The New Orleans crescent., 1868-12-20
INDUsTsIAL ITEMS. ETC.


fornis.
Toe largest yield Of sugar beets to the acre is
about 100 tons.
A Frenchman near Paris makes sl75 900 year
from his tannery. rA
During the past year 20 900 900 pairs Of shoes
have been made in Lynn, Mass.
Prairie du Chen, Wisconsin, is moving to build
up manufactures and increase its trade.
There are said TO be los, SOC, 900 laying fowls In
the United States.
The tailors OF New York have received an ad-
vance of ten per cent. on their wages.
Telegraphic reports for the Western Associated
Press last year cost $3.50 900.
Corsica does q great blackbird trade. From
Ajacco alone loo 900 annually are exported.
Two paper box manufactures in Dsnbury make
annually about 600, 900 boxes.
The native dyers of Cashmere have more than
forty distinct huss, each peculiar to ITSELF
There are five thousand photographers in the
United States. ~ u
sesweed is nutritious and palatable vegetable.
so says an English physician.
farmer in Eastern Massachusetts has made q
net profit of -four thousand dollars on his onion
crop this year. t.f. rr. sr.r 81
An Ohio farmer, two years ago, planted four
kernels Of q new variety of corn. He now has
forty bushels to show for it.
movement is on foot to establish rolling mill
and nail factory at Rome, Ga. A stove foundry is
also TO be established.
Tinsmith's solder is composed ofequal parts of
Banca tin and lead fused together, then nodded
into bars for use.
The Milk Producers Association, of Massschu-
setts and New Hampshire, has Eve hundred
members.
Over 0.OoO plants have been sent from the ex-
perimental gardens at Washington to al parts Of
the United States.
Two farms were sold In Bergen city, New Jer-
sey, on Wednesday. for 100000. One hundred
residences are to be erected thereon shortly.
The New Nork Tribune says: "a man does the
world more good by originating superior apple
than by being the father Of an inferior son."
Philadelphia turns out 81, ,0O0, 900 worth of shoes
annually, and claims that the ladies' shoes manu-.
factured there are the best In America.
The waupaca Criterion has description of the
wooden mill there. which cost some $50 900, and
will consume $1,000 pounds of wool year.
Nsshvills merchants have $50 900 900 invested
in the tobacco trade. In ls40 the capital invested
was only $55 900.
Florida papers are blufing each other on big
potato stories. They have got them up to Is
pounds each with three to the bushel
The annual egg product Of the country is 49,
250, ,O0o. 900 eggs; worth, at 16 cents per dozen,
$243, ,333, 1872.
Fifteen hundred tons of timber were landed at
a factory ct Boxford. Mass, last winter, to be
converted into friction matches.
widow in West Felicians, Louisiana, raised
800 bushels of sweet potatoes from one acre of
land.
man in Webster, Mass. has pair of calf
skin boots which he has worn every week for
thirty years.
Nathsn Cope's orchard of eight acres in East
Fairfield, Ohio, produced 1000 barrels of apples
The manufacture of cotton in Switzerland, EN-.
ploys LOCO, 600 spindes, Isl spinners, and
Is 600 other operatives.
The Wilmington. N. c., Journal thinks 100000
bushels of peanuts will be slipped from that port
this season. nssrnarf rar.rs urrf
Baltimore has four sugar re6neries in operation,
two new ones preparing for business, and two
more are in contemplation.
The Golden City paper mill, in Colorado. has
commenced manufaS turing an article Of wrapping
paper from the soap weed plant. ff
Some ten or fifteen thousand beeves viii be
butchered and packed at Columbus, Texas, dur
ing the present winter.
Iron in its various forms holds the third place
in the list of American productions. Clothing,
boots and shoes, leather aud skins, severally,
come very near to iron.
Mr.. Eschelberger, of Ocsls, Fla, has gathered
five hundred lemons. good proportion OF them
weighing more than pound each, from . tree
reared from the seed of the small Sicily lemon.
During the two weeks ending 9th inst, there
were rs sos cases boots and shoes shipped from
Boston, of which 3,595 cases were shipped to
New Orleans.
A number Of capitalists in Nashville, Tenn,
have organized cotton seed oil company, and
propose Immediately to establish an oil manu-.
factory.
Jamaica is said to be gaining since the abolition
of negro suffrage. This years sugar crop is the
heaviest known, and coffee shows an increase of
fifty per cent.
Chicago has built twenty-five miles Of Nicolson
pavement, at q cost of 81 900 900, within few
years. Memphis in two years has built thirteen
miles Of the same pavement.
The whole number Of hogs In the United States
in 1856 was put down at forty millions. about
hog and half for every man, woman and child of
the then population.
II is estimated that the aggregate value of
freight daily shipped through Long Island Sound
is SIC ,000, ,000, and the number of passengers
72l3.
The United States furnished ffty.fve per cent
of the whole amount of cotton imported into
Great Britain during the frat nine months of the
current year.
The Rumford Food Laboratory of Boston, is
said to be q great success. and Professor Blot is
in his element. as happy as fish in water, COM
pounding and decocting soups.
In the ten paper mills at Holyoke. Mass, about
twenty six tons Of paper are manufactured daily.
About four. .ffths of this 10 writing paper; the
mainder collar. envelope and tissue.
The hog was introduced from Spain into His.
PAMELA by Columbus in 1893 7; into Florida by De
Soto in 1888; into Nova Scotia and Newfoundland
in 1858: into Csnads in l6os, and into Virginia in
l6C9.
The Baton Rouge Gazette has been shown ga
specimen Of twenty dozen fine brooms, the mate.
rial (broom corn) of which was raised in this par.
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