The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-04-17
FROM THE COUNTRY AT LARGE.

The Peshtigo River, Wis, has twenty mill
dams.
Alligator hides fetch rs cents apiece in
Louisiana,
There is still some ice on picturesque
Lake George
The North Carolina rivers have just been
stocked with salmon.
A Jury in Ithaca On. W found a. man
guilty of stealing barn.
Now is the time to look to the dental con-
dition of your garden rakes.
This is the time when the green pea and
the spring lamb shall lie down together.
A Morristown (N J.) hen has achieved
fame by Matching three-headed chicken.
TheLos Angeles tCal Express states that
hundreds of thousands of lines are going to
waste in that country for the want OF pay
ing markets to send them to.
Horses are cheap in Texas. Pretty fair
horses adapted to the saddle or wagon, but
unbroken, can be had for $12. The finest
Spanish pony, wild as gazelle, and costing
So to break sells for $40.
THE Washington IN. C.) Press says DR.. J.
G. Bryan, one of our most energetic citizens,
has now in operation an eel net, by which
he is taking in large quantities of eels for
shipment to the Northern markets.
A. B. Robson has probably the largest
poultry yards in New York. He keeps
6,00O ducks, 1900 turkeys, and l, 200 hens.
They consume so bushels of corn, 2 barrels
of potatoes, and other food daily. His fowl
house cost 81, 900.
Barley, which was never before subject
of export, has been sent from the United
States and Canada to the extent of four
million bushels since September last The
oat crop has also been drawn upon to a
moderate eXtents
A. J. Coshow, while gathering pecans in
Gonzales County, Texas recently, saw from
his place on the limb of tree something
glittering on the ground below. 1t was a
Mexican silver dollar. He dug at the root
of the tree and unearthed IS, 900 worth of
/ the coins.
The Quitman, Ga, Free Press says: A
very excellent farmer living i'll the Marven
District undertook, afew evenings ago, to
cure his hogs of vermin by rubbing them
with coal-oii. He provided himself with a
fat lightwood torch, and commenced work.
! Unfortunately, just as he had gotten them
well creased spark from his torch fell on
1 the back of one OF them, and in an instant
llt WIS III IL llSllt IS bdlItS COlll-
municated to the others, and in a few mo-
ments the drove was running wild, fleeing
with lightning speed, appearing in the dark,
ness like fire fends. The next day the far
mer found his bacon not only cured but
done up brown.
The Atlanta Constitution describes tho
stock farm of Messrs. Richard Peters, senior
and junior, in Gordon County, near the
Western and Atlantic Railroad, as one o
the most celebrated in the South, as it is
in many points, the best stock-breedinl
farm in the United States. 1t says; at!
flock of angora goats are famous Throughout
America, and some OF them have cos
81, 900 apiece. They are in demand at tn,
most enormous figures, selling for as mucl
often as two horses would bring. They aro
shipped from this farm to Mexico, Califor
MIA, Colorado and elsewhere. The goats arr
but one of the many wcll-bred features 0
this farm The herds of cattle are quite a
famous as the goats. Only day or two
ago, Mr. Peters shipped two COWS and I
hcfer to Nassau. The demand for his thor
oughbreds is increasing all the time"