The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-10-12

Since the first oil-well began to
| flow, 81, 500, 600. 900 have been added TO
the wealth of this country by the prod
uct of petroleum.
The figures given of the losses by
| the strikes this summer are large. Tho
| loss to employees is estimated at over
Sc, 600, 600; 10 employers, SI2, 100000,
and to the general public, $50, 100000.
Chicago journal.
SO valuable and scarce has the
| black walnut tree become that IN ny
of them in the mounta ms of North
Carolina have been sold at $40 apier G.
just as they stand in the woods, the
purchaser reserv ng the right TO take
them away within a certain number OK
years.
There are some sixty sassafras-oh
distilleries in Buckingham, County, Va,
and they engage three hands "a each
mill. They Consume cach per eay I'VE
thousand pounds of roots and make
sixty gallons of oil, worth from 81. 90
| to So per gallon -S270 to $500 per day,
and for the year from S54 Geo TO $6O'-
900.
1t is no longer ''cattle on n thou
sand hills" but thousands of cattle ON
the hills. Twenty-nine cowboys
who visited Topeka, Kan during tho
| late soldiers reunion, represented over
| 400, 600 cattle, and $40, 900, 600 capital.
| The largest number represented by one
| firm was go, 600 head and the smallest
number by single individual was 1000
| head. Prairie Far7l7er
I'm a iewelry store at Erie, Pn.,
/ hangs a clock about the size of an aver
| age eight-day clock, with a pendulum
Weighing forty pounds. This pendHlom
/ Is made to oscillate beneath a horseshoe
| magnet, above which is coil magnet
A zinc plate buried one foot abo'o a
| copper plate in the earth furnishes suili-
cient electric power to run the clock
/ perpotually. - Pittsburgh Post.
| No person can become chemist
| by the study of books alone. lie must
60 through a course of practical study
| in laboratory as well as study books
to learn this art and science. "A blind
man might as we'll expect to learn To
| paint landscapes by hearing descrip-
| tons of scenery read to him as a man
expect to become expert in any art or
science whatever by reading Only.-N
/ T. IfnlcS.
| The farms of the United States arc
worth $40, 1856, 799, Gas; the fences, S7S,-
| 765, 1913; live stock, $500, S32, 1877; farm
| implements and machinery, S40S,5l6,-
| 9O2; manures and special fertiliNers cost
| S2S, ,5S7. 1865. The total value invested
| in agriculture is rated at $l2, 25S,-
3l6 Its yearly products foot up S2,-
| 500, 600. 900 and the revenue yearly col
lected from its products for the support
of the National, State and local Govern
mcnts and for education amounts to
nearly 100000, 000 annually.
From the best information we can
get from all parts of the State, we have
made an estimate that there are now i'm
Texas 1000. 900 of sheep, including this
| year lambs; that the lamb crop this
| year is fully 300, 900 heal. The State
will market about 70, 600, 900 pounds of
wool, worth on an average 22l centsper
pound or SO, G00.000 or mutton sheep
! about 5000 600 worth will be sold dur
| ing the year. wh .ch gives us n total rev.
enue of nearly 81, 600, 900 derived from
the wool industry of the State. The
production of wool is increasing at the
rate of 20 per cent. per annup, 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
| feeces this year is, rs compared with
last, about 80 per cent, in other words,
the same number of sheep shorn last
! year yielded 80 per cent. more wool
| this year. Texas Wool GrOUer.