The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-05-22
|, INDUSTRIAL

riring establishments employ over 5000
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The Agricultural Society of South
Carolina affirms in it's report that that
State can make more money in wheat,
hay and oats than in cotton, and pro-
duce a. much grain to the acre as in the
West.
IT is said OF Northern Texas by the
Dallas Herald that the tillers of the soil
there make far more provisions than
they have use for; always have corn
and meat for sale, and their cotton and
cattle crops come in as clear profit.
1T is estimated that the value of the
straw hats and bonnets manufactured
in New England every year is from
SIS, 0O0.O 900 to $4,000, 600. Nearly all
of this business is done in Massachu-
sets, the chief factories being in Fox
boro, Middleboro, Westboro, Franklin,
Medfield, Midway, Upton and Mans
field.
EVERYTHING, so far, indicates that
the peach crop on the Maryland and
Delaware peninsula will be unprec-
dented this year both as to quality and
quantity. In all parts of the peach
growing district the most flattering
prospects exist, and information from
every point is favorable. In the upper
part of Delaware and the eastern shore
of Maryland the trees are not yet fairly
in bloom, but further down the blossoms
have been out for several days. The
buds are healthy and well developed,
and few give evidence of falling of or
of premature decay. Old growers say
candidly that they have never seen the
trees more full of buds, and seldom
seen them presenting a healthier ap-
pearance. Exchange.
PENNSYLVANIA has long furnished all
the contiguous States with building
to foreign countries. Whenever some
colossal structure is to be erected in
any part of the country, the forests of
the northwestern section of that State
are laid under contribution for the
beams and girders. There is hardly an
important public building or bridge in
the East, or possibly in the West, that
does not contain Pennsylvania timber.
Recently the forests of Northern Michi-
gan have been drawn upon for long
beams, but until within the last ten years
the only trees available for this pur-
pose had to be floated down the west
branch of the Susquehanna. The ire
mend0us drain on the forests near to
the rafting streams of Pennsylvania
has robbed them of all their tall trees,
and the lumbermen must now go fur
Their up the creeks and into the more in
accessible hooks in order to find the
stately pines which used to cover the
whole region with their sturdy growth.
Philadelphia Press.
APROPOs of the agitation for small
farms in the South, correspondent of
a New Orleans paper gives the details
of a plan that was put in operation
near the City of Dallas, several years
ago. Two brothers by the name of
Carruth, natives of Tennessee, pur-
chased four thousand acres of land,
and divided it up into tracts of forty
and sixty acres. On each tract there
was built very neat cottage and all
the necessary outbuildings. These
small farms were then supplied with
stock, farming implements and seed,
and rented out to good tenants. In
the selection of tenants great care was
exercised, since only those were
wanted who were thrifty and indus
trious. The leases stipulated that the
rent should he paid in cotton, corn, or
whatever was raised. Provision was
also made for failure in the crops,
and other contingencies. In every
thing q strict regard was paid to
justice and fair dealing. The result of
the plan is that to-day the Carruths
are very wealthy men. Their tenants
are prosperous and happy, and COM
fortably well off in this worlds goods.
On the estate there is a fine school
house and a church, store and a
blacksmith shop. In fact, it is doubt
full if there is anything wanting to
make it a first-class village.