The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-08-21
ITEMS AT LARGE.

The rice crop looks fine and promises
good yield.
Onion juice instantly allays the pang of
mosquito bite.
A snow white moCking bird has been cap
tured in Texas.
California can spare million tons of
wheat this year.
Deer and bear are still numerous in For
est County, Pa.
The whole Jersey sea coast is said to be
crusty with crabs,
A Kane County, H., factory exudes half
a ton of butter day.
Iowa expects the next census will make
her the fifth great State.
Oregon will be short of hay next winter,
owing to the Indian raid.
The Germantown Telegraph thinks pick
erel fishing very poor sport.
A fine deposit of oilstone has been found
in Huron Mich quarry.
A Marengo, Ill.,, firm has jellied and put
up a ton OF currants this year
Magnificent pickerel are speared in the
lakes of Stevens County, MINI.
A Portland, Me-, colony Of forty families
will reach Tampa, Fla, October LIST.
A tree in New Bedford yard has one
hundred and thirty figs growing on it.
Seattle W. T., has shipped forty-six thou
sand tons of coal to San Francisco, this
year.
Lowell, Vt, has shipped four thousand
three hundred pounds Of red raspberries
this year.
The agricultural press of the West stand
very much in fear of Vanderbilt and other
railroad monopolists. Is the feeling recip-
rocated?
Four hundred German families are set
ting on one hundred thousand acres Of
land in the northern portion of Taylor
County, Texas.
Cotton culture in California is now be-
coming a matter of considerable proper
tions, and bids fair to be one of the staple
industries of that State.
The State of Minnesota alone will this
year raise twice as much wheat as was
raised in Belgium last year. Belgium,
however, will be ahead on lace.
A Nevada paper tells of a swarm of
crickets six miles long and two miles wide.
Why do the inhabitants neglect to exter-
inmate them with silver bricks?
The first patent taken out in this country
for an improved plow was in 1897, by Chas.
Newbold who improved Jef1erson's cast
iron plow. 1t took till 1842 to develop an
other
Sacramento, CAL, has bearing bread
fruit tree. The fruit is pear-shaped, with
flavor like cantaloupe, and is about foul
inches long. The sap of the tree, it i:
said, will make the toughest meat tender.
1t has been exceedingly dry in the ex
treme eastern part of North Carolina. One
fellow in BERTHE County, according to a cor
} respondent of the Raleigh News, said he
could "saw off block of ten feet of his po
tato ridge and roll it out of the patch"
The excitement still continues in Eng
land over the bill to prevent the importa
ton of diseased cattle. The measure is sup
posed by some to be the emanation 0
the opponents of cheap food for th
purpose of killing the American beef trade
The migratory quail imported by TIN
. Salisbury, Conn, Game Club last sprin
are doing finely, several broods of tn
l Young ones having been seen. The farmer
= like the birds very much, and think the.
will kill bugs and worms enough to NOR
than pay for the grain they expect them t.
: eat this fall.
. The New York Star says The first shir
D ment of the year in Bartlett pears was re
= ccived from Savannah, Ga, on the 12tI
inst, amounting to twenty crates, whicI
: which were eagerly sought for by the retail
2 dealers, who paid from $S to $40 per crat
n for them, or at the rate of about $50 pc
y barrel.
One of the best markets for American in
]. plements for husbandry is South Africa
= There we compete with Great Britain a
a well as in her other colonial possessions i
Australia and New South Wales. Thes
British possessions. and Germany are tn
r largest markets for American hoes, shovels
I forks, etc.
h A new turnip pest has appeared, an
that too, in the Emerald Isle where no ba
! thing can live. 1t is an insect, a quarter c
c an inch long. In forty-eight hours, says
, Kildare man, a field of twelve acres was a
=, most wholly destroyed. The worm speedil
II ravages all the leaves except the center one
= and travels rapidly.
g J. s. Van Duzer publishes in the Hut
j. bandman some interesting observations {
his late trip through the Western counte
of New York. He not only reports goo
C crops, but gives the reasons for them. A.
% the members of the Elmra Farmers Gu
appear to be students and few Of them NOR
> so than Mr.. Van Duzer.
Mr.. Scoville, of Hadley, N. Y, says tina
Guinea fowls will eat potato beetles as fas
d as other fowls will eat corn. and that on
q, Guinea hen will keep an acre Of potatoe
. clear of beetles. He further adds that the
y can be utilized as barometer and watcl
|. dog, from their habits of screeching befor
~ a storm, and giving alarm at the approac
+ of stranger.
= A French paper suggests the feasibilit
(. of grating grapevines upon the stocks c
d olive and mulberry trees, which are said t
# resist the attacks of the phylloxera. Th
= London Farmer believes the plan to be a
e right, with two slight exceptions. Firs
1, the mulberry does not resist their attack
al and secondly, the vines can not nowaday
:, be grated upon them. This seems yer
u much like the students definition of Ii
'e crab