The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-05
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A regular old seed-A sunAower.
Money gets tight, but is never drunk.
The Rambo apple no longer grows well.
Object of interest-To swell the principal.
Cheap out-of-door breakfast--A roll on the
grass.
Iowa City is to have fruit and vegetable
cannery.
Richford, VT, has had frost every month
except July.
The ceramic fever, though less heard of,
still prevails.
Thin ice formed at Deep River, Conn.,,
last Saturday.
Tomatoes are good for chickens, in fact
both are good.
Cairo Mich, bored for water and hit a
mineral water vein.
About a thousand hop pckers have left
Utica for the fields.
Wolves begin to harass the farmers of
Lake County, Mich.
The tobacco crop in the Connecticut Val
ley is remarkably fine.
1t is tax-ridden country where even q
mans patience is taxed
Lightning struck twenty-five barns in
Pennsylvania last week.
The live hog market is opening three
weeks earlier han usual.
An Avoca Ia farmer has lost 5000 worth
of hogs by cholera recently.
The stocking of the Merrimac River N.
H., with salmon is a success.
A patent watermelon handle is one of the
triumphs of American genius
Although fall has actually commenced,
people don't seem to tumble to it,
If a man cantelope with a good-looking
woman, he can elope with good-looking
cantelope
Early potatoes in Northern New York are
failure, but late varieties have done nicely.
Better later than never.
1t is estimated that Savannah will receive
the coming season one hundred thousand
bales of cotton in excess Of last year.
The average price for Chemung IN. W
County's production of WOOL which has
been marketed, is 81 q cents per pound.
Many who urge the use of turnips for
feeding stock are too lazy, too stupid, or
too conceited to try artichokes for that pur-
| pose.
Lake Kruka has five thousand acres of
vineyard on its banks. A two-thirds crop
is the best that Jack Frost would leave them
this year.
A lady of Carrollton, ILL.,, where lilies and
other bulbs were sorely injured by moles,
now protects them entirely by planting gar
lie about the beds.
tits not at all sure thing that eggs will
not hatch which have been deserted by the
setting hen for several hours. A renewal of
the high temperature will bring the greater
part Of the eggs safely through.
Swiss cheese owes its peculiar qualities to
the mountain pasture and the unusual pro-
cess of manufacture. The genuine article
is in process Of manufacture and salt-curing
for year before it is ready for market
While grubbing up a stump Hunt
County, Texas farmer struck en- old iron
pot holding $426 in silver and fifteen $40
gold pieces. On top of the money was a
silver goblet marked Myrick, the name of a
family which disappeared during the war.
Cubeb berries are now very extensively
used as a specific for catarrh. They are
cracked or crushed into small grains and
smoked in pipe. 1t is said that by emit
cleared and by swallowing the smoke all
bronchial affections are remedied.
Large quantities of choice eating apples
such as Red Astrachans Williams and
Orange Sweets, are now either rotting or
the ground in Massachusetts orchards OF
being freely fed to hogs, as the price in Bos
ton market is 50 low that they hardly pay
for transportation The trees are also lader
with late fruit, which is of very excellen
quality.
The Des Moines Register says of the pres
ent condition of farming in the State o
Iowa: "Adversity has come, and it is fatal
ly attempted to bridge it over with farm
: mortgages But this worst of all devices
will have more bitter conclusion" Yet {
few weeks sojourn in that State can bu
prove to any one that the rural population
! is we'll fed, properly clothed and exceed
ingly happy. What is the matter with tn,
Register man? Has his rural lady-loye gone
: back on him?
The French Minister of Agriculture ha
, presented to the Chamber of Deputies
proposition for three hundred decoration
of the Legion of Honor for distribution
among exhibitors at the Paris Exposition
: The committee appointed to discuss thu
matter have unanimously approved TIN
suggestion, and further recommend tina
The number of decoraio be increased tc
, four hundred, with the express wish tina
more of them may be available for aware
to exhibitors in the Agricultural Depart
ment.