The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-01-08
ITEMS AT LARGE.


Eau Claire, Wis, butchers are barreling
lard for expectation.
Butter is being shipped from Oshkosh to
Memphis in guam, tiles.
Crystalline ice fifteen inches thick, is be-
ing secured at Davenport, la.
A Battle Creek factory is making up an
order of fifty thousand hoes.
Two hundred Polanders will settle in
Benton County, Mimi, next spring.
A glucose factory at Des Mones uses up
eight hundred bushels of corn daily.
Texas contains sixty thousand more acres
of land than the Whole German Empire.
A new mill, going up at Mankato, Mimi,
will grind five hundred Darrels OF flour q
day.
An owl with wings four feet six inches
in longitude has been killed at Barry,
Mich.
Tennessee's peanut crop this year is eSti-
mated at three hundred and fifty thousand
bushels
There were twenty-eight thousand acres
of amber sugar cane planted i'll Mlnneso.a a
last year.
In America the past year over $3.50, ,000,
900 worth Of butter and cheese Nave been
produced.
Good hickory ashes placed around the
roots of fruit trees Will destroy the worm
tnat destroys The fruit.
Tampa (tlorida) has watermelons and to-
matoes in the market, and Jacksonville has
ice half an inch thick ON the beach.
The Treasurer of the National Grange re-
ports that his receipts las, ear were S2l,-
800 26, and his payments go loo 6l
By natural increase, and not by superior
Weld, Florida has produced $40, OO0 barrels
more oranges this season than she did last.
An enterprising fisherman took 1876 shad
at the st. Johns Bar on Saturday last. The
| fish are worth 50 cents pair i'll the jack
sonville market.
| The cotton crop Of 1S78in round numbers
| is five million one hundred and ninety
seven thousand bales, allowing four hundred
and fifty pounds 10 the bale.
| Cattle and hogs are dying at a fearful ra e
| in Iowa, the former from smut in the corn
stalks and !he latter from cholera Hun
dreds of farmers have lost every hog they
| possessed.
| In Canada, out of 9450, 900 acres under
cultivation in 1877, 1.0l0 900 were sown in
wheat and 100000 acres in potatoes. The
| total yield of grain in 1877 was 81, 100000
bushels, of which one-tenth was wheat.
According to returns and estimates col
lected and compiled by the Agricultural
| Deparl ment in Washington, the last years
crop of wheat in the United States yields
the enormous total Of 425, 100000 bushels
Twelve acres of bottom land on the S,e-
phens farm in this county produces this
wear IS bales Of cotton, each weighing $40
bounds. How is this for cotlon ralsing?-
tArkansaw Traveller.
Kansas and California stand side by side
in grain crops this year. From the eighth
place as a wheat Safe i'll 1876 Kansas jumps
to The first place. Its crop Of wheat will be
over 30,OOU,OJ0 bushels, and OF corn 1O0,-
900, 900 bushels.
The visible supply of grain in sight in
the States and Canada on December 7th
was: Wheat, 19,O45,000 bushels; corn,
g. 9524, 900 bushels; oats, 2,4240 900 bushels;
rye 1,20l, 900 bushels; barley, 5,205000
bushels.
A new flower of gigantic proportions has
been found in the forests of Sumalra. Its
average diameter is thirty three inches,
and the discoyerer has given it the specific
name of "'rilanum." Odoardo Beccari d
traveller and naturalist, well known in
Europe, is the fortunate finder of it. He
dispa ched six boxes of the bulb roots to
Italy, but peculiar misfortune has be,
fallen them. They were addressed to no
bleman of Florence, but on arrival at Genoa
were refused admission by the customs Off,
GERS. Ont of dread for the Phylloxera all
living plants have been refused admission
to the Kingdom, lest the terrible foe of the
| | nlxn ,rlo L. ,,1t,
Italy, and the officers followed the letter oI
the law in the case of the harmless Titan
What has become of the intruding cargo
: the Fanfulla does not know.
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