The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-05-28

quickly as possible into q cOlander, so
that all the water will run out. Press
them with a small plate, then turn upon
a platter add large piece of butter,
and cut up fine. Serve while smoking
hot,
VALUE OF MANURE.
A correspondent of The Western
Rural writes By way of encouragement
to those who have hitherto neglected
this important matter, allow me to cite
to you few facts. Twelve years ago I
thrashed out seven good-sized stacks of
grain, and hauled the straw with sin
gle horse away from the machine. This
straw I allowed to rot down where it
lay. For the last nine years that land
has been titled, and most of the time
has been in corn corn will be on it this
season, and larger, heavier, and earlier
than on any part of the field not ma
nured. -Four years ago [ hauled forty
five loads of barn-yard manure on two
acres of ground, and harvested the first
season seventy-twO bushels to the acre,
while the balance of the field only aver
aged forty bushels. Here was an iu-
crease of thirty. two bushels to the acre,
and this manure on our soil will leave
its mark for at least ten years, and I
Judge the increased quantity of corn
during these ten years cannot be less
than two hundred bushels from one
acre. This, at fifty cents per bushel,
would be one hundred dollars pay for
hauling out twenty-five and half loads
of manure, or nearly four dollars and
half per load.
FARMS IN THE UNITED STATES,
The following is from Harper's Mag
azine The great improvements that
have taken place in transportation,
which make it possible for the wheat of
Iowa and California TO compete in the
English markets with that raised on
the Atlantic sea- board, and which place
Iowa in competition with New England,
have operated to specialize farming.
The large farmer of to-day raises fewer
kinds on his farm than did the smaller
farmer of the last century. This spe-
cialization allows the use of the higher
appliances and the use of capital as the
former system could not. The true
farms have doubtless grown in size, on
the average. The early settlers of
nee es ity could till but small farms.
The tax lists of Long Island for the
Years D0UW6GH 10 . anu 400 Blu" L1ldG
in nine English towns the average land
holding was about twenty-five acres,
and in the Dutch towns about thirty
seven acres, or for the whole fourteen
towns it was TWENTY-FIVE and One.t third
acres, and at that time over ninety per-
cent. of the tax payers were landholders.
The national census of 1870 enumerates
$500, coo farms, or only six and half
per cent. of which were less than ten
acres, and more than half of the whole
number contained over fifty acres.
The cash value of the farms, nipple
ments, and live stock was placed at up
ward of ST, 900, 100000, and the total
estimated value of all the farm pro-
auctions at about 81, 448, 100000. OF
the 70, 800. 900 persons engaged in all
classes of occupation" 100000 were
engaged in agriculture. We have abso
lutely no statistics of the agriculture
Of the colon es at the time of the revOlu-
ton therefore the actual figures of
progress cannot be given, and We re-
frain from estimates.
VALUE OF A THOROUGHBRED BOAR.
Every breeders circular says that the
thoroughbred pig, in starting a herd, is
chiefly valuable in breeding the common
stock. Byusipg common thoroughbred
boar upon the common sows, you get
half-b 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 get
ting 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 scrub. The thorough
bred, If purchased young, can be had
from S25 to $50 each. He can be used
one season end sold or castrated and
fed, when ne will of himself almost or
quite pay for his original cost.
At first thought, to many, the price
for pure blooded pig may seem high,
but, really, it is better TO pay the price
than let your sows go to a scrub for
nothing. Say you pay $25 for a boar,
and breed twenty sOws. They will raise,
say one hundred pigs, which is a low
estimate. The pigs, then, cost you
twenty five cents apiece, and'will make
hogs that will weigh at fattening time
from one hundred TO two hundred and
fifty pounds more than scrubs (Which
grade pigswiIl do on the same feed. You
have therefore, an increase of value, of
$500 toS7OO year, with the price of pork
at IS per hundred. and you have your
boar left. Can you invest your money
at a larger per cent ?-An1eTjcGn SaOj1le
Journal.
BRAN AND CORN-NIEAL FOR COWS.
The Practical Farmer says: It is
we'll settled in the opinion of all our
best dairylnen that bran greatly pro-
notes the milk secretions in COWS, and
it is fed almost universally. About
mixed with corn meal is the
usual proportion. This mixture seems
to promote both quantity and quality OF
milk. From several sources we hear
that buckwheat bran is a great producer
of milk, and it is being used considera-
bly, among our Chester county dairy
men, in about the same proportion as
the other. Thos. Gawthrop, near West
Grove, Chester county, also by repeated
trials with his own cows, has fully sat
listed himself that they do as well With
corn snd cop meal and bran as with
pure corn meal and bran. The amount
of nutriment in corn cObs is so very
small that this result will have to be
explained on the supposltlon OF the
ground cob acting to promote digestion
by distending the stomach. The pres
ence of bulky material being necessa-
~ to promote distensiOn and fill up the
stomach of Illuminating animals, before
digestion can he accomplished, is fire.
quently lost sight of. Hungarian grass
is also found for mich cows to be rather
superior to the ordinary run OF hay.
The last year or two Hungarian grass
has doomed up wonderfully IN the estl-
nation of our dairy farmers and a
very large scope of land will be sowed
with it the coming season. 1t natures
for cutting in about sixty days, and
produces two to four tons per acre-the
latter of course on good soils: Three
pecks to the acre is the usual allowance
of seed.
CORN-MEAL FOR SWINE.
A farmer in Pennsylvania says that
he had fed five hogs 297 pounds Of cob
and corn-meal made into mush by boil
ing, and he got eighty seven pounds OF
live weight. A month after, they con-
sumed 375@ pounds of meal and gained