The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-05-05
FACTS ANb FIGURES.

The average yield of Indian corn
per acre throughout the United States
is 1919 bushels.
AN evaporating establishment at
Spencerport. N. Y. last fall evaporated
1864 bushels OF apples and shipped
them in fifty-pound boxes to Russ a.
The Director of the Bureau of Sta
tistics at Vienna has issued a table
showing that in Europe. of 1O2, 1881 indi.
viduals who have lived beyond the age
ofninety, 6O,303 are women.
"A Georgia farmer found that his
land would no longer bear good crops
of corn and cotton, and he planted
twenty-five acres with pear trees. His
profits are $500 an acre.
The Gtristian at Work AYERS there
are pew holders in q New York City
church, who, under an old church char
ter. pay but $50 rental yearly for pews,
90 to Europe year or two more. rclet
their pews for $500 or $500 a year, and
pocket the difference.
Examinations of samples of milk
obtained from many stores in New
York City by the officers of the Board
of Health lead to the conclusion That
about one-fourth of it was water added
by dealers; who were thus making the
people pay about $1,000 per day for
CrOtOn.
According to a paper by DR.. Bed
doe, which is supported by statistics
from all parts of England, the size of
the average Englishman's head is less
by seventh of an inch than it was a
q quarter of century ago. contrary
belief has hitherto obtained.
The State Geologist of Colorado,
Prot. j. Alden Smith, gives the infor-
nation that "the mineral yield of Gil
pin County is 1885 annually, for every
man. woman and child in the county"
This is quadruple the production per
capita of the best agricultural county in
the whole country.
The plans for the new Tay Bridge
are now completed. The foundation
piers are of brick to the height of about
hine feet above high water. On these
the supporting columns are to be placed.
Over the navigable part of the river the
spans will be dfty-eight feet six inches
iii height. The new bridge will be i'm
mensely strong and it is thought that
the fiercest gale will not have the least
effect on it.
The great Arlberg tunnel, one of
the longest in the world, is announced
as begun. On the western side of the
Arlberg the progress of boring is
seriously retarded by the rush of guam
titles Of water; on the eastern side the
rock is a tnicaceous slate, which allows
rapid work. 1t seems that the geolo-
gists advised that the tunnel be bored
through lower stratum of rocks OF
denser material and free from water,
but their advice was disregarded.
There are now under cultivation
around Charleston, S. c., within con-
venient distance from the railroad de-
pots and wharves, about $50 acres of
Strawberries, which will, with favor
able season, furnish for shipment to
New York alone 1000, 900 quarts of
berries; about 1900 acres of potatoes,
with an aggregate probable OUT turn of
10000 barrels; about 3O0acr of toma-
toes, and about the same number of
acres in pease and beans. These farms
are highly cultivated, and are source
of great profit to the owners when they
can get the crops to market early in the
season. The strawberry crop, which is
the most valuable, is well advanced,
and the season promises to be early,
and, consequently, profitable.