The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-06-03
AGRIcvLrURAL ITEMS.

The wheat lands Of California COM
prise nearly 100000 acres.
The cotton crop in Georgia and
Florida is said by the local papers to
be unusually backward this year. y
During late severe storm in Min
nesota, It is stated that farmer by
the name of Rholes, in Fairbault
county, lost 150 head of sheep.
The Leavenworth QKansas) Times
proposes that Congress take in hand,
the division of all the. public lands
into farms of 25 acres, furnishing each
farm with a house and barn, and CIV
ing free transportation to all who " ish
to settle thereon. So
A correspondent of the Scientific
American proposes the introduction
into the Southern States Of the date
palm, the sugar palm, and the cocoa
nut palm those palms furnishing
fruit, sugar, oil, fiber, etc. He argues
in favor of trying at least the expert
ment of introducing these Indian
palms and he holds that, if properly
planted and cared for. they will -four
ish aud become profitable to the
South.
A New England Farmer says Cyrus
Smith. one of the old farmers of Vic
tory, VT, till recently, never owned a
hen. Dogs, cats, and poultry, he all
WAYS regarded as nuisances about a
farm. He married young wife few
months ago who had the hen fever,
and persuaded the old gentleman to
invest. lie has a handsome flock Of
hens now, and his neighbors do say
that when he starts for the barn to
hunt eggs, he carries with him the
zeal and pride of boy who has just
arrived at the egg-hunting age.
A contributor to the Country Gen
tleman recommends the raising of
sorghum for soiling. He says: "Sor-
ehum is much richer than corn in sac
charine matter, and by sowing carly
two crops can be raised on the same
ground and from the same roots
Sow thickly. broadcast, one aud a half
or two bushels of seed per acre, or
drill in rows not more than two and
half or three inches apart. When
the plant is three and half or four
feet high, NOW it, and cure for fodder
or feed to stock. The first crop is a
little slow in starting, but it springs
up from the cut stalks very rapidly.
1t requires dry fine weather to cure" "
tits asserted that there never was a
better stand of wheat in North
Georgia and Alabama at this season
of the year than there is now. There
was fully the usual amount put in
last Fall, the ground was. as general
thing, better prepared than has been
customary in former years, and there
is every reason to hope for a good
crop at the next harvest.
Mr.. Richard Peters, of Georgia, in
forms the editor OF the Ohio Farmer
that neither Devon or Short-horn cat.
tie are healthy in that section. Mr..
p. finds q cross of the Brahmin stock
from India, with the Alderneys and
Devons, healthy and profitable. The
long wool English sheep he also finds
do not succeed as well there as the
Merino, and lie will keep none but
the Merin0. >'--' sit--s.
An Ohio hog raiser advocates the
system of pasturing on clover during
the Summer. lie presents, as the adj
vantage of this plan, the statement
that an acre of ground in clover will
pasture five hogs four months, and
that it will take the corn from half
an acre TO feed them the same time.
The cultivation of the corn he counts
equal to the rent of the other half acre.
He further claims that hogs pastured
on clover are in far better condition
than if fed on corn, as they are better
framed, healthier, and cat better; and
also states that the land is enriched
by the clover pasturing.