The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-04-05

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mails permitted them to be easily seen.
living insect could be found in forty
eight hours.
Whenever these vermin are discover.
| ed, they should be got rid of at once
for they are very prolific. The louise
which infects the human head, pedicss-
lMs cdpitis, is remarkable in this re-
spect. The female, in the course of six
days, lays fifty eggs which are called
nits; these hatch in six days, and are
perfected in eighteen days. If undis-
turbed and everything is favorable,
such q female may have the satisfac-
| ton of being grandmother to progeny
of 5000 individuals in tie short space
of eight weeks. I might add other in
teresting items on this subject, but
think have said enough.
C. FOSTER WILLIAMS.
On motion of j. B. Hamilton, thanks
were returned 10 Mr.. Williams for his
very excellent letter.
j. B. HAMILTON-SO tar az my eXpe-
rience goes, it agrees entirely with the
opinions expressed by Mr.. Williams. ]
have always tried grease on lousy cat
tie, with good effect. Coal oil will not
do for the purpose. tried 1t on one
occasion, on hog, and 1t ran the poor
creature crazy.
E. KUHN-Boys' heads used to be
filled with lice and nits, and it was i'm
possible to eradicate them by comhing.
The heads of boys in these days have
but few ifsny such disagreeable inhab-
itants on them, and it is all owing to
the fact that their hair is creased.
L. W. BLACK have a pasture OF
clover and timothy: would it he safe to
put breeding mares upon itr Many
farmers have told me that it would in
jpre them.
J. B. HAMILToN-When kept horses
ard jacks, would not allow the mares
or jennets to run on rank clover. I lost
several colts, however, by mares acci-
dentally getting into rank pastures.
Brood sOws are also injured by rank
clover. But ] do not think Captain
Blacks clover and timothy can be large
enough, this early in the season, to do
any damage. l advise him, whatever
he may do, not to put bis mares, Jen-
nets, or sows, on rank clover.
w. A. WILSON, cannot speak for
myself, because haYe had no expert
ence in the matter, but have the au-
thority of one of the most experienced
and skillful men in the county, in such
matters, for saying that there is no dan
germ putting mares or jennets upon clio
yer. I allude to Mr.. Harp Hill, who rid
nets or mares. He raised stock for Maj.
Geo. LipscOmb.
PREsIDENT-Msjor Lipscomb does not
allow his mares to run on rank pas
lures, during the important time. I
h ofI, y id
! it myself, and am prepared to say, most
emphatically, that there is great hanger
in it. will not insure colt when the
mare is allowed to run on rank pas
lures.
Mr.. JoYCE-I am exactly of the same
opinion. My experience has been that
when mares are permitted to run at lib
erty on rank clover, only three out of
ten will have colts. Dry food is the
best for brood mares.
PREsIDENT-A large majority of far
mers put their mares on grass, but not
when it is rank.
+. w. MCRADY-I always raise one or
more colts, and either put them on clO-
yer, or cut it and give to them. The
only danger in clover is when it makes
the mares slobber.
]. H. WILKEs->>A number of years
ago kept horses and jacks, For some
time after commenced in the business,
1 believed and acted just like my friend
and neighbor, Capt. Hamilton: kept
the mares from grasses. I think now
that my impressions then were wrong.
believe that it is not the grass that does
the mischief Fowler frequently says
that the propagation of species depends
upon the normal condition Of the animal;
tn t,a. l. I,n oil tNns
perfect health. A healthy female al
ways reproduces its kind. If grass
makes your mares sick, you ought not
to feed it TO them. Grass, in this case, is
only the indirect cause OF the danger
feared; 1t is the sickness, produced by the
grass, that does the work. think the
bad results which the gentlemen deplore
and fear are frequently the result OF cir
cumstanees: such as, OverwOrkiug and
streining the mares; the very exhausting
sucking of colts, and other things that
have tendency to destroy the normal
condition of the mares. You need not
lear tn put your mares on pastures, how
ever rank the grass, unless 1t makes
them sick,
Mr.. Wilkes asked the question ifthose
mares that fail TO have colts are not, in
most instances, in a bad state of health,
anu IoCclNcu TIudtlV6 duSW6Ts
The Climb went into the discussion
not bring, as a specimen this morning,
the largest ears he hadI he merely got
the most original ears. D. j. Estes
said, in reply 20 question, that he, on
one occasion, gathered twenty-five bar
rels of corn from one acre in one year
j. B. HAMILToN--I have always en-,
dorsed Dan Estes, bat can't c,nScien-
tiously do SO after that tremendous corn
story.
d: J. EsTEs--I did not say that 1
raised twenty-five bushels on one acre
in one year. The way Of it was this
did not gather the crop OF one year until
after the new year following, but the
product OF that following year gathered
before Christmas, and in this way
gathered two crops, twelve and half
barrels each, per acre, in one year.
bed my land, and drill it. Iplant one
grain eighteen inches apart; The rows
are made AZ feet wide. l have only
need replanting. You may put two
stalks forty inches apart, andI will beat
you with my one stalk eighteen inches
apart.
j. B. HAMILToN---Drillc corn is harder
to cultivate than checked corn; Is it mott
d. j. EsTEs---No. / do not find it SO,
when it is taken into hand early, and
not allowed to get foul.
PREsIDENT---When you drill POUR
corn, large rains are more liable to
make gu1lies.
d. J. EsTEs---I do not think so.
J. B. HAMILToN---1 once tried plant
ing down in the bottoIn of the fiEroW,
and the result was anything but graft
flying.
ID. ]. EsTEs.--I know the field you
tried your experiment upon. 1 have
cultivated it myself, and found that it
will not bear subsoiling, although it is
rich. Subsoiling makes it french the corn.
Mr.. Estes, in reply to a question, re-
piled that he raised, last year, only sig
or seven barrels per acre, as it suffered
from drouth. Heusually gathers from
seven 10 nine barrels. Eight barrels is
= good yield. When land is poor, AZ
feet is not wide enough for the rows, nor
Is inches far enough apart for the stalks.
Mr.. Joyce said he made seven barrels
per acre last yasr, an4 Z. H. Williams
ssid he gathered nine from grouhd upon
which he had MANFRED with Baughs su-
perphosphate.
Mr.. Wisener said he broke UP bis
land but ONCE, and checked it Oft before
~s~-ks---
eAsnting.
d. F. WADE---I plant my corn in the
cream of the soil, and Mr.. Estes plants
his in the b.ue milk. He Is right in
leaving only one stalk in hill, and
wrong in drilling. Farmers are more
troubled at the second blowing Of the
corn than with all the other pIowings.
The grass and weeds are then harder to
kill and eradicate. If they are killed