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Show ' ment by the U. S. Department of ; Agriculture that the amount of human hu-man labor required to produce a bushel of wheat is now only ten minutes as against three hours in 1830. the devotee of agriculture. Dairy machinery went to 45 different countries coun-tries in 1922, hand garden plows to 52 countries, farm tractors to 70, and American cotton gins to 2-1 countries and colonies. The United States is by far the world's largest producer of agricultural agricul-tural implements. The census of 1020 showed the capital invested in this industry at $367,000,000, as against $02,000,000 in 1880, and puts the value- of the outturn of "agricultural "agri-cultural implements" at $305,000,-000 $305,000,-000 in 1019 against $09,000,000 in 1880. Canada, Australia, Mexico, Argentina, South Africa, and the European countries are the largest takers of our exportation of this class of product. The 1920 exports of agricultural ag-ricultural machinery and implements to Canada alone were approximately $10,000,000, Argentina over $0,000,-000, $0,000,-000, France about 72 million dollars, and Europe as a whole over $15,000.- 000. The aggregate value of agricultural agri-cultural machinery and implements exported sice the beginning of 1900 is over $700,000,000. The enlargement of world food production pro-duction accompanying the increased use of farm cahinery is ilustrated, says the Trade Record, by the fact that the world wheat crop has advanced ad-vanced from 2V2 billion bushels, speaking in very round terms, in 1891 to over 4 billion in recent years; corn from 2 billion bushels to over 4 billion; potatoes from 4 1-3 billion bushels in 1900 to 'nearly 6 billion in 1913; oats from 2Y2 billion bushels in 1897 to 4y2 billion in 1913; and sugar from 9,713,000 long tons in 1900 to 19,209,000 in 1923. The growth in world power of food production pro-duction through the use of machinery machin-ery is illustrated by a recent state- AMERICAN AID IN WORLD AGRICULTURE The farmers of the world are paying pay-ing tribute to the genius of the American Am-erican inventor and the integrity of the American manufacturer. They bought from us last year over $50,-000,000. $50,-000,000. worth of agricultural machinery machin-ery and implements, a larger value than in any earlier year, and this big total was distributed to more than a hundred different countries, colonies and islands of the world.' The 1923 exoprts, says the Trade Record of The National City Bank of New York not only exceeded in value those of any earlier year but are practically double those of 1910 ,three times as much as in 1900 and thirteen times as large as in 1890. And they go literally to every corner corn-er of the inhabited world. American plows sent out in 1922, the latest year for which details are available, went to 80 different countries, colonies col-onies and islands; harvesters and reapers to over 30; threshers to 27; and farm tractors to over 50 countries. coun-tries. American machines are digging potatoes in France, Argentina, Aus-trailia, Aus-trailia, India, Japan, South Africa, Armenia, and Kurdistan; - our hay rakes and tedders are "tedding" in Latvia, Ukraine, Guatemala, Bolivia, Egypt, Chosen, and Palestine; our incubating in-cubating machines are hatching chicks in Czecho-Slovakia, Russia, Barba-does, Barba-does, Colombia, Java, and Hejaz; and the coffee drinkers of Honk-kong, Jamaica, China, Belgium, Kwangtung, and the Far Eastern Republic are luxuriating in "real cream" produced by American cream separators. The variety of American implements imple-ments which the agriculturists of the world now demand has also increased. In 1900 the export classification of our government only named "plows and cultivators," "mowers and reapers," reap-ers," and a small group of "all other agricultural implements" amounting to less than 2 million dollars. Now the export group of agricultural machinery ma-chinery and implements includes no less than 30 different types of machines ma-chines and implements for the use of |
