The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-11-01
AGRICULTURE.

1t Is estimated thar, including
spring lambs, there are now about H.
000, 600 sheep in California, which is an
increase OF &, 024 500 since 1869.
The Port Huron, Mich, Times
says farmers in tat vicinity have
adopted novel way to get rid of ram
! cid butter, and at The same time get
{ three OF four times the value of good
/ butter IL is to spread the butter even
/ w on fleeces of wool, which are then
laid in the sun, and of course the wool
absorbs tire butter. thereby increasing
the weight o. the fleece.
1t taxes eleven pounds Of milk TO
add one pound of live weight to a calf;
aud an OK that weighs one thousand
/ three hundred pounds will consume
/ TWENTY-FIVE pounds of nay in twenty
| four hours to keep from losing weight.
| If he is TO fatten, he must have just
twice that quartity, when he will gain
/ two pounds day. This is one pound
live weight to eleven pounds of hay.
To obtain fifty cents hundred for his
hay a farmer must sell fat steers at five
dollars and fifty cents per hundred
pounds.
The total area of woodland in the
United States, as shown by the report
of the Commissioner of Agriculture, is
! l59, $40, III acres, of thirty nine per cent
of { e aggregate, of 407, 735, 041 acres i'm
! farms. The Southern States are re-
markedly well wooded, the twelve
States, from Maryland to Tennessee,
averaging fifty two per cent; the
New England States has thirty two
per cent. IF their farm area in forest;
the Middle Ststes twenty eight per
cent, and the Central States, from
/ West Virginia TO Nebraska, averaging
thirty two per cent. West Virginia
has fifty one per ceat. Kentucky, for
ty eight; Ohio, thirty one; Indiana.
thirty nine; Illinois, nineteen; lows,
sixteen; Kansas, eleven; Nebraska,
ten; Caiifornis, four. The Territories
are not rich in forests, except Washing
ton, which las forty four per cent, of
its farm area in woodland.
Hogs raised on clover, buttermilk,
peaches, plums. blackberries and malt
cost less than those reared and tatten-
ed corn. To keep lice off their bodies
and worms cut of their system, hogs
should have sulphur and salt mixed
with corn meal once in ten days or
two weeks; wood-asbes are good for
kidney maladies, and it pays to raise
mulberries for swine. Sweet tender
grass never comes amiss to pig, COW,
sheep or mule; and it is the general
neglect TO sow grass seed and cultivate
this crop that makes so much sorry
stock in The South. Grass and stock
wi make much manure on the farm
and keep up 1t aot increase its fertility.
Much labor is done on farms that is
rot farming in tho true sense. BY
uch labor 10 money is ever made. A
man may support himself and family,
keep out of debt, aud hsve q few dol
lars in his pocket by practicipy the
most stringent economy. If he is
otherwise than industrious and sober,
he is on the down grade with loose
brakes, and the end is soon reached.
But farming, i'm its true sense, Is pro.
fess len equal to that of lay or medi
cine. and needs equal study, mental
capacity, and intelligent'y directed la
Dor to command success in il. The
principles which underlie the practice
of the taue farmer must be well under
stood, and a steady, consistent course
ofop.r tons must be 70 lowed. Hav-
ing thoroughly the nature and capaci-
ty of the soil he possesses, and chooses
the rotation most suitable, and the
stock most profitably kept on it, be
does not swerve from mis- chosen course
but i'm good markets aud bad raises his
regular crops, and keeps Lis land in
regular increasing fertility. Nospecial
cry tempts or affrights him. He does
not talk dairying this season or crops
the next, but doubtless, il any particu-