The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-02-21
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Sweet potatoes are 40 cents bushel in
Tallahassee.
The last freeze killed the lime trees of
San Diego, Cal.
IT has been a good winter to water
stock, farmers say.
Washington. N, G., is prettily pink
with fresh plum buds.
The largest focks of sheep in the world
may be seen in Dakota.
Baltimore florists recently got 75 cents
apiece for s"jack roses"
The coal found in Thayer, Neb., is the
best and two feet thick.
Three Saline (Mich. men are en- route
to Texas with 600 sheep.
Shepherds and herdsmen are possessing
the Yellowstone Valley.
Fifteen guano companies are licensed
to sell in North Carolina.
Atlanta, Iowa, has a $150,000 stock
company to make glucose.
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county of the world for corn.
A good deal of corn is rotting in the
fields of Mclean County, Ill.
The farmers of Humboldt County, Ia,
agitate for creamery or two.
Small grasshoppers are ghawing the
wheat around Charlotte, N. G.
Guilford County, N. c., kills and sells
about 200dDO rabbits annually.
A sort of cut-worm, with back like a
locust, is at North Carolina wheat.
A wine making company with $4,000
capital has formed at Cuthbert, Ga.
A farmer on horseback has been chased
into Hastings, Mimi, by four wolves.
Key West claims about sixteen thou
sand inhabitants who never feel frost.
A Grand Rapids milkman was caught
"repleting" his cans at horse-trough.
Ice men at Little Rock are filling their
houses with ice eighteen inches thick.
Goat-skins worth $25, 900 were shipped
from Corpus Christi, Texas, last week.
Aged Ohio men recall that peach trees
bloomed in February fifty-two years ago.
The exports of hides from Texas in a
single year amounted to nearly So, 100000.
Twenty-Five wood-choppers direct from
Germany are chopping in Chester County,
Pa.
Mr.. Kerr, of Statesville, N. G., has a
biscuit cooked before the second Manas-
sas battle.
Near Hampton, Va, a very large eagle
was killed by lightning during thun-
der-storm.
A number of farmers are successfully
cultivating upland rice in Monroe
County, Ga.
During the last few months 4,300 dogs
have been killed in Dallas, Texas, and
the work still goes on.
In Richland County, S. G., tract OF
land containing 2,2SS acres was disposed
of at legal sale for 1921.
Georgia will get big sum for educa-
tional purposes if the pending bill to
sell public lands shall pass Congress.
Petroleum has been discovered in
Brown County, Texas, at depths ranging
from ninety to one hundred and twenty
feet.
The largest turtle ever taken from the
Alabama River was caught last week by
Mr.. Hays. 1t weighed one hundred
and ten pounds. .....
Early amber sugar-cane will be largely
planted in Fayette County, Texas, this
year. A sugar factory is being estab-
Used at Lagrange, with capacity of
sixty tons of cane per day.
Governor Roberts, of Texas, writes:
In Middle, Eastern and Northern Texas,
embracing three-fourths Of the farming
interest of Texas, fair crops of cotton
and corn have been made, and in some
portions large cotton crops have been
made. and the increased price of cotton
has made the farmers more easy in their
circumstances than they have been for
years back, and this applies to three
1Ourtns OF the farming region IN the
whole of Texas.
Frankfort (Ky.) Gazette: In Ander-
son, Franklin, Woodford, Jessamine,
Scott, Fayette and Harrison Counties
the bulk Of the celebrated Bourbon
whisky is made. In these counties there
are about 150 distilIeries, averaging
about 1000 barrels per annum. The
barrels average AZ gallons. These distil-
cries therefore produce about 100000
gallons of whisky year.
Frankfort (Ky.) Yeoman: The oldest
fisherman in this community predicts a
fine season for piscatorial sports, on ac-
count of the high water and the fact that
it remains so long at high stage. He
says it will enable the fish to 60 to the
head waters to spawn, and will be par
ticularly advantageous to the fiskplanted