The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-05-02
TRADE ITEMS.

MORE than l 200 eggs are kept warm IN
Lima, o., steam hatchery.
1t is estimated that over $4,000 trees
were planted in Nebraska on Arbor day
April Is.
A farmer In Pulaski county, Georgia, OIL.
ers 500 for two hundred geese to run in
his cotton fields and keep them clear of
weeds.
Shipments of vegetables from Cedar Key
last week comprised, 5000 crates and 80
barrels.
A man in Georgia has four acres in col
lards, from which he expects to realize ~
600.
OF the crop of 1882, Fulton, Ky, dealers
had received up to April 4, 7l0, 100 pounds of
tobacco, 80 S3S bushels ofcJrl - }
els oil wheat, and 400 bales of cotton.
The longest iron bridge in the country
Will be the bridge now being constructed
across the Monongahela river at Homestead
IL is over a mile IN length.
Goods to the amount OF $25 600 have been
seized by custom-house officers on the San
Francisco China steamers since February
Silk'raising has becomef fashionable among
the wealthy women in California, and an as.
ISOLATION that has been formed Tor the pur.
pose OF spreading information on the sub.
ject.
Great attention is now being paid to bee.
keeping IN the south. Several parties in
the southern states own small colonies that
are Kept near the orange groves of Louisi.
ana.
"A rough calculation would place the cost
OF the luel and lights of this country n,
ABOUT o60,OOO,OOO, SO that it takes two wears
cotton cropto pay Tor these little items.
Inc losses OF swine from all causes dur
ing the past year amount to about PEI
cent, according to returns of Corresponuent,
They are very large in the south, and les,
than III some former years in the western
states.
| Prof Baird, of the United States fish com
mission, mas Just completed the semi.an
nual distribution of young carp for stock
ing ponds III various parts of the union and
in several foreign countries. About 80 OO,
young carp have been sent out from Wash
ington this season.
-, An ermine was brought to Stockton on
thursday, which had been caught nea,
Lndstom's Ferry. The fir of The ermin,
Is very valuable, being in winter SNOWY
white and in summer yellowish. brown
color, The tail Of the animal is the mos,
intense black.
An Ashland, Mass, concern is meltinl
ten thousand old iruit-cans per week for III,
soiuer tnat can be obtained from them, One
purity WISHES 10 purchase twenty five tons
OF them, after they have been heated. fo,
sheet-iron. These cans are taken from th,
swll Of Boston.
An exchange SAYS that silk manuiactur
ers are quite excltedat the recent discover,
III Africa oil a silk-produc'ng spider who's,
wen ana cocoon are fully equal in strength
anu quality of the silk to those of the silk
worm. Specimens ofsilk woven from thi
spider silk have been made in Lyons
which stands all tests and in fact can not b.
distinguished from ordinary silk.
Inc report OF the Kansas board of agri
culture Tor lSSz shows HOS 900 acres @
lann under cultivation in the state, agains
2,l.oWo in 1872. The increase in tel
Of Massachusetts, Connecticut and AND
Rhode Island. The value of a
held crops for the year Is put at $loS
lT,WO, and of live stock $27 $500 Their
were Us ,6l7 acres of sorghum raised, agains
10, 52S in 1881. "'"'
A company has been organized at Hart
borough, Pa, to manufacture sugar from
beets. The capital is $4,000, divided in
to shares OF SIS each. A large number @
farmers have contracted to raise and deli
yer beets at the factory at So per ton. The,
are informed that they can raise from iii
} teen to twenty tons per acre, Before far
ihNis tub hhpiVy tulS COUCtTn OF nut MI
gar.b beet seed in the soil they would a.
well to read the history Of similar enter
prises in other states.
Among the signs of progress in the soutl
is the extension OF horticulture. The couu
try papers show that the cultivation of ga,
den vegetables, and small and other fruit
for transportation to northern markets
this spring far beyond what has hithert
been done in that line.
COLUMBIA, s. G. April 2T.--The first sh,
ment Of South Carolina strawberries an
vegetables to go west under the recent cor
tract with the Austell Refrigerator Car con
pany was made from Charleston last nigh
Tor Chicago, st. Louis and Cincinnati,
consisted OF two thousand quarts of straw
berries and twenty five crates of green pea.
Another shipment will be made next Tue,
day. The car will return with Chicago bee
The demand for refined oil manufacture
from cotton seed Is assuming gigantic pre-
portions. The Mont gomery Union Refine
company has manufactured about 200
barrels 30 far this season, mostly for easter
cities aud South America.
IL 10 stated by the California papers tha
J Governor STANFORD has hat an engineer 1
, the San Bernardino mountains for som
time, past investigating the feasibility Q
building q system Of reservoirs, to suppl
: land In that valley, now useless on accoun
, Of it, arid'ty. The tracts 10 be supplied ar
capable OF immense Yields, and the entir
, scheme 10 Of great Importance to the south
/ ern counties Of California.
The value Of the exports Of provisions
tallow and dairy products from the Unite
!. States during March 1893, was 90 94i, "a
, AgAtnst u uo3 500 ior March, 1889. For III
) three months ending March u. 1883, N
: value was NO Wv, S03. and TOR the corr,
sp0r ding period Of laat year 90, 40, 40.
I. Erooh beef exports are looming up aRsiI
, NJ We novsmsntoi American nsasia bfoA,