The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-12-18
INDUSTRIAL.

The weather has been so favorable in
Oglethorpe County, Ca, that the third
crop of figs for 1879 is nearly ripe.
A NEWARK manufacturer has made
two handsome pairs of skates for the
Marquis of Lorne and the Princess
Louise.
A JAPANESE is reported to have de-
vised a mode of bringing electricity to
bear upon debilitated silk-worms with
excellent effect.
RUMoR has it that plentiful deposit
of black sand, containing platinum, has
been discovered near Olympia, WASH
ington Territory.
The matter of making straw hats
was started by little girl in Dedham,
Mass, and from this has grown a wide
ly extended business.
The law passed at the late session of
the Alabama Legislature prohibiting
the purchase of cotton in seed has been
decided unconstitutional.
COLONEL WILKINS, of the "York
Farm in Maryland, raised this year an
aggregate crop of 10000 bushels of
peaches, which were sold for about
$42, 900.
THERE are stretches of country in
Arizona where, for distances of fifty
miles, water cannot be procured for the
use of travellers without paying prices
ranging from two dollars to five dollars
per barrel.
In Brant, Canada, the farmers are
complaining of the ravages of the Mis-
souri, rabbit, a small gray ANIMAL import
ed few years ago, and which have in
creased beyond the expectations of their
importers.
The red clay soil of Hartford County,
Md, produces the sugar-beet in great
perfection. Of three lots recently SUBJ
jected to a chemical analysis, two
showed a percentage of 9.N per cent. of
sugar, and one of 1927 per cent. This
is equal to the best yields.
A WALNUT timber boom is going on
in Tennessee. Every water-mill and
saw-mill is saving it fast. Already
$50, 900 worth has been shipped from
Lewisburg. There is a great demand
for it in London, and our people are
expecting great things from the Euro
pean market.
The United States Fish Commission
has planted in Georgia waters 500 of
the famous German carp, the newly
introduced fish of which SO much has
been written. They are the best pond
fish in the world. They breed rapidly
and grow rapidly to the size of shad,
and their meat is rich, delicate, of de-
licious flavor, and free from bones.
GARDENS should be sailed very Hber-
ally, for by so doing you will have no
worm eaten radishes, maggoty onions,
club footed cabbages, or any other veg
etable grown in them injured by worms,
grubs or any vermin that infest the soil.
Every one who raises asparagus knows
the necessity of using salt abundantly.
One can scarcely use too much. Many
who grow cabbages know its value
when applied to the roots or growing
head; but every one does not know that
growing onions may be buried under
salt, leaving only the tops out, and that
the onion will grow thriftily, while all
maggots and worms will die or disap-
pear--yet such is the fact. Salt mixed
with wood-ashes, in the proportion of
one of salt to four of ashes, applied at
the rate of handful to the center of
each hill of corn Immediately after
planting, will supersede the use of
scarecr0ws and coal-tar. as no worm or
crow will touch it, beside giving the
fertilizing properties Of the compound.
A friend residing in Edmeston, Otsego
County, who had broken up four acres
of sward upon which to plant corn,
found it to be SO very wormy that he
dared not plant it, until I gave him the
above recipe, which he used after
planting. In the fall he told me that,
although this lot had woods upon three
sides Of it, he did not lose single hill
bv worm or crow. This fact is worth
remembering.-Cbr. Chicago Tribune.