BURNING CORN.
The farmers in various localities in
Nebraska have begun to burn corn.
The Nebraska Free Trader alluding
to the fact says: “ This seems to be a
very strange state of things. When
it costs so much to ship corn and
coal that the farmer can better afford
to burn the com than haul it to
market and purchase coal with the
money, there is something radically
wrong. A glance at prices will con
vince anyone that at the present
price of corn it is cheaper to burn
corn than it would be to burn coal.
Good soft coal cost $5.50 per ton.
In a ton there are about twenty-five
bushels, so the coal costs about
twenty-two cents per bushel. Corn
is worth only fifteen cents per
bushel, and buyers think they will
drop to twelve cents soon. A
bushel of corn will not produce as
much heat as a bushel of coal, but
two bushel of corn will produce
more heat, or as much at least, as a
bushel of coal; so if corn is worth
but twelve cents and coal costs 22
cents, the farmer may as well burn
corn and save the labor incurred in
hauling the corn to market.”
THE “CLEVELAND GEM.”
The Albany Argus says. Mr.
Henry Horwitz, representing S.
Dessau, of New York has a flawless
diamond, seventy-eight karat in the
rough, which they commenced cut
ting the day after election. It will
be called the “ Cleveland Gem,” in
honor of President elect Cleveland.
When finished it will weigh from
forty to tifty karats, and is the largest
and most perfect gem ever cut on
this continent. It will be on exhi
bition at New Orleans during the
exposition.
