The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-10
h'EENlS AT LARGE.

The California grape crop this year will
be an immense one.
"Among the stubbled corn, the blithe
quail pipes at morn."
Kansas will have third more acreage
of wheat next year.
A corn syrup refinery has been estab-
lished in Des Moines.
Lemons and lines are ready for ship
ment at Tampa, Fla
Myriads of hoppers thicken and darken
the air of Racine, Wis.
Some of the Texas farmers are plant
inc corn a second time.
Wisconsin will SOW larger acreage of
winter wheat than ever before
The rice planters along the Georgia
coast will make good crops this year.
A wild hog is mussing the corn and
leuding the shot-guns Of New Berlin, Pa.
The corn crop of East Tennessee will
be abundant for home supply, with a
clever surplus.
The wheat crop of Nebraska is esti-
mated at 25000,0 600 bushels, and thecorn
crop at $4,000, 900 bushels. The produce
of other farm crops is large.
Butter, Gilt edged, sells for II cents a
pound, wholesale, SAYS the Springfield
Republican. Cooking butter sells in Bos-
, ton for Is cents pound by retail.
Peach packing now gives employment
/ to twelve to twenty thousand people at
Baltimore, and peach-picking to thou
l sands more in the country near that city.
Since our last, heavy showers have
again visited us, doing further damage
to cotton The crop chances thus grow
simmer with every shower that visits
US West Baton Rouge Sugar Planter.
The wheat crop of Illinois is reported
bv the State Board of Agriculture at
42,041 ,252 bushels, valued at $37 ,266, 757.
This is considered the best wheat crop
ever produced in the State.
Coal-tar water is reported to be de-
5 structive to potato bugs, and as etfectual
, as paris green, without being dangerous
1 to use, as that is. The proper strength of
|, the tar-water must be determined by
trial.
The secretary of an agricultural society
r saws the kingbirds have ceased warring
on other birds, and direct their attacks
e against potato beetles. Another gentle
I man says the toads are multiplying and
l growing fat upon the potato beetles.
Every farmer should have supply Of
i willows for binding such as are now
: used for binding bundles of trees. Fol
T. binding cornstalks, straw, and many
y other purposes, they will be found OF
great value when their utility is once
- known.
JC. Lewes, of Providence, gives th'
d following as sure remedy for the cure o
e warts Take copper filings and mix witt
= GOOD cider vinegar; three or four appli
cations, we'll rubbed on, for alternate day
II will produce no soreness, and the wart
d will gradually disappear. This is sur
;e remedy
e The Illinois corn crop, a breadth of al
< most 100000 acres--nearly fifth @
a the product Of the United States--is We
er assured, and at least 80 bushels per acr
IS NAV be expected, possibly 81; or 5000
to 600 bushels Storms or frost may yt
to affect it, and reduce the expectation. !
ty quarter of the surface of the prairie
waving in corn.
ne The Iberia Sugar Bowl and the Dol
III aldsonville Chief have been braggin
ne about big sugar cane. We have one
10 our Office, sent to us by Mr.. W. A. Smitl
re of Bayou Goula, which knocks them a
ia ia in the shade 1t was cut one week ag
III and weighs five pounds two ounces.
'o is seven feet long and has eighteen rt
,,n tll joints Iberville (La.) South.
ell The use of common black pepper h
h been recommended to destroy the gret
act cabbage worm. About quarter of
nd pound of pepper is used on a hundr'
heads of cabbage, and is sifted on fro
we dredging box in the morning, while Il
70 dew is on. A thrifty German mechan
,re informs us that he mixes pepper Al
"a? coal-ashes together, and sprinkles on t
MT mixture with perfect success in the d
struction of the worms.
go The benefits of three milkings d
are summed up by a French dairy par
lot as follows: An experiment with thr
nd milkings day, for eleven days, a CO
gave 170 quarts of milk. With tN
Ike milkings the same COW gave only l
t | quarts III the same number of da,,
lat Moreover, analysis showed that the mi
ou in the first case was richer in butter gle
Lty ues than that in the second case in
lth proportion of Al to 49,
J., Farmers in New Hampshire who
IVY 50 fortunate as to own a blueberry p
tie ture, obtain "royalty'' of about 2 ce'
SIC a quart on all the b1ueberrles picked
'ay outsiders, and, says an exchange, the
ys.. dustry is assuming such proportions IL
'leV in some places the bushes are beglnnl
to receive care and attention in order
oer make the fruit larger. Are spontanet
age crops more profitable in the Gran
j., State than cultivated crops?
uck Piles! Piles! Piles!
Do YOU know what it is to suffer W
his piles? If you do, you know what is one
80 .ua.al .o,,,o,tc Of tho human frat