The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-09-23
AGRICUIfUAI ITEMS.


A Frenchman has Is acres of peoples
growing at Lower Lake, Lake county,
California. 3',-
The Colorado potato bug has made its
appearance on the western border vi Can
ada. ri rof E 10 n
"A second bale Of new cotton sold at
| thirty-six and one-haff cents at Mont
gomery, Ala.
Mississippi is to have no less than for
| ty Agricultural Fairs during the coming
| autumn.
| tie, amounting TO 100000, was made at
| Omaha, Nebraska.
| During tire second week in August
over 100000 sacks of wheat were shipped
from San Francisco to Great Britain.
Horace Capron. Commissioner of Agri-
culture, with his wife. has left Washing
| ton for few weeks recreation in the
1 country. ataa
There are over fifty miles of bitches
for irrigating purposes within a space of
five miles square, around Los Angeles,
California. ~. ..
/ Advises from the agricultural districts
/ of Northern and Central Russia repre-
sent the crops as looking well, and PROM
ising yield above the average. malc1 i
/ The Commissioner ofthe General Land
| Office has issued caution against coun-
tcrfeit agricultural college script, which
has been extensively circulated.
Mr.. William Duncan, of Antauga cOun--
ty, Alabama, is the owner of pig hav-
ing two distinct bodies and only one
head. 1t is on exhibition at saloon.
A farmer in New England writing to
the Boston Cultirator says that since he
commenced keeping farming accounts
he has cleared double the money he did
before. W lt. o.
In Christian county, Illinois, a short
time since, a meadow containing ten
acres, was struck by tightening, and the
grass was so dry that it took fire and
was consumed. ..
A Camden county, N j., farmer re-
Gently gave away his load of egg plants
because he could not get his price fer
them. Another threw his load into the
Delaware.
A gentleman writing from Biloxi,
Miss, says the heat and drouth have been
so long and severe i'm that region that
the wells are almost dried up, and that
many pear trees have died with the fruit
OH them. % - .-
/: Fairfield county has been the greatest
sheep raising district in Ohio. Now,
however, farmers are, said to be losing
their interest IN sheep, and turning their
attention to horses, cattle and hogs.
At the great pillow factory of B. F. Av-
cry, Louisville, KY, turn out 800 plows
per day. Mr.. Avery is one of the oldest
plow- makers in the country. He work
ed originally, in 1925, under Jethro
Woods patent.
The cheese and butter factories of Wy
oming county, n. Y, are said to number
36. The daily product is estimated at
500 cheeses weighing about 10000 pounds,
say $1,000 worth; and 300 pounds of
choice butter.
Miss Carolina " God, of Iowa, has re-
claimed 160 acres of wild prairie land,
and has planted 200 fruit and 1000 maple
trees all with her own hands. She rath-
er wants an accomplished husband to
play the piano and do homework.
The valuable pine forests of New JeI-
sey are likely, at no distant day, to be
entirely destroyed. Every Summer fires
break out, or are maliciOusly started in
the swamps, and hundreds of thousands
of dollars are lost before they can be
smo:hered.
The daughter of wealthy citizen o
Gorham, Michigan, died Oh the 18th ult.
from the effects of bite from a potato
bug. She was awakened during the night
by a sharp, singing bite on her face,
when she crushed the insect and threw
it on the floor. The poison began its
work and caused her death.
Lameness in hogs is caused sometimes
by the large pores in the back part of the
legs getting clogged. They are little
above the knuckles in the back part of
the legs. Wash the lame legs with soap
and lukewarm water, using stiff brush
and rubbing hard till the pores are open,
and when the pores are washed open, the
lameness will leave.
The Southern papers promise cotton
crop of not less than 100000 bales. The
Macon Messenger remarks: This comes
of cOttoRiziRg everything TO death, and
neglccting ccrn, chickens, hogs, COWS.
bullocks. sheep. goats, wheat. potatoes.
peas. oats. rye, clover, butter. turnips,
wool, and everything else a man wants
to help him on comfortably in his jour
ney through life"
/ A gentleman of Stamford, Conn, is
raising crop of cotton With every pros
pect OF success. 1t is not very extensive.
but it illustrates perfectly the tropical
nature of the present Summer, even in
the cool shades of bleak New England.
The seed of this cotton was sown in a
het-bed, i'm April. and the plants were set
out about the middle of May. The flow
ers appeared long ago, and the bOlls are
already fully formed. More promising
cotton cannot now be seen in Georgia.
4 writer in the Journal of the Royal
Agricultural Society, describing the per-
manence of the action of lime, says that
he knows a piece of ground containing
lG6 acres, which formerly grew nothing
but heath. A good dressing of lime was
: applied OH the surface of the sward which
has nearly doubled its value. This was
done several years ago, and totally erad-
icated the heath. The lime to this day
appears in full condition, and its effects
usually testify, from the richness and
sweetness of the heritage, the texture of
which has been entirely changed by the
application of lime.
The Ohio correspondent of the Country
Gentleman writes that broom corn is talk
ed of but little in reports aud market lists,
but an extensive business is done in it. in
Central Ohio. The more extensive grow
, ers d. their own manufacturing, and as
they put the seed in the ground and put
the brooms OIL the market, there are no
transactions to get into the papers and
no noise is made about the business. AS
certain growers in this section have been
engaged IN growing broom corn and
manufacturing broOms for the last II
years, and have become wealthy, the in
ference Is that the business pays. Every
thing from seed to straw is made to
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