The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-03-30

weather, dryinR-hOuse has been Dullt,
with flakes like those on which the cod are
dried IN the open air, so arranged that AR
will circulate between them. On these the
fish are spread, and currents of warm air
driven through them. Fish taken from the
| pickle in the morning can be thoroughly
dried and ready for shipment by neon, with
u decided improvement in color and keep
ing qualities over the open-air dried.
The catching of smelt IN the provinces is
assuming important dimensions. The sea
son for capturing smelt in New brunswick
| s-limted by law from November 10th to
| February 10Th. The method employed Is
| to cut hole in the ice of the river and to
use small scoop'net. Nets are lowered
and lifted, and on the Miramlchi the aver.
age catch of u single man in night is 900
pounds. Occasionally an expert will take
as much as two tons. The Montreal Ga
zette cites eight tons as having been caught
| by man and his boy in week. These
| fish are shipped in large quantities TO New
York and Boston. AT present there Is
something like monopoly in this business,
and the price of smelt has been enhanced
beyond its true value.
The city OF Atlanta Georgia, has prot
tied greatly by the cotton exposition held
there in 1881. The aggregate AMOUNT OF
capital invested in that city since that time
| ~ e'i' w Nv uupub ~ 1'N'INN'i WI '''to
ully 1000 operatives aud paying annual
wages approximating 100000. These adj
ditions have been varied. A grain elevator
and cotton compress have been built n
spinning company has completed and
nearly filled its capacious building with
machinery, and Is preparing TO double its
capacity: the great fair building has been
purchased by u company with capital of
$3.50 600, and is half filled with machinery;
companies have been formed for building
apparatus to prepare cotton Tor the spinner
fertilizer and other manufactures have
been established in and near that city; and
a concern has been organized Tor the manu-
facture of oleomargarine.
| The Baltimore Journal of Commerce
states that the Standard OIL company IL
laying II pipeline iiom the Pennsylvania
oil region to Philadelphia, with n branch of
the same from Midway, Lancaster county,
| Pennsylvania, to extend to Baltimore. IL is
added that the main line is expected to reach
Philadelphia by June next, and that the
branch Will be completed to Baltimore by
October |. The pipe is to be six inches in
diameter, laid not less than eighteen inches
below the surface, and the privilege of thus
laying 1t is to be paid for at the rate of
twenty-five cents per rod. Agents for the
company are now at work soliciting right
oi-way on the above terms The paper
named concludes by hoping that there
VIII be no disappointment in regard to it. :"
The entire system of American dairying
it's past growth and future prospects, fur
nished tho Edinburg Review the data for
casting u dark horoscope for British
farmers. IL enlarges on the development Of
the factory system and its original econo'
mics, which it frankly says are something
beyond the first conception of English dat
| A of ,,i,rp tl,.., lou
anu sklm-milk OF these factories is cited as
a case in pont;and the taking otcream oil
the milk for butter, restoring the fat to the
skim'milk by adding lard and producing a
better cheese thereby are also adduced. These
large economies, coniessediy peculiar to
American diarying, are only illustrations
OF American methods to which we have re-
terred as constituting our chief adyan.
tape The Review writer does not oveIes-
Innate the Importance of this anticipated
development when he says; american
diarying is the pivot on which the whole
qu stion turns" Perhaps a more momen-
tous question than the English farmers
occupation ia tied to that The Review
computes the whole loss of the English az
| rioulturists during the bad years 1877 and
1919 ~ S2l0,OOO0O0 while the nominal rent
OF the land amountedto S350,0OO so that
tho farmer could have met us well bad seasons
rs American competition and made "a profit
except for the rent.
In recent official letter 10 the secretary
OF the interior the commissioner OF the gen
eral land Office speaking of the enormous
an rapidly growing frauds, says by way
oil Illustration: I'm the territory of Dakota,
which cast $1,000 votes ut the last election,
the number of agricultural entries to the
present date exceed loo 600, and such en-
tries are now.being made at the rate of more
than 5oOOO yearly. A9 Il very considerable
portion OF the Inhabitants are settled on
railroad lands and school sections, IL is man
,test that the number of entries of public
land Is FAR beyond the actual occupation OF
such lands and lar beyond the en-.
tries that could legally have been
made, These frauds are not con.
ined to the territory of Dakota, but extend
to other territories and states. In the graz
Ing districts OF western Kansas, in Colorado,
, New Mexico Ari2bna, California, Nevada,
Idaho, Wyoming and Montana, the title to
agricultural lands and water rights is, in
large classes of cases, obtained by perjury
aud irauu, followed or preceded by the un.
lawinl enclosure of tracts OF public land
varying from some thousands to several
thousands of acres each over which do
, minion Is exercised by private parties, tc
5 the exclusion of valid settlement right.
under the laws of the United States.
The New York Sun lately published th,
, following article A small section of coun
/ try in central New York, embracing th,
counties of Otsego, Oneida, Madison, Scho
/ harie and Montgomery, is the greatest hop
raising region in the United States There
, is no market or trade that affects the mer
8 chants in this section so directly or in s,
. marked u degree as the hop trade. Grea
D as Is the interest in the prouucts of tn,
; dairy, trade here is but slightly influenced
4 by rise or fall in the dairy market. Blu
when the price OF hops reaches SOC pc
: pound, and especially at this time, whet
j growers in many instances have realized
c 81 per pound, or nearly 100 pc
i the luxuries of life meet with read,
a and quick sales in this part of tn,
= country, and everybody has plenty o
money, Extraordinary stories oi fortune
/, acquired ins hop-raising are told by tn
+ people OF central New York. Men, womcl
/. and boys are pointed out US they pas
a along the street as having made fortune
t VARYING from $1,000 TO 5000 900 during tn
i past two or three months. Indeed Their
II has not IN years been the excitement |,
= this section in any trade that now exis,
4 among the hop men, and hop farms hay
i this fall actually doubled in value witt
" | ohN NubVi huNtIs. MWuN III
IS pear TO have actually gone daft on the sui
II Ject, and are laying great plans for anothe
!. year. Growers have refused to make an,
l. contract for the next crop, even when OF
!, Tered 80 centsa pound, although all ADM
II that large increased acreage will, in a
y probability, produce much more abund
l. ant crop next year. This hopeful feeling |
l. partially explained by the expectation tina
i natural GAUSS viii remove many old yards
n The more cautious, however, speak III.
u couragingly OF tho coming few year,
II The history of the past is a promise of III
It future" they say, "and when tho ne,
o yards that will surely be planted thi
o spring shall bear fruit, hops must take sue
4 u tumble as to completely wreck those VIII
N are now thouehtlcssly and extravaganza
II paying 800 an acre for hop iarms.n
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