Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1905-12-29
Scraps aud fafts,


report Of the Soil Bureau. The to-
bacco Investigations Of the bureau
have been extended. I'm Texas, CO.
operative experiments have been car
ried on with farmers" the report
adds, with the result that new va
rieties Of filler tobacco are being
grown that sell from 2S to 40 cents
per pound, with an average price OF
30 cents. In this manner a new in
dustry is being developed in a region
where the staple crop-cotton-is be-
ing seriously threatened by the raw
ages of the boil weevil. In the Con-
necticut valley, work on the produc-
ton of a high grade of wrapper TO-
hacco grown under cloth tents has
been continued. In Ohio. the new
method Of fermentation has been
thoroughly introduced and has re-
suited in the saving Of thousands OF
dollars to the tobacco producers or
the state. In Virginia, the Improve
ment Of the plug wrapper TOBACCO
has been undertaken through oetter
methods of production and handling.
Under the methods introduced by the
bureau of soils, profits have been
increased from $5 per acre under the
old system to nearly $50 per acre
under the new system
In a moment Of vinous enthusiasm
Daniel Webster put his hand In his
pocket, asked how much the national
debt was, and offered to pay 1t him.
self. A Mexican farmer. Don Luis
Terrazas, a great friend of President
Diaz, once offered to assume the Mex
lean national debt, and 1t Woulont
have kept him awake nights II MS
offer had been accepted. Don Luis
has what you might call a tidy little
farm at Chihuahua; about eighteen
million acres. Takes the Mexican
Central trains more than a half
day to cross 1t. Don Luis is thought
to own more than a million cattle
but a bagatelle Of hundred thous-
and more or less never bothers him.
His stable consists of some lOO,OOV
horses; his sheerfold OF .7OO,oOO
sheep. From 100000 to 100000
calves are branded with his brand
every spring. More than thousand
cowboys and so on keep his cattle
on a thousand hills. By the way his
farm includes a few mountains, FOR
diyersification. At his slaughter and
packing houses near Chihuahua city,
250,0OO cattle, as many sheep and
hogs innumerable are killed; and
away they go in his own refrigerator
cars. Some 10000 people dwell on
his estate and are ruled by this
Arabian Nights farmer, who lives in
a two-million (silver) dollar castle
and is a swell nabob such as these
United States know not.
Most Of the diamonds entering
the United States. while they origi-
nate in distant parts Of the world,
chiefly South Africa, reach the Uni
ted States from European countries
the United Kingdom, Netherlands,
France and Germany, says the Pitts
burg Dispatch. The United Kingdom, In
whose South African possessions the
greatest diamond mines Of the world
are located, has sent during ten
months ending with October, S.
100000 worth Of diamonds, Of which
about $5,000,000 were uncut and over
$4,000 900 cut. but not set. The
Netherlands also sent $S.OOO,O0O
worth, Of which $1,000,000 worth was
uncut and $7,OOO,OO0 worth cut but
not set: France sent about sS,OOO,-
900 worth of which less than $780,
600 were uncut and over $2,500,000
worth cut, but not set. London, Am
sterdam and Paris are the great dia-
mond distributing centres Of Europe,
drawing their supplies chiefly from
South Africa, but the marked differ
ence in these centres Of distribution
is that Amsterdam and Paris have
large diamond cutting industries and
the diamonds which they distribute
are generally cut, while, as above
indicated, large proportion Of those
supplied to the United States from
Great Britain are uncut.
Two interesting reports have just
been received in this county regard
ing the efforts that are being mad"
to displace American cotton abroad.
In Germany, Egyptian cotton amounts
to $4,000 bales, having an average
weight of from 6S1 to 705 pounds
each. This amount is about one
fourth to one-thjrd Of the total
consumption Of cotton in upper Alsace,
Germany. This cotton is especially
used for the spinning of very fine tex
tile, and it is claimed to be best suited
for the spinning Of fine yarns. The de-
mand for Egyptian cotton has lately
increased in the Alsatian factories on
account Of the greater demand for
mercerized cotton textile, for, with spe-
cial machinery. cotton goods can now
be made to appear as silk goods, and
Egyptian cotton is most suitable for
this purpose. An exact comparison Of
the various cotton. as regards prices,
cannot be we'll given, as conditions
pertaining to crops, markets and spec
ulation may control these. II general
it may be said that Egyptian cotton is
Is per cent higher than American cot
ton. That produced in India is also
of less value than that produced in
Egypt. At the present time good In
dia cotton Is 3.57 cents cheaper per
pound than good American, and Amer
lean cotton cheaper by the same
amount than that grown in Egypt.
Under the auspices of the British Cot
ton Growing association, cotton to the
amount of s1,OOO,OOO was grown last
year: 10000 bales came from one dis
trict in Africa and it is said that the
report for the present year will show
exceptionally large cotton areas in all
places under dominion of British in
fluence. One hundred and thirty-five
years ago. the West Indies supplied
Lancashire with 5000 bags, while
America at the same time supplied but
13 bags and IL Is the idt a of the Brit