The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-09-08

suing, calling attention to the needs of our South American neighbors, and enumerating their chief articles of export.
 Needs of the Southern Republics The Department of Commerce has furnished this partial list:
 ARGENTINA - Imports: Automo-
 piles, agricultural and dairy ma
 chinery. cement, furniture, oil
 stoves, windrnills, wire fencing,
 Kitchen utensils, hardware, canned
 and fancy foodstuffs. Exports: Beef. mutton, hides, animal hair,
 brist1es, flax. wool and whale oil. RRAzII4Imports: Flour, cement,
 condensed milk, rubber goods, pi-
 anose furniture, dried fruits, type
 writers, paints. Exports: Coffee,
 cocoa hides, manganese ore, Brazil
 nuts, earnauba wax, crude rubber,
 sugar and tobacco.
 BOLIVIA Imports: Cheap clothing,
 four, electrical goods. Exports:
 Crude rubber. ebony, cocoa, sugar
 cane. spices, tin, zinc, bismuth.
 copper.
 CHILE#Inports Cement, cotton
 goods, cotton yarn. manufactured
 petroleum products, wooden goods,
 iron and steel. locomotives. pc
 Exports: Nitrates, borate, iodine,
 wool, hides, honey and beeswax. COLOMBIA = Imports: Prepared | JS
 medicines, metal wares, cotton
 goods, perfumes soaps. Exports:
 Coffee, gold. hides, bananas, rub
 Der, platinum and nuts
 ECUADOR Imp ports: Foodstuffs,
 cheap textiles, boots, shoes. Ex-
 ports! Cocoa beans, coffee, Pan
 anna hats, ivory nuts, rubber. hides sPARAGUAY Yt-Imports Household
 utensils sewing machines. agri-
 cultural implements, cotton goods,
 hardware foodstuffs Exports:
 Forest and live stock products, to-
 baceo, yerba, mate.
 PERU-Inports: Cotton textiles,
 Heather goods, metal wares. china,
 paints, prepared foodstuffs. Elk
 ports: Sugar, rubberH guano, cop
 per, silver sulphide, vAnadium. URUGUA Y--Inports Cotton goods,
 paper manufactures, wood manu-
 factures, chemical products, .ce-
 ment, refined sugar, window glass,
 fence wire, galvanized iron, paints.
 Exports: Live stock products.
 tura1 implements, cotton goods,
 flour, lard, rice, wire. Exports,
 coffee, cocoa and agrculaural
 products.
 Some of the many opportunities of feredi to American manufacturers were numerated yesterday Take the matter of cutlery. At the, out break of the European war Germany Great Britain and France controlled the entire South American field Why, it was asked, cannot America now jump in with it's own made in America" and just as good and better wares?
 This nation is admittedly second to none in it's electrical appliances, sup plies and fittings. Why cannot the land that produced Edison supply South American markets with their electrical equipments? Doubtless it can, but Germany has been furnish ing the bulk. For 8 time Ameri can lea with enamel ware. German com petitors drove them from the field It is suggested that now is the ideal time for these manufacturers to re- enter the field.
 Otto Wilson, Commercial Agent of the Department of Commerce, gives these words of advice and caution to the American exporter:
 Poor packing, poor marking, fail ure to send goods as ordered, an in- sistence on cash with order and the sending of catalogues and correspond ence in English instead of Spanish or Portuguese are old charges against American exporters. But a consider able improvement has been noted in the last few years, and this appar- entIy indicates that Americans are paying closer attention to the neces- sity of meeting South American re- quirements.
 'tThe packing is now. probably no worse than that of the average na,- ton exporting to South America, and a better acquaintance with the trade -fe-