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Show AMERICAN UTILITORS' IN FOREIGN PORTS American export trado is growing grow-ing raplddly, according to commerce report Breaching Washington. Tho American manufacturer has adopted a new policy. Instead of trying to force American goods made to meet American needs upon foreign peoples peo-ples he Is now studying foreign mai-kets mai-kets and endeavoring to supply existing ex-isting needs. Take the American automobile At first complaints were, received from. Kuropo that American cars with their left hand controls were responsible respon-sible for many accidents. American manufacturers hnd overlooked the fact that In bo mo countries they "keep to the left." ' The chnngo was made and last year our exports In motor vehicles reached one hundred and sixty million dollars. The department of agriculture recently re-cently reported that American tractors, trac-tors, since they pull two, three or four plows ,arc too large for economical econ-omical operation n farms leBs than 130 acres. This same dictum meant that American tractors were not suit ed for European export trado, where the farms are small and intensive farming Is tho rule. How did American Am-erican manufacturers meet this situation? sit-uation? In an Interview Just published Dr D. H. Endreao commercial attache of the Netherlands, said that more than 98 per cent of the farms In Holland are of less than 126 acre's, while 72 per cent are from 2to 25 acres. "I have recently returned from a trip to the middle west," said Dr. Eh-dreae. Eh-dreae. In Indianapolis I visited one of the factories that make utllltora. I am much Interested In this small, one plow utllltor and as soon as I receive tba catalogue and illustrated illustrat-ed material descriptive of this plowing plow-ing machine, I will forward It to my government." These manufacturers of utllltora had studied foreign agricultural methods. They had learned tho farms were Braall, nnd that the Eropean farmer cultivates nil the fence corners cor-ners and closo around tho trees. They realized tho necessity for a moderate priced machine that would do this work that would plow, harrow, cultivate and do any work' that can be done by one horse, ox or mule, and do It better and chenp-er. chenp-er. ' The same policy Is being adopted by other manufacturers. America Is better equipped to compete. In the world market than any other country coun-try today nnd .wo are In a fair way to secure our share of the business, now that American manufacturers are learning that all peoples do not keep to the right, |