The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-09
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Lilies are of the arstocracy of the floral
Kingdom.
The only Kansas crop not a success is the
potato crop.
In Kansas the winter apples are ripening
a month early.
Chestnut burs are splitting their jackets
down the back.
Kansas has never before dried SO much
fruit as this fall.
Water rail are numerous on the marshes
of WicOmico, Md.
Connecticut farmers are crading their
saVOry buckwheat.
The orange pippin is about the favorite
fall apple in Jersey.
Wheat is pouring to the Minneapolis
mills at lively rate.
New York farmers are importing Yer
mont quails to kill bugs.
Coons are preying on the cornfields ada
cent to River Falls, Wis.
s,Forty thousand of Michigans acres are
reserved for the noble savage.
Fine grapes and peaches were raised this
wear in the vicinity Of Penawawa, Washing
ton Territory.
A Knox County Ind, farmer will ex
hibit a forty observation-disclosures bull at
lndianas Fair.
Wheat bran contains about 2M per cert.
of Nitrogen. l a per cent. of potash and IN
per CEN. Of phosphoric acid.
The Versaillaise and Cherry Currant are
identical, SAYS the editor of the Rural New
Yorker, notwithstanding ''lhe senselesS
efforts of dealers to the contrary
Why should the farmers of America
bother their heads with abstract questions
of tinance2 They can take care of them
selves without any conflict as TO capital and
labor.
Among domestic animals natural deprav-
ity almost never exists. Bad treatment
produces vicious animals, and kindness
leaves them as nature made then-at all
times genie.
Senator Blaine said in his address at a
| Western State Fair, that "the farmers OF
this Republic will control its deslinies-
they, standing as its shield and bulwarks-
its safest and strongest administrators"
A farmer who used lime and salt to save
his hay from damage in his barn has aban-
doned both, the former because it physicked
his cattle fed ON the lined hay, and 'he lat
tea because it did not prevent his hay being
hurt when not well cured.
An English agricultural paper saws:
HWages of agricultural laborers have riser
from twenty to thirty per CEN. since the
introduction of mechanical reapers, show
ing that there is i'll plenty of work for al
whose vocation is the cultivation OF the
soil"
Y cto nd u;In NV cid
in grain crops the present year. From the
eighth place as wheat State in 1876, Kan
sas jumps to the first place. Her crop o
wheat will be over 30 0Oa, 100 bushels, and .
corn 100, 600, 600 bushels.
The wool clip of Oregon this year is abou
G, 500, 900 pounds, being about 500, 900 NOR
than last year. The prices range from /
cents per pound for the poorest alkal WOO
= east OF he Cascades, to q, % and IS cent
r for the best quality in he Wiilamete e an'
! Umpqua valleys.
E Kansas papers say that Central Kansas
, crops continue to yield and increase as he
1 have the past season. will have to eStablle
: extensive hour-mils to manufacture he
: grain into -four the same as Wisconsin AM
Minnesota now do, thereby saving shippin
: a bulk OF waste mater.
Int orange crop dlOliS WIG Ch' 0oiiiI
S Ocklawal,a, Halifax and Indian Rivers will
q owing to the heavy gale and rain fall, b
lighter than it has been for ten years.
b gentleman informs the Palatka Herald tha
IS the oranges in his grove are splitting an
!, dropping from the trees in great numbers
h A discussion has arisen as 10 who was til
. 'inventOr" of the Forest rose strawberry
Ii If his salary were increased sufficiently {
a r,n1ya II a phinpt nprhnnS ('OmmISSlnnf
q lie Due could settle the whole ques ion. A
. all events he seems to know cOnsiderabl
II about The berry, if his testimonial can
II believed
e The American agents of the Liverpot
10 Ashton salt firm having offered 1925 eacl
to be competed for at the coming In ern
tional Dairy Exhibition, 10 be held in Ne
l. York City. OF course, the products Ell
is tered for competition for these prizes mu
:, be sal ed with Ashtoo salt Even this hoy
," ever, will not be so bad.
- The late auction sale of twenty-nine hea
> of imported blood-cattle in New York Cit
le developed the fact that gentlemen farme
10 have not died out nor is our stock in tn
l. country likely to deteriorate at presen
AZ Good prices active bidding and general il
o. terest in the sale and importation indica
te growing interest in good S ock here. Son
, day we may compete with Europe in bree
." ing as well as grazing stock.
" We were shown yesterday beautif
specimen of homemade silk, the san
n being the product of lot of worms belon
ing to Miss jamie Prichard, of Hamilto
Harris County, Georgia. She has hu
eir, dred thousand silk worms, and has got fro
m. lTe them full yield of silk. The specim'
i'd shown us will equal in richness of col
ed and frmness of texture the finest spe'
en- mems from those sections which make 81
ihs ies culture a specialty.-[Columbus CGi
an Times.
a., rtr DAN Newman, of Sierra Valley, Ca
1S. killed two hundred and five blackbirds
he emptying only two barrels from a shot-g'
into flock of them the other day. III
ms may appear rather improbable story, b
,Is - it is vouched for by half dozen or so
we liable witnesses. The birds were huddl
lde together in grain field vi ere threshi
re. machine had shortly before been in ope
pa ton, when Newman fired at them, a
hIse each shot seemed TO have brought dowl
separate victim