The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-01-21
TRADE ITEMS


TRADE ITEMS
A COMPANY with 81 000,0 900 capital will be
organized to establish locomotive works in
Louisville.
The sales of manufactured clothing in
Chicago for the year 1881 amounted to the
enormous sum of S20,U00,000.
The Florida Union says there were GO, $40
boxes of oranges shipped from Jacksonville
in December; AS there are at least 100
oranges in box there was an orange apiece
for more than ten million people.
Glasgow, Scotland is the second city, in
point of population in Great Britain, hay
ing 10000 IL has upwards of IA miles of
publ lie streets the largest ship-yards and
the largest chemical works in the world
and two chimneys-oue 40 and the second
46O-which are uneQualed in height by any
ever built.
An Ohio man who owned $4,000 acres OF
land in that State, is among the recent
dead. 1t must have been little binding
on him to come down TO only six feet OF
ground.
| Wisconsin has been cutting ice ten inche,
thick, is out OF debt ana her Timothy Howe
is PostmaSter-Geueral The average Wis
consumer is looking hopefully forward to
wine baths.
The American Refrigerator Transit Com
pany has handled upwards of 1000, 600
| pounds of perishaple freight up to the lst
OF January, and have had only u claim of
$2S for damages upon the entire lot This
is the most remarkable record extant,
proving beyond question the superiority of
the "lIiggs' system, which they use,
Coal is shipped from Scotland to Calves
ton; 1t comes as ballast and is cheap.
lfyou want TO trade with q liberia man.
and one who Will give you the worth of your
money, trade with the man that adyertises
literally, lie cum afford to, but others can
not.
1t is not many years since bee-keepin-
became regular business, and only in the
last four or five years that the old-style
boxes have been discarded for smaller and
more attractive ones. In the early days
OF bee culture, a section OF hollow tree or
a rough board hive was considered sufIi-
cient, but these busy little workers were
long since transferred to more commodious
apartments. This accounts largely for the
better grade and increased production of
honey. An exchange states that 800 swarms
OF bees are worth in the vicinity of 81, 500
and yield an income of $2,500-a much
larger return with less labor than the most
productive 2OO-acre farm. Few farms in the
Eastern States return over or per cent
on the capital invested. But all cannot
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they could
Fish culture in New Jersey is a success,
as it is everywhere, 1t is only during the
last season and the one now closing that
the results have been clearly shown. The
estimated increase in the shad production
is from 100000 to 100000, while there il
marked change for the better in the quality,
the average weight has also risen from four
ana to six pounds, with percepti-
pie increase each year. Shore fishing has
been especially encouraged and these fish
cries are the most profitable Along the
Delaware 100000 is invested in shad fish
cries alone, giving employment to at least
5000, using 100 miles of nets. Cane Nav
and Long Branch during the fashionable
season are enormous consumers. During
the year the New Jersey Commissioners,
have planted 800, 600 trout, Il, 600 black bass
and o. 900 California salmon. These latter
have made their appearance in good shane
rs null grown fish in the Delaware, and,
barring little coarseness OF flavor occa-
slonally, are said to rank with the Califor-
mia production.
The ore richest in iron is the magnetic or
black.oxide. When pure it contains nothing
but.oNygen and iron, incorporation to give 7S
per cent or iron by weight. 1t occurs in
uarR, heavy masses of black crystals. and il
FOUND III the older primary rocks. Sweden
is famous for this ore and for the iron and
llatterly the steel produced from it, IL has
been worked in the celebrated mines of
Dannamora since the fifteenth century.
Russia has great works in the Ural mount.
ans based ON this ore. 1t occurs in vast
beds IN the eo2oic of northern New York;
also in eastern Pennsylvania and New Jer.
ssey, in North Carolina Canada, Utah Cali.
iornia and Oregon.
The American Stock Journal is credited
with the statement that raising mules is the
most profitable branch of stock-raisinp.
mule 1871 very poor specimen that will
not sell for Sl25 when il is three years old.
while twice that sum is often paid for an
active animal of large size, First.class
mules are only raised from good mares.
Many farmers think that an old dilapidated
mare IS suitable TO raise mules from, but In
this they are mistaken, A good dam as
well asa good sire is required Superior
mules Of large size are in constant
demand, ut high prices. They are wanted |
not only on farms but in large towns where
there Is heavy tcaming to do They endure |
DUST, heat and smoke much better than
horses do,
Mule colts are much more easy to raise
than horse colts. They can be weaned
easter and with less trouhlc. A mule OF
any age Is less dainty about its feed than
morse II is difficult to work mare that
mas colt MS it wants to suck every few
minutes, but n mule colt will abstain from
sucking four or five hours without making |
trouble, II has surprising endurance and |
vitality, If well fed, 1t will get along very
well without shelter, except during severe |
storms. The cost OF raising mule il 90 !
per, cent, less than that of raising horse.
and 1t viii ordinarily bring more money. |
some oil the most prosperous sections of the |
country are those in which raising mules is |
q business.
COTTON,
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