The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-10-08

powers also in fruit.prsservlng, medics
syrups, .dishlling, tobacco manufacture and
the aiultelation OF honey.
Inc official returns at the New York mo-
1lce exchange show the receipts of grain al
New YORK ON September 20 TO have been
we largest on record. The receipts were
l,44S,4O3 bushels, or 10000 bushels more
| than the reco!pts of any previous day. Oh
this amount 6l7 600 bushels were wheat and
SOS, 400 bushels corn.
The Panama Star says: "At the July
auction sales OF quinia bark in London, the
prices Of that from Colombia and other parts
OF America were very unfavorably affected
by TIE Offer of large quantity, some 3 600
packages, from British India. The produc-
ton OF this bark in India within the past few
years has increased wonderfully. In 1867
amounted to l0,96S pounds; in lS77,7S TO
l942o pouAds; 1879 to 22O,026 pounds;
ana in lSI0-S0 to 49, ,997 pounds This i'm
menso production, the future increase of
watch can not be calculated, must before
loag prove serious competition to that of
America. In view Of this increase, it be-
hooVes the dealers in quinia bark in these
countries, in protection of their own inter-
esls, that they be careful TO ship class rich
IN suphste and carefully prepared and OPP.
pose all inferior shipments, in order to retain
the good reputation Of the American bark
a new process for the refining of petro-
Ieum is now being tested in Philadelphia, and
Is expected 10 effect great saving over the
one now IN vogue. BY the old process the
rthned article at q fre-tost OF 10 degrees,
pD4t- tlp .ul1,v IA, l..
loss OF from 80 to 80 per cent. In bringing
this grade of oil to test Of $50 degrees il
loses 30 per cent, in the process of distilla-
ton; and TO raise it to l75 degrees il loses As
porc ut., and 80 1856 degrees Gj per cent. BY
the new patent process the oil ls tested with
out heat, and, It is claimed, loses nothing In
fact, in some oils, there is said to be posi-
tive gain in weight, Oil at 10 degrees, that
costs 9! c. per gallon, on being raised to n
iye-test OF 100 is worth lSic. per gallon; to
10 from loo. to lie. per gallon, and if raised
$50 degrees is worth from lSe. to Zoe. per
gallon. The cost of raising it to any
one OF these tests is lc. per gallon.
here, also, is another advantage over the
old system, as by the present method of
dstil!aton the profit on the oil st fire Test
llOl only \ cent per gallon, and at a test of
l5O the profit is the same; whereas by the
new process the oil loses nothing in the
manipulation, the profit is in ratio 10 the
number of degrees to which the fre-test is
raised. In the process the oil is deodorized
and ut the same time the Illuminating quality
is improved SO that the oil burns longer and
brighter, and this is effected without the aid
ofany heat whatever. This ew process, if
all that is claimed for 1t shall be realized,
must eventually be great boon to producers.
80 long as the yield continues in excess of
the consumption, and prices are unremuner-
alive to the producers, il matters little that
the process OF refining is wasteful and ex-
travagsnt; but the time may be not very
remote when the consumption will exceed
the production, and more economical sys-
tenn Of refining will then be matter of i'm
portance to all concerned.
The Irish correspondent of the London
Tines writes: 1.-The potato crop is simply
magnificent. What few men can recollect
seeirg is now seen on all hands-helds begin
ming to wi,ler naturally, without a sign of
disease. This is chiefly owing.to the change
| ofsecd, the Champions being planted on all
hands from east to west, fully bearing out
the good things spoken Of them. The price
Of oats and cattle has doubled since last year,
that Of pig3mor than doubled Oats are u
good crop, and turnips and mangolds never
looked better"
New England farmers are turning atten-
ton TO wheat culture. For some years
whoa. has been considered one of the crops
that New England agriculture had out
grown; but OF late, Notwithstanding that
lands there arc much more broken than at
the wes:., ii appears, from the experience of
the past six years, rs large crop can be raised
in each Of the Now England states ss can be
oy is grown in the west, and il is probable
t. 1t quite revival of the wheat industry
I'll DO witnessed there another year.