The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-12-12
ITEMS AT LARGE.

Fox River H., is to be stocked with
salmon.
Salvinis acting will please Russia whittier
he is going.
Apples shelbarks and cider will be cheap
this winter.
Beetles are killing the spruce trees in the
Adirondacks.
The Chicago Field can't see any utility
in dog shows.
Hogs are dying in Harrison County, KY,
of sore throat.
The yield of corn in Ohio this year is near
1000, GOO bushels.
Roots of the red clover penetrate to a
depth of five feet.
Plenty of sweet oranges are growing in
Sumter County, Ga.
Vineland ships lots of swamp-moss to dis
tant florists, 10 pack with.
Moose are numerous and bothersome on
the Upper Kennebec, Me.
Twenty-Five hundred Sierra Nevada sheep
are en- route to New York.
Mower County, Mimi, is shipping great
many fat cattle this season.
A Frenchman at Crystal Springs, Miss,
lays claim to great success in silk cal-
ture.
The corn crop of Montgomery County
Ind, averages thirty-tive bushels to the
acre.
One firm in Paris, KY, has shipped this
season one hundred and fourteen thousand
pounds Of turkey.
nly ol IN, w to
fir slaves is said to have impaired to it nei-
in California.
Moore County, N. c., has twenty eight
gold mines, six silver mines, nine or ten
iron mines, and general assortment Of
other minerals.
American fruit to the value of over $3,-
900, 900 was exported last year. In 1867 the
entire proceeds of such expectations
amounted to but 100000.
A pail of milk standing ten minutes
where it is exposed to the scent of strong
smelling stable, or any other offensive odor,
will imbibe a taint that will never leave it.
Best quality of Baldwin apples are worth
only 81 per barrel in Maine, and this ill.,
cludes apples and barrel. Corn is cents a
bushel at Virden, ILL.,, and IS and 81 ton
at Dubuque, Iowa.
A stallion, owned by D. B. Bell, Roches-
| ter, N. Y, is reported to have lately died a
the advanced age of forty-five years and six
months. He had been owned by MIR. Bel
for over twenty-seven years
Think of what an agricultural fair mus
be in California, with cabbages five feet II
circumference, pumpkins weighing hun
| i nf
peaches and pears as large as your head.
Ophousas (La.) Courier: Fine weather fo
the farmers. The cotton is nearly al
picked, and sugar-making is more thar
half over and slill going bravely on. Ont
plantation near town will turn out proba
bly, five hundred hogsheads of sugar.
North Carolina seems to be taking step
in the right direction, by raising less cottol
and more grain. In 1877, q, 800 acres o
land here ofore given to cotton were de
voted to cereals, producing 325, 900 bushel
of corn $4,000 bushels of wheat, 1900
Is 900 tons Of hay more than in 1875.
The superiority of Scotch oatmeal is sale
to be partly owing to the grain being Gu
rather 'glazy"-that is with a shade o
green upon it. Oat straw is far less nour
ishing for cattle when the crop is al
lowed to stand till it is dead ripe. Early
cut oats are heavier per bushel fairer tt
the eye, and usually sell for more money.
Great attention is now being paid by tn
Inhabitants Of the Argentine Republic
South America to the cultivation of whea
along the river Plata. There is every rea
son 70 believe that in few years that re
gion will be one of the most extensiv
graln-producing localities in the world
Many Italian, French, Russians and othe
settlers are now breaking fresh groun
there.