Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-06-02
opp1r1Rs OF EXPORTING.
What We Send Abroad, and What We -. Get Reciprocity in Lamps.


 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. To plant, cultivate, reap and harvest her crops, we send to Rus sia nearly one-half our total exports of agricultural machinery. This year we have already shipped some S0,0O0 tons of these implements to the land of the czar Tn former years all this passed through the ports of New York and Philadelphia, -but-a fractional in crease in freight rates between the lakes and the east has diverted the trade to southern ports, while experi- ments are being made in direct ship n1ents from Chicago by way of the lakes, the St Lawrence river and the Atlantic osean. :, The cotton plant first came to Amer iea from Asia: now the greater part of the Central+Asian, crop is grown from American cotton seed. American cu1- tivators tf11Gthe 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 f1- nally the cotton finds it's way to Mos COW over a railroad built with Ameri- can capital. and is turned into cloth 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 all offshootst from American vines. and the fruit is prized above all others in Russia proper for it's deli cacy and flavor. Twenty to thirty tons. of American grapes to the acre is a common yield in Central Asia and as the American vine is free from parasites, it Is being introduced every where the world over. from South Af- rico to Northern China and Japan. We still export tobacco 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. Tn 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, and as these time worn oriental lamps find q ready sale in New York, l the enterprising drummer wf7o intro ] duced the America1f lamp to- Bagdad was well repaid for his trouble Now, 1 however, American lamps are becom- 1 ing a drug in the Bagdad market, and the supply of old lamps is rapidly giv- ing out, as our lamp trade with Turkey increases. . E Z. A Connecticut firm manufa ctures sacred searabaef for the Egyptian tour | ist trade. The little charms are carv- | ed and even clipped by machinery, l colored in bulk ito simulate age, and 1 shipped ira casks to the Moslem deal- CTS at Cairo. The Arabian guides are | the chief buyers, many of, them being adopts at "salting" the sands at the l base of the pyramids. or about the sa- l cred temples. where they artfully dis | cover these scarabaei before the very l eyes of the Yankee tourist, and sell l him for an American dollar an article manufactured at cost of less than a I cent. perhaps within q stones throw l of his own home. For enterprise it ! beats wooden nutmegs. Collier s fNlHG