Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-09-30
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

G and his SONS would send to market
= about 275, 900 baskets of peaches. The
three men own between TWENTY-FIVE
: and thirty peach farms.
Q -Roots draw enormous quantities nj
Q moisture from the soil and by this means
' tits discharged into the atmosphere. For
example, the common sunhower was
: found to eShale twelve ounces of water
In twelve hours, and an oak tree with
an estimated number of 700, 900 leaves
would in the same way give off some-
thing like seven hundred tons of water
during the five months it carries its
foliage.
The growth of the oyanre industry
in Florida has increased from a mo-
duction of 100000 boxes in 1ss5 10
7'ooo'ooo Tor the season just closed, and
according to conservative estimates,
tne comolned crop will be fully 5, ,OOO.-
oUo boxes of which over 1000. 600 will
De marketed. The average price re-
celved by growers the past season was
Sl'"l per ooX,-Charleston News and
Courier
birds have very acute vision, Der
maps the most acute of any creatura
and the sense is also more widely diff
fused over the retina than is the case
with man, consequently bird can see
sideways as well as objects in front of
| IT, a bird sees-showing great uneasi-
/ ness in consequence hawk lonu be
fore it is visible to man. So. too. fowls
and pigeons find minute scraps of food.
distinguishing them from what appear
to us exactly similar pieces of earth or
gravel.
The growth of ivy on the walls of
houses renders the walls entirely free
from damp. the ivy extracting every
particle of moisture from wood, brick
or stones for its own sustenance. nv
means of its tiny roots. which work |
their way into the hardest stone. The |
overlapping leaves of the ivy conduct !
water falling upon them from point TO |
point until 1T reaches the ground. with
out allowing the walls to receive anv
moisture whatever from the beating
rain.
-Returns from New Zealand for the
1898 crops, show decrease of $50. 600
bushels in the wheat harvest as COM
pared with 1892, a decrease of 1,115. 900
bushels of oats, decrease of 5000
bushels of barley and of 2.150. 900 bush
els of potatoes. In the extent of land
broken up bnt not under crop there
was an increase of IS. 500 acres. but the
total area actually under crop was ST.
400 acres less than in 1892. The Hessian
NY did considerable damage. ranging
from five bushels per acre to half the
entire wheat crop, in different sections
The annual report of the Hun
rarian minister of agriculture has an
peareo. Its estimate of the worlds
production of wheat this year is 9. .2T9.-
IOO'O bushels, against the official
average of 2,2SO,OOo, 900 annually for
he last ten years. The report also
Elves the following figures: The de-
iclts to be filled by the importing
will require 379. 900, 900 {
bushels. The surplus available in ex- a
PORTING countries to satisfy this de- a
nand is S7S,664. 900 bushels. The e
world product of rye is given as 1885, Il
90, 900 hectoliters. C
The sugar cane was introduced into a
he Madeira islands in 1925. and in 149s c
ne annual product exceeded 4, 900, 600 c
ounds. The introduction of sugar II
ane into the West Indies, however. ]
estroyed the industry. and grape Gull Il
ure took the place of the sugar cane :
ntil 1852, when the phylloxera nearly b
wept all the vines out of existence. t
he sugar cane is again being Guilt b
ated' and last year half a million II
ounds were made. The supply will b
ways be limited, because the cane r.
annot be profitably cultivated at Is
lgher elevation than 1000 feet. II
"A new material is proposed as a a
lostltute for leather. 1t is called II
heXus libra" and is derived from
AK. suitably prepared and oiled. 1t m
as the same appearance as leather. u
particularly supple, and takes a W
olish equally well with the best a
inds of calf The material is said to nj
ossess great tenacity. while affordinp II
reat ease and comfort to the foot p'
hen made into shoes. Flexus fibra. II
eing of vegetable origin, is calcu- Is
tied also to facilitate free ventilation. u
nd thereby to obviate the discomfort
rising from what is called ''drawinp'' ea
lie feet.-St. Louis Globe Democrat. tc
For centuries the mud wasp has .'ee .e
uilt its cells of soft mud; in the bot. IN
I'm OF these cells the female laws it's I'll
mute egg building its mud home just w
lie size that the young will be when ne
rown. Before closing this mud-walled IN
III the wasp catches suitable sized oe
'ider injects into its body a fluid that Ia
luses it to remain torpid through the tr
inter until with the warmth of re-
lrning spring the wasp grows, con- Tn
inning the spider for food, thus gain W.
g strength to break the mud walls an
nd emerge into the outer world full ne ne
inged insect. And yet no mud wasp II
ON the beginning has ever seen its Pc
oung. SUI
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The Necessary Fan. ra
Fans have long since gone beyond ac
e STAGE of strict use and are nn,,, 70. | -.