The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-08
ITEMS AT LARGE.
Illinois is scant of apples.

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Drouth has cut cotton short in portions
of South Carolina.
A vast Illinois acreage is musical with
the wheat-drill now.
A Scottsboro, Ala, family weave every
particle of clothes they wear.
Sugar-beets, grown in Hartford, Md,
show 7.I2 per cent. sugar, on analysis.
A pennyroyal factory at Walnut Hill,
Ill.,, has utilized 167 tons of the herb this
year.
Fine picking weather prevails
all over the South, and the crop is being
rapidly gathered.
In Louisiana the sugar cane knocked
down by the storm has Strengthened up,
and is growing fine crop.
The cotton factors of New Orleans be,
Iieve there will be 25e,000 more bales re-
ceiped there this season than last.
An eagle, measuring seven feet from
tip to tip, and weighing seventeen pounds,
has been killed near RogersYi le, Tenn.
A Chicago paper says that the last of
Jake Bunn's beet-root enterprise was the
late selling of the last tract Of Land at
Chatsworth, Ill
Every Saturday says Scott County
! Ky.) man raised sixty bushels of good
potatoes and several bushels Of inferior
ones on one acre Of ground.
A new mode Of collecting honey is
being tried in Germany. A small ap-
paratus, with wires, gives che bees an
electric shock, and they fall to the bot
tom of the hive, remaining motionless
for several hours. t......-..
The exports of beef cattle on the hoof
shows steady increase this year.
During the eight months ending with
August the business aggregated $S $685.
200. Tt has, in short time, become a
large and valuable trade.
The Monroe [Tenn.) Democrat says
that at the recent Fair premiums were
4 awarded for yield of 1882 pounds of
! hay from one acre of ground. One acre
of bottom land produoed 1919 bushels of
corn, and an acre of upland 1723
! bushels. ... ..'.
T. B. Wales, Jr, Of ,Sauth Framing
ham, visited North Holland and Fries
land and selected some Holsteins to re-
plenish his herd. He has kept this breed
of cattle some ten years, and notwith-
standing his neighbors prefer, some of
them Ayrshires, some Guernseys and
Others Jerseys, yet he is best suited with
Holsteins .I.
Herbert Merriam, of Cherry Hill Farm,
Weston, Mass, lately sold to John II.
Livingston, of Tivoli, Duchess County,
N. Y, Powhatan l144), a Guernsey bull,
imported. At the late New England
Fair at Worcester Mr. Merriam exhib-
it'd sixteen animals and WAS awarded
thirteen premiums. He breeds Gnrnseys
and Ayrshires of fine quality.
Farmers should be bu .iness men to this
extent, namely, that they shall know
how to get more than one or two cents
quart for milk when consumers pay
from six to seven cents quart for it in
the cities and villages. We heard it
stated few days ago that milk in
Augusta, Me-. is sold for six cents quart,
and this when milk manufactured into
butter or cheese nets but about a cent a
quart, as reported by those who carry
their milk to creameries and cheese facto-
ries. '.."''
A Nashville letter saws Where can a
more eligible point be found for the man.
ufacture of tohacco than here7 Certainly
no place in the United States offers more
inducements than Nashville for the estab-
lishment of firstclass tobacco factory.
Before the war there were several large
ones in the city, and large number in
the surrounding counties. With the ex-
ception Of Clarksvile there does not
exist one now in the State. And yet the
tobacco interest is growing more and
more every day. -... r.,.
The season of the farmers holidays
now closing, has been remarkably favor.
able, and Che cattle shows and fairs, il
\ NAV be recorded, have been remarkably
well attended, and the LESSONS inculcated
thereby and learned therefrom have been
3 unusually instructive, entertaining and
4 profitable. There has been more to ap
4 prove and less to censure or condemn
\ than is ordinarily the case, according
I to our obeerva,ion. Instruction, amuse
. ment and entertainment have cen more
\ happily blended than usual, showing that
the appropriations by the State for the
promotion Of agriculture have been more
| wisely extended in the year now draw
ing to close than ever before since we
| have observed and noted the administra
tion of the Massachusetts Board of Agri
culture. Let the work of progress ane
improvement 60 on is our word Of bene
diction. '' ''' 1