The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-10-25
AGRICULTURAL ITEMS.

son IS ABOUT ZUO,O UO bags, not vary
ing materially from 28,0O0,O00
pounds.
NATHAN Johnson, Of Buchanon,
Michigan, raised q tomato weighing
twenty-three and three-fourths
ounces. He piled sawdust about the
plants.
HoLDTNG UP M1K.-A writer in the
american AgriculturiSt says he has
found his cows will always let down
their milk when inclined to hold it
up if he gives them some salt to
lick.
THE sweet corn canning factory at
Routh Paris, Maine, has this year
200 acres planted with sweet corn
The Proprietors expect to put up
250,O00 cans this season, against
300, 1000 last year.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Prairie
Farmer says the live stock-horses,
cattle, sheep and swine-sent from
this country to Japan early last
spring, all reached that country In
good condition, and gave unquali-
fed satisfaction to the Government.
The Haywood California; Adoo-
cate says: 'John Munger, near GRAY
son, in the San Joaquia Valley, viii
send to market from his ranch this
year four thousand tons Of wheat.
This is over $4,000 bushels, and
enough to keep a mill running for
year, and making one hundred bar
rels per day"
A YANKEE has invented a device for
preventing a horse from kicking in
harness. The hind legs are strap
ped at the knee joints, with a strap
running through ring on the sur
cingle, so that when one foot ad-
vances the slack slips through the
ring far enough TO allow the other
! leg to remain behind.
THE English agricultural papers
are lamenting over the entire failure
Of fruit in that country. It is stated
that the crop of apples, pears and
even the smaller fruits, is the small
est ever known there. The cause is
attributed to the severe weather in
March and April, which is believed
to have injured the trees and fruit
buds.
A CORRESPONDENT of the american
Rural Home on the way from Deca-
tur to Cassopolis, Michigan, passed
a farm surrounded by an immense
hedge of black swalnut trees. It's
owner on "taking up the land had
plowed a furrow round his eighty
acres, in which he dropped black
walnuts that now had grown to
large sized trees" Tt was quite an
interesting sight.
LIME FOR PEACH TREEs.-From
two to four quarts of air-sIaked lime,
according to the size of your peach
trees, may be applied to each one,
early in The spring or late in the
fall. Excavate a shallow basin
around the trunk, place the lime in
that cavity for a month or more
and then mix with the surrounding
soil, filing the cavity with fresh
earth.-Our Home Journal.
SMUT is not a disease, properly
speaking, but it is the cause of an
injury which may be regarded as a
disease. It is a minute fungus, Iiv
ing in and upon the grain, and is
propagated by spores, which answ r:
the purpose OF seeds. These spores
are so very small that they may ad-
here to the seed grain unnoticed
and from the smut will be deyelopei
more abundantly, as the season /:
favorable or otherwise to its growth
The usual preventive is soaking the
seed wheat, just before sowing, in &
strong solution Of vitrol (sulphate o
copper drying the grain by the use
of quick-iime.-4mericgn AgrscuJ
tm7'iSt.
Cows usually become addicted t.
kicking when heifers, from being
! MIXED by abusive mixers. I havt
never seen an old COW become
kicker unless abused. Instead O
COWS being averse to being miIkeC
when giving large quantity, have
, ever found it the reverse. Whel
pasturage is good, and COWS com,
home at night with udders distend
ed with milk, they seem grateful tx
, have it removed. Milking a heife
, tor the first time requires patience
, for they will almost invariably kick
, In such case put q broad stral
, around her body just front of Tia
Udder, and buckle it up moderated,
+ tight, and as soon as she gets quie
! (fOr she may dance around a it'll
: at first) take your pail, sit down an,
go to milking, for she is as helples
as a kitten. Do not attempt to us
. rope instead of a strap, for it vii
: not answer. This is q much bette
:. method than tying the legs, etc, a
it does not hurt the animal in tn
least A few applications Of tn
strap, with plenty of patience, an
kindness, viii cure the most Obst
> ! nate case.
4 SOwS EATING THEIR PIGS.-Ihe DC
T partment of Agriculture publishe
= the following: at is we'll know
S that sows not unfrequently attac
e and devour their own young; or
4 prevented from this will not Ie
: down their milk, so that the yOun
pigs necessarily die from want {
nOurishment. When this state {
things is not caused by a disease {
Y the uterus, it is said the SOW can b
z brought to terms by pouring a mix
t ture Of ten to twenty grains of spil
its of camphor, with one to three {
0 tinctUre OF opium, in the ear. Tn
SOW will Immediately lie down 0
4 the side Of the ear to which the az