The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-03-28
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tured. s..s r,r,.-zs.s s....a.rr~.7.
The Mount Hope plantation, in st. Landry par
ish, La. last year cultivated 80 acres cane, loo
acres cotton and ITO acres corn. The net pro-
ceeds amounted to sls,7o0. t
On the Labyche plantation, ST. Landry parish,
La, "a acres cane yielded an average of 3029
pounds sugar and 200 gallons molasses to the
acre. s1.. iai.1.l 4 81.
II costs sl5, gold, per ton to build ship In the
British Provinces and $751; in currency, per ton In
Boston, which shows the advantages of . protec.
tive tariff.
The Dawson Manufacturing Company Of Ter.
reIl county. Georgia. now making railroad cars,
agricultural implements, etc., il increasing its cap
ital for the purpose of adding cotton factory to
their already prosperous establishment
The machine power of the United States is equal
to the labor power of zoo 900, 900 Of men, and IL
rapidly increasing. The machine power Of Eng
land and Wales is equal to the labor Of 500 900 900
men.
The total consumption Of cane and beetroot
sugar in the principal markets in Europe and
America, in 1865, was 1884. 900 tons; and the
stock on hand at the end of 1868 was AIS, 4s8
tons.
In Ohio, during the first nine of the last eigh-
teen years, the average Of wheat per acre was
IL $500 bushels, and during the last nine years
8 s4-l00 bushels, showing decrease Of bushels
per acre in the average product.
The Mercantile Library Association, OF New
York, has yearly income of 100000; real estate
valued at $500 000 and books valued at $3.50. 900 ;
1000 stockholders, and 10000 members. The
library contains 100, U0Uv0lumes.
New York has one sheep for every q acres !;
Maryland one for every 80 South Carolina one
for every 100. and Arkansas one for every 1000
acres. In Louisiana there are 40 dogs for every
sheep, therefore wool is scarce and mutton high.
A company, lately organized. is building feet
of thirty iron steamers of from SOC to 1000 tons
capacity each, with iron barges as auxliaries, to
carry coal from Pennsylvania to New York, New
England and the South.
The Roswell Thread Factory. near Marietta. Ca,
is now turning out frstrate article of sewing
thread-extra strong thread for making grain and
-four sacks; and knitting yarns-slI round. even
and strong. A large amount of new machinery IL
now being made to be added to the establishment.
When DR.. Smith perfects his plan for hardening
cane SO IS to make gaspipe Of them, he will then
go to the tropics and by the same process make
wsterpipes from the bamboo, which grow from
fifty to eighty feet high and from four to six inches
diameter.
Vermonter says he can grow $50 pounds Of
opium on an acre, and in order to benefit his
"brother farmers" he would sell his books giving
instructions for the culture Of the plant, and the
manufacture of the drugs for four hundred dollars
each.
At q late meeting Of the Farmers Club, in New
York. ga gentleman just returned from the
South stated that :" one man in Louisiana has
1000 acres in peoples, from which opium is to be
manufactured. He grew 1900 pounds of opium
last year. which he sold at SIS per pound.r
twenty-five counties in Kentucky through
which railroads pass have increased in taxable
property from Sis OO0. 900 to $30s 900 0o0 while
during the same period twenty-five adjoining
counties, through which no railroads pass, have
only increased from $50 OO0 900 to $40, 0OO, 900.
Catawba county, N. c., has two cotton facto-
ries, making yarn and sheetings, and three wool
csrding machines. Isinglass. and black lead
are found in the county in considerable quanti-
ties. There are also several earthern ware manu-
factories. Clay pipes are made and sold ct fifty
cents to one dollar per bushel.
A practical farmer found by experiments in fat
tening hogs that s bush els Of whole corn made
Az pounds of pork;5 bushels less miller's to) of
ground'cUrn made into thick nop with cold water
made So pounds Of pork, and the same amount of
meal well boiled and fed cold gave $50 pounds Of
pork. -.