The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-01-24
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Snow-falls seem to have abated the cattle
disease iii Nebraska. go
Badgers are becoming extinct in Wiscon-
sin-tlie Badger State.
Maine is only importing half as much
western corn as last year
Marshal Neil roses are in profuse bloom
at the New York tioris s.. ''I
A milion-bushel elevator will be erected
at Milwaukee next spring. VI"
A yearling deer at Gainesville, Ala, has
been slain with bird shot.
The Wisconsin Poultry Association will
hold no exhibition this year. 're.-I -'
Hoopston (lll) people have subscribed
money to erect corn cannery. "'.''
A South Bend factory will turn out forty
thousand croquet SETS ere spring.
Illinois fruit-growers fear their peach
prospects are wholly frost killed.
They have "built' salt we'll at Mid
land Mich, but it won't shed brine.
All our exchanges report the wheat
doing as well as could be expected"
A Dubuque farmer, rattling in to mar.
ket, was accelerated by the sight of large
wolf. t
Among the sales of a North Carolina
town was twenty-five thousand rabbit
skins .,'
The breeding of slk-worms has been
attempted at Montevideo with brilliant
success. rtr q. = '.'
Certain parties are gathering the Arkan,
sas wild grapevine and shipping it to France
TO be used for grating stock.
A North Carolina paper wants the half
million dogs in North Carolina made per-
sonal property and taxed 81 per head.
Western Massachusetts made one hun
dred and fifty thousand barrels of cider
the past season, and temperance people are
aghast.
Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser: The
number of horses and mules sold in this
market during this season is unusually
large, and every week large consignments
are received from Kentucky.
For the first nine months of last wear, of
sevenl weight million bushels of wheat i'm
ported by England, about twO-thiris came
from the United States. Here ofore Rus
sia almost monopolized England's wheat
trade.
The Jacksonville Sun states, on the au-
thority Of hunters, that in the last ten
years ten thousand birds have been shot in
Volusia Coun V, Florida, and that to-day
they are plentier than ever. This is true OF
all kinds of game also.
The French wine crop last year fell off
fory-eight million seven hundred thousand
hectolitres, compared with the yield of 1877,
and eight million ninety-three thousand
compared with the average of the decade
Cause, phylloxera and oidium.
Texas ranks third among the wool-pro-
ducing States, having 3,67t000 sheep, and
so treading closely on the heels of Ohio.
California leads, of course. Nueces County,
Texas, has more sheep in its limits than
any other county in the Union-656,00 )
The bone business is a big thing in West
ern Texas. Cat lie die and buffalo are
killed, and their bones are gathered from
the plains. A San Antonian shipped three
thousand three hundred and thirtv-three
tons at one time, receiving therefor 81 Sc
per ton.
Cuthbert (Ga) Appeal: Undonb edly q
large area of the oa's crop has been killed
by the recent severe weather, and the loss
will be serious to our planters, unless they
SOW again. The oats crop is being properly
appreciated in rhis section, and generally
admitted to be one of the most prof able
planted.
Piedmont Vireinian: During the recent
cold spell the Fish Commissioners were
transporting about fifty thousand Young
salmon over the Midland Road. 1t was SO
cold that the fish began actually to freeze
at Rapidan Station and in order TO save
them the whole cargo had to be turned out
in the river at that point
The orange growers of Florida are turn.
ing their attention to The making of wine
from oranges, and several experiments
have indicated a possibility of success in
that direction. The first wine made from
oranges in Spain has lately made its ap.
pearance in Madrid. There are four kinds,
one sparkling, and all said to be of "an at,
tractive color, perfectly clear, of an agree,
able, sweet, slightly acid flavor and of an
alcoholic strength of about Is per cent"