The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1911-01-06
WORLDWIDE DISTRIBUTION OF
AMERICAN FARM AND FAC
TORY PRODUCTS

| 10 the comforts ana requirements Oh
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
being manufactured with her coop
Grafton is to become a holiday dress
for some girl in China, or India, or
the Philippines, or South Africa, or
the islands of the East or West In
dies! How little does the boy or
man who engages in the daily rout-
Inc 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 Ash
attic Russia, or that the eggs which
he collects may be exported to Brit
ish 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 inter-
changes between our people and those
of other and distant parts of the
world are shown as part of the every
year, all-the-year-round orutine of
trade recorded by the Bureau of Stat
istics of the Department of Com
merce and Labor.
Its annual volume, Commerce and
Navigation of the United States"
which is supplied free of charge to
those desiring it for study of our
foreign commerce, shows many Gu
rious 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,
Ecudor, Brazil, Haita, Costa RIGA
and British Honduras for service on
the roads and plantations. American
candles, of which the expectations
amount to from three to eight mil
lion pounds year, are lighting
homes in Japan, Korea, Siberia, Tas-
mania, Venezuela, the Dutch East
Indies, Salvador, the Philippines and
French possessions in Africa. Ameri-
can brooms and brushes are making
clean the floors and busting the gar
ments of jewellers in Turkey, Rou-
mania, Malta, the Azores Islands,
Egypt, Spanish possessions in Africa,
German islands in the Pacific, Hong
kong and Santo Domingo. American
peanuts, of which the expectations
range from five to- seven million
pounds a year, go to British India,
the Guianas in South America, the
Danish West Indies, Guatemala, Lab
rador, the islam of Bermuda. and the
Belgian Kongo in Africa. American
boots and shoes, of which the ex-
ports range above ten million dollars
a year, 60 in increasing quantities
to every part of the world-Hong-
kong, Siam, Japanese territory in
China, Java and Sumatra, the Straits
Settlements, Australia and New Zea-
land, German possessions in Africa,
Liberia, Brazil, Paraguay, Mexico,
and practically every country
of Europe. American windmills. of
which more than million dollars
worth are exported every year, are
seen in South Africa, Turkey in Eu-
rope, Switzerland, Roumania, Greece
and Greenland.
And so might we go on extending
he 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, type
writer's, motor boats, organs, pianos,
soap, perfumery, oranges
'aisins, prunes, chewing gum, toys
Ind many other equally curious and
interesting articles, to say nothing
If the great classes making up the
Grand total of more than 767 mill
ion dollars worth of manufactures,
'65 million dollars worth of raw
materials, and $40 million dollars
worth of foodstuffs. OF raw cotton
lone the years exports amounted to
so million dollars; ..eof : meat and
airy products, fsO million; of wheat
nd corn, partly in the grain and
artly in the form of -four and meal,
early 1875 million; of iron and steel
manufactures. 1870 million; of petro-
cum and other mineral oils, 100
lillion; and OF copper manufactures,
early 80 million dollar; and so on
own the list. The. countries. col 9
mics and other territorial divisions !,
} which these articles 60, as shown {