The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-11-22
INDUsTkIAL ITEMS. ETC.

INDUSTRIAL ITEMS, ETC
One hundred and ninety million pounds of sugar
are refined in Philadelphia annually.
A farmer in Chattooga county, Georgia. is eul-
tivatDg chestnuts.
There are FIVE tack factories in Massachu-
sets.
Many Mississippi planters intend to cultivate
wheat in future.
The Mormons are cuItivating rsisin grapes and
figs in southern Utah.
One small Massachusetts, town has las shoe
manufactures.
The best brooms are made from Texas broom
corn.
An $4,000 acre tract in Florida is to be colo
nized by Auburn, N. Y, capitalists.
The three hundred hands engaged by the Mer-
rick Thread Company in Holyoke. Mass, turn
out three thousand dozen spools Of cotton daily.
The tennessee Coal Company are shipping daily
to the Nashville market over five thousand bushels
OF coal, best quality.
Mr.. Collins, residing near Millersburg. KY, has
field containing % acres of corn, which will
average sixteen barrels per acre.
TIE Forest City Sugar Refinery, of Portland,
Me-, now employs 10 hands and turns out 200 bar
rels of sugar per day.
Ephrsim Penrose, of Berks Co., Pa, sold from
five COWS 1924 pounds of butter in one year,
commencing May, 1867.
patent has been granted to S. G. Thornton,
of Macomb, Texas, for a combined cultvator,
pillow, harrow and roller.
Tie New England Wise Company, Of West Ac.
ton, Mass, employ twenty hands in the manufac-
ture of vises.
Geo. B. Lensley, of Dyer county. raised 1000
bushels Of sweet potatoes this year on two acres
of ground.
f. Bancroft, of Athens, Ca, has gathered 5000
mounds of seed cotton from one acre this sea-
son.
joel Griffin, of Warren, H., has husked two
hundred bushels of corn from one acre OF ground
and wishes to know who can beat it.
England exported 2,lss ,59l ,2SS yards of cot.
ton cloth during the first nine months of this
year.
new grain elevator is nearly completed at
| Cairo. II will contain in all ZIG bins, feet
square.
The culture of silkworms, in the middle and
southern part of Tyrol, has proved very profitable
this year.
The acreage under hops 10 Great Britain In
1865 was g. 4ss against 81 2si in 1867, and 5657s
in 1866.
The auckland Mills, in Fsuquier county, Va.
| are turning out first rate article OF WOODEN
| goods.
The James River Manufacturing Company il
tuning out . superior article Of osuaburgs, which
is sold at moderate prices.
cooperative manufacturing association, with
| a capital Of $4,000, is being organized at Sail
Lake City.
During the week ending 18th inst, there were
Is 372 cases boots aud shoes shipped from Boston
of which 1928 cases were shipped to New Orlean'
The Singer Sewing Machine Company is build
ing factory at South Bend, Ind, where 1000
HANDS will be employed in the manufacture Of
| cases alone.
| Ohio has over l4I 600 acres in orchards, which
in 1867, yielded ,4O4 600 bushels of apples, 4O2,
900 bushels of peaches, and l25, 700 bushels o.
pears, the whole valued at over 100000.
The swampscot Machine CompaDys works al
South Newmarket, N. H., give constant employ
ment TO 225 hands, and their running expenses
amount to $1,000 per day.
Tie Eagle and Phoenix cotton mills, of Colum
bus, Ca, now consume five bales Of cotton an(
from 5000 to 1000 pounds of wool per day. Owe
1000 spindles and 1900 operatives are constantly
kept going.
The commissioner of patents has decided tia
Mr. Drapps, of Chicago, is the inventor of sleep
ing cars for the railway trains, and Mr.. Swan, o
Baltimore, has appealed from the decision to tn
Circuit Court. Judge Fisher, of Washington City
wirshorsy give an opinion in the case.
The New York PhOtOlithogrsphic Company
among other things, reproduces music in minia
ture form Through THIS process rnusic is repro
duced, notes and ell, on a scale of four or fv
inches square, and retaiIed at three cents g.
song" Photography reproduces anything tina
ever was printed in fac smile.
Alta late meeting of the Fruit Growers Club i
New o1k the persimmon question came up o
the reading Of a number of letters describing th
discovery in Kansas and the Cherokee Track i
Georgia, of persimmons without seed. tn
opinion was expressed that successful cultivatio
would result in the introduction CT new and del
cious fruit to our tables.
The machinery in the Springfield, Mass, Watc
Factory cost $500 coo, and is nice and intricai
that he finest skill and two years time we're n
ouired for its construction. There no less tina
300 machines of seventy different kinds, all adap
ed to their work. There are in a watch lT0 piece
of 100 kinds requiring about $500 processes
their manufacture.
The Bartlett White Lead and Zinc Company,
New Jersey, have recently obtained patents f.
their new method Of producing white lead an
zinc in chemical combination, and without the NJ
of any acid. The introduction Of this article hi
met with such favor that the company are sbo
to enlarge their works, and will soon be able
. turn out twenty five tons per day.