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Show EXPORTS OF SEWING MACHINES FROM THE UNITED STATES Sowing mnchlno exports In tho current fiscal yenr will make their highest record and will probnbiy ug grcgnte 10 million dollars. Over 16u million dollars' worth have been exported ex-ported from the United States during the 48 years since the official record of their commorclnl movement began of which sum 80 million dollnis' worth, or one-half ot tho total, were exported In tho brief period sluco 1000. Figures compiled by the Bureau ot Statistics, Department of Commerce Com-merce nnd Labor, Indicate that sowing sow-ing machines havo for many years Leen an Important fuctor of tho export ex-port Undo. In 1864, tho cnilicst year for which u record Is uvallable, tho exports ex-ports amounted to ?1,0Q2,703; In 1872 J2.43G.085; In 1882, $2,047,515; In 1S1H J3.133.992; In 1902, $4,022,607; nnd In 1912 will probably show n lotnl of $10,000,000. Tho steady and substantial substan-tial charctcr of tho growth is ovon moro npporont from a study of tho movement by decudes. In tho pcrlo.l from 1SG4 to 1&70 tho exports ot sowing sow-ing machines aggregated u llttlo oer 10 million dollars; in the decade 1871-80, 18 million; In tho dccpile 1881-90, 20 million; in the decade. 1891-1900, over 30 million; In the de-cado de-cado 1901-10, moro than Gl million, tho nvorago yearly jxports having thus Increased from 1V6 million dollars In tho 1861-70 period lo over C million dollnrs in tho decude ending with 1910 vlth indentions that tho current year will record a totnl of approximately approxi-mately $10,"000,000. 'Iho countrUa to which these in-ci in-ci easing exports ot sowlrn; machines nro distributed represent every. grand ('.Ivlslon of tho world. Europe lends nil other sections, laat yenr's exports theroto hnvlng aggregated $1,068,072 in valuo, ns compored with $2,230,227 to South America, $1,0G2,689 to North America, $1,021,951 to Asia and Oc'o-nnla, Oc'o-nnla, and $53,301 to Africa. Considering Consid-ering tho exports to Individual countries, coun-tries, Scotland heads tho list ns n mnrket for Amerlcnn sowing mn-chines, mn-chines, tho exports thereto in tho fiscal year 19.11 having been valued at $1,436,291. Germnny ranks second, with a totnl of $1,335,183. Tho not largest Inst yenr wero $929,506 to Brnzll, $G10.789 to Argentina, $544.-815 $544.-815 to Mexico, $445,520 to Austrnlla nnd Tasmania, $436,059 to Cannda, $389,406 to England. $364,030 to Cuba, $302,737 to Nothorlands, $241,337 to European Russia, and $240,072 to Japan. In addition to tho foregoing, scores of other countries nro represented repre-sented In various amounts from $20(1,. 000 downward, among them Chile Colombia, Ecuador, Uruguay, Peru, Venezuela and the Gulanas, In South America; Central America and Iho West Indies, In North America; Chi na, Korea, Slam, tnd Turkey, In Asia; tho Philippine Islands and certain British, French, nnd German posses pious, in Oceania; and Egypt, British, Africa, Liberia, nnd vnrlous French, Oermnn, Spanish, and Portuguese colonics col-onics In Africa. Anu whllo In somo or these cases tho exports nro relatively rela-tively small, tho growth from yenr to yenr lc ovldcnco that Aiveilcun sewing machines uio i. roving sails-factory, sails-factory, this being true not only o' Km ope and America but In numerous other parts of tho world whero customs cus-toms of dress auJ habits of Industry especially as regards the use of machinery, ma-chinery, aro different from thoso obtained In the United States. Tho growth In exports of Amerlcnn sewing mnchlncs reflects tho development de-velopment of tho domestic lndust.. tho value of Its product hnvlng ;n-crenscd ;n-crenscd from $4,403,106 In I960 to over $2S,000,000 in 1909. |