The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-11-13
THE DAILY STAR
ITEMS AT LARGE.
chestnuts failed.


Cartersville, Ga, Is to have two cotton
factories.
Corn is worth 81 per bushel in Goliad
County, Texas
Cloverseed is more sought after for ship
ment to Europe. +.
Blight is affecting the orange trees in
Southern Louisiana.
Corn-husking frolics jolify country
life these long nights.
Los Angeles is to hive new -four mill,
the finest in California.
New Albany claims pre-eminence as
horse and mule market.
Hoppers are nibbling the green wheat
in Bosque County, Texas.
One Reading, Pa, man matted 10000
bushels of barley last year.
Over seven hundred acres of popcorn
nave been raised near Loda. Ill.
Kansas castor bean crop this year is
estimated at ten million bushels
Faribault men talk of 10000 acre
stock farm on the Northern Pacific.
A lemon tree at Lancaster, N. Y, is
loaded with fruit. 1t is five years old
and has borne fruit three years.
A German colony has settled i'll Es-
Gambia County, Fla, near the Pensacola
Railroad, to engage in sheep-raising.
The Americus (Ga.) Recorder thinks
that cattle-raising will supersede cotton
growing to great extent in that section.
An exchange, which we won't name
out of respect, says that agricultural card
players are generally noted for their abil-
ity at stacking.
Handsboro, Miss, is furnishing Louisi-
ana stock-raisers with blooded sheep. The
town is also making preparations to start
cotton and woolen factory.
When they go rabbit hunting out in
Utah they mean business. A grand hunt
near Salt Lake the other day, participat-
ed in by thirty persons, resulted in the
killing of LOIS jacks.
Little Rock (Ark.) Gazette: Several
wood cases came up before the United
States Court yesterday. Cutting wood
from Government lands has caused a
great deal of trouble, and as ignorance of
the law excuses no man, the penalty is
inflicted.
The oldest tree in the Garden of Plants
is an acacia virginensis spinosa, planted
where it stands in 1886 by Vespasien
Robin, a gardener of Louis XIII. As it
is 27S years old it is hoped with iron
and every hole covered with the best
Portland cement.
Says the Cloverport (Ky.) Breckin-
ridge News: "Mr. John E. Keith, of this
city, has presented US with vegetable
curiosity in the shape of a squash which,
on being cut open, disclosed that all the
seeds had sprouted inside and had roots
from an inch and half to two and
half inches in length. We never saw or
heard of the like before.'
Pulaski (Tenn,) Citizen: The surplus
agricultural products of Giles County
this year will reach 81 100000, as fol-
lows: Wheat, 100000; cotton, $600,O00;
mules, hogs and beef. $500, 900. This,
with population of $4,000, gives us
nearly $500 cash per capita for every
man, woman or child, black or white, in
the County. Certainly there is life in
the old land yet.
Alderman Orndortf, of Virginia City,
New, and farmer Treadway, of Carson,
New, made wager of 500 five years
ago, the one that he could breed bull
pup in five years whose weight should be
seven and half pounds, and the other
that he could cultivate cabbage that
should weigh forty-fve pounds. Each
man deposited his money in the Carson
Bank, and now, at the expiration of the
time, Alderman Orndorf has reduced his
dog to seven pounds, and Mr.. Treadway
has sent his cabbage up the scale to forty
eight pounds.
A short time ago General John Glib
bon, of St. Paul. made the assertion that
100 bushels OF wheat had been raised on
an acre of ground in the Territory of
Montana. The statement having been
received with incredutity, he wrote to
the President of the First National Bank
in Helena for proof. In reply he received
the certificate of the President and Sec
retary of the Territorial Fair Association
that one James l.. Ray, of Lewis and
Clark County was awarded first prem
ium for the best acre of wheat, being
102 bushels to the acre This is believed
to be the largest yield of wheat Oh rec
ord. ...
Discovery of Columbus Anchor.
A curious relic of one of the expedi-