The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-03-02
TRADE ITEMS.


TRADE ITEMS.
NIw ORLEANS pays $l25 pound for A
certain brand OF Massachusetts butter
st. Augustine il shipping cabbage to
| Charleston at the rate of 500 per week.
There was fully $4,000, 600 of solid wealth
represented at the Austin convention,
a big peach grower near Griffin, Georgia,
says he planted 10000 peach trees some
| time ago and has not lost one of them.
This early in the season 1910 crates of
tomatoes have been shipped from Key
West, Florida.
Large numbers of deer and other rumi.
nant wild animals have been drowned in
the overflow of. :. streams in Mississippi
| county, Arkansas.
Californian, visiting east Florida, has
bought q large number of oranges and
shipped them to the Pacific slope.
Francisco Estrada, CT San Luis Potosi. is
reported to have perfected an instrument
by which voice can be heard for 500
leagues.
Charred corn is one of the best things
which can be fed to hens to make them Law,
not as regular diet, but in limited auaI. .
titles each day.
Mississippi will spend $4,000 for the en-.
enlargement of immigration.
In order to introduce telegraphy in China
the authorities have granted the free use of
the wires to the people for one month.
1t is said that Philadelphia exhibitors nj
the Atlanta Cotton exhibition got orders
for over 100000 worth of goods from
southern planters.
Coal sells in Kingston, Tennessee, at
twenty-seven and n half cents per bushel
and the purchasers carry it from the mines
to town in bags.
1T is estimated that the total length Of
submarine telegraph cables in the world is
", 100 miles, having money value of about
| S200,0O0000.
| A telegraph inspector has left Matamoras
for the purpose OF pushing the work of con-
struction between Matamoras, Tampico
and Victoria.
The figures as to nails show the largest
business cincinnati has ever transacted.
| lOI Kegs, Ill comparison with $50, 1888 in
ls70-so, and the shipments 474977, com
pared with 1901.
From present indications there will be n
| good supply of peaches about Chattanooga,
Tennessee, while the apple crop will be ex.
ceptionally large.
a San Francisco company have con-
tracted for the excavation of 60OO, 900 cubic
meters OF the Panama Canal at thirty cents
gold per meter.
Sometime since the Chattanooga city
council passed an ordinance appointing two
men IN each ward TO Kill out the English
sparrows: II has developed that the law is
unconstitutional.
Strawberry plants should be set out rs
early in the season as possible in order 10
avoid dry spell. Nothing is so fatal 10
young plants as lack of moisture after he.
ing transplanted.
Anybody can have grape vines by cutting
them properly. Trim on portion of The
old vine and leave a bud at each end. Stick
one end in the ground and it will take
root.
Ensilage is nothing new, as far as preser
walton is concerned. 1t is simply keeping
green food through the winter by exclusion
of the air, 1t is on the same principle n,
canning, only on larger scale.
1t is stated that during 1881 there wer,
.SoL2 boxes of cheese sold at Little Falls
New York, and 2i0, 7i6 at Utica. The aver
age weight Of the boxes was sixty pounds
making the enormous total of 81, SiS OSC
pounds. II is estimated that the value o
the cheese sold last year ut these places anc
~ Rome was at least Si,000,0OO. Tn,
cheese product of llerkimer county. New
York, last year, was estimated ut Id, 55l 81
pounds, with ,i02, I'D pounds OF butter.
'"N NN'A Iuu' III rslEiullu rs "OiSluOrcO
III good condition, OF Australian wool, tn,
imports into England In 1881 were ISL ,Ss,
bales, and SS,Sl6 bales in 1880. OF Can,
woods, the imports were l0i, 1873 bales last
year, against l03 go bales in 1850. The TO.
tai domestic clip fell from 10000 On
pounds in 1850 to $4,000, 900 pounds In lSSi
and further decline is anticipated for tn,
present year
The receipts of wool in Boston the pas
week were $50 bales domestic and |, SS
bales foreign, against 1901 bales domesti,
ana l,'to bales foreign for the correspond
ing week of last year. The total recent
since the first OF January, 1882 have bee,
l3ioo bales domestic and i,21S bales foreign
against iO,i0S bales domestic and GOO
bales foreign for the corresponding perio,
of 1851.
;. q. Cahill and A. $. Boone, against
whom the grand jury OF the District of 90
lumbia have made several presentments fol
conspiracy with other persons to dcfrau,
the government, were successful bidders n
,he recent matl letting Tor numerous route
IN Texas and Louisiana. They are Ms,
Jointly indicted for subornation of ner,nrs'
Tho peach crop, 80 far, seems TO have %
capped general injury from cold. In Miohi
gan prospects are particularly favorable /,
aeood crop, From New Jersey there arc
, lew reports OF injury, but from tho Dcla
ware peninsula no harm has been rcportr,
50 Tar, In western New York prospects nj
also good, In the Hudson Valley thSr,
are places where the buds are said TO hay,
oeen injured, but the cases are scattering.
occasional sowing Of little patches o
gIv"nu with mustard, green peas, oats, etc.
: VIII DO much To assist in keeping a COW ON
. small farm. They grow Quickly and m,
same land Will grow several crops. A it'll
, discretion In this wpy will sayr n,uch Nv