New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-03-15
Industrial Brevitieis.

a recent letter from q 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: ut is
40 by 60 miles in size, 'and has on it 49,
600 head of cattle and 1900 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; a pen of Oxfords,
under % months, weighed 81 pounds
an astonishing weight for age. A
Shropshire eve weighed 374 pounds.
The heaviest pen of three sheep weighed
982 pounds, but the breed is not stated
in accounts at hand.
1t is claimed for the Duroc or red
Jersey swine that they possess 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-
stand transportation well, and that the
proportion of lean meat in their bodies
is large.
Several persons desire seed of upland
rice. It is understood that the national
department of agriculture have a 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. It is a
chance Seeding, and originated in Mon
roe county, New York. The bushes
grow eight or ten feet high, and the ber-
ries are very large. Their color is not
attractive, and on this account it is
thought they will not sell we'll in the
market. They are admirable for cook
ing and canning purposes.
The atlanta GA Constitution thinks
that, under an memorable 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 cut
off as many more between now and
1890.
A good yield of cranberries at Cape
Cod is a hundred barrels per acre.
Single rods have yielded over a barrel,
at the rate of nearly two hundred bar
rels per acre. Unfortunately, very few
acres yielded any such amount last
year, as the ''sun-scald'' of the very
warm days in September and the
freeze during the first of October
largely reduced the crop where the
'.fre-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 than
this, but small holdings in Scotland and
Ireland counterbalance the excess. In
America the average size is taken as 40
acres; France, 35; Germany, 40; Bel
GUM, Is; Holland, so; Russia, 80; Aus
tria-Hungary, IS; Italy, 80; Spain, rs;
Portugal, 25; Turkey, 80; Greece and
Switzerland, Is. and Sweden, so acres.
There were 72,276,312 bushels of
gyain shipped from New York during
1881, 81, O00,00 bushels being carried
by steamers, and the rest by sailing
vessels. The shipment in 1880 was 49,
343, 1853 bushels, 41,O0O,000 bushels
more than last year. The freight for
last year was about $8,000,000, all of
which went to foreign ships, not BUSH
Ell having been sent by American ships.
British vessels carried 81 per cent. of
the entire shipments.