The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-04-18
ITEMS AT LARGE.
Now cat strawberries.

The millers of Wisconsin won't buy
Russian wheat.
Sheep insurance against dogs is an IL
linois suggestion.
The Peruvians look on red pepper as 6
mild condiment.
Galesburg, Mich, makes a speciality Of
raising fat sheep.
Malaga, Spain, has two large mills that
utilize our cotton.
The great cotton mills at Lowell ex
pect busy summer.
VIM. Hughes, of Liberty County, Ga.
is cultivating tea.
A fatal epidemic is on the bees of De
Witt County, Ill.
Milwaukee makes cookie separating
machines for England.
Now Jerseys peach crop promises to
be the heaviest in years.
Chicory, which is cultivated like car.
rots, is sown this month.
Minnesota farmers are busy seeding
and putting in immense crops.
Wisconsin farmers have made but very
little maple sugar this season.
Timely rains in Kansas, within a week,
have done wheat immense good.
Asparagus seed should be soaked
twenty-four hours before planting.
A Keokuk picking establishment de-
sires two hundred thousand cabbages.
The peanut crop this year is estimated
at one million two hundred and ninety
thousand bushels.
Strawberries retailed in Baltimore at
20 cents box, on Saturday, and the fruit
was in good flavor.
The trotting mare Goldsmith Maid is
the mother of fine colt, and the owner
has refused $4,000 for the infant equine.
Snow-drifts ten feet deep were reported
in Tolland, Conn, last week Thursday,
and some of the roads had not been bro
ken out.
Mr.. Charles Baldwin, Of Branford,
Conn, shot a sevcnty-fve pound spotted
seal in the harbor waters near Green
Rock, Saturday.
Tuscumbia North Alabamian, 11th:
The peach crop is almost entirely de-
stroyed in this locality. Other fruits are
injured, but there will probably be fair
crop of apples, plums and cherries.
The North Platte, Neb., Republican
says: Were it not that the new grass is
near at hand cattle would now be in most
precarious circumstances, as the range is
burned almost clear from the agencies
to the Platte, while to the southwark it
is but little better.
A live panther has been seen in the
vicinity of La Harpe, ILL.,, and so excited
the people in consequence that meet
ing OF the City Council of La Harpe was
called together for the purpose of dis
cussing ways and means for the extermi-
nation of the monster.
The rice-felds on the Cape Fear River,
near Wilmington, which have lain idle
and grown up with weeds since the war,
have been reclaimed aud planted this
season by several energetic parties, who
expect to raise at least two hundred
thousand bushels of rice in the next five
years.
Now is the time for Col. Sellers to in
dulge in little side speculation in mules
The British Government is sending over
vessels to be loaded with those festive an
imals, which are to be used in the Zulu
war. A steamer now lying at New York
will take out four hundred and forty-one
on her next trip.
Lockhart (Texas) News-Echo: Large
droyes of cattle have been passing
through town nearly every day for the
last two weeks. About fifteen hundred
head have already passed through en-
route for the Northern mark is. The
drive will be much larger this spring
than was anticipated.
Lexington (Ky.) Gazette If the
weather should prove fair, there will be
one of the most interesting exhibitions
of sheep held at Benz. Gratz Park, on
Saturday, that have ever been had in
Kentucky. All the fine imported sheep
in this section will be there, and many
from the adjoining counties.
Danville (Ky.) Advocate: During a re-
cent visit on the north side of the Ken
lucky River we noticed much larger
area of land than usual being broken up
in Jcssamine, Fayctte, Scott and adjoin-
ing counties, preparatory to the planting
of large corn crop. This is also the
case in this section of country and else
where in the State as far as we can learn.
Wilmington IN. C.) Star: Epizooty
has made its appearance on the planta-
ton of d. l.. Russell. in Brunswick Coun-
ty, and but a short distance from this
city. He has already lost two horses
from the disease, one of them as fine an
animal as there was in the county, and
all the remainder of his horses but one,
and all of his mules, are now suffering
from this dangerous distemper.
Augusta (Ga Sentinel: Complete re-
turns from the recent freezes have not
been received, but enough is known to
Justify the apprehension that in northern
parts of Georgia, and strange to say, too,
in southern ATTITUDES, the fruit crop has
been greatly damaged. Vegetables and
corn have also suffered considerably. In
Middle Georgia, however, the damage to
fruit or vegetables was very slight.
A farmer near Charles City, Ia, has
been experimenting with wheat grown
last season for the purpose of ascertain
ing how far it could be depended upon
for seed, and the result was anything but
encouraging. He got forty kernels of