The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-03-24
Oh Large Size.
Some of tho Big Things of tho World.

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FISH CANNERY-The largest in the
world is on Karluk island, Alaska. 1t
packs millions of salmon annually. The
largest fish cannery in the United States
proper is at Fairhaven, Wash
ANIMAL.-The largest animal of mod
ern times is the whale. One was cap
tured in the Arctic ocean that was 176
feet long and 12O feet in circumference.
BELTS.-A carpet factory on President
street, Brooklyn, N. Y, has the largest
leather belt in the world 1t is r inches
WIDE 100 feet long, weighs 1900 pounds
and transmits over 1900 horse power
The largest rubber belt, So inches wide
/ etght-ply thick, 2SS feet long and weigh
ing 1000 pounds, is in a West Superior
(Wis) grain elevator. The largest rub
Der carrying belt of the world connects
two Jersey City grain elevators. 1t is
2;7O0 feet long, weighs 5000 pounds and
runs on small rollers.
TUNNELS st. Gothard, $3.50
feet long fhe longest in the world, SIS
miles; is PSF feet wide and nearly 10
feet high, on the railway between Luz
cerne and Milan: Mount Gents, 50, $40 feet
long; Hoosac, 25, $50 feet long; Nochis-
tongo, l,659 feet long; Sutro, 81, i2o feet
long; Riquivel, 1S,623 feet long; Nerthe,
1873 feet long; Blaizy, Ass feet long;
Thames and Medwey, 1880 feet long;
Mersey, AZ miles long; Severn, 22,59 feet
long; Baltimore, 81, 400 feet.
ARCH.-Cabin John bridge, near wash
ington, D. c., has the largest store arch
in the world, go feet. Across it IS CON
veyed the water supply of the capital
city. It was built while Jefferson Davis
was secretary Of war His name appeared
originally, but was erased from the cor
nerstOne during the war. This arch is 20
feet in excess Of the Chester arch across
the Dee, in England; 6S feet longer than
that Of the London bridge; go feet longer
than that at Neuilly on the Seine, and 100
feet longer than that of Waterloo bridge
CROPS-The largest crops on record and
proof are those Of the famous prize con-
tests of 1889 and 1890 when the American
Agriculturist. in 1889 offered prizes, ag-
gregating nearly $1,000 in gold. for
the largest yields per acre of corn,
wheat, oats and potatoes. The acre plo,s
were surveyed before planting ana after
harvesting, and so surveyed in the pres
ence of reliable witnesses, who also had
charge Of the harvesting and weighing
Of the crop 1t was not favorable
year for potatoes, but a crop of 1888 BUSH
els and 25 pounds on one measured acre,
grown by Charles B. Coy, Presque ISLE
Aroostook county, Maine. won the grand
prize of $500. The potato growers were
go much disappointed in not having
! raised a thousand bushels per acre that
the contest was repeated in 1890, when
the grand prize was captured by Will
liam J. Sturgis, Buffalo. Johnson county,
Wyoming, with crop of 975 bushels or
one measured acre. by irrigation. The
other first prize crops in 1889 were: OF
cats, 135 bushels, grown by r. w.
Strickland, Albion, Orleans county. New
York; wheat, so bushels, grown by Will
liam Gibbey, Salt Lake City, Utah and
corn, 239 bushels, of crib-cured shelled
corn grown on one acre in Marlboro
county, South Carolina, by Zacharisn
Jordan Drake This crop made 255 BUSH
els, as weighed and measured, but con-
tanned so much water that, when shrunl1
to only 10 per cent of water, the standard
for crib-cured corn, the weight was 239
bushels. These crops have never been
questioned, and their accuracy is vouched
for by the American Agriculturist, In
whose columns the results were pub
lished, Some large corn crops were re-
corded at the Illinois state fair contest in
1897. The four highest were as follows:
C. T. Wadsworth, Ogle county, 1872 bush
els. Mammoth Yellow. John Powers,
Whiteside county. 166 bushels, of shelled
corn on one acre Iowa Silver Mine. S.
S. Fursman, Woodford county. 100 BUSH
els, Early White Mastodon. E. o. Bo-
hel, Fulton county, $50 bushels, Masto-
con.