The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-12-20
FARM NOTES.

ONE hundred and thirty-two students
were in attendance last year at the Mich
igan Agricultural College.
THE sweepstakes prize at a blowing
match near Darlington, Wis, at which
there were 10 entries, was awarded to a
12-year old youth.
A CORRESPONDENT writes to the West
eyn Planter that taxes are very high,
and prices of crops unprecedentedly
low, and between the two the Kansas
farmers have pretty hard lot
ACCORDING to the Gazette, Dover, N.
H., large quantities of Baldwin apples
are being purchased in that vicinity for
South American makets.
THE farmers of Contra Costa, Colora-
do, have gone into the business of dig
ging wells and erecting wind-mills for
irrigating purposes. The e1itor of the
A'iti0ch Ledger, the other day, counted
% wind-mills between that town and
Point Timber.
A WRITER in the Ioaca Homestead Of
fers this sensible hint to new beginners
ON the prairies When you commence
improving, don't go at it blind. Take
time-keep your eyes open as you pass
over the country and see how older far
mers have succeeded in making them
selves and stock comfortable, then
strike out.
A REVEREND gentle at Newcastle
on-Tyne. England, is glad to have found
reason for commencing the wasp. He
says this generally maligned insect
proved very serviceable in his lighthouses
the past season, clearing out the mealy
bug-even leaving ripe grapes untouch-
ed in pursuit of this great pest of the
vine.
In EVIDENCE of the fact that the dis
tinctiOn between root and stem is a mat
ter of circumstances, Mr.. Meehan men,
tons that it is not uncommon to see in
our mountains the earth wash or fall
away from trees, exposing the roots,
and these roots take ON themselves in
time the rough bark and all the charac-
tiers of the regular wood of the tree.
THE students of Roget and the Greek
roots have in their search for synonyms
for the horse disease, made striking
panorama of vowels and the consonants.
Here are some of the euphonious pseu-
donyms by which the malady is already
ticketed Hippo-malaria, the ephippic,
typhoid laryngite, hippo
pathic, epizooty, epizootic-epidemic, ep-
izootic-infuenza, horse-aphony and hip
poetcetera.-N Y Tribune.
The blood and refuse from slaughter
ed hogs and sheep should be saved for
two purposes First, to smear over the
trunks of young fruit trees by which
rabbits are effectually prevented from
them; and, second, to bury
around the roots of the fruit trees or 10
mix with earth and make garden manure
for use next spring.
To PREVENT mischief by mice in or
whether plowed or not, the
grass around the trees should be care
fully hoed away for foot or more, and
the loose clean earth should be drawn
or heaped up around them. In differ
emf parts of the orchard, but away from
the trees, sheaves of straw or cornstalks
should be placed In these the mice
will gather, and they may be destroyed
IN large numbers by placing some corn
meal mizeu ~i.ii s.asvi.io .....~...s -. !
sheaves.
AUTUMN PLowING.-At no other sea-
son does plowiny of heavy soils help so
much to enlight N and loosen the ground
As late in autumn, and if at the same
time some of the deeper soil. that has |
not before been disturbed by the piow
is turned up, new fertiizing matter is |
added to the land. The exposure to the |
ar and the frequent changes of freezing |
md thaxing, puiverizes and disinte-
yrafes this new soil In such a manner
hat II serves as plant food IN q short |
iime. Under no circumstances, how
.ver, should the plow go more than one
nch deeper than the land had been
slowed before. III more subsol Is
lrought to the surface at one time, il /
I'LL often DO more harm than good, I'M
esS verv isrge quantities of manure are
Ipplied IN the following spring. To get
he most benefit, the fields should be
slowed in narrow lands. with keep and
pen deep burrows, in the direction Of
4 the slope. 50 that the surface matter
nav run of readily, without washing.
fields piowed IN the Fall viii In Spring
'ftea be two weeks sooner In condition
or blowing than when Fsll blowing has
zen omitted. For very light sad thin
,loSing IL is not e. be recommended
ikewise for so1-cround 10 be planted
nth corn. we prefer no, 10 p!ov hefors
SPRING. ~ y Trflure.