The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-07-26
TRADE ITEMS.


A gang Of seven shoep.shearers In Garfield
county, W, f., shsarsd 1850 sheep this season,
an average of $500 each
A Jefferson county, New York farmer who
was detected watering his milk, can settle on
payment of 81 90.
Japanese psrsimmons are being raised sue
cessiully at Albany Georgia.
a gentleman in Crystal springs has realized
81, t66 from the sale of tomatoes from one acre of
ground this year.
C. V. Duckworth ofIIamton county, Florida
has tomato vino which measures Il feet 6
inches across, and Is full Of fruit.
The hsh companies of Duluth report good
season, one firm shipping over twenty-five tons
and Colorado.
There are over 10000 acres under cultivation
to tobacco In the United States and the crop is
valued At from a0,esO 600 To s5o,00OOO0
Sklns OF the prairie dog, an animal SO album
dant in Texas ~ 10 be nuisance, are recon.
mended asa material for the manufacture OF
gloves.
One hundred looms arc now In operation in
he jute factory Mt San Quentin, Its estimated
that the mill, when complete will turn OUT $40
70 sacks per day.
The New York free trade club intends to rep.
resent reform interests before the tariff commits
Sion and has engaged counsel to prepare It's
| tasesas 10 metals, salt, wool and chemicals.
NJ. Beck, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, re-
| esntly shipped thirty dozen living frogs 10 Pro-
| lessor H. NJ. Mosely OF Oxford university, Eng
land. This shipment was an experiment to as
certain IN what condition frogs could be sent
| across the Atlantic, and. should II prove sue
csSsful, large foreign trade in American frogs
| Is expected.
| The Indiana stock law givss county commits
| sioners power 10 say what stock shall run at
| large. The commissioners of Jackson county
| have ordered that 10 stock ut all shall run at
| large Many owners of stock which has been
creating depredatons ARE full of wrath aud
| swear vengeance on thc commissioners.
| o \ pT al. psnu 81
| New YORK since May compare us follows:
| Receipts, Exports,
For week ending July 49,. VISIT s7l3,S2l
| same week III 1851 ,.,,...,, lSu6l9 tilSO61
| since May /, 1882 .......... G5g2l6 90 sg5 Cts
| Same time last year .....l, 059G35 49, li7 sol
! Denver claims To be the largest brickmakiug
center In the United states. II is estimated that
| there this season.
This export movement OF domestic produce
from New York during the past week was OF
moderate proportions the total being So, 72S 49,
against u, SOY, 81 for the same week last year.
The shipments Of petroleum are rather light,
showing heavy falling oil compared with the
| previous week. The exports of provisions were
| moderate, and OF cotton light The outward
movement OF brsadstulS il rather Irregular, the
| shipment of wheat being very liberal, aud Of
flour only farwhilc the exports OF other articles
| were inconsidefsbe. Since January LIST the
exports aggregate sl7s3OS, 2i6, against s1V6,2H,
7iV for The corresponding period of 1851.
among the very suggestive and encouraging
| contrasts which the census returns reveal ar,
the following; In 1870 the amount OF cotton pro
duced In the United States Was 4S52,Sl7 bales
IN 1850, more than 100000 bales. In 1870 the
| amount OF Indian corn raised was 100, gA0, 80
bushels; in 1880 l,15i 40, 40 bushels In lS7C
the wheat crop was 49, 7il, GIG bushels IN l,SO 4
was i5aG67, go bushels. In 1917 the crop of oats
reached ~ iUL lb7 bushels In lSS0, A05, $50, 8
| bushels, III 1870 the tobacco crop amounted e
26s 1854 pounds; in lsSOit amounted To AS, l07
O'j pounds. The increase of agricultural pro
duets was nearly 100 per cent In these ten yCars
and in the last year OF this decade from 1879 tC
| 1850, out of this vast inCreasc.of our crops ant
products, our cattle exports rose from SIS 00 OOi
To st, 900, corn from $3.50 OOCi TO SO, ~, 600
wheat from slGI Cos 400 To sl9V $4,000 flour from
$3.50 1000 TO sia 600 600 cotton FROM 81 $3.50 Il
s2h 53i,39l, beef from 100000 to ST., 0OO, pC0
lard from SIS, 90 600 to $50 90, and pork from
S. ooo, 100 to 100000 annually
A Liverpool hrm writes: In Holland, Bel
glum aud Germany there Is expcctedn fair crol
OF Stripes aud Paradise (rcd apples similar I,
'BaldwinsO but all other early apples and NOR,
especially Double Bells also u red apple, bu
palerl, are scarce; late apples likewise scarce IL
most descriptions, but us the extreme scarclt.
In some districts Is compensated by fair show
In others, the total yield Is not expected 10 b,
very fur short OF that of last year. Pears, cN
cept very common sorts, are very scarce. Plum
generally very good crop. Cherries half an nv
erage one: In France the apple crop promise
| w w luhN tVuUi tlNt VI nItNlONs tCNhbHh
Pears scarcer than usual, and pluinS very scarce
In England the home crops not only of apples
but of NIL other fruits that compete with Amer
lean carly apples, may be said 10 be q failure
The tardy, uncongoniN spring was followed b,
late cold, heavy rains, wind and hail storms
which completely wiped out all trace OF fruit II
the large fruitgrowng districts of this country
In Spain all her fruit crops promise To be abun
dant this year. The 'Almcria grape will not b,
quite so early Ms last season. but the yield is osti
, mated to be considerably larger while tho quail
i,y will, unless they have rains toward the en-
seen for some years.