The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-06-20
ITEMS AT LARGE.

Hog cholera in Cumberland County.
Tennessee wheat is afflicted with rust.
Cotton near Rome, Ga, is sixteen inches
high.
In Florida they sell vatermelons by the
pound.
There are thirty-eight thousand Grangers
in Texas
Southwest Georgia is eating flour from
its own leat.
A banana tree at the Insane Asylum in
Utica is in blossom.
Millions of Kansas 'hoppers crunch the
yerdure of Orion, Mich.
Two thousand Florida heifers have been
bought for shipment to Cuba.
San Saba County, Texas produces an ex,
cellent article Of grindstones.
Ten Texas stock-raisers own one million
twenty-three thousand head of cattle.
The Jersey woods are scented up and
rugged out in their best rhOdodendrons.
A white peony at New Brunswick has
borne one hundred and fifty flowers this
season.
Oleomargarine brings 10 cents per pound
III
purchased for cents
California will swap her wheat this sum
mer for $40, 100000. She has already begun
to sing, "Ihis wheat buy and buy"
Orchards in the vicinity of Dundee, ILL.,
are again being destroyed by the ten
caterpillar which eats off all the leaves
A Sandwich. ILL.,, firm has invented {
corn-sheller which will shell two hundred
bushels of corn an hour, with six horses.
A cow belonging to Mr.. A. A. Linton, O
Clarksville, Clinton County, Ohio, gave
birth to triplets. The calves are two male
and one female.
A COW at the Chicago stock yards that re
Gently lost her calf, has adopted "a youn|
| colt, and the arrangement is said to be salts
factory to both colt and COW.
An Indiana girl made 5000 raising broom
corn last year. The amount of miser,
raised can not be expressed by dollars afte
the same corn gets a handle to it.
The cultivation of the opium poppy
which has hitherto been exclusively con
fined to the West, bids fair to become
thoroughly established and remunerative il
Eastern Africa.
A ball of popcorn lies in the British
Museum in London with a label on it read
ing as follows: can article of food il
America greatly liked by the negroes in th
Southern United States"
At Finchville, KY. there is the mode
| hog-houSe of the country. 1t is built o
stone, with a hanging roof, and a clea
stream flows through the building. Their
are twenty thousand dollars worth of hog
in it.
The largest strawberry farm in the worl(
is probably that of John r. Young, Jr.
about two miles from Norfolk, Va. H
cultivates two hundred and fifty acres, ant
the yield last season was over five hundret
thousand quarts.
A barge with two thousand beehive
aboard is atoat in the Mississippi, and is t,
be moved up and down the river during tn
season, so as to be all the time in the mids
of flowers The bees will thus be kept con
tinually within reach of the best materia
for honey.
A Kansas letter says the wheat harves
has begun, month ahead of the usua
time, and the prospect is that not enough
men can be obtained to harvest the vas
crop. 1t is in splendid condition, notwith
standing the reported frost, and the yielC
transcends all precedent.
A Georgia farmer smeared his hogs will
! tar to rid them of tleas and turned then
| loose in the woods At night they did no
return to the pen as usual and in the morn
ing he found them stuck together the ia
making them adhere in a mass They nigh
! have gone home, nevertheless by concer
of action, but it isn't in a hog to har
monte. ....
"IsN'T IT LovELY?"-A dry-goods clerl
| on Main street was showing ludy SOmt