St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-04-09
VOYAGES TAKEN BY FOOD.
Good American Articles That Go
Abroad and Come Back SOme-
thing Else.

Tables of exports and imports show
queer movements of foodstuffs. Almost
every country seems to export some
foods and to import the same kind.
And many countries import certain
kinds of food, for which they them
selves are famous, says the New York
Sun.
Russia is famous for the produc-
ton of caviare. Yet good part OF
the United States exports to Russia
consists of caviare made along the
great lakes and Delaware and Chesa.
peake bays.
England and Germany, both o.
which are known for their uanufac-
ture of cheese, import lots Of it from the
United States and sell it again as do
nestle 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 kind of sausage to
point where it is as good as the French
and cheaper But the world wants the
French sausage.
! So the American product goes over the
sea to France, and in Lyons it is packed
in new wrappers and boxes. Then it is
shipped away again to all the countries
whose hotels are crying for saucisson de
Lyon. And part of these Franco-Amer
lean sausages find their way back again
to the United States, where they began
life as plain sausages.
Hamburg is noted for it's fine smoked,
canned and je1lied cells. Where do these
cells come from? From the falls OF the
Nile.
A company of Baltic fishermen has set
tied in Egypt. catching Egyptian cells
in the land Of the Pharaohs to be packed
in cans with the three towers 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. It is believed by many vint-
ners that sea voyage improves 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 it profitable to ship wines
and brandies to ports where they can be
put in bond cheaply until they are
wanted.
A person who studies the voyages 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 sherry drinking country,
The wine is simply sent to it to go in
to bond.
One of the great national foods of Ger
many is the goose. Christmas and roast
goose in Germany are as inseparable as
Thanksgiving and turkey in America.
But the national bird of the Teuton
isn't Teutonic bird at all Long, long
ago, it appears, the Germans ate up all
their own geese, and now they go around
begging otherHcountries 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
can 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
z (l(l0 000 cf P,,ccian ooaco roro cI,irroI5
into Berlin alone last year.