The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-08-14
pAnAGnApus OF ALI sonrs.

pears, and one hundred of GRAPES i
cultivation in the United States.
Bagasse, or the pressed stalks of tn
\ sugar cane, is being utilized by bein
manufactured into paper. There ar
but few farmers now who don't rails
their own molasscs from Louisiana o
the common sorghum cane.
Norway is sending ice to the UnitcC
States, and finds that 1t pays.
There is "A factory in Hartford Conn.
, which makes 10000 barrels per day
from paper.
One mandatory in New York i,
milking 10000 pounds of olemargarint
per day.
The first carload Of tIaX-seed of tho
new crop was shi ped from Southern
Illinois last week.
The wool crop Of California this ycal
will amount to 35,000,0 900 pounds.
The largest botanical garden in the
world is at Statesville, North Carolina
50 the papers say.
Vermont raises 100000 pounds OF
maple sugar, worth 100000,
They say the perfume of the tube
rose, oleander, hyacinth, heliotrope,
orange, lilac, syringa and lily are poi
sonous, and should not be carried into
sick rooms. Newspapers say Il great
many things that we don't believe.
The potatoto is Il native Of America,
having been found growing wild near
| Valparaiso about the year 1850.
y lady living not far from here sent
her three children out in the country
to avoid the whooping cough. In II
few days she received note saying
take your children and send me the
whooping cough.
They say the French used to send
some pure wine to America, but they
are getting too smart for that now.
a writer says: "Not a gallon of the
pure juice Of the grape comes across
the Atlantic now, it is all adulterated.
a writer in New York paper says:
From 1851 10 1865 we had seven years
Of want. From 1865 to 1872 we had
seven years of plenty. From 1872 to
1879 we had seven years of want.
Consequently, | prophesy as follows;
From 1879 to 1856 we shall have seven
years of plenty. From 1856 to 1893
we shall have seven years Of want.
The Treasury Department has re-
ceiVcd information that the italian
government intends to put II high
tariff upon cotton seed oil imported
into that country.
Col. w. +. Sims, of Paris, Ky, re-
Gently sold l03 Shorthorns to James
c. Stone, of Kansas, which originally |
cost him some $4,000.
A species Of worm is destroying the
sugar cane of Jamaica.
Spanish bull fights have been inaug-
uratcd in New York, but do not meet |
with much success.
The common mullen stalk which is
so common, and nuisance in this
country, is cultivated in England for
its beauty. The Gardener 5 Chronicle
says it is well worth the attention Of
both amateuran professional garden
ers. In England it is known by the
name of "Aaron's Rod"
English sparrows have driven the
squirrels from "Court SquareE in
Memphis.
Last year there was about 5000, 900
pounds Of sugar exported from the
Islands
The average yield of potatoes in the
United States during 1879 was only 50
bushels to the acre.
Hogs are dying Of cholera in Bour-
ION county, Kentucky, while in some
portions Of the State butter is selling
It 10 cents per pound, and eggs five
ents per dozen.
The honey crop Of 1879, although IA
light one, was estimated at $50, 900, 600 :
Millions Of pounds. {
Great Britain has paid upwards of {
l2,000,0oO for imported butter during +
hree months Of last year.
The United States imported 81 900 t
no worth of flax goods, although she o
as the best soil in the world for hemp. -
Mr.. Parker Earle, one Of the largest Il
'uit growers at Golden, Illinois, says: :
The peach crop this year is, so far, :
lOstly II appointment. Very few -
sound well ripencd peaches !,
ave been marketed from this sec c
on" The rot and curculio have also 2,
,riouSIy injured the peach crop in II
outhern Illinois. Mississippi is not a
le only State not making a fortune d
ON the sale Of peaches. v v
Illinois fruit growers are now ship Il
ng their fruit directly to 1T. Paul, and
her places, instead Of having them u IL
tipped TO Chicago, and reshippcd to Il
ese places. Il
Peaches are quoted at 80 cents "A +
lshel in st. Louis, grapes cents per @,
'und, and apples almost given away. C
. Louis is about the poorest fruit as
arket in the United States; and ~
nit growers had better fattcn their te
,gs on it, rather than run the risk Of m
ipping it. ST
Just 2sl ZIP immigrants landed in of
wv York in July. liz
In Pennsylvania the owner of lands p,
10 plant trees along the highway,
8 his taxes reduced one one dollar
every four trees planted. This is