The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-02-16
TRADE ITEMS.

ACCORDING to the census report 40, 900 600
gallons of wine were made i'll this country
| last year
| Russia claims to have phosphate de-
posts large enough to fertili2e all Europe
| for an indefinite period.
The duke of Argyll is trying to domesti-
cate American wild turkeys in Scotland.
A Dubuque company owning COCO acres
ofland near Spirit lake, will put in 1000
acres of it this coming spring.
| There are seven feet of snow at Crows
| Nest near the summit of the COer d. Alene
mountains.
During December 1851 bales of sisa
hemp valued at $50, 23j was exported from
| PTogresso
| A Mexican consulate has been established
at Tombstone, Arizona, The salary is
| 81 200 per annum.
Mr.. Harris Lewis gives it as his opinion
that grazing for milk may be made to pay
| till land reaches 500 an acre. On land of
greater value, grazing cows for profit is
questionable.
The Canadian government are preparing
| to light the new portion of the Welland
| canal, about nine miles i'll length, with
| electricity.
In searching the title to piece of ship
yard property III Marbehead, Mass, re-
Gently, queer decd was found in which q
| boundary line is described as extending
from pencil mark on barn to pencil
mark on a school-house fence.
That part OF the Kansas prohibition law
which prescribes punishment for drunk
enness was declared unconstitutional Eyes
terday by the the supreme court at Topeka.
! A Vermont man has gotten up Subma-
rine boat run by electricity, which will run
twenty-five knots per hour through the wa
ter in any direction-up or down, or at an
angle
The glove production Of Fulton county,
New York, the last year exceeded anything
in the history of the trade. Gloves and nit
tens to the value of 5000 900 were made
AT Sonoma, California, d farmer has raised
five cork trees, which are now twenty-five
to thirty feet in height, and from ten to
twelve inches in diameter One coat of
cork, one and quarter inches thick has
been stripped off. The tree resembles the
live oak in foliage. The seeds were brought
from Spain twenty years ago.
Senator Blair introduced u resolution in
congress, which proposed an amendment to
the constitution prohibiting the sale, manu-
facture and importation of alcoholic liquors
from aud after the year Ammo Domini 1900.
! Nevada has about 100000 acres of salt
land, and could supply the whole earth il
necessary. Besides this, she has about an.
other 100000 acres of soda and birthstone
deposits, sufficient to run hades for the next
100000 years,
, Montana has recently been raided by
, wild geese in such numbers that Colonel
Mcleod was able short time ago to has
200 in an afternoon, in the neighborhood o
Fort Mcleod.
Five hundred American families will
G shortly land at Anton Li2ardo, the new
= Mexican port. They bring with them sec
$ tional houses and everything necessary t
Z start town.
: The membership of the New York but
/, ter and cheese exchange is growing so rap
u idly that larger quarters are necessary, IN,
!. membership will soon number 500. and til,
" initiation fee will be raised to S50s. Tn
VI exchange proposes to establish daily grail
and produce calls on smaller scale than
Z at the produce exchange.
The mayor of Houston recommends tn
. lighting of that city by the Brush electri
u light. He proposes to subscribe 81 600 to
: wards the fund necessary TO insure its in
i PRODUCTION.
d Canada has become more emphatically
c dairy country than the United States Wit
p n population of 100000, they manuiactur
TO II pounds per capita, while we, with 80
D. 100000, make 800, 100000, or O pounds pc
5, capita. With q population not exceedin
y onc.tenth of ours, their exports of butte
D. are about one.halt rs great as ours.
u A Bolton firm has purchased over $1,000
1 worth of wire during the past four months
e; all of which has been used in the county
\, In various sections of Iowa, Illinois an
III Wisconsin, farmers are buying cows I
i. make cream to sell TO creameries The
az find II more profitable than raising grain.
" Iowa Is the great egg state. From til
ie town of Keokuk alone l0,500,000 eggs WEI
"a shipped last season. ltmade into an ON,
81 lette u quarter of an inch thick, these egl
would cover the whole city of st. Louis.
1t is stated that during 1851 there WEI
Z 2S9,972 boxes of cheese sold at Little Fall
n New York, and 80, 1l6 boxes at Utica. III
N average weight OF the boxes was 6Opound
ng making the enormous total of 81 $3.50
pounds. 1t IL estimated that the value
Us the cheese sold last year at these places an
Us Mt Rome was ut least Si,0OOOCO. y.
Willard estimates the cheese product
Hcrkimer county, New York, last year,
1851 ,sI7 pounds, with l,io2,l22 pounds
of butter.
,st The .uvnlde IIcsperan states that Il
of prospects for heavy wheat crops and a larl
m. wool clip are most assuring, and promise
ms be the best ever known.
pw The Montreal Gazette has the following
mi To-day q shipper commenced loading I,
als carloads OF potatoes at the Graad Truf
m, yard at Point st. Charles for Havan
Of They are being shipped via New York, al
for ten cars more will be shipped to compile
10 the order. The lot now being put on ca
he cost St.i0 per bag, aud II Is undcrsto,
IN that 81 rs per bag has been paid for a pa
,on of the second batch. As Cuba In previo,
INT years has imported large quantities OF y