The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-27
ITEMS AT LARGE.

Tobacco culture has done well in middle
Florida.
Oconee, S. c., has a white buzzard %
years old.
Cotton crop reports from Alabama are
not good.
Tomatoes are cent pound at retail
in Vineland.
Baskets of blood-red apples shine in
the markets.
Demopolis, Ala, has large, full-bear-
ing olive tree.
A petriied gopher egg is shown in
Townsville, Ga.
A Beloit farmer has a stalk of corn
with fifty-one ears on it.
Florida grew the biggest watermelon
one hundred and five pounds.
A Troy, Mich, farmer puts pantaloons
on his horses, to obviate fly bites.
The rice crop near Wilmington, N. G.,
was much injured by the late storm.
Iowa corn is quantity alleged to be
"humping itself to escape Jack Frost"
A farmer in Owchlan, Chester County
Pa, has lost five cows by hydrophobia.
Mr.. Roane, of Sullivan, ILL.,, sowed two
bushels of wheat which yielded ninety
bushels.
OF wheat alone the United States have
exported for the crop year nearly $780,
100000 bushels.
A new well in Houston, Ga, emits
constant current of gas so strong that two
mills are run by it.
One hank Of spun cotton to the acre is
the estimate for many Parker County,
Texas, cotton crops.
Madison County, N. G., claims to ship
annually seven hundred and fifty thou
sand pounds of tobacco.
Opossums are so plenty in Petersburg,
Va, that it is not uncommon to run
against them in the streets at night. Rab-
bits and partridges also abound.
All hail. Somerset, Pa, which was the
first to relieve the monotony of the hot
weather by furnishing real snowsto orm
the other day. For small place like
Somerset this is a remarkable perform
ance.
In Freeport, L. l., willow that now
measures fourteen feet in circumference
was thrust into the ground forty-five
years ago by Henry Smith, then mere
boy, after using it as switch to drive
cattle from the plains.
Mayfeld (Ky.) Monitor: Mr. George
Dillon, four miles north of here, shot
large gray eagle last Sunday, wounding
it just sufficiently to capture it. 1t
measures seven feet from tip to tip of
the wings. and weighs over twenty-five
pounds.
Mr.. Henry Gibbs, of Maryland, saw a
fox carry off turkey from the farm of
Mr.. Lafayette Miller near Sharpsburg
one day recently He shot the fox, and
finding its den, discovered the heads of
130 Leghorn chickens and 20 turkeys
which it had carried off from the farms
in the neighborhood.
| The Tarboro, N. c., Southerner tells of
all Edgecome fox which has been chased
without effect by the best hunters in that
county every year for the past twenty
eight years. Thirty barbecues and trim
mings have been given for her capture,
and during this time she was often seen
by the hunters and others. Last week
she was found dead in a field, having got
in and being too old to get out.
During the five years ending 1876
Canada sent England about $125O0O, 900
of timber. In Nova Scotia the approx.
mate amount of timber-producing land
was in 1875 computed at 5000, 900 acres;
in Ontario, 10000 square miles; in Que
bee, 75,7ll,1l4 acres; New Brunswick,
100000 acres. In British Columbia
about 1l0,000,000 acres are covered with
timber. Newfoundland, too, is densely
wooded, but forest fires have there, as
also to a considerable degree in Canada,
made serious inroads.
Between Britain and Gaui.