The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-07-10
INDUSTRIAL.

ARTIFICIAL ice in Florida costs about
seventy cents a ton.
Ice factories are being built in many
of the Southern cities.
ROSEWOOD is taking the place of
black walnut in furniture.
The boot and shoe trade of Boston is
unusually active for this stage of the
season.
THERE'S big crop at hand all over
the West. and there will soon be work
for all who want it.
The negroes in Mississippi are said
to be working with unusual energy in
all parts of the State.
FORTY bushels of wheat to the acre
is about the average of the present
splendid crop in Georgia.
IT is said that Mississippi farmers are
thinking of going into the corn and
cattle trade and leaving cotton alone.
THERE are ten ice companies in New
York City, and one of them, perhaps
the largest in the business, has a stock
of LOCO, 900 tons.
EGYPTIAN wheat is attracting atten-
ton in California, for the climate is
particularly favorable to its growth. 1t
yields enormously.
GOLD digging on the coast, in the vi
cinity of Half-Moon Bay, CAL, is said
to be a profitable enterprise. and is at
tracing some workers.
LESS wheat, but three times the area
of corn, and twice of oats, has been
planted and sown in Colorado this
year, compared with last.
JAROL1MEK maintains that steel can
be hardened not only by immersion in
boiling water, but even in boiling oil,
melting lead and melting zinc.
AN American writing from Spain
urges the shipment of labor-saving i'm
plements there. Spanish farmers pillow
with the end of piece of wood about
five inches thick, as was done in the
middle ages; sowing and reaping ma
chimes are unknown, and grain is not
threshed. Oxen tread it out, and it is
winnowed by women, who toss it into
the air to scatter the chat.
BOSTON is now being paved with the
asphalt block in place of other paving
material. This block weighs twenty
one pounds, and is five inches deep and
four inches square specifically. Its
base is pulverized limestone, which is
cemented by asphaltum and crude Pc
troleum. The blocks are struck out
by a steam press, and each block has
been subjected to pressure of fifty
tons.
The experiment which company is
making in the production of beet sugar
is one of general importance. Last
year, as our readers are we'll aware,
the experiment was tried on a small
scale and proved satisfactory. The
farmers along the lines of the railroads
found that the beets at the prices paid
would pay moderately, and the COM
pany at Portland found no difficulty in
making good sugar from them. This
year the company has entered upon the
enterprise with vigor. Early in the
season sufficient number of acres of
the root were arranged for to run the
works ut Portland to their full capac-
ity. Seed has been planted in three
States, Name, New Hampshire and
Massachusetts,. It is stated that the
return of the business was so promis-
ing that a better price for the raw ma
terial is paid this year than last. Those
who have given most attention to the
matter in Maine are confident of sue
cess, and confidently predict that the
production of beet sugar is an industry
which will give agriculture in Now En-
gland new impetus aad open a new
field for profitable investment.-P0rt-
land (Me.) Journal.