Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1876-07-13

Large quantities Of agricultural
implements are being shipped to
Germany.
The nickel mines of Lancaster
Pa, yield nearly 5000 tons of ore
yearly, and give employment TO 200
men.
Judge Hilton, A. I. Stewards sue
cessor, is about to establish on Long
Island a mammoth railway. car man.
ufaetory.
soutl. AMERICA imports annually
$3.50, 900. GOO of foreign goods, of
which the United States furnished
agoat sixteen per cent.
An English journal says that
rolled iron sheets .00I5 Of an inch
thick have lately been made at
Warrington so flexible that they
bend almost as easily as paper, and
yet 50 tough as to be torn with diff
Guilty.
A Maine man is making new
food extract By pressing the Jul
ces out Of the bony little fish called
rnenhalen and condensing it The
food possesses the virtue Of fifty
times its weight of the fish taken.
The Herald sums up the follow
ing items of Mahaska county:
From the Report of the Iowa
State Horticultural Society we learn
that this county has i6, 1872 acres Of
natural timber, 544 acres Of planted
timber, lot, 1s9 rods of hedge, g.
1916 apples in bearing, 350,1S5
bushels of apples were gathered
from above number of trees in 1874.
about II bushels per tree.
A correspondent Of the Country
Gentleman gives this summary of
crops in Champaign county, H.:
"The assessors report a considerably
increased acreage of corn; oats
looking well-very well, indeed;
rye in largely increased acreage,
but very thin on the ground win
ter wheat seaacely TO be found +;
little hax--less potatoes; spring
wheat nowhere; pastures very good,
and the promise Of hay unlimited.
The Commissioner of Agricul-
ture, Mr.. Watts, sends forth the fol-
lowing statement in his monthly re-
port, which We suppose there is not
farmer in Iowa or the United |
States believes, to-wit: "Mr. David |
Petit, of Salem county, N. j., is re-
ported to have harvested this season,
from corn planted two feet by three |
feet apart, 283 bushels per acre, the
fact being attcsted by a sworn
statement. 1t is added that he has
produced single ears of yellow field
corn which would yield quart of
shelled corn each.
The number of barrels Of macker-
el inspected in the United States
last year was 2j1, 900. There were
besides 81 $50 cans Of the fish pre-
served. The Canadian fisheries for
the same year yielded 15l 400 bar
rcls. This product of our Ameri-
can industry goes to every one Of
the four quarters Of the globe--a
contribution Of the great American
enterprise to the welfare of man
kind.
If grease, fat or rosin, which are |
commonly employed to make soap, |
are heated with an excess of common
salt, ammonia and water, a soda soap |
separates, leaving chloride Of ammo
mia in the liquor, together with the
excess of ammonia and salt. This |
reaction is the consequence of the |
great solubility Of ammonia soap in |
ammoniacal water, and the insolu-
bihty Of soda soap in water cou-
tanning more than one-haif per cent.
of salt. The ammonia at first unltes
with fatty acids; then the sodium
in the salt exchange places with the |
ammonia in the soap, forming as We |
said, a soda soap and chloride Of
ammonia. 1t is essential that there |
be an excess Of ammonia and salt
present in order that the reaction
take place. One hundred parts Of
grease requires fifteen to twenty parts
ammonia, twenty to thirty parts
salt, and 300 to 800 Of water
T. n. Whitlaw, in Chemisches Cen
tralblatt.