The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-08-07

The Mobile cotton mills being a success
are to double their capacity.
The Rural New Yorker saws: THE Hes
sian ty--and no man pursueth."
A wise man in EmIra has found out
what the pear blight is--a "black bug"
Now is a good time to cut off all suckers
from the hces and remove all superfluous
limbs.
Reports from Mississippi ind cate partial
failure of the cotton crop by reason OF con-
tinuous heavy rains.
The tobacco plant is a native Of America.
The discovery OF the continent and the
plant occurred almost simultaneously.
1t is estimated that the hucEleberry crop
of this year Of the Wawarsing Valley, from
WurtSbOro to Pailz POin,, will be worth
$50, 00O
Ii is actually less work to hoe field as
often as weed can be seen than to allow
them to get the start of you and then try
to conquer.
The annual meeting Of the National Agri-
cultural Congress will take place on the
9th day of August, this year at New
Haven, Conn.
Illinois experienced very hot weather du
excellent assistant to the vigorous growth
of the corn crop.
Mr. Germantown Telegraph can not be
! lieVe that rank manure will produce blight
in the pear tree. He is generally right in
these little matters.
An exchange says that tramps are refus-
| ing - 50 a day and board. This can not be
so. They might refuse work; but So so a
day and board-neyer
| The enirailS of cattle are now manufaC-
tured into cord, rope, round and fiat bel;-
ing, and other material where eXtraordin-
ary Sreng h is required
Scientific nob0dies arc constantly talking
OF the manner in which lightning strike
and be conducted. A little common sense
would save deal of type and paper.
The corners in grain which have been so
cunningly arranged in the larger Western
ci les have nearly all come to grief. How
sorry our agricultural community must
feel
Steam-plowing has been successfully in
troduced upon wet and treachcrous lands
in California. Watery wastes of few
years since have been turned into acres of
promising grain.
The residents of "Bosting' have at last
discovered that live stock can be exported to
Great Britain, and are quite jubilagt over
their discovery. That is the result Of read
ing none but provincial papers.
The peppermint crop, from reports,
promises to be an unusually large one. The
plant is large and thriving, and the indica-
tions now are the distlling will begin at
least two weeks earlier this year than
usual.
Our British cousins deplore the lack of
good books on the Dairy, and now cOntem-
plate the publication Of a work to be edi o,
rally supervised by Prof. Sheldon and Mr..
H. f. Moore, Secretary OF the British Dairy
mems Association.
A Dictionary of Agriculture is now being
written by one of our most eminent praCti-
cal agriculturists. 1t will be the farmers
wade mecum, and its usefulness must be ap
preciatcd in every rural family. 1t can not
be published too soon.
Every one who owns an orchard, or ever
a single tree, should now be looking after
the borers, to see that their trees are not de
stroyed. If taken early, it is not a very hare
task to destroy the pests by the use of &
pocket-kniGe and wire.
The exhibitors at the New York State
Fair at Elmira, this year. can pay freight
to the exhibition, and upon presentation o.
their society receipt have their money re
funded, so that practically they pay nothing
for freight on their exhibits.
The great tomato war will soon be de
clared at Greenwood, Ind. Preparation!
for the skinning and canning match are
being made on larger scale than last year
Acres on acres of the fruit are beginning tc
ripen on all the farms in that region. The
ball will open in about two weeks.
From the fourth agricultural report fol
Georgia, we learn that from Barlow County
there were shipped 225,000 pounds of dried
apples and peaches; from Macon County
156, 900 pounds; from Sumter and adjacen
counties, $4,000 pounds; from Monroe, 40,
900 pounds, and from Upson, 10000
pounds. Many other counties give smaller
but respectable returns. The report say
that reliable gentleman states that his ne
proceeds from the shipment of peaches
amounted to nearly $4,000.
The Milford, Del, News says: Our fruit
growers could soon get rich if blackberre
would do as well every year as they have
this. The business has run down in conse
quence of the fact that the market had beer
overstOcked and many persons neglectins
the crop, the fruit this year was scarce anC
, has sold well. Two or three of our growers
have eq,laled the following figures: Fiji
teen thousand baskets that have cleared {
cents each over and above all expenses, Of
a total of 81 240 from the blackberry patch
!, A flock of chickadees. or the black-cappec
titmouse, was observed in "a cedar thicke
near Oneida, N. Y. on Sunday. The bright
little fellows seemed frightened, and sal
! dressing their feathers and stretching thei,
wings but now and then, with preimi
nary chup chirp and twitter letting ou
the softest and most musical little chick-a
} dee-dee imaginable, dainty prophecy o
the snowy days to come Living the yea,
round as far north as the six y-ffth par
) allel, it is not unlikely that the hardy little
: voyagers had been blown southwark during
, our late winds; and, although their welcom'
would have been made warmer a day Of
two ago, yet now we meet them with colo
J.. hand and warm heart.