Show S LIKE AMERICAN GOODS irRis Western France Takes to Our I Farm Machinery Ji MOWERS IN COMMON USE jcS American Saws Pronounced the Best T in tho World Our Stoves Both Baso Burners and Smaller Heaters Have Steady Market in Frace t An American Locomotive Makes N Every Day a Run of 123 Miles in 4 128 Minutes Chief Export From Bordcau to U S Is Peas H Washington June 2In a furthers further-s SI series of extracts from the forthcoming volume two of Commercial Relations 5 dealing with United States trade In France Consul Brlttnln of Nantqs notes the development of the trade In American Ameri-can machinery In western France During Dur-ing the past season he says about SOO reapers mowers and horse hayrakcs arrived ar-rived at that port American mowers give good satisfaction and the increased i prices asked for farmlabor will stimulate stimu-late the sale of such machinery Ip 1 the future The American mower was a common sight in the hay fields last summer In regard to the advantage gained by exhibiting machines the Consul I Con-sul says z Last month a representative of aNew a-New England factory made an exhibition t exhibi-tion of meatchoppers In one of the Nantes stores and during the afternoon t about twenty of various sizes were sold The Nantes house has since sold more than 200 of these machines I some company were to malte an exhibit of wringers and show their working I am satisfied it would be found to be a profitable enterprise There are no wringers sold or offered for sale herewith here-with the exception of a few heavy English Eng-lish machines Consul Covert of Lyons says The houses of this district which some years ago furnished fine French hardware hard-ware to the United Slates have almost entirely lost that trade within the last two decades and they are enabled to hold their own hero only on n protective tariff American stoves basoburnerH and smaller heatingstoves have n steady market here the French market I being unable to replace them American saws and other woodcutting woodcut-ting instruments are pronounced the best In the world because Americans are the greatest woodusing people Agricultural implements of American pattern and bearing an American namo are met with within every county fair and arc highly prlzeJ They are often made in Franco on accounlof the high tariff duty Farmers tell me that they prefer to buy tho Ohio or Illinois harvesting har-vesting and haying machines notwithstanding notwith-standing the increased cost Consul Tourgcs of Bordeaux says The fastest time made by any railway rail-way it la i said IH on the road between this city and Bayonne where a run ot 123 miles Is made every day in 12S minutes min-utes I la I quite to tho credit of American Ameri-can mechanics that the honor of making mak-ing this run is 1 accorded to American locomotives I i OCOOOt Tho Consul notes as a curious fact that one of the chief exports from Bordeaux Bor-deaux to the United Spates CO SIBS qf preserved forms dC products which are grown in the greatest abundance In the United States and are often much superior su-perior li quality Prominent arrong these are canned 1 or bottled peas and Hiring boann There Is not 0 particle of difference between them and the products pro-ducts of American gardens except that thf French beans and peas are of tho smaller variety and are put up while they are but halfmatured and very soft also they are packed with great attention to artlslio effect The cnn are not lllled by 11cc machinery and the vegetables are not handled with a I Rcoopshovel everything being done by hand and the wages of the girls who do this work depend as much on the appearance of the bole as on tho number filled |