The daily Cairo bulletin., 1882-01-11
Industrial Notes,


They are burning brick in northern
Dakota with twisted hay. IL is claimed
that kiln Of brick can be burned In
twenty-four hours by the use of this ma
terial.
Such rapid progress is being made
with the Canadian Pacific railway that
1t is expected that the harvest OF south
ern Manitoba will be removed next year
by rail. ,
1t is reckoned that 100000 pounds
of caoutchouc will be taken this sea-
son from the new Inda-rubber' region
discovered on the Beni river in Bo-
livia.
G. Z. Williams, South Deeriield,
Mass, from a dairy of ten Jersey COWS,
between October 5. 1880, and Aug. /,
1881, a period Of ten months, obtained a
butter product aggregating about 2'SSS
pounds.
With population of but $4,000, 900,
England annually consumes 500, 600, 600
pounds of cheese, while the United
States. with a population of 80, 900, 600,
consumes only 275,000,000 pounds OF
cheese annually.
The excellcuce of flax grown in Ore
gon and Washington territory has been
so well demonstrated by several invoices
sent TO Belfast, that a movement is max
ing to extend its cultivation by Irish lin
en- men, who propose to manufacture
linen on Puget sound.
An Illinois farmer who keeps twenty
horses, some of them worth Sl,500
each, writes that he pastures them all
at times in fields fenced with barbed
wire, has done it for years, and had no
harm result from it, Before turning
them out he first leads them TO the fence
and lets them rub their noses against
the barbs, and the hint is sufficient.
They know enough after that to keep
away from the fences.
Much attention has, in recent years
been given to tobacco growing in Ja-
maica. In the Hamburg market, the
most considerable in the world for this
product. Jamaica tobacco is said to be
thought inferior only to that of Havana,
excelling the growth of some parts of
Cuba, such as ST. Jago and Manzanilio,
where tobacco, of fine quality, used
chiefly for home consumption, is pro-
duced. The tea plant has also been
tried in Jamaica with encouraging re-
suits.
The mammoth machinery to be used
at the lower falls of the Genesee river
to condense the air thatiis to be used for
the motive power of the Hydraulic Mo-
tor company, in Rochester, is about
ready to begin work. The compressor
weighs $4,000 pounds, and is of i'm
mense power. The actual weight OF
water that will flow into the pipe each
minute is 600 tons. This falls dis
tance Of over 80 feet, and the power OBJ
tanned is almost incalculable.
There are three glass factories in
Mexico--two near the capital making
window glass, and one at the Pueblo
manufacturing table ware. All the
window glass needed for home use is
made in Mexico, but the sand Of the
country is much contaminated with
mineral substances, and good articles OF
table ware can not be made. The Mex
lean glass is all green. the materials
for clear glass being unobtainable, and
the demand for the latter is supplied by
foreigners.
James Card, the English statistician,
says that in the ten years ending with
1871, $4,000 acres of grain land, and
22S, 600 acres Of green crop land in Great
Britain, had been converted into per-
manent pasture, and the annual return
of fS,00O,O00 formerly derived from
these crops, had thereby disappeared.
Mr.. Card attributed the agricultural
depression not to American competi-
ton, but to bad seasons. He consider
ed that the burdens, difficulties, and
uncertainties of American agriculture
would always place it at a disadvantage
with British agriculture in the British
market.