The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-08-14
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| Inc OlaWSOn WncaJ ranks nlSn.
Whtewash poultry houses often.
Eradicate weeds by hand picking.
Cucumbers of slow growth are bitter.
| Provide good pure water for live stock.
Texas has nine million acres of cotton
| land.
Do not attempt to succeed oats with
wheat.
Idaho is getting her first sorghum mill at
Boise City.
Butermilk lotions will bleach a sun
bronzed nose.
The pineapple is not single fruit, but a
mass OF fruits.
Some Georgia planters fatten their hogs
on cotton seed.
The June frost destroyed the cranberry
crop in Bolton.
$l2O 600 are annually sent out Of Georgia
for canned fruit.
The white balsam is desirable plant for
winter blooming.
The experiment Of raising date palms is
to be tried at Norfolk, Va.
Mignonette and sweet alyssum may be
sown us late as September
Sprinkle air-slaked lime on turnps to
destroy The "turnip flea"
The temperature of a stable should be
go and free from moisture.
The cash value Of farms in the United
States is set at 50, 2G2, sos, SOL.
Pigs and poultry are omnivorous; hence
they may become SCaVengerS.
No farmer can afford to grow ton of hay
per acre, though many do 1T.
Mustard is indigenous in Great Britain,
says London, good authority.
One little town in Denmark sends two
million eggs to London yearly.
Much of the lodged wheat in Iowa is SO
tangled it will have to be burnt.
Georgia peaches fetch 81 to Sc bushel in
New York when they first come.
If man be kicked by COW may he not
be said to get free milk punch?
Many large fields in Cape May County,
N. j., are white with wild carrots.
Gifts of big watermelons are having a
fulsome effect on Southern editors.
1t is reported that fish die from eating
potato beetles, because indigestible.
A bushel of grain, after distillng or brew
ing makes about forty gallons OF slops.
Did you ever think how little is actually
known about anything, no matter what?
| A well-fattened Berkshire or small York
shire has very small percentage of waste
Drilling has produced eighty bushels of
wheat per acre; try drill husDandry with
wheat.
Cotswold lambs for size and Southdowns
| for quality; the same is true of sheep for
mutton.
| 1t is estimated that the loss to the United
States from growing weeds instead of farm
crops, is 800, 0UO yearly.
No two countries produce the same quail
| ity of wool. Hence, manufacturers of
fancy goods must import woods.
White English turnips may be sown to
the middle Of August. They may be grown
after peas, early potatoes or radiShes.
The potato crop for the United States for
the past five years has averaged one hun
dred and forty-tive millions bushels.
Captain Peter Simpson, Jr., of Millbury,
Mass, has thrashed an acre Of rye that
averaged forty-hve bushels per acre. Who
beats That!
A horticulturist of twenty-one years ex-
perenCe says that lie has been taken in
nearly every time he has purchased a new
variety OF fruit"
1t is estimated that forty-fve millions of
eggs are consumed every day in the United
States New York alone consumes forty
million dozen annually.
A peat swamp, with plenty of sand or
fine gravelly loan, with water under CON
troll for flooding if necessary, are the re-
quisites for growing cranberries.
In the city of Detroit it is reported that
two hundred and fifty thousand bushels of
grain are used by distillers and brewers,
thus furnishing large amount Of swll-milk
feed for COWS.
Ensilage of eggs: A current statement is
that Frenchman accidentally covered
some eggs with earth in September, and by
accident discovered them the following
spring fresh and nice
! 1t costs as much to send ahundred bushels
of asparagus from Macon to New York as it
does from California to New York, because
the large shipments from those points make
it to the interest of the railroads to supply
special facilities.
Sam, you are not honest. Why do YOU nut
all the good peaches on the top of the
measure and the little ones below?"
Same reason, sab, dat makes de front of
your house all marble and de back gate
chiefly slop barl, sah."