The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-11-29
TRADE ITEMS,

GEoRGlANs IRE still eating ripe watermelons.
There were $4,000 gallons Of cane syrup made
In Houston county this year.
The anthracite COnl trade Is good, aud produce
ton this year will equal .. 900 on tons
The Umatlla Indians N Oregon have l6 900
acres of land under cultivation, and own two
mills.
Aprlcots and nectarines are almost unknown
In the St Louis market
Green cottonwood for fuel, sells for 81 q cord
at TusCarora, Nevada, and Is scarce ut that
price
A sweet potato, measuring nearly three feet
in length was raised IN Wayne county, Missouri,
this year,
A second crop Of hucklcbcrres were nearly
ripe two weeks ago in The vicinity of Eureka
Springs.
Davenport has 325 telephones, and connection
with thirteen towns In Iowa and twenty four In
Illinois.
Quail are being slaughtered by the carload In
Kansas and shipped east,
There are enough acorns IN Oregon county,
Missouri, to fnlteu one thousand hogs for every
farmer In The county.
Springfield will soon have 80 0t0 yards Of red
cedar pavement, and. within the next three
years, miles upon miles of paved streets.
FOrty-eight million pounds of tobacco are an.
nually consumed In Virglnas IL tobacco
factories.
At II recent Vermont squirrel hunt by two
teams of eighteen men each the winners counted
5000 10 the losers 500.
n
two bushels of w"lnuts from Michigan, which he
will plant, and which he expects in ,me like
himself, TO grow up with the country.
The dairy Interests OF Illinois, Iowa and Wis.
consin have Increased &c per cent during the
past ten years, while tho increase In New York
has been but 9 per cent
one hunter shipped 2.037 pigeons from Fay
! etteville lately, which had been killed at tho
roosi In the nation.
Late advlGes from the south report unfayora.
hln lUpathaf fnr uaInnriuu tho "a
fears aro entertained that II will be materially
injured.
The actual capital now invested In southern
cotton mills is placed at $50 600 0Oc0 giving EN-
| ploymeut 10 $1,000 hands,
Bourbon county. Kentucky, court has passed q
! resolution cxempuug allmills and manufactures
built IN Paris in future from taxation for six
! years.
German carp in Georgia have done wonder.
! fully well. In the vicinity Of In Grange there
are carp 3years old which are believed to weigh
/ eight or ten pounds.
The Canadian department of internal revenue
| has decided TO keep leaf tobacco under lock and
koy In the custody of an officer, who win issue IL
as required for manufacturing.
| Notice of II reduction of wages In December
has been posted on the steel mills scranton,
| pennsylvania.
In handling raw furs the skin, as soon M
taken from the animal, should be well stretched
and dried. Mink, rat fox and skunk should bo
put on II round board 10 give the skin the proper
shape Coon, wolf badger should be nailed on
y Hat board until perfectly dry, aud scraped be-
| fore shipping
In addition to It's large cotton factories, An.
gusta, Georgia, has barrel, bucEetan key fac.
tory, two ice.making establishments and nine
wood oll'works.
The Morrilton, Georgia, Head light gravely as
| scrts that gentleman In that vicinity has MI
apple ucc In his orchard which has borne three
crops OF apples this year, and now has the fourth
crop of blooms.
Aplant from the West Indies, called Pita OF
silk grass plant is being introduced In thu
south. II produces very fine and silky fiber
aud rs II Is perennial II is thought IT will riva
cotton A sample sent 10 the commissioner o
agriculture NJ Washington produced quite II sen
sation.
The duty on hundred dollars worth of blank
cts is sSS, The author of our tariff must have be
gun life MS n hotel clerk.
Tho Illinois game law provides for the kinIn,
of bucks, doe or iawn, mud turkeys from Sep
tomber 10 January 49, pinuutcd grouse n
prairie chickens August Ii IL December L. ruff
He'd grouse or quail, October | to January |;
Waterfowl, August 10 to May /; woodc0ck
I July 4 tc JGnuaIyl, Five days are allowed TO
selling Of game aiteI the expiration OF the tint
allowed for killing,
Grape growing is considered 10 DO ten time
moro profitable than wheat growing In Cailur
mia, IL is estimated that the yield this seasOl
: will reach 7h,5010O0 pounds of grapes repre-
800, GOO gallons of brandy
The profits ot the steel rail men must be YER
large II they can afford to close up business IN
' several months In order 10 scare congress iron
making any reduction in the tariff
. Dried fruits ARE moving oil briSkly and south
2 ern stocks arc IN good demand So little 1
= heard about the industries ot Tennessee nova
II days thatm people will be surprised tn lear
6 that, while two years ago hardly u pound q
dried fruit was shipped from Chattanooga, III
dealers IN that city alone have handled 81 ia
this year over 100000 pounds. Knoxville am
+ Nashville arc ging into the business cxtou
!, Svely, and lesser places more modeStly.
!; Fully one-hOli ofthe cotton looms in philadel
!; phia are idle SO far from regarding this as n
, uniayornblo indication, the local papers 4
l. tribute II to the prosperity of the city whicl
I, has materially lcssen,d the demand Tor che a
} cotton goods. Carpet manufacturers arc uls
|, passing through season of duluncSs whic
II cannot very well be regarded In rs fOvorabl
4, light US In the cuSc of the cotton spinners
o Florida paper has good deal to say abot
species of cactus that grows down there.
says THE strong hbrcs ut It's leaves arc tnrne
into rope, its Juice into u pleasant beverage
Q and It, trunk, after the removal oi,ho pi,l
" into pals"
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