Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1911-01-06
Worldwide Distribution Of Amer
loan Farm and Factory
Products.


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 sup
plying the articles so contributed. How
little does the girl or woman employed
in factory realize that the cotton
cloth being manufactured with her CO.
operation is to become 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 bacon to be
made from the pigs which he feeds is to
go into the homes of Liberia, and
and Asiatic Russia, or that the eggs
which he collects may be exported to
British Guiana, or Peru, or Cuba, or
Central America, or the various coun-
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other curious and interesting 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 of the Department
of Commerce 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 COM
merce, shows many curious 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, Ecuador, Brazil, Haiti, Costa
Rica, and British Honduras for service
on the roads and plantations. Ameri-
can candles, of which the expectations
amount to from 8 to 8 million pounds a
year, are lighting homes in Japan,
: Korea, Siberia, Tasmania, Venezuela,
the Dutch West Indies, Salvador, the
Philippines and French possessions in
Africa. American brooms and brushes
are making clean the floors and busting
the garments of jewellers in Turkey,
Roumania, 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 to 7 million pounds year,
go to British India, the Guianas in South
America, the Danish West Indies,
, Guatemala, Labrador, the island of
Bermuda, and the Belgian Kongo in
Africa. American boots and shoes, of
which the exports range above 10 mil
lion dollars a year, go in increasing
quantities to every part of the world
Hongkong, Siam, Japanese territory in
China, Java and Sumatra, the Straits
Settlements, Australia andNew Zealand,
German possessions in Africa, Liberia,
, Brazil Paraguay, Mexico. Canada and
practically every country of Europe.
American windmills, of which more than
million dollars worth are exported
every year, are seen in South Africa,
t the Canary Islands, Turkey in Asia,
French China, Haiti, Santo Domingo,
; Turkey in Europe, Switzerland,
Roumania, Greece, and Greenland.
. And so we might go on extending the
= list indefinitely, enumerating products
: OF Jne American ldrlH anu factory WHICH
are being sent to other parts of the
world, and these articles would include
e sewing machines, type writers, motor
boats, organs, pianos, panolas, soap,
perfumery, oranges, raisins, prunes,
chewing gum, toys. and many other
, equally curious and interesting articles,
to say nothing of the great classes
making up the grand total of more thar
e 766 million dollars worth of manu-
v features, sos million dollars worth OF
!, raw materials, and $40 million dollars
;. worth of foodstuffs Of raw cottor
alone the years exports amounted tt
= $50 million dollars; of meat and anC
f dairy products, 100 million; of wheat
q and corn, partly in the grain and partly
in the form of flour meal, nearly 12t
million; Of iron and steel manufactures
: $50 million; of petroleum and other min
!, eral oils, 100 million; and of copper
q manufactures, nearly 80 million dollars
and so on down the list The countries
/ colonies and other territorial divisions
n to which these articles go, as shown il
n the volume, Commerce and Naviga
4 ton of the United States, above al
- luded to, are over 100 in number and i
r would be difficult to find in any part Of
e the world country in which some arti-
3 ficle or articles of American production
q are not being sold.