The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-01-28

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J.F Allen, of Coldwater, Mich,
has sold a two year old Mamb.O colt
for 81 600 4at gea-oi iii0n =
The Chicago packers have slaugh-
tered and cut 337.656 hogs thus far
this season. 'ai
Two boxes of butter left ST. Adams,
! Vt, lately, for a missionary at Che
foo, China.
One hundred and foyty-four bush
els of oats to an acre is the latest Wis
consin achievement. ls4ta .a...a
l. The Californi,. Union offers prize
of 500 for the best pamphlet ON the
resources of California. s.a .rsnasi
A petition to the Ohio Legislature
for q law preventing cruelty to ami
mails, is getting signatures at Cleve-
land. ssff1 3'aa4
Frederick Scissor, Fayette CO., Ohio,
has calf that weighed 81, ITO pounds
last November, when nineteen
months old. aitss "sf
age weight of which was ISI1 II
| pounds. One Of them weighed 2,094
pounds.
1t is predicted that Florida will be-
come one of the largest sugar-produc-
ing localities on this continent. The
climate and soil are admirably adapt
ed to its culture, and the crop is sure
one. 4S'-Ai sitt i't
Richard Bradley, of Brattleboro,
VT, refused $1,000 for a two year old
colt, and like amount for colt four
months old, both of the Young Amer
| lea stock A three year old colt by
/ Young America has been sold FIR
$3.50.
The funds of the Agricultural De-
partmcnt of the Wisconsin Uniyersi-
tv have been augmented during the
past wear by sale of a portion of its
lands, to the amount of $4,000. This
adds $1,000 per annum TO the income.
| Kansas, by law, offers any one plant
| ing and successfully growing fol
three years an acre or more of forest
trees, or a half mile or more Of forest
trees along any highway, a bounty
annually for twenty-five years of two
dollars per acre or half mile.
The Chesaning (Mich.) BnRReT' says
that DR.. futile, of Coru@na, ShawasSe
county, who delights in thrifty gar
den, raised the past season, from a
bed of six by twelve feet, over Ii
pecks of carrots. At this rate an acre
would produce 2,571 bushels.
The Painsville Telegraph tells OF
large vegetables grown in Lake coun-
". Ohio. White Russia turnips have
been lett at the Office of that paper
measuring twcnty-ohe inches in cir
conference, and carrots measuring
thirteen inches in circumference and
seventeen inches in length,
Hearth and Home says: at has
long been a question how far private
individual preference for dog compan-
ionship should be permitted in a COM
munity where the general interests
| suffer from the existence ofsuch pests.
| hopes that where the complaints OF
wool growers are brought to the no.
tice of Legislatures, the sheep will be
allowed to live even if some of the
dogs should die.
Many olive trees flotAish in Flori-
da, OH the coast islands of Georgia, and
in California, the fruit producing oil
is equal to the best French article. Ii
is said that Italy imports large guam
titles of lard oil, runs it through the
mass of olives from which the oil has
been extracted, and returns it to this
country labeled as superior olive oil
The Cult States will some day p.oba-
bly, furnish something pure.
The wheat growers of California
Pcomplain bitterly of the want of suffi
cient vessels to export their produce
There are now 10000 tons of this ce
real IN store OH the banks of the Tue.
lumnc river, in Sianislaus county, and
more than 5000 tons i'll Napa county
awaiting shipment The farmers who
refused in the early part of the season
to accept s. pushed for .heir wheat
would now be glad of an offer of Sl.5C
per bushel.
Iowa is l'rger than New York oil
| Pennsylvania-larger than New Eng
land without Maime--and more pro.
ductive than all of them put together
She has thirty-iive million acres O.
i rich, black mould. and to-day cleaI
furrow can be turned over thirty mil
lion of these acres. Although les:
than five millions are under cultiva
ton, she produced last year eighty
five million bushels of grain.
According to an Eastern paper. 10
bacco is selling in the vicinity D
Springfield, Mass, Authoritative cent
for entire lots, and one extensive buy
CT predicts monster "crash' III the
next two years, on account of the i'll
crease of the supply over the demand
lie rates the annual consumption in thu
whole country at 10000 cases, cxclu
sive of Virginii and Kentucky raising
done up for plugs. Last years croI
crop lie puts at $4,000 eases, and there
are 10000 cases of old tobacco in thu
country, making 100000 cases, or CO.
600 above tie demand.
a steam pillow lately imported from
England b; Col. w. Il. Patterson, o
New jersey, has six shares, is capable
Ofturnlng six burrows at time, foo
each i'm width, and eight inches deep
and of pillow ing, OH an average. TWEEN
ty acres day. The way it is done j;
this: on opposite sides of a field, sa!
800 yards apart, arc placed compact
powerful steam engines, on wheel-lo-
comotivcs; steel wire cable extend,
from one to the other of these, tC
which the pillow is made fast. anG SO
is drawn from one side to the other OF
the field, aud moved onward as the
soil is turned. The cost OF the whole
machinery is about $4,000.
! The New York times says there was
a time when American cheese found
scarcely any market abroad. Now, il
has not only large sale i'll England
and elsewhere, but sharp dealers sell
great quantities oft TO American buy
crs as Feritable "Srilton7 or "Ched-
dar," and very few people would be
able TO tell the difference between the
original and the imitation. New
York was the first State which set up
cheese dairy" nearly eighty years
ago. Now nearly six millions OF dol
lars are embarked in the trade. We
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