The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-09-27
NEWS ITEMS FOR THE FARMER

MEMS HENS EOR THE EARM Elk.
IN MANY places in California, as we
learn from the Pacific Rural Press,
owners OF ranches have had to en-
ploy numbers of men to fight the
crickets that threatened to sweep
away crops of all kinds.
SIX CAR loads of hemp were re-
Gently shipped from Troy, Kansas,
raised principally by Norwegian
farmers, on the high prairie west of
that town. The price received was
$50 per ton.
J. F. WDPLE, of Cambridge,
Michigan, recently sheared from q
buck, thirteen months old, eighteen
pounds of wool, and from an eleven
months old buck, fourteen pounds.
Both were American merinos.
BAD LUCK is simply a man with
his hands in his pocket and pipe in
his mouth, looking on to see how it
will come out. Good luck is a man
of pluck, with his sleeves rolled up,
and working to make it come out
right.
TIE OHIO Farmer estimates the
wool clip OF Ohio this year as over
10000 pounds greater than last
year. From nine counties it has
reports and estimates showing an
increase of. III, 604 sheep over last
year. Almost in every case sheep
are reported to have been well win
tered and to be in good condition.
AN AUTOMATIC scale, to be used by
millers and others in handling grain
and flour, has Just been invented.
The instrument can be set while
filing car, so as to indicate the
weight of the grain delivered. A
miller can also tell by the use of it
how much grinding has been done
without weighing the flour.
THERE is a wheat-feld on the west
side Of the San Joachim river, Cali
fornia, thirty-tive niles in length by
eight in width, with an area of 170,-
600 acres. Estimating the average
yield at sixteen bushels to the acre,
it would give a total yield of 1885,
500 bushels, or 86,015 tons. This
amount of grain would load 6.601
cars.
A CHINESE fish company in San
Francisco have been supplying Gus
toners with trout for some time
past. The fish were sold by the
pound. Lately the fish had got
into the habit of swallowing such in
nutritious substances as scrap iron,
&C., thereby in many instances al
most doubling their weight. The
fishermen disclaim all knowledge Of
the mystery.
IT IS stated that at an agricultural
show in England, in 1870, boar Of
the White Lancashire large breed
was exhibited, which had the remark
able weight of 1900 pounds. It is
perhaps equally remarkable that
having been fattened to so great a
weight, he was afterwards reduced
in flesh, and successfully used for
breeding purposes.
IF YOU want to get rid of flies, says
the Vicksburg Herald, boil together
equal parts, by weight, of glue and
molasses spread it over common
brown paper, while hot, with a
brush. Place a sheet of paper in
every room of your house. It will
capture every fly in the room within
the day. The paper can be thrown
in the fire and a new one used, when
covered with the captured flies.
The LANDED prOprietors of North
Germany have taken alarm at the
rapid increase of emigration, and
they are shrewd enough to use a bait
which soonest tempts the German
peasants They propose to offer
land to the men who will agree to
stay at home. Meetings of land
lords have recently been held, in
order to consider the condition of
the laboring class, and appeals have
been made to the government for
the adoption of measures to facilitate
the acquisition If small holdings.
A FARMER residing near Browns
Vile, Fayette county, named John
S. Goe, lately sheared a flock of
sheep, some Of which yielded the
largest fieeces that ever came off a
Sleeps back. The 1leeces are Of one
years growth, and not left over Il
year, as is often done, to obtain
heavy heeces. One hundred and
forty sheep averaged 13 pounds 6
ounces 100 of these averaged Il
pounds Is ounces. Several ewes
sheared Is to 20 pounds, number
from II and Is to 10 pounds each :;
one two-year-old buck, 81 pounds s
ounces another q pounds 10
ounces; one buck 3Opounds5 ounces 4;
ono eve % pounds 6 ounces.
EVERY meadow, every pasture, is
battlefield, where plants of differ
ent kinds are fighting for their
chances. Supply your true friends
with what they want freely, and they
will overpower their opponents
without further assistance. The
washing down by rain from hillv.
stony pastures of soluble mineral
substances takes subsistence from
the plants we desire to encourage.
Spread rich soil, guano, wood ashes
upon peaty, swampy turf, where
you never before saw white clover or
usefuI grasses, and suddenly they
viii make their appearance without
even being sown. They have been
here before, waiting only for a better
chance, but you could not see them,
for they were overrun by coarser
plants, and powerless from starva-