The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-02
ITEMS AT LARGE.

The cranberry crop on Cape Cod is light.
The Illinois corn is beyond the peril Of
frost.
Thieves are depicting the Iowa grape
vines.
This is the month for sowing pansy seeds.
-[Floral Ex.
ClematiS is a favorite vine for decking
parlors.
Onions fetch 81 a barrel in Orange Coun-
ty, N. Y.
Potted geraniums want shade for a
week or SO.
Iowa forbids the killing of prairie chick
ems for traffic
Women and children pick the hops in
Great Britain.
A bird-shot has been found in an egg in
La Grange, Ga.
Kansas plowing for fall wheat has been
much delayed,
Butler will be sixty on November 5th-
his election day.
Applebutter STRINGS enliven rural kitch-
ems these nights
Nothing equals verbcnas as little vase
flowers in winter.
Nebraska farmers have great difficulty to
obtain hired help.
Rain has rotted many fields Of hops in
Oxford County, Me.
Farmers are hacking away at the ''plumed
and hammered maize"
| Hops are down to II cents a pound in
Lewis County, n. Y.
The Southern cotton-pickers prefer silver
dollars to greenbacks
Colorado farmers expected a far better
wheat crop this year
Ledges of beautifully tinted marbles lie
near Marquette, Mich.
Mushrooms are grown extensively in
Herkimer County, n. y.
Jugtown, which is in North Carolina, is
to have gander pulling.
Now the unwilling farm boy begins to
vainly seek the WoodsaW.
The Iowa statute limits gunners to twen-
ty-One prairie hens day.
No window garden is satisfying without
the beautiful heliotrope.
The new double towering alth@as from
abroad are an elegant shrub,
High winds have done great damage to
the Michigan apple orchards.
Chunks of hail, five of which filled COB
let, have peltcd Eagle City, Iowa.
Pumpkins with cider superadded are re-
puted to make paa able butter
The cash value of the farms in the United
States is set down at 49, 2G2, 803, S61.
Eggs are but dime a dozen in Gaines
) Vile, Georgia, and calico 5 cents yard
The Claweson is one of the most hardy
: and prolific varieties Of wheat cultivated.
( A Benton Harbor, Mich, cannery puts
t up twenty thousand cans Of toma, Oes daily
Agricultural exhibitions have been ;
great success over the country this au
tumn.
The apple and pear crop is short in Eng
land, as reported. Let us, then, eXpor
apples.
The Postmaster General has put quietu
} on Transporting queen bees by mail, as re
ported.
The occupation of the scythe and sickl
q men of the United States may be said to b
a nearly gone.
The hop crop in Fast Kent, England, i
about two-thirds of an average crop, elgh
l cwt. per acre.
e New Jersey claims to have a weeping wi
G low that "has grown to the height of tift
i feet in five years"
Prof. Brewer, speaking of dogs in connet
. ton with sheep ephusbandry, called thel
g 'our domestic wolves"
= When one with the human form kicks
e good horse in the belly with his heav
-, boots what shall we call him?
= Onions chopped fine and mixed with Il
:, feed of fowls three times week are pr
d nounced beneficial by the Poultry Worl
le Potatoes are rotting badly in Addisc
30 County, Vermont. Farmers refuse to sc
,s their hay for S. ton, and are buying catt
to eat it,
~ The South Bend, Indiana Tribune say
W The hog cholera is raising havoc among Il
I'd porkers. 1t is estimated that 80 per Ger
m of all the hogs in this vicinity are more
- less afflicted with the disease.
- A number of the farmers of Blackhav
IT, County, Ia, are sowing winter wheat,
nd some cases among the green corn, covert
in with shovel plow One farmer has cover
- fifteen acres with straw, which he hop
he will hold the snow upon the surface al
ct. prevent the grain from freezing out.
Ou A leIl6f from DerlIn w lS., SAYS l lit
ser we're three frosts last week, the heaviest
,da Thursday evening, which froze half of t
.oS cranherres which had previously remain
good. Instead of twenty thousand barr
-, not ten thousand will be shipped from b
Ill lin.
nd The chief industry of the Argentine
ed public is wool. growing, and the number
Ike sheep in the country is estimated at seven
nv million. Large shipments of mutton {
IN also made to England, and the Argentine
lis say they can supply eleven million sheel
nd year.
w ]. B. Staples, of Carthage, Me-, has
y largest farm in Franklin County. He
'he four hundred acres of ntervale about Ii
E" cleared He cuts more hay than any otl
slv man in the State; this year he put t
~ hundred and fifty tons of hay into his bal
on, and has one hundred head of cattle.
ley grazing lands are good.