The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-07-28
Industrial Brevities.

OxlOru DOWN Sneep are DelnS DOuSnt
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 q considerable amount of
beef shipped from New York to Europe
has been brought back here for con-
sumption.
The answers to the circulars recently
issued by the bureau of industries show
that there are 20,OOO,O00 acres of land
occupied in Ontario, and of these about
10, 250, 600 are cleared and cultivated.
About ], 10000 acres are sown with fall
wheat.
Silk worms have been introduced into
Spain from Japan. 1t is said that they
live and do well i'm the open air, and
feed mostly on the leaves of the live
oak. The industry has been fostered
by a Catholic priest who is q 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 $500, 600 to 5000, 900
pounds of wool. worth in cash $1,000
600 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 radius of eight miles in one
locality in Florida there are 2. 992 orange
groves containing 1925 trees, which
produce 100000 oranges yearly, al
though only per cent. of the trees are
bearing. In the entire state 1t is esti-
mated that so, Co., 900 oranges are pro-
duced yearly.
The hop-growers Of central New York
have grumbled SO 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 q 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, 1883. 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 inferior flavor 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 johann
nisberg, which he had visited, the wine
grown ut the top of the hill brings $40
per bottle; half way down, So, and at
the foot Of the hill, only 2 francs per
bottle.
A gentleman residing near the coal
fields in Nova Scotia writes: l think,
at the least calculation, there are from
800 to 1000 coal-miners short in the
Nova Scotia and Cape Breton collieries,
and we have at present the best demand
for Goals we have had for the past ten
years-in fact, the mines to-day cannot
supply their orders. COal-cutters in this
province are earning from $45 to $50
per month. Boys over II years of age
can find employment at from SO to IS
cents per day.
A curious experiment, according to
the Paris newspapers, has recently been
made with wine in that city. A cur
rent of electricity was passed through a
small cask of sour wine, and at the end
of few days the wine was found to be
greatly improved in quality and to have
acquired that flavor which has hitherto
been supposed to come of age. 1t is
said that the discovery of this new ma
turing process is owing to the accident
of thunderstorm having greatly i'm
proved cask Of bad wine in the Gel
lars of vintner at Carcassone.