The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1870-09-03
Good for the PeOple--The Folks
in Council.

LFrom our Special Reporter, Larwil Bolivar, Tenn.I
We open the Farmers Council this week
again to eur readers, and bid them all wei
come to its contents, in giving al epitomo
of the fruits of our scrap box selection we
will make them as brief as possible:
Mr. Horticulture said he had few words
to say on Why does Tree die" Such
plants as the tomato, squash, and mayweed
die because the frost kills them, but when
a plant like the young maple or oak sap
ling, survives the winter and bursts forth
every sp ing with new vigor, increasing in
height, enlarging in bulk, defying storms
and alternates of heat and cold, and thriV
ing amid all vicissitudes. We may well
ask why should it ever cease to prosper.
Those parts of tree which carry on the
processes of vitality are the extremities
>stem and branches, and buds, the roots and
rootlets and the new strata of wood and
bark
The best theory is they fulfill the vital
force given them by their Creator. Differ
ent species are endowed with different de-
grees of vitality. The willow and aspen
have less than the oak or pine or yew, and
they perish sooner. This origined force in
the case of many trees is almost imprecepti
BILE, but careful observation will discover it
This law has a wide range it is seen in the
plants called ANIMALS which comprise many
of the weeds, flowers, and useful plants OF
oxr gardens and roadsides. These spring
up from seed, blossom and die in single
summer many of them before the frOst
touches them. For instance the jamestown
weed, growing in the streets and alleys anC
vacant lots around, and in Bolivar Gts goo(
time to kill them out when in fower.)
Then come biennials whose period o
r growth is two years.
Then come the imperfect perrinuals
: whose life beyond the second year is a mat
= ter of uncertainty Then follow perrinual
which perpetuate themselves by means 0
enlargement of roots, offsets, bulbs, etc
When we plant trees to adorn our homes
5 let's plant those whose vitality wi
E. ensure a green old age.
Mr. Grain says that when you sow whea
the ploughing should be we'll done, loose
your soil at least twelve inches. Whe
plouehing for seeding four, at the most 81
inches is sufficient Perfect disentegratio
n of the soil, the finer the surface soil tn
Of better.
to Drilling in wheat is recommended. Les
seed is required, it is covered at a uniforl
- depth, it comes up better, the stalks al
more uniform and the heads are general
irmer and larger, and what is better a
acre more or less can be ploughed, ha
rowed, and the seed drilled in the same da
$ Sow the best, the very best; each localit
requires its own seed, to bring it to propt
maturity Poor land, badly prepared Ian
needs more seed than good land well worke
if the soil is rich all the seeds germinate, ar
with nutrimeut accessible the roots stril
7. vigorously and the tillering is large
Wheat should have from sixty to nine
- days before shut in by the winter.
ire We blunder in wearing out land
to twenty years, thinking all the time we a
making money but awaking at length
find we have exhausted the principles of Il
a5'F soil, and rendered it unfit for further cult