The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-05-19
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crops.
The tulip tree doesn't transplant well
unless taken young.
A Fond du Lac briar tree has four vari.
eties of roses grated on it.
Logs fetch 81 so to 81 thousand at
Stevens Point, Wis, boom.
Ten opossums were lately killed at
Vineland for hen thieving.
Wisconsin expects to coagulate 6,000,-
600 pounds of cheese this season.
A strange disease among the bees is
killing many at Sandwich, Ill.
Pierce County, Wisconsin, farmers
mean to try their luck at amber-sugar
making.
A Montgomery, New York, man sold
his half Of Nevada bonanza for
$260,000.
The harvesting of the Texas wheat
crop was commenced before the sowing
of wheat in Minnesota was finished
Kansas, since 1865, has put under cul-
tivation 100000 acres of prairie, or
gained 40 counties, and built $500 miles
of railway.
Peppers, egg plants and tomatoes
should be sown early in moderate hot
bed, cold-frame, or in boxes in the house,
and transplant in June.
Window-boxes containing vegetable
plants may be set out during mild days
OF this month, and when it may be done
without risk of frost, be left out all night.
A man has just been paid the bounty
for one thousand and sixty-one crow
scalps in Dorchester County, Nd. Doubt
less the county could have used its money
to better advantage.
| The Maine Beet and Sugar Company
of Portland, which has been making some
experiments in the manufacture of sugar
from beets, will go into the business ex-
tensively this season, having contracted
for one thousand acres of beets
Authentic accounts from thirty-nine
counties in England describe the farmers
as becoming disheartened with their hard
lot, and the losses they have sustained
from the formidable competition of Rus
sian, Canadian and American breadstuffs,
provisions, live stock, butter, cheese, etc.
Satisfy is often called "oyster-plant."
Many who live far inland do not like oys-
tcrs, and the name prejudiccs these
against one of the greatest delcacies of
the garden. 1t is indeed choice vegeta-
BILE, but one within the reach of every
one, as it requires no more care in culti-
walton than a parsnip.
A man in North Michigan last year
raised seven bushels of strawberries on
four rods of ground, at the rate of $50
bushels per acre, equal to 1850 quarts,
which, at 20 cents quart, would bring
1872; and if this be too high, call them
l2l cents a quart, which would equal
81, 100. The vines were heavily mulched
in the fall, and again in the spring, show
ing the advantages of mulching.
A good garden will supply half of the
family living, besides what can be raised
with great profit for the market. If at
distance from market the harder kinds
of products, which can be kept and
transported in quantities later in the
season, will be best. The amount of land
thus occupied is small and can be cult
waited mostly at times when farmers
would be doing little or nothing else,
The Charlotte IN. c. Observer says:
A citizen Of Lincoln lays on our table
singular growth which he says is destroy
ing all the wheat in his county. 1t has
sprung up simultaneously with the wheat
and grows to the same height No one
has seen anything like it before, and its
exact botanical classification has not yet
been determined. The people have be-
gun to cal it 'Dutch cookie" but nobody
knows why, as it represents no point of
resemblance to the old fashioned cookie.
1t has a white bloom on the top, and bears
numerous pods, each of which contains
four seeds.
The farmers of Illinois are now busy
all over the State in the preparation of
their lands for the spring crop, or in
planting. Notwithstanding the ateness
of the season and the drouth in many
parts of the State, the ground is in very
good condition for plowing, and if the
weather continues favorable large acre
age will be planted, Corn planted early,
in few cases, is up, and looking fairly,
but much the largest breadth of land yet
remains to be planted. Fall wheat is
looking well, and early sown oats are
promising. With seasonable showers and
warm weather, the outlook for the farm
ers in Illinois would be very favorable.
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