The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-01
ITEMS AT LARGE.

urday morning.
Montgomery received $4,000 bales of
cotton last week.
1t is hog-killing and buckwheat-thresh-
ing time on the farm.
Choppers are scarce in the Saginaw,
Mich, lumber woods.
An abundant hog crop is reported
from most parts of Illinois.
Fish butchers are destroying the North
Carolina trout by torpedoes.
A Manistee, Mich, firm who want salt,
mean to bore 1000 feet, if necessary.
Corn is still selling in some portions of
North Alabama at 20 cents per bushel
Mr. Kraker, of Albany, Minn., shipped
off five tons of butter in one day lately.
A Texas man is making his way to
Fort West with 100 prairie dogs for
sale.
Pecan-gatherers in Frio County, Texas,
get twenty-five cents bushel for gather
ing nuts.
The Pulaski (Tenn.) Citizen says that
very fatal disease disappeared amongst
cattle and sheep in that section.
At Lutherville, Nd, upon the farm of
MIR. Henry Kellogg, corn-stalks IA feet in
height with ears OF immense proportions,
have been produced.
Texas now ranks third in the Union as
a wool producer, and one of her counties
(Nueces) has more sheep in its limits than
any other county on the continent.
1t is stated that there are ffty-fve
authorized dist leres in the small coun-
ty of CASTOR, North Carolina, and that
tile price Of corn has gone up to 80 cents
per bushel.
The largest cargo of rosin ever ex-
ported from this country has Just been
shipped from Savannah to Liverpool. 1t
was valued at $4,000, and comprised
$3.50 barrels.
Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser: All
things in this section must be prospecting;
we are reliably informed that there is not
vacant storehouse or dwelliug-house in
either of our neighboring towns, We
tumpka or Prattville.
1t is estimated that the various cotton
manufactures in and around Augusta,
Ga, use 81 100000 worth of raw cotton
per annum. The annual sales from their
product amount to about $4,000, 900.
The product of the Augusta -four and
grist mills yields 81, 100000 per annum.
For period of nearly thirty years the
number of hogs in our country has fuc-
tuated between less than fourteen and
nearly thirty-seven millions, the diminu.
| ton being greatest at the close of the
war, viz: 13,616,S76 in 1865. The largest
number reached was in 1860, viz: 36,9SO,-
772.
The Farmers Emigration Society is 8
reality in London. 1t sent a batch OF
eighty men, with their families, to Texas
the other day, and it is organizing a sec.
ond and larger expedition. The first col
ony carried with it more than $150,0O0 in
cash. This would give not far from
80, 900 to each emigrant.
Bristol (Tenn.) Courier: The Swiss
colony in Tennessee is reported very
prosperous. 1t consists of 113 families,
700 persons, and they bought 10000 acres
Of land at 81 per acre. They have
started cheese factory, devote most of
their attention to dairy farming and get
high prices for their produce.
The farmers of Louisiana parish, find
ing that they can not proftably raise and
prepare sugar in small way, have COM
bined to build large mill, and will take
their cane to it for pressing on the same
principle that farmers in some parts of
New York take milk to common cheese
and butter factory, receiving pay for
their milk and an additional profit for it's
products according to prices realized in
market.
1t is proposed to propagate sponges on
the Florida coast by cutting the live
sponge into small pieces, attaching them
to pieces of rock, and sinking them to
proper depths in suitable locations.
Professor Schmidt reports that in three
years each piece will attain remarkable
size. He estimates the cost of raising
four thousand sponges at forty-fve dol
lars, which can be sold for eighty dollars,
leaving a net profit of thirty-fve dollars.
We are authoritatively assured that this
year the farmers are we'll content with
their crops and with the prices realized.
What comfort it is to know that this
proverbially grumbling class is content
with what providence sends them in the
shape Of crops and prices. Surely times
must be good. or such state of things
could not be. When farmers fail to croak
there must be bright present, and a
very hopeful future Philadelphia Star.
Kentucky State Journal: Indications
from all parts of Kentucky are that peo-
pie will have much better trade than
last winter. Merchants are laying in
heavier stocks than usual, and general
good time is anticipated. Yet it wouldn't
be wise for too many to take advantage
of the good times and rush into matri-
mony without good foundation, finan-
cially and otherwise. Children cost more
to raise than stock, and they are not half
as profitable.