The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-07-25

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Baker County, Oro girls go blackberrying
in male toggery.
Wa ermelons average cent a pound in
Butler County, Ga.
Pears must be picked before fully ripe and
matured in the house.
Grape growing in Southern Illinois is al
most wholly abandoned.
An indianapolis corn stalk lately grew
ten inches in twelve hours.
Wheat is but As cen bushel at Walla
Walla, Washington Territory.
Mr. Miller, of Augusta, Ga, expects to
harvest thirty thousand watermelons.
Colman's Rural World says that no crop
pays the stock-grower better than pump
kins.
Minnesota will produce sixty million
bushels of wheat this year, and Iowa forty
five million.
California salmon have been abundantly
planted in Weslcrn rivers, and have multi
piled largely.
The Chinese sand pear is quite favorite
fruit in some parts of Georgia. 1t does not
llrive in the North.
A Key West paper says over $4,000 was
paid for sponge one day last week, being the
greatest days work for many years.
The reports of the grain crop are still
ahead of last year even, From every part
of the States and Territories comes the same
song-''immenSe crops"
Shetland and Corea ponies are cheaply
kept. of kindly disposition, and extremely
Sagacious. Why no. substitute them for
dogs and goats for children?
James Chester Jr., arraigns the farmers
Of Maryland Grange for devotng more
thought and lime to politics than thcy do
to their farms. Perhaps the cap would fit
elsewhere
The Rural New Yorker has decided that
the Undiscovered strawberry rust is
nothing more less than strawberry gout
Too much high living will demoralize even
Il strawberry.
A Dighton, Mass, man, is tanning the
huchlcberry, and claims that by cul vatio-l
he will show a fruit as large as a cherry, and
Il great deal more pulpy and juicy than the
native wild berry.
On August % h, 1859, Col. Drake "s'ruck
OIL" In 1861 exports Of petroleum reached
u, 900 barrels, worth 81 ,OO0,0 while in
1871 the aggrega value of petroleum eX-
ported was $G2, 100000.
Two thousand American cattle is the
average weekly number arriving at Liver
pepl per steamer, and in that Clty's ca tie
market the American animals nave lor
weeks greatly pred"minated.
The Tampa Guardian says that the lemon,
lime guava and cilrOn arc neglected in
South Florida when really there is more
money in them and less expense attached
to their culture than any other 1rult.
A lOggerhead turtle weighing about one
thousand pounds was captured by Usher
mans boat near Portland, Me-, the other
day, making, II is sad, the third large tur-
tie of This species ever captured III tins part
of the world.
The "bopncrs'' in tbe Missouri ValInv
have NOT entirely disanpeared though the
persistent warfare wagcd against them is
matcriall y reducing their number each year
Wait, however, till the fresh lot comes down
the mountains!
Ovor firrv-thrce million Gallons of water
from ArteSian wells are daily used in irri
,,ating lands in JroGunis COUNTY IlIinois
TLnre are two hundred wells in n radius Of
tn.o,tr n,i,os none of them over seventy
five feet deep.
rLo ,tor,, LAVA rxnross ,,ro, which t,o
i'!c MIL ,-'.'e l,N r'', apo S''f fo Lie Lie
Dll'ITn on P,Up"ev Eo for",nrJ tbo U idna ,
MeGN.S StnniIa, 'I'' WAX viii nrndnna rra;
s"' ,''>' What "t', III S
H., t"' 1,;,a",,l 80, t,';',io9
De ooiis l'i 'iiiS 'i'''e'
Dynamite is very economically used in
| Great Britain Tor clearing 81 jumps and bowl
oefS irom IAN" 10 ne rgciualnep stna oa aus "o
our r's.iSn IpmS,iI J,nioi ~ ehnad ",lu wv Wv
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A California exchange announces new
pear-pest in the. shape OF a small green
worm about half an inch long and scarcely
thicker than the edge of the blade OF the
leaf They, as soon as Matched, attach them
selves to the edge OF the leaf and, for the
size of the insect devour it with fearful
rapidty.
The watermelon is more frequently re-
ferred to than almost any other fruit as un-