The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-11-05

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The Weymouth GLASS; pail factories
are in want of hands
MIR. j. Mason, OF Vineland, has raised
fine hemp in his garden.
The wheat-grower's motto-of two
weeViis choose the least.
The Northern Indiana corn crop will
b. the largest ever known.
Catfish are plenty in the irrigating
canals OF Kern County, Cal.
Anxiety over the drouth wrinkles the
viages of Scott County, Iowa.
Battle Creek dealers have bought some
1900 bushels Of apples this week.
The st. Paul Minneapolis and Mime
s,ta Roads elevators hold 100000
bushels of wheat.
Joe Simmons, near Piney Grove Church,
in Jones County, N. g., killed two deer
al one shot last week.
Mr.. Joseph Douglass, of Preston, Nd,
grew this year sweet potato that was
Al inches long and Il inches in diam
et"r.
Tallahassee (Fla.) Patriot: Oranges are
beginning to turn yellow. They are re-
tn'ied from to 2cents apiece in South
Florida.
The Mississippi Stock Breeders State
Fair will he held at Meriden, Miss, com
nicncing November 18th and continuing
one week.
Dallas (Texas) Herald: Farmers say
they receive on an average $40 more per
bale for their Gotten this year than they
did last, and that the cost of production
has been no greater.
Two citizens of Marshall, Mich, failed
IL buy wheat options when the sign was
right, but they have since invested $500
in a half interest in live but headiess
rooster now on exhibition in that city.
The Fargo land office last year did one
tenth of all the land business ia the
United States. The business of the
ninety-five offices in the country covered
10000, 600 acres and 1000, 900 was cred
lied to the Fargo Office.
Chattanooga Times: The sale of the
Tennessee Iron and Steel Company's
works, which was to have taken place
Yesterday, was indefinitely postponed
Col. Winchester, the assignee, will return
from Johnston City to-day, and it is
quite probable that arrangements will
soon be made for operating the mill and
paying off the Indebtedness.
Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser: There
j. man in North Carolina who, some
years ago, married the widow of his
own son, and she was also his own
niece. The woman had children by
both husbands. Not long ago, when one
of the daughters was married, the hap
py bridegroom demanded and received
tabuated pedigree of the young lady.
Little Rock Democrat: At the prices
paid for cotton last year nine planters
ont of ten lost money. This year the
expenses of raising and gathering the
crop are NOT greater than st year, while
tie price is on an average nearly fifty
per cent higher. 1t is safe to say that
the great majority of planters who
We're out of debt ut the beginning of the
crop season have this year realized some
profits
The American Isabella grape planted
in Wurtemberg, Germany, grows with
extraordinary luxuriance, and during the
present season, in which the German
vineyards are generally in rather poo,
condition, this is about the only vine that
bears abundant fruit. The United States
send cheese and beef to England and
grapes and lager beer to Germany. 1t re-
mains now that they should furnish
wines to France. ~r'"'.
Trenton (Tem) Herald: West Ten
nessee has this year produced the larges
crop Of cotton since the war. The yiet
is remarkably fine, equal to that of til,
Arkansas and Mississippi bottoms
Squire Sam. Shane, of the Humbold
District, one of the best farmers ant
most reliable men in this section, told III
last Monday that he had a patch of tw'
acres that will produce over three bale
of 800 pounds each.
c. ar otte Gala. observer: The cotton
compress has done big business sinc'
the opening of the cotton season. Up t,
date it has compressed 10000 bales
which is more work than it did through
out the whole OF last season. 1t is stl
running constantly, and is paying the
owners handsomely. When the cotto,
is compressed fifty-fve bales can he pu
into a car against twenty-five, the limi
when the bales lav not been compressed
The editor Of the Germantown Tele
graph, one Of the most experienced horti
culturists in the country, says it is bes
to provide cuttings for spring planting il
the fall, and bury them until they ar
wanted to set out. Currant and gooseberr,
cuttings are stuck in the ground sii
inches apart, first removing only the bud
which would be covered with earth
Ounces also are well nurtuTed from cut
tiilgs, in all cases using the past year
growth.
Atlanta Constitution: The profits g
the current crop Of cotton should he pu
into spindlcs in the country, and int
both spindles and looms in the Souther
cities. The indications now are that til
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