The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-11-29

All other sounds around are nusneu,
There is no note of any bird;
But thro' these aisles with autumn flushed,
Our voices far. aad wide are heard.
With lingering glints of gold and red
The waning autumn woods are gray,
And though the summer months are fed,
Our hearts make summer of to-day.
Ideas from Our Exchanges.
DO OXEN SWEAT?
So queries a correspondent, adding:
/" Animals that loll never sweat. The
reason is, the opening of the mouth
aid the protrudiDg of the tongue pre-
vent perspiratiOn. We guess our cor
respondent has never driven oxen
when the mercury was up among the
"nineties.n He can easily test the the
ory that "the Opening' of the mouth
and the protrusion OF the tongue pre-
vent perspiration. (" Try itnext July,
and if the exercise be as ardent as the
desire for knowledge there will be some
"sweating."-Rurdt Ne,o Yorker.
rs WHEAT ON SOD.
A correspondent in Chester county
thus writes to the Germantown TEE
ardph: -'sThe most beautiful piece of
wheat saw the past season, was on q
field which had been timothy sod
mown at harvest time, turned down
sometime afterward, narrowed, sown
with salt, and drilled in, The wheat
presented that pale-green color which
denotes proper heath and clearness
from fly, the great scourge of wheat
the past season. An adjoining piece
that had been scwn with oats, was
manured with cattle manure; it look
ed we'll grown but not so healthy or
even. This wheat was in Chester Val
ley, the land of the best. )"
TIME TO CUT HEMP.
At q late meeting of the Lexington.
(Ky.) Farmers Club, the subject un-
| der consideration was: The proper
| time to cut hemp, 1t was stated that
when the dust (pollen) was blowing off
freely, which may be noticed any
morning when light breeze is stirring,
producing fog-'like appearance hang
| ing over the hemp, and the leaves
turning yellow and falling off, then 1t
is ready for cutting. 1t was believed
that when a farmer has large crop to
cut, that it was better to cut some of il
little green than to have the last to
get too ripe, more injury being done te
the crop by the latter than by the for
mer, the lint being barky and harsher.
The California Agricun:wist speaks
thus of 3 hop vine and its products
| The curiosity, for such it is, was grown
on the premises of Simon Stata, about
two miles from Sacramento City. The
bunch, or spray, consist of vine TWEEN
" feet long, bearing the most wonder.
full grofusiOn of large hops have seen
| The stack or vine is halt an inch thick
and carries about 2 600 hops, which
hang in lunches of threes and fours,
| and i'm some instances more. The
hops are all uniform in size, being about
two inches in length. Mr.. Scherrer,
in whose office it was, states that in
Europe the hops grows SO intimately
with the leaves they have to be picked
siDgly, but the California hops grow in
massive lunches, and can be gathered
by the handful without touching the
leaves. -.. I
I-x , TAPPAHANNOCK WHEAT.
sItis identical with the wheat widely
known as "Boughton," and cultivated
over the Southern States atIleast am
unable to find any difference, and am
satisfied there is none. The variety
originated in Essex county, Va, neal
the village of Tappahannock, from 8
single plant found by Mr.. Boughton-
hence the name 1t obtained its alias
"TappahaDnOck white" as near a
1 can trace it, in Pennsylvania, and il
is not generally known that it is the
same wheat under another name. Ad
vantage has been taken Of this by
"certain of the baser sort" Many
in Virginia have been victimized to the
tune of four or five dollars per bushe
for "Tappahannock," which. could
have been bought at the nearest mar.
ket town as Boughton " for half the
money, or less.-COr. Country Gentle
man.
MAKING BUTTER.
The following is the statement O
Mrs. Hebron Luce, of Bangor, accom-
panying her contribution of butter, Il
the Maine State Fair in that city
Cows, native and grade Jerseys. Sum
mer run, with old potatoes and swee
fodder corn in the morning, and fodder
corn in the evening. Set the milk il
SiA Qusstt CalS, tLtcc lDCucS uecp
skim when the cream will not stick t
the finger. The cream is kept "a hours
before churning. l churD about every
third day. In warm weather / put 4
handful of salt to pail-pot, and stiI
well every time l add cream. Use 1
dash churn. wash my butter in coll
water till free from buttermilk. Aftel
the water is well worke ed out, salt witt
II OF. of fine Ashton salt to pound O
cream, 80 to So deg. The milk KEEP
above, the cream in the cellar.
HOW wINTERED MY BEES.
had one stock of hybrids not my
own. divided them late i'm the sum
mer of III, without queen or queen cell
This make s them late in gathering thei
winters supply. l examined then
about the first Of January, and fOunt
them all dead-about a pint of bee
and no honey. ] determined to try
some experiment on them. l made 1
pen about six feet square and filled i
two feet deep with horse manure, wei
packed. then placed the hive right il
the centre, leaving the entrance, abou
one foot back, open. / cut hole il
the top of the hive about four inche.
anu a tuUS III H.
then covered it with rotten chat to th,
depth of three feet. The hole wa.
covered with wire cloth. / fed then
with syrup, and let them have thei
liberty all the time. You see it was q
regular hot-bed, very hot, an6 it en-.
livened the old lady. They came out il
the spring all right, and are now No
/ stock.-Cor. National Bee Journal.
ASPARAGUS CULTURE.
Mr.. Sargent, of Dutchess county, N
Y, writes to Gardeners Monthly thai
the earliest, best and latest asparagu!
in his neighborhoOd is in the garden o
a slovenly cultivator, who cuts all his
spears or seed stems Immediately af
ter the asparagus season is over, re-
peating this process once or twice du'
ring the summer, thus never having
any seeds, and this has been his bsbit
for five or ten years. Now, If such g
course is correct, all other cultivstors
of asparagus are entirely wrong. The
editor says in comment:
This suggestive statement may be oi
great value to cultivators, if they will
give it careful study, in connection
with known laws of plant life.
1. There is no doubt, for this has been
proved over and over again, that il
We cut away every spear of asparagus
as soon as it appears above the ground,