Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-10-15
SPLENDID INCREASE
EXPORTS OF AGRICULTURAL I'M
PIGMENTS IN FISCAL YEAR
1908 BROUGHT $21,ooo,ooo.

Agricultural implements exported
from the United States last year
amounted to 21.000,000 dollars in value
in 1888 they amounted to only $780,
600 dollars in value; in 1883 to less
than 100000 dollars; in 1873 to g.
100000 and in 1863 to less than half
million dollars. The growth of ex-
portation of this class of manufactures
has been extremely rapid. Prior to 1866
the expectation of agricultural imple-
ments has never reached as much as
S1000,O00 and during the twenty-five
years following that date the growth
was slow. the total having reached
about $3,S59,00O in 1890. From that
rate forward, however the growth was
rapid. BY 1895 the total was $5,500,-
900; in 1900, SIG 1000, 900 and as already
indicated, in 1903, S21, 100000.
OF this total of s21,O0000O worth of
agricultural implements exported last
year, nearly 100000 in value went
to France and about an equal sum to
Argentina; $1,500,000 to the United
Kingdom and about an equal sum to
Germany; $1,250OO0 to Australia and
over million to Africa These are
the figures of 1903. In 1898 the value
of agricultural implements sent to
France was but about 100000 as
against nearly 100000 in the year
just ended. The value of those sent
to Germany in 1893 was about $780,
000,against about 81 100000 in the year
just ended To Argentina the value
in 1893 was about $1,250,00O against
nearly $3,000,000 in the year just end
ed.
These facts, presented by the de-
partment of commerce and labor,
through its bureau of statistics, are
especially interesting at the present
now being made by that department
and bureau of a series of reports from
consuls in various parts of the world
on the sales and opportunities for sal
es of agricultural implements in the
various sections of the world which
they represent. These reports were
called for by the department of state
some months since at the request of
the National Association of Agricul-
tural Implement and Vehicle Manufac-
turers, and are to be printed in
pamphlet form for the use of that as
sociation at it's approaching annual
meeting.
Few articles show a more rapid
growth in expectation than do agri-
cultural implements, or wider distri-
button. AS already indicated, the ia
tai has grown from little over half
million dollars in 1864 to $24 100000
in 1908, or nearly forty times as much
in 1903 as in 1864. while manufactures
of iron and steel, in which the growth
has been looked upon 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 mowers were
sent in 1902 to over fifty different coun-
tries, and plows and cultivators to
even larger list of countries and de-
tendencies. The sound of the Amer
lean mower and reaper is heard in
British, French, and Portuguese Afri-
ca, in Egypt, in European and Asiatic
Turkey, in European and Asiatic Rus
STA. in Japan, in India, in Australia,
and in practically all of the South
American countries and all of the
countries of Europe, while the Amer
lean pillow and cultiyator go to prac
ticalIy every country in the world.