The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1869-11-27
Agricultural Items.

quarts of strawberries to market thi
season. fh bio 7srod
The best corn crop on prairie sod y4t
reported is 724 bushels by weight frol,.
seven acres
A Pembroke, On. H, ) farmer has
pig which has gained pound and half
each day since he was big enough 10
weigh sixty-eight pounds. ,T
John johnson, the father of uplan.l
tile draining in this country, lives to sca
within the State of New York fifty two
factories of tile drains.
A dairyman informs the Maine Far.
mcr that having tried various things for
sore teats on COWS, he fluids lard best,
the most healing and softeniug.
The Stock Journal advises biz hor a.
for regular farm work, and one that docs
not, without great pushing, trot mo,
than six miles an hour with liel..
buggy. .e
Cooked meal is nearly double the buls
of uncooked, yet quart for quart it goes ,s
far. The difference is, that much of til.
food is undigested unless cooked
Half dozen eggs beat up with twn
ounces of salt, is recommended as SUR.
relief of cattle choked with potato or.
an apple, by correspondent of til,
Country Gentleman.
Every farmer should have a compost
heap.-Collecs every kind of fertilize-,
and to prevent any from liberating Il,
gases, keep the whole covered wi.h ear, Ii
or muck
The Journal of Agriculture reeor.
mcnds the application of top dressin.
of manure to meadows immediately after
haying, especially on dry patches whcre
J The grass roots are often psrched aud
| Killed IN wet weather.
From six stations on the Chicago am,
Northwestern railroad 577 eight gallsn
cans of milk are sent daily to the Chica.
market. The largest amount sent fir j,
one station is 254 cans or 3,O32 gallore
from Dundee.
The Journal of Agriculture thinls
present Western prices for wool will Is,
maintained, but sees no reason for mu, :,
advance, and doubts whether those WIZ
have their last clip on hand will gain
much by keeping it over.
Mr.. A. S. Fuller offers prize of s1On
TO any person who will furnish hinr !,
cheap and effectual plan of fexterminatin,-
moles from his grounds. He will j.,
satisfied with trap or poison, provided
the required work is done.
Mr.. j. Harris thinks steam threshin,.
machines will soon take the place of. IA.
horse machines. This, he thinks, will
be OF great advantage in the way of allow
ing grain to be threshed as it is taken
from the field, and tie straw to be pu,
in the barn.
Hiram Woodruff says in his boil.
about trotting horses, that pull on boti,
reins will not bring up horse when h,
has broken from n trot A firm. auiet.
pull should be given on one rein. lettin,.
the other 81" little, as much as y.I.
want the horses head thrown out o..
line.
A very practical agricultural cast was
given to the examinations at the close ~.
the second year of the Massachusetts
Agricultural College by novel openin.,
exercise. Flom the Sophomore class lG
students were selected by lot, and gar.
an exhibition of their skill in now
with hand scythes.
DIR. Mcclure, of Philadelphia, a
Veterinary surgeon who has the care a.
several hundred horses, informs tl.a
Practical Farmer that he has nev =
known the following prescription to fil
of curing collie in horses "Aronat;
spirits of ammonia, half an ounce Laud
mum, one and a half ounces mix wi,
one pint of water, and administer. Ii
not relieved, repeat the dose.
Dr. Randall says it is not expeaAs..s
to feed valuable ewes unhulled corn. bn,
says it is not usually thought to pay t.,
grind corn for store sheep he alsn
recommends bran slops and roots to in.
crease the milk of yeaniug ewes,
1t is estimated that there are oye..
10000, 900 head of cattle in Texas alone
but prior to the war that State onl