The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-08-30
leRICULrURE.
CUT THE BUSHES.

We always had the best success p
cutting bushes In midsumme1, not e
any special time in the moon, hut at b
time when the shrubs had expenddu
their vital force or finished theirgrowtlw
for the season. But few shrubs cuyW
down in August will sprout againn
When cutting, do not leave sharp,
edged snag in q single instance, for 81
valuable horse, OK or cow may be
ruined by it; cut below the surface
everything too large to be mOwn down
readily with common hand ssythe.
TIMOTHY MEADOWS.
ANY one who intends sowing tim
othy alone for pure hay ought to pre-
pare now the ground selected, manure
II well use some fertilizer thai Is rich
in phosphates, in the last narrowing,
then just before or after q rain, when
the land ia in proper state cow two
gallons of timothy seed per acre, brush
It in and roll down nicely. Where
early potatoes or corn had been grown,
| is o good place for this operation. The
earlier that timoty is sOwn the better,
for It will, if sown now, give q fair
crop next year on well prepared, rich
land, and yield more money per acre
than a CROP of wheat. Too little at
tention is paid to the growing Of grasses
adapted to the making of hay. Those
convenient to market or near railroads
can make no crop that pays better, all
things considered. The reasons for this
assertion, we think, are patent to every
| farmer who reflects and sums up the
cost of production of the several farm
crops. On all grass lands, or such as
are best adapted to grass, timothy out
strips all other crops in nett Value
Maryland Farmer.
ORCHARDS.
If YOU have not done it before, 1t is
| not too late to wash your trees with
| soft soap and salt and ashes, as often
prescribed before. Gather the fruit as
It ripens. Sell all you do not require
for home consumption, and if you cam
not sell be sure to feed it to the hogs.
Let none decay on the trees or ground.
Forward apples may be made into
cider, and if sold as soon as made it is
well, for 1t will not be cider long, but
| it will make good vinegar. Yet If you
have hogs, it is best to give them every
one not consumed in the family or not
sold. Many email green and detective
apples, peaches, ETC., will now fall
from the trees; be sure to gather them
and feed them raw or cooked to hogs
or cows. Cooked fruits are best, par
| ticu!arly when mixed with meal bran,
etc. Destroy as far as possible al cater
pillars and other insects attacking
either the fruit or the trees.-MGyldnd
FhTnaer.
TO GROW LARGE CORN.
The following paragraph is having
"the run" of many papers:
| "Can any one raise a hundred
bushels of corn to the acrel This
question is being discussed by he cor
| respondents of the Toledo Blade.
Facts are called for, and all farmers
who have raised big crops of cGn, and
who have had o yield of one hundred
bushels or more to the acre, viii please
report particulars"
! 1t is by no means rare to find cases
where one hundred bushels or more,
OF corn to the acre has ben raised.
Here are few instances, wei anthem
ticated and cite them to assure and
stimulate others to make the effort.
In 1885 the record in Edmund Ruff
iii . Olu al ulcI > INtRlStcIt IcUcIS-
burg, Va, Mr.. Meggison ON Mr..
ClaTk's farm, raised 10 bushels sound
| shelled corn OH one acre.
The Agricultural Report, 1858, shows
that up in cold Massachusetts ]. Good
rich and l.. Page each missed Ill
bushels of shelled corn to the acre.
The same Reports show that in Ohio
several different growers raised SO, 100
and 10l bushels to the acre.
And the writer of this, several years
before the war, raised 303 bushels good
sound shelled corn from three acres of
ground. making 101 bushels to the
acre. Other instances could be named,
but this is enough for once. ID. s. C.. :
Col. John Williams produced on his
Island farm, near Knoxville Tenn, in
1866, one hundred and forty-seven
bushels of corn to the acre. Gen.
Brooks has produced on a similar farm
i'm the same county one hundred and
twenty-five bushels to the acre.