The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-11-08
INDUSTRIAL ITEMS. ETC.

at seventy.fve cents per box.
The Union and American reports sweet potato
weighing eleven and one-half pounds.
From Rienzi, Miss, IL 900 bushels of fruit have
been shipped this season.
California has SO, 900 900 acres of land that can
be devoted to busbsndry.
The United States imports 100000 pounds Of
cacao annually.
farmer in LIE Roy, Iowa, received s525 for his
crop of barley raised on ten acres. .....l.f
The European crop of Beetroot sugar for 1868
| is estimated at 631 900 tons.
A factory in Bethel, Conn.,, turns out 1900 hats
per day.
1t is estimated that the waters of Virginia con.
tain 7s4 600, 900 bushels of oysters.
An average champagne vintage produced A.
| $4,000 gallons from 1888 81 acres.
A firm In Portland has manufactured nearly
| "a 900 plaDchettes this season.
In Utah they have discovered spider that pro-
| duces silk.
Potatoes at Montana are selling at thirty cents
per bushel, and butter at thirty cents per pound.
Apples are selling at twenty-five cents bushel
| at the cider mills In Connecticut.
From 1916 to 1856 the Mexican minis coined an
| average of SIS, 236, 615 annually.
A cotton seed oil factory is being put up in
| Newbern, N. G.
Two car loads of chestnuts are shipped daily
| from Nelson county, Va, to Baltimore.
Potatoes, supposed to be seyenty-seven years
old, were planted at Lewisburg, Pa, this season,
and it is said have yielded nice tubers.
At Carpi, in the province Of Madena. hats are
made of willow bark. which are known in the
market as rice straw goods.
L hal ia in Aoia ha
from thence to England, last year, amounted to
1900, goo pounds.
d. S. Heron, of Utica, N. Y, in February last,
sold to farmer in New Jersey l6O bushels of
early rose potatoes for $4,000.
David Anderson, of Gwinnett county, Ca, has
invented a rn-sheller that does its work at the
rate of fifty bushels per hour.
England annually imports so 900 tons Of Esparto
grass from Spain and Portugal TO be converted
| into paper.
The Bucklsnd wooden mills, near Alexandria.
Va, are turning out an excellent quality of cassi.
meres.
American steamers aggregsting more than 80.
| 900 tons are now running in the Chinese river and
coasting trade.
to the cultivation of potatoes in 1865 was l,549,
| l96. against ], 493, 1852 in 1867.
There were in the British kingdom 1888. 792
acres under wheat in 1868, against 1898. 1888 in
| 1867.
There are ten minis in Mexico. Their whole coin.
age in ten years. ending with 1867, amounts to the
sum Of sls3 ,496 ,9Os.
| The first consignment of meat preserved at
Chicago in August by the Gamges process was
forwarded to London last week per steamer Scotia.
The first sewing silk factory in America, it is
said, was erected at Mansfield, Connecticut fifty
| eight years ago.
| Mr.. Tom James, Of Dyer county, raised pump
kin vine this year which produced one hundred
and three well developed pumpkins, the smallest
of which was large as water bucket.
! A packing house has been erected on Eel river,
Humboldt county, for the purpose of packing and
canning California salmon for New York and
Eastern markets.
Female engravers in New York can earn about
$40 week, which would be very good pay it the
| employment was continuous, but 10 most cases it
only lasts portion of the year. -.
| In Hnds county, Miss, the success attending
the culture of tobacco has been so great that a
large breadth of land will be planted in it next
year.
A company in Boston are manufacturing linen
hose for fire engines, force pumps, etc. The hose
| is warranted to stand pressure of $50 pounds to
the square inch.
| Charles Eddy, stove manufac 'urer OF Troy, has
| purchased tickets for his sixty workmen to a
| course of lectures, and another large manufac-
turer has followed bis example. Capital.
| Lord Brougham was eminent in many things"
| says Lord Csrnsvon, " and in none more than
| this, that he never ceased to hold out to his
| country the living principle of constant work."
The cultivation Of cotton Is carried on exteu-
sively in the plains of Salernia in Caabra and in
the low valleys of Sardinia and Of Sicily, so that
during our late war, the product reached sl2 ,OO0
! coo q year.
A builder Of one or the aquatic yAlosipedes
has issued challenge Of 10000 francs that he
| will cross the channel from Boulogne to Folken-
stone in three quarters of an hour upon one of his
velocipedes.
Cider may be preserved sweet for years by put.
ting it up in alright cans after the manner of
preserving fruit The cider should be fret settled
and racked of from the dregs. but ntation
should not be allowed to commence before can
ming.
| A. NJ. Wheeler. of Halifax, has cut hemlock
/ tree from which was made twelve thousand
shingles, all clear first rate shingles leaving tim
Der enough for five or six hundred feet of boards,
and lots Of good wood for fire. beside three fourths
| of q cord of bark.
The pearl fisheries in the province of Oonetz,
Russia, that we're explored during the reign of
Cstharine ii, have recently been resumed with
great success, and some magnificent specimens
sent to the emperor by the peasants of that To-
caliiy.
The Island Of Jersey. OF the coast Of France,
but belonging to Great Britain, has become cele-
brated for its crops of early potatoes. The land
is MANFRED, to an extraordinary degree, with sea
weed, stable manure and Peruvian guano. to force
the potatoes forward. The crop is sent to the
London market early, and obtains so great price
an acre Of early potatoes is valued OF $500 in
gold.