Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-09-06
TRADE TOPICS.

SAwDUST IS now sent to market in bales, very strongly compressed. CHEMICALLY prepared cigarette paper is imported into this country at the rate of Sl,OOO worth day.
 WISCONSIN ships large quantities of mud turtles to the East, where they are con- verted into mock turtle soup. CLAUs SPRECKELs will have his new re- tnery in Philadelphia in running order in one year. with capacity of 2,000, 900 pounds of raw sugar daily.
 ABOUT ninety-siX per cent. in value of the annual exports of tho United States to h. dla, which amount nearly to s4,O0o,OOO con- slsts of petroleum.
 EVERY minute 600 pounds of wool grow in this country, and we have to dig 61 tons of anthracite coal and 200 tons of bituminous coal, While of pig iron we turn out 12 tons, and of steel ralls tons.
 SOMETHING very like peach trust is talked of in Delaware. It comes in the gulse of a central bureau, through which the entire peach crops shall be placed upon the various markets as the actual demand dictates.
 IT is said that more than half of the cheese now consumed in Great Britain is made in this country and in Canada. The American and Canadian cheese pays it's freight to England and then undersells their articles on its solid merits.
 A TREMENDOUS business is done in pine- apples in New York each season. From April until August the fruit comes in at the rate of ten thousand barrels week. It is estimated that five million pineapples are imported each year.
 UNCLE SAM has been asked to help es- tabhsh steamship line with Jerusalem and the far East-at least with the coast. The '9Gf ,otc Last years shipments reached 900, but reached us via Liverpool
 A BRITISH writer declares that not a ker- nel of the best Mocha coffee ever gets further west than Constantinople All the best grains are picked out for use nearer home, and only the pale, shriveled and broken seeds are left to reach any foreign shore
 CALIFORNIA is taking up silk culture with enthusiasm. The State Board of Silk Cult ure sent 10000 mulberry trees and cuttings to silk cultivators, and this season will put out 50,O00 more. Worms and eggs are given to applicants who desire them and are al- ready the owners of mulberry trees.
 ABOUT a year ago a syndicate of New Workers set out thousand acres of land in Florida as an experiment in growing tobac- co. Two kinds of Havana, Sumatra, Penn sylvania, Wisconsin and Connecticut and the old Florida broad-leaf tobaccos were planted, all of which have grown luxuriantly, and is expected will average from 600 to 1,5O0 pounds per acre. There are now only about 5000 acres in Florida under cultivation for tobacco, but if success shall crown the pres- ent experiment great increase ln acreage may be expected ill few years.
 BESIDES the large daily consumption of fresh milk, a large amount is used by the condensing and canning establishments for use III places and at times where the liquid article can not be had. This business has assumed large proportions, and the Ameri- can condensing establishments turn out large quantities of milk condensed to & nearly solid form and canned for exporta- tlon as well as home consumption. This form of milk IS used by travellers explorers and armies all over the world, affording thus at once both necessary article and luxury.