The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-05-27
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Cabbage is grown abroad for livestock.
Grow parsnips and mangolds for live
stock.
Sheep will thrive where COWS would
starve.
There are ripe peaches in the Galveston
market.
Green corn in Jacksonville, Florida,
two weeks ago.
Kentucky is shipping black walnut
logs to England.
Farmers report crows to be very nu-
merous this spring.
Farmers who have potatoes to sell this
spring are in luck.
Long Branch is to have a tally ho!
coach to Asbury Park
Clover is a natural manure; lime is
called an artificial manure.
One thousand acres of beets are the
extent of some California farms.
Wheat and clover in some parts OF
Michigan have been hurt by the frost
Nitrate of soda is good top-dressing for
grass. Try it, both on moving and pas
ture.
The cut worms have destroyed all the
early vegetables in the section about Ius-
cumbia, Ala.
Mich COWS are selling in Western Mas
sachusetts for $35 a head, and plenty at
that price, it is reported.
The Ballard (Kcntucky) News says
that wheat is booming, but the fly has
destroyed tobacco plants.
Washington County, Me-, consumes
about ten thousand barrels onions year
ly; but oh! don't breathe i'll Elk.
There were seven thousand six hun
dred and ninety-fve sheep, valued at
$22, ,6o2, killed by dogs in Kentucky in
1878.
Mr.. Banks, of Pike Wyoming County,
New York, has made, during the last
season. two thousand pounds of maple
sugar.
Crops are very promising in Missis-
lsippi, and it is claimed that cotton Will
be raised this year at less cost than
ever before.
Last week more than one hundred and
fifty thousand bushels of potatoes were
shipped from Prince Edward Island to
England and France.
There are in the catalogues over four
hundred varieties of cabbages, and new
varieties are annually reported. Less
than twenty varieties enter into general
cultivation.
In Wayne County, KY, Levi Taylor
upon the anniversary Of his centenary
covered a row of corn dropped by hi
: great-great-grandchild.
The wife and daughters of Mr.. Bloome
Reeves, Of Upson County, Ga, hav'
" thousands of silk worms at work. The,
G make a beautiful article Of silk, anc
I realize handsome profit.
d Said DR.. Bowen, of Woodstock, Conn
few farmers can tell whether they ar
= making one per cent. or ten per cent. b
y their business from year to year.
they get a living and pay their debt
they seem content.
Hickman (Ky.) Courier: The recer
rains have cheered the farmers amazing
% y. They now report the corn prospect
=, splendid, wheat wonderfully improved
# vegetables magnificent, tobacco tole
h able, and fruit much better than fir
ID anticipated.
of Holly Springs (Miss.) South: The p
pers in every direction are making grei
complaints of the rayages of the CT
% worm. They have been very destructiv
+ not only in Marshall County, but a
d. over this and adjoining States, and mar
crops are being plowed up and plantt
g. over.
i" Mr.. Ed. Reed, a farmer near We
ed Point, Ga, says that on Monday last
killed nineteen snakes, on Tuesday tive
d, ty-one, and Wednesday six, making fort
lie six in three days He is using them
ay fertilizers by laying them in open furro'
by the side of his corn, and then covert
a. them.
tul The largest wheat grower in Califorr
err is DR.. II. J. Glenn, whose ranch in Colu
nd County embraces 10000 acres, or abo
ninety-four square miles of good lar
OF nearly all arabic. He has this year
ler 900 acres in wheat, which, it is estimate
IL will yield 100000 bushels, worth, at
,ot cents bushel, $765,O0 And yet, wi
m ,on failures of crops, which occur about t.
years out of five, and the heavy inter
Lr. he is paying on loans, DIR. Glenn is, P
len haps, not so well off as an independt