The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-06-11

may be sown for a late crop. Onions
will be fit to pull from the middle to
the last of the month. Take them up
in dry day and spread them on floor
in a dry, airy place. Save Irish pota
| toes by spreading them in q cool, dark
place, as seed for fall crop. Carefully
work your strawberry beds to kill all
weeds, and then mulch the ground. If
you desire new plants, leave a space
between the rows, very lightly mulched,
| IN which the runners may take root
Rural CGrOli7aian.
THE PROPAGATION OF CELERY.
Celery is a native of Nor way and
| Sweden, where it grows near the edges
| of swamps. This plant is rarely Guilt
waited as it should be, hence the stunted
specimens which appear in our markets.
A deep trench should first be dug, at
| the bottom of which layer of sticks of
| wood, say six inches thick; should be
placed, a drain pipe being placed end
| wise upon one or both ends of the layer.
The sticks should be then covered with
about foot of rich mold. wherein the
plants should be set. in a row and about
| five inches apart. The plants should be
! kept we'll watered, the water being sup
piled through the drain pipes, so that,
passing through the layer of sticks,
which serves as a conduit, the water is
supplied to the roots of the plant. In
earthlng up, care should be exercised
to close the stems of the plant we'll to-
gether with the hand, so that no mold
can get between them. The earthing
process should be performed sufficient
| ~ frequent to keep the mold nearly
level with the leaves of the outside
stems. If these directions are carefully
! n cd ho l. -
least four feet in length, and this with
out impairing the flavor, which deteri-
Grafton is commonly noticed in over
grown vegetables ard fruits
CHEAP POULTRY YARD.
Set posts firmly in the ground six
feet high, eight feet apart. Take No.
wire, and stretch from post to post
outside, fastening with staples made of
, wire driven into posts. Place three
g wires one inch apart, one foot from the
! ground another three, at three feet ten
D inches from the ground, another three
? at top of posts. Take common laths
2 and weave in, leaving three inches space
I between sides of each. This makes the
D | fence four feet high. Then take other
r lsths, picket one end, and chamfer the
: other like chisel blade and Intervene
e among the top wire; then shove the
e ckamfered edge down beside the tor
t of the bottom lath tapping under wires
= two inches. This makes cheap, dura
e bic, pretty fence. that is seven fee
d and ten inches high, and fowI-tight
s Wires should be left somewhat slack
r as Interviewing the laths will make i
e up.-POuttry World.
8 POTATO ROT.
a Francis Gerry Fairfield writes, in the
\ Scientific American. that bland soIu
J ton of carbolic acid in common whale
. oil or kerosene is the scientific remedy
. for the rot. He says:
The best way to use it would, think
: be to dip the potato, just before plant
o. ing, in the solution, which is very mex
y pensive and very easily obtaine J.
= may add that my experiments convince
Z me that carbolic acid in this bland so
. linton, in no way impaiTs the germina
7 activity of the tuber; but by way O
l certainty, let me recommend you,
: farmer readers to first try the expert
+, ment on few hills this spring, and, j
. successful, to adopt it as a remedy TO
Q the blight.
WHEN TO Buy SHEET. As a rule tn,
=, hes. time to buy is in the late summer
= as fiOckmasters who have kept thei
% sheep through the winter prefer TO shea
- them before selling It is usually mos
20 profitable 10 do so. After the first tx
middle of August the lambs are read,
:, for weaving, and the farmer know
3 pretty well what the increase of hi
~ flock is to be, and also what his crop
of grain and grasses will allow him t.
l. winter properly. The seasons Weld a
g home also affords the buyer a bette
20 opportunity for gauging the number @
!, stock to suit the probable contents o
i, barn and granary. Ordinarily, wher
70 one seller of store sheep can be fouut
n in the spring, ten can be found in tn
~ late summer or falL-NdtjO7laL Liz
~ Stock Journal.
II THE following remedy is given 70
m blight in pear trees To half bushe
of lime add four pounds of sulphur
slake to the consistency of whitewasb
and, when it is applied, add to eacl
d. gallon of the wash half an ounce Of car
8 bolic acid. Apply this to the decease
70 part. Where the bark is diseased, re
d move the outer portion before maxim
10 the application.
~ THE American Agriculturist says th
% rich farmers are those who raise gras
- and roots, make produce, stock, or but
!. ter and cheese, and make manure enOug
- to raise occasionally big crops of grain
a The poor farmers are those who dc
- pend on corn and wheat alone
is As newly-set grape vines begin t
!. throw out shoots, attend to them, an
J. allow only one to grow, and not half
as dozen feeble ones spread out over tn
of ground. Only one vine should grow
) and that will be stroog and vigorous.
lg THE total number of short-horn cattl
Is sold last year in the United States wa
as 2,676, the amount paid for them bein
as 81 OBJ, 005, an average of S407 a head.
Ill A WRITER in the OskaIoOsa Heral
ed says he is informed that one bushel {
tn salt per acre will always save a Gro
m from the chinch-bug.
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