The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1886-12-16
the INDUSTRIAL WORLD.


-Thlrty.four salt wells have been put
down In Wyoming County. n. T.. this
year.
Nova Scotia ships thousands Of
barrels Of apples to New York City ev-
cry week.
Kansas has led oil the States in tho
Union the past year In railroad build
ing. = Chicago Journal.
There are 12S cheese factories in
st. Lawrence County, N. r.. and last
year they manufactured and sold 49,
O00, 900 pounds OF cheese.
The German State Railway Coun-
oil has forbidden the employment Of
men In active service on the railroads
beyond eight hours daily.
The culture of tobacco in Germany.
which has declined since 1881. is now
progressing. 1.9S6,597 acres having
been planted this year, against 1885,
1929 acres last year.
Some Northern manufacturers of
stoves are moving South in consequence
of Western competition and on account
of the cheapness OF iron in Alabama and
Tennessee.
Nova Scotia's apple crop is larger
this season than for many years past.
1t is estimated that there will not be
fewer than 100000 barrels for export,
double the quantity Of last year.
in Wyoming County, New York.
completely died out. For awhile much
money was made in the business, but
so many people went into it that de.
cline was inevitable.
-Bricklayers have been al work
nights on building in Rochester, N.
T., by the aid of electric lights. The
lights are arranged along the top of
the building and the men find they can
lay brick as we'll by them as by day
light. t.-BuGaIo Express.
One of the industries of Vermont
Is the gathering of white pine cones
and extracting the seeds, which are
sent to Germany, France and other
parts Of Europe. A bushel of cones
yields pound of seeds. The cones are
dried and the seeds beaten out.--Rut-
land Herald.
The Sheep Breeder and Wool Grower
says: Letters from sheep breeders
and wool growers in every quarter in
dicatc an almost remarkable revival of
interest In an industry whose utter OK
tinction was predicted by gloomy
prophets few years ago."
The Knights of Labor were organ
lied in Philadelphia in 1869. They
were first known publicly as the Teapot
club. because a pot of tea was always
on hand at the meetings, for those
members who drank nothing stronger
no intoxicating liquors. Fhiladel-
phia Record.
"A tract of land on the western
shore of Cayuga Lake. near Canoga,
has been leased to Rochester parties
for the cultivation of frogs. The rails
ing Of fro ys for the New York market
has come to be recognized industry.
There is large fro, farm in the neigh.
borhood of Waterloo and several in
Canada, and still the demand is greater
than the supply.-M Y. Sun.
Great speed has been attained in
the manufacture Of rides. One hum
drcd and twenty barrels can be rolled
in an hour by one machine; they are
Strengthened cold and bored with cor
responding speel, and evan the riding
is now done automatically, so that one
man tending six mtchines can turn out
sixty or seventy barrels per day. With
the old riding machine twenty barrels
was about the limit of days work, but
the improved machines 1T ,nd to every
thing after they are once started, and
when the riding is completed ring q
bell to call tho attention of the work
man. He Is thus en- lbled to attend as
many as six machines at q tine.-M Y.
Times.