The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-06-13
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IHE olaCkDerTy crop promises TO be I'M
mense In southern Indiana.
bagging factory with capital OF 800
600 II about to be started in Galveston.
1t has not rained at Rio Grande City for
nine months, and grass and water are
scarce.
IL is said that there are twenty five thous.
and women in Tennessee who support
themselves.
A grove of 81 600 cocoanut trees will be
planted near Key West in very short
time.
Sixty men and tiitye cams are engaged in
cutting the great new ella ditch in Arr
IONA,
Nearly million acres OF land in Louisi-
ana have been sold recently to Kansas
speculator.
A new manufacture at Worcester, Mass,
is that OF iron lasts, of which ten thousand
pairs have been made within a few months.
The new German steel torpedo boats, re-
Gently built at Bremen, attained a speed of
eighteen knots at the trial trips.
lThere are said to be over 1000, 600 tons of
ice between the Spring street docks, New
York, and the Albany basins.
The glass.works in Wellsburg, West
virginia, have made contract with the
gas company to run their works for s., 800
a year, a saving OF $4,000 on coal.
Two citizens of Lisbon think they have
succeeded in inventing steam pillow which,
II 1t proves successful, will be of importance
to the farmers of Dakota.
The Memphis Appeal: About $780, 900
will be realized for the present potato crop
ofthis county. One barrel factory is work
ing night and day and turns out nearly
1000 barrels per day.
Seventy-two thousand dozen eggs were
| shipped 10 Jacksonville through the ex-
press office at Monticello during January
February and March.
The canning factory at Crystal Springs,
Mississippi, is now au assured fact. The
sum needed for the establishment of the
industry-$5, 000-has been subscribed by
the citizens, and work on the factory will
soon begin.
A market gardener, near Stark Lake,
Florida, has shipped over | 500 crates of
cucum bers from an eight acre field. and he
has not got through shipping yet. His
crates have Melted him $3.50 each.
Nearly 100000 bushels of potatoes were
imported into this country last year.
About 900 600 bushels came from Ber-
mudas. New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.
The remainder came from Europe, and
were generally of poor quality.
The capital of the German empire still
continues to increase RAPIDLY On May |
the population passed the figure | 200 600
AS the last census, on December /, 1850,
gave the total number OF inhabitants at ! :
10000, it appears that within two years
and live months the increase has been So
900 persons.
Mississippi Is doing very well in the way
OF progress. She produces more cotton
than any other state. She has cotton and
other mills employing about 10000 hands,
ana $I,OOOOOO in capital; her free schools
number 5000, and in every way she is get.
ting wide awake.
The production of gunny bagging in the
United States is about $4,000 900 wards A
year, which will cover 5000, 900 bales and
worth 60 to zoe bale. The jute butts from
which the comm ,dity is made have beer
largely imported for many years, and the
business formerly use to be very profitable
but is now suffering from overproduction
Rice planting In South Carolina and
Georgia is becoming precarious, and, ex
cept In the cases OF very rich men, IL i,
thought that industry in the two states will
die out. Louisiana and Florida will be
come the rice states par excellence. The
coast planters OF Georgia and South Caro-
lima will have to initiate Mr.. Robert Gour
din-drain their fields and convert then
into meadows.
The production Of sugar in the northern
states is being urged with good deal
persistency, and it is noticeable that tn,
cultivation of cane and sugar beet is at
tracing more attention from farmers. w,
are impressed with the belief that the tim,
has come when we ought to increase sugal
production, and that the agricu,turists anC
capitalists ought to combine to extend th,
resources Of our country In this regard
The cane, which can be successfully grown
at the north, will afford many farmers ,
+ profitable crop, Will the sugar beet pre-
sents possibilities which deserve considera
ton. IL is time that this country mad
itself more independent Of foreign source
of supply for sugar.