The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-07-17
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Ohio has the best potato yield for twenty
years
Peaches packed in moss won't bruise nor
dryrot.
Wool thieves are operating in Onondaga
County, N. Y.
An Austrian colony has settled in Sanilac
County, Mich.
Big apples and plump wheat swell Michi-
gan with elatiOn.
The blackberry crop in Southern Indiana
is something immense.
A cargo of flower went from Minnesota to
London in eighteen days.
Sheep raising in California is almost Who'll
ly in the hands Of land owners,
Old pea plats and worn out strawberry
beds may be used for growing celery.
Gen. Fitzpatrick has oats nearly seven feet
tall waving on his Sussex, N. j., farm.
| Rutabaga seed should be sown before
the middle OF July to secure good crop.
In growing peaches, cherries and grapes
Washington greatly excels cities further
North.
Too many leaves on cabbage plants, or
other broad-leaved plants that are trans
planted, tend TO promote too rapid evapora-
zion.
He who points out errors in culture,
whether of the soil or the mind, and
suggests the remedy or corrective, is a bene-
factor.
About three hundred and sixty thousand
acres Of heavily umbered Virginia land was
recently sold by auction for an average Of
cent an acre.
A lot of maple trees set out in public
street in Springfield, Mass, in 1875 have in
creased in circumference from one and one
half inch to sixteen inches,
"Corns IN Clover" on the "Rural
Grounds" says the Rural New Yorker.
Which is the weed? The latter being de-
fined as plant out Of place.
The apple crop in the Vermont valleys
, was considerably injured by the frosts in
June, and the fruit is dropping, but on the
hills little damage was done.
A fair farm hand is at work in Franklin
County from the 10th of June to the TO- of
July for $40 and board-eighteen working
days of the best of the season.
Newport N. c., has two hundred and
, twenty-five thousand hills of wal alermelons
growing for the Northern market, and the
! growers desire communications with the
Hub.
Maine farmers are paying attention to
l the production Of beets for sugar. At least
, two thousand are cultivating bees for
this new business which the State aids by O
:, bounty.
The rice culture of the country, demoral
e lied by the war, is recovering Itself. South
K Carolina will this year yield forty-foul
thousand tierces and Georgia twenty-siS
thousand.
Lightning struck large maple tree al
j., Avon, N. Y, during a recent Storm and sA
. dead squirrels, with the hair burned from
r their bodies were found in the trunk Oh
n cutting it down.
j. If the present low prices of butter anG
milk have accelerated the descent of oleo
;, margarine to the tank Of the soap boiler
ii the depressed dairymen may feel that thei
IS labor is not wholly in vain
q Miller & Lux, of California, own eighty
Z thousand head of cattle and seventy
u thousand acres of choice lands. They wer'
l. poor few years ago but Lux followed
them along, unll now they are rated a
$l5, 100000.
st. White pine shingles on the Shaker Meet
J. ng-house in Canterbury, n. H., put on will
= wooden pins eighty-six years ago, are Still
~ in a good state Of preservation, and if lef
t. alone will last half a century longer, say
)f Levi Bartlett.
d The culture of tea is spreading in tn
10 South, especially in Georgia, where thou
~ sands of plants are now growing If th
r manipulation of the leaves can be dispensed
le with, the crop will succeed, but otherwis
70 the cost of labor will prevent.
70 The Western Rural says that tomatoe
- picked when just ripe and with a portion 0
n The stems retained, and at once covere'
N with brine composed OF teacup of sal
re dissolved in gallon OF water, can be KEEP
~ nearly all the year without noticeable los
d of freshness of taste.
l. The oldest peony root we have heard of
c. on the old Brown place. South Manchester
70 Conn., set seventy years ago, and produce
a large crop of red blossoms the present SET
as son. The time was when this plant, tn
10 lilac, the pink, and the red and white ros
or constituted the rural florists principal co
n lection.
! Lately were sold in Mcdowell County
" West Virginia, three hundred and sixt
at thousand acres of white oak and minert
40 lands in lots of one thousand acres or more
: to suit buyers, by auction, in New Iorl
u Half the tract sold for half cent per acr'
an and the rest of it from cent to a cent an
ch and half per acre.
of A newly imported Hungarian employe
- on farm few miles north OF Baltimore
IL, tilted up beehive the other day to sc
Id what the bees were doing there. He know
es now. He says they were making chai
pa lightning and had two thousand tons OF
!, . on hand. which exploded before he ha
ch time to let the box down.
he Sheep-raisers are complaining of gre'
nv losses in the business during the past seasol
~ What with losses during the severe storm
0' and the low price of wool, the raiser is di
he consolate. The farmers charge that comb
an nation of Eastern men has been made
at keep the price of wool down, and man
"' have met with such severe losses during tE
les past year that they are contemplating lea
an ing the business altogether.