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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
EXPORTS OF MANUFACTURES APPROACHING THE 
BILLION DOLLAR LINE 
The value of manufactures passing out of the United States in the 
calendar j^ear 1911 may exceed one billion dollars. This estimate is 
based upon figures of the Bureau of Statistics, Department of Com¬ 
merce and Labor, covering the exports of manufactures in the nine 
months ending with September, 1911, which amount to four hundred 
seventy-eight and one-half million dollars for finished manufactures and 
two hundred forty and one-half million for manufactures for further use 
in manufacturing, making the total exports of manufactures in the 
period named seven hundred nineteen million dollars, against six hun¬ 
dred twelve million in the like period of 1910. The increase in the 
9 months of 1911 over the like period of 1910 is 17.48 per cent, and in 
case the increase during the remainder of the year continues at the 
same rate the total value of manufactures passing to foreign countries 
during 1911 will be about nine hundred seventy million dollars. When 
to this is added the value of manufactures going to Alaska, Porto Rico 
and Hawaii, not included in the exports to foreign countries, the total 
outward movement of manufactures from continental United States in 
1911 will pass the billion dollar line. This will bring the total value 
of manufactures exported in 19 ii to more than twice that of ten years 
ago and more than five times that of 20 years ago, the exports of manu¬ 
factures in 901 having been four hundred forty-seven and one-half 
million, and in 1891 about one hundred eighty-five millon dollars. 
Practically all the leading articles of domestic manufacture show 
increased exports when compared with the preceding year, many of 
them making new high records in the year now approaching its close. 
Iron and steel manufactures, which head the list of domestic manu¬ 
factures exported, give promise of a total of two hundred fifty million 
dollars in the calendar year 1911, compared with two hundred one mil¬ 
lion in 1910 and one hundred two and one-half million in 1901, a decade 
earlier. Copper manufactures, including pigs, bars, etc., will approxi¬ 
mate one hundred million dollars in the year’s exports, compared with 
ninty-four million in 1910 and thirty-three and one-half million in 1901. 
Refined mineral oil will also exceed one hundred million dollars in the 
calendar year 1911, as against eighty-nine million last year and sixty- 
seven million in 1901. Wood manufactures give indications of exceeding 
ninety million dollars in 1911, compared with eighty-two million in 
1910 and forty-six million in 1901. 
The gains shown in the four great classes of manufactures already 
discussed are typical of those made in other important classes of less 
magnitude in the export trade. The indicated totals in the full year’s 
export trade are, in the case of agricultural implements, nearly forty 
million dollars, compared with thirty-one million last year; and seven¬ 
teen million-a decade ago; cotton manufactures, forty-five million 
dollars in 1911, against thirty-five and one-half million in 1910 and 
twenty-six million in 1901; leather and its manufactures, fifty million 
dollars, compared with fifty-three and one-half million last year and 
twenty-nine million a decade ago; chemicals, etc., twenty-three mil¬ 
lion dollars in 1911, compared with twenty-two million in 1910 and 
fourteen million in 1901; and cars and carriages, about thirty-five 
million dollars in 1911, against twenty-five million in 1910 and eleven 
million in 1901. A noteworthy feature in this last named class is the 
rapid development of the export trade in automobiles, which has risen 
from less than a half million dollars in the last half of the calendar year 
1901, the earliest period for which the record was kept, to 13 million 
in 1910 and an indicated total of 15 million in the year ending Decem¬ 
ber next. 
A study of our exports as to countries of destination indicates a 
world-wide distribution of domestic manufactures, such industrial 
centers as the United Kingdom, Germany, and Belgium sharing with 
agricultural and comparatively undeveloped sections such as Canada, 
Argentina, Mexico and China in their increasing purchase of American 
manufactures. Under the head of iron and steel manufactures, for 
example, our typewriters are sold chiefly in Great Britain and Germany; 
our metal-working machinery, in Germany and the United Kingdom, 
with France and Canada as other important markets. Our sewing 
machines are exported principally to the United Kingdom, Germany, 
and Brazil; and our steel rails, mostly to Canada, though Japan, 
Argentina, Mexico and oriental countries are also important markets. 
Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia are the leading market 
for American automobiles exported. Our exports of agricultural 
implements to Europe (chiefly Russia, France, and Germany) exceed 
the combined exports thereof to all other parts of the world, though 
as single markets Canada and Argentina rank next to Russia. Ameri¬ 
can leather is exported largely to the United Kingdom, Germany, and 
Netherlands; boots and shoes, chiefly to Cuba, Canada, and the United 
Kingdom. American cigarettes are exported mostly to India and 
China; plug tobacco to Australia; and American illuminating oil in 
large quantities to China, the United Kingdom, Germany, Nether¬ 
lands, Japan and India, and in not inconsiderable amounts to countries 
representing every grand division of the globe. 
WHO HE MOURNED 
O’Toole—“An’ why are yez wearin’ mournin’, Muldoon?” 
Muldoon—“Shure an’ Oi hov t’. Th’ iditor ov a magazine Oi ’ve 
been takin’ wrote me yisterd’y an’ sed thot me subscripshun hod 
exphired. ’ ’— Judge. 
A CURE FOR GLOOMY DAYS 
“When days are dark and gloomy, 
And things seem all askew, 
Just manufacture sunshine, 
Just think of skies all blue; 
Just think of things all cheerful. 
And sing a happy song. 
And hunt up things to laugh about. 
To help the day along. 
Make those about you cheerful 
With merry words and smile; 
The clouds can’t last forever; 
Forget them for a while. 
So manufacture stmshine, 
And defy the gloomy day; 
And almost before you know it 
Clouds will have passed away.” 
The National Nurseryman, 
Rochester, N. Y. 
Kindly continue “ad” in your paper and send invoice. Results re¬ 
ceived were very good indeed. 
Yours very truly, 
Conyers B. Fleu, Jr. 
PROGRESS ON THE PROGRAM 
Chairman Maloy, of the Program Committee, has been 
adding to the list of speakers at the Boston meeting, and 
now reports as follows: 
There will be papers by Jackson Dawson, Arnold Arbor- 
teum, Jamaica Plain, Mass.; William C. Barry, Rochester, 
N. Y.; S. Mendelson Meehan, Thos. Meehan & Sons, 
Dresher, Pa.; D. S. Lake, Shenandoah, Iowa; J. B. Pilldng- 
ton, Portland, Oregon. 
Mr. George S. Josselyn has also promised to write a 
paper on.“Reminiscences of a Massachusetts Yankee.” 
This year we propose to have an innovation in the way 
of a Question Box, to be presided over by Mr. T. M. Pitkin, 
of Newark, N. Y. 
