Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-06-07
INDUSTRIAL ITEMS.

Montana is making large shipments OF
potatoes to the East.
Pensacola intends to put up creosote
timber establishment.
Silk culture is already an occupation in
fourteen States of the Union.
More colored people than white are
erecting houses in Apalachicola.
A Pittsburg firm has secured patent
for glass shingles, and proposes to manu-
facture them.
Good coral is worth five times its weight
in gold, and the finest pink coral is worth
5000 an ounce.
Switzerland PRODUCES only about one
third of the amount of cereals required for
home consumption.
An Italian has colony of $4,000 silk
worms in room in st. Louis, and is conf
dent of fine silk crop.
There are upward of 1000, 900 agricult-
ural land owners in Germany possessing
less than three and quarter acres each.
A fsh.raiser OF experience recommends
digging ponds on the north side of bluffs,
SO that the water will be cooler and better
shaded.
1t is not generally known that few
sprigs of cedar bush mixed with hay or
any kind of litter for hens nests will keep
them entirely free from hen lice.
It is estimated that ], 500 900 sacks of
potatoes have been imported from Great
Britain, Germany, Novia Scotia and other
countries during the past season.
A gentleman is cultivating five-acre
field OF tuberoses in Florida. He sends
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ern cities packed in cotton batting.
Pecan culture is receiving special atten-
ton in Wakulla. Madison county has
many trees bearing the fruit which equals,
if it does not excel, any ever imported.
The Mexican Government offers bonus
Of S., 600 to the first discoverer of coal in
that country. A party Of American pros
pectors will leave chihuahua il e few days
on this expedition.
The milk of the elephant has been found
to be extremely rich, having more butter
and sugar and less water than any other
known. 1t is also agreeable to the taste
and the sense of smell.
No fowl will be successful in hatching
chicks unless SO situated that it can have
ample facilities for busting, as this is the
method by which fowls keep off or drive
away lice and parasites.
Corn is susceptible OF more marked
changes than any other crop we produce,
and can be bred to our fancy in shape,
style and color, very easily if we will give
the care and attention necessary.
Those who use lime as fertilizer ap-
ply from ten to fifty bushels to the acre;
ashes may be applied at the same rate
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plaster at the rate OF 100 pounds.
The soil for radishes should be very light
and rich. They grow fast and are able to
keep out of the way OF weeds. They can
be grown in succession from the time frost
leaves the ground till late in the fall.
An enterprising farmer proposes to es-
tablish goose farm in Texas. He will
raise geese for their feathers alone and will
keep them on grass and alfalfa. He thinks
they will yield three crops of feathers
year and will pay dollar each.
Mr.. Greeley used to remark that he al
| ways knew when farmer was prosperous
or not by the way in which he managed
his manure heap and handled the white.
wash brush, as well-kept buildings were ad-
vertisements of well-kept farms.
Wool.growing and spinning in Russia is
almost universal, being as much, if not
more, Of home industry than factory
business. Almost every peasant keeps q
few sheep, whose wool seldom enters COM
merce, but is spun and consumed at home.
| paragraph is going the roands to the
effect that Venetian glass manufacturer
is producing glass bonnets by the thousand,
and selling them, too. 1t 10 said that the
plass cloth or thread Of which they are
made is richer than silk, has finer color,
and is none the worse for heavy shower
OF rain.