The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-28
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Wisconsin cranberry prospects are
good.
Raspberries are fifty cents quart in
Deadwood.
Hornless cattle in Florida are entitled
butt-heads.
Mutton corn" is the Florida name for
a roasting ear.
Texas ranks third among the wool
growing States.
Corn is suffering greatly in many North
Carolina counties.
Silk culture is progressing favorably
in West Feliciana, La.
1t goes against some Iowa farmers to
pay harvesters S2 day.
Cotton is spun directly from the seed
at a Windsor, N. c., factory.
Young forests are being killed in South
California by the hot weather.
Some Jersey County, ILL.,, wheat fields
are turning out fifty bushels an acre.
The long drought has greatly injured
the orange trees in and around Manatee,
Fla.
A Davidson County IN. C.) farmer
made sixty-two bushels of wheat to the
acre.
Jacob Ghcre, of Clinton County, Ind,
harvested one thousand bushels of wheat
from twenty-five acres.
The latest estimate places the wheat
crop of Indiana at about thirty-fiye
million bushels for this year.
Most of our old cotton fields" re-
marks the Orange County (Fla.) Report
er, acknowledge the corn this year"
The farmers of st. Bernard Parish, La,
have saved half their rice crop by steam
irrigation, at the sacrifice, however, of all
possible profit.
Tie Charlotte Observer tells how calf
cot choked in Iredell, n. G., and was re-
lieved. A lad caught the calf, threw it
down with its neck across log, and then
took hammer and mashed the apple
causing immediate relief.
Vineand, n. j., farmers have discov-
cred finally that it is impossible to make
4 good living on five acres cf land. Ten
acres is not too much. They have also
learned that it pays best to put in some
corn, potatoes and grain--enough for
family use.
Set down Minnesota for forty-fve mill
ion bushels of wheat the present year.
Statistics indicate the yield will, with
favorable weather for harvesting, reach
a couple of millions more than this esti-
mate. Two million eight hundred thou
sand acres is a good sized wheat field for
one State.
George May Powell writes: "Single
trees have been burned in America in log
heaps which, cut into yenecrs, would sell
for more net cash than the whole farm
where they grew. When our forests are
as well treated as those of Europe few
trees will be cut except by advice of a
forest engineer"
A number of late English papers, the
Wigan Examiner, Barrow Herald, West
Cumberland Guardian and others report
considerable progress making among the
small farmers farm laborers, ironmakers
and other mechanics in arranging to en-
grate to Texas and settle there in colo
MES.
Daniel Wilcox and Mrs. Bruce Will
cox, Of Lycoming County, Pa, were pois-
onef from weed growing in the garden,
called "Dollkrout," or mad-weed. The
effect of this weed was to make the limbs
swell and the flesh to break out in a
hideous way. DR.. Nintzel gave them a
course of treatment which has relieved
the patients and worked the poison pretty
we'll out of their systems.
San Bernardino, Cal, Index is of the
opinion that bee men, bothin this county
and in San Diego, are complaining of the
shortage in the honey product. 1t says
w nder what the busy little insects have
been about? Many of our bee-keeper'
say they will have none at all to sell
A gentleman from San Diego predicts
that less than one ton will be shipped
from that county this season agains
hundreds of tons last year.
Crops are looking fine in Linn County
Kansas. The farmers are talking O.
shedding over their corn-felds for cribs
as they will have so much coru they ar,
afraid they will not be able to find {
place to put it. Wheat never was bet
ter. Yield light but the berry plump
If not injured by the late rains it vii
grade n IS. | and 2. Oats are splendid
Farmers have just commenced TO har
vest them. The hog crop this fall prom
ises to be very large. The stock mer
have already commenced to buy cattle
and hogs for feeding next winter Ou
surplus corn will most of it be fed in ou
country to stock.
A California letter says: There is nj
country in the world where better grape
can be grown for making raisins as wei
as for wine purposes. For long time
the former industry Jagged, but of late
years it has taken wonderful start, ant
grape-growers are now reaping the advan
tage of patience and perseverance. They
have also learned how to cure them
About thirty thousand boxes of raisin
were cured last year, but this industry
is sure to increase from year to year un
til California will supply the whole trade
of the United States. Grape cutting
have been introduced from Spain, Franc,
and all other wine. growing countries
and it is a settled fact that both ou
wines and raisns are fast becoming favor
ties in the Eastern markets.
1t now transpires that the fish caugh
by the Princess Louise was toothless
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