American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-08-14
INDUSTRIAL ITEMS,


" hlT1kN FOR IHE CITIZEN By " CHNRRH.'
The yield Of wheat in Australia
last year was 4,1SG, 230 bushels.
The real estate of Great britain is !
valued at $4,000, 100000.
The annual wool crop of the world !
IS estimated at 1,772, 900, 900 pounds. |
st. Louis annually sells more than
100000 worth Of edged tools.
Germany exports annual 100000
cwts. OF bcet-root sugar.
The growing cranberry crop in
Ocean county, n. j., is estimated at
over r., 900 bushels.
There are twenty-eight companies
engaged in the cultivation of tea in
Hindostan.
&. w. Brock, of Parker county,
Texas, produced 80 bushels of wheat
per acre this season.
In California wine costs from %
to 40 cents per gallon, and milk 40
to 80 cents.
Carl Schleicher's needle factory,
near Duren, on the Rhine, last year
exported $40, 000, 900 needles.
The growing crop of currantS on
the island of Zante, is estimated at
about 5000 tons.
The breadstuffs produced in the
! United States in 1868 amounted to
APO, 100000 bushels.
A clock factory ut Thomastor,
Conn, manufactured 14,O0o clocks
last month.
/ The total average in corn i'll the
United States this year is about
equal to last year, when the yield
was 7GS, O0O,OOO bushels.
L. j. Thulkcld, of Spalding coun-
ty, Ga, gathered IS bushels of wheat
from one acre, and so bushels from
two other acres this season.
There are fifty organized industri.
al associations in New York city,
with an aggregate of over $4,000
members.
There about 100000 head OF
sheep in the United States, of which
only 100000 are in the Southern
States.
During the three months ending
S0th June, Paris consumed COS hors
es for food, or about 27G,000 pounds
horse flesh.
A ear load of boots and shoes has
been shipped from Boston through
by rail to San Francisco at s. pei
hundred pounds.
On the 18th and 18th July So cal
loads of cheese, were shipped from
Little Falls, n V, the whole weigh
ing Ais, 1872 pounds.
Tuscany annually exports from
$4,000, 900 to $4,000, 900 francs wortl
of straw hats, and half that sum o
plated straw.
The Mt. Cabon, Ill, Coal Compa
ny employs 100 hands, of whom
300 are miners, aud turns out dali,
200 tons of coal.
From Nov. LIST, 1868, TO July s
1860, Chicago shipped 81, 200 tierce
} of hams, of which &c were ito Ney
t Orleans, and 20,174 to Philadelphia
: The total value of exports frou
t Savannah, GA, Tor the year endin
D 3Oth June was $50, 031 ,49S to foreig
: countries, and $2G,2O4 1896 coast
= wise.
| There are 800 persons engaged i
f Horticulture in New York city, an
| suburbs, aud their sales Of plants az
! gregate annually more than $1,000
D 600.
o The receipts of the British Co
!, ernment, for the year ending Jun
T 3Oth, 1860, amounted to $4S8,00O
Il 900; while those of the United State
y for the same time were $43S, 900, 00
t The States raise about $4,000
h 900 by taxes which added to the GO
e eminent tax shows that the Poop
d of the United States pay 100000
j. 900 more taxes annually than I'll
y people of Great Britain.
% Mr.. T. T. Moore, of Union, S. {
d last season, gathered nine bales
Is cotton, weighing $50 lbs each, fro
tie seven acres of land. The land W;
IN heavily MANFRED with swamp muc
Of At Palmer, Mass, many Of Il
or farmers wives and daughters are o.
lie in the field helping to make ha
lie The young men Of that section, b
- ing truly loil," have all come dow
South to I'll! fat Offices.
- Owing to the inadequate supp
% of cotton from the Southern State
D. the Liverpool Cotton Supply Ass
of cation are adopting measures for 4
. extension of railway lines into t
~ interior OF India, for the purpose
. facilitating the export of cotton frc
at that country.
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