The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-06-01
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MINERAL spring, whose waters turns MS red
rs blood when confined In a bottle, has been dis
covered in Arkansas
Seth Green says fish never sleep or close their
ewes, and that the natural age OF Il trout is about
fifteen years.
Missouri has n new law forbldiug the manu-.
facturc ind sale In that state Of any imitation of
butter no matter whether represented to be
genuine or not.
The Arkansas valley In western Kansas IL to
be thoroughly irrigated, and 10y this system that
portion of the state will soon become tho gran
AIRY of the Rocky mountains
A rrdN oOd tree, ~ feet In diameter was GvllCd
near Gucrncyilc, aud II correspondent says that
when II fell more than } tons struck the solid
earth, and the conclusion ratified the dishes In
houses mile away,
abolishing inter state cuStom-houses, has been
ratified and officially proclaimed by the TX.
ccutive,
In Medina county company of English CAPT.
talsts have purchased the hat cave belonging IL
the Ncy estate and TO sam O. Bennett and the
bat cave on the Frlo and the one on the Cibolo
They intend To manufacture ammonia, Manu-
factories will be erected In Uyaldc, san Antonio
and Borne,
Despite the fact that the petroleum market Is
now filed IN OVERLOOKING, the report OF the state
geOlogist OF pcnusy lyania shows that the pres
ent amount Of production could not be continued
morc than four years longer and that thci
what are now the most productive region,
would not be richer than the old oil fields, nov
comparatively deserted.
Petroleum is now shipped In paper barrels
The advantages OF compressed paper over Woo
nro thus Aunmct up; The absence of Joint
causes les. leakage, greater elasticity aud les
liability to fracture, less dilaton and conScQuru
less expense. The paper barrels nre mNnufac
turcd at Hartford Cleveland and Toledo
The stat Dish commissioner has been notinCj
that 900 O0l snad aud 9,cOO,0O0 behring's ATE OF
the way To Austin, 10 be placed In the Colorado
river nj that point, The commissioner say
that most " the large rivers In the state will b
equally well supplied during the summer Thu
rcsshil aud about l,OOO carp will be ready 70
distribution before long,
Twvnty -four thousand eggs Of the sllkworn
weigh quarter of an ounce the worm live
from ~ "a % days, " Increases In weight In 3
days $500 fold, and during the last Is days q
Its life eats nothing, For 1j9 pounds OF mulherr
leaves ~ pounds VI cocoons arc ohtainCd ~
pounds OF cocoons give STA pounds VI spun
silk aud one pound Of cocoonS will produce
thread ot 500 fathoms In length.
According 10 the Hon, Carroll II, Wright, 4
the 18th annual report the labor hurea
OF Massachusetts, wages increased ~ ~
the cost Of living Increased la7 per cent. Tn
upward tendency In wages viii he restricted b!
two causes first, Immigration, second. abuu
dant crops. A general decline In cost Of ptC
Ing expansion OF consunl ton.
In the btafos bottom growsa weed, IN hcigl
fifteen or twenty feet that is said 10 be alno,
as nutritious Us corn. II Ia called tho "bloo
weed from tho fact that when broken iher
escapes juice that Il almost m rcd a. bloo,
Many farmers feed their work stock but once
day with ooru. The other two meals are mad
by 'stasing'' on blood weed There are man
instances whore crops are raised by feeding n
work stock exclusively GU this nutritious weet
Horses and cattle esteem II moro highly tina
almost any other food.
We have been reading q little pamphlet n
oenly Issued by the cotton seed meal eIchang
Of Memphis, and II contains facts as valuable
they arr Interesting, with reference " the use
cotton seed meal ass food for cattle and al,
~ . fertilizer Statistics, based ON ac,u
experiments, show that cotton secd me
s food for cattle. coniaius u,orc nutrluve qua
tee than any other food Known. both for pr
duclns hesh, fat and for milch COWS Anu
meal produced by the cotton secd oil mills
tho Mississippi valley IL now hten up for Il
mesdc cphrumption, inslead Of beius shipped
Europe ~ uss formerly the case STOCK raise
arc delighted With II and now The mills al
steady DEMAND for all Their can supply, II belt
better aud cheaper than any other hood Fan
ets afy eADo usinR II sltensiveiy q fsrtilis
With the hApviest tesults. TT eiosdipg the "
OF ruAno u phosphaes Tho southern psop
sre lust bextnnin1 W fairly realise the value
uptlon se<d and I've varied usss vin Ia N
make lies great On object peasursbly, with 1
fAtsuer. - the u,sson i,srlf The I'll ii, ~
end usal ~ IN but NE dsvelops ~ e vhs,
pseeibls WIN The sssd. -