The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-03-12
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

Goldsmith Maid, horsemen say, is still
queen OF the turf.
Reading has score of horses that
beat three minutes.
1t is said Berkshire hams always
bring the best prices.
The Chester white hog is very hard to
fatten, and natures slowly.
The quaintest thing about Oakland,
Cal, is factory TO make rope oi shee,
enLralls.
During the war leather never rose
more than Az per cent; cotton rose 1000
per cent.
The Tenth Duchess of Geneva" is
dead. In her life sue was thirty thou
sand dollars worth Of prize COW, and
gave milk which was made into punches
Tor emperors.
During the year just closed, upwards
of nineteen thousand new farm, have
been established in tue States and Ter
rltories. They embrace more tIau three q.
quarters of mlIlIon acres.
The Philadelphia purchasing agent Of
the New Jersey State Grangers has been
found to be between $1,000 and $S, U0U
short ill his accounts, and it is not
known how much further this defcie ncy
may extend.
81 never can enjoy poetry when Pm
cookln'," SAID an Old lady; but when |
step out to feed the hogs, and hist mysel.
on the fence, and throw ny soul into "a
few lines of Cap'n Jinks, IL does seem as
if this alrth was made 10 live on, after
ALL"
The following persons were elected
nj q
1871: President, Jas. NJ. Smith; Vice.
President, d. N. Hitchcock; Treasurer,
Fitz Boynton; Secretary, Ii. A. Randall.
Annual Fair and Cattle Snow 10 be held
September 1918, 1877.
1t is reported that large plantations OF
bananas are being started in the yiclni.
ty Of Santa Barbara, Cal, and if this
plant should prove success in the To-
cality named, we mayE look for large
supplies from that region in a very lew
years, as CallIornianS do nothing by
halves.
The foreign demand for beef which
has lately sprung up, is likely to have
an excellent effect upon scock-raising
in this country. The people of Great
Britain have been accustomed to fair
quality OF meat, and will not be likely to
take up all inferior article coming from
ABROAD.
A large lot of wine will be sold ont
shortly to close an estate in Georgia.
Some of it was bottled in 1896, AMI none
of it is likely to sell for less than S25 De r
bottle. How this simple announcement
will cause thousands of those fellows
who Travelled with Sherman in 1S64-5 to
weep over their carelessness.
A writer in the Chautauqua armer
reports to have killed the potato beetle
last summer on his farm by sprinkiln o
the vines with decoctiOn of mandrake
root tea. We published an account OF a
farmer in OHIO using mandrake tea for
the same purpose IN the Rural New
Yorker OF July %, 1872
Minnesota farmers appear to be MAX
ing strenuous efforts TO supply them
selves and future generations with TIM
Der, or at least fire wood, and il is re-
ported that ten million cuttings were
planted last year, but we regret to say
that they were mainly of cottonwood
and willow, both very poor kinds.
A man in California has raised ten
bushels of wheat on one-eighth of an
acre OF land by planting each kernel of
seed separate and then hoeing the
plants. Similar results may be obtaine d
by sowing in drills and giving after-cuI-
ture, but our farmers are slow to adOpt
any syetem which is likely to increase
the labor OF raising a crop.