The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1876-01-13
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

WATERING POULTRY.-Iti is the belief
of writer in the Fdncier'S Journal that
many of the diseases incident to poultry
are due to neglect in providing them
with pure water; particularly do we be-
lieve such to be the case in the majority
of instances where chicken cholera pre-
walls. The omission to furnish fowls with
suitable drinking water is one of the
worst features of cruelty to animals. 1t
is neglect that is decidedly adverse to
success, hence tends to diminish indi-
vidual fancy for fowls, and works detri-
ment to poultry interests. Those whom
we occasionally hear say that "there is
no profit in poultry" are not qualified to
have the management of the same, and
in their attentions may be classed with
the thriftless and neglected parties who
keep fowls that get drink when it rains.
THREsHING OUT.-Have aclose floor;
take two saw horses, two and half feet
high, put them about three feet apart,
take hickory poles about three inches
thick, bend the under side at each end,
then nail down about two inches apart
let one hand stand on each side and beat
on the poles. One hand can thresh out
twenty or twenty-five bushels per day
Wind out the straw that is left in the
rice as you do oats; put away very dry,
and in the husk it will keep for several
years.
l should have mentioned above that
you should irrigate, when in your power,
after the crop is put in good condition.
Good, black swamp land will make, if
well cultivated, one hundred bushels of
rough rice per acre. Red or upland rice,
will do well on almost any good upland
is well adapted to pine lands and all
seapy hill-sides; if pine lands are well
ow-penned, it will make very good
yield. if the seasons are good.
/ regard rice as one of the best crops
we can make, as we can raise it Especially
swamp rice), on land that will make moth
ing else it is the cheapest food for man
or beast that We can raise. One and a
half or two acres will feed q mule twelve
months. II has a heavier per cent of
nutriment than any other grain, being
eighty-seven parts in one hundred.
The above applies to the cultivation Of
rice on a small scale, and to all the farms
in the cotton States.
A REMEDY FOR HARD TIMEs.-The
need of more attention to agriculture is
not sufficiently considered by those who
are contriving ways and means by which
the hard times may be brought to an
end. An editorial article in the Phila-
delphia Enquirer presents the following
startling statistics:
The census of 1870 shows that only 10
per cent. of the population was engaged
in agriculture, and that while the gen.
eral increase throughout the United
States was 279 per cent, the increase in
the cities was 75 per cent, showing a
tendency to flock into the cities in search
of the artificial sources of wealth and to
forsake the natural, the true, solid found
alton of all riches, the farm. We raised
100000 bushels of corn less in 1870
than we did in 1860. We had 100000
oxen less in 1870 than in 1860. We had
nearly 100000 hogs less in 1870 than
in 1860, while the general increase of
live stock from 1850 to 1860 was 100 per
cent. From 1850 to 1860, the increase
of COWS was 50 per cent, and from 1860
to 1870 it was but per cent.
That agriculture is a profitable en-
ployment ought to be apparent to all
who have supplies of farm products to
buy, but the annexed statement by the
New York Tribune presents the fact in a
very impressive light:
Taking the farmers and planters as a
class, we do say that there is ample
statistical proof of the fact that they are
better off than they have been any time
for three years past. We point in the
first place to the quantities of wheat;
corn, cotton, beef pork, cheese, hams,