The southern enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1854-1870, 1869-12-01

COWS 700 much SAT- r. why,
how do you know how much salt
I give them p 81 judge from the
appearance of the milk you have
brought US lately. Salt makes the
cows dry, and then they drink too
much water--that makes their
milk thin, You know"
AN Indiana town boasts Of a gi.
ant who has by his great size van
qui>hed the ague. That embar-
RAISING affliction attacked him the
other day, worked four days to
shake him all over, but failed and
left in disgust.
A VERY economical woman at
Lacrosse, Wis, hunted her bureau
over to find a handkerchief with a
hole in it to wet with sa,eratus-
water, to lay on the face of her
dead husband, as, she said, it was
such pity to spoil new one.
Half dozen eggs beat mp with
two ounces of salt. is recommend
ed rs q sure relief of cattle choked
with a potato or an apple. by a
correspondent of the Country
Gentleman.
A Virginia girl married the man
OF her choice after he had received
a six years. sentence to the peni-
tentiary, she furnishing him a suit
OF clothes and paying the minister.
EIGHT Governors have answered
the st. Louis Conventionist that
they would like the Capital moved
West, and they are Governors of
States all West of the Mississippi.
1t pays 10 mako cow comforta.
Bile in as many respects as possible.
Every hour she suffers from any
cause, the milk account suffers cor
respondingly.
Forty til ou usand beef cattle,
bound north, have crossed the
Brazos river, at Waco, Texas, the
present season; four thousand
cfosed III TWO successive days.
A western writer says if as much
attention was paid to improving
corn as is given to grapes, q hun.
dred million bushels might be add
cd to the annual crop.
Cooked meal Is nearly double
the bulk of uncooked, yet quart for
quart it goes as far. The differ
ence is that mnch of food is undi-
gcsted unless cooked.
Farmers in Minnesota are paw
ing twenty four per cent. interest
for money to hold their wheat, not
wishing to take eighty or eighty.
five cents bushel for it.
1t is easy to equal any fancy
bred cow with n native as a mixer.
but if the daughter of the native
is as good COW, it is an accident.
not SO in thoroughbred stock.
A Pembroke, On. H.,) farmer.
has a pig which has gained pound
and a half each day since he was
big enough to weigh sixty-eight
pounds.
Gas,tar, mingled with whitewash
applied to the interior of a hen.
house, at the rate of one gill to a
pallfull, it is said, will disperse the
lice.
Cattle disease has appeared at
Shrewsbury, Mass. The bronchial
tubes of the slaughtered animals
were found filled with thrcad.like
worms.
John Johnson, the father of M.
land tile draining in this country
lives to see within tho State Of
New York fiIty.two factories of
tile drains.
A correspondent Of the Ohio
Farmer, writing from Lorain Co
Ohio, says three young men shear.
ed G92 sheep, yielding 1928
pounds of wool, in thirteen days.
All plants grow stronger and
ripen better when the air circn-
lates freely around them, and tho
sun is not prevented from immdi.
ate influence.
A dairyman informs tho Maine
Farmer that, having tried various
things for sore teats OH cows be
finds lard best-the most besiino
and softenipg.
The Stock Journal advises a biz
horse for regular farm work, and
one that does not, without great
pushing, trot more than six miles
an hour with a light buggy.
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