The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-02-02
ITEMS AT LARGE.

An refractory has been established in
Albany, Ga. -e"
Every dwelling-house in Anericus,
Ga, is occupied. "a
Corn planting is about to begin in Bas-
trop County, Texas. 49,
A hog in Jasper County, Iowa, has
yielded 75 pounds of leaf-lard.
A Gainesville Fla. lemon tree has its
third crop on this season. n.f
Sweet potatoes are in the Raleigh, N.
c., market for 70 cents q bushel.
Louisiana's sugar crop will amount to
one hundred and eighty-fve thousand
hogsheads. 5.i.a
Some crops of tobacco in Mason Coun-
tyt have sold this week at fifteen cents
per pound. -,.-.
An OK weighing 1,740 pounds was sold
this week by Meredith Reynolds, Of Bar
rem County.
The Germantown Telegraph takes lit
tie, stock in long magazine articles on
agriculture. s-
Switzerland is almost q mountain Of
snow. Trains, boats and telegraphs are
constantly interrupted. t
During last week 4S1,7S0 pounds Of
loose tobacco of the growth Of 1879 were
sold at the different warehouses in RICH
mond, Va.
Arkansas has 1897 miles of navigable
water-course regularly traversed by
steamboats,. She has s railroads, having
800 miles of road completed and in oper-
alton. .H" tt-
It is said that there is one cow to every
four persons in this country, and if the
wells and springs were to fail some Of us
would be put on short allowance of milk
and cream.
One hundred and twenty-five acres of
strawberries have been planted in Flori-
da this season for the Northern markets.
The yield ranges from 1000 to 5000
quarts per acre.
Charlotte N.C.) Observer: Almost
every farmer who comes to the city re-
ports that his wheat crop is being badly
injured by the fly. Cold weather and
snow are very badly needed.
Samuel Butler, of Allen County, KY,
who has been married three times, is the
father of twenty-six children-thirteen
boys and thirteen girls. He says he is
only seventy-six years Of age.
One hundred thousand acres Of land
will be sown with wheat in Los Angeles
County, CAL, this season, besides 10000
acres Of barley and 1900 acres Of fax.
So says the Los Angeles Mirror.
Edward M. Clark, of Logan County,
KY, killed a rattlesnake one day last
week which measured over twelve feet
in length and eleven inches in circum-
ference, and had seventeen rattles.
Col. A. P. Butler, Fish Commissioner
Of South Carolina, has just received
x, 900 handbook salmon eggs from Maine,
He considers this species great acquisi-
ton to the waters Of the State, it being
their first introduction there.
In Hill County, Texas, ]. 8. Dixon
harvested wheat on the 10th of May
last, making eighteen bushels per acre.
On the same land planted cotton on the
18th and 14th of same month. On nine
acres he made three bales of cotton of
525 pounds each.
Lexington Press: The Bourbon Coun-
ty Wool Growers Association now repre-
sents among its membership 10000
pounds Of wool. 1t has just been organ.
lied, and expects to double it's members
before the meeting to be held the second
Saturday in February.
The orange crop of Southern Califor
mia is assuming large proportions. One
of the most successful growers in that
State is MIR. Briswalter, who sold his Last
years crop of fruit at the rate of $15 pei
tree, aggregating $22,5O0. His crop O.
grapes he sold for $1,000.
In Duval County, Texas, many sprini
clips of wool, now on the sleeps back
and which will not be shorn for tw,
months yet are already sold in Sal
Diego at from q to rs cents. Last yea
sheep could be purchased for q mer
song, but now there are hardly any 70
sale at any price. I'd.
The West Chester Local News says
abraham Pennypacker, Of West Pike
land Township, was walking over field
that had been plowed on the 22d instant
and noticed, as he supposed, thousand
Of grasshoppers. He caught some Of then
and took them into the house, and foun'
the m to be quite lively" ""
Owing to the disease of the vine, th
area Of the vineyards in France has de
creased by about four hundred thou
sand acres since the year 1874; though
great portion of the soil in which th
vine formerly fourished is unfit for an.
other culture. The area of vineyards il
the country is at present about five mill
ion acres. sr.--.