The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-11-23
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Gen. Grant SOLD Tor $4l0. 1t Is O Dun.
Peach trees are in bloom at Pilot Point,
Texas.
A lard factory has started at Sycamore,
Illinois.
Green apples are selling at s. so per bar
rel in Denver.
Clarke County, KY, mourns the death OF
six-legged calf
Second growth fruit is quite common in
Kansas this year.
Corn is so low in Delaware that stock is
faring unusually well.
A Wayne County IN. C) man weighs
six hundred pounds.
People who touch off prairie fires are be-
ing arrested in Dakota.
Sedalia, Mo-, needs rain badly; some
farmers go five miles for water.
A Clinton County, Mich, man has
trapped twenty mink within six
weeks.
The present wheat crop of France is said
to be the worst within the memory OF liv-
ing men.
An iron wedge seven inches long was
found in the stomach OF a hog butchered in
Robertson County, Ky.
A yield of eighty-four bushels of wheat
to the acre is reported from England. 1t
was cultivated with hoe, like corn.
The Clinton (Ky.) Democrat: The hes
sian fly has made its appearance in the
wheat; but to what extent it has damaged
il we are unable to state.
| An oil spring burst forth from the bottom
of Crocus Greek, Kentucky near the old
Garnett WE'LL few days since. which cov-
cred the surface for many miles with oil.
There are enough spindles within ten
miles of Atlanta, Ga, TO consume ten thou
sand bales of co ton annually, the city
proper having one factory alone employing
six hundred hands
1t is generally believed that the hog is the
deadly foe and great dread of the rattle
snake, yet it is stated thai in Colquitt Coun-
ty, Ga, last week, one of the venomous rep
tiles attacked and killed five hogs.
A South Carolina paper, arguing in favor
of ''no-fence law" says: 1t costs this
county annually over one hundred thou
sand dollars to keep forty thousand dollars
worth of old hogs and cows out of our
fields.
An Indiana paper says: "There is an old
tradition that when the husk on the corn
ear is heavy the winter will be cold The
present corn crop has husks thicker than
usual, and if the observation holds good we
will have Greenland weather during the
coming winter"
1t is pretty generally conceded that on
any land of retentive subSoil, draining in.
creases the yield twenty to fifty per cent.
and often more. Doubtless some of this
benefit is obtained by the better cultiva,
ton, the ground being earlier worked and
more easily handled.
An exchange notes the fact that the low
est Price at which cotton has sold in this
country during the last fifty years was in
the spring of 1915, when it went as low as
4 cents per pound. The highest price paid
for it during he same period was 81 80, in
1864. 1t sold as high as so cents, however,
for good money'in 1866.
A farmer in Caldwell County, Mo-, had a
flock of two hundred SouthdownS running
out on the prairie in good condition, and
having an opportunity to sell them, he
star ed out to drive them UP, but, failing to
| find them. made inquiries and learned that
the flock of sheep had been driven to Kid
der and shipped to Chicago by a man who
claimed TO own them.
The first international Dairy Fair ever
nelu Ill lllS country Will De nelu AT the
| American Institute, Third avenue, Sixty
third and SiXty-fourth streets, New York
City, commencing December I'd and CON
tinuing through the week. 1t is 10 be con-
Quoted under the auspices Of lhc different
State, county and district dairy assoca-
tions, the American Association, North
western Association and the National But
Ter Cheese and Egg Association, for the ex-
hibition Of cheese, butter and other dairy
produces, Implements and machinery for
butter and cheese making, agricultural de-
signs and models for creameries, cheese fac
tories dairy buildings, barns; also dairy
COWS, and everything else connected with
the dairy business.