The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-08-21

he tick be washed, Is the sweetest and !
lealthiest of beds. IF, In the winter
season, the porousness of the straw-bed
makes 1t little uncomfortable, spread 1
over it a comforter or two wooden blank
cts, which should be washed as often as
every two weeks. With this arrange
ment, if you wash all the bed cover
ings as often as once in two or three |
weeks you will have a delightful |
healthy bed. Now if you leave the bed |
to air, with open windows during the |
day, and not make it up for the night
before evening, you will have added
greatly to the sweetness of your rest,
and, IN consequence, to the tone of
your health.
PRUNING AND TRAINING FRUIT TREES.
Our most successful pomologists
agree that a standard tree, in an or
chard, should have five or six feet of
clean, straight stem. Straightness can
be perfectly obtained by keeping the
young tree tied to stake until Il has
acquired strength and firmness enough
to support itself in straight position.
All shoots proceeding from the stem,
below the first tier of branches forming
the head, should be rubbed off with the
hand while tender, as, If allowed to
grow, they retard the development of
the head and impair the form and habit
of the tree. In forming the head OF
| young standard, a vigorous upright
root should be secured for leader,
and three or four others of the most
| vigorous to form branches or boughs.
A laxness of slenderness of habit can
be corrected by pinching off the ends
OF the branches, producing more hor-
izontal growth. AT the present time in
the growing season young trees will be
pushing vigorously, and, as a general
thing, will have made growth enough TO
enable the orchardist to perceive what
form they are about to assume-whether
the young branches are proceeding from
Gherightpiaee, and in theri2ht direction,
to reach the desired form. If they are not
they should be set right at once by rub
bling off shoots that are not wanted,
pinching the top off to retard such as
are pushing too vigorously to the detri-
ment of others. An equality of growth
among the shoots intended for the main
branches, or framework of the tree,
should be maintained and where a sur
plus of small branches in the interior
are appearing, giving the tree a bushy
or twiggy look, a sufficient number OF
them should be removed to allow the
others to acquire a full and vigorous
, growth. The ordinary mode of pro
ceeding is to allow the trees to grow as
nature and circumstances may direct
during the summer, and in winter OF
, spring correct by pruning, etc, any de-
fects or defOrnities that may have arts
en-. This is not what we call good cul
/ ture, -N6aU York Herald.
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/ clear our pastures of brush and weeds is
a very important question IN all ou
; grazing districts. As q matter of fact
2 upon most dairy farms it requires the
r utmost vigilance and considerable ex
pense annually in cutting brush to keeL
3 them clean. The grazing of COWS an
} young cattle alone will not clean the
land from brush and weeds. Patches
of briars, whortIeberry, sweet fern
hazel-nuts, scrub-oak, or other brush
I spring up, and spread year by year until
) the grass is crowded out, and the land
is covered with young growth of for
Z est-trees. In many of the older states
. there are large tracts of land now cover
ed with timber, that forty years ago were
, in pasture. In the case of rough, hilly
land that can never be ploughed, this
! return to forest is often desirable, bu
|
ed for pasture, and if animals can bt
substituted for human labor in killing
3 brush and weeds, it is exceedingly de
3 sirable to know it. We recently visited
2 two farms lying side by side, with NJ
: perceptible difference in the quality o
d moisture of the soil. The pasture land
< were only separated by stone fence
q but something much broader than
s fence line had separated the manage
S ment of the two farmers. The on
1 pasture had been grazed by cattle for
: long term of years, and the policy hat
n goUe to seed in magnificent growth o
= alders, whortleberry brush, young ma
g pies, verVain, thistles and golden rod
y briars and other brush and weeds
: There were patches of grass in perhap
o one quarter of the field, where the COW
got seanty living. The other pasture
in addition to its cattle, had the con
L slant tread of flock of one hundre
e and sixty sheep, and their hoofs in thi
g case certainly had been gold. Beside
all the wool, mutton, and lambs sol
II from the flock, they had paid for thei
'e keeping every year in freeing the pastur
d of brush and coarse weeds, and in Ell
Sc riching it with their manure. Their
5, was no brush of any considerable size
g and very few weeds. And we learne
1t from the proprietor that sheep were til
n only agents employed in keeping tn
lie field clean. They had nibbled th
r, young shoots every year as they started
a and what they had not killed ou
Et right by this cropping they had keI
De, even with the grass. There was goo
Of feed in every part of this pasture, eve
Is latein thefall, and the owner of this farl
Of used this contrast between these az
IS ioing pastures as q standing argument
lie favor of sheep husbandry. 1t was yer
u much to the point. If it is true, 6
ID George Geddes asserts, that sheep
ID certain proportion to cattle pay the
rs way in pasture naturally clean, the
a must pay much better in pasture il
clined to produce brush and weeds
We have had occasion to notice th
= beneficial effects of the grazing of shee
81 upon another farm that has been unde
II observation several years. They hav
D. not only subdued sweet fern, briari
s. and thistles, but have greatly improve
9r the grasses. The sod is much thicke
h and heavier, and the white clover hg
X come in where once it made no show {
~ all, In pastures where the brush
he already strong, and higher than th
ID sheep can reach, it cannot be expecte
is that they will conquer. But if th
st brush be cut for a season or two, an
t, the sheep turned in sufficient number
II upon the young growth, they viii kee
Is it under and eventually destroy i
m This is much cheaper than the scyth
AZ and pillow etually.-AnIerica1 AZ
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