Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-06-05
INDUSTRIAL BREwTlEs.

INDUSTRIAL BREvITlEs.
For some time paper has been success
fully used for car wheels, and now q
Quantity Of paper pipes have been made
and exhibited in Vienna, the process for
making which is az follows: Strips Of
paper, the width of which corresponds
with the length Of one pipe section, are
drawn through melted asphalt and
wound upon q mandrl When the nine
thus made has cooled the mandrii is
Withdrawn, and the inside IL covered
with kind Of enamel, the nature of
which comprises the main secret of the
invention, and is, therefor, not made
known. The outside is painted with as
phalt varnish, and sifted over with sand.
It is stated that such a pipe viii resist
some two thousand pounds pressure
though the thickness of the stuff is only
about one-half inch.
Apaper published in the chief hop
growing county in England gives few
reports from hop planters, and their
general tone is satisfactory, though they
speak of mischief being done by fleas, and
of the growth being retarded by the cold
nights. In most places the vine has
made sufficient progress to require ty-
ing; and it is satisfactory to find the
shoots are strong and healthy. Nice,
genial weather is now urgently needed,
with few soaking showers to render
the soil workable. The trade for last
seasons hops does not improve, but fine
colory qualities remain firm in value,
and will, it is expected, become dearer in
proportion to their increasing scarcity.
On the other hand, medium and inferior
hops are neglected, with quotations very
low.
1t has long been necessary to meet q
part of the demand for ivory for artistic
and industrial purposes by an artificial
substitute, which has in most cases been
obtained by injecting wildwood with
chloride of lime under strong pressure.
A new method has been displayed at the
Amsterdam exhibition, in which the bones
OF sheep and waste pieces of dee- and
kid skins are used The bones are for
this purpose masceraded and bleached
for two weeks in chloride Of lime, then
heated by steam along with the skin, so
as to form fluid mass, to which are add
ed few hundredths of alum. The mass
is then filtered, dried in the air, and al
lowed to harden in bath Of alum, the
result being white, tough plates, which
are more easily worked than natural
ivory.
Prof. J. p Sheldon says that the
serious decline in the value of cattle in
England has had comparatively little ef-
fected in reference to the number of
calves that will be raised this year.
Calves have been so low IN price that
many farmers have decided to hold them
in hope that prices will improve by next
year. Again, the value of milk is always
powerful factor in the rearing and fat
tening Of calves. Milk and its products
are now lower in England than for many
years, and with the great quantities Of
imported beef, English farmers feel that
it will pay as well to feed the milk to
calves as to run it through the churn or
vat, SO that the usual number of heifer
calve, will be raised, and in some sections
more than usual will be held.
Col. Marshall P. Wilder, in his address
on the ripening and preservation of fruits,
before the Massachusetts Horticultural
society latter describing the expensive and
large structures in which low tempera-
ture is secured by the use Of ice, men
lions the fruit-house of Mr.. Paquet, in
Paris, built with double walls, 80 arrang-
ed as to maintain temperature little
below 40 degrees without ice, and keep
ing fruit in perfect condition till June.
Houses partly on this plan, have been
constructed in this country at moderate
expenses. In such houses the Anjou
pear has been kept, and exhibited to the
secretary as late as the month of May.
A statement was made at meeting Of
the Kentucky horticultural society that
w. I. Wilkes, of Maury county, Tennes-
see, made more money by raising and
selling pears than by any known cult
walton of the soil. The variety planted
was the Bartlett, and this sort still holds
the lead for market in that region. He
has fifteen acres of pears, nearly all Bart
let's, and few years ago he sold the
crop on the trees for 81, 500 in cash, and
last year the same trees gave him $4,000.
Some others sold fine Bartletts for SO
barrel. A part of them went to NASH
vile, others to Cincinnati Some of the
trees suffer from blight, but many are
left uninjured.
The Austrian ministers of finances and
agriculture have for some time been con-
sidering schemes for the develnpement
of tobacco plantations in Austro- Hun
gary, and Legislative proposals on this
subject will shortly be forthcoming. The
tobacco monopoly yields at present to
Austria alone more than $4,000, 900
forms; but lie, 600 tons of foreign tobac-
60 are yearly imported, and it is calcu-
lated that the revenue would be much
increased if the reggie had more dealings
with home growers. Tobacco thrives
well on the soil Of the empire. It is
grown in Hungary, Galicia, Dalmatia,
and South Tyrol.
Transplanting is held by Mr.. L. G.
Brown, Of Lyndeboro, N. a., not to be
detrimental to plants, and he declares that
practical experience upholds him. He
can not prove as some assert, that trans
planting dwarfs plant, and finally sub
mits this question: "Where transplant