The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-11-17
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Strawberries from Madison, Miss, are
bringing So per quart in the Chicago
market.
The Robesonian says there is a we'll in
Robson County, N. c., over 100 years
old, which has never failed till this
fall.
David Logan, Jr., of Boyle County,
KY, sold last week Al head of extra
nice feeding cattle, averaging 1,470 lbs,
at cents per lb.
EThe Prince of Wales visits the Conti-
nent at least ten times year, and is
almost as well known in Paris as in Lon
don and Copenhagen.
The earth is 80 cracked on the prairies
in Erath County, Texas, that it is dan
gerous to ride on them. The last rain
fell on the 29th of July.
A new kind of sweet potato is cult
waited in Kern County, California, picked
specimens of which weigh from fifteen to
eighteen and twenty-five pounds.
Louisiana sugar-planters are elated over
the fact that the European beet-sugar
crop for the present year is twenty-five
Or thirty per cent. below the average.
Farmers in Chattahoochie and Stewart
Counties, Georgia, complain of a great
scarcity of labor, and the cotton crop
threatens to be diminished in conse-
quence.
The greyhound is short-lived. At the
age of two years he is full grown, and at
his fifth or sixth year he Is worth little
for the sport of coursing He may be
said to run himself out in three years.
Hamburg (Ark) Times; The mast is
very fine, and hogs are fat enough now
for meat. This is certainly the best coun-
try on earth, and never since the time
that God fed the Israelites with mama
has there been such an exhibition of His
munifcence without any labor or effort
on the part of men.
Another curious fact is that seeds
especially wheat-will stand an immense
amount of cold without injury. Some
wheat left in the polar regions by Cap
tain Hall of the Polaris in 1871, and
found by Captain Mares in 1876, germi-
mated and produced healthy plants when
sown under glass on board ship.
| A La Sale County (Ill) farmer has
new theory regarding hog cholera. He
thinks there is no such disease, but that
lice suck the blood from the animals,
causing the cough and making them
weak, and finally killing them. He is
now engaged in experimenting to deter
mine the correctness of his theory.
The Mississippi Valley Cotton Plant
ers' Association held its annual meeting
at Vicksburg last week, The President,
in his opening address, said that if the
planters of the South would only
raise the feed consumed by their teams,
it would add to their wealth every year
1872, 100000, which they now expend for
this item.
The Newland oak is forty-seven feet
six inches in girth. The Cowthorp, now
more than one hundred years in process
of decay, has girth of sixty feet. Both
are in England. Many of the fine oaks
in England are, without doubt, from
eight hundred to one thousand years old.
The Dukeres in Nottinghamton present
the greatest number of specimens, and
Berkshire can show some remarkably fine
oaks, especially the neighborhood of
Windsor, and the Duke Of Buccleuch's 3
park of Ditton, near there.
Bananas as a material for the manu-
facture of alcohol are proposed. 1t is
said that their great cheapness in coun-
tries where they are grown and their
richness in sugar eminently fits them
for this purpose, and that profitable
investment of capital would be found in
} the establishment of alcoholic distille-
! ries in Venezuela and other lands where
this fruit is grown in abundance. Ex-
periments in the manufacture of sugar
! from the fruit have proved unsuccessful.
The pulp of the banana contains, accord
, ing to analysis Of NM. Marcano and
Muntz, 8.5 per cent. Of cane sugar and
GA per cent Of grape sugar.
Mr.. GiAen announces in his report on
the agricultural returns of Great Britain
that in 1879 the total quantity Of cult
waited land in the United Kingdom was
nearly 48,00O,000 acres, exclusive OF
heath, mountain, pasture land, woods
and plantations, being an increase since
1869 of nearly 100000 acres, or about
the same area as the whole Of Devonshire
Simultaneously during the past 10 years
there has been a decrease in the wheat
crop of nearly 1000, 900 acres, or fourth
of the entire area under wheat cultiva
ton in 1880. In green crops there is g
triAing increase rather more than GO, ,00(
additional acres having in 1879 beer
!, planted with potatoes, Swedes, turnips
: carrots, cabbages, vetchels, or lucernt
in the preceding year.
Lovers Of asparagus, who also appre
, ciate glass of good wine, will expert
, ence conflicting emotions on learning thu
news from Saint Emilion. The proprie
tor of an estate in that once Favored
, locality, seeing his vines desolated b,
! phylloxera, and anxious to have crol
5 Of some kind or other, determined K
r plant asparagus between the rows. M
4 coonar uyas this dome tha on tha phvlIoYers