphia, but a fractional increase in freight rates be- tween the Lakes and the East has divert ed the trade to Southern ports, while ex- periments are being made in direct ship ments from Chicago by way of the Lakes. the St. Lawrence river and the Atlantic Ocean.
 The cotton plant first came to America from Asia; now the greater part of the Central Asian crop is grown from Amer ican cotton seed. American cultivators till the soil. which Is water by an Amer lean 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 cloth by secondhand machinery from an Amer ican cotton factory. to compete abroad with American prints.
 Another regular article of export to Central Asia are all offshoots from Amer ican vines. and the fruit is prized above all others in Russia proper for its deli cacy and flavor. Twenty to thirty tons of American grapes to the acre is common yield in Central Asia, and as the Ameri- can vine Is free from parasites. 1t is be- | ing introduced everywhere the world over from South Africa to Northern China and Japan. We still export tobacco plants tc Russian Asia, so that the Russian tobac. co crops are all American. once removed | No Oriental fable Is stranger than the accomplishments of the up-to-date Tan kee drummer. In Bagdad. the home o Aladdin. he offers new American lamp: that burn either Russian or Ohio oil. fol the old battered bronze tallow-burners o the Bagdad housewife, and as these time
 worn Oriental lamps find a ready sale il
 New York. the enterprising drummer wh'
 introduced the American lamp to Bagdat
 was well repaid for his trouble. Now
 however, American lamps are becoming drug in the Bagdad market, and the sup ply of old lamps is rapidly giving out. al our lamp trade with Turkey increases.
 A Connecticut firm manufactures sacred
 scarabaei for the Egyptian tourist trade
 The little charms are carved and ever
 clipped by machinery. coiored fin bulk t'
 simulate age, and shipped in casks to thu
 Moslem dealers at Cairo The Arabian
 guides are the chief buyers. many of then
 being alepts at "salting" the sands a
 the base of the pyramids. or about thu
 sacred temples. where they artfully dis
 cover these scarabaei before the very eye of the Yankee tourist, and sell him fol
 an American dollar an article manufac
 tured at a cost of less than a cent. per
 haps within a stone's throw of his owl
 home. For enterprise 1t beats woodel nutmeRs.