The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-09-07
INDUSTRIAL, STATISTICAL
AND TECHNICAL.

SILK has gone up twenty-five per
cent.
In Attleboro, Mass, the times
brighten, and jewelry manufactures
are hurrying work.
PEACH Feelings, heretofore waste
product of the canning factories, are
now used in making peach brandy.
THE boast of Tennessee is that sixty
five tons of millet have been cut from
eighteen acres of land on farm near
Knoxville.
THE attendance is constantly in
creasing, and what is especially no
ticeable is the large number of visi-
tors from the West. There will be
jam in the cool months.
CONNECTICUT won the champion
ship in American inventive skill last
year, having 706 patents, or one to 761
inhabitants. Arkansas is at the foot
of the class Massachusetts, next to the
head.
THE Paris Society of Agriculture
and insectology purpose establishing
at Mont Souris a model apiary, a bo-
tannical collection of all plants likely
to be of use in feeding bees, a model
equipment for sericulture, and col
lection Of all trees likely to be Of use in
feeding silkworms.
Mr.. LOUIS JENNINGS estimates that
$4,000 year will go further in Lon
don than $4,000 year will in New
York. A family of five or six persons
can live very comfortably in London
for $50 week, while the expenses of
a similar household in New York
would be at least 800 a week.
THE pine forests of Nevada are rap
idly disappearing before the enormous
demands made upon them by the min
ing industries. 1t is estimated that
the mines on the COmStock lode will
consume 260, 200 cords of wood this
year. 1t is used in the quartz mills
and for other purposes.
THE business depression at Boston
is driving many professional men into
manual labor. Mayor Cobb recently
had 500 applicants for two vacancies
on tile police force, and one of the
men appointed is recent Harvard
College and medical school graduate,
and a practicing physician, whose wife
and babe were suffering for food.
THERE are $500 brewcrics in the
United States. They produce annually
2S5, 900, 900 gallons of malt liquors.
Most of these have been erected with
i'll the last twenty-five years. In 1874
| over 100000 bushels of barley was
used. There are nearly 400 malt
houses in the Union. Beer comes
thus: the barley is matted, then
ground, then mashed with hot water.
sweet liquor, or WORT extracted,
hops added, the whole boiled, then
cooled, then fermented with yeast !:
result-beer, containing 96.10 water,
81 malt extract, and $50 alcohol
Chicago JOuT1l0L
IN Germany there are 100000 acres
of land devoted exclusively to the cul-
ture of the vine. The greatest pro-
duction is attained in Alsace and Lor-
raine, where 10000 acres are planted
with the vine. Bavaria comes next in
the list Of grape-growing regions, then
Prussia, Wurtemberg, Baden and Hesse
each in the order named. The total
production in the German Empire, eX-
elusive of the new provinces of Al
SAGE and Lorraine, in 1870, was 3d.
900, 900 gallons of wine. About 954,-
900 gallons of German wines are used
every year in the manufacture Of
sparkling wine, and the value of this
kind of wines sold amounted in one
year to nearly 81, 100000. Nearly all
the wine-prOducing districts of Ger
many are represented at the Centen-
NAL Exhibition.