McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-03-05
INDUSTRIAL BREvITIES.

| A writer in one of the English tech
| meal papers explains how cold air is
the cause of smoke, and how care can
| reduce it. He wo aid draw the exist
ing lire to the front of CRATE and
place the Goals behind; thus the fire in
the front would burn more rapidly,
| warm the air above, and so prepare
the rising gases for combustion. The
smoke is diminished, as the gases from
| the Goals at the back rise much more
slowly than when placed upon the fire
and the air partly warmed. For stoves
and boilers, warm air may be pro-
| duced for the entire combustion of all
the gases, result that is beneficial in
many ways.
In order to give some idea of the
progress of agriculture in New South
Wales The Engineer gives the quantity
| OF land under cultivation at the close
| OF 1888 as follows: Wheat, 2S9, 1857
acres; maize, 1864 acres; barley,
5,OS1 acres; oats, 1880 acres rye,
LAO acres; potatoes, 1883 acres; to-
bacco, 1,7S5 acres; sugar cane, ii 953
acres; grapevines, 4,37S acres; or
anges, 1868 acres; sown grasses.
wheat, barley and oats, for hay, 49,
5O3 acres same, for cattle. 107, 1898
| acres. Gardens and orchards absorb
17,455 acres, the whole quantity of
land under cultivation exceeding $780,
600 acres.
The total cut IN the northwestern
lumberregion last year was 1854, $685.
36l feet of lumber, 1,029, 1914, 500 shin
giles, and 620.GS0,7S0 laths. The in
crease over the cut of 1888 was A.
81 1866 feet of lumber, 202,974, O3)
shingles, and S5,799,S $50 laths. The
stock on hand Dec. 1 aggregated
1,795, 70S, 522 feet of lum Der, 424, $685.
4O6 . shingles, and SO, 276,900 laths.
The increase over the total Dec. /,
1888, is 600,07S, CSC feet of lumber, 5O,-
Oil, 800 shingles, and 1913. 513, 700 laths.
The anticipated log supply is placed
at 2,119, 1885, COO, of which 1,522, $780,
900 represent new logs.
According to the annual report of the
department. of agriculture, now in
press, the total yield of wheat in this
country in 1884 was 513, 100000 bush
els, of corn 1,795, 900, 600 bushels, and
of oats 583, 100000 bushels These are
the largest aggregates ever recorded,
the nearest approach ON wheat being
made in 1882, when the yield was 504,-
600, ZOO bushels, and on corn in 1880,
when 1,754, 100000 bushels were rails
ed. The average yield per acre in
1884 is given at Is bushels for wheat,
2S.5 bushels for corn, and PA bushels
for oats.
''Idunium' is the name proposed by
Prof. Wcbsky for the meta! just dis
covered by him as one of the compo-
nents of native vandate of lead. The
mineral is rather Il scarce one, of q
yellow color, and contains several 9TH
er metals, of which zinc, iron, and
arsenic are among the most prominent
Idunium resembles vanadium in sew
eral respects, both physically and
chemically, while the only oxide hith-
erto examined forms stable salts with
alkaline bases, and thus would appear
to possess distinctly acid properties.
Mr.. E. Fl. johnson, president of the
Edison Electric LIGHTING company, has
his private residence lighted with
incandescent lamps. The dynamo is
in the cellar, and it is said to make so
little noise that it can not be heard on
the floor above. A small engine sup
plies the dynamo, and the exhaust
steam is used in heating the house.
Mr. JohnsOn's experiments have PROV
ed satisfactory, and he promises to
make connection with one or two of
his neighbours houses for the purpose
of furnishing them with light.
There are no hod-carriers in Ger
many. Bricks are passed from hand
to hand. The higher up the bricklay-
ers are the more men are required to
toss the bricks. Two men to story
is about the average, with enough
more to lead from the front of the
building to the place where the bricks
are needed. One may sometimes see
three men on the ground, eight on the
front of the building, and five on the
top, making sixteen men through whose
hands each brick passed before it
reached its place of destination.
The total area under cultivation of
rice in Burmah is reported as $780,
600 acres. An average crop all over
the province ought 10 yield an ex-
portable surplus of 9SS,000 tons of
cargo rice. Although many of the
district officers anticipate crop con-
siderably above the average, it ap-
pears better not to estimate for an ex-
portable surplus of more than 975.-
900 tons, or 100000 tons below the
actual exports of 1882.
Cracks in floors around the mold
board or other parts of room may
be neatly and permanently filled by
thoroughly soaking newspapers in
paste made OF nepound of flour, three
quarts of water, and a tablespoonful of
alum, thoroughly boiled and mixed.
The mixture will be about as thick as
putty, and may be forced into the
cracks with knife. 1t will harden
like papier-mache.
A nurseryman asserts that apple
trees which have straight and upright
tops have roots of similar character,
and that those which have low and
spreading tops have bushy roots.
Even the color and peculiar markings
of the bark of some varieties extend
to the roots. The nurservman is there
fore able to distinguish several varie-