The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-03-14
TRADE ITEMS,

LIE lusCaBOUia kMlFSl lCo company are
now making preparations to can oysters
tomatoes, figs okra, etc.
The coal folds of Alabama cover 10, S6O
square miles and the coal Is all bitumi.
nous but differs widely in quality.
Beloit, Wisconsin,, is In hopes Of securing
factory for spooluE ADD twisting cotton,
and another tor the manufacture Ui sleigh
and fancy bells.
The amount of naval stores praduccd ~
North Carolina is more than uDuhiu the
yield of all other states combined
Bodie Chinaman is repIrted to have
made s., 900 during the pa,l year by selling
old tin can material for rooduS purposes
The state of Kansas is Or d,ied with the
production ofone-tourth orihe entire broom
corn crop of the United States,
TIL ere is farm on the lankee fork Of the
Salmon river, California, ao rich ihrt two
men got out $ll 900 Ia one month in II
hand-mortar, pounded cut by themselves
In the Skagit county, Ia Washington
territory, IN a spruce tree iOrty iret in cir
cumierence. 1t is uprooted and lies in u
deep slough.
The export trade IN furniture is cNuiiht Il
chiefly to medium grades, whlrh ure sent
to Africa, China, the Sand SiCh Islands aud
to South America.
A concern of Iowa City ground ~ over
10000 bushels OF ilaxseed during Ihe fil
aud winter, making about lO0, 0UU gaions u
oil, and oil cake galore.
Two orange trees belonging TO ! Il
Smith, Hawthorne, Georgia, bore last sea.
son 5000 oranges each. One OF them meas.
ures seven feet around, and is sixty feet
high.
In Florida tho strong llbor of the leaves
OF species Of cactus is turned into rope,
nj ala mt h.,s "a a..
trunk, alter the removal OF the pith, into
pals.
A huge chestnut tree growing on the farm
OF benjamin NJ. Reed, near Bay View, Va. :,
has borne large crop Of nuts every year
Tor n century. 1t measures twenty-sevon
feet in circumference.
More than 100000 tons of coal n year
il mined In Silesia, and the price at the
mines is only SO cents. Miners average less
than $500 week in wages,
Thomas Stamford. living near Lake City,
Fla, has sold this season, from twelve trees
growing in his yard, li,000 oranges, which
Melted him S2li, besides roservng an
abundant supply for home use.
A large block of marble was shipped u
few days ago from the Hawkins county,
Tennessee, quarry. Ii contained 1856 cubic
feet, weighed "a 800 pounds, and was sold
for over $780,
The Riverside (Cal.) Press SAYS the orange
crop is slightly damaged the lemon crop il
seriously damaged, and the lime crop IL
ruined BY the frost. Small trees are seri.
ously hurt In places. Will, larre orange
trees are not hurt ut all, and large lemon
trees are hurt INT litile
viii the wonders of electricity never
oeasep Here is u new telegraph company
which flashes 5000 words In single minute
of sixty seconds, from New York to Cleye.
land. Win IL, too, sell out TO the Western
Union2
Jute Is TO be cultivated extensively In
Mississippi, by u company recently incor-
porated under the laws Of the state. An
improved method of cleaning jutc that dis
penses with. the rotting process. will be
used.
GERMANY imnorta ohout f,ur timos no
much grain as 1t exports, but its exports
of iron and iron wares are six times as largo
IN its Imports and exports Of silk and silk
goods twice as large as its imports.
One Of tho Old Dominion steamers. ON n
recent trip, took over 1000 barrels of kale
and spinach to New YORK, shipped by
truckers of Norfolk county, and tho season
has not yet opened for vegetables The
section Is n great place for tho trucking
business, and no mistake,
One OF the industries OF Australia is the
cooking ana canning OF rabbits, which arc
so plentiful in some districts that whole
crops arc sometimes destroyed by them,
Snu urn uurlng inc last season. which
us, twenty-five weeks, canned o'o,NV OF
'ne animals, -
Az, au..oriues N inuia lear that coilee is
aoout 10 snare the ia,e OIL the potato and the
grape. ~ seems destined TO- disappear
grauualiy IKE tho vine. A little fungus
appears ~ hrst on n single leaf, and soon
aiterward 1t attacks them all, causing the
d' Az OF, o. the v ,rSs, ,
proilis in ,ssS amnnnt.d ~ or Iv', ~
cent, Gifts csn,tai saaness ", wuI pl NJ ~ per
,he conn,rv ~ annv,S T' e o,"oH oyer I'VE,
,hroncN Inss,,,as, ~ suV mn ou mun tnnt