The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-02-19
USEFUL KNOWLEDGE.

Cold RA1Ns.-Don't permit you
stock to stand out in them. Many
never think of stabling cattle and shee |
until winter actually sets in. The colo
autumn rains are infinitely worse thar
snow. The animal becomes chilled tC
the bone, and permanent injury is the
result. The rains in most localities
have held off too we'll, pastures. have
| been cut short, and stock has been per
mitted to Craze them too close already.
Draw them off and feed literally. Give
mich COWS s]ops and succnlent food,
and avoid the bad results of sudden
transition from green to dry food.
SALT FOR Hoes. unrestrained
appetite of swine will often lead them
to consume things that are highly iu-
furious to them. Cases of poisoning
by partaking of excessive quantities
of salt Cften occur among hogs at this
season when beef and pork barrels are
emptied of the old brine and refuse
salt. A case in which several hogs
were lost in Eng; and was recently
noted. Hogs require certain an cunt
of salt, as do other animals, but it
shoHld be given to them with canton,
and either evenly mixed or scattered
very thinly about their troughs, 50 that
one more greedy than another cannot
take more than it's proper share.
CATTLE FEEDING Little and often"
is the motto of the carefal aud skiiiful
cattle-feeder. AS an example we give
E0glish feeders At $50 in the NOM
I1,cr ol ,Ivol Nth l1No1 rnnfn nd
cut chaff, Just enough of the roots 10
moisten the chaff; at O'Clock, 90
pounds of sliced roots; at 10 o'clock
meal and chat, as before; at noon, oil
cake and chaf; at 2 o'clock, meal aud
chaff as before at 4:30 p. m, meal and
chaff; at p. M, hay, from four to five
pounds. Water is kept where it can be
taken at all times, and the animals are
kept i'll boxes, loose. Three or four
pounds of meal is enough to begin with
per day, and it is increased as the cat
tie need it.
TOBACCO GROWING WILD IN NEVADA.
The tobacco plant appears to he in
digenous to Nevada. 1t grows wild in
several parts of this country, and the
stalks attain q height Of three or four
feet in some places, particularly where
the soil has been disturbed. The weed
fourishes along the railroad embank-
ment near Kemler's Mill, wher9 it may
be seen by those who have any curiosity
to examine it. The spontaneous growth
of tobacco in this soil and climate
would indicate that both are adapted to
its production. Some enterprising
farmer should procure the seed or some
harder cultivated varieties and give it
fair trial next season. Tobacco is
profitable crop, and its successful culti-
vation in Humboldt county may not be
impossible.
PECULIAR FACT IN THE HISTORY OF
RABIES. s.-ThOugh the sight of dog
almost changes the passive state of ny
drophobia in any animal to the active,
raging condition, there is one recorded
fact which points to the probab lity
that an animal afflicted wi this dis
ease is thrown into a violent state at
sight of an individual belonging to the
particular species from which POISON
was received. 4 horse inuoculated with
rabies obtained from sheep, and exhib-
itiDg the most terrible symptoms of the
malady, showed no disquietQde what
ever at the sight of dog. When one
was thrown to him he pushed it away
with his nose, but sheep being placed
in the same inclosnre, he became fran
tic, and in dreadful paroxysm of rage |
he seized il and killed it with one |
Of his powerful jaws. This |
case is in direct opposition to the usual
course of things, for animals suffering |
from rabies have, in all other instances, |
been excited to madness whenever a
Cog showed himself. 1t may be that |
jhe constancy of this phenomenon is
lue only to the fact that the innoculating
S almost always inflicted by dog.
SLEBPLEssNEss at night is often rem
,died by applying friction to all parts
If the body and limbs. To accomplish
t take crash towel and give it a lively
notion in rubbing downward from the
lead, until the blood will be put in
lively circulation. rubbing hardest
Ipon the chest. II towel is not at
land, the hand may be used for the
CURE FOR CATARRH.-A medical au-
h0rity asserts that the seveTest catarrh
old can be removed in about ten hours
" mixture of carbolic acid, ten drops,
incture of iodine and chloroform, each
5 drops. 4 few drops of the mixture
hould he heated over spirit lamp in
test tube, the mouth of which should
,e applied to the nosirils as volstiliza-
ION is affected. The operation should
,e repeated in about two minutes,
7h n, after the patient sneezes a num-
'er of times. the troublesome symp
oms rapidly disappear.
PROF. NEssLER says that the keep
ng qualities of smoked meat do not
epend upon the amount of smoking,
'ut upon the uniform and proper drying
f the meat. 1t is of considerable ad-
antage also 10 roll the meat en- its re-
1oval from The salt, before smoking,
n eawdust or bran. By this means the
rust formed in smoking will not be
hick and ii moisture condenses upon
be meat it remains IN the bran, the
rown coloring matter of the smoke
OF penetrating. TIE best place to
eep the meat is in smoke house, in
bich il remains dry, without drying
ut entirely as it does when hung in a
Kinney.