The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1904-03-04
VOYAGES TAKEN BY FOOD.
Good American Things That Go Abroad
and Come Back French,

New York SUM-: Tables Of exports and
imports show queer movements of food.
stuffs. Almost every country seems to
export some foods and to import the
same kind. And many countries import
themselves are famous. Russia is famous
for the production Of %caviare. Yet a good
part of the United States exports to Rus
sia consists Of ~caviare made along the
Great lakes and Delaware and Chesa-
peake bays. England and Germany, both
of which are known for their manufac-t
ture of cheese, import lots of it from the
United States and sell 1t again as domes-
tic cheese.
Lyons, in France, is distinguished for
the production of a hard. red, highly
spiced sausage. There is an American
concern that has developed the produc-
ton of this same kline Of sausage to q
point where it is as good as the French
and cheaper. But the world want the
French sausage. So the American prod
uct goes over the sea to France, and in
Lyons it is packed in new wrappers and
boxes. Then 1t is shipped away again to
all the countries whose hotels are crying
for saucisson de Lyon. And a part Of
these Franco-American sausages find
their way back again to the United
States, where they began life as plain
sausages. Hamburg is noted for its fine
smoked, canned and jellied cells. Where
DO these cells come from? From the falls
or the Nile.
a company Of Baltic fishermen has set
tled in Egypt, catching Egyptian cells in
the land Of the PharaOhs, to be packed
in cans with the three overs of the Ham
burg coat Of arms stamped on them.
American wines are forever travelling to
Europe, to come back again IN a year or
two with French, Italian and Spanish
labels on them. But wines are not sent
on sea voyages purely with the intent to
deceive. 1t is believed by many winners
that a sea voyage improves a fine wine.
Therefore, ships often carry wine as
freight without unloading it. Then again,
customs duties and the provisions for
keeping liquors in bond often make 1t
| profitable to ship wines and brandies to
! ports where they can be put in bond
| cneaply until they are wanted.
A person who studies the voyage Of
! sherry, as shown in tables of exports and
imports, is amazed to discover that Of all
unlikely places Newfoundland is one of
the great points of import for sherry. OF
course, Newfoundland is not wealthy
enough to be a sherry thinking country.
The wine is simply sent TO 1t to go into
bond. One Of the great national foods of
Germany Is the goose. Christmas and
roast goose In Germany are as %insepara-
Bile as Thanksgiving and turkey in Amer
lea. But the national bird of the Teuton
isn't a Teutonic bird at all. Long, long
! ago, it appears, the Germans ate up all
their own geese, and now they go around
begging other countries for their geese.
Russia has thrown herself into the
breach, and her peasants are turning into
goose farmers In parts of Russia, near
the German boundary, the traveller al
see herds of geese now instead Of herds
Of sheep.
How big these goose herds are can be
estimated by the fact that more than
seven millions of Russian geese were
.hipped into Berlin alone last year.