The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-02-18
AGRICULTURAL ITEMS.

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The Maine. Farmer, recommends Civ
ing pigs good rock salt twice a week.
Shade trees should not BIO planted close
to dwelling houses, Let IL, the sun
light. = t 's'iIiffh
Dry copperas strewed about ant nests
will induce them to leave and not re-
turn. Hrdtst - - 81 fHt .E
Over one hundred students are attend,
ing the Kansas Agricultural College the
present term. u 1sa sfvjIi M Bae
At a late sale Of Leicester rams at
kelso, Scotland, ono was sold for E109,
another for $50. sg4JiR ~ Hss :
I If the combs and legs Of hens are
rough, they are old; ii smooth and linn
Der. they are young.
r.. A convention, Of flax growers was held
at Cleveland, on the 18th ult., for general
business purposes.
The Ohio State -Eair. for. 1870, will be
held September Ugh TO- 10th. The Board
will determine the place of its next
meeting on the 18th OF February.
ID The way to accomplish the most on a
farm is IT, know beforehand precisely
what you want to do, and the rate of
means in your possession to accomplish
the undertaking. iarfsni 'sfsiaifia-
1 A son of Gen. r. p. Pitkil,, of Mont
pclier. has large sheep which he har-
nesses to a scraper and does good public
service by clearing the sidewalk of
snow.
IN. Ii. Austin, of Tunbridgc, W.T. has
raised this season 800 bushels of potatoes
from three and one half acres of ground.
He also raised 800 bushels of ear corn
OH three acres. 80 s.f.-,-f ~ o.
Mr.. Medill, of Chicago, a member of
the Constitutional Convention, desires a
clause put into the Constitution of Illi-
nOis, requiring trees to be planted along
the highways, to be paid for by the
State. --Ai = -il1-i iai Eiol
8 Mr.. A. d. Hall, of Clarendon, Gcauga
county, Ohio, has sold in New York
fourteen cheese for $l,137--an average of
ISL q each. They looked to the Goth
antics like huge grindstones to be turn
ed by water. ,au-l.a
A cal load of horses from Kentucky
recently arrived i'm Cincinnati valued at
$l1,700. The horses were purchased at
the sale of DIR. l.. Herr, of Lexington,
KY, and were being brought North by
their owners.
A grant of 500 has been voted to the
chronological Society, of Canada, for the
ensuing year. The Society is to furnish
Il report; to form a cabinet Of insects,
and to publish jOurnal-tle Canadian
Etomologist,
A gentleman a few miles from Water
vile took n COW to Kansas from Iowa
nine years ago, from which Inc has sold
over $500 worth of stock and has six
head left; and few weeks since he sold
the cow to the butchers for beef at $40.
!. A writer in the Country Gentleman
says that he finds one bushel of cut corn
stalks is eaten up clean by his cattle,
whereas If uncut four bushels GO no fur
ther, showing saving of three bushels
between the cut and the uncut stalks.
Land is often injured for years by
blowing while wet. Better miss one
crop than hurt the land; but better still
to prepare it in the fall. when. if well I'M
derdrained. there will be but little trOu-
BILE in the spring, even in wet seasons.
S. N.I& c. Russell. of Pittstield. Mass.
have recently purchased 10000 North
American sheep pelts. from which they
obtained an average of four pounds each
of a very superior article of wool. it be-
ing very long. fine staple and shrinkage
light. .,a..--,. .,
Mr.. p. G.. Shaw, of Durham, Me-. has
COW that the 10Th day of February. 1869,
became the mother of two fine calves,
and on January 10th. 1870. three more,
all alive and doing well-five calves in
ten months and twenty-four days.
Broadlamds, the farm Of S. T. Alexan-
der. near Homer, Illinois, contains $4,000
acres nearly in Il square, body. 1t is
bounded and intersected with one hun
dred miles of Usage hedge. ahd eighty
five miles of board fence; 6,4O0 acres are
in cultivation. I'D;
In The valley of the Lower Rio Grande
the growing season extends through ten
mouths Of the year. ROasting-ears were
abundant in December, and Lad been en-
ioyed for eight months, while other veg
etables had been used for longer pc
Rod.
The export OF ,breadStuffs to Europe
SlICC OGDtCtnOCi Isl IAslS uCGu sOSO DdI
rels of flour, against 144,693 barrels for
the same time last year. and S62.763
bushels of wheat against 324,994 bushels
for the same time last year-an increase
of about l5O per cent. 7,,-.I-,r s.t.i
1t is reported that the increase of corn,
oats and potatoes this season in Mime
sofa more than makes up for the decrease
in the crop and the price OF wheat. The
aggregate value of the agricultural sta
pies of the State this season is 19.OO0,0O0
dollars against 1SOOO,0O last year.
A p oject is before the California Leg
islature for swamp-land drainage ca
nal in the Sacramento Valley. to cost f.,
100000 dollars. the State to issue bonds
for the amount, and pay the same from a
tax on reclaimed lands. The lands in
terested amount to 100000 acres. The
plan is not favUedsb the press.
AT the Iowa State Fair of 1856 a man
received through mistake four dollars
more than he was entitled TO. He NOV
ed to Pennsylvania. and endured the
cravings of conscience till the Christ
mas of 1869, when he RENTED the amount
to the Society, minus the interest, be-
cause .'the mistake was the SOciety's and
not his" ,e- t. -i..-