The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-05-22
FROM THE COUNTRY Az LARGE

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Shorthorns are introduced into Texas.
Winter wheat looks well all over Canada |
Pork is lower in Iowa than it has been
since 1860.
A dangerous horse distemper has broken
out at YusCola.
Colorado shipped more cattle last year
than ever before
Grape culturists look forward to red
letter wine year.
Angora goats are raised with profit in Tar
rant County, Texas.
Chenango County, N. Y, is opening twelve
new cheese factories this season.
The Texas wool crop this year, it is
thought, will yield two million pounds.
The streams of Greene County, New
York, are being stocked With black bass.
Early sown oats yield best, weigh the
heaviest and make less straw than late
SOwn.
Few dairy COWS in Maine average two hun
dred pounds of butter per COW during the
year.
Guinea hens keep potato fields free from
the ravages OF the beetles, as reported in
! Weslicld.
Wooden floors are objected to for poultry
houses, for they tend to make the fowls
duck-footed.
One Black Hills farmer sold fifteen hun
dred dollars worth of vegetables Off his
farm last season.
bad salt spoils good butter" says con-
temporary. Aye, and 50 does good salt if
too freely applied.
Harvest will come very early this year
The wheat is heading now, being at least
two weeks ahead of time.
Raising more live stock on New England
farms will be step toward making farming
lucrative i'll the Eastern States.
Keep q sharp lookout for insects and keep
them thoroughly i'll check, otherwise they
will trouble you through the season.
The slate shipments from Poultney, Vt,
during ten days last month aggregated fifty
car loads, forty Of them being destined to
European markets.
Currant worms will soon be making their
appearance. Give them hellcbOre, but
don't put all the accent on the first syllable
when speaking about it,
The Augusta Chronicle says: zone thou
| sand tea plants have been distributed among
/ Warren County farmers, and Madison pre-
pares TO put the kettle on"
Potatoes grown on tobacco stalks used as
: manure are free from worms or grnbs, it is
reported by man of experience; and an
other adds, they are also free from the rot.
Pile your year S stock of wood under cover
} so soon us it is well dried and it will keeI
in good order. If you have not wood
house, pile it neatly and cover it with
boards.
To watch the corn grow and the bloom
set, to draw hard breath over the plough
share and spade, to read, to think, to love
| to hope, to pray-theSc are the things tx
4 make man happy
Atlanta Constitution: The Texas cottor
crop will be so large that there is danger o
i the cotton worm working more than eigh
: hours a day. Look this way, MIR Bergh, i
n you please, one moment.
"Gov Sprague. one of the fastest trotting
horses in the country, for which j. |. Case
n of Racine, paid $27 800, is at Taylor's driving
4 park Freeport, ILL.,, training for the race
. which take place the last of May.
! in raising poultry the breed that will fur
u nish the heaviest bodies, and the most deli
r cious flesh in the least time, and lay tn,
q largest eggs at the earliest age, and produc,
% most popular among the masses.
I There's grumbling at the want of success
+ in the returns of some of the crops Of tn,
Ontario Agricultural Farm School. Cana
dians do not look favoraby upon seventeen
+ and half bushels per acre when they hav,
whole counties that average thirty-iv
bushels per acre.
p The camels imported into Texas from
" Africa in 1854 are doing we'll and are fount
. to be very useful Camel breeding in tha
State is said to be profitable. Some of then
! will travel one hundred miles in day, ant
Is one made one hundred and fifty miles il
j. twenty-four hours.
v A pair of Siberian hares has been brough
=, to the Jardin d d'Acclimation in Paris. The
~ are gray in summer and white in winter, il
e Siberia The French naturalists wish to as
# certain the effect of the change of climat
upon this change of color. Rabbits of on
species in the Northern States and in Can
;, ada are gray in summer and white i'll win
" ter.
" The Oldest lnhabitant up in Vernon
e gives it up that there has not been such a
Il April as the last in fifty years, and the SCI
- back which some have predicted does no
]" put in an appearance as yet. The NAPLES
l. iarches, birches, horse-chesnuts, lilacs an
( serings are in leaf; the elms look feather
J. against the sky and show distinct shad
of green, the pear-trees are putting out thel
s. blossoms, and the grass has already splcr
# did start. The season is at least three week
+, earlier than the average.
,o The terrible drought which has for som
% time past afflicted almost the whole G
:, Australia is at length breaking up. Shee
a and cattle have suffered severely, and, j
i many instances, owners have lost one-hai
u of their hocks and herds. The want c
II water is really the curse of Australia; an
" it seems doubtful whether this can ever b
g etfectually remedied, although large eS
pendittlre has been incurred in arrange
n ments for the storage Of water in threatene
e localities. The small land owners-"fre
n selectors" and 'cockatoo farmers" as the
i are called-have very hard time of it, ur
), less they chance to be in silgularly ia
t vored district,