The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-02-11
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49,
In Hancock county, O., hogs cannot
be had at any price. 51a
The most profitable use for sour APP
pies is to make them into vinegar. 5
1t is decided that q colt becomes q
horse wien he cuts his second teeth.
Nearly a million acres of public
lands have been taken up in Dakota
this year.
E0rty-onc hundred tons Of wild SUI
mac hare been gathered in Virginia
this year. Sold fog 90, 600. -
Twcnt years ago Pennsylvania was
the largest wheat-producing State in
the Uni0n-n0wi it is about the Twelfth
on the list.
II is reported that nearly one-half
of the potatoes raised in the northern
part of Maine will be lost by the dry
rot. f
The Northern apple crop is just
appearing in Florida, and the price of
good apple is just what weuld buy
three oranges.
The stock of wool on hand in New
York on the first of last month was
nearly 100000 pounds less THAI on
Jan. /, 1869.
The man i'm Jail who looked out of
the window of his cell and exclaimed,
"This is a CRATE country !" is now gen.
orally admitted to have spoken with
in bounds.
An Alabama paper of late date
says: 1--WE hear complaints of the
scarcity OF laber, but our market keeps
well supplied with mules, which are
sold in gOodty numbers and at what
we call high figures"
Some one has recommended giving
a COW from which the greatest guam
tity of milk is expected, pailful OF
slightly warm water, in which quart
of bran has been mixed, and little
salt added. This is te be given three
times day.
The st. Louis Rural World says
that upwards of one thousand two
hundred families of Swedes, making a
population of at least six to eight
thousand, will settle the coming
spring in Dunklin and Stoddard coun-
ties, i'm the southeastern part of Mis-
souri,.
1t has: been discovered by careful
experiments in Charleston, that the
weight of hale of cotton varies
slightly with the temperature. Aful
of ten degrees in the thermometer
causes bale of cotton to gain about
a pound and half in weight.
A Missouri correspondent says that
honey locust, for posts, is about as
durable as sassafras, not equal to
black walnut-one black walnut post
is worth three or four of honey To-
Gust. He thinks that honey locust is
much less durable i'm some localities
than in others. not lasting half as long
in Missouri as in Kentucky.
The american Farm Book men,
tons horse that died at sixty seven
years of age, and another that was
quite coltish in his fOrty-tifth year.
These cases Of longevity were doubt
less the results of good care. 1t is
never economy to put horse TO the
utmost of his strength to obtain a
great amount of work. or TO feed spar
ingly to save prOvender.
Milton Mcrrifield, of Providence,
caught fifty-twO rats i'm one night, by
exchanging barrel of oats that had
been often visited by rats for one OF
water, covering the surface with
chat. The varmints" unsuspecting-
ly pitched i'm, and met a watery grave
This is an old but excellent trap
where these animals are plenty.
At a meeting of the Little Falls
Farmers Club, Mr.. Willard said his
observation led him TO believe that
it was better to have one large pas
ture than to alternate from one to
another. The feed was moro uniform
and the result more satisfactory. Ii
was thought that it would take, in
Herkimer county, from one and hall
to two acres of pasturage 10 keep one
COW. In some vciy fine pastures, an
acre would suffice.
1t frequently occurs in the spring.
when the farmers arc feeding their
cows upon rutabagas, or turnips, that
the milk becomes so strongly impreg-
mated by their disagreeablc taste and
odor as to be unfit for butter-making.
To obviate this, put a pinch OF finely
powdered saltpetrc into every gallon
of cream. A little saltpctre worked
into butter that has become sour or
rancid, will render it sweet and pal
aIable.
Mr.. L. 3. Arnold gives marked
instance of the fact that odcrs inhaled
by dairy cows will affect the milk.
In June he lost calf, the carcass OF
which was placed where northwest
winds carried The stencil over his pas
lures. 1t was soon found that the
milk was tainted, and was tainted OF
pure us the wind changed. The cause
being traced and removed, the trouble
ceased. In another case, dead horses
in the COW pasture caused serious loss
to all the patrons OF cheese factory
r. S. Clough states that he once
brined and thus thoroughly cleansed
seed wheat for thirty acres. He took
the small and inferior grain thus alb.
stractcd and washed again. From
this lie sowed a very few bushels, the
result from which was inferior wheat
i'm both quantity and quality; all the
remainder was fine, free from oats
and smut, and produced large yield
lie then cUme to the conclusion that
"a, We sow, We shall reap; and il
anybody persists in sowing smut and
dirt instead of good, sound, plump
grain, he may expect to reap accord
ingly.
Good C0Rce.