Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-09-22
yNEw HAVEN CONN, FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 22

Moreover, animal food In expensive in
Japan and is therefore considered luxury
which Is quite out of the reach of the poor.
During the whole year of 1889 only 81, I'll
bulls aad COWS were killed In Japan to
supply meat for 40, ,O8o, 900 peopls, and II
Is worthy of note that there ware ], ,021 sos
bulls and COWS in the country during that
year, while the number of the slaughtered
probably included many animals which
were not slain for supplying human food.
A novel application of the electric search
light has been made In Scotland. To en-
able the workmen to labor through the
night while pit was being sunk . search
light, the apparatus for which consisted of
an arc light, a lens and mirror concealed
In q sheet iron case, was suspended over
the pits mouth. Access to the lamp was
obtained by sliding shutter on each side
of the case. The light was focused or sd-
justed by Q screw on the top Of the out
side of the case, and when necessary the
lamp could be adjusted to diffuse Light
throughout the whole shaft or be cencen-
trated at the bottom. The mirror, which
was hung on Its center, could be moved in
q vertical direction, SO as to defect the
rays to any required spot, and could be
fixed In any position by thumb screw.
A circular will soon be issued by the
Navy department inviting inventors to
submit patterns of small arms for the
n.x rLo naval .r,a1I a~r,s hos ~ N, ada q
report short time ago selecting the cali
bre of the rife. The measure chosen Is
234 of an incn or 6mm. The calibre of
the new army rife is 80 of an inch. 1t lie
thus seen that one size Of cartridge will not
do for both rifles. But the naval board,
while recommending this difference In bore
in the two arms, proposed something which
will balance the disadvantage, If there Is
any, of such a dissimilsrity. Instead OF
planning to have the army and navy rife
of the same calibre, they have recon-
meuded that the machine guns of the navy
be made to fire MN. cartridges. The size
of the cartridges now used ip the machine
guns is considerably larger than that, but
there will be little difficulty in reducing
the diameters of the multi barrel guns.
There will, then, be but one size of small
cartridges for ship use.
The apple crop was the subject of dis
cuesion at the recent meeting of the Mis-
souri, Valley Horticultural society, and Ii
was stated that except in very few locsli-
ties there would be practically no apples
at all in the West. Southern Michigan
and southern Iowa will have few, but
from Kansas only one orchard reports q
crop, and short one at that. In the vicin-
ity of Lees Summit, where the horticul-
turists met, there are $500 acres of or
chards, which yie'd an average crop of
100000 bushels of apples. This year
not an apple will be shipped
to the East. One orohsrdist of
Lees Summit who has $500 trees says
that he will not have enough fruit to make
pie. Another large landowner who has
"a. 900 apple trees will have no apples to
ship. This unprecedented failure of the
crop was explained by one of the orchard
lists in the following manner: He said that
in examining hundreds of orchards in
Missouri in 1891 he found that the unusu-
ally dry weather had materially injured
the vitality of the orchards. Then, in the
spring of 1899, when the trees were in full
bloom, there came a series of cold north
east storms, which did great injury, not
only in the blo,m, but to the young
twigs as we'll. These causes prevented q
good crop in 1892. 1t is the theory of
horticulturists that perfect fruit bud
cannot be formed on a tree whose tender
twigs and leaves are imperfect, and these
were the conditions last year when the
buds for this years crop formed in June.
1t was the opinion of all present at the
meeting that there will be an enormous
apple crop next year.