The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-07-19

,Tmalargest peach orchard in the world is in
Alabama
Cotton picking is In progress in Brooks county,
Georgia.
This Is 1owa's wild blackberry year Tho
bushes are weighted TO the ground with fruit
Augusta, Georgia, has 5000 200 invested in
manufactures '-.---'-
Chatham county, Georgia has shipped $780, 900
wor h Of cabbage this year.
The orange crop about Tavares, Florida will
be larger this year than ever known.
One farmer, II little south of Clyde, New York
Is reported to have sixty acres OF potatoes grow.
| ing. He puts on Paris green with II steam fire
engine
Forty-fve tons of borax month arc now
brought from the western side of Death Valley
| TO be refined In San Francisco
| Upton, Iowa, town of only 800 inhabitants
| Is lighted by electric light 1t is the smallest
| town i'll the world in which this light is in gen.
| eTal use.
The iron for the great electric light mast on
| bridge square, Minneapolis, which is to DO go
| feet in height Is beginning to arrive, and work
| viii be commenced on the foundation at once
| II is now expect d that the mast will be raised
| and tho lights burning by fair time.
Commanders of Hudson river steamers have
been Prohibited by the treasury department
from usiug the products of coal oil or petroleum
| rs stores for illuminating and other purposes
| An order has also been issued prohibiting
| steamers from carrying hay or straw MS freight
Henderson has twenty-five tobacco stemmcr-
| les, two tobacco manufactures one handle and
|
ing mills, four distilleres one ice manulactory
| one WOODEN mill, and many minor factories.
The Reno Journal says; At Lake Anna near
| Fort Bidwcll Henry Woodson has started a fish.
cry; lie commenced operations three years ago
with 1000 common brook trout, Now he has
| realized SO handsomely from them that he has
sold 10000 and l2,OoJ spawn have been sent 10
| Germany.
Tho receipts and exports of cheese at and
from New York since May ibcginning of The
| trade year. Cona pare rs follows:
Receipts keep Exports.
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The myriads of bugs which are devastating
the orchards IN different parts of Jackson county
are approaching Jackson by easy marches
Last Saturday they invaded IN orchard opposite
| the Round schoo'housc, one.huf mile east of
town, and in a very short time had despoiled 1t
IN ninc'ienths of the orchards in the east portion
of the county iSwholly destroyed.
MI, II, ~ Reeves informs us that prairie dogs
totally destroyed several acres ofpromising corn
Tor him. on California creek, aud nre now max.
ing inroads on splendid deld of millct il /,
possible these pests may yet prove TO be II more
serious draw back TO farming In west Texas than
the exaggerated drouths so harped upon by
those not posted, or whose interests are contrary
to those OF the farming class Il Albany Sun,
The coal heldS of Alabama cover TO- $50 square
miles, and the coal Is all blrminous, but differs
widely IN quality, The best coal In the state,
and, Ill fact IN the United States, being fully
equal TO English cannel coal, is the Monicyall1
coal No industry in the state has had so rapid
growth as the coal industry In 1872 only
10000 tons We're mined in the state, in 1879 the
annual output had been swellcd to MOO
TONS In 1881 TO $4,000 TONS and In lSSl to 10000
tons.
The exports of domestic produce from New
YORK during the past week were considerably
being sSo9?Ol7, against 1850 Q2S for the same
week last year. The movement of petroleum
was much above the usual average while eX-
ports OF provisions and cotton were fair hut the
shipments OF breadstuils, with the exception of
wheat (Which were moderately were light, since
January l tho exports amount TO Sl6G, $50 ma,
compared with sl9s,sH 800 for tho corresponding
T period OF 1881.
With the railroad aud the telegraph the ort
of brewing beeris making fast progress In thc
, realm OF Japan. For number of wears thc
people have contented themselves with
an. imported article, but they after.
ter beer themselves and SO have wisely
n undertaken the task, The industry has bCcom,
a considerable one, The largest two establish
! ments are known respectively rs the shimdugt
J, shokwai, and the llakkosh0 brewcrles Tn,
beer they turn out Is said 10 DO fur more whole
!, some Than the foreign article. and TO DO OK
J, cellcnt In Its taste Tho sale Is fast lncrcas
D Ing.
!. "A silk company has been Incorporated n
!, Aberdeen, Miss It's general manager, Wha. n
the aReut of the agricultural society OF France
mas visited China japan and all coun,ric
where SILK Is cultivated, n order TO learn IN,
% best varieties of mulberry and the best stock
g OF silkworms and who has devoted tho las
q ten years TO the establishment OF silk culur,
~ III this country, says; Prom my long OK
q perienco OF silk culture believe the souihor,
u states possess n better climate for tho sue
n cessiul, profitable cultivation of silk Tim,
o any country In which tho cultivation ol
N SILK is carried on to-day, The climate Is mos
1t like that of Japan, but IL even better IL is In
~ nnitely superior to that OF France, because o
the wonderful cvenness of temperntutc Thor,
10 ARE no sudden cold snaps, such as they have /,
France. SIR culture can be carried on. nm
satisfied, as chespy In this country IA In France
70 The land hero Is cheaper, provisions mr.,
Is cheaper The working season Is longer, and no
Y gro labor In the south II not dcarvr than iabo
% In France. When the industry shall hay,
y spread. too, throughout the south, as we eIpcc
10 IL TO do, II will Furnish employment TO Thousand
N Of women OF all classes. and TO old people mn,
er children It's q moderate estimate that four n
X dve years after the planting Of mulberry plan
N tation, with ordinary care and labor, 4 ne
o. profit OF $3.50 to $50 can DO made per acre I'm NH
N 'culturc. Tho general southern agent OF IN,
70. company says The plan Of the company IL, ii