The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-05-15
FROM THE COUNTRY AT LARGE.


Notwithstanding their name, quail always
die game.
Many Wisconsin growers are plowing up
their hops.
Timothy seed is selling in Detroit at 81 50
per bushel.
The potato bug has appeared in Iroquois
County, Ill.
Holstein cows are making fine record as
dairy animals.
Hail at Bloomington, Ill. damaged fruit
and crops some.
There isn't a vegetable that can ketchup
with the tomato.
Thomasviile, Ga, has hairless OK as sleek
as peeled onion.
A ive-and-a-half-inoh strawberry is lying
| in state in Americus Ga.
The wheat is suffering from rust and fly
in many parts of Tennessee.
The Tennessee Stock Breeders Associa-
ton will hold a fair in Nashville September
10th.
Virginia claims the finest wheat pros
pect ever seen in the State at this stage OF
the crop.
Commissioner Killebrew, of Tennessee,
has sent to the Paris Exposition twenty
specimens and fine tieeces of wool.
An infant prodigy has been born near
Polo, Ill., 1t weighs Just three-quarters of a
pound; and is living and growing. 1t is a
girl
| Clark (Ky.) Democrat: We learn that
whole fields of corn are being destroyed in
the Ruckerville neighborhood by an un
known insect.
Living yew is poisonous to cattle, as when
dried, as was lately demonstrated on an es-
tate in WarwiCkshire, in England. Pre-
vention is better than cure"
Farmers in the vicinity of Woodson, Nor
gan County, Ill.,, report that hog cholera has
made Its appearance among numerous
herds and some have experienced severe
loss already.
In regard to the fraud of aduterating
seeds in England bill has been reported
to prevent 'coloring, dying or sui phur
smoking" an amendment of the act OF 1869
on this subject.
Lime has been used for apple orchards
with great benefit, at the rate of twenty
bushels per acre. One who has tried it for
} many years deems it very beneficial, as his
trees have been very productive.
Gardeners and farmers should, as far as
. possible, raise their own seed, whether for
the garden or the farm. Good seed planted
in well titled loamy soil, with moisture and
mild temperature, will insure good plants.
The complaint of fruit trees being injured
by coming in contact with galvanized wire
is old and we'll known A coat of paint or
Whitewash well sized will prevent the~in-
jury. Ungalvanized wire is best and equally
durable
Rappahannock (Va) Gazette: The rust
has attacked the blade of the wheat in this
section, and farmers are very apprehensive
!. that the crop will be failure. If the pres
ent warm damp weather continues, it can
hardly escape serious injury.
The Hanbletonan stallion Risingham,
who had killed three men and manned
many Others and was known as the man.
eater, was killed last week at Middleport, N
Y, by his owner, DIR. Schultz. Five large
pistol balls we're shot in his head between
the eyes, the horse meanwhile making fran
tic efforts to get at the bystanders, and he
was finally dispatched by seyering his jugu-
lar vein with a long knife He was said to
be insane, and was valued originally at over
$4,000.
Atlanta Constitution The tobacco trade
of New Orleans, which in ante-bellum times
was only secondary to the cotton business,
promises again to take new start, adyices
from the West indicating general desire
to ship an increased portion of the crop this
way.
Chattanooga Times: 1t is stated that large
fields of wheat in Middle Tennessee were
very much benefited by the late storm. 1t
blew and washed the rust so that the wheat
. was almost clear and the ground covered
with it, and since then the wheat is said to
be doing well.
A Washington letter says Father Key's
new route to Cuba enables US to have green
turtle here In less than fQrty-eight hours
after it is taken on the shores of Florida,
and epicures revel in Southdown lambs
from the valley of Virginia, shad and bass
from the Potomac, peas and asparagus
from Norfolk and Strawberries from Charles
ton
= Macon (Ga.) Telegraph: The prospect for
good crops in this section was never better.
We gather from many who are engaged in
| agriculture, and others, that the stands of
both cotton and corn are all that could be
asked. The cut-worm is slightly in the cot
, ton in some localities, but no serious dam
| age is apprehended. The promise of the
| fruit crop is also just as good as can be.
peculiar ny mas 1naOe ltS appearance In
Oconee County, Ga, which it is feared will
prove quite damaging to the crops 1t is
very peculiar looking, and somewhat resem-
bles the common house fly. 1t attacks the
bloom, and, introducing It's bill into the
bloom by nervous or fiuttering motion,
soon succeeds in dlslodging it, and then it
Immediately proceeds down the stock to the
next bloom, and SO on until it has attacked
: and dislodged every one.
Florida Patriot The fruit crop, beyond
: all peradventure is safe, and will be most
bountiful one throughout the State The
garden crops are now nlatured and the
, greatest profusion and variety are presented
on all sides. The corn crop, of which a
much larger acreage than usual has been
planted, is growing finely and may soon be
considered safe. The oat and rye crops
promise an abundant yield, while the cot
ton is the only crop that may be considered
as in doubt, and that doubt rests altogether
on the character of the season.
A CONFESSION.
Some one figure arrayed in white, with