The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-07-08

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Texas will send more cattle toll
Northern markets than ever, this sea- |
son. 81
A curiosity is, shown in San. Ber-
nardino, Cal, "a peach tree, sonc year
old, bearings y nice peaches.
q Red River is beginning to have Sc
fious apprehensioiIs of another grass
hopper plague, millions of eggs being
p The cycrgreens throughout Central
Illinois are dying in a most provok-
ing manner from some unexplained
cause. ~ -. 49,
ALI tie Western States except Mis-
souri, report fine crop prospects,
From that State the accounts are con-
fiicting. :. : :. ri 4
a. correspondent writes that wcnsi
on cattle may be cured by washing
them twice day for few weeks with
strong soft soap: n, .,..f'1s h
One load of grain, amounting to
O,OOO bushels, was sent down the
Mississippi from Dubuque, Iowa, the
other day. ,Tt 80.
H. Minnesota has 66,OO0 sheep than it
had two years ago. The :winters are
'ttoo long to make wool-growing pro-
fitable there. c..,,s~.lyy $50 -,
Il Cabbage seed should never be grown
from stumps, but from sprouts issuing
from the centre of a perfectly dcvel-
oped head. = --r,a go 49,, ~. y
| 1t is estimated that 100000 trees
are planted annually i'm the State OF
Iowa. Two farmers in Grundy have
set $4,000 this spring.
| Successful farming is made by at
tention to little things. The farmer
who does his best, earns his money
with best appreciation. and uses it
with best results. Such men are the
salt Of the earth. fizt(J -
I The Iowa Homestead says that new
or, in the history of 7 the State, have
farmers had q more favorable season
for putting in spring crops than this
of 1870. 1t says that the country
looks like q garden in filth where it
is now in cultivation. re Z, - o. =.
| King John imported one hundred
draught stations from Flanders,
which laid the foundation of the
draught horses from England, France
and Germany that laid the foundation
of that class in America. .'.ct. tIGJ
4 When horses. stables arc not proper
| ly ventilated nor Ii yhted, it is all :ex-
ccllcnt plan to make a small window
where each horse may thrust out his
nose when he is not eating, and
breathe pure air. ar e., 7.l :.
/ A farmer near Nashville, Tonnes
sec, sold his crop Of broom corn last
| year at S2O4S, the product of about
! TWENTY-FIVE acres, besides about 100
1 bushels of seed, which are worth one
dollar per bushcl, which is within a
small fraction of S1l0 per acre.
Better prospects for fruit wercnever
more apparent than at present in
Southern Iowa. Even peaches sup
posed to be entirely killed, promise
abundantly. The apple, pear and
cherry trees are one sheet of bloom.
Grapes open gloriously.
The increase in the manufacture of
beet sugar i'm Europe for the present
! year, over that of last year, is about
100000 tons. The product already
exceeds that of Cuban sugar-cane.-
France exported 10000 tons of beet
sugar during 1869. So
| A lot of new wheat from Pamela
county, Miss, the first of the season,
was sold ON change at st. Louis for
five dollars per bushcl.
| There arc 100000 acres of land in
the Yazoo Basin, Mississippi, liable
to overflow, which, if properly pro-
tectcd, is capable of producing more
cotton than has been raised in the
United States in any one year since
the war. i-a. 1854 ~
East Tcnncssccans have got over
their fear of injury Of the growing
crops from drouth, arc now plunged
into despair by recent heavy rains.
A. j. Bowen, of Mandarin, Fla, re-
ports that he raised three hundred
and fifty bushels of sweet potatoes on
one acre of new pine land, without
any manure, and sold them for one
dollar per bushel.