The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-09-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Springfield, Mass.
Canned fru has largely replaced the
old-iashi"ned "preserves."
The oXalis being graceful and droopy
is nice for hanging baskets.
Georgia buys SIS coo, OOO worth OF meat
from olher States, annually.
lu Somerset County, Pa, eggs are
selling at cents per dozen.
Chicago enYiouslg dub5 the st. Louis
| exposition squash snow"
The grape crop of Nrw York State has
suffered badly by hall-storms.
Richmond, N. c., folks Keep at home at
night, Tor lear Of rattlesnakes.
Down East they peel Ihelr watermel-
0ns aud cat them ike oranges.
The sweet potatoes from Norfolk are
usually packed iO light barrels.
FISH cranes whose wings sAlead six
lect are often shot i'll Berks CJunly.
There is a general complaint of potato
rot Iii Vermont, but the yield is large.
Captain Beard, of Fayette, Ky, has
sweet potatoes that weigh over six
pounds.
a shark seven feet and two inches
long was caught at Mississippi City The
other day.
A farmer in Mecklenburg NJ County Va,
offers to sell one thousand barrels of
corn for 1900.
A spotted lawn will be given to the
dearest little woman at the Hawkins
vile, Ga, Fair.
Louisiana cOuHts on enough rice this
year to I'LL one hundred and seveuly
thousand Oarre.s.
The Tennessee peanut crop is est-
mated, duuDtiully, at l5J,O00 bushels, or
| I'M ee-lourtns OF crop.
And now they are selling potatoes
"warranted to nave been raised wituout
the Use OF Paris Green"
The cultivation OF sweet potatoes has
been tired with success at West STRAIT
Iord, Conn.,, this season.
A little North Caioina town shipped
tofly-aIue thousand pounds OF drl, d
| blac kUerrles III one daN.
Co oneI n. NJ. Long has l 800 acres in
corn "h 1Iush Island, n. g., WAucn VIII
make elgAt barre S per acre.
a farmer near R4inhold4ville, Pa, re-
allzed Two hundred ami LWcntv bushels
Oi early rose potatoes from lal. IL, acre,
H. seems probable that the mauufac-
ture OF b :et-rOOt sugar viii shor ly be
Introduced lnCo til" county ol Ql 'bec.
! A gentleman counted three qundred
hel OF buckwneat ON tue pIaZzl of
the old Cat,kll Moun.aln IUuse IL few
days ago.
A pyramid OF fruit sixty leet high wa,
on exhibition at ). hue zen PARK, New
York, where the te, ,iyul 0. tue Cam
| o,ater was held.
Jonathan Meyer, OF South Mountain
fa., has corn crlO LA eet lDng, II feel
u,gh and Ieet wide, and he expects t,
MI IL WI II MS cor crop inns year.
z unine is now So high in price in Eu
q, that doctors are u ing ims cad tn,
lquld solulIo" OF strycnnlue, and Gud i
nearly as enleaUiou, aud mucn leaprr
There Were exhibited recent Y in Viz
gtnia cry, New, LrOu five incues luug
which were natcued from eg-s take
there from Vermont only Six montu.
; g..
BY a recent invention, buttons ar
= fastened upon cards by mAchiner,
! instead OF ~ hand as heretofore. On
machine will do the WORK Of tweut
sklIled workers.
Mules are being shipped from Wood
ford, n.y., to New Orleans firm, y Ii,
? have c0utrac, TO ,utnIsn nv. ,un
dred head 10 the Spanish army III Cuba
A farmer living on Cumberland L v
er, near Columbia, Ky, in p AcJed a ten
= acre field OF corn. d lew days ago, an,
D dld not find Il iull ear iu The putcn
, Destroyed by squirrels.
The Owensboro, Ky, Examiner saws
Some tobacco has already been cut
/ though the greater portion OF the crop i
l still quite green and growing rapidly
q An early frost would do serious dam
:, age.
The West Baton Rouge, La, Suga
Planter says the catch Of shrimp thi
S season has been enormous. Ii adds
: 1--WE have seen them sell for five cent
a gallon, or blue bucket full for Qual
ter."
G The Thibodaux La. Sentinel says tn
q crop OF sugar w.Il prouabIy be uqual /
that OF 1916. Had here Deen more rain
= the yield would have been better. Ric
: growers are having an eXceIent seaso
e lor cutting their crop.
e The Port Tobacco Md. Independent
: says: 1--WE regret to hnd the opinio
general that lhe tobacco crop. as far /,
u this county is concerned, will 1all ia
2. short OF the expectations entertaine
10 only short whine ago."
4 Reports received by the various Co
, ton Exchanges OF the South represrI
~ the crop TO be suffering somewhat iroi
l. the drouth ana worms. Picking is Pre-
crossing as rapidly as the opening boI4
- will permit. Tue crop Will be no doul
as large as was anticipated.
=, Mrs. E. Morgan, OF Randolph count,
u Ala, had some sorghum put in new jugi
y where it remained u considerable WulIt
l. When she went TO empty the syrup IN
- agine her astOnishmenL at finding IT roc
u candy. The candy Was in Jumps tn
C. size OF peas, but hard and sweet ike til
is rock candy we buy. 1t had yelio
w cast, but otherwise was clear and goo(
l. The wheat crop for Iowa is estim lte
Il at 81, 600, 900 bushels, of which 80 0JO, "
= bushels can be sold. The hog crop WI
II be about 100000. 1t is also estimate
3 tnat Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas. Illinois
10 Ohio and Indiana Will export owe
if 100, ,000 900 bushels Of wheat. Tne gret
corn crop is yet TO come, and kansa
a. alone viii produce more than 150 O00, 0,
d bushels, and ONO ana Indiana lOO, wv, W
q bushels each.
e The manganese mines near Cav
f. Springs, Gd., are being worked VIII
fair success. The company have the
% mines in Iull blast, and about eIgl
t tons per day are extracted. The sam
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