The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-27
THE DAILY STAR
ITEMS AT LARGE.

Business is improvingsteadily in vicks-
burg.
Peach trees are blooming in New lbe-
ria, La.
Cranberries are about ready for har-
vesting.
Eau Claire, Wis, is shipping lumber to
Nebraska.
Vineland, N. J., will ship good many
sweet potatoes.
A new Seeding apple in Iowa isnamed
"the Gov. Cue"
The cotton mills in the South are run
ming night and day.
A very rich tin mine has been discov-
cred near Dalton, Ga.
The planters are complaining OF too
much rain in Mississippi.
Game was never so plentiful as now in
Mississippi River Counties.
Alton, Iowa, shelled 10000 bushels Of
corn for shipment this fall.
A grain of sprouted wheat has been
found within an Iowa egg
A new $4,000 bushel elevator towers
above Grand Island, Nebraska.
Mr.. Grubb, of Elm Creek, Neb., is sue
cessfully trying his hand at fig culture.
Very little wheat is being delivered at
Wisconsin elevators and railway stations.
A high agricultural authority esti-
mates the loss ON English crops at Sl25,-
100000.
The San Antonio Free Press declares
that Texas can produce better wine than
California.
A hickory tree on the farm of ]. John
son, Amite County, Texas, was torn from
its roots by recent storm, and carried
two miles.
The Chinese keep grapes long time
fresh by cutting a hole in pumpkin,
cleaning it out, and after filling with ripe
fruit replacing the cover
Monclar, an eminent French agricul-
turist. proposes to feed cattle, sheep and
pigs on provender containing savory
herbs to give flavor to the flesh.
The peach yield in Delaware and Mary
land has been remarkably fine this year.
Over four millions of baskets have thus
far been shipped to New York and Phila-
delphia.
1t is now in season for young ladies in
the country to send to their city friends
bouquets of autumn leaves whose vari-
Gus tints may give glory to our .parlor
mantel-pieces.
Selma (Ala.) Times: Business has
opened here with a grand boom. Cotton
is coming in freely and is bringing ID good
price, and groceries and supplies of all
kinds are going out with grand rush.
For months this year there has not
been drop Of water in the Rio Grande
for a distance of about five hundred
miles. There is great suffering of the
people of that district in consequence.
The Little Rock Spirit of Arkansas
lifts up its voice and crows Arkansas
is the best-watered State, the best mineral
State. the best-timbered State, and for all
agricultural purposes the best agricultur-
al State in the Union.
Miss Sallie Morgan, we'll known in
Mississippi, writes an interesting Cali
fornia letter to the Winona Advance, in
which she says Mississippi is a better
country than California, in climate, soil
moral and pecuniary interests.
Richmond Wing: Mr.. James B. Pace
shipped 25O hogsheads of bright leaf to
bacco to Europe Saturday, the value OF
which was about $4,000. This is per-
haps the largest shipment of bright to-
bacco that has ever been made from Vir
ginia.
Harrison (Va.) Valley: A man named
VIM. Dean, living on top of the Blue
Ridge, above Roadside, is the father o
twenty children, all of one mother Hi
mountain home overlooks the beautiful
valley at his feet, and he and his famil,
rejoice in good health. His fields can b.
readily discerned in the valley for mile
away.
A New England Exchange says: Claw
son wheat is regarded quite generally a
the most profitable variety to grow, ant
may be sown earl y or late. Good land
preferable, but no variety of wheat vii
produce SO good a harvest on poor lan'
as the Clawson. 1t is said that it doe
not make as good bread as some othe
kinds of wheat. What say farmers?
Milwaukee Signal: The timber land
of Wisconsin are inexhaustble. Th
mineral wealth of the State is vast
while the soil is unexcelled for the pre-
duction of all the cereals. These fact
only need to be published properly t
the world to attract immigration to tn
State, and the efforts already made i
that direction are yielding good results
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