The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-11-29

good orders by mail, and a number of
country dealers are in the city and few
are buying very literally. Shipments to-
day are fully up 10 the average of the past
two months, and our trade may be quoted
as fairly active.
At Elgin, Illinois, on the 22d, there were
sold on the Board of Trade 1856 boxes of
cheese at cents, and 1890 pounds butter
at 40 cents. The irregular sales were ,G25
boxes OF cheese and 500 pounds of butter.
Total sales, S2S, 1910
We find the following reference to new
branch OF Canadian trade in the Liverpool
Journal OF Commerce; can interesting
consignment of fresh fruit tomatoes, canta-
lopes and other kinds Of melons, have Just
been landed from the steamer Partisan, ,
consigned to fruit merchants here. These
were shipped under q process newly pat
ented. The results are stated by the trade
to be in every way satisfactory, and ship
ments of peaches and otherp erishable fruits
are to follow This patent can be applied
10 number of other commodities, and it is
believed to be possible that the trade car
ried on in preserved and canned fruits may
be completely reyolutionized."
AT the wool sales in London on the 2ith,
$50 bales were sold consisting of Queens
land, New Zealand and Adelaide Brisk
demands and prices firm.
Seventy-tiye million feet of hemlock lum-
Der has been cut ut Williamsport, Pennsyl-
vanla, this year, as against 1900 go feet
last year. Pennsylvania lumber men are
Just beginning to see the value of this kind
of timber.
The MERGED California; Argus tells of n
MI OF sweet potatoes near that place that
yielded iorty-siN pounds Of potatoes, the
largest weighing eleven pounds.
In Florida 81 coo worth of arroWroot is
raised on an acre of land.
The butter, cheese, egg and milk business
in Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, is
said to be worth $iO,00O,000 year.
There are over six thousand coal miners
IN the State Of Iowa, and their product is
valued at something ever 100000 at the
banks.
Fifty years ago there were only twenty
three miles of railroad in operation in the
United States.
There is something very curious about
the elect ola drouth upon saltwater fish.
They are invariably less plentiful in a dry
season. They like to taste what the fisher
man call the earth water, which, after rain
liavors more or less the sea close to the
shore. When the season is as moist as it
usually is the fisherman finds them on the
shoals in great numbers and in fine cond-
ton, and can easily make big catches. But
when the earth is dry they stay and ieed in
deep water.
Agents of California fruit-growers arc in
Oregon buyingup all the nursery trees they
can obtain. There is said to be a great de-
mand for the Bartlett pear, for plums and
prnnes, and for choice brands of apples.
California is going into frut-growing more
extensively than ever before. The business
has received a fresh impulse from the ex-
tenslye use of new processes Of drying FRAT
and from the increased number of canneries
going into operation The fruit trees of
California have been destroyed in large
numbers by noXious insects during the last
two or three years, and this is further
cause of the new demand.
Among the recent inventions in this
country is the manufacture of barrels of
pulped wood-onc kind for fruit, flour and
other dry substances, and the other for oils
beef, pork and liquids. They are so strong
that they may be dropped from wagon
without harm. E:ch barrel is made in one
piece, of coarse wood pulp, subject to a
pressure of 400 tons, and is light, strong and
cheap.