The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-08-16

yinces. The prospect OF an immense apple
crop in England and Germany, however, 10
good, and Canadian paper thinks 1t may
come to pass that apples will be brought
from Europe to America this year,
The total production OF silk goods IN inc
world is about $3.50, 100000 annually. or
this China and Japan produce SoOOUO,UOO
yearly; France, 65,OOO,OOO Germany, $40,
900, 600: the United States, $50, 900 600, and
Great Britain $25 GOO.
The fast fruit and vegetable trains OF the
Louisville q Nashville brought to Cincin-
natl last month TAI cars OF watermelons ana
90 6lS barrels of potatoes, while the Cincin-
natl Southern brought in the same month
562 cars of watermelons and 66,6SO barrels
ofpotatoes.
A salt well at Muskegon is spouting brine
of 90 degree strength. 1t flows fast enough
to yield bushel of salt minute. The
well thus far has cost $4,000. The only
question now is as TO how long it will hold
out. If the prospect continues good salt
block will be erected and manufacture
prosecuted.
A new use has been found for cotton.
Manufactured into duck it has been sue
cessfully introduced as roofing material.
Aside from its cheapness it possesses the
advantage of lightness as compared with
shingles or slate; it efiectually excludes
water. and it is said TO be a non-conductor
of heat.
Thirty years ago, in the heyday of the
slavery regime, the total value OF southern
crops OF cotton, tobacco. rice, hay, hemp,
and sugar-cane was $l3S $685. 1888 The CEN
sus report of 1880 shows that southern agri-
| cultural products that year were valued at
| $3.50, 600 600. Furthermore, the south is
! becoming rival of the north in cotton and
other manufactures.
The peanut crop is one OF great lmpor-
| ht1o hal nf
yearly brought to New York alone, and the
| aggregate crop is enormous. For the past
| few years it has averaged in value over 3d.
Co., 600. Virginia will this year produce
not less than g 100 600 bushels, Tennessee
$50 000 and North Carolina 1876 900 bushels.
These are the only states wherein it is Gull
tivated to any extent, and are those in
which it was first introduced from Africa.
A lately-published abstract OF the coop
erative loan societies in Austria shows that
there are in all l ,192 of these societies 6O2
of which have limited and 500 have unlim-
tied liability. The working capital had in
creased to 173, 323, 600 marks by 1880, while
in 1873 it amounted to 140, S55 marks only.
The deposits amount to 1874 000, 900 of the en-
900 marks. The loans and discounts repre-
sent 103, 600, 900 marks of the assets.
The Cunard Steamship company have
contracted with Messrs. John Elder d Co.,
of Glasgow, for the building of Two steam
ers of power and character far in excess oil
anything that has yet been devised for the
Atlantic service. The ships are to be 5000
tons burden and 1900 horsepower. The
sum involved constitutes the contract the
largest that has ever been made in the ship
owning and ship-building world. The price
is in excess of 5000 900, and it is designed
that the two vessels shall make speed o.
nineteen knots per hour, or cross the Allan
tic in less than six days.
The Los Angeles, California, Herald
says: The ostrich ranch is now the object
of special interest since the chicks com
menced to hatch, which is at about the rate
of one per day. These little fellows are
about as large as half-grown duck, and
start out with good appetite and grow
rapidly. 1t was feared that, owing to the
long voyage the birds had made, the first
eggs would not hatch, but fortunately tna'
fear was groundless, and the eggs are hatch
ing on time. The birds have laid about 6
hundred eggs, and they are going through
the incubator in the usual way.
Secretary Schaffer, of the department Of
agriculture, of Iowa, in his annual report
predicts that Iowa will yet make It's own
sugar from sorghum. Last year the acre.
age OF sorghum in the state was estimated
at IS, 900 acres, yielding an average of 50
gallons of strip TO the acre, total yield OF
2240,0 gallons, having value of l,12O,-
600. In the future development of produc-
ton he recommends the abandonment OF
the old crude method of working the crop
on the farm, and that instead suitable
works. supplied with all necessary machin-
cry and appliances, be erected at conven-
lent points 10 work up the crops raised by
the farmer. This is unqnestionably the
true plan. Such product would as much
excel in quality the ordinary farm-pro-
duced strip as the best creamery butter
does the ordinary dairy.