The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-07-19
AGRICULTURAL.

American cheese is in universal use
throughout England, andilarge guam
titles are imported.
Chickens under two weeks old should
be fed as often as every two hours, and
fed no more than they will eat up clean
at each time.
There are 994 cheese factories in New
York, which convert the milk of 205,-
ries in the United States is PSI.
The total fall of snow at Forest City,
Montana, last winter was twenty-sev-
en- feet.
Recent published statistics show
there are over 1000, 600 acres of land in
France devoted to vineyards.
Nearly two Thousand farms We're
taken aud improved in Washington
territory, last year, by actual settlers.
Increase of taxable property, two mill
lion dollars.
A French scientific journal says it
has just been discovered that solution
of sulphate of iron sprinkled upon
fruits and plants has wonderful eff.
feet. Beans gained sixty per cent. in
size and in quality, and pear trees were
wonderfully benefited bp the new fer.
tilizer.
To CURE NANCE IN HOGS-Cleanli.
ness is the first requisite. Clean and
whitewash the pen. Sprinkle carbOlic
acid diluted with 100 parts of water, to
kill insects; wash also the hogs in
| warm water and soap, and apply the
diluted carbOlic acid to the parts affect
cd; give small quantities of charcoal in
| their food, and keep them well beded
change the straw often.
To DESTOY STUMPS.--Bore with
two inch augur to the heart or center.
Fill the cavity thus made with sulphur
ric acid or with crude petroleum. In
| the first the acid destroys it In a few
months. In the latter, when the stump
becomes saturated with the oil, it is
fired and will burn to the roots. More
than one hole in the stump, and filled
with petroleum, will hasten the time
and secure certain result.
VALUE OF MANURE.-The culture
of tobacco in Connecticut has created
such demand for stable-manure, that
farmers are now eagerly purchasing it
at twelve dollars cord; one dollar was
considered a fair price formerly. Ordi-
nary farmers near Philadelphia could
not be induced to sell it at even great
er prices than this; eigh dollars per
load has been vainly offered for single
load TO farmers near that city.-Hedrh
and Homo.
| FRESH AIR FOR SHEEP.-Sheep re-
quire an abundance of fresh air, as in
fact all stock do, but sheep especially.
Close pens are very injurious, causing,
| first, running at the nose and colds,
which generally results In cough and
inflammation of the lungs. The great
est need is to keep them dry under foot
and protected from the snow and rain
storms; sheep will choose TO lie out of
doors in well Uttered yard rather than
under cover, aud thrive better in doing
so.
An experienced hop cultivator says
that on most soils, barn-yard manure
once in three years, and ashes and
plaster every year, will best meet the
requirements of the hop crop.
1t is RECOMMENDED to place iron fl
lings or bits of iron in the soil about
rose bushes. 1t increases the vividness
of the bloom. The sweepings OF a
blacksmith shop are excellent for this
purpose.
We cannot call a man shrewd who
goes one or two miles to have new
whiffietree made, when he could work
it out himself in the time he is going
to the shop, to say nothing of having
TO pay for it besides.
In breeding from aged and diseased
animals, the foals are injured before
they see the light. SO that when the
young colt, at less than year old, has
ringbones on all his feet-as We have
actually seen-the farmer think he is
peculiarly unfortunate in raising colts.
The influence of the food of poultry
upon the quality and flavor of their
flesh and eggs has not generally been
taken in considerations; but it is now
well ascertained that great care should
be exercised in regard to this matter.
In some instanceS.it has been attem pit
ed to feed poultry ON large scale in
France on horsefiesh, and, although
they devour this substance very greed
lily, il has been found to give them a
very unpleasant SAVIOR. The best fat
tenniDg material for chickens is said to
be Indian corn meal and milk. and
certain large poultry establishments in
France use this entirely, to the advan-
tage both OF bhe flesh and of the eggs.