The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-08-02
AGRICiLTURAT,.


had inquiry for a good paste that
win keep; In reply 1 will say that az
ter an experience of over thirty years
daily, / may say hourly use, I have
found none SO good as flour paste
made with alum water; gay piece
of alum large as a small walnut to
ew drops of oil of cloves added to
the paste when made. The alum
prevents the fern entaiiOn, and the
oil.is destructive to vegetable mould.
Paste made this way will keep ior
weeks I'm the warmest weather. Add
the water TO the flour eOldand bring
TO Il boil.
CARE OF FARM IMFLEHEyTs.- Every
farmer is or sh0uld be aware of the
fact that al substances expand by
heat and contract when parting with
it, and that different substances ex-
pand and contract IN diffsrent ratios,
and still with thia fact before them
they will leave plows, harrows, cul-
iivators, wagons, &c, composed of
iron and wood, exposed TO sum
mer's sun, forgetting that the exPan-
sion OF tbe iron at noon and its con-
traction at night must be forcing the
parts from each other with an I'm
comfortable force, and destroying the
implement as rapidly as if IN con-
slant use.
FLINT, in bis "GraFses and Plapts"
recommends the following mixture
for moving on light lands: Orchard
grass, four pounds; June grass, throe
pounds; hard fescue, three pounds;
TALL oat grass, three pounds; meadow
soft grass, three pounds; red-tOps,
three pounds; Italian rye grass, four
pounds; Perennial rye grass, six
pounds; English beut, two pounds;
Perennial red clover, three pounds;
black malir, two pounds; white Glow
er, four pounds; and Sanfoin, two
pounds. There is nothing to be said
against this mixture. The greater
the variety of nutritious grasses the
farmer can get established in bis soil,
the better, and the more enduring
and productive viii the pasture or
meadow lie, if it is properly fed and
taken care of.
A correspondent at Palestine, ILL.,,
asks what kind of grass is best TO
SOW on sandy land? That must de
pend upon condition. L sandy land
has been properly enriched with veg
etable matter-with leaf mold, muck
or coarse manuTe-a mixture OF
orchard grass, red-tops, juno grass,
red clover aud white clover, equal
parts, makes a good sod and yields
a good crop for both pasture and
moving. But if the soil is not rich
in humus, we should as we have
seed more heavily with red clover.
The red clover roots and the foliage
which will fall will help to enrich the
coil and renderit productive. fired
ciovor were sown first and plowed
under in juno or July, about the
time it is in blossom, or just before,
and then a mixture such as We have
Iwn, a better, permanent grass land
would be secured
A stock-raiser, writing from Har-
din, Iowa, to the Agricultural De
partment, says he has allowed his
cattle the prairie range with his
neighbors, and has never lost a sin
gle animal by disease; while every
one of bis neighbors, without excep
ton, has lost greater or less mum
Der. He yards his animals every
night, and gives them as much sail
as they will eat. This is the only
difference in the treatment. The
want of salt, and more, exposure to
low, damp quarters at night, give
stock the fatal disease called "bloody
| murrain."
Drinking stagnant water, and go
ing too long without any, causing
engagement, are prolific sources o.
disease and death. Better dig wells
like Jacob did, and initiate him il
the management of Laban's cattle
using plenty of salt, than neglect
stock till they die like rotten sheep
- L. in Plantation.