The Iola register., 1882-10-13
FACTS AND FIGURES.


St Louis does yearly business II
horses and mules of about $4,000, 600
st. Louis Globe.
The figures given of the losses BY
the strikes this summer are large. The
loss to employees is estimated at ovel
$4,000. 900; to employers, $4,000, ,OO0
and to the general public, $50, 200, 900.
Chicago Journal.
SO valuable and scarce has the
black walnut tree become that many
! of them in the mountains of North
Carolina have been sold at $40 apiece,
just as they stand in the woods, the
purchaser reserving the right to take
them away within a certain number oi
years.
There are some sixty sassafras-oD
distilleries in Buckingham, County, Va.
and they engage three hands at each
mill. They consume each per day two
thousand pounds of roots and make
sixty gallons of oil, worth from S4.5C
to S5 per gallon-S270 to $500 per day,
and for the year from $4,000 to $780,.
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1t is no longer ''cattle on a thou.
sand hills" but thousands of cattle on
the hills. Twenty-nine cowboys
who visited Topeka, Kan, during the
late soldiers reunion, represented over
400, 900 cattle, and $40, 900, 900 capital.
The largest number represented by one
firm was 10000 head, and the smallest
number by single individual was 1,O0G
head. Prairie Farmer.
I'm a jewelry store at Erie, Pa,
hangs clock about the size of an aver.
age eight-day clock, with a pendulum
weighing forty pounds. This pendulup
is made to oscillate beneath a horseshoe
magnet, above which is coil magnet.
A zinc plate buried one foot above q
copper plate in the earth furnishes suffi.
cient electric power to run the clock
perpetually. y.-Pittsburgh Post.
No person can become chemist
by the study of books alone. He must
go through course of practical study
in a laboratory as well as study books
to learn this art and science. A blind
man might as well expect to learn to
paint landscapes by hearing descrip.
tions of scenery read to him as man
expect to become expert in any art OF
science whatever by reading only.-M
Y. Times.
The farms of the United States are
worth $40. 1876, 799, ,645; the fences, S7S..
765, 1913; live stock, $500, S32, 1877; farm
implements and machinery, S40S, ,516,.
902; manures and special fertilizers cost
S2S, 5S7,S65. The total value invested
in agriculture is rated at Sl2,21O, 253,.
316. Its yearly products foot up S2,s
500, 600. 600 and the revenue yearly col
lected from its products for the support
of the National, State and local Govern
ments and for education amounts tc
nearly S10O,0O0,000 annually.
From the best information we can
get from all parts of the State, We have
made an estimate that there are now in
Texas 100000 of sheep, including this
years lambs; that the lamb crop this
year is fully 100000 head. The State
will market about 25, 900, 600 pounds OF
wool, worth on an average 22I centspel
pound, or Sc, 100000. OF mutton sheer
about S5OO,OOO worth will be sold dur
ing the year, which gives us total rev.
enue of nearly S7,000,O00 derived from
the wool industry of the State. The
production of wool is increasing at the
rate of 25 per cent. per annum, and will
continue to do so for many years to
come. until Texas will furnish more
wool than all the rest of the United
States. The average gain in weight in
iieeces this year is. as compared with
last, about 80 per cent, in other words,
the same number of sheep shorn last
wear Welded so per cent. more wool
this year.-Ieras Wool Grower.