The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1911-11-30
BAL AN(jE
Of Trade in Soil Aids in
Favor Of the United
States.

Werth OF American manufactures. AND
other products for use in cultiyatinf
the soil while about $50. GOO, oOC
worth OF foreign products are annual.
ly imported into the United states fol
use upon American farms. The fore.
going summarizes certain information
recently compiled by the bureau OF
statistics. department OF commerce
and Labor, in response 10 an inquiry
upon that subject received from a
representative newspaper located in
the great farming area OF the middle
West, and refers more especially to
those classes of merchandise having
their chief, II not exclusive use In the
farming industry and doe snot include
articles in general use, such as cloth
ing, furniture. anr miscellaneous man
ufactures.
or the exports from the United
states of articles required IN farming,
by far the larger portion are COM
posed manufactures, such as agrl-
cultural implements. binding Irvine,
barbed wire, and oil cake; while phos
phate rock, to be ground up and used
as fertilizer and clover, timothy an
other grass seeds are among the arti-
Giles exported in the natural state. In
addition to the exports above euum-
Grated as specifically for farm use.
there arc certain articles for which
the asrieulturalists Of other countries
draw upon the United States but
which cannot be classed as distinctive
~ for farm purposes, such as wagons,
carriages, traction engines, fiber bags,
pumps, etc. In such cases lie bureau
Of statistics has no means Of deter
mining the proportion OF the exports
intended for farm use and they are
not therefore, included in the 100 mil
lion dollars worth eff merchandise ex-
ported for agricultural purposes.
Taking UP the principal exports of
the class under discussion. .ngritul-
tural implements head the list with a
probable total Of $4,000. 900 in the
year about. TO end. comprised Of near
" $4,000, 900 worth of mowers and
reapers, $s.oOO,0O0 worth OF plows
and cultivators. s2,5O0,OOO worth OF
threshers. and the remainder miscel-
laneous farming tools and Implements.
These agricultural implements are ex-
ported to practically all pats Of the
world where man has adopted modern
methods of cultivating the soil: in the
great whea. fields OF Russia, in the
vineyards Of France, on the coffee
plantations OF Brazil, in the rice fields
Of China aad Japan, and in al! the
rGpidly developing countries of the,
New World Including Canada Argen-
tina, Cuba and Mexico. The years
exports will range from nearly S.
OOO,O to European Russia, 100000
to Argentina. and about $1,000, 900 toI
to Canada, to about s1,5O0,OOO TO At
rica. while to British Australasia
and oceania will be sent total of
nearly 100000, to other oceania
and Asia about 100000. and Brazil
about 100000 worth. Even the great
manufacturing countries OF Europe.
the United Kingdom. Germany, and
France. are represented in the years
exports Of agricultural implements,
the United Kingdom with total OF
over 100000. Germany s2,OOO.ooo,
and France 100000.
Fertilizers. OF which the exports
will be about sl2,OOO,oOO during the
year are chiefly sent TO European
countries. where long-continued use
of the soils has largely depleted their
natural fertility and rendered art!f-
cial fertilizers necessity For Amer
lean phosphate rock and other ferti-
lizers OF that class Germany is the
largest market, followed next by
Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
Another class OF materials, used as
cattle rood, whose exports are consid-
cradle includes oil cake and oil cake
meal made from cotton-seed and lin
seed. OF these the exports amount to
about $15,oO0,OOO per annum, being
! exported mostly 10 various countries
Of Europe.
Binding twine is another article OF
Importance in wheat growing coun-
tries. OF that article the years ex-
ports will he about sS,oOo,ooo. practi.
cally all destined for Russia and
other European countries, Canada and
Argentina. American barbed wire ex'
ported. about $4,000. 900 per annum
goes chiefly to Canada, Australia, Ar
gentina. British Africa, Mexico, Bra
ill and cuba. IN addition to these ar
ticles. there are others largely if'not
exclusively required by farmers. such
as windmills. with exports nearing ST.
ooO, 900 per annum; and clover and
other grass seeds-ovcr 100000
on the other hand, American far
mers draw upon other countries fol
certain Of their requirements, most Of
the imports. however, being articles
in their natural state. The larges
item shown in the imports of last year
we're fertilizers, including nitrate o
soda. $17,oOo,OOO; suauo, manure
salts. etc, 100000: potash salts