The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-11-15
AGRICULTURAL ITEMS.

AGkICULIURAL lIEMSs
If there is any indications of the
heating of grain in bins or piles, 1t
should be turned at once.
Farming rarely secures large for
tunes, but it does better by producing
large numbers of medium ones.
According to Our Home Journal,
the best liniment for cuts, gals, spawn
poll evil, fistula, or any other Of the
external diseases that animals are liza
BILE to, is made by dissolvfng one ounce
of finely pulverized corrosive sublimate
and one ounce of gum champion In
one pint of spirits of turpentire, put in
a strong bottle. Apply with swab.
The Franklin Rhtriot is credited
with the statement that 8 farmer saved
a large amount of clover seed putting
a wire bottom in the trough in which
he fed his stock-the wire being two to
three inches above the close bottom of
the trough. The stock in pulling the
clover hay from the rack scattered the
seed almost pure through the wire into
the receptacle below.
The catalogue of fruits of the
American Pathological Society gives
list OF ninety one varieties Of pears
with their adaptation to different parts
of the country. The Bartlett leads the
list with votes from thirty States and
Territories. Beurre d'Anjou comes
next with twenty-six votes; the Seckel
third with twenty-five votes. Flemish
Beauty, Duchess d'Angouleme and
Bloodgood stand as high.
urAvEs IN HORSES.
A correspondent of the Rural Home
gives the following remedy for heaves
in horses: Give once daily q tea
spoonful of aquafortis, prepared as fol-
lows: Mix it with q teaspoonful of
sour or SKINNED milk, aud mix this
with bran, and the bran with grain
fed. The catarrhal affection of the
throat makes rapid amendment under
this treatment, aud the correspondent
saws he has known q number of cases
cured by it.
ROLLING DRILLED WHEAT.
N. G Stebbins asks if we would re-
commend rolling field of fall wheat
that had been drilled in. We answer
that if we could we would have mar
row rollers follow in the path of each
drill tooth. COMPRISING the earth upon
the seed after it had been deposited ;
but would not advise the rolling the en-
tire surface we should much prefer
doing that in the spring, as soon as we
could get on the land with field roller
after the frost is out.-RwaI Ne,U
Yorker.
"A correspondent of the Wester D,
Rural gives the following as sure cure
Tor ringworm, etc.: Get of your drug
gist one ounce iodine, rub on two OF
three times a day till cured. Three OF
four applications often effect cure
never knew it to fail yet. 1t is used
for the cure OF erysipelas, also. 1t will
cure moles, warts, ard many other skin
diseases. If boil should commence
on your nose, cheek or lip, apply Odin
freely. IL is not painful, but cOlors the
skin dark walnut brown, The stain
however soon comes of.
WINTER BEDDING FOR STOCK.
We are not disposed to assume
knowledge. but in our line of giving
farm and garden hints we just now feel
like reminding our farmer friends Of
the fact, that during the coming win.
ter large amount of coarse refuse bed
ding will be needed for the stock, and
that every half ton of waste, weedy,
rough grass, potato tops. ETC., hauled
under a dry covered shed, aud during
the winter placed as bedding for the
animals is sure to return to them by
absorption of urine and ammOniacal
gases, more than double its costs when
applied to the land in spring as q
manure. Later in the season the gath
ering of the leaves from the woods
comes In.
THE CALIFORNIA WHEAT CROP.
1t is more evident every year that
California is to become the great wheat
producing State in the Union. Owing
to the absence of rain during the sum.
mer and fall the wheat crop natures
perfectly, and after harvesting becomes
so dry that it may be shipped to any
portion of the world ithout danger OF
injury from dampness. With small
population some six hundred thousand
sOlls-the State is estimated to have
produced, the past season, thirty mil
lion dollars. 1t is now settled that
California may depend upon her wheat
crop with as much reliance As upon
her gold and silver, or her wine and
and wool.
LONGEVITY OF THE MULE.
How long can mule live? A cor
respondent says that Mr.. Daniel Nun.
TO, of Elbridge, has q mule reputed to
be sixty years old, the evidence o.
which is considered good: "We inter
viewed old Peggy last fall with hel
mate, frisky thing of only twenty OF
so she was drawing steamer weigh
ing three and a half tons. She was
getting a little gray about the head
Didn't like going with the steamer
at first brayed against it; but they
turned on the steam whistle, and she
was silenced. She was claimed to be
as strong, hearty and obstinate as ever
and could stand as much saving Oh
the bit, and pounding over the bead
when didn't wish tn back load. She
was also active, as l was assured, with
the kind permission to try for myself
by tickling her in the flank, and see
her strike :out from the hip right OF
left. In fact her prolonged experience
has apparently tended to lessen rather
than increase her respect for mankind
3 CIDER-MAKING.
Cider for drink, or beverage cider
should not be made till the last of No
vember or in December. The fruit
that is ripe thould only be used. I'm.
ripe fruit is as unfit to make into cider
as it is to eat, and its juice will be just
as raw and unwholesome in one state
as the other. Good, rich, sprightly is
necessary to make good cider. Fur
ther, to make a fine cider the juices of
ceatain varieties should be mixed after
being expressed. Different varieties of
apples thrown in promiscuously and
ground and pressed, will not make a
fine cider, experiment, as with ming
lin g different varieties of the grape in
making wines, is requisite in order to
learn just how to make good, whole
some and pleasant beverage. There
can he no fixed rule for this, as tastes
differ; but it one of the most impor
tant conditions of ::cider making. One
half Rambos with one quarter each of
Snow and Neverfail, make better ci-
der than either alone. AS cider is now