The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-11-08
TRADE ITESs.

Buff5lOeS are beComiDG scarce IA tDS 80"
| ges of Nevada. r.
Doniphan is shipping from one TO foul
/ car loads of rock and piling every DAY to
Columbus, Kentucky.
Hay at Cook City, Montana, Is seiiing io'
| $50 q ton.
A mill for the manufacture of straw paper
| and boards Is contemplated at ofanu
| Rapids, Wisconsin.
| far been paid ont at 1ankton for tne AJAX
crop of 1888.
Illinois has 400 cream cries and cheese
factories, Kaue county leading with Al
The st. John News says tho crop OF pota-
toes in the province OF New Brunswick Is
the largest on record.
In less than thirty years the manufacture
of paper in the United States has Increased
from II $50 to 726 600 tons.
A Franklin county (renn) farmer real
ICED the past season So QUO from eighty
acres of straw berries.
Good butter retails in Tucson, Arizona,
at 81 % a pound, while eggs are III de-
mand at 65 cents per doZa IN. a..
West Andover, Ashtabula county. ONO,
is said to have the largest creamery III tEe
world II works up the milk of 500 cows
daily.
The Silver State, published at Whine.
mucca. Nevada, says The greasewood
lands of Big Meadows, Humboldt county
are proving to be the best wheat lands IN
the state"
Oranges in Florida are bursting and
dropping from the trees. This is supposed
to be the result of wet weather following
severe drought.
The Kenhebec journal Gays that the ice
CO i, panies of Maine have not realized any
profit this year, the price of ice having been
low and labor having been scarce and high.
According to the census, Connecticut
stands fourth in the list OF silk manu'ac'
turing states. The number OF establish
ments engaged in the state is twenty eight,
with capital of 81 a3S 800.
In 1870 Georgia had 10 coo farms; in 1880
she had 1879 600. The estimated value OF
products in 1870 was $50 DOC, 900, in 1880 it
had risen to Sl.5 900 900, or an increase OF
more than so per cent.
Champaign county expects to ship 90 ooO
bushels OF apples. The prices Daiu per
busbel range from Az TO on cents per Dusnei
for winter varieties.
The receipts and exports OF cheese at and
from New York since May compare as
follows:
Receipts, pkss Exports lbs;
For week ending Get 90 a ds. dsa la ssoog9
Since May l, 1888. ........ 4 e59.059 n O99 ~,
same time last year. $40. .i,7is,i9S 67,65s,Ooo
A law applicable to seven counties in
Washington Territory provides penalty
against throwing sawdust into streams as
large nun bers OF Ssh are killed by the
saw dust entering their Threats and gills.
1t is an excellent sign of the gro WITH OF
the south that IL leads the west in the
number oil new post-oifices gained during
the past year. The gain for the southern
states and Indian Territory was TBS; for the
west $50: for the Pacific slope, 6S. The
middle and eastern states gained very few
postofflces, and Connecticut loses one.
Oh
sale OF stamps at the post Office in this city
for the month just closing has been the
| largest ever known, realizing the sum OF
| S25, 600. The heaviest receipts for any one
month previous to this was in December.
1882. when the sales aggregated little over
| 1913 900.
Toad raising is profitable Austrian in
dustry. The creatures are produced for the
| London market, where they are sold for Sl6
| or $50 per hundred and are bought by gar
deners and agriculturists for use in destroy
| ing obnoxious insects.
The Atlanta, Georgia Constitution says
that city consumes $500 pounds OF butter
| per Gay, at cost oil 500 10 casn, SOU OF
which goes out ofthe state. Yet Georgia Is
a good grass.growiDg ate, where dairying
can be conducted probably.
| Potatoes are coming into st. Louis very
| freely from Northern Iowa and Minnesota.
! The prices are 30 low that the st. Louis
| dealers are hlliDg up all the cellars ana
warehouses in the city, so the outlook for
high prices 10 the spring is not flatter-
| ing.
Maine, Il is claimed, stands fourth among
the thirty-eight states In the number oil
water wheels aud the amount OF water
power she has in use. In herouarrying in
dustries she ranks fret IA granite aud third
In slate, In ship-building she is third In
the list. Her fisheries are fourth in import.
ance. Her production OF manufactured
| lumber is only exceeded by six states. ln
paper manufacture she Ia sixth ia import
ance. In the production Of tanned leather
she is third. In the manufacture Of boots
and shoes sbe IL firth in importance. In
cotton manufacture she is also 9th, and
| in the manufacture OF wooden goods and
| u,fr "A tertfles ehe ranks seventh.