| Show EXPORTS OP agricultural implements exports 0 agricultural implements from the unite in the fiscal year bendwill end will amount to about 25 million dollars in value this is an increase ol 01 about 4 millions over last year and about 9 millions over the preceding year in no case ot manufactures exported has the growth been more beeady and persistent than in that of agricultural implements the earliest year n which the value of agricultural implements exported was of importance to justify a separate statement was 1864 in that year the total value or agricultural implements clements ts exported was in jabe total was 1 million dollars speaking in round figures in 1880 2 af millions in 1890 3 24 2 4 ml irions in 1893 5 12 1 2 millions in 1900 16 millions in 14 1 4 millions in 1903 21 millions and in 1904 as above indicated dica ted is to reach about 25 millions comparing this years exports with those 0 a decade earlier the fig ores in 1904 are practically five I 1 as great as in 1894 the total for sai being comparing the growth in exports of agricultural implements with that in other articles during the same period it may be said that cars and carriage have increased from 3 13 1 3 million dollars in 1894 to a probable 12 millions to 1804 chemicals nearly 71 2 millions in 1891 to a probable 14 12 1 2 millions in 1904 scientific instruments from 1 12 1 2 millions in 1894 to 8 millions la 1904 ana manufactures of leather from 14 millions in 1894 to approximately 33 in 1904 while agricultural have increased from 5 million dollars in 1891 to a probable 23 millions in 1904 the principal foreign markets tor american agricultural implements are shown in a table just prepared by the department of commerce ahlf labor through its hureau ot statistics it shows that of the 19 million dollars worth of agricultural implements exported from the united states during the ten months for detailed figures are available nearly 10 millions went to europe 4 mil llona to america 3 millions to north america 1 12 1 2 millions to asia and oceania and blittle over half a million dollars worth to africa 1 |
