Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1882-03-16
industrial Rnritiss.


A recent letter from Florida orange
grower speaks Of thousands OF oranges
lying under the trees useless from new
freak of nature which splits the fruits on
the trees thus spelling them. This new
difficulty is generally attributed TO the
summer drought
A gentleman who recently rode
through ex-senator Dorsey's cattle
ranch in New Mexico, says of it: ''It is
40 by 60 miles in size, and has on 1t 2o,-
600 head of cattle and 1,S00 head of
horses. The income from this place
can not be less than $4,000 for the
present season."
At the recent Birmingham fat-stock
show prize pen Of three Shropshires
weighed $40 pounds; pen of Oxfords,
under % months, weighed S7l pounds
an astonishing weight for age. A
Shropshire eve weighed S74 pounds.
The heaviest pen of three sheep weighed
9S2 pounds, but the breed is not stated
in accounts at hand.
1t is claimed for the Duroc or red
Jersey swine that they possess a large
amount of vitality; that they are very
prolific; that they endure extremes of
heat and cold with little injury or dis
comforture; that they eat grass and clo-
yer better than most kinds of hogs; they
stand transportation well, and that the
proportion of lean meat in their bodies
is large,
Several persons desire seed of upland
rice. 1t is understood that the national
department of agriculture have small
quantity of the Japan variety for dis
tribution. Hon. j. d. 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 it would
do well this far north.
The coming raspberry for family use
appears to be Shafer's colossal. 1t is a
chance seeding, and originated in Mon
roe county, New York. The bushes
grow eight or ten feet high, and the Der.
ries are very large. Their color is moi
attractive, and on this account it is
thought they will not sell well in the
market They are admirable fol cook.
ing and canning purposes.
The atlanta (Ga.) Constitution thinks
that, under an inexorable pressure that
is beyond the reach of influence or ar
gument, the plantations will split into
small farms and small farmers will take
the place of large planters. The same
causes that sliced nearly seventy thous
and farms from the Georgia plantations
in the ten years preceding 1880 will GU
off as many more between now anC
1890.
A good yield of cranberries at Cape
Cod is a hundred barrels per acre
Single rods have yielded over barrel
at the rate of nearly two hundred bar
ltels per acre. Unfortunately, very few
acres yielded any such amount las
year, as the ''sun-scald'' of the yer.
warm days in September and tn
freeze during the first of Octobe
largely reduced the crop where tn
"fire-worm'' had not already destroyed
it.
The average size of farms in the Unit
ed Kingdom is seventy acres. In Eng
land only, the average is greater thai
this, but small holdings in Scotland an
Ireland counterbalance the excess. Il
America the average size is taken as IA
acres; France, 35; Germany, 40; Bel
gium, 15; Holland, 80; Russia, 80; Aus
tria-Hungary, 45; Italy, 80; Spain, %
Portugal, rs; Turkey, 80; Greece an
Switzerland, 15, and Sweden, 80 acres
There were 72,276,S12 bushels c
grain shipped from New York durin
1881, 100000 bushels being carrie
by steamers, and the rest by sailin
vessels. The shipmentin in 1880 was 11S
S43, 1853 bushels, 100000 bushel
more than last year. The freight fc
last year was about $8,000,000, all c
which went to foreign ships, not busf
ell having been sent by American ships
British vessels carried 81 per cent. {
fhe entire shipments,