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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-03-21
Roup Remedy.

a correspondent of the Homestead
having purchased a roupy Houdan cock
which was put among his other fowls,
he treated them all as follows:
separated the Houdans from the others,
putting them into clean, warm and dry
quarters, and fed first on raw onions
chopped fine and mixed with scalded
meal in the morning pulverized sui
phur and pepper at night, with now and
then a little newly burnt charcoal finely
pulverized and mixed with the scalded
meal. If they refused to eat, put
down two or three pellets about the size
of walnut, composed OF charcoal three
parts, sulphur two parts, with a little
pepper, and four parts scalded meal.
sprinkled finely pulverized asafoetida
in their water, which, gave lite warm
When their heads and eyes were badly
swollen. l washed with soap suds made
of CASTLE soap or warm milk and water.
The feathers mostly fell from their
heads, but returned in the spring. The
first of April the three Houdan pullets
began to lay and gave us three eggs
each day Except ten days. until July,
and two eggs day nearly all of those,
none of them offering to set. One dozen
of their eggs would weigh 80 ounces.
They have been very healthy from that
time to this, and their decendents. We
fed our other fowls freely on onions
chopped fine and mixed with their meal,
daily, and most of them escaped, or
with very slight attacks. We think
much of onions for fowls to keep them
in a healthy state during winter. We
give them q few once or twice week in
their meal
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-03-21
Rust in Wheat.

r. Y. NJ, Arlington, Va, writes to the
Southern Farm and Home: "While I
do not claim to have discovered an in
fallible cure for rust in wheat, / believe
I have found the means of preventing
rust in four crops out of five, perhaps
more. You remember how destructive
rust was to the last crop in nearly all
the wheat-producing sections OF the
South. I raised as fine a crop as ever ]
had in my life, and am an old farmer,
while all my neighbors' crops were
ruined by rust. I attribute my escape
to top-dressng my wheat in March with
wood ashes, putting on about twelve
bushers to the acre. / got the idea
from Il forget the nance which recon-
mended ashes not only as preventative
of rust but as the best manure for
growing wheat. My experiment was so
successful that I mean to top-dress my
crop this year if have to buy and haul
my ashes.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-03-21
Pluck-A CapitaI Fable.

The hopelessness of any ones accom-
plishing anything without pluck is IL
Illustrated by an old East Indian fable.
y mouse that dwelt near the abode of n
Great magician was kept in such con-
slant distress by its fear Of cat that
The magician, taking pity on it, turned
1t into cat itself Immediately it be-
can to suffer from its fear Of a dog. so
the magician turned it into a dog Then
1t began to suffer from fear of tiger.
and the magician turned it into a tiger.
Then 1t began to suffer from its fear Of
huntsmen, and the magician, in disgust.
said, BE a mouse again. As You have
only the heart OF a mouse, it is impos-
sible to help you by giving you the
body OF nobler animal. And the poor
creature again became mouse.
1t Is the same with q mouse-hearted
man. He may be clothed with the pow
crs, and placed III the position of a
brave man, but he Will always act like
4 mouse; and p'Iblic opinion is usually
The great magician that finally saws TO
such person, "Go to your ohscuritv
again. You have only the heart of n
mouse, and it is useless to try to make
n lion out of YOU"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-03-21
Bearing Year in Apples.

A correspondent of the Journal Of
Horticulture says:
1. Take scions from the tree in 1872
and put them into q good and thrifty
tree and do the same in 1873, and you
will get fruit in ALTERNATE years.
2. If you cut off of thrifty trees the
growth of 1872 in the last of July, leav-
ing three or four buds that would come
out in 1873, you would force out the
mex years buds and gain one year.
8. If you remove all the blossoms on
one-half of your tree in the bearing
year you will have fruit on that half the
odd year. These things I have done
successfully.
have now in bearing the Victory APP
pie of the old year produced in this
way; next year the scions of the last
year will bear on the regular year.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-03-21

AT lambing time have plenty of
separate pens for the ewes and lambs.
Let them be warm and well-ventilated,
and above all let them be dry. If all
goes right, if the ewes are healthy and
the lambs strong, there is no trouble;
but there is no greater test of skill, pa
thence, good Judgment, and ingenuity,
than to have number of weak lambs
come during wet cold weather in the
early spring. A few little lamb-blank-
cts made of flannel and tied on with
tape viii be found very convenient.
See that the lambs suckle frequently.
This must be attended to. There is no
chance Tor the lamb if it does not get
plenty of milk.
EARLY lambs fattening for the
butcher should be allowed anything
and everything they will eat III little
troughs, placed where the lambs can,
but the ewes can not, get at them.
Bran, oatmeal, oats, oil-cake, corn-meal
and sliced Swede turnips or mangels,
are all good-those are best of which
the lambs will eat the most. At two
weeks old lamb will generally COM
mence to eat a little bran with its moth
er, and after that it should be encour-
aged to eat as much as possible. Feed
the ewes we'll, and see that they have
plenty of water. A few roots for the
ewes are Of great value. Feed plenty
of bran and clover hay.
Breeding sows should have as much
exercise as possible Do not keep more
than three or four in pen. And
week or SO before narrowing put the SOW
by herself in warm pen. Feed plenty
of bran. Ii the bowels are not loose,
give some Glauber's salt in the food,
say teaspoonful at each meal until it
effects the object If the SOW is poor
and weak, boile5 linsoad or oil-cake will
be better than the salts. If the SOW is
quiet and you can be with her at far
rowing, throw blanket over her and
keep the little pigs under it while they
are sucking. The heat from the SOW
will keep them warm, and they will
soon be strong enough to take care of
themselves. Give the SOW bran-mashes,
and put in q little salt, say half tea
spoonful once d day. The more warm
water and bran she will take, the bet
ter. In three or four days give a little
meal with the bran, and gradually in
crease the quantity as the SOW gives
more milk. At two weeks old the little
pigs will begin to eat, and should have
a trough separate from the SOW.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-03-21

l will give you the result of my obser-
walton on the subject I have an orch
ard of superior apples, Of which am a
great admirer. / discovered last spring
that several of the trees were in state
of decline, and upon examination found
every tree infested with vermin of diff
ferent kinds. I dug the turf from around
the trunk of each tree, and applied half
O bushel of leached ashes in its place,
piling them up around the body of each
tree. Tie improvement in the orchard
soon became quite apparent, and have
nodoubt if the same process were repea-
ted annually it would be attended with
like favorable result I examined the
trees this fall and found all of them clear
of vermin but one, which purposely
omitted applying the ashes to. This leads
me to the conclusion that ashes destroy
the verInin and likewise promote the
growth of the trees
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-03-21
How Far We See.

Herschel was of the opinion that, with
the telescope he used in the researches
in the heavens, which immortalized his
name in the annals OF science. he could
penetrate four hundred and mnetv-sev-
IN times further tAan Sirius. assumed
20 be at least so far distant that the sun
is near at hand III comparison. While
exploring with that instrument, 10000
stars fitted by the object glass in q
quarter of an hour. and that subtended
only an angel OF Is degrees. So all the
worlds are moving rapidly in space.
Reckoning from the limited zone thus
inspected, the whole celestial region
could be examined by giving time
enough to the enterprise and, Judging
rom few sections only within scope
II assisted vision, more than 5000, 900
cd fixed stars might be reasonably sup
posed to be recognizable, and could be
seen lthmOdern improved Instruments.
But more are beyond. vastly beyond.
and when Mr., Clark, the self made as
tronomer OF Cambridge, Massachusetts.
and the most progressive telescope
manufacturer now known to scientists.
has completed his great work. far more
amazing discoveries will probably be
made IN the armament.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-03-21
Fresh Fields for the Heroic.

HerOism consists essentially in having
the GOODNESS, courage and unseltishness
to attempt and do what very few would
venture The object should be better;
moreover, it must be laudable. A
burglar runs great risks, but we do not
dub him hero. Now, we venture to
suggest few quiet situations
in which, as the notices say, center
prising persons of both sexes" can dis
tinguish themselves, and benefit the
community IN greater or less degree ac-
cording to circumstances. The list of
openings can be extended indefinitely.
l. Let all youthful smokers conquer
the growinghabit all sufferers use their
noses for their original uses; and all
masticators of the weed spare their
mouths and public highways. It is I'M
necessary to discuss here the prOpriety
or otherwise Of these indulgences. 1t
is enough that the victory over them
demands GOODNESS and courage, to which
many are not equal.
2. Let all young men who have begun
to take a friendly glass" forego it at
once. even though it be presented by
the fairest hands on the gayest holiday,
or urged with varied bantering and en-
treaty at the most brilliant table.
3. Let all ladies whose taste and iudg
ment revolt against absurd fashions
ignore them. Why should free Ameri-
cans be ruled by the caprices of a few
Da0distes. or ordered how to dress by
magazine writer whom they would not
invite to lunch, If known? Spartan
sumptuary laws were IL favor of econo-
my. Yet it submits in grumbling dis
content to irresponsible tyranny obedi-
ence which is ruinously costly. Why
should Mrs. Smith be required to drag
silks, at five dollars yard through the
mud, while poor Mr.. Smith is at his
wits end about the grocer's bills?
6. Let all men refuse their names to
all papers. the contents of which they
cannotvouch for, including testimonials.
~ nlla31lljtY OF ofSing Sing can get
testimonial, and you may see dozen
names testifying to the excellence of
one whom each of the dozen signers
will own to be worthless. How are
they caught? By being taken one in
detail. and each told what the rest are
going to do. No one likes to be the
one to refuse. Here is a splendid tie
for heroic deeds Be the one DR..
John Hail.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-03-21
Water in Pasture Fields

AT this season of the year, when, if
ever, the streams are dry, and cattle apt
to suffer from the scarcity of water, al
low me to say word in behalf of the
poor brutes who so uncomplainingly en-
dUre privations of this character.
The farmer who turns his stock into
a dry field in the morning Of hot day
ia July or August, and has not sense of
humanity enough to bring them out at
noon for the purpose of giving them an
opportunity of getting water, is simply
unfit to have the care of dumb beasts.
This may seem harsh language, but it
is the plain truth, and the pity is that it
is not more generally spoken of in our
agricultural papers. / have frequently
seen poor animals treated in this way,
and my heart has pitied them deeply,
for It must be apparent to every mind
that the sufferings of the poor beasts
must be at times intense, and with no
earthly chance of being mitigated I'M
less their thoughtless or heartless own
er sees fit to relieve them.
Now, contend that not only is this
practice of depriving animals of water,
for from twelve to fourteen hours at a
time, during the fiercest heats of sum-
mer inhuman In itself, but it is the very
worst kind of economy. Neither man
nor animal can be subjected to such con-
| tinuOus seasons of thirst without hay
ing some of their functions impaired.
The animal that is deprived of water
for so long a time, necessarily becomes
heated and feverish. The relish it
would otherwise have manifested for
food is lost. Digestion can not proceed
with the regularity of completeness
that it would had the animal access to
water at all times, or at least once dur
ing the day. Farmers often wonder
why stock does not improve during the
summer months. They attribute it to
the heat, the flies, or other causes but
the real one, which is that they have
been pasturing in dry fields, and their
owners are too stupid or too Indifferent
to bring them out to the trough
or stream.
My opinion is that the farmer, who
has the means of having water in his
pasture or indeed all his fields, is gross
" neglectful of his own interests, and
he is equally so if, not having these
| facilities, he refuses or neglects to give
| his pastured animals water at least once
during the day.-JournaL Of the Farm
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-03-21
The Nature of Couuettes.

While girl Is young, and all her
powers of facinatiOn are unimpaired the
game of cOquetting is a very enjoyable
and engrossing one. It tickles her van
ity 10 be surrounded by group of gen.
tlemen, all of them anxious to obtain q
smile or q word from her, to the ignor-
ing of others. Il Is very entertaining
to her to see the half-disguised mortifi-
cation and jealousy of the majority. if
for the time being, if she favors one
more than she does the rest. She feels
naturally elated at the thought, that
she can bring those to her feet who
make stir IN the outside world; that is
acknowledgment of her influence
which no one can ignore; and If it is q
matter of considerable difficulty to
bring n man to her feet, when mt last
success crowns her efforts, her triumph
Is very sweet indeed. There is the
pleasure OF spurning him, and boasting
to her friends that she has made one
more conquest. Besides. the labor it
self is an agreeable break in the dull
monotOny of her life In order to dis
play her points to the best advantage.
she has an opportunity OF exercising
thos intellectual powers which other
wise might lay dormant She is troub-
led by few twinges of conscience on ac-
count of the misery and heartburnings
she causes, for she regards the whole
tribe of men as her lawful prey, to be
treated Just as her own sweet will di-
reefs. If the stupid creatures choose
to become gloomy misanthropes, be-
cause they arc played false by a CO.
quette, that is their lookout, and no
concern of hers. Besides, she has I'M
defined impression that mems hearts
can only be wounded temporarily: they
are such big, burly, coarse creatures
that it is not likely they should POSSESS
such acute sensibilities as frail women.
One or two rebulfs viii do them q great
deal of good by knocking some of the
superhUous cOnceit cut of them. And
so, at the outset of her career, the CO.
quette plunGes into the amusement of
flirting with infinite zest, and does as
much damage in a short time as posi-
BILE. But as she grows holder, her tri-
umphs become fewer and her disap-
pointments many. Her powers of at
traction grow less; uncOnsciously she
acquires an overbearlng demeanor, the
natural result of her many victories.
She gets the notion into her head that
men are bound to admire and pay their
homage to her; that, as superior crea-
ture she has right to demand their
openly expressed admiration. And so
she does not take the trouble to make
herself very agreeable to them. She
assumes half defiant attitude, and
snubs and ridicules them numerically.
Strange as it may (and does) appear to !
the coquette, they do not like this sort
of thing and are not attracted thereby.
The consequence is, that they rather
avoid than court her society.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-03-21
Disintsrment of Charles I.

In some remarkable instances, where
the location of the burial places of cell
.-brated personages has been in dispute,
the work of Identification has been ac-
complished by the discovery of what
were plainly conceived to be the re-
mains of the individual in question.
In other instances the body has been
completely identified by the close re-
seemblance of the face OF the corpse
to extant pictures, busts or coins. The
Identification of the remains OF Henry
". in Canterbury Cathedral, after the
lapse of nearly four centuries and a
nalf, is an example of of the first class
IF cases. The Identification of the re-
mains of Charles 1, after 165 years, of
the second class. The remains of
Charles were completely identified by
the striking resemblance of the coun-
ienance, Notwithstanding its disfgure-
lnent, to its portrait, and by the fact
that the neck was found smoothly di-
vided across. We have the following
particulars of the excellent condition.
after los years, OF n body suddenly de-
prived of life and embalmed and inter
red in lead |:
On removing part of the lead cof-
fin, an inner coffin of wood, much de-
cayed, was exposed, and within this the
body, wrapped in cerecloth, into the
folds of which an unctiOus matter mix
ed with rosin had been poured to ex-
clude the air. The coffin was quite full,
and on removing the covering from the
face the skin was found dark and dis
colored, the forehead aud temples we'll
preserved, the cartilage If the nose
gone, the Characteristic pointed beard
perfect, the left ear entire, and the left
eye open and full, though IL vanished
on exposure. The head was found loose
and was easily taken out and exposed
to view. Ii was heavy, wet with a liu-
md which gave to writing paper and
linen a greenish red tinge; the textures
OF the neck were solid, and the back
part OF the scalp was perfect and of a
remarkably fresh appearance. The hair
of the head was a beautiful dark brown.
that of the beard n redder tint. The di-
vlded muscles of the neck had retract-
ed considerably, and the smooth sur
face of the divided vertebre was yisi-
BILE.
In the same vault III which Charles l
was inferred, Henry VIII was deposit
ed. The le0den coffin, which had been
mclosed IL thick elm case, appeared
to have been beaten in, SO as to leave
an opening large enough to expose a
skeleton OF the king, with some beard
upon the chin. The body of the king
had been inferred 206 years. To the
preservation of bones it is impossible to
set any limit of time. The bones of
King Dagobert, disinterred from the
Church of St. Dennis after 1000 years,
and others from Pompeii after 1900
years, and OtheTs-as part Of Egyptian
mummies-full 1000 thousand years
old, attest their permanence.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-03-21
Vitality of Seeds.

About the year 1850, a gentleman in
Scotland succeeded to an estate which
had been in his family over 300 years.
On this estate there was q large marsh
OF bog covering over 100 acres, on which
his predecessors had unavailinglv ex-
pended large sums in the hope of drain
ing it, and thus retaining the land for
agricultural purposes. The bog was in
the form of a basin, surrounded by
billy or rising ground OF the height of
about 80 feet. From one part of this
rising ground, there was a rapid de-
scent, after passing the hill, and my
friend was advised to cut drain
through the hill at this particular point,
and thus, perhaps, get below the bot
tom of the marsh. This was done at
considerable expense, the drain being
some 40 feet deep, and rather resem-
bling the bed of a river than a drain for
agricultural purposes.
The experiment was a perfect success,
as the drain set into sandy soil below
the level of fhe bottom of the bog and
completely drained it. But the pecu-
liar feature of the case, which I wish to
present TO your notice, is the fact that
on the surface of the soil excavated from
this drain, and which must of course
have formed the bottom of the 80 feet
of rising ground by which the bog was
surrounded, a quantity of black oak
plants sprang up the following season.
Now black oak logs had, in that part of
the world, been occasionally found in
the large bogs; but there was no tradi-
ton of any having existed on the pro-
perty alluded to; neither was there any
appearance in the formation of the bog
ana It's surroundings to indicate any
different form of the land than what had
been Familiarity known at least three
centuries. The acorn from which the
black oaks vegetated must, therefore,
have laid for centuries 40 feet below the
surface of the soil, and yet they imme-
diately vegetated on being exposed to
the sun and air.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-03-21
wine-Making Proves Improbable.

The California Agriculturi8t asserts
that persons in that State who have
been longest engaged in wine-making
are the poorest, and that many of them
with their sons and daughters have con-
tracted taste for strong drink which is
fast bringing them to destruction. 1t is
q fact it says that wine can be bought.
in many OF the older wine-products dis
tricts, for the cost of the cask in which
it is stored, say 10 to II cents per gallon
or less, and complaint is made that
there is no market for it at any rate.
The same paper learns that several wine
growers in Solano County are destroy
ing their vineyards, the business hav-
ing proved improbable among them.
SIS. Wolfskill, who had 10000 vines
and had tried wine and brandy making,
has pulled up his vines in disgust, and
now uses the land for grain This will
be pleasant news for Mr., Cough and
his followers.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-03-21
Sheaf Oats for Forage.

In answer to the inquiry: "What
shall we grow in the place of corn fod-
der?" / would suggest the sowing of
oats pretty thickly, and when first in
the milk, so as to have them saved as
green and fnll as possible; store them
under cover, and it will be found that
more good food can be raised to the
acre than of any other known grain or
grass. That oat straw is of great value
has long been proved, and allowed to
be nearly equal in value to hay when
cut green adding to this the grain, say
fifty bushels to the acre, would give
nearly a ton of the best of feed, on
which not only does young stock grow
thrifty and large, and the condition of
work horses Improve. but with bran OF
meal ii one of the very best things to
feed to COWS for milk and butter
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-03-21
BEAST AND MANARE BROTHERS


Little one, come to my kneei
Hark how the rain is pouring
Over the roof, in the pitch-black night,
And the wind in the woods a-roaring!
Hush, my darling. and listen,
Then pay for the story with kisses:
Father was lost in the pitch-black night,
In just such q night as this isl
High up on the lonely mountains.
Where the wild men watched and waited,
Wolves in the forest, and bears in the bush,
And ON my path belated.
The rain and the night together
Came down, and the wind came after,
Bending the props of the pine-tree roof,
And swapping many rafter.
crept along in the darkness,
Stunned, and bruised, and blinded
Crept to a fir with thick-set boughs,
And sheltering rock behind 1t.
There, from the blowing and raining
Crouching, sought to hide me;
Something rustled, two green eyes shone,
And wolf lay down beside me.
Little one, be not frightened;
1 and the wolf together,
Side by side, through the long, long night
Hid from the awful weather
His wet fur pressed against me;
Each of us warmed the other;
Each of us felt in the stormy dark,
That beast and man were brothrr.
And when the falling forest
No longer crashed in warning,
Each of us went forth from our hidlng-piacf
Forth in the wild, wet morning.
Daring, kise ~ payment!
Hark, HOY ': Sind is roaring;
Fathers horsc - a better place
When the stor ~ rain il pouring!