Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-09-24
United States Furnished For.
eign Countries Twenty-One
Million Dollars Worth
IMMENSE GROWTH is SHOWN
France is One of Our Best Customers
and Bought Nearly Three Million
Dollars Worth Last Year. and Arsen-
tina Was Close to That Fisure-very
Wide Distribution.
Special to Timas-Republican.

Special to
Washington. Sept. 24.-Agricultura
implements exported from the United
states last year amounted to u million
dollars in value; IN 1893 they amounted
to only Az million dollars in value: IN
1888. to less than 4 million dollars; In
1873. to 2Ia millions, and in 1868 TO less
than q half million dollars. The growth
of expectation of this class of manu-
features has been extremely rapid. Pri-
or TO 1866 the expectation of agricul-
tural implements had never reached
as much as a million dollars, and dur-
ing the twenty-five years following
that date the growth was slow, the to-
tai having reached 0 $3,s59,0O0 In
1890. From that date forward, how
ever, the growth vas rapid. BY 1895 the
total was 5s million dollars; in 1900,
16 millions and. as already indicated, In
1903, p millions.
OF his total of 81 million dollars
worth of agricultural implements ex-
ported last year, nearly 3 million dol
lars in value went to France, and about
an equal sum to Argentina; a mill
lion and a half to the United Kingdom,
and about an equal sum TO Germany;
a million n a quarter to Australia,
and over a million to Africa. These are
the figures of 1908. In 1898 the value
OF agricultural implements sent to
France was but about 100000, as
against nearly 3 millions in the year
just ended. The value of those sen.
to Germany in 1898 was about 100000
against about 1h millions in the year
just ended. To Argentina the value
in 1898 was about Ia millions, against
nearly 3 millions in the year just end
ed.
These facts, presented by the de-
partment of commerce II labor, thru
its bureau OF statistics. are especially
interesting at the present moment, be-
cause OF the publication now being
made by that department Inc bureau
of a series Of reports from consuls In
various parts Of the world on the sales
and opportunities for sales OF agricul-
tural implements In the various sec
lions of the world which they rep
resent. These reports were called for
by the department of state some
months since at the request of the Ma
tional Association of Agricultural I'm
plement and Vehicle Manufacturers
and are to be printed in pamphlet form
for the use of that association at Its
annual meeting.
Few articles show a more rapid
growth In expectation than do agricul-
tural implements, or a wider distribu-
ton. AS already indicated, the total
has grow from a little over a half mil
lion dollars In 1864 to over II millions
in 1908. or nearly forty times as much
in 1903 as in 1864, while manufactures
of iron n steel, in which the growth
has been looked up as phenomenal,
are only about thirteen times as much
in value of exports in 1903 as In 1864.
The distribution OF American agricul-
tural implements has also extended to
nearly all parts of the world. The
bureau OF statistics export statement
shows that reapers and were
sent in 1902 to over fifty different coun-
tries, and plows and c~ultivators to even
a larger list of countries and depen-
The sound Of the American
mower and reaper Is heard in British
French, and Portuguese Africa, In
in European and Asiatic Turkey,
in European and Asiatic Russia, in ia
pan, in India, in Australia, and in
practically all OF the South American
and all of the countries OF
Europe, while the American plow and
c%ultivator &c to practically every coun-
try in the world.