The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-05-12
ITEMS AT LARGE.

Ashland, ILL.,, is becoming great corn
market.
At La Crosse, Wis, eggs are fifteen
dozen for 81.
Pansy seed put into the ground doesn't
always come up.
T. Vernon, of Kasota, Mimi, will set
out 10000 celery plants.
Fourteen thousand live chickens ar
rived at Peoria the other day.
Shoals Gnd,) Herald: There is said to
be very rich copper mine on the farm
of James Blair, at Willow Valley.
Coal ashes do well as fertilizer for
tomatoes. Make your ground halt soil
and half coal ashes and the result will be
uriT5i sing.
Danville (Va) Times: Tobacco plants
plentiful and doing we'll. In two weeks
2,279,660 pounds of tobacco were sold in
Danville. The cash paid for it amounted
to $242,S22.
A farmer in Mobiles County, Mimi, who
made hot.bed, discovered that the To-
Gusts had not left the country. They
Matched out in his h t-bed numerous
enough to eat up all his plants.
Thirty-fye residents of Muscatine
County have purchased very large
tract Of land in Mead County, Kansas,
and have chartered train of cars for
the removal of their household effects
thither.
The first week in May is the time tc
begin to SOW flower seeds. Flowers
exercise a refining influence and are
easily cultivated. Wherever even small
, space can be secured flowers should b.
given a share.
The Princeton Qnd. Democrat says o
the buffalo gDats: We are informed tina
the buffalo gnats have killed over fft.
head of horses and mules recently, il
Columbia Township, this county. Sucl
thing was never before known in thi
section.
The Vineland Journal says: Our read
ers would be surprised at the amount 0
Pixie that is being sent through tn
| mails. South Jersey is one of the fe,
S places where the beautiful little flowe
grows. A good-sized bunch can b
. mailed to distant friends for few cents
! Every family finds more or less bone
accumulating. Burn them with you
wood, and the ashes thus enriched is on
of the most valuable of all fertilizers
: Money can not buy any article whic
will so fertilize your soil. Bones thu
!, consumed will quadruple the value c
n wood ashes, which in themselves al
: among the best of soil enrichers.
q A calla plant in the possession of
:, Cato IN. Y. lady has two flowers on i
, one of them measures four feet two incht
= high, twenty-six and one-half inch'
+ around and seven inches across it.
r has ten leaves on it, one of chem measure
e four feet three and one half inches higl
# and four feet five inches around it.
l. Says a recent writer: So long as sue
d a large number of our farmers renal
careless and negligent about maxim
|. permanent and pleasant homes for the
families, without attractions and con
Z forts, they will continue nomadic in the
a habits, while their children will see
d other avocations whenever possible.
a Charleston News and Courier: G. {
" Leslie, the well-known fish merchan
lie received yesterday from one of h
s. smacks curiosity i'll the shape of mo
n ster leather back or trunk turtle, who
- shell measures six feet, and which weigl
:. about 500 pounds. 1t was caught {
70 70 Charleston bar, and is the first of th
le particular species that has ever be-
lie caught in these waters.