The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-08-31
Industrial Rrevities

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.. Tegetmeier, yolks of large
and small eggs are generally of the
same size.
A Shetland mare belonging at Mauch
Chunk, Pa, has colt that weighs -
pounds and measures nineteen inches
in height.
Wolves are very troublesome in Rey-
nolds county, Missouri, where they have
not only attacked sheep. but have killed
two colts.
Cuba is chiefly supplied with beef
cattle raised in southern Florida. The
quality of the meat is poor, but the an
imals are raised at very small cost.
A young farmer in southern Illinois
has noticed that the common swallow
devours more chinchbugs than any
bird common to the grain growing re-
gion.
1t was reported at the nurserymen's
convention recently held at Rochester,
~ 4 =, oii'Hb iiCtill I'LL thc pcttL LiCS5 9ce
out in 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 600 acres
On the same farm are 1000 grated ap-
pie trees and 5000 pear trees.
A farmer in England raises 200 ducks
each year for the London market. Many
of them are Matched IN the winter, and
are kept under cover till the approach
of cold weather.
The far-famed Duke of Connaught,
| the highest-priced ball ever sold, is in
cluded in Lord Fifth arding's sale. A
reserved bid of $4,000 will, however.
probably retain him at Berkeley castle.
4 new use for glass has recently been
| developed in its substitution for marble
| tops of tables and dressing eases. a
! Pittsburgh firm has turned out slabs Of
! glass that are said to be II perfect ini-
! alton of the latter material, while they
| admit of decorations OF various designs.
| both in form and color.
| The agricultural department will in
| future make special efforts to collect for
! publication crop and market reports of
! European countries, and Commissioner
| Loring has just appointed Edward j.
| Moffat, 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 tiower-pots filed 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 set in new beds, by thump-
! ing them out of the pots.
Jerusalem artichokes have long been
known rs most valuable addition to
| the rations of hogs, but the fact that
| they are even more valuable as an ad-
dition to the diet of cattle seems to be
| less generally recognized. They are
hardy, yield fair crops on poor andvery
large ones 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 piece OF
land after they have become establish
! ed.
1t is thought that the demand for a
cheap insulating material has been met
by discovery of method by which
| wood, sawdust, cotton waste, paper
| pulp, and other tibrous substances can
be converted into a material perfectly
impcrvious to moisture and acids, easi-
ly nodded under pressure into any shape,
and capable of being worked or cut in
to any form. This material is ali excel
lent non-cOnductor of electricity, and
can be used for all forms of battery
cells, telegraph insulators. supports fol
electric-light leads, and telephone work.
1t affords the means of securing perfect
insulation at a very much less cost than
ebonite or gutta percha.