Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-07-02
Industrial.

"A Georgia printer is engaged in max
ing press after an entirely original plan,
which will print both sides Of newspa-
paper, turning 1t out in one revolution OF
the machinery.
Connecticut farmers are now turning
attention TO market gardening and the
cultivation of strawberries in conse-
quence of the collapse of the tobacco
trade, the entire crop Of last year being
still on hand, owing to the want OF buy
ers
Growing willows has become an i'm
portant branch of husbandry in some
parts of Indiana. A shipment OF 1890
pounds stripped willow wands was re.
Gently made by one firm. The acreage
devoted to the business is increasing each
year
The Cincinnati VolhsblaH says the
crusade has injured many branches of
business. Among the coopers, hoop
makers, iron-workers, box makers, etc.
many laborers have been thrown out of
employment, owing to the diminished
consumption of beer and wine in the rural
districts"
Recently strange disease broke out
among the horses In the vicinity Of Cars.
vile, Mo, by which number have died
The disease Is apparently spinal affec-
ton, like that fatal malady known as
spinal meningitis in man, and, when the
animal was once attacked, often death
cnsued In the space OF twenty-four hours
or sooner.
"A worm of some species Is literally
destroying the foliage Of the forests on
Salt River Missouri. The worm is de-
scribed as being an inch and q half or two
inches long, some dark green and others
Of black color Many of the largest oak
and walnut trees are stripped bare, and
no tree, large or small, escapes the raw
ages of these worms.
Silk thoroughly impregnated with
the bichromatc of potash presents very
sensitive Photographic surface. Thus
prepared, any shapes cut out of tin and
laid upon II may be beautifully imprinted
by the sun, and In tints, according to the
color of the silk. A white on very light
silk shows a delicate pale-red impression; ;
reddish tint takes still deeper shade
of red In the pattern, etc. Fern leaves,
arranged to suit the taste, and kept fiat
by sheet of glass, can be imprinted In
the same way.
--Myriads of black bugs have attacked
| the peach trees In the neighbOrhood OF
Seaville, Cape May County, N j., and
have appeared in Caroline County, Md.
In one nursery the grated stock of
80, 900 trees were killed. The bugs are
Of new species, heretofore unknown to
the farmers. None of the ordinary
means of killing insects avail against
them. They will stand liquid applica.
ton that destroys the tree. The insect
resembles the rosc-bug, and entomologists
regard 1t as similar to the cherry acid.
At any rate it serves the same purpose as
frost In putting up the price of peaches.
Such thing as two crops of grain in
one year Is by no means rare In Califor-
MIA Apple trees have been known to
yield two crops, and pear trees three
crops; but such a phenomenon as that re-
lated In the subjoined item from an
Alameda paper will be likely to create
surprise: "a sixty-acre field on the
rancho of Juan Peralta, near San Lean.
dec, was farmed to barley last year, and
good heavy crop of the grain harvested
from 1t. This year 1t was allowed to vol
untcer, and 1t has produced heavy
growth Of clear oats, which now stands
about three feet high and Is in very
thrifty condition"