The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1910-12-29
AMERICAN FARM AND FACTORY
PRODUCTS.
Some Facts Concerning their World
Wide Distribution.

Wide Distribution.
NEW YORK, December 26th. The con-
tributions which the people of the United
States are making to the comforts and
requirements of the daily life of those in
other parts of the world are scarcely
realized, even by those supplying the ar
ticles so contributed. How little does
the girl or woman employed in the fac
tory realize that the cotton cloth being
manufactured with her cooperation is to
become holiday dress for some other
girl or woman in China, or India, or the
Philippines, or South Africa, or the is
lands of the East or West Indies! How
little does the boy or man who engages
in the daily round of farm life realize
that the bacon to be made from the pigs
which he feeds is to go into the homes
of Liberia, and Portuguese Africa, and
French Oceania, and Asiatic Russia, or
that the eggs which he collects may be
exported to British Guiana, or Peru, or
Cuba, or Central America, or the various
countries of Europe! Yet these and many
other curious and interesting incidents of
the neighborly interchanges between our
own people and those of other and distant
parts of the world are shown as part of
the every-year, all-theyear-round rou
tine of trade recorded by the Bureau of
Statistics of the Department of Com
merce and Labor.
The annual volume, Commerce and
Navigation of the United States" which
is supplied free of charge to those desir-
ing it for study Of our foreign commerce,
shows many curious things about our
trade with the various parts of the
world. 1t is interesting, for example, to
see that the American mule goes to
Africa, Australia, the islands of Oceania,
British, Dutch, and French Guiana,
Ecuador, Brazil, Haiti, Costa Rica, and
British Honduras for service on the
roads and plantations. American can
dies, of which the expectations amount
to from to 8 million pounds year, are
lighting homes in Japan, Korea, Siberia.
Tasmania, Venezuela, the Dutch West
Indies, Salvador, the Philippines and
French possessions in Africa. American
brooms and brushes are making clean the
floors and busting the garments of dwell
lers in Turkey, Roumania, Malta, the
Azores Islands, Egypt, Spanish posses
sions in Africa, German islands in the
Pacific, Hongkong, and Santo Domingo
American peanuts, of which the exporta-
lions range from to Z million pounds a
year, go to British India, the Guianas in
South America, the Danish West Indies,
Guatemala, Labrador, the island of Ber-
muda, and the Belgian Kongo in Africa.
American boots and shoes, of which the
exports range about 10 million dollars a
year, go in increasing quantities to every
part of the world---Hongkong, Siam,
Japanese territory in China, Java and
Sumatra, the Straits Settlements, Aus
tralia and New Zealand, German posses
sions in Africa, Liberia, Brazil, Para
quay, Mexico, Canada, and practically
every country of Europe. American
windmills, of which more than million
dollars worth are exported every year,
are seen in South Africa, the Canary
Islands, Turkey in Asia, French China,
Haiti, Santo Domingo, Turkey in Eu-
rope, Switzerland, Roumania, Greece
and Greenland.
And SO we might go on extending the
list indefinitely, enumerating products of
the American farm and factory which
are being sent to other parts of the
world, and these articles would include
sewing machines, typewriters, motor
boats, organs, pianos, pianolas, soap,
perfumery, oranges, raisins, prunes,
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