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for producing duplicates of the home product for the foreign 

 markets. In some cases, these estabUshments are of immense 

 proportions, their output equaUng that of the home plants. 

 It is estimated that the number of American sewing machines 

 sold abroad each year, including the American machines made 

 in foreign countries, is about equal to the number disposed 

 of in the home markets by all of the American companies. 

 The exports of American sewing machines since 1860 will 

 aggregate about $90,000,000 in value. No greater testimony 

 of the superiority of the American sewing machine could be 

 demonstrated than its enormous foreign sale, as shown in part 

 by the exports. 



