Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-08-31
Industrial Brevities.


Two ladies in Burlington, Iowa, are
engaged in silk culture, and are meet
ing with good success.
A gentleman who has travelled eXtens-
lively through the western states says
that the best corn is in Indiana.
According TO an English poultry au-
thority. Mr.. Tcgetnleier, yolks of large
and small eggs are generally of the
same size.
y Shetland mare belonging at Mauch-
Chunk, Pa. has a colt that weighs IL
pounds and measures nineteen inches
in height.
Wolves are very troublesome in Rey-
holds county, Missouri, where they have
not only attacked sheep. but have killed
two colts.
Cuba is chiefly supplied with beef
cattle raised i'll southern Florida. The
quality of the meat is poor, but the an
finals are raised at n very small cost. y,
A young farmer in southern Illinois
has noticed that the common swallow
devours more ~chinchbngs than any
bird common to the grain-growing re-
gion.
1t was reported at the n~urserymen's
convention recently held at Rochester,
n. Y, that nearly all the pear trees set
out iii the western states are raised in
New York.
Griffin. Ga, has the largest peach
orchard in the south. containing $4,000
trees and covering most of GOO acres.-
On the same farm are 1000 grated APP
pie trees and 5000 pear trees.
Afarmerin England raises ], 200 ducks
each year for the London market. Many
of them are Matched III the winter, and
are kept under cover till the approach
of cold weather.
The far-famed Duke of Connaught,
the highest-priced bull ever sold, is in
cluded in Lord Fitzharding's sale. A
reserved bid of so, 900 will, however,
probably retain him at Berkeley castle.
\ new Use for glass has recently been
developed in its substitution for marble
tops of tables and dressing cases. A
Pittsburgh firm has turned out slabs of
glass that are said to be u perfect imi-
tation of the latter material, while they
admit of decorations of various designs,
both in form and color.
Tie agricultural department will in
future make special efforts to collector
publication crop and market reports Of
European countries. and Commissioner
Loring has just appointed Edward j.
Moifat, of New York, agent for the de-
partment for this purpose. He will be
made deputy at the London consul gen.
eralship.
To grow strawberry plants in pots,
sink small tlower-pots filled with rich
soil under the ends of the runners. and
hold them there with a stone Or weight
of any kind. A wire in the shape of a
hair-pin is as good as anything to pin
them down. In three weeks the little
pots will be filled with roots, and the
plants may be Setinnew beds, by thump-
ing them out of the pots.
Jerusalem artichokes have long been
known as a most valuable addition to
the rations of hogs, but the fact that
they are eve more valuable as an adj
dition to the diet Of cattle seems to be
less generally recognized. They are
hardy, yield fair crops on poor and very
large one on rich soil; are more nutri-
tious than the potato, and once planted
there will be no need for ~replanting, as
they are not easily got out of 4 piece of
land after they have become establish
ed.
1t is thought that the demand for a
cheap insulating material has been met
5y q discovery of a method by which
wood, sawdust, cotton waste. paper
,ulp. and other tibrous substances can
e converted into a material perfectly
-mpervious to moisture and acids, east
nodded under pressure into any shape,
nd capable of being worked or cut in
=, any form. This material is ali excel
mt non-conductor of electricity, and
an be used for all forms of battery
lis, telegraph insulators. supports for
,ectric-light leads, and telephone work.
J affords the means of securing perfect
Isulation at a very much less cost than
,.lopita or o1,tta par.ba