The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-12-26
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Clover is as good for pigs as it is for co ws.
Pork can be made cheaper in summer
than in winter.
Thorough culture is worth three mort
cages on farm.
Apalachicola, Fla, is shipping many
oysters to Savannah.
Wyoming's cate trade panned ont over
$1,000 900 this year.
The fruit trees in Napa Valley, Gsl, are
beginning to bloom.
Half bred Jerseys or Attorneys are among
the best of dairy cows.
The safest bank of deposit or loan for
farmer is manure bank.
A white weasel eighteen inches long has
been shot in Elk Neck Nd
Platte County, Mo-, literally fickers with
the tails of frisking rabbits.
Hog cholera at. Milton, Wis, was caused
by feeding the hogs beef brine.
The killingof wild animals for the bounty
is growing trade in Wisconsin.
In a few weeks twenty families have left
Newton County, Miss, for Texas.
~ IL OlcHSlSe war Oh WeGuS Is I'VE times
less expensive than defensive one.
Weeds cost more than labor and like evil
habits feed upon their own growth.
Turtles are sellingat only cents pound
in Cedar Key. Mullets cents pound.
He has fat cattle who feeds them. And
he has fat acres who feeds them with a
liberal hand.
Whether you keep one COW or ten, do not
forget to have a few turnips to help the
winter feeding.
Liquid manure does its work at once:
solid manure requires time, but yet is GER
tain in its effects.
Rotten wood, leaves and forest cleanings
make excellent plant food when plowed
into the ground.
One evening spent at home in study is
more profitable than ten spent lounging
about country taverns
A Florida paper says a number Of Ken
tncky gentlemen are prospecting in Sumter
County for orange lands.
Tuscaloosa (Ala) Times: We heard a
farmer the other day counting up the profit
on bale of cotton he had Just sold He
sold at 81 cents, and received $32 80 for
the bale. He deducted $S for picking, "a 50
for ginning and packing, 81 for handling
and cents per pound for cultivation, max
ing $50, and found that The single bale had
brought him just $40 in debt. 1t looks to
us as if he got out cheap.
East Florida Banner: Mrs. Nancy s.
Wallace, living on the outskirts of this
place, recently gathered four hundred and
fifty bushels of sweet potatoes off an acre
and half of pine land. An unusually
large crop has been made in all paris of the
county, both by white and colored farm
ers. This will help out the short corn
crop, as some farmers are already mixing
potatoes with other food and feeding to
horses and other stock
VIM. Grimes experience in sheep-raising
in North Carolina: He bought a fine flock
one or two years ago, and gave them great
care, until one Sunday, while the negroes
were at church, the dogs made an evening
call and slaughtered all but twenty EIGHT Of
the gentle bleaters. The experiment was
then abandoned; the twenty-eight suryiv-
ors were allowed to run on the farm until
one solitary mutton remained to tell the
tale.
An experienced hemp-raser gives the
Lancaster (ky.) Visitor the following fig
ures: Breaking and putting in, per acre
81 80; seed, per acre, $2 cutting and shock
ing, SO; spreading, 25 cents; taking up and
watering, go cents; breaking per cwt, am
now paying 85 cents cost where the land
produces 1000 pounds to the acre, $S so;
total, $40 35. The conclusion to these
premises is that there is some money in
hemp growing when the farmer can sell at
81 per cwt