The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-04-02
FACTS FROM ALL SOURCES.

| CHANGERS In that STATE WOuIQ DO we'll Il
resolve themselves into a great, grand
association, and procure the passage O
a law to prevent the killing of any birc
in Kansas or Nebraska for five years
The farmers of Colorado have already
taken steps to introduce the English
sparrow, hoping it will devour all theil
grasshoppers.
Costar beans have become leading
crop IN southern Illinois. Five towns
on the st. Louis and Southwestern rail.
road shipped seventy. one carloads last
season to Jersey City and st. Louis.
The factory at Richview consumed Is,
600 bushels. From the town of Ashley
over 5000 were shipped. Without
doubt there will be decline in bears
grease" for dressing the hair.
One firm at Baltimore, Md, is said
to manufacture from $1,000 to 10000
tons of super phosphates per annum,
using bones from South America, and
from Charleston, S. c., bone deposits.
| Having found that hogs would starve
and calves be reduced to skeletons
when fed on whey alone, dairyman in
! Ohio proposes to use whey as a ferti-
lizer. He thinks it should be sprinkled
ON the soil and plowed in.
The culture of tobacco may be looked
| upon as one of the principal pursuits
| of Algeria. The tobacco crops for 1874
have been exceedingly abundant, and
the returns are double that of the pre-
vious year-namely, 1852, 6O7f. Since
the year 1874 it has been calculated
that the cultivation of tobacco has real
lied 81, 600, 900 francs.
TO HULL CORN IN TEN MINUTES.
This is the way writer in The Lam
sing Republican does it. ''Heat pot
half full of water, with half the amount
of good hardwood ashes sifted in.
Pour the shelled lye into it-as much,
If you Wish, as this lye will cover. Boil
ii as quickly as you can, and for five to
seven minutes, or until the hull is eaten
off, which may be, by this time, half or
! all Jelly, and the kernel not saturated
or swelled any. Then wash it in a
colander set in a small tub, pouring in
gradually about two pals of water,
while squeezing the corn through the
hands. 1t is then hulled, and ready for
thorough boiling. which will take
about four hours. Keep the corn COW
cred by pouring in hot water from the
tea-kettle occasionally. The second
hour the corn swells rapidly and alb
serbs great deal of water. The last
hour let it boil very slowly, and simmer
down about dry. Don't stir it any, as
that will make it stick on the bottom of
the pot and burn. Put no salt in it.
When done, it will be as free from
the taste of I've as rice, and if white
dent corn is used (Which I generally
prefer it will be burst open and white,
like popcorn. By the above method,
there is no danger of failure, and the
secret of success "lyes" in the fact
that very strong lye is used, which eats
off the hull or bran before the grain is
saturated. Hence no parboiling is nee
essary."
NATURES ROTATION.
The Western Rural says: A natural
rotation takes place, even in the meadow
and pasture, where new races of grasses
succeed each other as the fields Increase
in age. The alienation of crops as
serts to itself something like the digni-
ty of a natural law, and man is doing
well when he adopts it. But upon what
do its good effects depend? Why do
the broad leaves alternate with the
narrow, in the ancient forest Why do
grasses change in the meadow and pas
ture? Why does the farmer obtain
larger produce, and for greater num-
Der of years, by growing unlike crops
alternately, than by continuing year
after year to grow the same2 The rea-
son is that one crop carries off more of
one ingredient of the soil, and ano her
crop more of another ingredient. After
several successive crops of the same kind
the service soil becomes so poor in
available supply of those substances
which the crop requires, that the roots
cannot obtain suficiency to nourish
the plants.
TREES ON BOUNDARY LINES.
The New York court of appeals not long
since decided that a man has no right
to the fruit growing upon branches of
tree overhanging his land where the
trunk OF the tree stands wholly upon
the land of his neighbor. But the law
regards the overchanging branches as a
nuisance, they may be removed as such;
or the owner of The land may remove
them il he is careful not to commit any
waDton or unnecessary destruction in
so doing. Where the trunk CT tree
stands on the line, the owners of the
adjoining land have joint ownership
in the tree and fruit, and neither one
has the right to remove it without the
consent of the other.
MULES ON THE FARM
A correspondent of the Buffalo Live
Stock Journal writes That mules are
much better than horses on the farm,
no one can doubt who has used them
together. The mule will do more work
than horse, on less food, and is rarely
diseased. They will not endure the
abuse of a hard driver as the patient horse
will, and very often, as an Irishman
said, ''get Up on their ear" and drive
the keeper from the stable. OF the
many mule teams which have come IN
der my observation, I never knew but
one mule to die before reaching old
age, and in this case, death was caused
by overlooking, in September, when he
had previously had no grain for long
time. Some people soy mules are
worthless to drive on the road, but
they are slightly mistaken. One of my
neighbors has a mule team that can go
t-eir mile in three minutes, with lum-
Der wagon. But some of the fancy
men would say, mule is homely
thing. There they are wrong again,
for in Louisville, KY, saw as hand
some mule teams as any man would
wish to see. They were perfect beau
ties; one span, in particular, was coal
black, and looked slick as kittens they
were the envy of many a man, and
could have been sold Tor a thousand
dollars at any time. If any man wants
to see good mules, let him go to Ken
lucky, where they make a business of
breeding them. These are only a few
hints upon the use of these valuable
farm animals.
VALUE OF A THOROUGHBRED BOAR.
A breeders circular says that "the
thoroughbred pig, IN starting herd, is
chiefly valuable in breeding the COM
mon stock. By using thoroughbred
boar upon the common sows, you get
half-blood that does very well for feed
ing purposes, which can be further I'M
proved by selecting the best SOW pigs,
feeding them literally and again getting
a thoroughbred boar and using on them,
which, if practiced a few years, will
produce porkers equal to the pure
blood. But graded or impure males
should never be used, as the tendency
is to run back to the scrub. The thor