The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-02-14
FARM ITEMS.

FARM ITEMS.
Bathing with tincture of arnica
flower is recommended for gals on
horses.
A few daily applications of castor
oil will, it is said, cause warts on
horses to disappear.
From 5000, 900 to 10000, 900 sheep
are boiled down for their tallow annu-
ally in Buenos Ayres.
-Merrie England recently kept a
young farm laborer in prison seven
months for-snaring a partridge.
A potato culturist tells The Lon
proved on his plan of selecting for
seed by choosing tubers, not here and
there one from the big heap, but from
special plants whose whole product and
appearance was conspicuous for fine
shape and productiveness. The result
was that his crop of Redskins this Fall
was almost wholly free from the warty
irregularly- shaped tubers which were
numerous last year; and that Pater-
sons Blues are so improved, in COM
parison with the deep-eyed tubers of
the previous season, as to be almost
worthy OF new name.
A Missouri correspondent offers
this sensible advice "There is a mis-
take, which many people make in COM
ing West, and that is they put all their
money in land, expecting to raise grain
and sell it to make money to support
their families, and make a start at the
West, forgetting they have to start from
the bottom, that they are in a new coun-
try, that they have everything to buy,
and that there is no money in selling
grain at market prices here; while, if
they had been content with less land,
and put their money in stock, i'll a few
years they could have bought all the
land they wanted.
Joseph Harris says that no farmer
should engage in the breeding of
thoroughbreds unless he is prepared to
bestow more time, thought, care, and
labor on their management than on
common animals. If faithfully, hon
estly, intelligently, skillfully and perse-
veringly carried ON, there is money,
pleasure, reputation, and honor in the
business, but where one man succeeds
ten fail, all owing in q good degree to a
misapprehension of the principles here
alluded to. Paying high prices for
choice animals and then leaving them
to the care of common hired men will
not insure success.
1.-THE tree, said the late DR.. Had
dock of Hampshire, sis easily re-
moved; may be set single or grouped :;
has an agreeable motion breaks the
violence of the winds, and shelters
from the MONDAY heat; may be made
to hide from the view unsightlv objects;
answers the purpose of expensive archi-
lecture, by clothing the simplest build
ing with living grace; and, what is
enough of itself to recommend its Gull
ture, attracts from the forest, where
they are preyed upon by natural enc
mics, numbers of our most beautiful
and musical birds, who delight in the
security, and have thought in the So
ciety, afforded them by the neighbor-
hood of man"
For quarter of century science
has been at work upon the problem
how to utilize the superintendent an
imal food wasted in remote parts of the
world, yet we have only meat extracts,
which are not nutritious although they
are expensive, and canned cooked meat,
which is q most unsatisfactory substi-
tute for the raw material. Meat ex-
tracts cannot remedy the high price of
meat, for it takes 20 TBS. of fresh beef
for l ID. of extract, and from 40 to so
lbs. of mutton only a single pound of
extract can be obtained The meat
problem must be solved by the econ
omical production of ice or it's equiva
lent in preserving powers, 80 that the
meat may be brought to city stalls
fresh and in carcass.
An Ohio Farmer correspondent
having nothing to start with" pur-
chased ON easy terms Zone of the poor
est farms in the township" and made it
productive. His plan is as follows i:
First, pillow deep, then seed with wheat;
in the Spring SOW clover ON the field,
the Summer after I take off the crop, I
pasture one season. and the next season
l let the clover grow up and come out
in bloom, and when the heads begin to
turn brown, / take my three horse
pillow and break up the land nine inches
deep, let it lie until the first week III
September, then take my two horse
pillow and go two inches deep, and then
SOW In wheat again. The year follow
ing, in the Spring turn ue for corn to
the depth of nine inches, as at first.
The Academy of Sciences of Bellies
Letters, of Caen, has offered prize
of four Thousand francs for paper on
1.-The Part Played by Leaves in Vege-
tation-" Nature" says what is wanted
Is On account of experiments and new
facts calculated to clear up, invalidate,
confirm, or modify doubtful points in
the received theories. Papers must be
sent in before December 81, 1875, adj
dressed to NJ. Travers, Secretary of the
Academy of Caen.
DRIVING You've HoRsEs.-An ex-
change says: ''In teaching a young
horse to drive well do not hurry to see
how fast he can trot. Keep each pace
clear and distinct from the other; that
is, in walking make him walk, and do
not allow him to trot. While trotting
be equally careful that he keeps steady
at his pace, and do not allow him to
slacken into q walk; the reins while
driving should be kept snug, and when
pushed to the top of his speed keep
him well in hand, that he may learn to
bear upon the bit, so that when going
at high rate of speed he can be held at
his pace, but do not allow him to pull
too hard, for it is not only unpleasant,
but makes it difficult to manage him.