The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-07-03
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Lime kills potato bugs.
Vick's Monthly says the German ivy is
not an ivy at all.
In North Carolina every fence is adorned
with blackberry vines.
New York State hasn't had such raspberry
prospects for many years.
Many Lehigh County, Pa, farmers haven't
storage for all their hay crop.
Some Lancaster County, Pa, farmers get
bayfield, hands at so cents a day.
1t is the season for precautionary cab
bage-leaves in the roof of the hat.
The Germantown Telegraph says the
cherry crop is failure generally.
A runaway team at Chautauqua, N. Y,
smashed six hundred and twenty-one dozen
eggs.
Flour is now carried from the Western
granaries to the ovens of London in twenty
days.
Tennessee and Kentucky are enjoying the
most superb blackberry crops in the memory
of man.
The Journal of Chemistry says that hot
alum water is the best insect destroyer
known.
Mississippi marvels over four-winged
goose. There will be many 'pinions about
that bird.
Ice is regarded as a prime necessity at
Bombay, and the supply is obtained from
this country, being shipped chiefly from
Boston.
The striped bugs whose affection for the
melon vine has cost many farmer his crop
of melons, can easily be exterminated by a
solution OF coal-tar.
The Rondout IN. J.) Freeman's CORE
spondent at kerhonkson says the buckle
berry crop will be cut short one-half, ow-
ing to the heavy frost when the fruit was in
! bloom.
Columbus, Ca, boasts of a remarkable
rooster which, after deliberately setting on
nest of duck eggs, has succeeded in hatch.
ing out seven young ducks, which he is now
attempting to take care OF.
Ten selected head of three-year-old cattle,
of an average weight Of two thousand one
| hundred and seventy-eight pounds, have
just been shipped from Paris, KY, for Paris,
France, TO take part in the show.
| A sick farmer in Jackson Township,
Washington County, Ia. was surprised re.
Gently by nine neighboring farmers, with
teams and plows, who proceeded to plow
his fields A relief society of the right
sort.
The Ithaca, N. Y, Journal says: A
strawberry with six-inCh circumference
has found its way from John Nelson's patch
into our sanctum. When commencement
/ is over we will carve it and try to get it ou
of the way before cold weather sets in.
On the 18th of April lady wrote from
Foo Chou, China, Our summer gardens
amount to nothing, the sun burning them
up but now, and all through the winter the
flowers are abundant. Our winters are 81
mild that all flowers can be kept out O.
doors"
"a good reliable farmer" of Floyd County
Georgia, tells the Rome Courier a remark
able story of how he lately captured whole
flock of wild turkeys, by scattering in theil
path supply of corn soaked in whisky, or
which they fed until they became deat
drunk, and fell easy victims to his Gun
ming.
The Chinese of California are very skill
full gardeners, and they are wonderfully
successful in making seeds germinate-eveI
those that are considered very old and poor
They purchase of San Francisco seedsmel
seeds that are considered too old for sale
and that mo glow for Mclean man." anc
by some unknown skill produce wonderful
crops of the choicest vegetables.
On the subject of the new apple-tree pes
the Hudson IN. " Register says: "fh
blight extends to whole orchards, and in th
towns of Claverack and Ghent is particu
larly severe. We are told by some farmer
that the destruction is caused by ''louse,
which infests the tree and kills the leaves
, If such is the case the rayage will only las
a few days and then disappear; but if it is
blight, then the matter is serious one"
The best results in strawberry culture ar
usually produced upon ground not befor
occupied by strawberries, or at least fo
some years. z. w. Durand, a successful
grower of this fruit, advises those not ac
quainted with all the requirements of thi
, culture to select, when possible, space for
new bed every two years, not before so oc
cupied. One objection to continuous cult
vation is that the ground is likely to becom
} infested with the gnat.
1 The green cabbage worm (pieris rape
S can be successfully destroyed with he
water. The cabbage plants will bear with
out injury the water heated to 200' Fahrer
heit, while even at few degrees lower i
t temperature it will kill the worms. Th
: hot water is best applied through the ros
of common watering pot This metho
of destruction is easier and more etficiel
. than the use of salt, carbolate of lime an
l. other substances which have been employe
more or less efficiently heretofore.
Speaking of the sugar crop in Louisian,
6 the New Orleans Times, of June Goth, says
''The present prospect is entirely satisfa'
O tory The seed cane turned out much be
ter than was anticipated, the planting wa
> successfully accomplished, the season hs
b been propitious, and one of the heavie:
l. crops of the past ten years is now advan
:. ing to maturity under thoroughly favorab
u conditions. There is no reason to reoed
d from-on the contrary every indication a
ts frms-our estimate, made some weeks ag'
that the crop of 1878 will be as fine as tht
l. of 1877 was expected to be at this time la
J. year.