American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-05-15
INDUSTRIAL ITEMS,


INDUSTRIAL ITEMS,
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The island of Madeira produced
5000 pipes of wine last year.
Australia and New Zealand have
A., DOC, 900 head of sheep.
A brosm factory is now ia opera
ton near Memphis.
A steam tannery viii soon lie in
operation in Charlotte, N. G.
Toads are sold to gardeners in
Paris to destroy the insects that in
jure plants and vegetation.
In the United States and terrific.
ries the timber is cut off 100000
acres each year. Plant trees.
Last year the shipments of gold
and silver bullion from Colorado
amounted to 81, 197 900.
Broom corn sells at six to ten
cents per pound in the New Orleans
market.
In 1868 the Ionian islands pre-
duced 1900 tons of currants, of
which 2,S42 tons we've shipped to the
United States.
Farmers in the vicinity Of Cam
den, \. j., expect to produce 6,00O,-
900 baskets of tomatoes this season.
Prussia has 1911 iron smelling es
Establishments which employ $1,000
hands, and yield products to the
value Of s92 $40, 900 per AMMAN.
In Coles county, Ills, last season,
the best ten acres of corn averaged
1863 bushs, per acre, and was award
ed premium of $50 by the County
Agricultural Society.
Bookkeeping Germans estimate
that one acre of buckwheat will
yield from 800 to $50 pounds of hon.
ey during the season.
1t Is estimated that the railroads
of the United States annually con.
sumo 10000, 900 worth of timber for
slcepers.
From the LIST Of September, 1868,
to 18th January, 1869, Southern cot.
ton mills consumed 10000 bales OF
cotton per week.
The Gar of Russia has borrowed
in England and on the continent
E46, All 900 to be used in construct
ing railroads in the Empire.
There are 643 butter and cheese
factories in the State of New York,
and one each in Virginia, Tennessee
and North Carolina.
Ohio has about 36O, 900 acres OF
orchards, which yield, in favorable
seasons, 9,S, O,00O bushels of apples
100000 bushels of peaches, and
1000 bushels of pears.
The average weekly earnings, in
gold, of unskilled labor in the United
States is SO SO; Great Britain 81 so
France 50 GO; Belgium 50 20; Saxony
81 %; Prussia % 10, and Russi;
81 SO.
+ Experience has shown that it re
quires more mules to produce two
} million bales of cotton by freedmen
than to make four million bales
when these freedmen were slaves.
!, Some twenty cotton mills are nov
being put up in Mississippi. Thes'
, are the proper steps toward indus
triil reconstruction and intrFen
dence.
A broom factory in View Orleans
: is now turning out 12J dozen broom
: per week, and selling them at les
prices than they can be purchase,
at the West or North. Most of til
straw is grown in Mississippi.
+ On the first of April New Englan
= mills had on hand about 12O,Or
: bales of cotton. At the same tim
0 English spinners had at their mill
3 only about $4,000 bales.
The Eagle and Phoenix Manufat
turing Company, Columbus, Ga
8 are preparing to spin cotton yarn fC
e expectation to German market
+ They will have 10000 spindles rul
aing early next fall.
l. A basket factory has lately bee
established in New Orleans, givin
employment TO about fifty men an
oys,and is turning out 100 doze
= baskets per day. Phe use of mi
:, chinery, and proper division 4,
labor. enables the manufacturer
sell them as very low prices The
}. are made from magnolia, tupelo CUR
= elm, &c, which are found to be he
e ter ada tied to the purpose tlrns oal
II being less brittle.
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