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

A farmer i'm Iowa has harvested his
barley on the ninetieth day after sowing.
Erie County, Pennsylvania, complains
of an over supply Of grasshoppers.
Page county, Iowa. has 600OO acres of
corn, and the Herald claims that it will
average 50 bushels to the acre.
The corn crop in Floyd and Clark cOun-
ties, Indiana, is reported to be the best
known in those counties in the last twen-
~ years.
The Terre Hautc, Ind, Journal says
that wheat threshing has developed the
fact that the crop in that locality will not
be as large as anticipated.
Trumbull county, Ohio, reports to the
Auditor of State 1896 head of cattle, a
larger number by 1880 head than any
other county in the state.
Los Angeles, California, is noted for its
honey product. Several hundred tons of
surplus will be shipped from that point
to San Francisco this season.
A Connecticut man writes the Country
Gentleman that two applications of salt
water cleaned his hogs of ticks, with
which they were covered this summer.
Clark county, Indiana, will have a
large hog crop the coming Fall. Stock
hogs are unusually abundant, and the far
mers are looking to the opening OF the
hog market at So to 50 per hundred.
Julious Riley, of Aurora, Portage coun-
ty, Ohio, has two geese that he has had
i'm his possession upward Of forty years.
He purchased them about the year 1870,
and they were at thxt time ''middle aged
geese"
F. Copeland, of West Dcdhdm, Mass,
sOwed q '.liberar' mixture of two parts
of lime and one of salt on cultivated
field filled with sorrcl, and has also used
it OH a moving field, and completely kill
ed out the sOrrel.
George Wells has farm of 5000 acres
i'm Grundy county, Iowa. which will
yield this year $1,000 bushels of wheat,
besides heavy crops of corn, oats, and
barley. His harvest force is twenty reap
ers and one hundred men.
A call is made by some of the leading
agriculturists i'm the South. for meeting
mt Augusta, Ca, on the 18th of October
next, to organize for the purpose of adj
vancing more successfully the general
agricultural interests Of the Southern
States.
The new tariff admits duty free all
kinds OF animals from beyond the seas
imported tor breeding purposes. Also.
animals brought in for exhibition and to
be returned, also, animals with harness
and tackle, owned by immigrants; also,
eggs and silk worms eggs.
The olive crop i'm California promises
to be very abundant. A San Francisco
paper says the olive is never-failing
crop, and always profitable one. The
manufacture Of olive oil, in that State,
promises to become an important one i'm
the counties south of that city.
The aim of all scientific and practical
knowledge i'm agriculture is to know the
exact proportion of the elements that
compose the soil; to know those that
should be added for any particular crop,
and the exact proportion of the elements
that enter into the composition of each
crop.
Five Iowa men have take. 1000 long
wooded sheep to Kansas, and in the flock
are some as fine blOOded bucks as could
be obtained. The intention Is to divide
the sheep into two flocks. The gentle
man engaged in this enterprise are said
to thoroughly understand their business.
The agricultural papers of England
now state that wheat. looks fine every
where, and the crop Is larger than the
average expected. Grass is usually thin.
and the hay prospects are discouraging.
Oats, barley, and beans look poor. Far
mers count on about half 4 crop of po-
tatoes, and the other root crops yield
will be about as usual.