The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-09-27
PARAGRAPHS For FARMERS.

IAhAUSAEhS TUX EARmEkSS.
Mrs. W. Il WHERRrrT, of Lancas-
ter, fran seven pints of milk, from
an Attorney COW, made Il pounds
of butter.
NAPLES, large enough to make
three ten-feet rails each, with 400
trees to the acre, have been raised
from the seed in seven years, in Mon
roe county, Iowa.
In Maple Grove, Barry county,
Michigan. is white oak tree twenty
seven feet in circumference, claimed
to be the largest tree in the world of
that particular species. This tree is
three feet larger than was the Char
ter Oak, and eighteen inches larger
than the big oak of tennessee.
A NEGRO, who was suspected of sur
reptitiously meddling with his neigh
boris fruit, being caught in a garden
by moonlight, nonplussed his detec-
tors by raising his eyes, exclaiming /:
"Good Lord dis yere darkey can't
go nowhere's to pray any moro, wild
out being 'sturbed."
THERE are four great varieties of
tho peanut known to the dealers /; tho
African, which is small and black !;
tho Georgia, which is q little better !;
the North Carolina, better still, and
the large Virginia peanut, which is
best of all. The Tennessee peanut
has three meats, but is ill-t1avored.
About 100000 bushels were raised
in the United States last year.
The catalogue of fruits of the
American Pomological Society gives
list of 81 varieties of pears with
their adaptation to different parts of
the country. The Bartlett leads the
list with votes from thirty States and
! Territories, Beure d'Aniou comes
next with 26 votes ; the Seckel third
with % votes. Fleming, Beauty,
Duchess d'Angouleme aud Blood
good stand nearly as high.
LORD DERBY recently said at an ag-
ricultural dinner in Liverpool: {, My
belief is-though l give it only as a
| thing which seems to me probable,
not as thing proved-that both
very great and very small properties
are becoming fewer, and those of a
middle class moro numerous. Poor
landowners prefer ten per cent. in
trade to two per cent. IRON land
they sell and go into business; and,
on the other hand, there is limit
beyond which most men do not de-
sire to extend their holding OF what
is essentially an unremunerative in
vestm ent."
An American gardener in England
writes to the New York EUenjng Post
that the love of Horticulture in Lon
don is universal. He says: From
| the poor woman with her broken
nosed teapot With a geranium grow
ing in it, TO the Prince of Wales with
his elegant title-covored trays in his
palatiaI windows, the love for win
dow flowers seem universal. Ishould
think that half, at least, of all the
first story houses in London have
flowers or plants before or behind
the glass. In some streets every
window has its tray on the sill"
A COW in a pasture on the line of a
railroad was the unwilling instru
ment of a good advertisement q few
days ago. The parties posting up
certain bills espied mistress COW qui-
city grazing, and having board sus-
pended in front of her face, when,
like all other bill posters they
thought this TO be an available point,
Catching the COW, bill was quickly
posted upon the board, when she
took up her march alongside the
railroad track, and wondering pas
sengers, as the train hundred by,
smiled at the ingenious expediens
which thus advertised Orion's LUIS
tire.
The Santa Clara California; Agri-
cultural Society offers a premium of
$40 for the best one hundred fruit
trees of mixed varieties, planted out
within the last year IN one body, or
in different places on the same farm
or plantation for the best five hun
dred, $40; for the best one hundred,
single variety, SIS.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Rural Nel0
Yorker says that last year on a piece
of ground 10 by 20 feet, he raised
ten bushels of onions from black
seed. He raised onions on the same
piece of ground the previous year,
and they did not pay for the seed /;
they were destroyed by maggots and
wire-worms. He procured three
bushels of salt and two barrels of fish
and pork brine and top dressed bis
garden (about one-fourth of an acre.
with il, after he had gathered all his
vegeta bles. Last spring he plOughed
the garden and put on three OK cart
loads Of well rotted bag and chip
manure, and such vegetables he new
er raised before.
THE proprietors of the New York