Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1911-01-05
MARSHALL COUNT Y COURT HOUSE
WORLDWIDE DISTRIBUTION OF
AMERICAN FARM AND FAC
TORY PRODUCTS

TORY PRODUCTS
The contributions 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 articles so
contributed. How little does the
girl or woman employed in the fac
tory realize that the cotton cloth be-
ing manufactured with her co-opera-
tion is to become a holiday dress for
some other girl or woman in China,
or India, or the Philippines, or South
Africa ,or the islands 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 ba-
con 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 Guiena or
Peru or Cuba, or Central America, or
the various countries Of Europe! Yet
these and many other curious and in
terestlng 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-the-year-round routine
Of trade recorded by the Bureau Of
Statistics o fthe Department Of Com
laerce and Labor.
It's annual volume, Commerce and
Navigation Of the United States,'
which is supplied free of charge to
those desiring it for study of our for
eign commerce, shows many curious
things about our trade with the vari-
GUS parts of the world It is interest
ing, for example to see that the
American mule goes to Africa, Aus
tra]ia, 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 candles,
of which the expectations amount to
from to million pounds year. are
lighting homes in Japan, Korea, ST.
IBERIA, Tasmania, Venezuela, the
Dutch West Indies, Salvador, the
Philippines and French possessions in
Africa. American brooms and brushes
are making clean the floors and dust
ing the garments of dwellers in Tur.
key, Roumania, Malta, the Azores Is
lands, Egypt, Spanish possessions in
africa, German islands in the Pacific,
Hongkong, and Santo Domingo.
American peanuts, of which the ex-
rOrtati0ns range from to million
pounds a year, go to British India, the
Guianas in South America, the Dan
ish West Indies, Guatemala, Labrador
the island of Bermuda, and the Bel
gian Kongo in Africa American boots
and shoes, of which the exports range
above ten million dollars year, go
in increasing quantities to every part
of the world-Hongkong Siam, Jap
anese territory in China Java and
Sumatra, the Straits Settlements,
Australia and New Zealand, German
possessions in Africa, Liberia, Brazil,
Paraguay, Mexico, Canada, and prac-
tically every country of Europe
American windmills, of which more
than million dollars worth are ex-
ported every year, are seen in South
Africa. the Canary Islands, Turkey in
Asia, French China, Haiti, Santo Do
ningo, Turkey in Europe, Switzer-
land, Roumania, Greece and Green
land
And so we might go on extending
the list indefinitely, enumerating pro-
ducts Of the American farm and fac
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parts of the world, and these articles
would include sewing machines, type
writer's, motor boats, organs, pianos,
pjanolas, soap, perfumery, oranges,
Sins, prunes, chewing gum, toys,
and many other equally curious and
-i5-eresting articles, to say nothing Of
t1n great classes making up the
grand total Of more than 767 million
dollars worth Of manufactures, 665
million dollars worth Of raw materi-
ais. and $40 million dollars worth Of