The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-09-13
AGRICULTURAL.
MATERIALS FOR WAXING AND POL sH1Nc
FLOORS.

AUA4CU LIOEAL.
MATERIALS FOR WAXING AND POL SIZING
FLOORS.
For waxing wooden floors the fol-
lowing preparation is recommended:
Dissolve three ounces of potash and
four drains Of catochue in four
pounds Of boiling water in an earth
en- pot. When these ingredients are
dissolved, add two pounds of water,
and boil again, stirring in four and
hail ounces Of yellow wax with
wooden rod. Continue boiling I'M
I'll all the Jumps of wax disappear.
Let 1T cool and add three pounds
more OF wafer. In this condition it
IS ready for use. BY boiling the
wax and potash together a soluble
wax soap is formed, so that u floor
WaAed up with this preparation may
De swept, and cannot be washed with
water, Tor that would dissolve off the
soluble wax soap. For this reason
an oil p int is preferable to wax pol
Ish, tho orly advantage of the latter
beng that 1T dries quickly, while Gil
pants, requires Il long time, during
which time the room cannot be used
For painting floors the mineral
paints arc exclusively used Paints
which contain white lead are too soft,
and wear Oft very easily. If floor
painted with colors wears off un-
reasonably fast, it is sure proof that
the Taint contained white lead. This
generally happens because such col
ors cover better, aud are more easily
applied. Even the use of varnish
tolpd with litharge is to be avoided,
aud one boiled with borate OF man
ganese preferred. As a rule, il
should have two coats, but the
grcates' cure should be taken that
The first be perfectly dry before the
second Is put on.
Aft, T the floor has been painted
III order to give it polish and make
the surface more permanent, it is
coated with what is called floor lac,
which may be made thus
Dissolve one ounce of shrllac III
ono fourth Of Il pound of eighty pei
cent spirits, and add to the solution
one dram of camphor, and strain
CuG the leesin a linen cloth. This
acis used after the paint is dry, and
ives more tenacily TO the surface
A fresh coat of lac may be applied
from time TO time, as it wears off
and you have always Il fine polishe
surface, which can be washed.-
Journal Of Appljed Chemistry.
THE NEED OF TIE SOUTH.
The Southern Agricultural Pres
are strenuously adv coating the estab
ishmont of manufactures in th,
Cotton States, instead of being as
they now are, at the mercy of spec
ulators, who send their crops som,
thousands of miles to be made int,
cloth. 1t is claimed that they have
every natural facility needed, and an,
amount of water power at hand
They Iced tie population that man
ufacturing would bring to them an,
the business stimulus that woulC
follow such enterprise. Diversified
farming is also advCcated-mor
grass and stock and less cotton ais
the divisions of the large plantation
into small farms. All of this advic
is undoubtedly good The Soul
needs, and must have something dill
ferent from the present plantation
system to ever be either u desirabl
place to emigrGte to, or ever be real
Is prosperous. We notice that som
of the papers are advocating bette
and cheaper class of laborers, an
are trying to get the Chinese there
Here Is where they are sadly at faul
Better Inducements will produc
better laborers and If they eucouI
age an emigration that viii max
homes, buy land, raise children, an
build school houses, cultivate farm
make roads, and become part an
parcel OF the country all will be ben
Gifted while, even with manufa
turing, an influx of Chinese woul
perprtuate the caste, degrade labc
discourage ali desirable emigration
aud be generally ruinous TO ente
Prise aud the growth and prospcrit
of the South. - California AGric,
t.TtL
A LARGE WHEAT FIELp.-It
claimed that "a farmer named Mite
oil, IN the San Joaquin Valley, Ca
iornia, Is the largest wheat grow
In the United States Early
March be had planted $4,000 acr
and expected to make the umuu
over 10000 by the middle of IL
month. At Is bushels per ne
which may not DO too high an es
mate for thus year, tins would n
a crop OF Goo 900 bushels, aud Il
at 90 cent? per bashel- not a hr
esumatc-would bring $390.0t
The average expense of plarti
and harvesting wheat in that reGi
Is estimated ut s. per acre, VIII
would leave clear profit OF $40
600.
An EXCELLENT VAI.NIsu FOR II.
NESS. Procure at the druggists
apothecary's store half a pound o.
pound OF gum shellac, according
the quantity desired break
scales fac, and put them in a Jug
bottle; add good alcohol sufiici,
to cover the gum cork tightly, a
place the jug where it will be AC
warm. In about two days, If I
bottle or jug is shaken frequent
the gum will be dissolved and rea
for use. If the liquid appears
thick Us thin m0lasseg, add more