The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-02-07
AGRICULTURAL ITEMS.

| Tie evidence IN favor of cooking
food for stock is almost unanimous.
1t has been frequently proved that
cattle to be kept sleek and healthy must
have regular weekly allowance of salt.
1t has lately been shown that to-
| bacco is so little needed by the human
race that 970,000,000 pounds of it gre
annually consumed.
A recent decision in the courts
would seem to prove that lamb be-
comes sheep legally when it has its
first permanent teeth.
Recent statistics show that in Lon
don 800 horses die weekly, and that
700. 900 cats in the metropolis are large
ly fed from their carcases.
The author of "The Farmers AL
minax likes to see business lively He
says, "Ifyou have got boss that you
ask 5000 for, and are offered $75 for
him, alus sell him don't Spite good
boss trade for 1925.
A pair of Buenos Ayres tanners car
ried away the highest prizes "for all
kinds of curried and manufactured lea
ther, and tanned OK and COW hides" at
the late CordOva International Exhibit
ton, English exhibitors coming off Sc
cond best
"A correspondent of The Southern
CuitiuatOr says he protects trees from
the teeth of rabbits, goats and sheep by
painting the bark with blood made
thick with pulverized red clay. One
application a year is enough, and the
hardest of rain will not wash it off
Fifty thousand dollars worth of
water cress is annually sold in the city
of London. No vegetable is more
wholesome as a salad it is most excel
lent for poultry, and 25 cents worth of
seed cast in spring brook in spring or
fall will SOW mile or more in length.
"A correspondent of The Poultry
World says he kept a flock each of COM
mon fowls and of dark Brahmas "same
age, same feed, houses and runs pre-
cisely alike, with result two to one
in favor of the latter, not only in respect
to eggs but as regards care aud feed
"A Yankee farmer in Ohio adopts a
novel way of disposing of his pork. He
puts up hog and asks his assembled
neighbors to guess on the weight,
charging them 81 apiece for the priv
lege, the person coming nearest the notch
indicated by the steel yards declared
owner.
"A correspondent of The Maine
Farmer who commenced early i'll Au-
gust to feed apples to COWS, giving
few at the outset and gradually increas-
ing to half bushel per day, says he
found that they continued to yield milk
more and later in the season than ever
before, and kept in much better condi-
ton.
Those who wish to have their fowls
roost on trees, and live upon grass seed
and clover leaves from the barn floor all
winter, and make the hens feed their
own chickens all summer, should choose
generations accustomed to devote their
energies mostly to keeping alive.
Nearly all dairymen now unite In
the opinion that milk is injured for any
purpose by being cooled too suddenly;
as by the use of ice or the employment
of patent appliances. They also agree
that warm milk should not be mixed
with that which is cold, as is frequently
done by pouring milk into can that al.
ready contains milk cooled by the use of
ice.
-Leavenworth claims to be so healthy
:" inaugurate" the new graveyard, they
chad to shoot man on purpose" On
the other hand, Nebraska man, when
asked whether all the Kansas people
we're fairly honest, said: Don't know
about honest; but they do say as how
the folk around take in their stone
fences every night.
"A lady who had made pretentions
to the most refined feelings, went to her
butcher to remonstate with him on his
cruel practices Glow can you be SO
barbarous as to put little innocent lambs
to death ?" ''Why, madam" said the
butcher, "you surely wouldn't eat them
alive, would you ?"
The churches are taking a general
interest in devising measures for estab-
fishing Sustentation Funds for the
clergy. By means of these, church
funds are now evenly distributed, and
the richer churches are able to give ma
terial aid toward the support Of the
weaker,