The daily union., 1855-09-15
THE DAILY UNION
DEPARTMENT. NEWS.
TREASURY pEPARrmESr.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
Cstohi-h house DptsioR. Withd,aaals-M 10
bulk, liquors, sugars oasses cocoa pepper and other
tees bought and sold by weight when withdrawn for export
oe transportation mnst be entered for such destination the
actual quantities which duties estimated the
OF arrival in the United States. In order this,
wegher neasurers and gaugers required mark on
each package its determined by them Its entry
Tor warehouse On these quantities the duties export and
transportation are to be estimated goods withdrawn from
consumption taken at their average valuation be
ing had that the entire balance of duty collected the
last withdrawal.
When the final withdrawal entry Is for export or ranspor-
taton and there is any difference between The duty
and the close the the warehouse entry
the excess il any must be refunded the last withdrawal
for consumption and the deficiency any, collected
amendment TO the said entry.
The permit 10 deliver for consumption must be in the
prescribed FORM and countesigned by the naval officer
INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.
Hon. Robert NcCeand, Secretary of the Interior
turned home yesterday evening and will the auous
duties of his Office this morning.
AgrieoturoI Doision Of he Patent 06iceThe cplfieo-
ton Of Frat IA WissopWe make the following extracts
from the statement Of Mr.. Thomas Allen Of ST. Louis Mis-
souri, the cultivation of fruit In this State condensed
for the agricultural report now in press
" Since the report of 1919 made The ueuture has
made considerable progress in this State Many OF The best
aietss have oeen introduced new orchards planted and
the cultivation Of the vine and the manufacture Of vine
largely extended.
Apples, pears peaches, apricots, nectarines, puups
grapes cherries, strawberries melons find coneuia
soii IN Missouri, and climate sufficiently All
oi NUT trees naturally with rather luxuriant tend
we have three quite distinct localities for Ichard
namely the river bottoms, with deep auva soil the prA
res with their thick sod and vegetable mould aud the tim
sered upands With their strong loans and cayey subscs
underaid By blush Limestone The Garth and the
contain considerable portion Of lime OF hese soils and To-
caiies the rich upands proved the best for the
OF orchards The trees make wood rapidly In the bottoms
out small fruit both in sze and crop and Of indifferent fla
yor There good orchards upon the prairies but
the fruit inferior to that produced upon tile upland 1t
a'ns large size, and in propous the crops
bountiful.
The principal difficulties which the fruit grower has to
worm the Scoytus py and sometimes blight in the apple
the blight IN the pear Every destructive about five
the worm and curcuo in the peach, {thc curl also
sometimes Injuries the appearance Of the tree but the yell
lows are not y the curcno in the plum apricot and
nectarne the bursting of the bark of the cherry tree and
the destruction Of the fruit by the waxwg, cedar bird
the mdew and rot in the and the mdew in the
berry, rendering the cultivation OF the latter thus far i'm
practicable No feasible and adequate remedy has yet been
found TO these difficulties Old apple orchards
improved in growth and productveness BY the application of
lime The worm in the peach is partially excluded by the
use OF lime and ashes around tho of the roots but
when they get into the body and limbs OF the tree the knife
required to remove them and the application OF hot ye
beneficial he luxurant growth of the peach tree renders
the sborteningn method OF pruning Indispensable for it,
~ is estimated that there about thousand five
hundred planted in grapes In this State and the
acture OF hock and champagne is increasing Some of the
wine produced here taken the press has been
times bought up by Cincinnati manufacturers. But home
demand sprnging up, and one firm in the city of St. Louis
am informed manufactured last fifteen thousand
bottles OF champagne from the Caawba, and this their
beginning The most extensive vneyards found at
ent Hermann, German settlement about eighty miles
the Missouri river The Catawba the favore grape
yet and ourishes best upon the upand and hill Sides The
crop when fair found very profitable but the mildew and
rot are often destructive and dresscrs who have
little other dependence then suffer- and feel nearly dis
couraged."