The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-03-22
TRADE ITEMS.

Half a million eggs have been shipped
from Glasgow, Kentucky, in the past two
weeks. -
Georgia.
by the fac.ories of this country.
Al Sparta, Georgia, DR.. G. w. Watkins Is
making success of raising pecan trees.
Salmon are being caught in the Yazoo
rive, Mississippi. ..,u
The demand for Georgia pine IS greatly
on the increase in the north. go,
daily coumption in the city OF New ! OK.
One day last week gentleman IN Geor-
gia ate asparagus, lettuce, mustard, spinach
and turnips from his own garden.
The Crow Indians in Montana NUMBER
3,4OO and are mostly engaged In stocK-rais-
ing and agricultural pursuits.
Specimens of asbestos fiber, from Jour 10
six inches long, and very SOIL ana SILKY arc
found in Nebraska.
This largest grain elevator in the country
IL said to be that belonging to the Pennsyl-
yania railroad company, in Jersey CITY.
Some Swedish manufacturers OF matches
are proposing to set up large factory III
northern New York. 900 =. -
built at Eel Paso, Texas, and the contracts
for construction have been let.
The Lake Michigan whitetish planted IN
Lake Tahoe are doing timely. one aDout
eight inches in length was caught from
wharf last week.
In 1882 somebody in the United states
swallowed 73,556,036 gallons OF dls S H5e
spirits, 25, 62S,0 OIL gallons OF wines, ana oz''-
O51 ,236 gallons of beer. -,
Ten years ago one steamboat could hardly
nav expenses running down the east snore
of Puget Sound. Now ten boats are Kept
conste ntly busy over the same route.
The extent of land unde' grain crops IN
| New Zealand in 1881 was 63S, $40 acres I'M
der green cops, 1858, 573 acres, ana unuer
artificial grasses, $685., O69 acres.
Austria Hungary pays $2,250,OCO year
to steamship companies, and is going TO
paw So ,O0O, coo so as to keep up with Italy
In Co-ea the common cure-all is ginseng
roo, the best specimens OF which Will IN
| mes of scarcity command the almost lab
rlous price of $4,000 pound. :.
English mines yielded 10y ogy w, C96 IONS Oi
cor in 1882 and employed 50l,CJO men.
! The Weld is slight advance on 1851
| France produced 20 ,251 53l tons in 1852.
Five saw mills at Chattanooga can turn
out 100 900 feet OF lumber every ten hou;f
yet the supply is not equal to the home oe-
mand.
The California Ostrich Farming company
has filed articles OF incorporation WIN ee ene
secretary of state. The capital stock is S3O,-
| 900 and $40 ,9co of it subscribed by thirty
seven different individuals. =,
| In some sections of Tennessee the farmers
| intend TO pillow up their wheat, as 1t has
been ruined by the Hessian fly. They Will
plant corn and potatoes instead.
The Montgomery, Ala, OIL mills nave
| turped out this season 5000 barrels OF OIL,
against 1000 barrels the same time last
year. A large amount Of cotton-seed meal
has been made
| TAMPA, which is 105 feet square, and on
| which is house 82x32 feet, that gentleman
this season has picked from the orange
| trees theron 10 900 oranges. 1900
600 barrels of ale and beer will be bTewed
| in the United States during the current
wear. an increase Of about IL per cent. over
| the year previous.
The, San Antonio Light thinks two
branches ofindustry may be cultivated IN
Texas with more profit than cattle breed
| ing, one is the silk cocoons, the other the
raising OF olives.
More attention is being given TO draining
low land in the southern states than ever
before. The richest tracts in the south
have been entirely unprotected or only
used for producing rice. Much OF this land
is now being drained for the purpose OF
raising cotton, corn, sweet potatoes, anu
! small 6rain.
A partial estimate Of the money value to
exhibitors of the last Cincinnati exposition
reaches the sum of S1,tOO,CU, and may
possibly aggregate $1,000, 600. In the de-
partment OF machinery alone the sales
amounted 10 $116, JOG.
The tunnel under the English channel
has been finished 10 a mile and a quarter
from the French shore, and the engineers
say they can advance 1872 feet in day. Al
\ this rate the tunnel could be completed 10
Dover in a year aud q half.
Alexandria (La.) Express: Our sugar
planters have nearly all finished planting
cane. The stubble is looking remarkably
fine for the season, and seed cane has kept
better than Il has done for several years.
| The present outlook rs that a very large