The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-10-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Signs of an active trade multiply daily.
LAUNDERING has begun in the Maine
woods.
Chins and fever prevail extensively
in Reading.
German millet is being used as rice in
low er Georgia.
Sweet potatoes 30 cents a bushel in
Hawesyllle, Ky.
Cherry trees are In bloom again in
West Philadelphia.
Georgla's dried peaches this year Will
be worth $l,jO0,00J.
Potato bugs have taken q fresh start
in Caroline County, Md.
Down East farmers are wrinkling their
visages over new cider.
Turnip seed is being largely planted
in Stewart County, Ga.
Castor oil, in lozenge form, is one of
the new modern tacIli.i les.
Philadelphia now has factory for
making Turkish toweling.
Potato-paring matches are q feature
at some OF the Illinois fairs.
Alligator steak is considered a tid-bit
| by many Georgia freedmen.
| The squirrels begin to eye the chest
nut crop with special interest.
Ohio raised 100000 bushels of apples
| from 3Sl, 900 acres OF orcnards.
Caldwell County, N. O., has just hit
on valuable whetstone quarry.
A squash with sweet potato attributes
is vegetable novelty in Hartford.
5 New Hampshire's wheat averages
| fifteen to twenty bushels per acre.
Iowa dam keep a separate grocery
book for their chewing gum accounts.
| Tne currant crop in Europe has been
reduced twenty thousand TONS by rains.
| The New Hampshire farmers have
never had more prosperous ear than
| this.
The Southern Kentucky Bee-keepers'
| Convention conEenes at Glasgow Oct0-
ber g.
Mr.. Pitmau, of Bangor, Maine, has
raised four crops OF Blue Peter peas
this year.
There are sometimes as many as three
| thousand cattle at Manchester Ky, on
court-day sales.
Since August /, 1876, over three hum
dred anu twenty thousand people have
moved into Texas.
1t may not be too late to say that greer
fruit packed in cans is very wholesome
while it remains in the cans.
Col. f. 3. Papy has fine almond tree
in full bearing in Tallahassee, Fla.
which was Taised from the nut.
The ice dealers on the Kennebet
River are now more busy than at any
previous time during the season.
MiooDuri ,anoro rapnut thot 49,,
: almonds mature IN the open air in tn
southwestern portion OF their State.
T. Two thousand American firms ar
, SAID to have already made arrange
ments to be represented in the Pari
= Exhibition OF 1878.
IL is estimated that turbine waite
8 wheels have, since their invention
1 saved the country over $500, 100000
the one single item OF luei.
Every tobacco baH on the turnpik
/ between MaysviIle and May slick, Ky
= ls crowded with tobacco Of good qualit
g and in tirst-rate condition.
The very large quantity OF four hui
dred and thirty million pounds
resin Cor rosin) was produced in th
United States In the year 1876.
: Since june l, 1876. twelve millio
l. pounds OF dried apples have been e2
@ ported from this counUry-nearly twei
ty times as many pounds as the year b
lOre.
Gilman & Reid, Of Paris, KY, ha,
A. shipped 4, 900 Dusnels extra cleaned blu
r. grass seed 10 Germany and 1000 TO otht
, points, and have about 1000 bushels c
naud.
Nelson Ritter, of Syracuse, n. Y, G
. iers 500 lor one hundred plants OF al
g. varie y Of straw berry, old Ur new, tn
d VIII equal the "Wuson's" in all +
spects.
A lemon tree in the Spier Grov
~ Orange County, Fla, produced last Sc
e son 5000 lemons. Orange trees in u
e same grove last year Dore 2 500, $500 al
al $500 each.
" On the farm of Jacob Rain, in Ric
mOnd TOWNSHIP, Pa, there ls at prese
an apple Tree in iull blossom, wnicn
to the same time is covered with fruit
s. Lhis seasons growth.
Of The Ocala Florida Banner estimat
or the cost OF purchasing, clearing, lencl
u and planting tive acres OF land with ty
ne hundred and fifty r-year-old seedi
We orange trees al $l23 70.
Is Shelby County is likely TO continl
IL this year the biggest hog-producl
county III Kentucky State. She has
le good corn crop, aud will put in The ma
e. ket this fall about twenty-five thousal
OF good porkers.
g, The owen (Ky.) News says the
a. bacco crop is about one-half cut a
~ housed, while the planters are still "!
ID busy cutting. Very little of the smi
r. grain has been sowed, owing to the &C
o. tlnued drouth.
n. The Eastern Shore duckers are maxi
ready Tor the winter campaign, and 9
~ getting their guns, deeoys, boaLs, &C.,
Is order. The ducks from The lake regI
,r- are putting in their appearance on
TN bay and river flats.
We notice in exchanges frequent al
sions to the banana as ~ tree" while
''P is only green, succulent plant ol FRI
es- twelve to eighteen months' eXisten
I'd, bears one bunch Of fruit and dies, Otl
.be shoots from the same root sprouling
and going Though the same proct
fk- dd infRitum.
ic- California farmers are cultivating
me trees for The sole purpose OF raising a
III attening hogs. This fruit contai
large quantities of saccharine matt
lis hence is very fattening. Tue fig tr
cd once well starred, requires little att,
m. ton, bears several crops a year and
"a. very prolific