The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-26
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Agricultural fairs are stifening the pop
corn interest.
Corn grows to strapping height in some
Nebraska fields
Practical cookery is taught in the London
Public Schools
.Quails were never plentier on Indianas
stubbled plains.
Chrysanthemums and straw hats should
now be taken in.
Indiana will make an unusually big sup
ply OF apple brandy.
Peaches are worth 5 cents pound by the
basket in Pueblo, Mo-
Mrs. Rousby has been fined 25 shillings
for an unlicensed dog
1t is hop-picking season, and the Michi-
gan crop is good one.
The potato rot is doing great damage in
Madison County, N. Y.
Thrice has Delhi, N Y, apple tree put
forth blooms this year.
Chemung County N. Y, will clip about
fifty tons of wool, all told.
A tifteen-hundred-pound cheese brought
$lGS at Therese N. Y, lately.
Mrs. Lark of Marinette, Wis, has sue
ceeded in raising peanuts.
Twenty thousand pounds of wool await
shipment at Alamoosa, Col.
Thirteen thousand head of cattle are con-
centrated at Dodge City, Kan.
In New York hops are being cold
bleached,' instead of kindred.
Montgomery County, n Y, cuts her
large broom corn crop this week.
Dakota's wheat crop this year is esti-
mated at fifteen million bushels.
Over one hundred thousand bushels of
wheat are in store at Wichita, Kan.
A drove of seventy Mexican mustangs is
en- route to the Michigan pineres.
Mrs. Abby Sage Richardson has returned
from England in excellent health.
Washtenaw County, Mich, is to send
eight hundred more sheep to Texas.
A Lyons, N. Y. barn, fired by lightning.
was quenched with convenient milk.
1t is the season for missing the hickory
nut and fetching your thumb misick.
Colorado has fattened five hundred and
fifty thousand beeves for the East this sea-
son.
The fruit industry of the Oneida COM
munity employs one hundred and tif1y-four
people.
Minneapolis ships about two thousand
five hundred barrels of -four a day at
present.
The SCOT from the chimney should be
saved. A pint of SCOT to pailful of water
will make liquid manure of great value for
flower-beds and plants of all kinds.
Black and gray squirrels are crossing the
river at Lake City, Mimi, from Wisconsin,
in large numbers-estimated by the thou
sands. The cause of this migration is not
known.
1t is to be regretted that sheep husbandry
should have so fallen off in New England
during the past ten or fifteen years. The
Merinos and the Cotswolds predominate.
1t is hoped that, like corn raising, sheep
husbandry shall be speedily revived over
the New England States
A farmer who lives twelve miles out of
Boston drove into the city with load of
hens in coops, arriving at the market about
sunrise and found row of fowls under The
wagon on pole connecting the two axles.
They had roasted there, and retained their
hold during the long ride.
Thus sayeth the Rochester Democrat:
THE hop picking season is now in its glory,
and the country boys and girls are having
more fun than could be expressed in a
newspaper column. They have TWO dances
to every hop they pick, but as they are
working by the piece, every one is salts
fed
Mrs. Homer, of Rochester, unintention-
ally killed her own baby. She put it in a
carriage and strapped it carefully in. The
child toundered about in manner that
brought the strap tightly enough across its
chest to cause strangulation, and the mother
found her child quite dead on removing it
from the carriage
D. Evans of Leaf Valley Douglass Coun-
ty, Mimi, tried this season a small quanti-
ty of American fife wheat sent him by Dr.
Stewart from the Patent Office, and est-
mates the yield at the rate of forty bushels
to the acre, prime No. |. His white Po-
land rye, the seed of which he procured
from Philadelphia, yields from sixty to sew
enty bushels per acre, and makesa superior
article of -four.
A German farmer insists upon the great
value of swine as exterminators of field
mice and other vermin. He believes that
the terrible plague of mice, now so preva-
lent in many parts of Germany, is in a
great measure due to the present system of
heePlilS SWINE pebneu up, lIStedu OF al
lowing them the range of the fields as was
formerly the custom.
The melon crop, watermelons and musk
melons, the tomato crop, IT, crab apple
CROP with a large sprinkling of The common
or cultivated apple, are simply immense in
Minnesota. Melons, in some instances,
have been shipped by the carload out of the
State. And the small fruits in their season,
strawberries, raspberries, blackberries,
plums of different varieties, have been pro-
duced in unusually large quantities.