The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-08-30
AGRICuLTuRE.

The Tart, Field and Farm makes
some gooG suggestions to horse own
ers as to stables. They should be
light, dry and well ventilated. Dark
stables and bad ventilation bring on
blindness, CHAMBERS, tarcy and other
diseases. Ground floors are prefer
able for horses to standupon, partic-
uiarly In hot weather, but they also
possess disadvantages. When horses
stand on board floors their feet
should be moistened frequently to
prevent fevered legs and contracted
feet. Working horses which are
bad feeders should be often soiled,
or mashed out with sealded bran to
prevent constipation, restore the ap-
petite and preserve condition for tu-
ture service" Food should be ap-
portiOned out according to size and
the labor required. Some proprie-
tors allow from D to 3 per cent. Of
the horses live weight Of good food
per day. It is good economy to feed
work horses well-cheaper to buy
grain than to buy horses. Colts
should also be fed well; if they be-
come stunted they seldom develop
into first class horses.
NEARLY ALL farmers have by this
time cut off their crop of hay, and
whether it be good or bad they
would like to produce as large q sec
ond crop as possible. No plan to
secure this can be SO good as to give
the meadow a good dose of liquid
manure. Take a barrel or a hogs
head, dump into it a bushel of barn
yard manure, pour on water and stir
vigorously, let it stand awhile, then
draw off the liquid. Now rig q hogs
head or barrel on a cart, put In it a
large spiggot, from this lead q trough
or old tin pipe filed with little holes.
Fill this barrel with your liquid ma
mare and drive TO your meadows
now pull out the spiggot and drive
over the grass stubble. The manure
will run to the trough and thence to
the ground in a sprinkle like rain
Keep at this until you have thus
spread over your ground about one
gallon Of the liquid maUure 10 every
ten square feet of your meadow
You can put any residue in your So
luton tank into a comp post heap
You need not bind yourself to dc
this in one day or III one week, but
do it as quickly as possibly after
your grass is cut.
By this plan the farmer has moi
only watered his meadows at time
when above all others it needs water
but has given it manure in the best
possible form, and in a form which
will give a return quicker than by
any other mode. If he have not the
barnyard manure he can buy one
hundred pounds of sulphate of am.
monia for seven dollars and fifty
cents, which would be a good dress
ing if combined with one thousand
gallons of water. This may be dis
tributed over his whole acre or bC
made to do for only One-fourth. Al
addition of a little superphosphat'
to the liquid would add value il
fact, we think too little attention /!
paid in putting superphosphate OF
grass lands. This will appear ike (
slow way of manuring, but it vii
prove a good one even if tried upo1
a much more moderate scale thar
we have recommended. There is M
manure like the rain from heaven
and if we put on water impregnateC
with-the great principle which tn
rain brings down we shall have it
equal. We have recommended
rough sort of apparatus; the farme
can apply his own inventive idea
and make a better, or one which vii
save him time. We know the prin
ciple of the manure is correct anC
we ask some practical farmer TO tr,
it for himself