The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-09-27
AGRICULTURAL.
GOOD STOCK.

this advice 20 one young in the
stock-raising business
AS breeder you must be careful |
not to calffesh. IF you DO so by /
starving the animal at any time of
its growth you loose the cream-the
covering of flesh 10 much priced by
all our retail butchers. Where do
all the scraggy, bad-feshed beasts
come from that we see daily in our
market, aud what is the cause Of
their seragginess7 It is because they
have been stinted and starved at
Some portion Of their growth. If
the calf-fesh is once lost 1t can never
be reclaimed. A great deal Of tallow
may be got internally by high feed
ing, but the animal can never again
be made one that will be priced by
the great retail butcher CoLenan's
Rural World.
GAPEs IN CHICKENS.
/" An ounce Of preventive is better
than a pound of cure" is an old
adage, and with regard to this fatal
disease if a spoonful of sulphur is
mixed two or three times q week
into two quarts of dough and fed
to the poultry, there viii be no need
OF medicine administered to kill The
worms in the windpipe. It has an
other beneficial effect ;. it prevents
the chicks from becoming lousy, and
nothing is more detrimental to the
well-dOing Of fowl than lice. I
formerly was much troubled with
both gapes and lice, but I find sui
phur a sure cure for both evils, and
for the past three years have had no
trouble in raising them. My theory
in regard to the gapes is that the
larvte of various insects are picked
up and eaten, the warmth of the
stomach of course matches the eggs
and they are allowed full time to
grow, and at last fairly choke the
breath of the fowl. By an occa-
sional dose of sulphur the stomach
is cleansed of them, and they pass
off with no injury.-Cor. Country
Gentleman.
SWINE IN THE BARNARD.
The plan of allowing pigs to run
in a large open manure yard and
tread straw into manure answers
be tier for young or growing pigs
than for those that are fattening.
Neither is it inconsistent with the
best modern methods of making
and preserving manure for while
there is not o better understood fact
in philosophy than that animals
must be kept still and quiet during
the process of fattening, and must
have their rambling instints re-
strained, yet with animals which are
young and growing very different
course must be adopted If much
confined they will get misshapen
and rickety, will lose the bloom of
health and vigor and remain small
in size and tender in constitution.
Exercise is as necessary for them as
it is for horses, and the manure
heap in the yard will be benefited
by their roofing. The old corn will
be picked up and the fermenting
mass will form warm and healthy
bed, highly suited to the sOmnolent
habits of the pig in winter.
MANURE THE FRUIT-TREEs.
Adyices from Bucks, Berks and
Montgomery counties, among the
best of our fruit-producing regions,
tell us that the apple crop is likely
to be one OF the heaviest known.
And yet there have been already
two pretty full crops in the last two
years. we expect to hear in future
years that the apple is "unsuited to
the soil of Pennsylvania" unless
something is done to sustain the
strain on vitality which such con-
tlnuous bearing SO often results in.
1t must not be forgotten that all this
mass of fruit is not made up OF
nothing but that the matter OF
their substance is in q large degree
taken from the soil We never think
to get crops Of corn and potatoes
without continuous and regular ma,
nuring, nor can we get apples
Jefferis, one of the best Of the Ches-
ter-county apple-raisers, as was
stated at the last winters meeting
of the Pennsylvania fruit-growers
held in Pennsylvania, manures his
apple trees regularly every year
Whenever he has little else to do, or
has any refuse that he can get, he
hauls it as tOp-dressing for his
apple orchard.
So many seem to feel that manure
given to their fruit-treea is so much
robbed from the farm-so much
taken from the regular farm crops
but experience has shown that it is
not essential that the fruit-trees get
the best stable manure. Indeed,
some good fruit growers would
rather not have rank, strong matter
Road-scrapings, ditch-washings, OF
even kithen ashes have been found
when spread under the trees, to pro
duce a world of good.
OEtimes during tho summer there
may be chances of hauling some
thing to dress trees with and we dc
not know but it is as useful in July
and August as any other time. The
roots are then at work actively lay
ing up matter for next year while
the swelling fruit makes an active
demand for all that the roots can
possibly supply.
We believe that If orchards were
properly fed we should hear very
little about alternate bearing years
IN the apple-tree.-GeTnlaH IeIe.
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Labels for Fruit Trees.
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