The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-12-04
ITEMS OFENTEREST.

Rural Kansas is festive with husking bees
these long nights.
Beetles are killing the spruce trees in the
Adirondacks.
The cornlields are full of husk mattresses
in The shell.
The cyclamen is especially suited for
window Cul ure
Frost fishing is now popular pastime
at New Bedford.
Indiana is shipping large numbers of
horses to the South.
There is scarcity of Grenoble walnuts
in the Boston market.
Buckwheat passes for currency in
Wayne County, Mich.
Hyacinth flowers last longer if kept at a
low temperature, say 60.
A poetic exchange says: "Sad-eyed au-
tumn keeps unusually mucky."
The season for spinning yarns by the
stove in country stores has set in.
The oldest house in Red Wing Mimi.
built in 1858. has been torn down. n '
Two tons of deer we're expressed through
Bay City, Michigan, the other day.
Ten thousand bushels of Southern Da
kota wheat pour into Sioux City daily.
An Alabama hog spent five weeks in q
we'll, with nothing but truth to feed on.
Wolves are so fierce in Dunn County
Wisconsin, that the farmers are selling thelI
sheep.
A South Carolina boy raised ninety-one
bushels of pinders (peanuts) on an acre o
land and sold them for 81 25 per bushel.
North Carolina has in two years increased
the number of her live stock eight hundreC
thousand head, and their value $4,500, 600.
A Vermonter has invented "a bottle that
will always turn right side up, thus failing
to spill the contents, no matter how DRUM
the owner is"
Tangier Island, Va, with population o
over five hundred, strange to say, ha
neither a hotel, restaurant, oyster house
tailor, milliner, dressmaker, shoemake
drug store, barber shop, post-otlice, market
constable or justice of the peace.
The Lynchburg (Va.) News thinks thu
belled- -buzzard, that frightened the people
of Brownsville, Tenn, by lis ominOus lin
tnnabulations during the yellow feve
scourge is the one belled by an Old hunte
in Bulford, Va, in 1889, and so frequently
noted in various parts of the State ever!
few weeks since.
Family marx citing in Savannah: Chick
ems, grown, 81 to 81 25; three-quarter
grown IS cents; half-grown, 60 to IS cent
per pair. Ducks-Engish, 81 to 81 25
muscovies, 81 25 to ST 80 per pair. Tur
keys-hens, per pair, 81 SO to So gobblers
| So so to So; hen and gobbler, 50 So Geese
81 rs per pair; beef, 12H to Is cents; veal
20 cents; mutton, Is cents; venison, % cts.
pork, 1917 cents.
Do not use AK or hatchet in pruning frui
trees, unless you are going to chop dow
the tree A shap pruning knife and goo
saw are the tools for orchard pruning. Hay
ing these, use them with discretion. Leav
the heads of the trees as we'll furnished a
possible, having due regard TO equal ligll
to be distributed among the branches an
leaves. There are more orchards ruined b.
over-pruning than by no pruning at all.
From many parts of Oregon and ais
from Washington Territory, we have il
formation that the good weather of thi
fall has been improved by farmers to tn
utmost. Every locality we have yet hear
from report larger acreage OF fall whea
sown than heretofore; and the probabilit
is that the aggregate is two or three time
that of any former year. Renewal OF war;
rains is now again most favorable. Th
fields recently sown are rapidly becomin
green, and the plant promises to becon
we'll rooted before any freezing can occu
should it occur at all.