The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-23
ITEMS AT LARGE.

1e&aS raises Heup.
Peru invites the Chinese.
Sage growing is profitable in Bucks coun-
ty, Pa.
The Catawba grape yields the best
brandy.
Bears are spelling the hog market in
Clinton, Mich.
Cider is but cents gallon in Montgom-
cry, n. Y.
First-chop potatoes bring$l IS barrel at
Utica, N. Y.
Potatoes are at least fifty per cent higher
than in August.
Apples are as low as pence bushel in
the Mohawk Vale
Apple whisky distillation is lively in Ul-
ster county, N. Y.
The hog cholera is disturbing society in
Ber1ien County, Mich.
Connecticut finds glory in the grass, this
season, so large is the crop.
The culture of hops is being taken up in
Ontario County, New York.
Oshkosh is agog about an ear of corn
that's the image Of mans hand.
The estimated crop of corn in Kansas
this year is 100, 000 900 bushels Her wheat
crop will reach 100000 bushels. Pretty
fair for Miss that has only just made her
debut.
A Colorado dealer recently loaded forty
teams with wool in preference to shipping
by rail, claiming that he could save cor
siderable money" by this return to first
principles.
Much attention is paid to bee keeping in
England where rural economy is exquisltely
cultivated, as well from the necessity of so
doing as because there is so much money
put into the business.
No machine or implement invented to use
on the farm has more thoroughly COM
mended itself to, or been more warmly well
coined by the husbandman than the reaping
and binding machine.
The Rochester Union and Advertiser,
speaking of the apple crop says ''in this sec
ton the crop promises to be larger this sea-
son than that of any former season within
the remembrance of the oldest inhab
itant'"
There are in Colorado, according to the
assessment returns, 5,3l5, ,69l cattle, lob, ,005
sheep and $50 hogs. The cultivated lands
are placed at l, ,033, 072 acres, and the value
of farms and town lots and improvements
$40, 46l, 392
A bee-master at Kerwick, England, want
ing to sell his hives, advertised: Eek
tensive sale of live stock, comprising not
less than one hundred and forty thousand
head, with unlimited right of pasturage.
The trick succeeded admirably.
One of the largest sales of cattle ever made
in the Wabash Valley, Ind, was by Moses
Fowler w. s. and J. H. Vannata, of Lafay
ette lately. The herd numbered twenty
three hundred head of fat steers graded in
weight and quality from So 62H to $4 25
per hundred. The sale amounted to about
$130,OO0.
The potato-growing counties of New York
Rensselaer,, Washington and Saratoga
yield hardly half crop. In some cases
hardly barrel of marketable potatoes have
been gathered from an acre. According to
the last United States census the crop of
these three counties was four million eight
hundred and eightytwo thousand five hun
dred and four bushels.
The comb of fowl is an honest index of
the true inwardness, and should be daily
consulted by the fancier who values the
health and well-being of his flock Look at
the comb of laying hen or pullet! She is
| in the height of health and strength, and
carries her unfailing sign Of healthfulness
on her head, in the shape of blood-red,
bright and full comb.
The Natchez Miss. Democrat saws: "We
have been informed by gin owner of this
city, who has been for years engaged in the
business, that he has never known 80 much
seed cotton required to make bale. Usu
ally from 1, $50 to 1900 pounds of seed cot
tor will make bale of 400, but this season
all of 400 pounds are required to turn out
400 pounds This is by no means an indi
cation of large aggregate cotton crop"