Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1856-10-04
MISCELLANY.
CURIOUS INDUSTRIAL ITEMS.

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I'VE throw together number of interesting
paragraphs which have been accommodating up
On our table for some time past. We gathered
them from various forgotten sources.
BnooMs AND BRooM- Corn One firm in New
York soils annually about 40 900 dozen brooms
manufactured in Schenectady, and 10000 doz-
en- from towns in Massachusetts. Most Of the
brooms manufactured in Massachusetts find a
market in Boston. There are shalt dozen
houses in New York dealing largely in brooms
they are principally in Fulton Street.
The ordinary brooms of which we speak
have sold recently as high as Sl7 hundred.
This is the Schenectady manufacture. 10 the
Massachusetts, manufacture, the corn is fastened
upon the handle with small wire, instead of
stout Irvine, and the article consequently is no,
considered SO valuable. A few years since,
brooms which now bring the above price could
he bought al from SO to SIC per hundred. Lat
terly, brooms have been sold by weight at from
q 20 II cents per pound. The average weigh,
Is one pound and a half.
The broom. corn used in this manufacture Is
raised principally in the valleys Of the Mohawk
aud the Connecticut. The soil Of the bottoms
along those rivers possesses certain characieris-
ties highly favorable to the growth Of this ag-
rcul'ural product. Although the labor attend
ing its cultivation is great, it is considered
valuable crop, being more hardy than maize,
and less liable 10 injury from ftosls.
TnE lRoS PRoDucr or THE WoRLD. -Grea,
britain last year manufactured 1855 ,0O6 tons
of iron, valued at Sl25 900 900. This product
was achieved by 53s, 900 men, and , ,l20 steam
engines Of 2i2 900 horsepower. The annual
production of the world is not greater than =,
900, 900 tons, the United States being, next to
England, the greatest producer, giving about
l,00O,O 600 tons Assuming the population Of
tie world TO be about 900 ,000, 900, the produc-
tiun and consumption is at the rate Of II pounds
per head. In England the production is PSF
pounds per head, and the consumption ia
pounds. In the United States the production
IS less than the consumption, being 81 pounds
produced per head 10 IA pounds consumed
according TO what are deemed the best author
tiles, there are 20,O0O,OOO Of square miles Of
habiIable surface on the globe, which will ulli-
iaaiely require , 1000, 900 miles of railroad. To
lay and operate this quantity will require Co.,
000, 900 tons OF iron, the annual wear and OPP
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ER'-lhe st. Ions Chamber oil Commerce
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RUSSIAN DAltaoADs'-hussla has but Two
'l'''oaus "V''' JUN a"u "ofAeu very eA''ava-
ta",y W 'ue government one oil l9o miles
leaus rom Warsa" 20 The Frnsslan frontier;
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