The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-04-26


A cat in Anderson, s. c., eats onions.
Harvesters will soon be in demand in
Texas.
The fruit crop is promising in Northern
Mississippi.
A factory at Oswego makes Il, 500 tons
OF corn starch yearly.
Highland rice is becoming an import
ant culture in Florida.
There are miles of full corn-cribs
bulged out yet in Iowa.
All the farmers are busy in their wheat
fields in Minnesota now.
The Sibley farm in Ford County, Ia,
is planting 5000 apple trees.
In Franklin County, Texas, horses
are Killed by Buffalo gnats.
the regular agricultural fair at Char
lOtte, N. c., will be omitted this year.
The pine land ring have stolen over
Sc, 900, 900 worth of pine in Minnesota.
A jute mill is being established in
New Orleans, with capital of $4,000.
Trade is duh in the Western
towns now, as farmers are mostly a-feld.
The elm and soft maple trees at Du-
buque are in full flower; it's rather
early.
Wolves are SO thick in Blue Earth,
MIMI, that farmers are killing their
sheep.
1t is estimated that $4,000, 900 have
been sent out of Texas this spring for
cows.
From Dalton, Ga, comes the story of
hail-stone weighing pound and
quarter.
The crops in Middle Florida are be-
lieved to have been uninjured by the
recent frosts.
In Augusta, Ga, there is sunfiower
plant that has been in bloom constantly
since March.
The people of Leon County, Tex, have
already expended for Western corn this
year nearly $4,000.
At Cotton Plant, Ark, a well-to-do
farmer named J. W. Sheppard commit
ted suicide by hanging.
At Hickory, N. c., Capt. R. B. Davis
sold seven hundred pounds of tobacco
at ALI cents per pound.
A lady who keeps clearinghouse at
Tmmonsville, s. c., served on her table
last year $500 chickens.
Grasshoppers have appeared in Dallas
County, Texas, but no serious damage
by them is feared this season.
The starke (Fla.) Telegraph mentions
the killing of very large moccasin
snake by an intrepid young lady, residing
near that town.
The soft bluestone rock which under
lies a wide scope of the prairie region of
Texas is said to be full six hundred feet
thick at Sherman.
For the six months ended March 1st,
Lynchburg, Va, sold 100000 pounds
Of leaf tobacco, and Danville sold nearly
l7,O00, 900 pounds.
The people in some counties in Geor-
gia are so much excited over the fence
question that State and County politics
are almost completely ignored.
To raise beef in Montana for exporta-
ton to England is Lord Dunmore's
object, and if he succeeds he will have
done more for himself and his country
| than most of his order.
Atlanta Phonograph: Georgia farmers
are working hard, and are in pretty good
condition financially. They are, how
ever, using too much guano, and if this
happens to be bad crop year, some Of
them will be dead broke next fall.
The farmers Of Coos County, N. H..
cleared last season on the sale of pota-
toes $91 900 above the expense Of mar.
keting. In the southern part of the
county the tubers we're shipped to Mas
sachusetts, while in the northern section
this product was generally used in the
manufacture of starch. The total pro-
duction of starch in that county in 1879
was nine hundred and twenty tons.
Sailioihi@ SoHthiiiS hOOut lUU,UUU,UUU
acres of land, of which about 43,0O0,0 900
acres are unsurveyed. The San Fran
cisco Bulletin says that there is not
much exceeding 100000 acres under
cultivation, although something more
than 100000 are inclosed with
fences, and that there is in the State
| 5000 900 acres, more or less, which can
be bought for from 81 25 an acre up
to 81.
| Frankfort (Ky) Yeoman: Mason
County has prospered more of late than
any county in the State. Her wheat
crop was larger last year than ever
known, and having superior facilities for
market, sold at the highest figures, while
her tobacco crop, if not so large in weight,
is so superior in quality that it Yielded
last year greater aggregate sum, it is
claimed, than that Of any other county
in the State. So prosperous is the coun.
ty from it's agricultural returns, there are
not ten mortgages recorded against farms