Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-06-08
ITEMS or INDUSTRY.

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The consul at Buenos Ayres reports
that new starch-mill has been estab-
lished near Buenos Ayres. under the
supervision of Robinson & Son. of Os-
wego, N. Y. The machinery was
made in Oswege. The mills have =
capacity sufficient to supply the mark
cts of this country. Heretofore all
the starch used there has been i'm.
ported.
Cut-worms can be cheated out of de-
stIoying cabbage and other plants
by surrounding each plant with
an oak, hickory, or some other
strong leaf set deep enough to
prevent blowing away. Another
remedy, said to be effectual, is to
put saw-dust about the roots and satu-
rate with gas-tar water. The saw dust
will retain the scent Of the tar and
drive away cut-worms and other in
sects.
A Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar
company has been Incorporated at San
Francisco, with capital stock of $1O.-
100000, for the acquisition, construc-
ton, and the maintenance of reservoirs.
bitches, pipes, fumes, aqueducts, and
other works necessary or proper for the
purpose of irrigating lands on the var
ious islands of Hawaiian kingdom, and
for the cultivation, purchase, and sale
OF sugar-cane, and the manufacture,
purchase and sale of sugar.
1t is now an established fact that
the peach does well bucded on the
Miner plum. w. F. Heikes, of Hunts
vile. Ala, is growing heavy stocks of
the peach propagated in this way. and
says: This stock makes handsome
fibrOus roots on our soil, and carries it's
size up well to the peach, completing q
perfect union. The wood of the peach
on plum is more solid, sturdy and hardy
than on peach, as any one will be-
lieve who has grown the apricot on the
different stocks"
In 1881 there were 143 silk-weaving
establishments, having 1883 looms in
operation. in France, and in Switzer-
land in 1880 there were sc silk manu-.
facturers, having $3.50 power-looms
and $4,000 hand-looms. The Swiss
figures for 1872 were: Manufacturers,
~: power-looms, 1,15O: hand-looms,.
26.56O. The ribbon production in
Basic in 1872 was estimated at $1,000
600 francs, in 1876 at 100000 francs.
in 1873 at 39,00U,000 francs, and in
1880 at 100000 francs.
Mississippi has something over 3d.
100000 acres of land-nuch of them
the richest known to man. Less than
100000 acres are cultivated. This is,
however, an increase of several hun
dred thousand acres over the number
in 1870, and nearly equal to that under
cultivation in 1860. There are now
$4,000 farms, as compared with $4,000
ten years ago, and $4,000 twenty years
ago. The number of acres comprised
in the plantations is nearly three times
that actually farmed-i. e., there are
100000 owned, and, but 100000
cultivated.
Some new and valuable kinds of
cinchona have recently been brought
to notice in India. One of these is the
Calisaya verde, which is a very large
tree wholly devoid of any red color on
the leaves, and habitually growing far
down the valleys, and even in the
plains. Each tree of this kind is said
to furnish from 600 lbs. to 700 lbs annu-
ally, which, if it be the case, would
make it the most profitable one to Gull
tlvate. The great feature of the
Callsaya verde, however, that it grows
at lower elevation than most other
cinchOna trees. The seeds of this
nloOf 10; 11
The United States consul at Prescott
reports that 81 100000 worth of eggs
were imported the past year from
Canada to the United States free of
duty. He recommends that duty of
cent per dozen be laid on eggs, and
asserts that this duty would pay the
expenses Of the customs district of
Oswegatchie and Champlain. N. Y,
and the district Of Vermont. He also
suggests that y duty of 81 ton on
straw, 4 cents each ON railroad ties. 6
cents on fence posts, and that the duty
on hay be 81 ton, hop poles cent
each instead of 20 per cent, and iron
ore 80 cents per ton instead of 20 per
cent. He adds that butter and pota-
toes can be sent into this country at a
profit under the present tariff.
The manner of milking in the chan
mel islands, the home of the Je, sey COW,
or more properly, perhaps, the Alder
ney, is peculiar, and has the merit of
cleanliness, at least. Milking and
straining the milk are done at one
operation. The milkmaid, with her
tin pail. linen strainer, and sea-shell
proceeds to the pasture. Seating her
self beside the cow, she thus completes
her arrangements: The strainer is Sc
curely tied over the narrow-m0uthed
bucket, and placing the large shallow
she'll on the strainer she vigorously
directs the streams into the shell.
Overlooking the shallow brim the milk
passes through the strainer into the re-
ceptacle beneath, the Shell being used
simply to prevent wearing hole in the
linen strainer