The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1869-11-20
NUMBER 4O..

"A western, writer says if as much s.
teation was paid tosimproving corn as Is
given to grapes, hundred million bush.
els might be added to to the annual cror !.
Il is easy to equal any fancy breed
cow with native as mixer, but IL the
daughter IF the native is as good O. GOV, !,
it is an accident, not SO in Thoroughbred
stock.
A writer in the Country Gentleman !,
recommends fastening cows tails to the
barn joist where milking is done, by
means of cord aud hooks made Of wire.
Many English farmers feed no hay ty
their work horses, but keepthem In high
working order with straw, roota aud
shorts. The equivalent Of s12 tons u,
hay cs:s be produced on one acre Ii roots
A writer in the American Stock jour-
nal says that costiveness and its accom-.
panying evils are the main cause of sows
destroying their young, and that green
and other proper food is the preventive
and cure. - '.'b'
Good implements are indeed indispen-
sable to success, and he who has provided
them will not only have greater pleasure
in his labors, but the profits which, al.
tend the judicious application Of both
time and labor. ~. .Se'
An experienced Iowa wool grower
gives $3.50 as the probable average cost
of keeping sheep year, in that State.
Gas-tar, mingled with whitewash up
piled to the interior Of hen-house, az
the rate Of one gill to pailfull, It is
said will disperse the lice.
1t pays to make cow comfortable in !,
as many respects as possible. Every
hour she suffers from any cause, the
milk account suffers correspondingly. i,
Forty thousand beef cattle. bound
north, have crossed the Brazos river, Mt
Waco, Texas, the present season; four
thousand crossed in two successive days.
Farmers in Minnesota are paying
twenty-four per cent. interest for money.
to hold their wheat, not wishing to take
eighty or eighty-fve cents bushel for
it. aRf alltt
An old stable keeper in England says,
he has never had a bad foot on his horses
since he commenced the practice OF bed
ding on thick layer of fsawdust. Pine
sawdust he finds the best, oak the wofs.
The farmer who stints his fields, is,a5
unwise and improvident as he who staryes
his working cattle in both cases he is
diminishing the ability of a faithful sefl
want to be useful to him. lE1{'
The Ohio Farmer estimates the corn
crop in Northern Ohio will not be more
than one-third an average, with hulf i
crop of fodder, and that the whole State
will not yield more than half crop.
1t is an excellent plan to keep a lump
of common chalk in the feeding trough
constantly, after the calves are a month
old; this will correct the acidity Of the
stomach and hare tendency to keep
them in healthy state. as
y farmer residing in Dewitt, Clinton
county, raised 2l2 bushels of wheat ON
six and one half acres of ground in 1869
he raised 200 bushels, or an average ot
3l4 bushels to the acre for each year.
a company has been formed In New
York to bring fresh meat to that market
from Texas. The entire hold of th,.
vessel is lined with non conducting folr;
and by chemical means cold below the
freezing point will be kept up a
Milton MerriGeld, of Providence
caught ffty-two rats in one night. by
exchanging barrel of oats IL si.a1
! hecn often visited by rats for one
water, covering the surface with .,b,k
The "varmints" unsuspectingly r,itche,
IN, and met watery grave. This ism
old but excellent trap where these ami.
mas are plenty. ysrl
A correspondent of the, Dixie Far,nar
gives report of the SIX OF the calves
raised on his dairy farp this year. Ts,
bull used was two year old Aldcrnet
The cows were of difereut grads.
Twenty-eisht cows produced rs msAa
and l3 female calves; 1 q heiEers brouyI,
nine males and three female calves.
AT the me atiDs of the Socihl Science
Association, in Albany, Now York. fhe
following statement WAS moan. :, NJ.