Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-04
TRADE BRIEFS

There is only one cream separator
in use in Foochow, China. This is
owned by the Foochow Dairy and is
small hand operated machine in
stalled by the local British physi-
clan, who started the dairy. The
concern is now owned by Chinese
and has about 100 cows and 800
customers.
| A cooperative factory for milk
products is to be established at
| Demen, near Amsterdam, by an
organization of twenty-Seven dairy
men. In that vicinity 10000 quarts
of milk are delivered daily, so that
the supply for the new dairy Will
/ apparently be abundant.
The importation of chemicals into
Taiwan during 1918 amounted III
value to 1.774,435 yen, equal to
about sSS7,217. All but 52,703 yen
| ($26,351) worth of these came from
other parts of Japan. Sodas of var
ious kinds formed the largest item.
Gas water heaters of American
manufacture are being sold by the
gas companies of Kobe and Asaka,
Japan, says Consul Robert Frazer,
Jr. These are chiefly in two sizes
and retail at s51 and s57. There is
also an automatic boiler and heater
selling for about 500.
Norway's timber export the first
ten months of 1918 compared with
the corresponding period of 1917 de-
creased from $4,000 to 604,000 Gu
bic meters. The reduction was
mainly due to lack of tonnage.
| Supplies of grindery for boot and
shoe making are very short in South
Africa, and new importations are
urgently needed. says the British and
South African Export Gazette.
A trade journal reports that lab
oratory equipment and scientific in
struments, especially for chemical
and psychological research, to a
value of s250,000 are to be pur-
chased shortly for the Union of
South African GoveSlment
Railway construction is being
pressed forward in the districts OF
Mozam bique, Quilimane and Biera,
Portuguese East Africa.
From 100000 to 100000 pounds
of pig intestines are exported from
China annually for use as sausage
castings.
Considerable importance is at
tached to the recent purchase OF
twenty-five German submarines by
Messrs. G. Cohen Sons and Company
of London and Swansea, who will
undertake to break up these vessels
and dispose of the scrap metal.
Previous to the war matches were
imported into Egypt principally
from Sweden. Austria Hungary anC
Italy. In 1918 Japan unloadec
enough matches in Egypt to supply
the trade for several years
Tho Colon hian cOffpo harvest /!
the heaviest in the history of thu
country, being estimated at. 1850,
600 sacks, reports Trade Commits
sioner P. d. Bell. Grs
The Bureau of Fisheries reports
that during the month of March ;
total of 405,127 eggs, 912,464,S9'
fry and 17.011,020 fingerlings wer,
distributed by it's stations.
The German toy industry has beer
able to retain a hold on the to.
trade in Switzerland as well as il
| other neutral countries, although tn
| German prices on an average hav
been raised 100 per cent.
The Finnish Chamber of Com
| merce comprises seven local organ
= izations, with head office in Helsing
( fors, acting as a sort of arbitration
, committee and as commercial in
! formation bureau. The Centra
s Chamber of Commerce gets yearly
| state subsidy of $4,000 Finnish
5 marks. equivalent to $6,755.
A report from China states that ar
: increase of 16 per cent. over tn
: previous year in the total bean out
r put of Dairen for 1918 is reported
= by the Bean Mills Union. The in
e crease was due to the unusual de
v mand from America during the las
= year of the war, and is alread
? showing sharp decline.