The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1903-12-19
ODDITIES OF EXPORTING
What We Send Abroad and Some Of
the Things We Get

what We Send Abroad and sons Of
the Things We Get.
We send Dakota seed to Russia,
from which she raises wheat to COM !
pete with our own product In the mar
kets of the world. To plant cultivate.
reap and harvest her OWE crops we
send to Russia nearly one-balf our to-
tai exports OF agricultural machinery.
In 1908 we shipped some $1,000 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 Increase
in freight rates between the lakes and
the East has diverted the trade to
Southern ports. while experiments are
being made In direct shipments 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 cottonseed. American cul-
tivators till the soil which Is watered
by an American irrigation system.
Yankee gins clean the fiber, American
compounds press the cotton into bales
wrapped with American bands, and
finally the cotton finds its way to Mos
COW over railroad built with American
capital, and is turned into cloth by sec
ond-hand machinery from an American
cotton factory. to compete abroad with
American prints
Another regular article Of export to
Central Asia Is the Ohio grapevine cut
ting. The vineyards Of Central Asia
are all offshoots from American vines,
and the fruit is priced above all Others
in Russia proper for its delicacy and
flavor. Twenty to thirty tons OF Amer
lean grapes to the acre IL common
yield In Central Asia, and as the Amer
lean vins is free from parasites, 1t Il
being introduced everywhere the world
over, from South Africa to northern
China and Japan. We VIII export to
bacco plants to Russian Asia, 80 thai
the Russian tobacco. grape. cotton and
wheat crops are all American, once re
moved.
No oriental fable Is stranger than tht
accomplishments OF the up-to- dat
Yankee drummer. In Bagdad. thu
home of Aladdin, he offers the new
American lamps that burn either Rus
sian or Ohio oil, for the old bronze tai
low burners of the Bagdad housewife
and as these time-worn oriental lamp
find ready sale In New York, the en-
terprising drummer who introduced tn
! American lamp to Bagdad was well re
| paid for his trouble. Now, however
merican lamps are becoming drui
, In the Bagdad market, and the suppl
of old lamps is rapidly giving out a
! our lamp trade with Turkey increases
i A Connecticut firm manufacture
sacred searsbel for the Egyptian toul
ist trade. The little charms are. carve
and ever Clipped by machinery, colol
\ ed In bulk to stimulate age and shippe
] In casks to the Moslem dealers In Carr
The Arabian guides are the chief bul
ers. many OF them being adopts {
Sailing the sands at the base OF I'll
pyramids, or about the sacred temple
where they artfuIly discover thei
scarabci before the very eyes Of II
Yankee tourist and sell him for 9
American dollar an article manufa
\ tured at a cost of less than cent pc
=" haps within a stones throw Of his ov
home. For enterprise It beats woods
nutmegs "-Collier's Weekly.