The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-02-23
AGRICULTURAL ITRMs.


lbs each were recently sold in
Georgetown Kentucky.
The premium sweet potato as the
recent Louisiana State Fair weighed
sixteen pounds, and measured in
shorest circumference twenty-four
inches.
At a meeting of the Brandywine
FarmeES Club, IN Chester County,
Penn, David Branson showed an
ear of corn thirteen and q half
inches long, Sand containing 2,456
grains.
A correspondent from Curtisville
gives Tusyan account of the largest
tree In Indiana. It is white-oak,
twenty-one feet In circumference
and eighty feet to. the fork. Our
correspondent estimates that it
would make over two hundred rail
road ties.
An English traveller asserts sthat
where wheat is very subject to rust
it is completely checked by the use
Of salt. He recommends about
five hundred weight per acre, ap-
piled during the winter or in early
sprig. Who viii make the expert
nent and let us hear the result
CHURETEa. An exchange says fall
and winter milk for churning should
be scalded IS well 40 strained. Tenn
perature Of cream In winter As de-
gTees, in summer 81 degrees.
HARD ON THE SHER.-Sheep in
Colorado have long heeces in which
the dust and mud Of the summer
accumulate. Then seeds of grass
are waited into them by the wind.
When the rains Of winter fall, the
grass sprouts and thousans Of sheep
are now to be seen5on the plains,
carrying their pastures on their
backs.
SULPHUR FOB HoRsBs.-A cor
respondent of the Willamette
Farmer feeds. his stock tablespoon
ful Of sulphur to each animal, with
their salt, once in two weeks
When he had done so no yermiI
has troubled them, and his COWS
have not been affected with garget
norh is sheep with grub in the head
he has praoticed this twenty years
Cars OF Hoas.-A hog sweats
not like a horse or man, but through
his fore legs. There is q spot OF
each leg, just below the knee, in tn,
form Of q sieve through this tn,
sweat passes of, and it is necessar,
that this be kept open. If it get
closed, as Is sometimes the case
The hog viii get sick. To cure him
simply open the pores. This is dom
by rubbing and washing with warn
water.
FEEDING TURN1Ps.-When turnip
and rutabagA are fed to mich cow
and fattsning sheep and beeves
the milk and butter and meat vii
have . decided flavor Of the roots
This mayas be prevented by feeding
the COWS only Immediately ate
milking; and by changing the feeC
Of fat animals from roots to ha.
and meal for three or four days pre-
Vious to Strengthening, there will b,
no unpleasant flavor In the meat
THE TOMATO AS FooD.-A chemis
of some celebrity considers the to
mato an invaluable article of diet
and ascribes to it important medi
cal properties. He regards it a
peculiarly useful in all those af
fections of the liver and other or
gans where calomel is considered
indispensable; and believes that I
chemical pill can be obtained from
it which viii altogether superced
the use of calomel. He says tina
IL is also almost a sovereign remed
for dyspepsia and indigestion, an,
advises the freqent use of it as a
article Of diet.
MANNER OF APPLYING LIQUID NJ
EURE IN HoLIAED.-In Holland hqui
manure is applied to fruit trees /
the following manner An iron
shod stake of about three inches i
diameter, with a piece of WOO
nailed on one side, to place the foe
on, is used TO make q circle of hole
Just under the ends of the branches
about eighteen inches or two fee
apart, and from twelve to fiftee
inches deep, and the liquid manuI
poured into them. Then the hole
are filed up again, so that th
liquid cannot be evaporated, or I'll
earth baked hard by the heat of th
sun. In wet weather, the hqui
manure is applied alone, but In d1
weather it is diluted with an equl
quantity of water. The applicatio
is made about once a week, con
msncing at the time when the fruit
well set, and ending when it shov
the first symptoms of maturit,
Liquid manure may be applied
grape vines, garden vegetables, etc
In the same way.