The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-06-18
IADUsTRIAL ITEMS. ETC.
,re are 40 WOODEN mills Is YisconsIn.

There are 40 wooden mills is Wisconsin.
There is over 5000 acres OF grapes in Ohio.
The salt springs at 0nondaga, N. T., produced
1855 600 bushels of salt during the year 1861.
Last year California produced "a, 900 600 gal
ions of wine.
There we're ~ 600 tons of sugar shipped from
the island OF Java during the year 1867.
Russia produces annually 500 900 pounds o.
beeswax and 10000 600 pounds OF honey.
1t is estimated that there are "a 900 printing
presses in the United States.
Brazil exported 2,459,75S bags Of coffee in
1867.
In CsrDiola, Austria, 900 hives of bees are kept
TO each Austrian square mile.
ssxonys no larger than Connecticut, keeps
3 500 Quo sheep.
The first newspaper in North America was
printed in Boston il 1890.
Maple sugar was fist made in New England
about 1865.
Prau2's chrome establishment in Boston EN-.
ploys nifty hands.
AT Cincinnati during the past season, $50, S3l
hogs were packed, averaging 2l0 pounds.
The sulphur mines Of Italy produce 800 900 tons
per aDnum.
There are 34l manufacturers Of artificial teeth
in PARIS.
Forty thousand tons of fossil ivory are annually
procured III New Siberia.
One firm in New York rents out 1000 pianos,
from which they receive an annual income of
$50, 600.
The sugar product of Brazil last year was As, 900
tons. The average for the preceding twenty-five
Years was al 600 tons.
An acre OF good buckwheat will yield daily
fourteen pounds of honey. So says German
writer.
A gentleman in Southampton county, Va, has
sold be strawberry crop of ten acres for 900
in advance.
Birmingham, England, employs $50 men and
1000 women and girls in the manufacture of steel
pens. The weekly product is 80 900 gross.
During the season Of 1857 the fruit growers Of
Southern Illinois shipped TO Chicago 900 600 boxes
Of peaches and 80 600 bushels of strawberries.
At meeting of the Pathological Congress, 10
France, last year, one exhibitor had $50 varieties
of pears upon the tables
single coffee plant taken from Arabia TO Paris
iD 1914, was the parent stock of all the coffee
plsDtations in the West Indies.
London annually consumes 90 700 tons OF fresh
beef, 100000 ions Of fresh fish, and 500 600 900 of
oysters.
1t is estimated that California will produce
ZOOOO,COO bushels OF wheat this year, of which
thTee-fOuIths will be exported.
W. ID. Moore, of BloOmingdale, Iowa, has dug
up $4,000 in gold on his farm. lie found IL
neatly hidden in potato skins.
member of one Of the cooperative societies
Of London says be has saved enough by it to take
his family on continental trip.
farmer near Philadelphia has 30 acres in
blackberries, so in raspberries, aud Is in straw.
berries.
One hundred years ago there was not a single
White man living liz Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana or
Illinois territories.
DR.. Neisler, Of Georgia, has a scuppernong
grape vine which yields IS bushels of grapes an
nuaily. There is one near Mobile that brings its
owner over $500 per annum.
draining canal is being constructed in Wood
county, Ohio, 373 miles long, which, it is est.
mated, will drain and bring into cultivation 60 900
acres Of land.
In England dogs are taxed twelve shillings
three d0llaTs) each. The income from this
source for 1867 was So 600 900. The number of
dogs in the United States is estimated at 900 O0O
ike tax (s3 each) would yield nice little add.
ton 10 the revenue.
Great Britain produces annually 1900 gallons
OF lavender water. The lavender farms are priu-
cipslly in HertfUrdshTe. An acre produces 5000
pounds flowers, which yields by dsiilation a
pound of otto of lavender for each hundred
bounds of flowers