The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-07-29
AGRRICULTUAb ITEMS.

England proposes the disposal of
cereals by weight instead of measure
Minnesota has $4,000 less sheep
than it had two yeas ago.
Best sugar is exempt from taxation
in Wisconsin.
The town of Hatfield, Mass, reali-
zes $4,000 annually from its tobacco
crop.
Breadstuffs arc advancing in Paris
at an alarming rate in consequence of
the drOuth.
A bill relieving from duty all grain
imported into France has been intro
duccd into the Corps Legislatif.
Late rains have fallea throughout
the country, and farming prospects
are greatly improved.
The hog cholera is prevailing to a
fearful extent in Madison county.
Iowa.
A correspondent mentions late cut
hay as cause of cattle gnawing
boards and bones.
We learn from gentleman i'm Wei
lington, that the Colorado potato bug
has made its appearance in Lorain
county, Ohio.
A correspondent of the Prairie
Farmer, who kept bis hogs on floOred
pens, curing their biting each other
by feeding them " stove coal"
According 10 VRlcker, an old clo-
yer field will lose its virtue. 1t wants
to be cultivated, and put to grain at
once, so that the nitratcs do not form
and pass (wasD away. .s,
Twenty-seven farmers of Alabama
report to the Lee county Agricultural
Society that they have this season
planted 1864 acres in cereals, and 3
$50 in cotton.
There is a girl near st. Paul, Mimi,
who, although only twenty years of
age, supports, by working farm, her
aged father ahd mother and idiot
brother. M s-...ir.
Farmers should not forget to get a
piece of land in good condition for
turnips. 1t will soon be time for
sowing the crop for winter use.
Cercbro-spinal Meningitis has been
ravaging that section Of the country
living between Bayou BGuf and the
Atchafalaya river. A large number
of deaths have oCcurred-principally
negroes.
A correspondent of the Rural New
Yorker strongly faYors cutting grass
carly at the time of blOssoming. lie
insists that ton of hay e ut when just
getting into full bloom, or little ear
Tier is worth the twice amount of ripe
hay. .rls
Remember that all surface water
passing off the land in a rain, in
stead of passing through the soil
loses to the soil what fertilizing mat
ter it may contain. Undertaking
arrests this mostly. r. or.
Lands are made to increase yearly in
fertility, mainly in three ways, by buy
ing commercial fertilizers, by plough
ing under clover, by buying rich food
for animals and saving all their drop
pings. The farmer understands his
business who knows which mode is
best for him. The most successful
farmers practice all three.
A writer from Brazil says that you
will see no potatoes, no corn no fields
of grass about Rio. The butter used
nearly all come from England, as well
as cheese, the flour from the United
States, the potatoes mostly from En-
gland. Meats, rather than vegetables
are the staples. Rice is used i'm the
place of potatoes.
One load of grain, amounting to
100000 bushels, was sent down the
Mississippi from Dubuque, Iowa, the
other day.
F. Copeland, of West Dedham,
Mass, sowed a liberal" mixture of
two parts of lime and one Of salt on
a cultivated field filled with sorrel,
and has also used it on moving
field, and completely killed ont the
sorrcl.
The editor of the Rural NeT York |
en- says that they never saw any
milking machine that they would
use as substitute for handwriting.
Prof. Cardwcll says in France and
Germany, clover is put in pits when |
cut and allowed TO ferment slightly |
it comes out tender and excellent.
The man who will invent cheap IT.
rigation, will be one of the main bene-
factors of the race. The man who |
will convince farmers of the tull bene-
fit of drainage will he another.
The opinion is gaining ground that
a thin mulclling of wheat fields in the
fall will save many crop from des-
OF course the mulching
should not be thick enough to annoth-
er the plants. Straw is the best
mulch. isi '.
Hon: W. C. Flagg, referring OF