The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-01-29
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Michigan has seventy-five agricultural so.
cieties.
Florida's orange crop was not damaged
by the cold.
Round potatoes" fetch 81 bushel in
Georgetown, Del.
At Albany, Ca, lately, mules were auc-
toned at 500 a dozen.
Eucalyptus trees near Napa, Cal, have
had their tops frosted.
A pig in Pike County, Ind, ate two hum
dred (2OO) geese last year.
The Colorado grass is so showed under
that the cattle are suffering.
There was a watermelon party in Henry
County, Ala, on the 9th inst.
The estimated number of horses in the
United States is eight millions.
Rabbits are so plenty at Guilford, N. c.,
that they drink the springs dry.
One hundred and fifty thousand bushels
of corn are cribbed at Lincoln, Ill.
1t is now admitted that the crow de-
stroys more grasshoppers than any other
bird.
Brazos County, Texas has an okra stock
sixteen feet high with one hundred and
twenty-seven pods
A wagon load of rabbits and a wagon con-
tanning two hundred 'coons came into Hen
derson, Ky, last week.
J. NJ Boardman, of Milton, VT, has a
large and profitable muskrat farm in the
marshes at the mouth OF the Lamoille
River.
Nutmegs and mace possess narcotic prop
critics. They should be used with caution,
especially by persons of an apoplectic tell
dency.
The wheat crops in Australia promise
we'll, and q greater area of wheat is at the
present time under cultivation than was the
case last season.
There are six hundred and fifty thousand
sheep in Nueces County, Texas. The spirit
of every dog that dies wants to be sent to
that happy hunting ground.
Two hundred and sixty-nine head of
cattle, valued at $4,000, were recently
shipped from Pensacola on the Spanish
steamer Guillermo for Havana.
Madsonville (Ky.) Republican: Under
the influence of the past few days of warm
weather the buds on the peach trees are
swelling. Thus far it is not thought that
any kind of fruit has been damaged.
Mountain Echo: Born to the wife of Old
Uncle Frederick Lincks, of Clay County,
one day last week, boy. Mr.. Lincks is an
old gentleman about eighty-three years of
age and has, we believe, been married four
times.
The trade in skunk skins is no insignifi-
NJ, nayiS Of Gor1inor Mo
has already purchased some five hundred
this season. He pays from 10 to rs cents,
the more black there is on them the bigger
| the price.
Winona (Miss.) Advance: The price of
cotton is low, but the price of provisions
and clothing is low to suit. But the thun-
der of the whole matter is, how will you
| paw that old account at such big prices as
YOU paid on credit?
The petrifed bones of some mighty
horned animal were found last week neal
| Culbertson, west Of Harlan County, Neb
The horns were eighteen feet in length,
eight inches in diameter at the base, and
ten feet apart at the tips.
Winchester (Ky.) Sun: Mr.. Jas. Prewitt
has lost eight or ten cattle recently by q
new disease, which nobody about here
knows anything about. The cattle com
lnence by rubbing their heads necessarily
against trees, &C., and soon lie down and
die.
The ice trade, which is strictly an Amer
can enterprise, began about seventy year:
ago, and from small beginning has grown
20 great business. The expectation of ice
was first undertaken by Frederick Tudor
of Boston, who sent small cargo to Mar
tinioue in 1905 Ice was not shipped tt
New Orleans until 1920.
Orange growing in California has been as
suming such dimensions as to make i
doubtful whether in a few years it will pay
to raise the fruit at all. Every land-owne
and settler in the neighborhood of Los An
geles is ambitious to have an orange grove
houses are surrounded by them, and the,
even border the streets. Many of tn
longer-headed cultivators Of the ground ar
, beginning to plant almond and walnu
trees, foreseeing time when the marke
will be glutted with oranges. The success
in raising bananas has not been very ell
: couraging thus far, owing to the injury don
, to the young trees by the occasional nigh
frosts ....