The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-05-04
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TTGurope 100000 acres are devoted to beet
The citizeus of Sierra county, California, are
holding ''grasshopper meetings
blast was fired recently IN COnshohOCkcI
Pa) quarry which threw out over hity thou'
sand tons OtstOne. $50.
A Durham COW at Bloomington is yielding
sixty pounds of milk per day,
An Old settler and weather prophet declares
that frOsts occurring in the dark OF the moon
never or at least hardly ever, Kills small lrull
Recent rains IN Tennessee have uncovered q
bonanza in the form of u coal bed on the SIDE oil
the Cumberland mountain.
The trout streams of Mexican county, Pennsyl-
yana, have been ruined bS waste oil running
into them, m
A number of farmers of the vicinity of st.
Peter are setting out mulberry trees. They will
grow the trees for the fruit
An allgatOr's nest with fOrty-sevcn young
alligators IN ii was found near Wilmington
North Carolina, n few days ago.
Very large vineyards are being planted in
spain with view of making wine TO take the
place of that formerly furnished by France.
Fresno county. Cal, has over $4,000 acres
more land assessed in it than in any other
county in the state. Los Angeles county comes
Three barrels of caulihower were shipped
from Wilmington, N. G., to New York lastweek,
the first shipment of the weed ever made
from that section.
A Brevard county farmer, in Florida. hos
made fOrty-fve barrels of syrup from patch OF
sugar-cane that has not been replanted iorsev
years.
/ Los Angeles county California, this year
plants 800 600 grape-vines 1t has now 5000
acres of bearing vines In three years, II is es-
tmAted this will increase to Is coo acres.
| Chief Justice Appleton, of Maine, has decided
! that II Masonic lodge is not n charitable or
benevolent institution, in the meaning Of the
statutes, and that its property is therefore SUD
A light strawberry crop is expected in the
| southern portion of Illinois indiana ana ONO
| The drough last fall injured the plants ana
/ recent frosts killed the blossoms.
The tomato packers OF Salem, N; j., have
agreed to give the growers s. per ton, delivered
! in ripe, merchantable condition. This Is an
| increase of 81 over the price paid last year
| The Boston Traveller says that the entire pro
duct of the Lake Superior copper mines for the
| next six months-20 COO 0OOlbs-was sold on the
! 18th inst, ut Is cents per pound.
The frog catchers are now having their mar
vest in the marshes north of Whitehall, New
York. One man has shipped 5OOpoundA OF their
| headquarters to New, York this spflng' Ihey
| bring 81 per hundred on the spot
| The receipts and exports of cheese at Few
York sinces May compare as follows;
Receipts Exports
For week ending April 81. 1l,069 1,O,09ll
Same week in 1851 10 S33 ,oo 3 ,3o' In
Since May !, 1881, 9OS 0S9 i29 4S9 105
Same time last year. 1896 l23, ~, 20i
Muskegen News: Seven years ago potatoes sold
for IS cents per bushel to the groceries, and any
body who would go to farmers pit and take
them out was welcome to all he could carry
away To-day they sell for Sl.2O and half the
farmers in this vicinity will be obliged to pur-
chase tubers for planting.
The coal product of the world is about 800 O.
OCO tons annually. The North American CONT
ncnt could supply it all for 2e0 years. With an
annual production of 500 600 tons. it would re
qiure twelve centuries to exhaust the supply OF
A Iilwaukce paper saws: Captain Cornelius
| Sullivan took out loo, 900 whiteiish yesterday
morning. This finishes the whitehsh plant
He has at present about CO., 90 trout fry which
| will be taken to the inland lakes of the state
| about the 10th Of May, after which he will re-
move the hatchery appurlenances intOthe expo
| sitOn building.
The great cheese manufacturing firm of S.
! Straight q Son. of Hudson, Ohio refuse 10 allow
the patrons of their factories TO feed glucose re-
compatible with the production of n fine quality
OF butter or cheese, especially so far as keeping
qualities are concerned.
| Market gardeners in the vicinity of Boston
cultivate dandelions TO sell for greens. The seed
| is sown every year, and the old roots destroyed.
| The plants stand about six inches apart, and
| they are gathered for market by cutting the
roots with sharp hoe just below the surface of
| the ground.
Blue Earth county presents respectable list
| of dairy aud creamery establishments The
business is being conducted on large scale near
| Mankato, and at Napoleon, each being supported
by about one thousand cows. and recent ad;
ditions TO this line of business have been started
at Lake Crystal, Vernon, Eagle Lake and
The latest forestry bulletins, just issued Under
! Che census of 1882 illustrate another source of
I wealth .u the south. Thc marketable timber of
NORTH Ogrolina iSaS limated at So 600 feet
board assure mostly long-leayed pine. Lou
SlaEa -il has &c, 5SS 600 90 feet of long-leaved
pine and 81 G25 000 100 feet of short eaved pine,
I Georgia is credited with l6,77S,0W,e00 feet OF
.0nu icayed pine South Carolina with b.3l6, 900,
o is.L and Arkansas with Al, Sl5 100000 feet OF
I slu..lnaved pine.
, with d capital stock of $4,000 has been incor-
porated. The kiln TO be used Is the invention
of c. d, Page, of that city II is seventy feet in
height, and twenty feet from the ground are the
| replaces. II is continually taking In raw
| brick and turning them out ready for use, the
lower part of the kiln being so arranged that the
pressure Of the brick above forces out the mn
| ished brick in a continuous stream down an in
| clined plane, and thence upon a horizontal
shoot They pass along the shoot unul the
| force required 10 push the column in "A horizon
tai direction equalizes the pressure OF the de-
! scpnding column Of brick
| Mr.. Samuel Johns EldJra Iowa, describes in
the Kansas Farmer his method Of raising cucum-
| beers ny the barrel:
Take a common salt barrel knock both ends
out set IL in a convenient place, and fll nearly
| full of well-rotted manure. Form three hills for
] the vines enc on the east one on the west and
! the other on the south side of the barrel Have
but three plants in hill then place brush TO
keep the vines up from the ground. keep, the
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furnish enough pickles for a large family, then
/ think me false prophet" The same method Is
employed just as successfully in growing melons.
We have tried Il with the best SUCCESS, Water
| should be poured into the barrel daily Half
rotted manure serves admirably for filling the
barrel.
owing TO the want Of rain during the months
! Of August September and october. 1881. the
crop OF potatoes, cabbages and beans was par.
tial failure and the price Of these necessaries OF
life has more than doubled in fact prices ruled
so high ON account Of the limited supply that
potatoes, cabbages. sausrkraut and beans.
from being articles Of export became articles Of
import At first the steamers brought but small
quantities but as the demand increased the i'm
portations became larger, the price Of potatoes
rose i'm Europe, and now there Is almost a potato
famine on the other side Of the Atlantic. Du-
ring the months Of January, February and
March, 1872 there was imported at New York.
from Great Britain, Germany and France:
Potatoes Bushels. value.
January ...................... l1a4Sb 45,634 %
February. ...........-........ 64,OOs 2J0,g5l o.
March ...................... .l.O4syls 5Oss4S 90
Total. j. Zl,f92 tlO6,4O9 70
Add duty, l5c per bu ................ Zl8Z5 oO
Total. SsfsoSz ~
Cabbage
In January and February amount
Duty. 10 per cent I'd ysiorsm .......... 2i56 50
Total. .-.-..-...t z8.1zl 90