The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-08-09
Industrial Breyities.

Oxford Down sheep are being bought
In England for crossing on mcrinos
raised in Germany and designed for the
production Of mutton.
More than million dollars have been
paid for potatoes imported from Ger
many and Scotland during the present
year, and considerable amount Of
beef shipped from New York to Europe
has been brought back here for con-
sumption
The answers 10 the circulars recently
issued by the bureau of industries show
that there are 20,000,000 acres Of land
occupied in Ontario, and of these about
100000 are cleared and cultivated.
About |, $50, 900 acres are sown with fall
wheat,
Silk worms have been introduced into
Spain from Japan. 1t is said that they
live and do well in the open air, and
feed mostly on the leaves Of the live
oak. The industry has been fostered
bya Catholic priest who is distin-
guished naturalist.
Livery men in New England towns
say that the extending use Of the tele-
phone is doing much harm to their bus
mess, as many persons who were accus-
toned TO hire teams TO transact business
in adjoining places now stay at home to
talk through the wire,
Washington county, Pennsylvania,
produces annually 100000 to 100000
pounds Of wool, worth in cash $1,000
900 for the wool alone, besides the sale
Of fine sheep for breeding purposes, and
mutton sheep and lambs for the meat
markets of the east.
Within a radius Of eight miles in one
locality in Florida there are 1892 orange
groves containing l65, 235 trees, which
produce 100000 oranges yearly. al
though only per cent. Of the trees are
bearing. In the entire state it is esti-
mated that 50,000,O00 oranges are pro-
duced yearly.
The hop-growers Of central New York
have grumblcd 50 much about the pros
pect for short crops that dealers have
come to disregard their statements.
This year, however, there is really cause
for alarm. The open winter injured or
killed many vines, and new insect has
destroyed the roots Of the plants
The next ensilage congress will be
held in the city of New York, Tuesday,
July a, 1888 The object in making
this announcement so early is that farm
ers may be prepared with accurate
statements of their various operations
by actual weight and measurement of
the seed, fertilizers products and land,
and be able to give for the common
good, exact results in concise form.
HOrticulturists commonly expect fruit
Of inferiorahavor from moist soils. The
cells are longer and filled with water.
On the same hill-slope in Germany three
qualities Of wine are produced, and the
variation is wholly owing to difference
in the soil. Marshal p Wilder states
that in the famous vineyard Of Johan-
nisbcrg, which he had visited, the wine
grown at the top Of the hill brings SlC
per bottle; half way down, IS, and at
the foot Of the hill, only 2 francs pei
bottle.
A gentleman residing near the coal
fields in Nova Scotia writes: ! think
at the least calculation, there are from
!, 500 to 1000 coal-miners short in tn,
Nova Scotia and Cape Breton colieries
and We have at present the best demant
for Goals we have had for the past ten
years-in fact. the mines to-day canno
supply their orders. Coal-cutters in thi
province are earning from $40 to So
per month BOYS over l. years of az,
can find employment at from 90 to z
cents per day.
A curious experiment, according &c
the Paris newspapers, has recently beer
made with wine in that city. cur
rent Of electricity was passed through ;
small cask of sour wine, and at the enC
OF few DAYS the wine was found to b,
| greatly improved in quality and to have
acquired that flavor which has hitherto
been supposed to come of age. 1t il
said that the discovery of this new ma
turin. process is owing to the aCcden
OF thunderstorm having greatly i'm
proved ca,k Of bad wine in the Gel
Ian. gl yintner nj Carcassone.