The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-07-23
FIELD GLEANINGS.

lOI Eiie prevention OF cruelty TO
animals publishes the following rules
for the treatment of bslky horses. Tn
case one of these plans does not succeed,
try another:
1. Pat the horse upon the neck ex-
anime the harness carefully. first on
one side, then on the other, speaking
encouragingly while doing so; then
Jump into the wagon and give the word
go; generally he will obey it.
2. A teamster in Maine says he can
start the worst balky horse by taking
him out of the shafts and making him
go around in a circle till he is giddy.
IF the first dance of this sort does not
cure him, q second will.
3. To cure a balky horse, simply
place your hand over the hOrses's nose,
and shut off his wind until he wants to
go.
4. The brain of a horse seems to en-
terrain but one idea at time; therefore,
whipping only confirms his stubborn
resolve. IF You can, by any means,
give him new subject to think of you
viii generally have no trouble in start
ing him. A simple remedy is to take a
couple of turns of stout twine around
the fore leg. just below the knee, tight
enough for the horse to feel, and tie in
a bow knot. At the first check he will
probably go dancing off, and after going
short distance, you can get down and
remove the string to prevent injury to
the tendon, in your further drive.
A Corn CROP WITHOUT RAMA cor
respondent of the Farmers Vindicator
says he last year raised eighty bushels
of corn to the acre with but one rain,
which fell on the 18th of June. He
tells how it was done as follows I laid
my rows three and a half feet apart,
threw out with turning plough, ran a
deep furrow with a buu-tOngue in the
water furrow, put sixty bushels of cot
ton seed in the bull tongue burrows,
threw four burrows with the turn
! plough, reversing the Il 4, planted my
corn very shallow on the top of the
ridge, and cultivated shallow with short
cotton shovel, the first two ploughings.
Laid by with turning plough, running
| shallow nearest the corn, deeper in the
middle of the rows. then took a long
| bull tongue and subsoiled by running
| two burrows in the middle of the rows,
| leaving a small loose bed eight or ten
! inches deep. I tried subsoiIing on diff
ferent pieces of land, both in corn and
| cotton, and I found in gathering the
| crop difference of four hundred pounds
of cotton per acre in favor of the acre
subsoiled.
A BIG Corn FARM IN ILLINOIS. The
| Nashville Union and American quotes
| the Western Rural to the effect that Mr..
! Nj. L. Sullivant, a farmer in central
| Illinois, was, at the time of writing,
! preparing to plant his corn. His men
were plOughing five hundred acres 6
! day, using so hundred and fiftv teams
and he had then ready about twelve
thousand acres. DIR. Lee adds Mr.
! SUllivant Is one of the largest and most
| systematic farmers in the United States
who made a present to a railway com
pany of $2S, 900 to construct an irOI
road to and across his plantation o.
some forty thousand acres. He emf
grated from the Scioto bottoms, neal
Columbus, where, like many Ohio
farmers, he learnt the art of raising
corn at a small cost to the producer
at the time of the organization of thu
United States agricultural society h
was a distinguished Ohio farmer, We
not unwilling to sell a large estate a
one hundred dollars per acre to lay tn
foundation of a much broader one OF
the rich prairies of central Illinois, a
the gOve' nment price for land.
FOREIGN BIRDS FOR AAIERICA.-A YER
deserving institution has recently BEEF
established in Cincinnati, under tn
title of Cincinnati Acclimatization So
ciety, its object being to effect the intro
ductiOn of such foreign birds as ar
worthy of note for their song or thei
services to the farmer and horticulturist
The Manufacturer and Builder SAYS
The society announces that last sprin
2 1t expended five thousand dollars i
introducing fifteen additional species @
birds, and that it has already success
fully accomplished the acclimatizatio
of the European sky lark, which
stated to be now prominent feature c
the summer landscape In the vicinity c
: Cincinnati. Among the species who
it is proposed to introduce is the EU
ropean titmOuse, considered abroad a
one of the most successful foes of insect
: injurious to vegetation.
A HOPEFUL VIEW OF IMMIGRATION. -
Col. Daniel Dennet, in an article O
: immigration, in Our Home Journal, ha
> the following hopeful views: In spit
: of the predictions of politicians, ba
state governments, high taxes, negr
rule, "kU-klux" and ''bandibs," the i'm
4 migrants are preparing to enter tn
, south. The seven hundre
buOusduu So uar6 miles OF southern ter
rltOry yet uncultivated will be. in
, great measure, settled up by industri
GUS farmers from other lands. TIL
vast mineral resources of the sout
I will be turned to valuable account, On
] beautiful south is not doomed to b
! either Atricanized, or utterly destrove
] by dema 3ogues, or allowed to 90 bac
3 into wilderness state. Its future wi
{ be more glorious than its past IT Wi
2 yet be the garden spot, the GLORY an
3 pride of this continent. It will be pros
2 porous and rich In due time. or tn
5 writer does not truly understand tn
q 'signs of the times"
TOBACCO IN FLORIDA. -AccOrdino +
the monthly report of the 6epartmen
OF agriculture, Gadsden county. FIoridg
has produced for forty years a vsriet
grown from seed obtained in CDbr
+, having a small, narrow leaf. and no,
| sesslpg to a remarkable degree the M
culIar aroma and delicate fragrance 8
highly priced In the Havana cigar. Tb
report adds q: Since the advent of Ger
man buyers, an article was Introduce
which produces the ''Florida wranner
! and IS now the main growth. It's leave
! are sometimes three feet in length an
twenty inches in breadth, of a fine silk
texture, admirably adapted to use .
wrappers, the co8rser leaves being usa
very accountable