The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-03-15
AGRICULTURAL ITEMS.

In France there are 1876 beet su-
gar factories, for making sugar of
beets, culture that is introduced
In Illinois.
In 1871, 2O,0G4 short-horn cattle
were sold at public sale in Great
Britain, at an average price of $3.50
per head.
Land under irrigation in Spain
sells for $500 per acre, while land
lying alongside of it will scarcely
bring fifty dollars per acre.
A farmer in Winslow, Maine,
raised % bushels of wheat on three
quarters of an acre, and sold it for
$40, for seed, and the straw for $47.
At the Poultry and Pigeon Show,
Wilds County, England, recently.
white geese were exhibited weighing
thirty pounds each.
A writer claims that an acre of
ground can be set out in cotton
wood-tree plants at cost of about
$40, and that in ten years the ground
will yield fifty cords of wood.
Kincaird, Johnson, Menard & Co.,
Illinois, recently shipped to Chicago
IA oxen, generally 5 years old, the
average weight of the IA being q
$50 pounds each. One weighed g.
900 pounds.
A shipment of American short
horns to England is exported by Mr..
Alexander, of Woodburn, Kentucky,
who sold to an English gentleman
| two Durham heifers-the eldest two
years old-for $4,000.
The raising of improved stock is
every year attracting more and more
the attention of farmers, and very
/ Justly. Why should not good stock
on the farm be considered as essen
tial as good machinery in the shop.
Ohio has 183, 424 dogs, which have
manned and killed within year
23,985 sheep, damaging sheep herds
to the amount (estimated) Of $143,-
O09 SO. Including the cost OF keep
! ing them, it is estimated that the
dogs of OHIO cost 100000.
Mr.. G.. E. Morrow, of the Western
Farmer, In late address, urged at
tention to the purely ornamental
features of horticulture. There is
no good reason why farmers homes
should not be beautified, and he was
glad to note Increasing interest
shown in that direction.
SOwING CLovER-RED CLOVER IS
THE BEsT.-It should be soWn at the
rate of II or 15 pounds per acre, as
andeArly in the Spring''as practicable
slightly rolled in. Much depends
on the condition of the surface soil
for its success, a fine, rich, mellow
surface giving better growth with
10 pounds per acre, than a poor,
hard soil with 20 pounds.
SALT FOR CATTLE.-Cows now in
full flow of milk absolutely requ re
salt, without which their milk will
not be perfect. It is not only be-
cause the COWS are fond of salt that
it should be given them, but also for
the fact that if they are deprived OF
it either the yield of the milk will be-
come diminished or the quality de-
Perforated. Further than this, salt
is an assistant to digestion, and as
such is conducive to the health of
animals.
ORCHARDS Many young orchards
that are growing where the soil is
thin, having a complete substratum
beneath are often root-pruned to
their serious injury when the ground
is plowed. Young fruit trees sell
dom have any roots to part with,
consequently every rootlet that the
pillow sewers tends to retard the
growth of the tree. But where the
soil is so porous that most of the roots
strike deep and spread out below the
range of the pillow; that implement
may be employed for working the
soil. ......
A correspondent kept an account
Of the milk from his herd of nine
grade short-horned cows, beginning
June and continuing for 142 days,
together with the butter made from
the same, and ascertained that it has
taken "a pounds of milk to make l
pound of butter, or "about eleven
quarts to the pound. This is not
guess-work, he adds, but the actual
result of a correct record. +.'