The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-06-03
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It's an off year for apples in Central
New York.
Thoughtful housewives are preserving
pineapples.
Watermelons have made their appear
ance in Houston, Texas.
The wheat in Minnesota Valley is
looking splendid-never better.
Snow-balls, blue flags and pineys are
blooming in Doylestown gardens.
A new brown beetle is ravaging the
corn in Southern Chester County.
The wheat of Texas has been mostly
harvested, and the yield is good.
Texas and Alabama papers are on
big boast about the growing crops.
There's corn patch of five hundred
acres on the face Of Morgan County, Ill.
Deer are exasperating Stevens Point
Wis, farmers by nightly chewing the
young wheat.
About sixty thousand quarts of straw
berries have been shipped from Colds
boro, N. c., this season.
Silver Spring, Florida, is one hundred
feet deep, covers an acre, and sends a
stream sixty to one hundred feet wide
eight miles to the Ocklawaha River.
Red River La.) Gazette Crops in
the hills are reported as good as farmers
could wish or expect, considering the un-
favorable weather of the early spring.
Dallas Herald: The wheat crop, very
decidedly be ter than was anticipated
two months ago, is nearly, if not quite,
harvested, and soon the grain will come
pouring in on us.
Terrebone La.) Independents: The
weather continues fair and beautiful, too
dry and cool for the crops, although
from all accounts we can gather the
crops are doing remarkably well through
out the parish.
Natchez Democrat: Crop prospects
continue to be exceedingly promising in
all the region tributary to Natchez. The
labor is undisturbed by the Kansas fever,
and the colored men have not yet begun
to worry much about politics. All are at
work.
The Highland (Va.) Recorder tells the
prize sheep story of the season. 1t says
that recently pack of dogs one night
attacked flock of sheep in that county
and killed several of them, but on a sec
ond attack the following night the sheep
got the better of the dogs, killing six or
eight of them.
Edward Richardson, of Jackson, Mis-
sissippi, is reported to have fifteen thou
sand acres of cotton land under cultiva.
tion in the Yazoo country, and raises
about ten thousand bales annually. He
is also a cotton broker in New Orleans
and the autocrat of the market. His
property is estimated at from three to
four millions of dollars.
Alamo (Tenn. Sentinel: From a CORE
spondent we learn that the worms are
destroying the cotton, the corn and the
gardens in the Hurricane neighborhood
They are said to be different from the
regular cut-worm, but they cut and cut
much. We hear of them destroying the
crops in other parts of the county also
A lady of San Francisco received some
plants from Mexico, and with the plant.
came the advice to fertilize them with
waste coffee and coffee grounds. This
was done, and the results were so salts
factory that the same treatment was
tried on roses, and the result was "a
healthy and vigorous growth and more
| and better flowers. and of richer col0rs y
The land in Ireland is cultivated by
100000 tenants, who occupy an average
of 32 acres each. There are 5000 land
lords, of whom 1912 own two-thirds Of
the whole country. Mr. Gladstone say.
that the question of converting the dis
affected Irish tenant into an owner rise
into the higher region of politics and O
moral and social order, and goes to th'
root of how to Danish Irish discomfort.
| The best remedy to prevent the cur
culio attacking the plum is to dampel
some rags with coal oil and string eacl
one on wire and twist the wire togethe
and hang it on small twig not lettin,
the oil touch the limbs, as it would xii
them. This must be done before the fal
of the flowers. 1t is the perfume tina
drives the curculio away, and every on
must be his own judge as to how man.
rags to hang in the trees.