The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-11-15
FARM HINTS.

ment.
SHEEP KILLING DOGS are apt to be
around at this season. Put bells on
two or three sheep in each flock.
Keep a gun loaded ready for the
dogs.
Manure III the nursery and orch
ard is needed, In order to secure the
best results, and the fall is a good
time to haul and spread it upon the
land.
Spring PIGS, if not in unusually
good condition, can probably be win
tered over with profit. Pork can
hardly fail to be much higher next
year than now.
FATTENING PICS should be pushed
forward as rapidly as possible this
month. It is a great mistake to de-
lay shutting them up to fatten until
cold weather sets in.
SwNE.-Do not fall into a COM
mon mistake of neglecting these
useful animals because pork is very
low. A reaction is sure to come,
and good pigs will be profitable
stock.
PoTATo TOPS are we'll worth draw
ing to the yard to absorb the liquid
manure. Allowing them to remain
scattered over the field until spring
is very slovenly practice.
STEERS intended for winter feeding
/ should now be allowed little grain,
say two quarts per day. They should
be pushed forward now as rapidly
as possible before cold weather
sets in.
WEEDS and rubbish are best got
rid of by setting fire to them. They
burn better now than in the spring.
Be careful that the fire does not
spread to fences or the woods or
mucky land.
PLANTING may be done this month,
when the weather is mild. Rasp-
berries and blackberries do better
when planted in the fall, as the buds
start early, and when set in the
spring they are not apt to make as
good growth.
! DTCHEs.-On low, moist land, the
fall is a good time to cut bitches and
clean out and deepen old ones. I'm
derdraining on uplands is usually
best done IN the spring, or late in
the fall or early winter, when the
ground is saturated with water.
CLEAN UP.-Pieces of boards,
broken rails, barrel slaves, ETC.,
should be gathered up before they
become saturated with the fall rains
A few hours labor in STRENGTHENING
up would add much to the appear
ance of many farm. Nothing pays
better than neatness, system and
order.
Do NOT sell the best ewes or lambs
Sheep are scarce, and butchers are
picking up all the good sheep and
lambs they can find. Never let q
butcher go into your flock until you
have selected out all that you intend
to keep.
RAsPBERRIEs and blackberries wheI
planted should have the canes cut tt
the ground, otherwise they are apt tt
fruit the first year, and this often in
jures the plants for future bearing
Set raspberries four to six feet apart
and blackberries six to eight feet.
MMCH COWS, if well fed, give very
rich milk at this season. AS tn,
pastures fail, the cows should have
plenty of food at night in the yart
or stables, such as corn fodder, hay
bran, soft corn or corn meal, bee
tops, cabbage leaves, pumpkins, etc
LANES should be kept in a flock b
themselves, and have the best of car
and feed. If not already done, the
should be dipped In q solution {
carbOlic soap, to kill ticks. This
r especially necessary with the long
woOlet sheep. In cold, storm
It weather, put all, and especial
lambs, under cover.
K SHEEP for fattening in winte
C should now be selected and pushe
forward rapidly. On good fee6
# with little hay and grain, the
> will often gain more in the month {
Octobsr than during the next six c
a eight weeks. It rarely pays to try t
to fatten Merinos in winter, unit
g they are three years old.
SHEEP.-If you intend to rails
:, early lambs for the butcher, seleC
, out the largest and best commo
. Merino ewes from the flock. Civ
- them the best pasture and a ittl
grain, say half a pound each pc
Is day. This will cause them to tax
is the ram in few days. Use the puI
, bred ram-either Cotswold, Leicei
ter or Southdown, as may be pre-
o ferred.
l. narrowing sows should have
s. warm, dry pen, with a rail round til
Is inside about twelve inches from til
ground and six inches from the side
Of For two or three days after farroy
l. ing give the SOW worm slops, an
n gradually give richer food. At thrt
i weeks old the little pigs shoul
have some food in a small troug
It separate from the SOW.
If CRIBBING CoRN.-If the corn
) sound, dry, and hard, it may be kel
n in large crib, but if somewhat SO
e it will we necessary to take som
3 pains to keep it from molding. I'll
narrower the crib the better, and
is we'll to make some chimneys j
n the corn with boards. soft cor
n should be separated out on floC
+ where it will dry, and be turned o.
) casionally. Feed it out at once.
/ is better for cows and cattle than fl
fattening pigs.
- HORSES that are kept at stoa
:; :; work should no longer be turned OF