The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1877-06-08

'noa siuaote IT dry, hut it gyceh' Il cnn be
esedsSder cattle With alh,est al rood resuits
4 Z OR PRACTICE. when obliged 70 us use il il
grees state. 70 scatter i under the, fore
ieet ct oattlc, andiby their lying aad tread,
hgSoaitsit win hecomas resrlyl drx. and
Ehon yo clean our stables push n back aud
1ephcs it sgaint With green. BY this rneaus
ms able % Increase our manure pile con- con-
I s'sidatsbIy y and q am almost inclined to think
y y ls more valuable than clear manure, tarjI
6eSlyt q II sortwoi ikssill larnsnt'
4 u s. Z ssss s.sIJs s - 3 sfss &
aSplaht food than stable manure in its coarse
.soggy condition. Another idea in using
sawdust is that it decays slowly and its Of
fects will be felt for term of years; or long
or than stable MANURE alone. Straw, dry
earth ,loaves, coal ashes, and in fact anything
that will absorb the liquid, should be used
in the stable to prevent the enormous waste
th"t is going on in our dairies. Where
sti,s is used it would be much better to run
it through straw cutter, not only on ac-
count of handling the manure but it would
absorb more of the liquid, and if to be used
on crops the present season, could be worked
into the soil, much better-Ehmira Hus
'bandmdn.
Worms IN Hoas.-I will give you my
experience with the hog disease universally
called cholera. In the years of 1857 and
1868, I lost TWO fiue totso of hogs, aud o,,ci.
era was the disease. so thought by all, aud
they died in various ways. Some died vomit-
ing, some bled at the nose until death ended
their bleeding; some cramped until knots
raised on their legs aud bodies as largo as
small guinea eggs, and others wandered off
and laid down and died, seemingly without
struggle. l made careful examination
of sixteen of them, taking those that died
rs above stated, aud the examination result
ted in the same thing with all. Worms
were the cause. About one foot from the
mouth of the stomach Cor paunch as it is
commonly called) tho worms had gathered
and perforated the entrails for about ten
inches the worms were still hanging about
half through, but all dead when examined,
and examined several as soon as dead.
3 SHOW, shall we claim the disease desert
bed as cholera? If so, keep the hogs whilst
.arqwiag free Of worms. and o. the. dreaded
done by giving plenty of soap suds, salt aud
ashes. coppcras, etc. But has not fine keep,
ing, such as forcing growth, preparing breed
ers for show at fairs, in.breeding, etc in
jurcd to great cxtcut tho constitution of
our hogs? They arc certainly not so hardy
now as twenty years ago, with greater care
given. Hogs that have died here this sea-
son all seem to have lung disease But one
examination that l heard of showed th.
lungs to be rotten.-Indidna Farmer.
The RESULT OF RELYING UpoN ONE
CRoP.-Bishop Marvin, iu his interesting
letters from various parts of Asia to the
Christ'an AdUocate, says that in portions of
India the population is now suffering and
indeed dying from starvation, because oftwo
successive failures Of the rice crop, and the
farmers there grow nothing e's, to cat or sell.
Ths spresent crop threatens to be a third fail
ure from drought, and consequently there is
great distress among the people. Is this not
lesson for the farmers of the South p
Growing cotton to the exclusion of bread.
stufs might result disastrously in single
year to our sparsely settled country. The
Bishop says that India, under British rule,
is nofdcvastated by petty wars, and has
therefore "becomc over populous." Are
VIC therefore to conclude that Christianity
will substitute in that heathenish country
"famhe" for "petty ''wars 2"
The same authority tolls us that the daily
laborers in China and India get from Is to
33 CENTS per day, and feed themselves -
Their weekly rations are peck Of rice the
proprietor furnishes empty quarters for their
lodging, which are usually small rooms eight
by ten feet, with dirt floors. Eight men are
allotted for the night to each room and lie
on the dirt floor with single blanket to Gov
erIths party The Bishop curtly writes
Eight in an area of eight by ten, on dirt
floor with peck of rice week each, and
no y eat! What would an old-fashioned
Souhe darkey say to that ?"
FkRMING IN GEoRGIA.-Georgia is con.
sideed to be the most prosperous of the
Soufern States, and yet here are some of
the plltale evidences Of her prosperity =
Sevfty.five per cent. of her people are en-.
gaget in agriculture; they spend annually
two nd a half millions of dollars for ferti-
lizer,; they import about thirty millions of
dollas' worth of the products Of other coun.
triespnnually; eighty per cent. of the far.
meq conduct their business on credit, and
pay4, an average forty four per cont. above
the st prics for everything they buy the
ints4st on the money borrowed to buy sup
plis4 amounts to about four millions of dol.
arsTSeventy-fvo per cent of those who
farm. on the. credit system lose money -
Trn& the Georgia Commissioner of Agri.
culiurelis revealing some appalling truths
to the liscredit of the "mcst flourishing" Of