The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-02-11
ITEMS AT LARGE.
A faint Pendleton boom has appearet

Sassafras oil is an important export
from Greensboro, N. G.
Most American flower gardens are too
large to be we'll tended. @2
Immense fertile acres in Eastern Ken
lucky wait to be cleared.
Greensboro, N. G., shipped over 270,-
600 rabbit skins last year.
Thereare indications thatthis will be
a grasshopper year in iowa. a.
Joseph Pippin made maple sugar a
week ago at Santa Clara, Gal.
Farmers clubs in the West are dis
cussing good roads vigorously.
Lots of brook trout are being caught
in the bay near Ashland, Wis.
A disease is crrmbing the hemlock
spruce trees in Aroostook, Me.
Ten dozen Eastern quails are being
distributed throughout California.
The Statesville, N. G., wheat is being
foraged by an entirely strange insect.
An eagle with claws long enough to
grip a sheep has been caught in Colquitt
Ga.
Mr.. Richards, of Attleboro, Mass, has
crught grasshoppers all winter for his
bird.
A brother of ParneI has an orchard
Of $4,000 peach trees, at West Point,
Georgia.
The Hessian fly 'is doing considerable
damage to the wheat crop around Char
lotte, N. O. -. .
Some farmers Of Wood County, O.,
have an agent in Germany buying
blooded horses.
Col. Culbreath, Of Tampa, Fla, exhi-
bits growing corn in tassel, and wheat
that has headed.
A grain elevator is soon to be erected
and put in operation at Huntsville, Ala,
by Northern capitalists.
Arizona has produced quality of cot
ton equal to the Sea Island cotton, from
seed brought from China.
One-ffth of the 100000 acres of vine
land in France will be unproductive
this year. This means a loss of $SO,000,.
1000.
Rev. E. B. McNiel, living near Boone
vile, Mississippi, killed a hog Wednes
day morning weighing five hundred an
ninety pounds.
The family Of an English farmer have
been seriously poisoned by mistaking the
root of aconite or monkshood for horse
radish. The father died.
A large grain elevator and freight de-
pot is IN course of erection in Atchison,
Kansas. It will employ about five hun
dred hands when finished.
Illinois farm products amounted to
5000, 100000 last year, which is double
the product of all the gold and silver
mines in the United States.
The grape islands of Lake Erie have
1900 acres Of vines, and the yield in 1873
was 100000 pounds. The wine pro.
duction was 1,526, 400 gallons.
The second annual fair in Orange
county, Fla, will commence on the 18th
inst. The Florida State Fair will begin
at Jacksonville On the 24th inst.
Sugar made in Louisina costs $40 per
hogshead to produce it, and from one
and half to two lhogsheads can be made
to the acre, worth from $120 to $16O.
The Changers in Michigan express
strong sentiments in favor Of inducing
Congress to recognize the rights of the
farmers. especially as regards transporta
ton and patents.
i The poultry should be fed meat three
or four times a week with their'othel
food, when, the ground being frozen
there are neither worms nor insects fol
them to pick up about the premises
The best herds Of dairy cows in thi
country yield from six hundred to eigh
hundred pounds of cheese per COW. Few
of these are thoroughbreds. but are sc
lected from the best grades Of the variou
breeds. ....
Shipments of American hay to Eng
land have resulted in remunerative re
turns. 1T is quite likely that the lov
rates of steamer freights now offered may
stimulate the export trade in bailed hay
Charlotte IN. C) Observer: The dele
cation to the State Grange, now in ses
sion In this city, embraces many fin,
specimens Of the bone and sinew Of th'
country. The attendance is nota larg
as it would have been but for the bat
weather and the consequent difficult.
Of travel in any other manner than b!
rail.
The Commission Of Agriculture ha
received an order from Paris, France
for 100000 pounds Of mineral 'abestos
and he regards this as a great oppor
tunity to build up demand from for
eign countries of an article of growipl
use which can be utilized for 80 great /
number Of purposes
Carrollton (Ky.) Democrat: Farmer
are assortingtheir tobacco this year witt
greater care and dividing it into NOR
grades than has been customary hereto
| fore, frequently making from four to 81:
grades, or even more, whereas, not grea
while back, it was not an uncommO