The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-04-08
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

-Dairying in Germany has been mono
the less rapid during the past decade
than in Denmark or Sweden. In 1882
exclusive of Bavaria-there were only
about $50 largo dairies in the Father
land, but ten years later their number
was increased to 2,672, of which 1,O2O
are cooperative.
-Raisin growers of California arc
forming trust Packers and brokers
will be admitted, but the entrance fee
will be higher for them than for grow.
crs. Raisins will be consigned only to
packers and brokers who have given
bonds of $40, 900 and $50, 0)0 respectively
not to sell under prices fixed by the
trust
There are aboat 900, 900, 900 of acres
of uncultivated land in India, not in.
GLIDING forests On much of this land
trees could be planted. which, with
little care and expense ut first, would,
in few years, afford an abundance OF
fuel, and later on q wealth of excellent
tim Der.
On NorwallS Island the wool crop
of last year amounted to 4, 200 pounds
and sold for 12 cents on the spot Farm
prospects were marred by bad weather
Potatoes and onions hardly realized
any paying price. The best market
for Norfolk Island products is Noumea.
in New Caledonia.
Great Britain imported, during 1891,
135, 900 cattle less than in 1890, the de-
crease being attribute BILE to lesser inn
portations from Denmark, Canada and
the United States The receipts from
Denmark were so. 900. from Canada 49,.
900 and from the United States 69,O0o
less than in the preceding year.
BELTS that slip can be cured by COW
ering the pulleys with canvas. Wrap
the canvas twice around the pulley,
using the following mixture to keep it
in place: White glue, six pounds; white
lead, in oil, two pounds; nitric acid, one
fourth ounce. Dissolve the glue in two
quarts of soft water, mix in the white
lead, add the acid and employ the mix
ture hot.
The expedition sent out by the vi
emma academy of science to explore the
to be something over two and one
quarter miles, between Molla and Cert
go. On the African coast, where the
water is clearer, white metal plates
could be seen at depth of 144 feet.
Sensitive plates were acted upon by the
light at depth of over 1000 feet
The waters of the oceans and seas
- 1<1,o / II m
600, 900, 00o, 900 tons of salt in suspen-
sion. If these figures are correct and
the ocean should be entirely dried up,
there would be a deposit of salt $50 feet
deep over every foot of the great basin.
If taken out and spread upon what is
now dry land it would give us salt
covering nearly 1900 feet thick
The mode of depositing its eggs
practiced by the locust tree borer
(Cyllene robini@) has been described by
Mr.. Jack in Garden and Forest He
noticed the beetles laying their eggs
August 90. The eggs are large, oblong,
white and soft, and are placed just
under the edges of the toughest bark,
or more particularly in places where
small limbs have been cut or broken
off. A.favorite place also is around the
openings of their own burrows.
The bottom of the North Atlantic
ocean, says Prof. Huxley, is one of the
widest and most even plains in the
world. If the sea were drained off,
wagon might be driven all the way
from Valentia, on the west coast of Ire
land, to Trinity bay, in Newfoundland.
From Valcntia the road would lie down
hill for about 200 miles, to the point at
which the bottom is now covered by
100 fathoms of sea water Then
would come the central plain, more
than 1000 miles wide, the inequalities
of the surface of which would be hardly
perceptible. though the depth of water
upOn IL now varies from IN O0n IN TX nm