The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-01-22
Industrial.

Maine Is now the fourth State in the
manufacture of boots and shoes. LAST
year she ranked fifth.
Wheeling, w. Va, the largest nail
ana glass manufacturing city in the
Union, passed through the panic without
a single suspension.
"A mill has been recently started in
England in which flour is made by crush
ing the grain by small trip-hammers in.
stead of grinding it. 1t is claimed that
pounding mill costing $1,000, will pro.
duce as much flour in the same time as a
grinding mill worth 5000.
The Winchester WAY shoe factory
started on capital of $4,000 and is now
receiving orders from the South and West
to such an extent as to not only insure the
success OF the enterprise, but render nee
essary an enlargement of the factories to
meet the unexpected demands upon it.
There are some cheering indications
of revival IF the southern trade. \ late
number of The Charleston Nesos notes the
presence in that port of larger number of
vessels that have been seen there at anv
one time since 1865. In the cotton trade
alone that city shows gain Of 10000
bales over the previous year.
1t is asserted that English car. build.
ers consider American car.wheels sumo.
rior to any others. Their excellence is
attributed to the peculiar manner of man.
ufacture and to the use of iron smelted by
charcoal. In 1871 there were 2 319 W. .eeis
exported; in 1872, 4,76O; and in 1S73.
7,715. The other day the steamer Ohio
on her trip from PHILADELPHIA to Liver.
pool, took out 200.
Taking the trades together. the New
York Times thinks the number of skilled
workmen out of work in that CITY NAV be
some 600 in excess of the number SINH.
larry situated one year ago; not very
much more. Surprising the same propor.
ton to hold true of the unskilled work.
men, the day laborers, ETC., it affirms that
the volume of Distress" while large
enough to call for special effort, is not
large enough to exceed the capacity of
the existing means of relief.
Judge F. N. Wood, of Barbour Coun-
ty, Ala, is reported as having cultivated,
the past season, one acre of "poor, sandy
land" on which the only fertilizer used
was eighty bushels of cotton seed, with
the following result: He sowed it in Jan
uary with oats, from which he gathered
4,6O6 pounds in the sheaf, and, at 81 so per
hundred weight, realized 500 90. In June
he planted corn, and among it, at the suit
able time, sowed peas. He gathered 14sz
bushels of corn, worth 81 per bushel: Slz
bushels of peas, worth $3.50 per bushel:
and 1856 pounds of fodder, worth 81 per
hundred pounds; the total amounting to
SOL. 81. These crops having been all
harvested, the land was sowed in rye for
winter pasturage.
"A bee raiser in New England is said
to have patented an invention for the pro.
lection Of bees from the attacks Of the
honey moth, which enters the hives at
night and rifles the stores. The idea arose
out of his familiarity with the daily rou.
tine not of bees only, but of hens. Hens,
he observed, retire to rest early; bees seek
repose earlier still; no sooner are they
sunk in slumber than the moth steals into
their abode and devours the produce of
their toll. He has now built a stand of
hives with hen house above it. The bees
first betake themselves to their dwelling
and settle themselves for the night. The
hens then come home to roost on their
perch, and, as they take their place upon
it, their weight sets some simple mechan-
ism to work, which at once shuts down
the doors of all the hives. When the day
dawns, however, the hens leave their
rOost, and the removal of their weight
from the perch raises the hive doors and
gives egress to the bees in time for their
mornings work.