The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-01-20
THE DAILY STAR
ITEMS AT LARGE.

Orange trees are beginning to blossom
In Southern Texas.
Corn is worth 3 and cents per pound
In Clarendon, Texas.
jug Corners is the name Of a place in
Allegan County, Mich.
The winter wheat looks thrifty in At
lantic County, New Jersey.
Farmers are plowing sod in various
parts Of Mclean County, i'll.
They have begun cutting ice in AL
bany, but the quality is poor.
A. Tuscaloosa (Ala.) man eat twenty
seven oranges before breakfast.
New Irish potatoes and green peas lend
their esculence to Albany, Georgia.
A spear of slough" grass, sent from
Union County, Iowa, measures thirty
nix inches.
Good farm laborers in Oglethorpe
County, Georgia, get from $50 to $50 per
year and their board, while few get
S1O0.
The Meridian (Miss) Mercury says
that Bermuda grass is mine of wealth
to the South, and should be set out on
every acre of poor land.
The Wilmington Del) Every Even
ing says that last seasons peach crop
amounted to 1881 ,233 baskets, and that
the Peninsula received for them over
N,500,00O.
Mount Sterling Sentinel: ]. E. Lind
sey showed us yesterday the ears of a
jack rabbit, each six inches in length.
They were sent to him by our ex-eitizen,
W. Q. Oldham, from Larned, Kansas.
Atlanta Constitution: The difference
between the horse and the mule market
in this city is just this: A drover can
get any price that he may ask for good
mule, whereas horse has to be sold at
any price that be will bring. a,
Pulaski (Tenn.) Citizen: The unpre-
cedented warm weather and the late
rains are having the effect to injure Sc
riously the growing wheat. Its effects
are apt to tell in the yield, however for
tunate the changes that may come.
The Wilmington IN. C.) Star has seen
a hens egg in the shape of two eggs
Joined together by slender ligament,
after the manner of the Siamese Twins,
but one being composed entirely of the
white and the other of the yolk Of the
egg.
A tobacconist of Allentown says that
Lancaster County produced an immense
crop of tobacco this year, about $4,000
cases. which is the estimate made by
leading tobacco BUYERS. This amount
will bring about $3,00o,000 into the
county.
The farmers in the vicinity Of Penns-
burg, Pa, are beginning to take advan-
tage of malt for their cattle A car
load is shipped to Pennsburg and Palm
Station every week, 1t is claimed that
malt is great milk producer, and
cheaper than other grain.
A botanist says that there are $4,000
different kinds of weeds in the United
States. 1900 being found in New York
State He speaks of the fire weed, the
seed of which remains in the ground for
years without sprouting. but shows it.
self when land is bumied over.
The sheep farm purchased by J. w.
Bookwalter, in Greeley County, Ne
braska, comprises $4,000 acres. The av-
erage price paid per acre, deducting the
large discount given by the company for
cash, was about 70 cents. The land will
be stocked with sheep next summer.
The New Orleans Times estimates that
at least two-thirds of the available lands
of Louisiana are lying idle, or rather,
have never been brought into cultivation.
The Legislature now in session will be
strongly urged to adopt some liberal pro-
vision for the encouragement Of immigra-
ton.
J. r. Holloway, Of Marion County,
Tenn, grew l, 800 bushels of peanuts last
year, and considered it very profitable
crop. Everything about the peanut can
be utilized. The vines and leaves make
q most excellent fodder, and are eaten
by all kinds Of cattle with evident
relish. .......
The farmers in the, neighbeiihaooocaa g. g.
Charlotte, N. G., have discovered small
insect or grasshopper, which is playing
sad havoc with the young wheat. I
knaws at the root near the surface, ant
Hills the stalk. Much apprehension i
manifested at the appearance Of this un
heard Of pest. >'.,
Over near Blake's Ferry, Alabama, re
Gently, two little girls, aged about ten O
twelve, caught an eagle which measured
six feet from tip to tip, in a trap, ant
killed him with pine knots The eagl
had caught a goose, from which the iittl
girlsran him, and then baited the tra1
with the dead goose, thus securing hi
eagleship. These are brave little girls.
California fruit growers are exper
menting with new variety of peac
which comes from China and is .calle
the Peen-too or Chinese fat peach, an
is very different from the common sor
Its described as follows: ".Fruit thre
inches IN diameter, very fat, white, wit
red cheek. Peels readily when rip'
Flesh fine grained and juicy, dissolyfn