The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-06-12
FROM THE COUNTRY AT LARGE.

Indiana farmers are planting artichokes.
Indian corn is called "toddy-seed" in the
giddy West.
The Maryland peach crop this year will
be very large.
Kansas has silk-raising colony in the
town of Silkville. :. :.
Fruit is rapidly ripening in the Western
New York sunshine,
Charlotte Mich, is rearing stalls for
horse show in August.
The Troy; N. Y, iron trade hasn't been
so good these five years.
Last year So, 100000 worth of copper was
dug from Michigan veins.
Gooseberry festivalsare all the rage in :he
Southorp part of Illipois.
Richard Mansill of Rock Island, predicts
an early and cool autumn.
Hammondsport, NY, shipped ten thou
sand tons of grapes last. year.
The Western papers have a'grasshopper
department for lively reading.
A.Jackson, Ga, man has invented com
bined plow and cotton chopper.
"A Barre, Mass. straw hat firm finds this
years trade the best it'eyeI had.
1t is reported that down in Tennessee
there is beetle which chews tobacco.
The chinch bug has appeared in some
wheat fields Of Whiteside County, III.
1t is the season for milk pans to ignite
apochryphal barns by rejecting the sun.
Ten thousand oraAge trees were set ont
in the vicinity of San Jose. California, this
season.
| : The Lynn (Mass.) shoe manufacturers
will only send out ene-fifth Of the usual
Salesmen.
Thousands Of acres are covered with wa
ter about Lasalle, ILL.,, by. the rise in the IL
linois River.
Between the drouth, the wind and the
worm, says the Boulder Coli News, the
wheat prospect is not very f1attering.
II. F. Jones, of Clinton County, ILL.,, ha
a colt which, when only seven weeks old
weighed three hundred and forty-seyel
pounds.
A little green bug is destroying the .bfu'
grass in kentucky. Great fields are said t.
be ravaged by it, the grass looking as if j
had suffered protracted drouth.
The rice crop of this country is comm,
to the front again. South Carolina.has al
estimated yield Of forty-four thousanC
tierces this year. and Georgia twenty-si!
thousand. -"
Mrs. S. Milton, of Colchester Canada, .ha
a COW that gave birth to twin calves on Fri
day March 29th, and the Same cow had twill
calves in May, 1877 thus making four calve
inside of eleven months.
l. A sugar beet factory is to be started il
Healdsburg, Cal. 1t is proposed to erec
works with capacity of about forty ton
of sugar per diem, which will requir
the planting of over five hundred acres il
beets.
The National Live Stock Journal squelche
several prevalent diseases by saying: Th
so-called black teeth in hogs is an imaginar
ailment, like 'wolf teeth" and 'lampas" i
horses, and "hollow horn" and "tail aiE' il
cattle. This. subject occupies prominen
place in the vocabulary of quacks. and: COY
leeches. ~"
A movement is on foot having forits oil
iect the establishment of silk farm abou
thirty miles from Philadelphia. Th
scheme fakes the form of.a stock company
which will purchase large tract of land
:, plant it with mulberry trees and erect
building in which the art Of silk .dreSsin
and weaving is to be taught o.. :.
L. D. Watkins, of Norveli, Jackson Cour
. ty Mich, has recently purchased an exter
sive tract of land in Nebraska. II consist
Of fifteen miles froIft ON the Loop River
and running back from the same thirt
| miles. He is using it as sleep ranch, an
now has thereon three thousand eight hur
dred sheep. and is driving sixteen thousan
more from Missouri.
John Mattison, near Dutch HIN. Y
: has the boss gobbler of the season. He Ia
three hen turkeys which he set in a row
and having quantity Of eggs left he mad
nest put. ip nineteen eggs, ,and placed th
4 gobbler on the nest as an experiment. 'Th
, old chap took. to his new duties naturall
and faithfully, and Matched out seyentee
young turkeys, upon which he is now b.
:. slowing the tenderest, faithful care.