The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-02-27
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White shad are 10 cents pair in New
bern, n. c.
Tomato seed, being tender, won't bear too
warm hot-bed. ..H
A beet sugar factory is talked of at SOM
ers' Point, N. ].
Minnesota farmers think fiaxseed as sure
a crop as wheat.
Market gardeners are busy on spring
work preparations.
The frsky gang plow is ripping o'er the
vale, at Livermore. Cal.
Oakland CAL. farmers are planting out
new orchards just now.
A Michigander has invented fruit dryer
attachable to any stove.
The State is asked to rear a 81 900 hog-pen
at Jackson Mich, Prison.
Black Creek, Wis, is to have grain ele-
Vator before next harvest.
Both Clinton and Scott Counties ILL.,,
have lately found coal veins.
A resident of Jefferson County, Ind, is
going to raise earth almonds.
Seventy-four thousand hogs have been
packed in Omaha this season.
A good deal of sugar-cane will be raised
in Snerburne, Mimi, this year.
Heliotrope, white lilac and pink carna-
tion blend stylishly in bouquet.
Coyotes have been crunching all the ac-
cessible sheep near Santa Cruz, Cal.
Waterville Mimi, has shipped nearly
three hundred thousand pounds of pork
this winter.
There are one hundred and twenty-five
thousand acres of railroad land in Paylor
County, Wis.
Richberry, S. c., boasts sheep that
chews tobacco with as much avidity as q
man or worm.
A North Carolina farmer received in pay
for his tobacco alta warehouse III Winston
$lG.in 5-cent pieces
The Lexington Transcript says mild
type of pneumonia prevails among the
horses in that section.
The oak supposed to be the Oldest, save
Hernes, in Windsor Forest was burned a
fortnight ago by some lighted straw being
thrust into its trunk to drive ferret out.
Land renters in some parts of Illinois arc
forming combinations to force better terms
/ from landlords. They claim that while ev.
erything else is down land rents ought tC
be down accordingly.
A Georgian claims that twenty Thousand
have enligrated from that State and the
C4rolnaS to Texas in the past five years
and that ~, 900 of them will return now
that they can get emigrant rates back.
The poor farm, established near Dallas
Texas, Ior the purpose of taking care o
paupers and working tramps has cost il
twenty months over $4,000 more than it.
receipts Beef alone, cheap as it is in Texas
cost $l,2l0.
There is no longer any doubt entertainet
among Sanitarans that an atmosphere pol
luted by foul odors will generate typhoi,
fever. Among the death certificates pre-
sented at the New York Bureau of Stats
tics Saturday was one which stated that TIN
disease from which child died was causet
by deieterlous gases coming from cesspoo
located i'll the sleeping-room.
Natchez Sun: The mule-tradors. are dc
ing hourishing business in our town, an
yet it is claimed that those who raise
nothing but cotton, and disposed of it a
: the presentruinouslyl low prices, lost none
by SO doing If this be true, We can not az
count for the ability of many of the pull
chasers to pay hard cash for new plow stoc
unless their pocket-books were brought u
to plump by the last grand 'divy" of til
Freednan's Bank.
Southern California is producing ever
year more and more semi tropical fruit
r Oranges are aisedin such abundance tina
it is thought that in few years the marke
will be SO overstocked as to render thei
raising unremunerative. In the regio
, around Los Angeles, every landowner an
settler is so desirous to have orange groves
tnat dwellings are surrounded, and eve
: the roads are bordered, by them. In antic
}. ipat on OF an excess of the fruit, cultivatoi
Of the soil are beginning to plant walnu
and almond trees in its stead.