The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-11-06
INDUSTRIAL,

s EdEAAD> j brought to face the pros.
pec1ve PISS Of her hook and eye trade.
q TRE Newark On. J. trunk manufac-
turers kkve acceded Il the demands of
their workmen, and advanced wages
from twenty to twenty-five per cent.
THE advance in the price of iron has
compelled stove manufacturers to issue
circulars to the trade announcing an adj
vance in the prices of their goods.
The recently arrived Sheffield en-
giand) operatives are making fine razors
at Bridgeport, Conn. Razor-making
has never been successful in this coun-
try before. 9 r,-fs
The carpet trade of the United States
is simply immense. The manufactures
Of Philadelphia alone turn out more
carpets in a year than all of England in
the same period.
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA papers say
the outlook for the honey crop is very
fine. An agent of purchasing specula-
tors has offered to advance on the en-
tire crop and furnish packages for ship
ping.
BY a very simple device, cast nickel
is now obtained in malleable and due
tile form, even when cold, while cobalt
prepared in the same way is found to
possess such hardness when cold that
it is expected to be used for cutting in
struments. The process consists in add
ing to the fused metal, through a hole
in the lid of the crucibles, One-eighth
per cent. of metallic magnesium, which
,,.lyo oh Is 4
stroying carbonic oxide. 1t is thought
that the porous and crystalline charac-
ter of cast nickel may be due to it's alb
sorption of carbonic oxide gas while in
molten state; on the other hand it is
not impossible that, owing to the great
affinity of magnesium for nitrogen, its
action may be due to the destruction of
cyanogen in the metal. Cobalt pre-
pared in this manner is said to possess
none of the redish color usually attrib-
uted to it, but to actually excel nickel
in the whiteness and brilliancy of its
appearance. These metals have also
been welded onto iron and steel, at a
white heat, and the strips thus welded
were rolled out to the finest number
without separating from each other
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The rot and mildew have been very
destructive to the vines in Southern
New Jersey for the past two or three
years, and various experiments have
been made to meet the evil. Among
other things the use of a board covering
over the trellis was suggested. This
year others have made use of manila
paper bags, which they slip over the
bunch about ten days after the blossoms
appear, securely pinned at the opening.
Mr.. George Scarborough put on five
hundred bags as an experiment, In all
eases when the bags were removed the
clusters were found perfect, when the
bags were put on soon enough. This
gentleman has also experimental with
the board covering, during the present
year, and found it to succeed so well
that he has determined to use it largely
next season. Mr.. ID. Rood has also had
thirty thousand paper bags in use in his
vineyard, with results equal to that of
Mr.. Scarborough. One man can put
ON one thousand paper bags in day.
Colonel Alexander w. Pearson also
used the board covering with gratifying
results, and he is well satisfied that the
board covering will remedy the grape
rot, and will next year make whole
sale use of the covering, as it not only
protects from the disease, but from
early frost. The first cost is greater
than the paper bags, but this is counter
balanced by the length of time it will
last.