The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-02-19
FARM AND GARDEN.
DUTIES OF TIE GRANGE.

VIC AOrce5 OubStu0 It's BaEeS n66u De APP
pretended. We are too streng in num-
bers, and too well fortified in the
truthfulness of our principles and the
Justice of our cause, to fear even the
most formidable combination of our
Toes. Oar dangers are now internal,
and our duties lie IN watchfully guard
ing against them.
Our first and greatest danger is in
ternal discord. This our enemies, who
see the uselessness of an open attack
upon our serried lines, will be active
enough in secretly fermenting. If we
are SO unwise as to play in their hands,
we are lost.
Our growth has been unprecedentedIy
rapid. An immense body of men and
women, hitherto comparatively isolated,
and totally unaecustomed to co-opera,
tive action, have been drawn together
into an organization, wisely planned
and admirable In its design but ne
cessarlly imperfect in its working parts,
as everything Of the kind must be, in
the beginning. In consequence, there
will be more orless disappointment and
dissatisfaction, and disposition on the
part of some to complain of, and per-
haps resist, the edicts Of state and
national oranges. Local and personal
jealousies. unless vigilantly guarded
against, will also bring matters of dis
cord into our ranks Wisdom and pro-
dence alone can save us from disaster in
this direction.
The most solemn obligations bind us
In traternal relations with each other
throughout the whole order, and fidelity
Is the browning virtue of the 9patron.
To guard ours elves against the elements
OF discord, we have but to bear these
obligatioDsin mind, cultivate faith, hope
and charity, practice forbearance and
exercise patience, trusting to time to
remedy what seem to us imperfections
and wrongs. Let these principles be
coDs'a ntly inculcated in every grange,
and whatever differences may arise,
there will be no disco1d.
A second source of lurking danger
may be found in the political and semi
political questions which agiiate the
country. These questions often come
up in such DISCUSSES that, unless we are
exceedingly careful, we shall find our
selves, as an organization, involved in
the complications of party strife, in
spite of our constitution and our
declaration Of purposes. Brothers,
hang up censpicuously in every grange
this warning:
Be1OGre of Politics and Politicians!
We are making war upon rings and
monopolies outside of our gates. We
must not forget that human nature is
the same within the order as elsewhere,
and that while we are crushing combi-
nations that are expressing us, there
NAV be danger that designing men,
who have found their way within the
gates, will try to subvelt the organiza-
ton to the furtherance of their own
personal ends, by creating offices and
movements calculated to
give themselves position and emolument
at the expense of the fla ernity. We
hope there are not many such false
friends among us, but if there be any,
they should be watched.
Another danger to which we are ex-
posed, comes from presence among us
of we'll meaning and able, but somewhat
visionary and impractical members, who
will earnestly urge upon the order the
of various enterprises not
within its scope, and whose
prosecutions would lead to vexatious
complications and ultimate ruin. There
are EaaDy things, too, for which, though
perfectly legitimate as grange work, the
time has not arrived. We must not
attempt too much, but "make haste
slowly" We have a great deal to do,
at present, in the way of perfecting our
and discipline Without
harmony, unity, and that drill OF train
ing which will enable us to act in Of
fciept concert, our numbers will oaIy
become an element of weakness. With
them, our power and permanerce are
assured.
We do not speak as an ala1mist, Tor
we have full faith in tie triumph of
our principles, and believe that the
dangers we have limited at, and others
which may lie in our way, need but TO
be seen to be avoided or overcome.
Our words are but the friendly warning
of one who has the good CT the order
deeply at heart.
THE STOCK PEA VS.. CORN.
The writer, having occasion to visit
a neighbOr when he was gathering in
his corn, and knowing that he hal
been raising the 8" stock pea" for eev-
eral seasons (selling them at So per
busheD, took the opportunity of Gin
terviewing" him on the comp ratiye
yield of the pea and corn.
He brought into the room a good
siz ID ear of corn, and upon counting.
we found it to contain eleven rows, of
eighty six grains each. We both agreed
that such an ear would represent the
average yield, per stalk, fer his best
corn. He then stated that he had
counted the peas on single stalk, from
the same quality of land, and found
the number five hundred. Four pea
stalks would grow on the ground cccu-
pied by one stalk of corn, making the
yield, in grains. fully two to one. He
further stated that be had pastured his
hogs on the peas, ard found that they
thrived and fattened as when fed on
corn. He had not tried them for other
stock, tbOuGh they would, no doubt,
make excellent feed for horses and
COWS, if ground into meal. Another
neighbor usei the green vines, cut and
cured, as forage for his borses and
mules, of which they seemed very fond.
On examination of these vines, as grown
on good land, our calculation was, that
four such vines would be equivalent to
one heavy bundle of fodder. Allowing
twelve good stalks OF corn to one heavy
buEdle of fodder, and four stalks OF
peas to one stalk of com, would give
twelve times as much forage from the
peas.
TabUlating the above comparisons,
we have: As forage, peas twelve, corn
one; as grain or meal, peas two, corn
one; or putting the prices equal, (Which
would be the case were the pea raised
abundantiy) We would still have, peas
two, corn one.
DIARRHEA IN YOUNG PIGS.
NJ III. Mulford. M. D., in The Amer
lean Swine and Poultry journal SAYS:
Many OF our swine breeders in the
west sustain considerable loss annually
by their pigs dying from the effects OF
what is commonly called scours, caused
by the bad quality of the sow's
milk. The disease is more apt to make
its appearance when the SOW has been fed
on dry corn or musty food. 1t generally
attacks them one or two days after
birth, and seldom after eight or ten
days. / have never failed to cure this
disease by giving the SOW as much
of the third decimal trituration
as will stand on nickel five-cent piece,
once day. It may be given in little