The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-11-07
|BARRETTS ADVICE TO UNION FARMERS
Now is the Time to Plant the Small Grain For
the Coming Spring

ne" hlBn RECORDS IN the year
now approaching its chose. Iron and
steel manufactures, which head the
list & domestic manufactures export
ed, slVe promise of a total of $50
million dollars in the alendar year
1911, compared with 2O1 million in
1910, and 102 IL million in 1901. a
decade earlier. Copper manufactures.
lnciudlng pigs. bars, etc, Will approx
innate 100 million dollars in the years
exports, compared with 81 million in
1910 and 33 IL million in 1901. Re-
fined n oil will also exceed l00
million dollars in the calendar year
1911, as against 80 million last year
and O. million in 1901. Wood man
ufactures give indications Of exceed
ing SO million dollars in 1911, COM
pared with 80 million in 1910 and &c
million in 1901.
The gains shown in the four great
classes of manufactures already dis
cussed are typical Of those made in
other important classes Of less mag
nitude in the export trade. The indi-
Gated totals in the full years export
trade are, in the case OF agricultural
implements, nearly 40 million dollars,
compared with 81 million last last
year; and II million a decade ago;
cotton manufactures, as million dol
airs in 1911. against 35 1-2 million in
1910 and 20 million in 1901: leather
and its manufactures, SO million dol
l%arlars, compared with So IL mill
lior last year and 20 million a decade
ago; chemicals, ETC., % million dol
lars in 1911, compared with % mil
lion in 1910 and IA million in 1901.
and cars and carriages, about 35 mil
lion dollars in 1911, against % mil
lion in 1910 and II million in 1901. a
noteworthy feature in this last named
class is the rapid development of the
export trade in automobiles. which
has risen from less than a half mill
lion dollars in the last half of the
calendar year 1901. the earliest pc
riod for which the record was kept.
to 13 million in 1910. and an indicat-
ed total Of Is million in the year
ending December neXt.
A study of our exports as to
countries of destination indicates a
worldwide distribution Of domestic
manufactures. such industrial centers
as the United Kingdom, Germany and
Belgium sharing with agricultural
n comparatively ~undeveloped sec
tons, such as Canada, Argentina,
Mexico and China in their increasing
purchases of American manufactures
Under the head Of iron and Steel
manufactures, for example, our type
writer's are sold chiefly in Great Brit
ain and Germany; our Woodworking
machinery, in and the Unit
ed Kingdom, with France and Cana
de- as other important markets. Our
sewing machines are exported prin-
| cipally to the United Kingdom, Ger
MANY and Brazil; and our steel rails
mostly to Canada, though Japan, Ar
gentina, Mexico and Oriental coun-
tries are also important markets
Canada, the United Kingdom. and
Australia are the leading markets for
American automobiles exported. Our
exports of agricultural implements to
Europe (chiefly Russia, France and
Germany excee the combined ex-
ports thereof to all others parts OF
the world, though as single market
Canada and Argentina rank next to
Russia. American leather is exported
| largely to the United Kingdom, Ger
many, and Netherlands; boots and
shoes chiefly to Cuba, Canada and the
United Kingdom American cigar
cites are exported mostly to India
and China; plug tobacco to Australia
and American Illuminating oil in
large quantities to China. the United
Kingdom, Germany. Netherlands
Japan and india, and in not incon-
siderable amounts to countries repre-
senting every grand division of the
globe.
Rig Cotton Yields in Lee.