The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-03-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Texas has brood of remarkably solid
hoofed hogs.
Raising fast horses is fatal fascination to
fall Oh a farmer.
Olive culture is attracting increasing at
tention in California.
A Kern County, Cal, man feeds his bees
on ten acres of mignonettes.
Reports come that thousands of acres of
wheat have been sown in Southern Min
nesota.
There is an area of forty acres in North
Carolina that has yielded over 81, ,00O, 900 in
gold since the war.
Spring butter may mean butter which
has been brought up out of the cellar to
breathe the spring air.
The Courier-J ournal hints that the sting
of bees will cure rheumatism. Hanging a
man will also cure the Group.
South Carolina now has five thousand
nine hundred spindles and one thousand
four hundred looms in operation, divided
among ten prosperous factories.
The Smithsonian Institution aslatelv re-
ceived some Indian relics from the mounds
in Florida, and with therd piece of gold
rudely beaten into d representation of the
head OF woQdpecker, which is said to be
the first sfsecimen of gold found among the
remains of the aboriginal tribes of America.
Cotton-seed oil manufacture is becoming
a marked industry in the South. There are
now seven large mills in New Orleans and
Others at Baton Rouge, Shreveport, Natchez,
Vicksburg, Dallas, Memphis, Nashville, and
even st, Louis and Chicago. A ton of seed
produces twenty gallons of oil, worth So 80,
while the refuse cake, worth 500 per ton, is
valued as feed for domestic animals and for
fertilizing land.
Female help can obtain situations in Pres
colt, Arizona, in good families at not less
than $25 month. There is large and
constantly increasing demand for servant
girls atthe above and even greater wages.
1t might result in much good and prove
profitable, if few car loads of girls were
shipped into the Territory from the over
crowded cities The population of Arizona
is in the proportion of about one woman to
four men.
Mr.. Gerardo Emilio Herreriras has sub
vention from the Mexican Government for
the cultivation and working of flax in Tiax-
Gala. He is going to put up the machinery
he has, and he compromises himself to con-
sumo in his factory in the first year, 750, 900
pounds, or $50, 739 kilogrammes, of crude
flax. The tilament is to be exported. He
will employ 100 worbmen, more or less. He
will return the subvention in two years. and
will teach the farmers in the State the man
ner of sowing and cultivating flax seed.
The largest chestnut tree in the State of
New Jersey was cut down on Saturday, a
week ago at Sicklertown, Camden County.
The tree stood on the farm of Washington
Sickler The land on which this tree stood
was first cleared by John Sickler about the
year IVA, and the tree was left standing for
shade. 1t was a large one at that time,
more than one hundred years ago, and per-
haps the Indian boys and girls gathered
nuts from it as they roamed through the
forests. The tree made three hundred fence
posts, besides stakes, blocks 61c. 1t meas
ured twenty-one feet nine inches around
the butt.
An interesting paper appeared not long
since in the English Agricultural Gazette
on the color of animals, and its relation to
the food or surrounding earth appears to
exert an influence on the color both of ami
mails and plants. Alum directly influences
the color of the flowers of the hydrangen,
and hempseed causes bullhnches and certain
other birds to grow black The natives of
the Amazonian region feed the common
green parrot with the fat of large silurod
fishes and the birds thus treated become
beautifully variegated with red and yellow
feathers. Young oyster shells taken from
the shores of England and placed in the
Mediterranean at once alter their manner
of growth, and form prominent diyerging
rays like those on the shells of the Mediter-
ranean oyster. '