The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-04-29

crou this year. b s. ss1sa S>S
Omaha has shipped 5000 bushels
Of corn to New York via of Missouri
and Mississippi rivers.
Many new cheese fsctories are go
ing into operation this season i'm ILL
nois, Wisconsin snd Ohio. u
Commence in time to keep down
the weeds in the garden-beds, and
don't let them grow by the walks and
fences. -ssf 3 ~
The orange trees are just beginning
TO bloom IN Galveston, Texas. A full
crop IL expected. Peach trees are in
full bloom. NJ,
Mr.. II. /. kimball, of Atlanta, has
offered 500 to be awarded as a spe.
cial premium at the Georgia State
Fair, for the best hale of cotton raised
in that State. 49, = -.
II is stated that every farm Of I6O
acres in Eastern Kansas, is sunderlaid
with l,565yO0 tons of coal, or nine
times more fuel than il the surface
were covered with heavy timber.
the fruit trade of Boston is largely
increasing. It received, last year, SO
cargOes OF oranges from Messina and
Palermo, aud 80 cargoes of other fruits
from Malaga, Smyrna and the West
Indies.
The Fair Grounds at Augusta, Ga,
will contain about 20 acres, and have
three buildings fo- exhibition pur-
p0ses-two Of 300 feet long by 40 in
width, and one, the main building,
400 feet long, by 80 in width.
Iowa plants every year forest of
100000 trees. Within considerably
less than halt dozen years 25,000000
forest trees have been planted, and
are new growing IN the Northwest.
Mr.. Samuel Millar, of Bluffton, No.,
thinks that one of the Western nettles,
Urtica chamadsy0ides, or Uytica pur-
puraceals. will prove valuable SIS f.
bre producing plant. Th Ramie is a
close relative Of the ncttle, but will
not flourish at the North.
Immense droves Of cattle are alrea-
dy in action in Kansas going North
ward, the laws of Kansas permitting
the passage of Texas cattle from De-
cember l, to March l.
Richard Bradley, of Brattleboro,
Vermont, refused 81 600 Cor a two year
old colt, and like amount for colt
four months old, both of the Young
America stock. A three year old
colt, by Young America, sold for
$3.50.
The tobacco crop in Ohio last year,
was the largest ever raised in the
State, and the Columbus State Jour-
nal says, that on account of the sue
cess Of the crop there, more tobacco
will be cultivated this year than ever
before. a
Mr.. A. S. Fuller recently said that
he never saw country that did not
contain, in some shape, ell the elc-
ments Of fertility required to make it
productive, if the people knew how to
make proper use Of these fertilizing
resources. E
A Southern paper says that the
price Of brOOm-cOrn brush has been
rising yearly, and is now quoted at
twenty 10 thirty cents cents per pound
wholesale. At This rate, it must be q
more profitable crop to produce than
cotton.
High feeding is the secret of the
model farmers success; his cows are
induced to take another lock, his men
are helped twice, his horses find full
hangers, his hogs full troughs, he
feeds his crops. with good manures,
and his mind with good reading.
The Dahloncga (Ga,l Signal states
that corn is selling at 81. 40 per bushel
from wagons in its section, and adds:
We further report that the high
price of corn here has put it out of
reach of the poor, and many people in
the upper and Northern portion of
this county are On the eve of starva-
ton. They must have relief from
some source"
The Big Woods, near Minneapolis,
Mimi, are said to be full of hogs. -
The farmers find pork-raising is far
more profitable than the production
of grain. and are engaging in it large
~. During the Winter it is estimated
At over $4,000 worth Of pork has
been sold at WATERFOWL. besides all
that has found a market mt Minneapo-
lis and st. Paul.
The decrease in the ratio of beef
cattle to the population in this cOun-
try the past ten years, is said to be
twenty per cent, the increase in pop
nlatiOn being thirty-three per cent
In 1860, with population of II, Ill.,
331, we had 25,61O,337 cattle in the
while now, with a popula-
lion of more than 100000, We have
only 2l,623,069.
Rye, as q crop, is not properly APP
preciated. 1t springs up early in the
season, and is valuable as a grain crop
long before clover is large enough to
feed; and as a seed crop, it is valua-
BILE for bread-more healthy mixed
with corn than wheat bread. Sown
carly it makes excellent Fall feed for |
stock after grass has ceased to supply
pasture for stock.
The rise of sap in trees and plants
lcen explained Oh the principle of ca
hillary attraction, but NJ. Becquerel |
that electricity is an acting
;ause. A capillary tube that will not |
IllOw water to pass through ii, does
10 at once on being electrified. and he
that electro capillarity is the
.fficient cause of sap travelling in veg
table life.
A correspondent of the 4Kuine Far
acr says that for the two last seasons
nc has been using wooden boxes lined
With slate for packing butter, which
'nswer a very good purpose, and have
many advantages above anything that
las ever been seen. The boxes can
,e made of any required size. The
oints can be made watcr-tight. They
re very cool, easily kept clean, and
rec from any risk Old account of
A sugar-making company in Liv-
ngston county, Illinois, uses about fif-
y tons of beets per day, in the manu-
acture of the saccharine staple. The
reduction of this kind of sugar is
"w very great in many parts of Eu-
ope, and is becoming rapidly dcvel-
ped in this country. 1T is but little
lore than half century ago that Ma
OlcOn bestowed a reward upon the
IAN who made the first sample of any
ccOunt. This sample is said to have
cen little black mass of strong SUI
ar weighing about two-pounds.
The Pittsburg Dispatch states that
counts from the rural districts, con-