Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1911-05-27
AMERICAN PRODUCTS
DEMANDED EVERYWHERE
sF4undred Million Dollars Worth Of
Manufacture Of the U. S. consum-
sumed by AgricuItursts Abroad.


sun1ed by AericuIturists Abroad.
A hundred million dollars worth Of
manufactures of the United States are
consumed by agriculturists of other
parts of the world This estimate Of
tthe demands which agriculturists Cf
other countries make upon the manu-
Eacturers of the United States, whils
necessarily somewhat general, seems
to be quite within the limits OF fact
Judging from a statement just prepar-
sed by the Bureau of Statistics Of the
Department of Commerce and Labor,
which shows the exportatic ms Of prin-
cipal articles produced in the United
States and passing direct to the agrl-
sculturists of other counties.
This list includes mowers and reap
GERS, pIows and cultivators, other agri-
cultural implements. fertilizers, binder
Irvine, barbed wire sugar mill machin-
cry, windnills traction engines, hdr-
ness and saddles, carriages aad wag-
ems, oilcake and oilcake meal seeds
B1d nursery-stock, as articles of which
practically all Of the exports are fer
-agriculturists, while in addition to
1his, it may be assumed that a consid-
ssrable percentage of the wire other
than barbed and nails, stoves, furni-
ture, cutlery pumps and pumping ma
chinery, sewing machines, tobacco,
and mineral ell are finally utilized by
the agricultural sections of the vari
Gus countries to which the merchan-
disc is exported.
Agricultural implements form the
Largest single item of the exports dis
sinctly intended fer use of farmers
=NBd planters Of the world, and the
eadtal exports of this single group dur
ing the fiscal year which ends with
next month will approximate 40 mil
fion dollars in value. For the ten
me nths for which the statistics are
now available. the total is 81 million
dollars worth, and should the figures
for the two remaining months for
which data are not yet in hand aver
age as much per month as April 49,
476,510) the total for the fiscal year
would cross the 40 million dollar mark
while decade ago the value of agri-
cultural implements exported was but
f6 Is million dollars OF the % IL
million dollars worth of agricultural
implements exported in the nine
months ending with March 1911,
which by the way is an Increase OF
25 per cent over the corresponding
months of 1910, ten million dollars
worth was represented by mowers and
Feapers and parts Of; 61-2 million,
ptows and cultivators and parts there
of; and practically nine million "all
ether agricultural implements OF
this grand total of % IL million dol
lars worth of agricultural implements
exported in the nine months ending
with March, 1911, 6 10 million dollars
worth went to Argentina; ) ga mil
lion dollars worth to Russia in Eu-
rope; , IL million dollars worth to.
Canada; % million dollars worth to
France; about 1 million dollars worth
TO Germany; and three-fourths cf a
million dollars worth to the United
k'Ki1gdom. While the Bureau of Stats
td.cs figures for the nine months per-
saBa dc not indicate countries for each
o0f she groups of agricultural imple-
NmeziSs, another publication of the
Bureau covering the exports for the
full iscal year periods, shows mowers
+; and TBapers separately amounting to
LIZA million dollars worth in the ifs
sCai year 1910, of which 8 IA million
dollars worth went to Russia in Eur
Snpe; IS little over million dollars
worth 10 France; a little over / mil
lion collars worth to Germany; over
oDe-hah million dollars worth to Ar
gentina; about one-half million dollars
worth TO the Uaited Kingdom; nearly
orehalf million dollars worth TO Aus
tralia; ana about one-third of mil
lion dollars worth to Canada OF the
. IA million dollars worth OF plows
and cultivators exported in the fiscal
year 1910, . million dollars worth
went TO Argentina; a little over l 1-2
million dollars worth went to Canada
about one-third OF a million dollars
Y worth went to Russ in Europe; a
'kAFuEtA N-A VI q iih4A4Oi uOA4dlo NOtl III
lPRent to Australia and New Zealand,
n d the remainder scattered widely.
& Fertilizers exported amounted in
III nine months ending with March 10
a. min on dollars in value; against
'alfAt-le over 6 million in the cores
DoncSng months OF last year. OF this
sr1ER OF fertilizers amounting to 1-2
nrilsidn dollars worth in the nine
snofstls ending with March, 1911, phos-
rhate rock, ground, or unground, not
4ciduaased, amounted to 6 IA million
dollars IN value, and the "All other"
group little over one million dollars.
Germany Is by far the largest taBer of
his class of our exports, the value of
the exports of fertilizers to that coun-
ry being in nine months in question
practically 2 million dollars; the Unit
s ed Kingdom less than | million. and