Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1903-05-25
ODDITIES OF EXPORTING.
What We Send Abroad and What We
Get-Reciprocity in Lamps.


We send Dakota seed Il Russia from
which she raises wheat to compete
with our own product IN The markets |
Of the world To plant, cultivate. reap
aOd harvest her crops W. send to Rus-
sid 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 in
crease in freight rates between the
Lakes and the East has diverted the
trade to Southern ports, while expert
ments 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 Amer
lea from Asia; now the greater part
of the Central-Asian crop is grown
from American cotton seed. Ameri-
can cultivators till the soil. which l.
watered by an American irrigation sys-
TEN. Yankee gins clean the fibre.
American compounds press the cotton
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 American cotton factory, to
compete abroad with the American
prints.
Another regular article of export to
Central Asia is the Ohio grapevine
cutting. The vineyards of Central
Asia are all offshoots from American
vines. and the fruit is priced above
all others in Russia proper for its 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 para
sites, it is being introduced every
where the world over, from South
Africa to Northern China and Japan
We still export tobacco plants to Rus
sian Asia, so that the Russian tobacco
grape, cotton and wheat crops are al
American, once removed
No oriental fable is stranger than
the accomplishments of the upto-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
allow-burners of the Bagdad house
wife, and as these timewOrn Oriental
, lamps find 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 becom
ing drug in the Bagdad market, and
, the supply of old lamps is rapidly Civ.
ing out as our lamp trade with Turkey
t increases
} A Connecticut firm manufactures sa
). cred scarabaei for the Egyptian tourist
} trade The little charms are carved
e and even Clipped by machinery. col
t ored in bulk to simulate age. and ship
: ped in casks to the Moslem dealers al
5 Cairo. The Arabian guides are The
q the chief buyers, many of them beins
s adopts at sailing the sands at tht
S base of the pyramids, or about the sa
toy, nj WI
d cover these scarabaei before the yer!
t eyes of the Yankee tourist, and sci
s him for an American dollar an article
V manufactured at cost OF less than
!. cent. perhaps within stones throy
of his own home. For enterprise
beats wooden nutmegs. - Collier
Weekly