The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-08-21
Industrial.

-lne worms nave destroyed acres Oh
flax in Indiana.
The hay crop in Oregon this year is
the heaviest ever known.
Boston continues to prosecute milk
dealers who sell the adulterated article.
"A Massachusetts woman has recently
received a patent for self-tastening but
ton, which needs no button-hOle, holds
fast, and unbOttons at a touch.
Six hundred acres of ground are de-
| voted to watermelOns near Muscatinc,
Iowa. Muscatine Island has long been
noted for the excellence of its melons.
The Baltimore, Pittsburgh s. Chica-
go Railway Company is the name Of IA
corporation just organized to construct
railroad from the former to the latter
city.
AT Virginia City, Montana, wheat is
selling at fifty cents a bushel. Cattle are
being driven by the thousand to Nevada
and Utah, there being absolutely no home
market.
Ship building is fast recovering on
the New England coast, reports from the
various seaport towns giving very encour-
aging accounts. The building is con-
fined to wooden vessels.
An automatic press-feeder has at last
been invented, which, by the power of
suction, raises the paper sheet by sheet,
and passes it unerringly to the grippers.
1t will feed anything from railroad card
board to tissue paper.
dressed beef from Chicago to New York
in refrigerator cars. The beef is said to
arrive in New York in much better order
than it would if the animals were crowded
in hot cars and made feverish by ride of
1000 miles. The meat sent brings salts
factory prices.
The butter shipments from the North
west to New York and Boston now ex-
coed 81 100000 a year. The dealers in
those cities play sharp trick on their
customers. Pals or tubs are made neat
and uniform, and are sent forward with
| only single letter stamped upon them.
When they get to New York or Boston
the name Of some favorite dairy or deal
| er in Orange County, New York, or for
the Boston dealers, some well-knOwn Yer
mont brand, is stamped upon them. The
| reason for this can be readily imagined.
The butter brings better price.
MIR. J. Winslow Jones has in Farm
ington, Maine, a large establishment for
| canning sweet corn. Eight or ten men
are now engaged in making cans at the
rate of two hundred day for each man.
There are now growing in that town over
| four hundred acres of sweet corn for this
establishment. About one hundred men
are employed some six weeks in canning
and husking this corn, at an expense for
labor of about $4,000. The farmers real
ize about 500 per acre for the corn, be-
side the stalks, which are very valuable
for fodder
According to Richard Jacobsen, linen
and cotton goods may be covered with
thick and flexible film of tin, which gives
to them a very silvery appearance. The
method to be adopted is as follows: Or
binary commercial zinc dust is rubbed
up with a solution Of egg albumen to
thin paste, and applied to the goods with
brush or roller. When dry, this coating
is fixed by coagulating the albumen with
steam, and the fabric-is then placed in a
solution of bichloride of tin. The tin is
precipitated upon the zinc in very finely
divided state. The stuff is then washed
with water. and, after drying, put through
the finishing machine, when the tin comes
out with brilliant luster. A very beau.
tiful effect may be produced by printing
different designs in this way, or applying
the material with stencil plates. and its
use may be extended to decorations. 1t
is even possible that this strong, elegant,
and waterproof material may yet replace
tin foil for packing certain articles.