The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-11-21
AGRICULTURAL.


be shoveIed direct from the wagon into
the crib, without having to throw out
a portion by hand until the shovel could
reach the bottom of the wagon. In
such cases every finger is like a false
horse finching from the collar, and the
work is only done from a conviction
that there is no help for it. In loading
corn take out a piece of pine board SIX
feet long and little wider than your
shovel place an end on the tail board
close to the corner of the wagon, and
the other on the bottom end, fill up as
usual. In unloading, shovel down the
board to the bottom of the wagon, and |
not an ear need be touched by the |
hands"
THE CULP METHOD OF CURING To |
BAoCo.-The Culp method of curing to-
bacco, says an exchange, as distin-
guished from the old method, is de-
scribed as follows It has been Gus
tomary to hang the cut plant up by the
butt under a shed with the leaves
pressed against the stalk. Mr.. Culp
hangs up the plant horizontally, so that
each leaf is separated, in a tight house
so arranged that it can be ventilated
and heated. Instead of allowing the
plant to hang up until dry enough to
use. he takes them down several times
and lets them ferment in piles, his pro-
cess being based on actual chemical
analysis of the elements needed to OBJ
tain the highest developments of the
good qualities, and the throwing off the
bad qualities found tn the plant when
green, or formed during the process
when curing.
RAsPnNG HORSES FEET.-A sensible
blacksmith talks in the Canada Farmer
about the habit of rasping horses hOofs
in the following emphatic manner:
''Rasping down the feet nicely, as they
call it, is quite passion with some peO-
pie. I have often rasped the hOof and
the owner of the horse standing by to
tell when it would suit him. This
rasping on a hoof that happens to be
little iII-shaped, until it will spring I'M
der your finger, is far too dangerous
plan for making things look we'll.
have often commenced on hoofs that
had beautiful gloss all over, and given
them a thorough rasping not that 1
could make them any better, for that
was beyond the power of human hands,
but they had to be rasped merely be-
cause the owners mind was a slave to
fashion or fancy. This rasping takes
/ the strong surface off the hOOf, and ma
ture, trying all she can do to make up
for the evil done by injudicious hands,
forms a hard glossy surface to protect
the foot. This glossy surface takes the
place of the previous tough horn, and
at the next shoeing the foot will proba-
bly, split a little at the nails, and not
unfrequently the nail punches piece
out before it.
ORCHARDS IN GRAss.-f a man de-
sires fruit for himself and family only,
and is Indifferent as to the time he gets
it, and Indifferent about the quality AID
| quantity, then he may plant his trees in
grass ground and keep them in that con-
.
business of fruit-growing a dependence
! Tor a livelihood, he would hardly be
! satisfied to wait from twelve to fifteen
! years for results that might be OBJ
tanned by good culture in seven or eight
years nor would he be likely to be
pleased with the moderate returns from
common or inferior fruit while his
| ueighbor was receiving high prices for
Il superior article grown on the ground
where fruit was the only crop.
It is true that there are soils so rich
that culture would give trees an Excess
sive growth, and not only postpone
truitfulness, but make them liable to
be injured by the severe winters. An
experienced horticulturist would not
choose such a soil for an orchard.
One great advantage of having the
ground under culture Is that it enables
the orchardist to give his EEtrees a more
uniform growth, without regard to CON
dition or unfavorable seasons. If his
trees are loaded with fruit or the season
unusually dry, a more frequent stir
ring of the surface will generally keep
up the desired vigor, but if the trees
are in grass aud the season very dry, he
is powerless to help the case and can
only watch and worry to see his trees
almost cease to grow, and the leaves
turn brown and the fruit drop for want
of sustenance, and perhaps gets very
little consolation as he listens to his
neighbours merry whistle while follow
ing his cultivator or h rrOw through his
orchard, unconcerned about theweather
and wicked enough perhaps to wish that
everybody else believed in the ''grass
theory" so that he Will be able to get
an extra price for his extra fruit.
3 PRUNING EvERGREENs. Evergreens,
3 like fruit trees, should de pruned with
a purpose. If you wish the foliage to
e be very thick, keep cutting back, every
e year, until the work suits you. They
can be pruned at almost, or quite, any
r time OF the year, but when the object
< Is simply to secure a more compact
? growth, the best time is in the spring,
S just before the new buds appear. BY
a doing it then the wounds will be con-
+ cealed by the new growth but if done
! in the fall You have the stubs to face
e you all winter, and in winter, as every
S thing is desolate, one wishes his hedges,
e or the lawn evergreens, to look as we'll
/ as possible. But where it is desired to
e check growth somewhat, as in a hedge