The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-04-04
INDUsTsIAL ITEMS. ETC.

baskets Of peaches to Chicago last year.
Peabody and Salem, Mass. tanned LOO 900
| hides last year.
The 200 miles Of railroad in the United States
give employment to 100000 men.
Naples, with population of $500, 900, had oyer
| 81 900 criminals In 1868.
| Wild animals brought from foreign countries are
subject to an import duty of forty per cent.
Between the 18th February aud 10th of March,
| 20 1000 boxes OF oranges were landed In Boston.
Cincinnati has sl03 licensed dogs, which, 1t Ia
said, cost SOC, 600 to feed.
| A farmer in GriswaId. Conn.,, made s2l9 net
| profit. last season, from 81 turkeys.
One hundred and thrty-nine new journals were
started in Paris in 1868. Two survive.
Georgia requires As ,00O, 900 bushels Of corn
| yearly for the support of its people and stock.
The orange crop of East Florida gives promise
of being the largest ever grown there.
Cincinnati firm is to colonize 10000 acres In
Louisiana-so It'll said.
The value Of poutry-ysrd products in the United
States is estimated at over $l0o, O0o. 900 year.
In the United Kingdom 45 500 900 bushels of
malt were used to make ale in 1867.
English oil manufacturers purchase all the cot
ton seed produced in Egypt.
During the ten years ending in 1868, England ex.
pended se7 500 900 for educational purposes.
The California wheat and flour now aaoat for
China and other countries is valued at 81 600 oOO
A factory in Philadelphia has 800 hands EN-.
ployed in making Bslmora petticoats.
One firm in New Orleans sold over 81, 500, 900
worth Of hides last year.
single factory at Washington, N. O., turned
out 4,4s6,000 ahingles Last year.
During 1868 the Buffalo Elevator Association
handled Il 1888, 963 bushels OF grain.
The Lenox (kass.) Plate Glass Works are turn
ing out glass mold-boards for plows, for the
Western prairie lands.
During the week ending 23d ult, there were
2s5 patents issued from the United States patent
Office.
OF every 800 men in the United States l22 never
drink spirits. OF every ECO women GOO never
drink spirits.
Since Mehemet Ali has had 100000 trees
planted in the province Of Upper Egypt, the an.
nual rain fall has increased tenfold.
And agricultural writer in Georgia says "long
srouted hogs and scrub cattle are disgrace to a
religious and civilized people,"
A farmer in Vanderburg county, Ind, planted,
last year, "a bushels of potatoes three of
land, and raised 633 bushels.
Cbestnuts sell for IS to s12 per bushel. Pecans
twelve to twenty cents per pound. wholesale.
Plant nuts
Wayne county, New York, cultivated 1000 acres
in peppermint last season. The average yield Of
oil per acre was twenty-five pounds, which sold
for 81 80 to s. l23 per pound.
II is estimated that there are 22,0 900 900 horned
cattle and 35 900 900 sheep in the countries bor
dering on the river Platte.
A company has been organized, and will put up
q cotton mill near Atlanta, Ca, this summer, with
the capacity Of 10000 spindes.
A chair factory has recently been put In opera
ton at Nashville, Tenn, which gives employment
to 500 hands.
The Paris (Tenn.) Intelligencer estimates the
proceeds of the fur trade of that county last
at $4,000. -,--r.,
II is stated that in North Carolina more profit is
derived from the peanut than from the cotton
crop.
During the last five years the United States has
paid sS3 coo, 900 gold per snnum for foreign sugar
.nd molssses,
There are nearly 100000 horses in the United
States and territories, valued at $1,000, OO0,0O0
nearly equal to the national debt.
One county in Georgia has received $4,000
worth Of fertilizers this winter nearly all Of it to
be used on cotton fields. lll
Philadelphia consumed. last year, 679. l2s bar.
rels -four, and 9,605, 900 bushels grain of all
kinds.
In Orange county, New York, during 1868,
nearly 10000 bushels of apples were made into
brandy. -. .-ss....i a.ais $50
The annual Gales OF merchandise In Boston are
l.OOO,OOoeoo. Five hundred oargoes OF sugar
and molasses were received there In 1865.
IL Is estimated that California Will have sur
plus OF lo,oOo.VOo centsls Oh gram 10 export dur
ing the year ises-'o.
The duty on tea. oonee ana sugar imported INTO
the Oniied states IN ieoo amounted 10 over $780,
OOO.VVv 10 gola'.
me 'iafseS. ana most compisss "ofAs ior 'he
Manufacture Oh every Aind Oh on nave just Deen
erected al hooiie.
"A company mas peen organized IN henry county
Ala ior erecung o cotton factory near Columbia
IN that county,