The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1871-12-15
From the Mobile Register.
AGRICULTURAL BREYITIES.

It is said that England consumes /
yearly two Thousand tons of beeswax,
at cost of 100000. A lsroe per |
cent. of it goes from the Uni ed /
s stes.
The San Antonio CTexas) Herald |
SAWS Mr.. B. 7. Andrews, of that |
neighborhOod, has raised q crop of
onions. many of which weigh pound |
and half, and measure fopr and 8
half inches In diameter.
Sore teats in COWS may be effsetu-
ally cured ny washing with water
aud glycerine soap, and then annoint-
ing with little pure glycerine, The
soap is an inexpensive article, now
to be had in every city and town.
Mr.. Henry II. Hunt, OF Mobile
County, has been experimenting y ith
upland rice So well as cotton, this
ear. H. soWed crop for forsge at
the usual Tina In the spring, and cut
81 when the grain was In milk.
Eo'icing soon after that shoots were
thickly spriAging up from the stub
bic, he went to work, gave 1t thor
ough culture, and now has a better
crop just in the milk and ready to cut
than the drst.
Some one has been spproximating
he first cost OF all the fencss in the
Uni'ed States, putting 1t at 81 296,-
0l0 600. These must be entirely re-
uewPd every ten years, making the
annual cost of fences Sl29, 600, 600
We might OFF, this as 8 pretty strong
argument in favor of living fences.
II Is not probable that a good Pyra-
cantha hedge would need renewal IN
a hundred ears. One has been stand
ing in the District of Columbia for
over forty years, and is still in its
prize.
N Z together one part fine sand,
one part wood ashes. and three psrts
lime ground up with linseed oil. The
sand and ashes must be carefully Gift
ed TO remove all Jumps and coarse
particles. After thoroughly incorpo-
rating the Ingredients, thin, with lin
! seed oil or crude petroleum 10 the
| consistency of cream. apply with q
| brush This, ssyR a coteUpory, Ia
one Of the best paints ever made for
coarse. work sUch as fences and roofs
1t adhers FIRMLY, is pc rfect impervi-
GUS t. water, and entirely flre-pro' Z
The Chalega Farmer, In an article
eutifl d 'tioies in the nOksts,' recites
the following as some Of them 4:
Shallow blowing; planting poor
| seed turning out good stock TO mix
with poor; buying whist you could
| just IA we'll mske in leisure hours
keeping bad fences and bad gates.
and thua having bad neighbors
spending time and money in drink
! ing shops, AID at the village store
leaving tools thrown about here snd
| there keeping worthless dogs wear
ing fine c'o'hea; and sping manners
that DO not belong to farmer"
"To neglect the culture of fruits
sayB the Plantation, lis TO forego onp
of the highest pleasures of country
life. They minister both to pleasure
and 70 health, and are smong our mot
proffab crops. Apples, pears peach
es. plum7, grapes. straw berries, and
mary other de icious fruits grow in
| orr section 10 nigh degree of excel
| lenCe. II IA true that much inferior
| fruit has been produced. This, how
ever. is attributed to 3 eleE1, culture.
and not to any deficiencies of our soil
or climate.
II is well known that shade ranks
| high among the imBortsnt agents of
fertility to soil, and that a crop of clo-
yer is the best thing that can be en-
| ployed for shading. Il furnishes the
most perfect protection through the
fierce, drying heats of summer. Its
leaves. being constantly falling, soon
| fur9i a dpliCRre covering for the entire
| soil. sufficiently thick for shade, and
| easily penetrated at al points BY the
| air. ~ hirh carries to the WORKOUT sol.
! those atmospheric elements which
! are to enrich l.. In this way, clover
moi only contributes directly to the
! feriiIizing Of the soil, by giving It's
! own substanca TO it, but il furnishes
| a covering to the entire ground,
which encourages and stimulates
| those chemical processes bv which
the hungry and exhausted lands are
/ restored.
"A small garden spot" says the
! Planters Journal, "will furnish three
iourths Of the food for the family for
| six moRths, aud the most wholesome
! and palatabie food, in all varieties, at
that. Bat many farmers, or planters
rather, have no 'ime' for such bust
nesR, being always overrun with
WORK i'm the cotton field and q few
! pole beans, and onions, and long-leg-
g "ollards are all their gardens at
ford through the summer.
These are the same men who
! have no time to save the manure
from their lots and cOwpens, nor to
litter stables, nor mend broken gates,
and'i o time for anything but cotton,
and general dilapidstion and shift
| lessuess."
The Highest farm in the world f.
! said 10 be situated four miles from
! Sherman Station; on the UuiOn Pa
| C fic railroad II has an elevation of
g CIR Il o issnd feet above the sea lev
81. Vegetables and grain thrive we'll
on the farm, aud two hundred young
apples trees have been set out as an
experiment.
a CALIFORNIA writer says =" We
iud ia Z litOruia no wood for a le-
yer or pick handle, better in quail
y than = pine limb. In the whole
Hpsiern half of our county no timber
is gro suitsble to make a carriage.
= wheel barrow or any kind of farm
implement. All these are supplied
from the E lst."
FIFTY cents per pound has been Of
fered tor new hops, and twenty cents
for last wears growth at Madison,
Wis. The qualify this year is better
tnan for several years, but the crop is
small.
TWELVE years ago an Iowa farmer
set four posts, cut from one long, slim,
cottonwood tree, for his wife to tie
her clothes to. They all took root
and are now trees from sixty TO eigh
~ feet high and about twenty inches
in diamste: The largest post was