The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-07-05
AGRICULTURAL.

hSures, from the metropolis OF the
Pacific Coast Is no longer golden ore
but fruit, wine, flour and grains.
This fact speaks volumes as TO the
growth and real progress of the ooun-
try.
Sage is best grown on rich, sandy
loans. 1t is necessary that the soil
be naturally dry, or mtifcially
drained, especially if the plantation
is intended to be permanent, since
this herb, although hardy, does not
winter well On wet or moist soiis.
For garden culture, the plants
should be set one foot apart, in rows
eighteen inches asunder; but for
field culture, two feet apart by nine
or ten inches in the row would be
more economical In the cultivation
therefor.
Half the people do not seem to re-
alize that the chest of horse needs
covering quite as much as his back
They think it is only necessary, when
they stop on the street, 10 throw an
old ragged blanket or piece of carpet
over his loins and leave the rest of
his body exposed. It would be a
poor oyercoat for man that only
covered his back, and yet horse has
chest and lungs as well as human
being. 1t is due to the horse, and is
for the best interest of the owner, to
provide a good blanket, covering
chest, shoulders, and back.
AGRICULTURAL ORIGIN OF WEIGHTS.
The origin Of all weights and
measures in England was derived
from grain of wheat. According
to the old statute thirty-two grains
well dried and gathered from the
middle Of the ear were to make one
pennyweight, twenty pennyweig hts
one ounce. It was afterwards
thought better to divide the penny
weight into twenty-four equal parts,
called grains. William the Conquer
or introduced into England what
was called Troy weight, from Troyes,
a town IN the province of Cham
payne, France. The English were
dissatisfied with this weight, because
the pound did not weigh so much as
the pound In use at that time in
England. Hence arose the term av-
oirdupois, which was medium be,
tween the French and English
weights.
DoCToRrNG OLD ORCHARDS Sever
al modes are recommended how this
can be successfully done; but we do
not see how it can be more effectual-
ly done than by the one we have fire.
quently recommended. That is to
cut out all the dying wood, ard
three-fourths of the suckers, scrape
the trunks of the trees completely
removing all the hard, broken bark;
wash with a preparation Of whale-oil
soap and water, and give the orchard
not merely under the trees, but every
part of it, heavy top dressing OF
barn-yard or compost manure. II
there is any life or productiVeness
left in the trees this will bring it out.
The suggestion that the trunks OF
the trees should be Shorne Of all the
bOughs and allowed to sucker, and
some Of these when large enough
grated Will prove a failure. The
| graftiUg of the ordinary fuckers
growing from the trunks Of old trees
can rarely be done with success. We
tried this several times and the gratis
all died at the end Of the second OF
third year. We have now growing
on suckers from the main boughs,
gratis of the Chancellor pear SET
eighteen years, and they are yet to
fruit the first specimen!
HORSES IN STABLES. Horses kept
in the stables and not doing much
work should be regularly cleaned
and fed. Some farmers seem tc
think that unless a horse is to be ia
ken out to work, he does not need
cleaning. Such a man, to be consist,
ent, ought not to wash himself, IN
less he is going to town. We feed
our horses one bushel of chopped
straw (say eight pounds) moistened
with water and mixed with two
quarts of corn-meal to each team
three times day. They are allowed
straw IN their racks at say eight
o'clock in the morning, and let them
have no food before them till noon
Then feed them and remove all thai
Is left in the rack at two o'clock, and
feed them again at night, letting
them have all the straw they will cal
till morning. In this way, horses
that are standing in the stable vii
eat more heartily than if the foo6
is before them all the time. IF they
are worked feed q little more grain
or hay. A few ruta-bagas or carrot.
may be fed to the horses with grea
advantage, say half a bushel pei
day to each team. AS spring ap
proaches feed more literally.
KEEP THE SHEEP.-It is very evi
dent that there will be a scarcity O
wool next winter, and that high
prices will prevail for the clip O
1872. Sheep are now being sold of
farms, aud out Of the hands of farm.
ers that ought to be retained. W.
do not believe that any farmer who
can keep them ought to part Will
his yearlings at this season. Theil
increase in weight and their fleece
during the next season, if they arc
reasonably well taken care of, ought
to bring in q fair return for the feed
and labor expended upon them. Be
sides, the effect of retaining general
| ~ so many of The sheep that are now
| going to market Tor butchering pur-
poses would have a tendency to ad-
vance the price of both mutton and
beef. At present there are thirty
thousand sheep going weekly into
the New York market; ten thousand