The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-02-27
INDUSTRIAL.

In Europe steel and iron rails are
now nearly the same price.
A PLANTER in Ascension, La, made
1000 pounds of sugar to the acre.
FINE shreds of india-rubber dissolved
in warm copal varnish make a water
proof cement for wood and leather.
A STRONG glue, sold as cement, may
be made by infusing glue and isinglass
in alcohol; beat gently and add pow
dered chalk.
THE ordinary life of locomotive
engine is stated at thirty years. Some
OF the small parts require renewal ev-
cry six months.
A BRITISH trade paper says Ameri-
can Consuls excel in the practical ma
ture of their communications to the
home Government.
FLORIDA has produced 100000 bar
rels more oranges this season, by natu-
raj increase and not by superior yield,
than she did last season.
A HAND-LooM for amateurs use, to
do in weaving what small lathes, fret
saws and printing-presses now do in
other fields, is called for.
FARMERS in Georgia, South and North
Carolina and other Southern States are
banding together to resist the encroach-
ments Of dealers in fertilizers.
HORN or tortoise shell may be welded
by pressing the parts together between
a hot iron, interposing a wet linen cloth
between the iron and the object.
We imported, last year, 81, S38, 743. Is
worth of paper rags. And yet we
burned upon fields millions of tons of
flax straw, valuable as the best quality
of paper material.
ALL over the South, says the Louis
vile Courier Journal, farmers continue
to hypothecate their crops in advance,
which shows that they are running at
least one year ahead of their means.
MEx1CANs subdue fractions horses by
having hood so arranged as to be
pulled down over the eyes of the horse
as soon as he manifests uneasiness.
Several applications subdue the horses
permanently.
ACCORDING to the official report,
more than $50, 900, 900 are paid annual
ly by the United States for imported
fibers-fax, hemp and jute-and this,
too, Notwithstanding the fact that in
no other country in the world can these
fbers be grown so well and cheaply.
1t has been demonstrated that jute can
be profitably grown in South Carolina,
Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, Texas,
and wherever there is a hot damp eli
mate, and a soil of sandy clay or allu-
vial mold, and it is believed that great
er profit would arise from its culture,
in many locations, thar from the usual
crops raised. 1t is four times as pro-
ductive as cotton or flax, and requires
not more than one-tenth the labor to
produce it. In its manufacture there
is not half the loss there is in hemp
and flax, while jute bags are worth in
market somewhat more per yard tn an
flax, and they last longer.--N. Y. San.
A WRITER on the proper use of belt
ing states that belts stuffed with tan
ners' dublin, on the flesh side, will
become as smooth as the hair side, and
will outlast six belts which are run on
the hair side exclusively; three times
the adhesiveness is gained by softness
and pliableness of betting feathers over
those which are dry and husky; hori-
zontal, inclined and long belts give
much better effect than vertical and
short ones, and those that have the
driving side below than otherwise;
belts of coarse, loose leather will do
better service in dry, warm places,
while for wet or moist situations the
finest and firmest leather is requisite;
says the hair side of a belt
put next to the pulley will drive "a Per
cent. more than the flesh side; all
leather belts must lie we'll protected
against water, and even moisture rs
well.