The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-03-19
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ILLINOIS farms are renung high'
Wolves trouble Bradford County.
Dipping yellow egg in blue dye makes
it green.
Greensboro, N. O., ships blackbirds to
New York.
Rome, Ga, is ,oyerstocked with Eng
lish sparrows. a.
Olympia, W. T., has clam chowder
mandatory. @
Indiana sugar-camps report no good
run of sap. yet. |
A large area of rice will be planted In
Florida this year.
Onions are dearer than oranges just
now at Adrian, Mich.
Wheat reports from all over Michigan
are very encouraging.
Sand-pears are being largely planted
in Berrien County, Georgia. T. =
Lemons weighing pound and quar-
ter sag down some Pensacola. trees.
Milwaukee ice dealers agree to ask
fifty per cent. more than last year.
A New Berne man will net $135 on
eleven barrels Of radishes sent North.
A Clark county, Ind. fruit-grower,
with $4,000 trees, expects full crop.
They have planted trees and started
whitewhashing in Atlantic County, NJ.
Nine hundred dozen brooms have been
made at Burlington, Ia, SO far this year.
There is very light crop of maple
sugar in Michigan this year-almost
none.
The finest crop of tobacco in Simpson
County, KY, was sold this week at $ll
per 100.
A St. Paul dealer in delicacies has re-
ceived an order for two hundred buffalo
and two hundred reindeer tongues.
A man who has fifteen hundred head
of sheep on his farm at Chatfeld, Minn.,
estimates the cost Of wintering at 81 per
head.
There has been shipped from Will
mington, n. G., to Russian port cargo
of cotton weighing nearly 100000
pounds.
Young grasshoppers are appearing in
Hill County, Tex. The prairies Of that
section are as green as they generally ap-
pear in May.
| Spring wheat has begun to appear
above ground in SangamOn County, ILL.,.
and the farmers talk very encouragingly
Of the expected crop.
A walnut raft valued at $15, 900, from
the Missouri River, was wrecked in (
whirlpool near Bernard, Ark, and tn
thirteen men on it narrowly escaped will
, their lives.
The report that John G. Calhoun, tn
: only living grandson Of the great states
t man of the same name, Is bar-keeper il
: st. Louis, is untrue. Mr.. Calhoun is
t cotton planter in Arkansas.
q Cadiz (Ky.) Democrat: .Trigg Count
i is in better condition financially tina
y it has been since the war. The peopl
IS have learned economy, and the presen
. tobacco crop will put the most Of thel
i out of debt.
- The death of the eighth Duchess
- Oneida is announced from England. Sh
e was COW, the heproperty of the great brew
=. = er Allsopp, who goes to Short-horns
% another great brewer (Bass) goes to gal
>. dens and lighthouses.
i Shreveport (La.) Times says: Durin
70 the past year our section of country hs
% been peculiarly blessed with fine weathe
= large crops and high prices, which en'
!, bled all the farmers of North Louisian
/. to settle up old scores and start upon th
+ present year with handsome surplus
IS their credit.
re The price of farms is rapidly advan
p ing in nearly every State Of Kentuck
n The publishers of the Alabama Far
e, Journal offer premium of $50 for tt
a best crop Of cotton raised by an AL
le bama boy under eighteen years on a ha
"a acre of land.
=. :. A new tobacco factory, exclusively f
% 81 the manufacturing Of smoking tobacc
90 GO was recently started at Lock Haven |
~ ~ man named Daniel Gross, who car
:" from North Carolina. A machine, som
NJ \, what like threshing machine, is us
10 30 for grinding the tobacco, and it is carri
~ ~ to the floor above, where it is sorted al
he m prepared for market.
D. In drilling a we'll near Chatfel
th Minn., the men dug down fifteen fe
ie- through the soil, then came to solid roc
he throug gh which they drilled to the dep
at of twenty-five feet, when their drill car
n in contact with an elm log fully one fo
re- through, which was in a good state
il preservation. Passing through the Il
mt the men struck solid rock again, a
re- drilled many feet before finding water.