Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-06-30
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS.

Davenport Times.-Davenport Rock
Island and Moline, centers of
the implement manufacturing in
dustry of the United States, have
an interest in the growth of foreign
trade that is greater than is found in
most communities. Exports of agri-
cultural implements from the United
States in the fiscal year about to end
Will amount to about $25,000OO0 in
value. This is an increase of about
S4,0O0,OO0 over last year and about
$S,O0o,O00 over the preceding year. In
no class of manufactures exported has
the growth been more steady and per-
s1stent than in that of agriculture inn
PIGMENTS.
The earliest year in which the value
of agriculture implements exported
was of sufficient Importance to Justify
a separate statement was 1864. In
that year the total value of agricul-
tural implements exported was, $751;
l52. In 1908, $21,O00,O00, and in 1904,
as above indicated, is likely to reach
about $25,OO0,OOO. Comparing this
years exports with those of a decade
earlier, the figures in 1904 are practi-
cally five times as great as in 1894
the total for 1894 being S5,027,915.
Comparing the growth in exports OF
agricultural implements with that ir
other articles during the same period
1t may be said that no other exports
have so increased in volume as have
agriculture implements, the increase
being from s5,OO0,OOO in 1894, to 6
probable $25,000,00O in 1904.
The principal foreign markets fol
American agricultural implements are
shown In table Just prepared by the
department of commerce. and labor
through it's bureau Of statistics. 1t
shows that of the $19,0OO,OOO worth of
agriculture implements exported from
the United States during the ten
months for which detailed figures are
available, nearly $1O,OOO,OOO went to
Europe, $4,000,O00 to South Africa,
100000 to North America $1,000, 900
to Asia and Oceanica and little over
100000 worth to Africa
Considering the exports by specific
countries, Argentina is, in 1904 the
largest consumer, the exports thereto
In the ten months of 1904 being 3d..
595,01O, against $2,50O,OOO in the same
months Of the preceding year and ST.
666,O00 in the corresponding months of
1902. Next in magnitude is Russia
our exports to that country in the ten
months ending with April, 1904, being
valued at $3,133.442, decrease of
about 100000 as compared with the
corresponding period of last year
France stands third, the exports OF
agriculture implements to that coun-
try in the ten months under considera-
ton being s2,513,O61, an increase of
nearly half million dollars over the
same months of 1908. The other coun-
tries to which the exports Of agricul.
tural implements reached a total of
s1,O00.O0O or upwards in the ten
months period are, in the order nam
ed: United Kingdom, $1,SS3,9s7; Ger
many, $1,245,233, and British Austral-
asia, S1,226,271; each of these countries
showing a substantial increase over
the expectations of last year.
Mowers and reapers contribute
about one-half of the total exporta-
tons of agriculture implements from
the United States, while plows and
cultivators supply about one sixth OF
the total, the remainder being made ur
of miscellaneous tools and imple-
ments.