The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-11-28
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

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and sweeten with honey for an adult
one tablespoonful is dose.
Cows should be taken in about sun.
set, or before they are preparing to rest
for the night, and on no account allow
them to be hurried to or from the pas
ture, especially when full of milk.
KEEPING HONEY. Honey will not
candy if tablespoonful of cream tartar,
dissolved in water, be mixed with a
gallon of honey when scalding hot.
Care must be taken not to scorch the
honey.
To CLEAN GoLD CHAINs.-Put the
chain in small glass bottle with warm
water, little tooth powder and some
soap. Cork the bottle and shake it for q
minute violently. The friction against
the glass polishes the gold, and the soap
and chalk extract every particle of
! grease and dirt from the interstices of a
chain of the most intricate pattern !;
rinse it in clear cold water, wipe with a
towel, and the polish will surprise you.
MANY farmers have an idea that sheep
do not need water, but this is a mistake.
1t is true that they will go without drink
long time in cold weather and on moist
pastures, but in dry weather and ON
high land they suffer for want of it.
To HULL CoRN.-One quart of strong
I've, prepared by pouring warm water
upon peck or more of ashes add two
quarts of boiling water to it, and put in
the corn; let it boil until the hulls be-
gin to start, which you, can determine
by taking out few kernels and washing
them in cold water. Skin out all the
corn rinse it in two or three waters (;
put it into cold water, and let it boil up;
turn off that water SO as to extract all
the I've fill up with boiling water, and
cook for four hours slowly; add salt to
your taste; let it boil half an hour more,
and serve. 1t must cook a great while
to be palatable.
COOP MEN MAKE Coop HORSES. "A
horse is never vicious or intractable
without a direct cause. If a horse is
FESTIVE or timorous, you may be sure
that these faults arise from defects in
his education. He has been treated
either awkwardly or bruta!ly. Com
mence the education of a horse ut his
birth accustom him to the presence,
voice and sight of man speak and act
gently caress him, and do not startle
him. All chastisements or cruelty con-
fuse the animal and make him wild.
They are good men who make good
horses.
GARDEN WALKs.-Very solid and
durable walks, either for garden or
street, may be made by mixing melted
asphalt or bitumen with screened gravel
or screened coal-ashes, and spreading
the mixture upon a prepared bed and
rolling it compactly. To be more ex-
plicit, we would say, first lay out the
walks level, grade and roll them. Spread
then a coating of three inches of coarse
gravel or finely broken stone mingled
with the melted asphalt, and ram or roll
it down closely. Then add one inch of
finer gravel or coal ashes and spread
evenly, and roll well, spreading sand or
fine ashes at each rolling until the path
becomes dry and hard, and all the as
phalt is absorbed by the sand or ashes.
No weeds will come up through such
path, nor will moss or grass grow upon
it. For few weeks occasional rollings
will be needed.-@eD York Tribune.
PUMPKINS FOR STooK-The different
opinions of farmers as to the value of
pumpkins for mich COWS and other
stock, is LeGeved to be the result of diff
ferent ways of feeding them, by a CORE
spondent of the Germantown TeJe-
graph. In a hurry to clean a field,
farmers will give their cattle a surfeit of
pumpkins for day or two, then for a
day or two perhaps none, and thus al
ternate feasts and fasts, and conclude
pumpkins are worthless, or worse. The
writer says he intends to feed pumpkins
about two Notwithstanding them last
till the snow flies. He feeds regularly,
once day, from one to three pumpkins
per head, never more, and finds them
conducive to the health of stock, besides
greatly increasing the quantity and
quality of the butter made. Pumpkin
made butter will readily pass for
"golden " or "gilt edged" without the
use of "colOring."
AT WHAT AGE TO SELL Hoes. Most
Northwestern hog breeders unite in the
practice of selling their fatted hogs in
the fall or early winter, at the age of
sixteen to twenty months. This is good !
evidence that this plan pays best under |
all tie circumstances, and yet there is a |
respectable minority who insist, and |
give weighty reasons for their position,
that it pays best to have pigs come |
early, "crowd" them, and sell them |
when eight or nine months old. The /
argument of the larger class is that it |.
takes comparatively little to keep the |
pigs in fair growing condition the first |
winter, and that the second summer |
they will make rapid growth mt very |
little cost in the clover field, and later, |
in the stubble fields. The argument on |
the other side is that it takes certain !
quantity of food to sustain life, and that |
the food necessary to keep the store pigs |
in good condition through the winter |.
and spring months, and through the |
nsxt summer, if fed to them during the
first summer and fall, would give them |
a fine growth and good size then much !
less corn would fatten them than would !
be necessary the second fall. There is |
no special difficulty in making a pig !
weigh three hundred pounds when nine |
months old, but it is claimed that this |
cannot be done where large numbers are |
kept together. We wish there were |
more records of actual trials of these |
plans, so as to better get at the actual |
cost of raising and fattening pigs, lit |
tered say at the first of April, and sold |
when nine months old Western |
Farmer.
Foreign Emigration.
Since May, 1847, up to Nov. ], 1873, !
there have been landed at Castle Gar