The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-11-28
EXPORTS AND IMPORTS
OF FARMERS MATERIAL
Foreign Countries Buy 100000.
600 American Machinery.

900 American Machinery.
| The agricultural interests of for
eign countries buy nearly 100000
600 worth OF American mannfac'
| lures and other products for use ir
| cultivating the soil, while about
$50, 100000 worth of foreign PROD
ucts are annually imported into the
United States for use upon Ameri-
can farms The foregoing summar-
ICES certain information recently
compiled by the bureau OF Stats
tics, department of commerce and
labor, In response to an inquiry
upon that subject received from {,
representative newspaper located In
the great farming area OF the mid
die west. and refers more especially
to those classes of merchandise hav-
ing theaf Chief. II not exclusive use
the farming industry and does
not include articles in general use
such as clothing, furniture, and mis-
cellaneous manufactures.
or the exports from the Uniteo
States of articles required in farm
ing, by far the larger portion are
composed OF manufactures, such as
agricultural implements. binding
twine, barbed wire, and oil cake;
while phosphate rock, 10 be ground
up and used as fertilizer, and clover,
timothy and other grass seeds are
among the articles exported In the
natural state. In addition TO the ex-
ports above enumerated as specltlc-
ally for farm use, there are certain
articles for which the agriculturai-
ists of other countries draw upon
the United States but which cannot
be classed as dlstinctively for farlF
purposes, such as wagons, carriages
| traction engines, fiber bags. pumps
| etc. In such cases the bureau or sta
tistics has no means Of determinini
the proportion OF the exports In
tended for farm use and they AT
not, therefore, included in the 10
million dollars worth of merchar
disc exported for agricultural pu
a poses.
Taking up the principal expor
= of the class under discussion, agr
cultural implements head the liz
with a probab Bile total Of 100000
= in the year about to end, compris
\ Of nearly s20.o00.00o worth
IN mowers and reapers, $4,000
> worth of plows and cultivators, s.
100000 worth of threshers, and t
remainder miscellaneous farmi
q | tools and implements. These ag
"a cultural implements are exported
. practically all parts of the wol
IA where man has adopted mode
methods of cultivating the soil;
the great wheat fields of Russia;
re the vineyards of France; on the C
~, fec plantations of Brazil, In the r
= fields OF China and Japan, and in
,st the rapidly developing countries
the New World. including Cana
Argentina, Cuba, and Mexico. =
years exports will range from ne
70 " 100000 to European Russ
100000 to Argentina, and alb
% 100000 to Canada, to about
500, 900 to Africa, while the Brit
AuSlThlbld anu tttahtSo VIM w
total OF nearly 100000, to c
ay err Oceanica and Asia about Sl,0'
M 600, and Brazil about $500,
oie worth. Even the great manufact
ing countries of Europe, the Uni
H. Kingdom, Germany, and France
represented In the years exports
agricultural implements, the Uni
In, Kingdom with total of over
q 600, 900, Germany, 100000.
ed France, 100000,
Az Fertilizers, of which the expt
raj will be about s12.000,000 dur
do the year, are chiefly sent to Et
pean countries, where long-con
ued use OF the soils has largely
an pleted their natural fertility
he rendered artificial fertilizers a
he cessity. For American phospn
,pa rock and other fertilizers Of
he class Germany is the largest mari
he followed next by Netherlands
the United Kingdom. Another cl