The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-10-11
TRADE ITEMS.

THE grape crop Of Marion cornty, South
Carolina, is said to be very large and tine.
| Buifalo-fish weighing twenty pounds are offer
caught in the Grand canyon Of the Colorado
river
Gieen turtles are selling at 10 cents per pound
at ST Augustine Il orida.
Pueblo inh ibitants spoil $40. 90 worth of good
tobacco monthly. u-;.-s
The marquis of Tuorhe has had twenty-five
i've, muskrats snipped from MGAirea. 10 Scot
land.
! Al ear of corn containing 100 well-matured
grains was grown in the Crosse Iete, L2uisl 81 =.
There are over coo Indians at work in the
Puyallup hop fields, Washington territory.
Florida HIS e3O factories. working 2 7i9 ha DIS
with capital invested OF 1867 600.
At Grand Rapids factory Is soon 10 De slarteu
in which will be made paper boards ana paper
The ct profits at Sing Sing New YORK; prison
for the month of September was 70, 4oO. and for
the year ending September 80, sod OOO
six hundred thousand pine apples have been
shiyped from southern Florida keys during the
season Just closed.
Eighteen counties in Georgia nave aoollshed
f noes South Carolina has similar law, and
likes ii.
Among the many valuable minerals rsct ntly
discovered is u mine of tellurium on Ara ira
creek, on the other side OF the COLORADO IN
Yvapal county, Arzonia.
BRYAN II. Evans of London, has purchased
700 COO acres of land in the 1aZoo dela, wnlcn
n, proposes to people with English oolonists.
Governor Stanford offered General Bidwell
10000 for his Chico ranch, which was re-
fused.
winter ana base their predictions on the fact
that the atmosphere has been dense with smoke
The experiment OF making glass from nat
ural glass has been successfully tried at Wells,
burg, West Virginia The new process is said
to be much cheaper and to make better and
cleaner glass. ,o,
years ago the state could raise only hell, cot
ton cane, and sweet potatoes" the list is now
,ngthened by strawberries, cabbage and
kinds Of fl uits and vegetables
A paIs'mmon grown on the place OF MIS-
70 ,ver, near Jacksonville, Fla measures three
aud half inche in diameter and seven inches
The Women's silk Culture association an,
nounces taat In May, 1884, second six fair VIII
be held in Philade phia for the exhibition more
particularly of the processes connected with the
culture and handling OF raw silk.
Tle d production of butter in Wisconsin in LEI
was % 900 900 pounds; IN 1850 1t amounted 10
Co. 90 600 pounds. OF cheese wisconsin pro-
duced in 1870 LIS 5000 pounds; in 1850 1t pro-
d ced 100000 pounds.
son that IL is expected TO yield more bushels
than ever Def re, despite the destruction caused
by wind and hailstoIms On single twis,
about nine inches long, recently nineteen APP
pies were co 1nted.
Canning factories are rapidly springlng up,
but still The prices of canned goods have not de-
creased, which indicates that the more articles
e introduced the greater the demand. There
should be DO obstacle in the way OF cooper
alive canneIies TO which growers may carry
tn eir vegetables to be canned.
on farm near Eufdulf, Alabama, there Is a
wat rmelon patch which covers 1850 acres. the
product of which averages 1909 ma ketable
melons to the fcre, and the prices realiz aver
age Sl00 per acre. II requires from five to ten
ireight-cars per day In season 10 move the crop
he nronfie,or wotild make "Oig money If he
didn't sell melon, but merely aved the seeds
from them. II requires $50 pounds OF seeds to
. ant his own crop. twenty pound melon
worth ut wholesale from 81 TO 81 per pound One
scotsman desired 10 place an order for one toa
Of seeds.