The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-04-09
FACTS FROM ALL SOURCES.

| horses IN 1f6a6 DT1Gal0. 1Ho bObd
number of horses is 367, 900. The in
crease during the past five years IS &c,
600. The excess in 1874 over the mum
ber returned for 1873 is $4,000. Thes
figures plainly demonstrate that tn
scarcity of equine stock 30 loudly com
plained of is mainly owing to the create
| demand.
THE Fultz wheat grown the past sea
son upon the experimental farm of the
Pennsylvania agricultural college, a
West Grove, Chester county, Pa, has
| yielded at the rate of forty-two bushels
to the acre. The next highest products
| were the Brittle ny and red wheat, 81 A
so bushels Rongh and Ready, 81 81
go, and White Chaff Mediterranean, "a
40 60 bushels.
The Alabama agricultural college and
a committee of cotton planters have
established an experimental station,
! near Wheeler's station, in the northern
part of the state. Eleven acres are to
| be divided into plats of one eighth of
an acre each, on which experiments are
| to be tried with thirty different kinds or
qualities of manure, and then repeated
on subsoiled land.
Ons on a tree which he keeps in a hot
house. It took four tons of coal, and
he sold the lemons for twenty cents.
He is going to enlarge his building SO
as to raise oranges and bananas.
SOUTH AMERICA is the paradise of
thistles. They are large enough to af
ford shade for cattle, and are sufficient
ly tall to afford protection to highway
men, who with their horses hide behind
them.
EMPTY oyster and fruit cans are not
of much value, but if the cap to them
be melted off, and the cans otherwise
uniniured they may be put to use. 1t
is good plan TO fill them with lard for
summer use.
THE Kansas City Price Current al
ready has information that SO, 800 head
of Texas cattle are to be driven to that
place this season, and thinks the total
drive will equal that of 1874.
The Wisconsin oranges already have
established Al cooperative associations
for selling goods, and manufacturing,
and 90 insurance companies all -four
isbing, and representing capital to the
amount of $4,O0O,OOO.
In England the small farmsrs are
forming clubs for the purchase of short
horned bulls to improve their stock
Their example might proitably be fol
lowed in this country.
MOISTURE AT WILL.
M. Parar is said to be the discoverer
of way of doing without rain, if neces-
sarY. He knew that the air is full of
moisture, and he knew that chloride OF
calcium would attract and condense it
forculturing purposes. He has applied
this chloride on sand hills and road
beds, on grass, on all sorts of soils, sue
cessfully, and he has ascertained that
it may be applied in such proportions
as will produce the irrigation of land
more cheapIy and efficiently than by
means of canals or other methods of
securing artificial irrigation. One of
Mr.. Parar's applications will produce
and retain abundant moisture for three
days, when the same amount of water
introduced by the present method will
evarorate in an hour. He believes that
his preparation will not only produce
two blades of grass TO grow where bat
one now grows, but that it will render
possible fields, meadows, and prosperi- |
ty, where now there is nothing but sand |
and desert waste.
CHARCOAL KILN.
To correspondent who asked for in
formation about building a kilu for
burning, The New York Times
replies Pale or soft brick will not |
answer for charcoal kiln. Only we'll |
burned hard brick can be used, as the |
wear and tear is considerable. The !
common shape of these kilns is COnical, |
or that of an old fashioned beehive, or |
as nearly as possible the shape of an
ordinary charcoal-pit. It is most |
to make them of large size,
abo 1t twenty-four feet in diameter and |
the same in height. The walls are a
brick and a half thick for ten feet up,
and a brick thick for the remainder
Such a kiln will cost 81, 900, with the
iron doors and bands to strengthen it,
and will hold forty cords of wood,
each burning. Charcoal is worth tWen-
5y-fve cents a bushel in New York.
SUGAR BEETs.
A correspondence The Indiana Farm
,r writes: 81 have raised sugar beets
IN a small scale for several years, with
7ery satisfactory results, as they are
,aten in the winter by almost all kinds
If stock with great avidity, and are an
,xc Silent substitute for grass, prevent
ng costiveness, and keeping up a good
appetite. They are rich in saccharine
natter, and economical food, as they
produce enormous crops on suitable
and, when we'll cultivated. The most
Iuitable land for them is a rich, loamy
joil, somewhat clayey, either naturally
Try or well-drained. They should be
lrilled in rows, three feet apart, in soil
inely pulverized. They shonld be
lrilled fonr or five inches apart in the
ows, and when well started, thinned
nut to ten inches apart. Cultivate thor
,ughIy three or four times with a one
lorse cultivator, after which, pull out
~ hand any weeds that may remain or
hat may start after the cultivation is
lone. If the season is favor able you
will get from 600 to 800 bushels per
ere.
CONCERNING CRoCKBRY.
When buying crockery, it is poor
economy to buy an inferior article be-
ause it can be purchased at one-third
ess price. A first class article of porce-
ain will out-wear many inferior pieces,
I'D still preserve it's freshness. 1t
lever absorbs stale odors, no matter
low many times heated. It does not
rackle by usage, thus marring its
,eauty. Neither is it as liable to break ,
vhen used harshly. Too hot water
,ou1ed over dishes, when cleaning
hem, is q very injurious practice. ]
Dishes should be washed in suds, and
{ rinsed, the rinsing should never be ]
90 hot TO bear the hand. Hard-boil- ,
Dg wat r poured from the tea-kettle ,
yer dirty dishes is a slovenly practice,
yhich will soon tell its tale in cabalistic ,
haracters all over the face of the :
PATCHING BOYS CLOTHES.
A motherly woman writing in the
Monitor, declares that she I
nlly agrees with any thoughtful woman
rho spares her boys the humiliation of &
rearing great round or triangular !
atches, when her own skill and gen.
rous supply of pieces make the re- ]
eated pants look almost as well as new {
nes May they hold her in grateful {
long after they shall
ave outlived the era of torn trousers. '
he suggests that when pants need re- |