The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-04-23


ing calicoes and delaines. Twenty thou
sand tons are used Annually in the coun
try, two.thirds of which comes from Sic
lily. Mr.. W. johnson, East Saginaw
Mich, may furnish additional infor
nation, or any reader who can, is invites
to do so.
SAUCE FOR THE GANDER.
You cannot insist upon immediat,
cash for every article you sell at fair o.
market, and at the same time expec
the shopkeepers with whom you deal tC
give you heavy credit, to be honoreC
only at your own pleasure, or when il
suits your own whim. 1t has come tc
this in some quarters that shopkeepers
have nearly ali their working capital
out with farmers, who seldom think OF
paying till they are forced to it, and
that they themselves are oftentimes Sc
riously hampered in their business
! transactions, and made to suffer risk,
danger even, and when perfectly sol
vent, in trying to meet their short-dated
bills. -Stub6'S Gazette.
RAT TRAP.
A trap mentioned by the London
Builder called the butchers trap has
the merit of taking advantage of the
rats nature and habits in order to COM
pass its destruction. The way OF max
ing it is to get good-sized cask and
tie over it a strong piece of paper or
parchment, like drumhead. Put this
cask in the place infested, and on the
head of it q few bones, rice, or other
specially tempting bait. Let this be
done at least for week until the bait
disappears. Next place two bricks, one
on each other, inside the cask at the
bottom, and fill with water to the level
of the top brick. Tie on the parchment
as you would a jam pot, and with
sharp pen-knife cut in the centre a
cross, about three inches each way. A
rat on passing over the cross-cut will
fall through it, and on getting into the
water will at once get upon the brick
and make such squeal as will call his
friends to the top of the cask to slip
through the hole themselves as they
will all make for the brick, and terri
fo Fl yht takes place for the brick, in
the morning nearly all will be found
drowned or bitten to death.
FOR BLIND sTAGGERs IN PIGS.
Prof. Law gives the following: When
the hogs is attacked, dash bucketfuls
of cold water over the body, throw q
purgative injection into the rectum,
composed of six ounces of sulphate of
soda, and one or two teaspoOnfuls OF
spirits of turpentine in ten ounces of |
water. Setons saturated with turpen- !
tine may be inserted under the skin be-
hind the ears, or the back of the neck |
may be blistered by rubbing in the fol-
lowing mixture Spirits of turpentine |
and liquid ammonia, one ounce each, |
with powdered cantharides, two |
drachms.
THE BEST BREED OF HOGS.
A correspondent of The National Live |
Stock journal writes l find the Po- |
land China (Magie) the most profitable |
hog, making the most pounds of pork |
for food consumed, and paying better
than any other hog with which l have
ever had anything to do. / have had
Berkshires, Chester Whites, and thin
rind hogs, but none have paid me so
we'll as the Poland. Chinas. once had
a litter of pigs (seven in number) come |
Nov. IS; fed them on corn until the |
third week in May, when l sold them,
with an average gross weight of 254
pounds. Ionce had smother litter from
the same SOW come the first week in
June fed them corn to Nov. %, when
they weighed 240 pounds; continued
to feed as above stated until Feb. 8
drove them six miles to the scales,
where they made 1926 G oss average. L
did not feed them with any other view
than to make an average lot OF them.
I could have done better with them,
doubtless, if l had handled them with
q view of seeing just what could be
done with them.
NOTHING adds more to the beauty of
trees than a growth of mistletOe. A
writer in an eastern paper says: The
best way to propagate the mistletoe, is
to cut slit on the uuderside of
branch, keeping the incision onen with
q knife until with the other hand the
ripe berry is pressed into it on with
drawing the knife the berry will be
found firmly held, and in due time will
produce the time-honOred mistletoe
bough, but patience is required, for it
is not inclined to mushroom growth.
AT meeting of the Mineral grange,
Jasper county, Missouri, the different
of destroying chinch bugs
we're discussed, and the following was
adopted Resolved, That
we the patrons of Mineral grange dis
the destruction of qualls
and other insect destroying birds at any
season of the year.
The roof of Westminster abbey, in
long supposed to be of oak,
when examined last year, was found to
be of chestnut. 1t was sound and per-
feet, although it had stood for eight
centuries already, which would go to
show that chestnut timber is pretty
good for building purposes.
They have a very stringent dog law
in West Virginia. Any person is
allowed to kill dog, found chasing
sheep, without Judge or jury" The
owner of the dog is liable to all dam
ages done, and is also liable to pay
fine of 81 80 per day for every day he
keeps the dog after notification of his
owe for live mutton.
A LONDON paper states that the
ground moles may be driven away by
placing clothes dippe5 in gas-tar in their
.uns
In the vicinity of Santa Barbara, Cal
forpia, barley was harvested the 18th
If March, and farmers were preparing
10 raise crop Of corn on the same
and.
THERE is hen farm near Marietta,
ia, sixteen acres in extent, stocked
With 800 fowls. 1t is divided into acre
OTIS. containing forty-six hens and four
,ocks. A large number of shade, fruit