The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-27
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dora, Iowa.
Apples are rotting rapidly on the hands
of Michigan dealers.
Very few castor beans will be psanted
in Kansas next year.
Wheat is ten inches tall at Kais"Azoo;
and insects are at it.
Fishing on the Atlantic City deep is
better than for years.
Iowa will have over 100000 bushels
of potatoes this year.
Georgia's sorghum crop wi II be an ex
ceptionally good one.
The rice crop of South Carolina for the
year is estimated at A 900 tierces
Second crop barley near Saltwater,
Minn., yielded Is bushels an acre.
There is now a good prospect that the
ice business on the Kennebec River this
winter will be good,
New York has been buying pears very
freely in Boston all the week, paying on
an average 81 bushel on board cars.
Last week the tobacco manufacturers
of Durham, North Carolina, bought
internal revenue stamps to the amount
of 81, ,4l9 60.
The fair of the State Agricultural
and Mechanical Society of South Caro-
lima will be held at Columbia, commenc-
ing November 11th.
Friday night some miscreants girdled
over 100 apple trees in Hosea Manley's
orchard, in the suburbs of Auburn Me.
MIR. Manley estimateshis loss at 81 900.
Charles E, Merritt, of Eaton Rapids,
Mich, has bought AIS, 900 pounds of wool
this year, and out that way they claim
that he has been the heaviest single buyer
in the State.
A panther is creating some excitement
in the south part of Wilmington, Vt. 1t
has been seen several times, but the
hunters have not been able to see it at a
good range yet.
Prices for butter were higher at St.
Albans, VT, on Tuesday, as follows:
Good to choice, 20 to 23 cents per h.;
selections, "a cents per b.; some extra
lots at higher price. General price, %
to 23 cents per lb.
Rice-growers along the banks of the
Mississippi have often had to put up wi ii
small crops for lack of irrigation by the
river. This year pumps have been large
ly used when the water was too low for
the necessary overflow.
The Northern Pacific Railway makes
what is called horizontal tariff on
wheat-that is to say, the same price for
any distance. 1t is fifteen cents per
b,,shel for five hundred miles or five
miles, This will make the wheat lands
in the valley of the Yellowstone sell as
well as in Minnesota.
The beet sugar crop of Europe is esti-
mated for the present season at $40, ,00O
tons us against 100000 tons laet year.
In the United States the cane sugar crop
is estimated at 100000 hogsheads, or 2OO,-
100000 lbs., Or double the quantity ever
raised before. Yet this quantity is but
little figure in the sugar production Of
the world.
The Wilmington On. C) Star ssays
About the 1st Of September last spirits of
turpentine had declined to 234 cents per
gallon, and sales were made Of strained
rosins at 30 cents. Yesterday our mar
ket report shows sales of spirits at 80
cents per gallon, while rosins are quoted
at 81 rs to 81 80 for strained and good
strained. An encouraging exhibit,
truly.
Baldwin apples are selling in Groton,
Mass, for 81 rs barrel, which are sold
in Boston to dealers for $2 15 barrel.
Veal calves from the same town sell from
7 to 10 cents pound. Milk is bought
there by the contractor for l6cents can.
Some Of the k-producers refuse to sell
for that price and send their milk to
Lowell, or sell it to Mr.. Lawrence, who
has creamery.
A better feeling is manifested among
the Calais, Maine, lumber manufacturers
The demand hasincrea@ed somewhat, and
prices are firm at an advance. A promi-
nent manufacturer who has Just returned
from the West predicts that prices will
be So Thousand higher next spring.
The indications now are that very large
oncrations will be carried on in the
Maine forests this winter.
The South this season is estimated to
pr 'duce 100000 bales of cotton, equal
to 2,500,0 100000 pounds, and about 600
100000 pounds of tobacco, 25O,OOO,OOO
p unds of cotton and 100000 pounds
of tobacco in excess Of any crop raised
before. The present season 1922, 2,279, 800
pounds of tobacco are exported, and cot
ton to the value of $l62, ,S04, $50.
.Jonesboro, (Ga.) News: Farmers who
have not learned by this time that it
will not pay to raise cotton to buy any,
thing that may be raised on the farm, had
better sell out and go to merchandising,
or pedd!ing turnips, or practicing law.
They are not sharp enough to make farm
ers. We have learned this much by ex-
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