The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-10-04
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THE Alasks salmon fisheries are prospecting
Neal Dow says $3.50, Dis spent tor drinks
The Growth has very generally prevented
wheat sowing in Ohio, Indians, Illinois ana
Mayor Fanniu, OF Apalachicola, has invent,
ed a cotton tie, for which he has bee offered
$4,000 by Baltimore firm.
G. q. Fraucklyn, OF the Cuneru Line, mas
Maid Il jOOCLO for a ranch in Greer county,
the public land sold this year in. Dakota to
private persons aggregate p times the acreage
A farmer of Hamilton county. Michigan. has
raised 81 OCO worth Of tobacco from six acres OF
Ian this season.
= K chee e weighing 22i5 pounds was made
New York, and was shipped to ew Haven,
The Augut business of the Niobrara land
office amounted to s7432 03 The number OF
acres entered and passed upon was 56,to5.
A great sale of orchids took place In London
on Friday, on plant bringing s., 200. Thegreat
orchid now in bloom in the Rothschild hot
house at Ferrieres Is valued al s2,,oCS9 ,,,cr.
ity furnish New York from 1.50 600 to 2,O0O,00O
caobages annually. This number will be greatly
dimini shed this year on account OF the un-
favorable weather.
A cresmery has been in operation near
Hunt VILE, Randolph county, Missouri. for
aoou! year, and such has been its success
tina its proprietor has determined to enlarge lts
capacity SO that 1t will produce 500 pounds OF
butter daily or the product of 1000 cows.
In some sections of the country sorghum
making has tegun Reports as to the sorghum
ably short of that of last year, the season in
many localities having been too cold Tor II 10
properly develop aud mature .
Major Young, a wealthy planter OF Mlssis-
sipIi, was recently interviewed in st. LOUIS
and said, among other things. thst tine plant,
ers have dropped the cotton only plan, ana
are planting grains and are raising hogs aad
cattle / never say W So many d nne hogs III my
The butter trade is in a seriously depressed
condition in Canada and country merchants
report hesvy losses on the seasons purchase.
Up to within quite recent period country
dealers have been paying as high as IA and 10
ceuts per pound for butter, whle upon almost
the entire portion of this stock 1t has been
found impossible TO real re more than III or IL
cents per pound. In fast, many merchants
report IL difficult matter 10 hnd market ~
all.
ssys that the number of melons ra ,sed in Geor.
gia this season was not far from g. 500, no. About
l. 300 100 were eaten in Georgia. made into syrup,
opened for the seeds. or left on The vines. hree
acres OF lana pr oluce Two CARLOADS. Inere are
apout l. 200 melons TO the carload. The cost OF
raising a carload is not far from s1i, ard that
of gathering and loadingis t15. Tho average
ret profit is about 10 to the CARLOAD: Inc TO-
tai net profit on the Georgia crop TINS season
was ne r%DN,uJUs anu INV
That the land did not produce as itshould, and
expect more next year.
The numf er OF swine in the United States re-
ported by the census Of 1880 IL AZ 6SS 95l. They
exceed the horses of the country nearly hve
times and outnumber The cattle more than
eieyt II millions and q half, and the sheep nearly
twelve and half millions SWINE also SHOW
the laTgps iucrea from 1870 TO 1852 viz: % per
cent while that Of sheep is only %, nLcn
COWS SO aud other cattle &C. oxen D. horses 20.
No ct ser kind OF animal fJ0d is so universally
eaten az swine flesh, and no eniTlal contribute
any such proportion To our reports or heips 10
turn the balance of trade of our coutry.
A statement has been published contrasting
the product of the state OF Georgia IN 1870 with
that ofISS2. 1t seems that during the " years
there ma. been an increase OF upward oil 2UO per
cent In corn, 600 per cent. in oats, 200 per cent
in wheat 20 per cent in rye 100 per cent. IN
Itish potatoes 800 per cent in cane ana scr'
Qhum 400 per cent In sweet potatoes, and sim
liar increase in the yield of her farm ami gsr:
| den products In the year 1870 Georgia raised
| 478 9s4 bales of cotton; In 1880 the amount had
Iisen 10 Sl444l bales, or an increase OF nearly
| 100 per cent in 10 years, which has caused hei
| 10 rank as the second producing safe In the
union In 1882 the cotton production grew tc
| ,y25 Ii3 bales, and this was accomplished win
Diminished acreage. In the IL years llslO-o2
horses have increased 20 per cent, mules lel
| cent. milch cows 90 per cent, and other cattle
| no per cent; sheep increased 26 and swine 4!
| per cent In 1870 Georgia had 1OOOO farms; IL
| 1850 she had $4,000. The estimated value Q
| farm products in 1870 was sO,WOOeO: In lSSOi
had risen to 12S, O0O.t0l or an increase OF more
than so per cent