The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-10-08
USEFUL KNOWLEDGE.

FIFTY thousand dollars has been eN
pended at Jacksonville, Ill, in an un
: suceccessful attempt to find bed of Goa
worth working
THEY are trying to acciimate tn
Florida cedar tree in Germany, as u fur
nishes the only kind of wood suitable io
: the manufacture of lead pencils.
A MISSISSIPPI professor has caulihow
ers eleven inches in diameter, solid
smooth and without break. He ma
, nurcs his land by.plowing in rye.
! AN experienced Kentucky breeder
, Mr.. Nanmeter, gives us specific for the
, cure of barreuncss in cows-work. Iii
mode of management is simply to reduce
the flesh without producing inilamma-
ton. lie adopts the plan Of giving
, severe exercise with only moderate feed
ing, and he had found il to work admir-
ably.
According to the returns Of the de-
partment of agriculture, the direct losses
of sheep owners 10y the rayagcs Of dogs
wool and mutton, and the indirect loss in
the repression of sheep hushandry, and
the consequent loss Of large percentage
of the grass crop, is still larger.
Ticks oN SHEEP. Y. Bliss writes
to the Prairie Farmer that tobacco is not
7 50 good as the following prescription:
"Turn that tobacco on the ground, and
then get one pound of sulphur and put
II into four quarts of salt, and give in
that proportion to your flock per hum
dred, once in two weeks and il will cure
your sheep of not only ticks hut scah.
When the ticks and scab are gone stop
the sulphur"
FARMERS wives lose health and life
every year in one of two ways: either 10y
! busying themselves in a warm kitchen
until weary, and then throwing them
! selves on bed or sofa without covering
and perhaps in q room without fire, or by
removing'thc outer clothing, and perhaps
changing the dress for a more common
! one, rs soon as they enter the house after
| walking or working. The rule should
be invariably 10 90 at once 10 a warm
room, and keep on all the clothing, at
least for five or ten minutes, until the
forehead is perfectly dry. In all wealth
ers, if you have 10 walk and ride on any
occasion, do the riding first.
A SINGULAR MATHEMATICAL FACT
ANY number of figures you may wish To
multiply by will give the same result
if divided by "a much quicker opera
tiOn but you must remember To annex
a cipher To the answer whenever there is
no remainder, and when there is a re-
maindcr, whatever il may bc, annex q .
to the answer. Multiply i6i 10y ., and
the answer will be 1920; divide the same
number by and you have 232 and, rs
there is no remainder, YOU add q cipher.
Now take 357 and multiply 10y .; there
is 1855. Divide the same number by p
and YOU have l7S and remainder; YOU
therefore place a 3 at the end of the line,
and the result is again l,1S5.
To cure a horse of brdlc-brcaking get
a piece of bcd-cord four times the length
of the horse and double il in the middle,
and at the double end make q loop,
through which pass the animals tail
Then cross the cord over his back, and
pass both ends through the haltcr-ring
under his chin and tie both ends of the
cord to the tough-ring, through which
the haltcr-strap plays, the end Of the
halter being attached 10 a billet Of wood.
Should the horse attempt to pull back
the strain will he on the root of his tail
before the haltcr--trap will become tight
cncd, and ne will at once step forward
to avoid it. After 50 fixing him few
times in the stable hc will abandon any
such propensity
FIVE hundred and twelve cubic feet,
or an cight-foot cube, is commonly rcck.
oncd as the measure Of a ton of hay; but
this rule is only partially accurate. A
high NOW, long settled, will weigh ton
to four hundred cubic feet, or even less,
and low NOW of clover or other coarse
hay will sometimes require six hundred
and fifty 10 seven hundred cubic feet. IL
depends upon the fincncsS and compact
ness of the hay, and no accurate general
rule can be given; yet five hundred cubic
feet probably comes nearer m average
measure than any other.
RENovATING SOUTHERN LANps.--A
Tennessee correspondent of the Southern
Farmer rcnovatcs worn-uut lands 10y
sowing peas on them and feeding of
This is done two or three years IN sue
ccssion, until enough fertility i- gained
to grow clover Then plenty Of clover
seed is sown from December to February
and a good catch is always secured.
Whenever the land is rich enough TO
grow clover, the farmer has the ascend
lncy and can soon make his fields pro
iucc any crop he wishes. The difficulty
is in getting "A start, and for this purpose
the Southern field or cow pea is un-
rivalcd.
CARE AND USE or He's MANuRE.--A
writer i'm the New England Farmer thus
gives his experience in the management
and use of hen manure: / would say that
in 1861 / took four bushels of hen manure,
turned it on the barn floor, took COM
non fail and thrcShcd il to powder;
hen took twenty-five bushels of muck
hat had been dug eighteen months,
,pread it on the barn floor and thoroughly
mixed it with the hen manure A single
handful was put in the hill, and the corn
lroppcd upon il. ! had a splendid field
# corn. Planted one row without the
compost. That row could be distinguished
I'll through the season, being about two
weeks behind the rest of the field, and
inally it never did catch up.
/ believe if farmers that keep from
wcnty to thirty hens would save all the
Iroppings and compost a. above, or in
ONE better way, ,.in-taad ofbuying fertil-
zcrs, as many at the present day dc, II
would be very much more 10 their all