The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1911-06-08


of the world. This estimate of the
demands which agriculturists of 9TH
er counties make upon the manufaC-
turers of the United States, while
necessarily somewhat general, seems
to be quite within the limits of fact
judging from a statement just pre-
pared by the Bureau of Stastictics of
the Department of Commerce and La
Dor, which shows the expectations of
principal articles produced in the
United States and passing direct to
the agricu1turists of other countries.
This list includes mowers and reap
ers, plows and cultivators, other agri-
cultural implements, fertilizers, bind
er Irvine, barbed wire, sugar mill ma
chinery, windmills, traction engines,
harness and saddles, carriages and
wagons, oi1cake and oilcake meal,
seeds and nursery-stock, as articles
of which practically all of the ex-
ports are for agriculturalists, while
the addition to this, it may be as
sured that a considerable percentage
of the wire other than barbed, and
nails, stoves, furniture, cutlery,
pumps and pumping machinery, sew
ing machines, tobacco, and mineral
oil are finally utilized by the agrl-
cultural sections of the various coun-
tries to which the merchandise is
exported.
Agricultural implements form the
largest single item of the exports
distinctly intended for use of farmers
and planters of the world, and the to-
tai exports of this single group dur
ing the fiscal year which ends with
next month will approximate 40 mil
lion dollars in value. For the ten
months for which the statistics are
now available, the total is 81 million
dollars worth, and should the hgures
for the two remaining months for
which data are not yet in hand aver
age as much per month as April
(S5.476,51O) the total for the fiscal
wear would cross the 40 million dol
lar mark. while a decade ago the val
lie of agricultural implements lex
norted was about 16 Is million dol
lars. Of the 25 IL million dollars
worth of agriculture implements ex-
ported in the nine months endlng
with March, 1911, which by the way
is an increase of Is per cent over the
corresponding months OF 1910, ten
million dollars worth was represent
ed bv mowers and reapers and parts
of: SIP million plows and cult1vat-
ors and parts thereof; and practlcally
nine million Cali other" agricultural
implements. Of this grand total OF
25 1-2 million dollars wirth of agr1-
cultural implements exported in the
nine months ending with March, 1911
6 1-2 million dollars worth went to
Argentina; 53-4 million dollars
worth to Russia in Europe; IL mil
lion dollars worth to Canada; 2-3
million dollars worth to France;
about one million dollars worth to
Germany; and three-fourths of
million dollars worth to the United
Kingdom. While the Bureau of Sta
tistics figure for the nine months
period do not indicate countries for
each of the groups of AGRICULTURAL
implements, another publication of
the Bureau covering the exports for
the full fiscal year periods, shows
mowers and reapers separately
amounting to II IA million dollars
worth in the fiscal year 1910, of
which IA million dollars worth
went to Russia in Europe; a little
over one-half million dollars worth
to Argentina; about one-ha'f million
dollars worth to the United Kingdom;
unar1v One-ha1f million, dollars worth