The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-07-26

large trade III eXpeCteu W 5piihH Wy ~ Va"
lumber for the east, as 1t can be protitabiy
used in stead of hard wood for finished work.
IL is asserted that British capital to the
extent OF $50 900 600 went into Texas and
Eve thousand alligator hides were
recently shipped from Orange, Texas.
About five hundred chickens are shipped
every day from Mariana, Florida:
Large quantities of strawberries have
been shipped from New BRUNSWICK ana
Nova Scotia this season. =,
The hickory forests in southwestern
Kentucky are being sawed in spokes ana
shipped to Fort Wayne, Indiana.
There has been discovered a new beetle,
the larvae ofwhich. it is feared, will IN rev
years destroy the sweet potato OF the south.
WatermelOns now rank among the
standard crop in Georgia. Ihey are SEM eta
THE wear in carloads to all parts OF the
country.
Tennessee has twenty-five copper fur
naces with an annual yield of nearly $780,
COO pounds OF copper.
Ifthe present crop promise of this coun-
try shall be maintained to the harvest, the
field products of grain and vegetables VIII
aggregate more bountiful yield than any
previous year. mi
A Yokohama dispatch says: The tea
adulteration act has lowered the price OF
that commodity. This, in conf Wild
the expected shortage in the silk crop, mas
caused depression in business.
The Plute Indians on the Pyramid Lake
reservation in Nevada have dug five miles
of di' CHI for irrigating purposes this year,
and they will raise 1000 bushels OF wheat
this summer.
Experiments made in utilizing various
kinds of sea weed have proved very sue
cessful One variety Is treated Win an
acid and compressed into substance tnat
resembles horn.
A dispatch from Astoria, Oregon, says
the salmon catch for the past week OF one
cannery was 5000-an average OF III TO the
boat. Another cannery last week averaged
80 fish. :.
From the best data at hand it is esti.
mated that there are now in the united
States 10, OOO, 900 mich cows, and that there
are made annually 1900, 600 600 pounds OF
butter and $50 600 900 pounds OF cheese.
Mr.. A. d. Smith, Of Fauquier, claims 70
have the 'boss" apple tree in Virginia. 1t
has produced seventy.five bushels of APP
ples in one season, and one seasons bear.
ing has made a forty. gallon barrel OF
brandy.
A peculiar quality of lubricating oil has
heen found near Mormon fork, northwest OF
Rich Hill. NO., and has been used for
wears by farmers and machine men, and
answers all purposes OF coarse quality OF
lubricating oil.
Over 800 bushels of Strawberries, or 49,
600 cases, have been shipped from Racine
this season. Contrary to what was ex-
pected early in the season, the crop will not
exceed that of last year.
The first apple tree raised on the Pacific
coast from seed sent out on Hudson Bay
company's ship to Vancouver in 1876, is
said to be still standing on the government
reserye near Vancouver.
Tomatoes, not many generations ago,
were known at love apples, and considered
poisonous. Last fall there were h2,322, O62
cans of tomatoes put up by the canning
establishments of the United States.
The prosperity of the Louisiana sugar
planters is shown by the fact that $500, 900
Is being expended IN and around Donald
son for improved machinery, new sugar,
houses. bagasse- burners, etc. reports
state that the past season was The most sue
cessful in the history of the cane industry.
The value of the poultry consumed in
the limited States annually is estimated at
5000 900 600, or Sc to each inhabitant. Tho
value of the eggs consumed is set at $780,
600 900, or $540, 0O0, 900 for poultry and eggs
together, or about $40 per year TO each in-
habitant. The number of eggs consumed
is claimed TO be O.OOOOO, or iSO eggs
to each inhabitant, which would allow one
egg 10 eaCn peIsOu eNciy o'hSi e"y'
The New York Dry Goods Bulletin says;
"Many of our Jersey farmers, raise their
regular fax crop, and enough has been
produced to furnish tolorable business
for the flax mill a. Brooklyn, in that state.
There is a fax mill at Corinth. W, and
there are six in Wisconsin. Kentucky is
flax. growing state. though the culture has
been allowed to slacken. II is not igno-
rance that has caused the decadence, but
the desire to CONFIRM to general idea OF
other crops"
A poor yield of castor beans in 1882 has
discouraged their planting in Kansas this
year, and the area fell off nearly 20 per
cent. of So, 223 acres. Nearly one-half the
area is confined to the counties Of Franklin,
rabetto and Neosho. The yield will he
much better than IL was last year, the av-
erage being 1888 bushels per acre. The
product has decreased from 499, 79O bushels
Ia 1882 to al Az bushels this year. In
many counties small acreage is reported
each year that should hardly be included
in the state area. for the reason that 1t is
not planted as field crop, and no hope CT
a yield is entertained.