The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-02-02
TRADE ITEMS.

STRAWBERRY vines are in bloom in an
omen field in Hamblin county, Tennessee.
The total product of iron ore i'll the Lake
Superior region in 1881 was 2,32l ,3l5 gross
tons. The production III 1880 was l,9SI,oSS
tons. =,
company's second call of % per cent,
amounting to $15,0O0000, has been paid in
full at Paris.
During the year that has Just closed, Las
Vegas has shipped five and half million
pounds of wool.
The Calumet and Heca copper mine has
paid to date $50, $4,000 in dividends. The
property is on Lake Superior, Michigan,
and consists of several contiguous veins oil
ore and native copper. Iii owned by Bos-
ton capitalists.
A recent letter from Florida orange
grower speaks of thousands of oranges ly-
ing under the trees useless, from new
freak of nature which splits the fruit on the
trees, thus spelling them. This new dlifl-
Guilty is generally attributed to the summer
drought.
A telegram from Melbourne, dated Janu-
ary 7. states that the total exports from
Melbourne, Adelaide, Sydney, and Queens
land to Great Britain for the past month
have been: Wool, $4,000 bales; tallow,
4 100 casks; copper, 500 tons; copper, ore,
,, 100 tons wheat, 5000 quarters hour,
$500 tons tin, $4,000 ingots.
The Atlanta Georgia. Constitution thinks
that, under an memorable pressure that is
beyond the reach of influence or argument,
the plantations will split ilA small farms,
and small farmers viii take the place OF
large planters. The same causes that
sliced nearly seventy thousand farms from
the Georgia plantations in the ten years
preceding 1880 will cut OIL as many more
between now and 1890
The coming raspberry for family use APP
pears to be Skaters colossal. 1t is chance
Seeding, and originated in Monroe county,
New York. The bushes grow eight or ten
feet high, and the berries are very large.
Their color is not attractive, ana on TINS ac-
count il is thought they will not sell well
in the market. They are admirable Tor
cooking and canning purposes.
The Indiana bureau Of statistics has COM
piled comparative statement OF the, nay
crop for the last three years, which shows
the total number of tons produced IN 1910
10 have been /, 1S9. 1858; in 1879, LODI ,O29 IN
1850. !, 2l7 ,9i2; total for three years, ,4OS,-
$50 tons. The average value on the Dasls
of prices in 1880, was Sl4, i6J; 2i9 annually'
Several persons desire seed of upland rice.
II is understood that the national depart
ment of agriculture have small quantity
oithe Japan variety for distribution. Hon.
I ID. Cation, of Ottawa, ILL.,, has raised some
on his farm in La Sale county. A variety
of upland rice has long been raised IN the
southern states, but it is not likely that IL
would do well this far north.
A good yield OF cranberries at cape Goa
is a hundred barrels per acre. Single rods
have yielded over barrel, at the rate OF
nearly 80 barrels per acre. Unfortunately,
very few acres yielded any such amount
this wear. as the "sun-scald' OF the very
warm days in September and the "ireezc
during the first of October largely reduced
the crop where the "hre-Worm hau MOI az
ready destroyed it.
A number of English coal mines are being
worked under the ocean. In Northumber-
land the net available quantity OF coal un-
der tbe sea is estimated at 403,0O0lOOO tons,
and on the Durham coast under the sea, IN
Guiding breadth of three aud half miles,
with an area Of seventy-one square mites,
"a so. 900 tons. The latter mine IS IN a
vein of aggregate thickness Of thirty feet
distributed in six seams. Engineers are
considering how il can be successfully
worked I'm the future.
HE consumption Of tobacco in Mexico,
where everybody Is smonng-the stylish
seuorita in her receptiOn-room as Wen as
the naked Indian boy Of I'VE summers-is
i-,rnense. In tie principal factory at on
zaba more than ii 10000 packages each
containing thirty cigarettes, were manu-
fsCfu-ed during the last year, ana more
than 12O0O.O0O cigars left the same Duha-
Two thousand two hundred and forty
r.--- 49, uboats. with an aggregate ton
--.-a oils ~ tons. arrived in New Orleans
,l-,-i-,e- the past year. and &c bargcs with
an 1-9-er4fe tonnage Of 1G3. go tons. The
TONNAGE 0r the steamships arriving duIlng
80 conc amounted % 80 ~ tons SHIPS
81 an tons. barks. 50NG tons; schooners-
81 - tons. and brigs. E.g3l tons, making
--rrld total III tonnage Of rs % tons.
O-e I'D Tire natives 0f New Mexico took q
ner- departure in the matter Of agricultural
irrr,-s-rrents. Instead Of the sharpened
s-i1k II lis fJreiathers. be bought an I'M
r.-gr-F American plOw and broke up ms
land Hut the lack II rain caused failure
"a - ION. So be sent back 30 the pl0E
~ 80 dsd7ies. sprinklsd the ground with
- --a+er and the rain came and pro
fn...l An rbunlaut yield Since then the
- t.---i,o-af cf.f1-s q neu-f1uEled plOw.
e-,F irnrI-0ved implements would III NJ
ri1f. g much f1r suptrsiiti0n-
re -iel1 II amber cane In the northern
-. IN MT rrernee over ten % twelve
- - er-p A LOUISIANA rlalIter reflorie
n fte rieid a 81 leading plantatiors m
/ s.--i.iars frr the year l-l3- tnai ne
-r~-iur- 81 tons q cane per acre Fnric1
or sereEtael - trenfT -.1ret- hFeI-
4 1i-fle Crsr uineteen- ln- hlt.u-I q
1893 n surrr rn.1e from t1n 81 cane
- f-orr d % ~ trerar1ng ltt.e
- 1r0 ne nrerare wns cTer - f'f'uIllls
- 49, - rr-e. t-sides The 1n1-1sees- 10 I
~ F-~r-r fhe csre aTe-1r@ fNeufg 80
80 - rr-1 IN ilrazil. q -iii T-tFe o. tll-tT
rc-s ~ 49, N Ju1la, t--1ig " tll-ril --fe