The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-08-07
INDUSTRIAL.

AN Article of Increasing export from
this country Is machine.made joipery.
One hundred thousand doors have been
sent to England in q year, and win
dows are sent in considerable quanti-
ties, but rarely blinds, which are little
used there. except in the form Of cotton
or linen.
THE California ranchman or farmer
Is to q certain extent demoralized by
the climate, which allows him to per-
form outdoor work the year round.
Unlike the Eastern farmer, therefore,
he is inclined to let things 60 by the
board. There is lack Oh thorough
ness in building, in planting and in the
care for amin ls.-EEchGnge.
THE Marquis of Harrington has not
"the least doubt that England Will
have severe and continuous compstl-
ton, especially in America, from corn,
but l doubt very much whether it is
established that foreign competition
in the meat trade, or in other agr1cul-
tural products less easily transported
than corn, is yet greatly to be feared"
In an article on oils for railway pur-
poses, the Railroad Gazette says that
the excellent lubricating qualities Of
olive oil are shown by the small
amount of free oleaginous acid and
Shiny albuminOus matter it contains,
which makes it less liable to clog, by
its moderate degree of cohesion and
complete absence of mineral acids.
Several large railway companies in
Germany have employed it for these
reasons almost exclusively; but, as
rape oil is generally much cheaper in
that country, strong efforts have been
lately made to supersede olive oil by
rape oil, and on almost all German
lines these have been successful. Ora
English lines, however, olive oil is still
preferred, where grease has not super
seeded it.
We predict the shortest cotton crop
ever made in the South. Nothing ex-
cept a mir ac!e can prevent the fulfill
ment of this prophecy. Texas sends
up the first groan in consequence OF an
unprecedented drought, which is rs
universal as widespread. Louisiana,
Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and
South Carolina have been similarly
scourged. Nothing hopeful or encour'
/
own section is worse than any in this
State. Added to the certainty of a
short cotton crop, the drought has al
most completely blasted corn pros
poets. We will raise but few potatoes,
our pasturage for cattle is failure,
and we can scarcely expect even a
good pea crop. Never since 1889 have
the crop prospects been SO gloomy.
But for an unprecedented yield of
wheat, our condition would not only be
lamcntable but absolutely threatening.
l-Madisom (Gn.) Madisoniam.
THE splitting of granite and other
stone blocks is now effected, according
to a recent German method, by pris-
matte steel cutter inserted with wedges
in tie under side of the hammer, and
opposite similar one below on the
anvil bed. The granite block to he
cleft is pulled on rollers over the lower
cutter-which is slightly higher than
the rollers-and into the proper posi-
ton Then a rapid series of blows is
given from short height, followed by
& strong blow from q great height.
Thus a plate is cut vertically with
accurately even surface. The block is
next pushed on one-plate thickness,
and the process is repeated: 'The
plates obtained are afterward divided
into cubical blocks by means of steam
hammer, arranged quite like the for.
mer, except that the plates, instead o.
lying on rollers, are placed on small
tables resting on spiral springs. By
the weight of the stones the springs arr
compressed, so that the stones come Il
lie on the lower cutter. The operation
is said to be satisfactorily. 7. Sun