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Dried Potatoes

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Parent Issue
Day
13
Month
March
Year
1874
Copyright
Public Domain
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N. Y.) Expresa says : " Lately a trado has beon developed aniong some Itochester shippers about whioh but little is known. It is the trade in dried potatoes. Potatoes are sliced up and dried in much tho sanie manner as dried apples. One firm has an order on hand iiow for 50,000 pounds of these dried potatoes. as well as for 1,500 bushels of onions, which are dried in much tho sanie manner. They are intended for the navy. A bushel oí' potatoes dry away to about ten pounds, and a bushel of onions to about six pounds. When ready they aro put into largo tin cans, holding abont forty pounds each, and sealed up the name as oysters." The anvil for the thirty-ton steara hammor, to bo erected at the Woolwich Arsenal, England, will weigh 50 tons ; the anvil-block weighs 103 tons, and took six months to cool. Altogether, 660 tons of iron will be used in tho foundation work. An oíd Troy rivor man says he is disgusted to hear peoplo nowadays talk of low water in the Hudson. He romarks that he can ronieruber, years ago, whon the river was low. He asseveratos that at one timo all tho passengers on the New York boat liad to close their windows during the entir passage down, because the steamer's wheels made such a dust.

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Old News
Michigan Argus