The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-06-19
ITEMS AT LARGE.

There Is more grain talk in Georgia
than ever before.
Milk of almonds is as good as any
thing to take out sunburn.
No rain has fallen in many parts of
Texas since the first week in May.
Godsden County, Florida, raises Irish
potatoes weighing two pounds each.
Butter, and likewise beefsteak, are
only cents pound in Chatfield, MINI.
In Kansas they now put their wheat
crop at possible forty millions bushels.
Twenty-Five thousand head of cattle
are being herded in Wright County,
Iowa.
A forty-pound meteor killed sheep
near little Rock, Arkansas, few nights
since.
The wheat crop of Texas, which has
been harvested, has been secured in fine
condition.
A very serious drouth is killing out
the crops between San Antonia and the
Rio Grande.
Cotton worms have made their appear
ance in Mississippi and Texas, as well as
in Alabama
The Elmira Advertiser says that sum-
mer has only just got on its pinafore.
The sweet little buttercups are in full
bloom.
A farmer on the shores of Lake On
tario has had nine acres washed away
in twenty years. lie is evidently losing
ground.
The present fruit season along the
Hudson is fifteen to twenty days later
than last year, with the exception oi
apples The yield of all sorts is prom,
ising.
Red clover cut when it begins to
flower, contains 55.43 per cent. OF nutri-
tive food; if cut in full flower, it con
tains 46.07 per cent; 50 says Wolff, the
German chemist.
He received some medicine and was
directed to 90 on to the Common every
fair dav and eat his cold dinner in the
sun, rather than go without the sun fol
hot dinner. The good effects were
apparent at once.
Dallas Herald: We have three pc
cent more acreage in cotton in IeXa
this year than last, but the crop does no
bepin to look as well as it did last June
and it is not likely as much will be picket
unless we have rain pretty soon all owe
the State.
We have learned from experience tina
cold nights are unfayorable to the growtl
of Hungarian grass and German millet
they suffering each in about the sam'
, proportion. They require hot weathe
to make the best crop for forage.
: San Antonio is rapidly becoming tn
great wool market of Texas. Last yea
r nearly three million pounds were sol
l there, and this year the sales will nearl
$ double. One man has already bough
5 one million pounds for Northern manu-
facturers, and is still buying
: Professor Tanner, an English Agricu
= tural chemist, says it has been found b
experiment that it. requires to produce
;, pound of live weight in cattle, severally
!, IL pounds of clover hay, 8 pounds {
peas, 7 pounds of oats, 6 pounds of ba
4 ley, Sc Of pound of linseed cake an
! 10O15 pounds of Swedish turnips.
d Experiment stations were first inaug1
d rated in Saxony in 1851, and they Al
j. now organized in every country in e.
rope except Greece, Portugal, Spain an
d Turkey. They furnish in many cas-
promptly and gratuitously knowledge
Is to the quality of fertilizers, etc, 50 tn
la farmers have only 10 ask for the inform
ton needed to protect them from frat
le in this trade.
d. According to estimates, $4,000
er worth of land and cows are invested
the dairy business. The value of butt
and cheese produced annually is 1885,
I, 1000, aggregating some 100000
ia more than the wheat crop. The demal
OF for butter-the kinds that sell from
ed cents to 81 pound-it is said is great
as than the supply. Let makers of L
other kinds of butter note this.