The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-03-05
ITEMS AT LARGE.
Tree pruners are in season.

Hog cholera prevails in Caldwell
County, Ky.
Farmers are planting corn in Rusk
County, Tex.
The river at Harrisburg is teeming
with game fish.
The State fair at Jacksonville, Fla, is
progressing finely.
Eagles kill more sheep than the dogs
do in parts of'Georgia.
Slain crows are being used as ferti,i-
zers in North Carolina.
Newbern truckers hope to ship green
peas North by the 10Th.
Greensboro, North Carolina, ships spoke
timber largely to Russia.
The sap of Vineland naples is found
to make excellent sugar.
Maple-sugar making is the order of the
day in Grant County, Ky.
Maysville shipped 10000 bushels of
wheat to Richmond, Va, last week.
Over three million bushelsof corn await
shipment by a Nebraska railway.
George Conkling, of Bellevue, Mich,
has sucked Ell ei7hty-three eggs in one day.
A stray panther has been stirring up
Floyd County, Ca, considerably of
late.
Thousands of tons of ice are being
shipped by rail from Northern Mich
igan.
A Keokuk firm has contracted with
farmers for four hundred acres of, pickle
products.
The tobacco crop in Metcalfe County,
KY, is all stripped. and is said to be a
very poor one.
Well-borers, near Athens, Ga, have
taken out an iron wedge from blue granite
rocks y-six feet below the surface of
The ground.
John Hogan of Jessamine, Ky, had
115 tons of old hemp stored in Lexington
when the boom came and sold it at $40,
aggregating $23, 900.
The editor of the Hinesville, Ga, Ga
zette has rece we'd pair of Cashmere
kids, and proposes to engage in raising
that breed of goats.
The value of the oranges shipped from
Columbus, Ga, during the season Just
c osed was $17 ,204 40. Columbus is the
shipp ng port for considerable portion
of Florida.
A letter from Victoria, Australia,
says there is no cessation of frost on the
mainland. The snow still lies deep, and
cattle are perishing in large numbers.
On the coast the weather is clear and
springlike.
Munfordville Democrat: There is on
Dickey's Island, in Nolin River, large
tobacco barn standing upright, filled with
tobacco nicely hung up, that was washed
down the river by the late freshet. No
one knows whose barn it is, or how far
. up the river it came from.
The annual fair for the hiring of Dor
setshre (England) farm l,borers, male
and female, took place on recent Sltur-
day, when in wet and mud above 1000
"hinds" paraded the streets and stood in
groups waiting to be hired by the year.
The farmers have in vain tried to put
, down the fair, which was this year styl led
in posters the "slave fair"
1t has been discovered that the eli
mate of California and Northern Geor-
gia and Alabama is just suited to the
cultivation of the cinchona tree, from
,, which quinire is made, and it is proposed
to introduce the cultivation of these
trees in this country, 50 as to save it
) the expense it incurs every year in
sending to South America for Peruvian
bark.
i, The Nashville American mentions a
= few signs of progress i'll Tennessee, as
, follows: A mammoth cotton compress
in course of construction at Jackson; al
ice factory started at Chattanooga Sat.
urday; Columbia is also to have ar ice
factory; the Roam Iron Company al
y Chattanooga and lockwood isemployine
over one thousand two hundred hands
the Nashville cotton millrunning day
I and night.
Joseph H. Snow, Of Bangor, Me-, de
i sirous of encouraging agriculture, offer
y fve-dollar gold piece to the boy il
Penobscot County, under 18 years O
age, who raises the most potatoes on al
u eighth of an acre of land in 1880; ant
r. to the boy who raises the next larges
quantity three-dollar gold piece, ant
e to the boy who stands third in the lis
two one,dollar gold pieces. What al
o opportunity for the embryo agriculturist
d of Maine.
d The DeLand Agriculturist thinks tha
for the extent of its uncultivated land
and for State without manufacture
Florida, even now. may be put down a
6 the richest State in the Union. 1t say
y that $3,000,000 are left in the State ever
winter by visitors from the North, an
e this, added to the large amount derive
from the sale of curiosities and the legi1
J, innate productions of this State, furnis
IA more money per capita to the populatio
IS than any other Commonwealth in tn
Union.
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