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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-10-25
Theory and Practice.

There are farmers who are as stubborn
and unwilling to accept the teachings of
theory as men in any other relation of life.
They entertain a contempt for book
farming, as they call it, that is absolutely
whitening. Fancy farming and fancy
stock breeding are tU such men the most
trifing puerility-it is a boys play that
was never equaled IL frivolity by anv
game ut the firesIde or on the green.
Yet it IS a fact that some of our most
important and profitable practice in both
these industries has been taught us by
fancy operations. Fancy farming is
largely experimental; and it is seldom
that experiment in anything fails to re-
suit in some benefit. A prejudice
against theoretical farming, experimental
farming, or book farming, whatever YOU
may call it, is a prejudice which other
Callings have never cherished toward
similar teachings. 1t is true that much
of this fancy or experimental work
amounts to nothing. There are visionary
men in all spheres of action, and they dis
gust us with their wild vagaries and
schemes; but an intelligent expeIimenter
will usually do something to benefit him
sell. and the world. Rodgers, for instance,
was experimenting in growing grapes
ITOm S6eullugS LOT Y uddLSI OI q century,
and during that time failed in many in
stances to produce anything of value in
the way of variety but we all know that
he produced the choicest varieties of
grapes that we have. All intelligent ex-
periments result in similar blessings to
the world, and generally in pecuniary
profit to the experimenter in the end.
The breeding of Short-horn cattle is an
other example. Mr.. Thomas Bates, for
instance-amOng the greatest, if not the
greatest among Observation-Disclosures to
fix tie type of the best animal for all
purpOses-more especially for beef He
had fixed theories, and iabOred 10 reduce
them to practice. In doing 50 he sacra-
feed anything that prevented success or
retarded his practice. If an animal was
in any manner deficient, it was ruthlesslv
slaughtered, and the result has been q
perfect animal and an inestimable bless
ing to breeders and the world. It is our
neglect to theOrize, together with our
neglect to reduce existing theories tn
practice, that is proving an. incalcuIabIe
injury to our agricultural interests. In
the former wheat-growing regions, of the
east, there is now scarcely any wbest
grown The wheat belt of our count-v
has been moving constantly westward
Indiana, Michigan and nlineis Comprised
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WHEAT.
YIeld or 1he yyorIt,s marve.t llI. Yes.r.


On the whole it must be pronounced
a good one There can be little
reason to doubt that the United States
are gathering in the largest crop of the
best quality that has been produced in
those vast regions. Their own estimate
is that they have a surplus nearly enough
to supply all our needs, and the Ameri-
cans give good earnest of their belief by
depressing our markets with the quantity
and low price of their produce. But
America has been frequently deceived
herself in this matter. and there may be
exaggeration in the estimate this year.
Egypt has an abundant crop, and is
rapidly turning it into money. Austria
and Hungary have a considerable surplus
to spare. Russia is said to have a more
abundant crop than she has reaped for
years but as her ports on the south are
closed, only 80 much of this can be ex-
ported as can be sent to the Baltic, or by
railroad through Germany. France and
Belgium, however, have poor crops this
year, and, instead of sending to us, will
be competitors with us for the American
and Hungarian surplus. There can be
little doubt that, if the Russian supplies
were liberated, the competition OF
America and Russia would reduce values
1t is perhaps for that reason that
America, seeing her opportunity, is sell
ing all she can while Russia is almost
shut up. The American factories which
have supplied the Turks with rifles
which have done them suchBgood service
have played the best possible game foI
the American farmers, who can pay foI
all the rifles that have been sent to Tur
key out of the difference in price, which
they are obtaining for their wheat above
what they would have got had the Black
Sea been open. It is clear, we think
that the worlds crop is sufficient for it,
needs, and that, if our traders can but
keep themselves from the panic anC
alarm which the disastrously bad crop o
England may, with reason, occasion, al
though we may have to pay more fer GU
loaf than the average price of the las
cereal year, yet the present ruling price
are high enough to attract sufficient sup
| plies to our shores. 1t must not be for
gotten, however, that the failure of GU
potato crop will cause large extra de
mand for bread.-jSatuTday ReUielo.
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Quiet Folks,

Quietness is sometimes sign of bodily
health. The nervous man, who is
always stirring, is seldom strong. But
when a man is thoroughly wrapped up
in himself and his own importance, per-
fectly satisfied with his position and pres
poets, the cut of his clothes, the length
of his whiskers, the attenuation of his
umbrella, and the luster of his hat, the
chances are that he IS very quiet. Such
men are habitually well dressed; but, as
they get on in life, they cling to old
fashions. They are not cOnsiderate for
others, yet they give very little trouble.
They exact the utmost service, but make
no fuss about it. They are painfully
regular and punctual, but never seem
put out by other peoples want of order.
They are bOres at a dinner party, wet
blankets at picnic, mere sticks at a ball;
but excellent as officers, admirable par
sons, much sought after by matchmaking
mothers. 1t is they who carry off the
heiresses; who always save money :;
who are never in debt or difficulty, as
other men are who are regular in their
devOtiOns, and invaluable on commit
tees, where they always get their own
way, without trouble or fuss. They
habitually wait till every one else has
spoken. and then make the single re-
mark which concludes the matter. and
which seems as if it had risen to the sur
face, like cream, of itself. Strict order
is kept in their houses; but they do not,
as rule, make good fathers. Their
children are too much afraid of them
and too glad to get away from home.
Strange to say, though they seldom
speak, they are excellent correspond
ents, write well, clearly, and at great
length, and often turn into authors,
especially nevelists. They have observed
while others talked; and have passed
mental judgments which their secre-
tiveness enables them to store for use.
They are seldom deficient in humor; tell
story in the fewest words, we'll and
quietly; and have generally some friend
in whose society they seem to take a silent
and subdued pleasure, and with whom
they can sit for hours without spe& king.
They live respected by all who know
them, are trustees and guardians to in
Vulnerable wards, and are often more
missed when they die than better men.
If the world fails to love them, it makes
up by trusting them; and every few
years one of them turns out to have elab-
GRATED some fraud, and goes away into
exile without a wOrd.---,SGttrday ReU5e10.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-10-25
The Great Mexican Railway.

The building of the great railway from
Vera Cruz to the city of Mexico was a
colossal feat III constructive engineering.
The intervening country was supeTbly
beautiful, and crossed at right angles by
the great Sierra range, through which is
one continued panorama of beauty.
The railway Is 2674 miles long, has IS
lengthy tunnels and many fine iron
bridges. 1t cost 100000 Mexican
dollars; and is undoubtedly the finest
constructed railway on the American
continent. The first 40 milesis straight,
and on a gentle grade, rising slowly from
the sea; then for distance of rs miles it
crosses over three distinct ranges of
mountains, each of which stands up like
a colossal staircase. This section is very
crooked. Winding around the numer-
Gus canyons in the mountain, the train
runs for many miles over the brink of
precipices, almost perpendicular, 1900
feet. The grades are 400 feet per mile
and the ordinary American locomotive
finds the greatest difficulty in crossing
| unencumbered. But the company use
an English engine-knOwn as the Fairlie
patent-which carries ten loaded cars
with ease. It is a double engine, or two
engines connected, with their heads
turned together, and 30-inch drivers. AT
the west end of this division, which is at
Bsca del Monte, the road-bed reaches its
| greatest elevation, which is $4,000 feet
| above the sea at Vera Cruz; from there
it gradually declines through a cOntin
uation of broad valleys to the city o.
Mexico. These valleys are from 8 to q
miles wide, entirely hsmmed in the tai
mountains. Every foot is irrigated, and
in thorough state of cultivation.
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Farm NOteR.

The best insect destroyer, according te
the Journal of Chemistry, 10 alum water.
Put the alum into hot water and let it
boil until it is entirely dissolved, then
apply it hot with brush to all cracks,
closets, bedsteads and other places infested
by insects. 1t is certain death to ants,
bedbugs, reaches and i9 genus 0nl1e, while
there is no danger ID using it of poisoning
any of the family or injuring property.
OCTOBER is the month in which ia
blowing is by many attended te. I'm
doubtedly heavy lands are benefited by
this treatment, while in our opinion
lighter soils and hillsides are in many
cases injured by it. A clay loan is es-
pecially benefited by it. Its tenacious
character is reduced and its texture is
opened by the operations of the frost.
The Jumps fall apart and are disintegrated
by it, and the field which at the com
mencement of winter was rough and full
of shapeless clods is in the spring found to
be in a mellow condition, admirably
adapted to tillage.-I Massachusetts, Plough
man.
AMONG bee-keepers October is regarded
as an important month, At this time
stocks are selected for winter hiving. 1t
is improbable to winter a light, weak
stock when it can be wintered with some
other. All stocks year old should now
be examined for foul brood, and if such
are found separate them from the others
to prevent further infection. ExamiDa-
tions for foul brood are best made in the
middle of the day, but the strength of the
hive is best ascertained in the morning.
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Mr.. Harris. in the American Agricul-
turist says: I am convinced that we
shall find it to our interest to work our
land more and more in the fall, and the
earlier the better. Our springs are short,
and we are in a hurry to get in the seed !;
the land is wet, and if plowed in this
condition, we do more harm than good.
If we wait until it gets dry, it lis apt to
turn up lumPy, and much narrowing,
cultivating and rolling is required to get
it in anything like good condition. And
as everything is crowding us, we are
often obliged to put in the crop with
some of the land so hard that, unless we
have an unusually wet spring, the seed
is long time in coming up, and the
crops are "spotty. And it is these poor
spots that pull down the average to such
a low figure. have in my own barley
field to-day portions that will probably
give fifty bushels per acre, and spots
where the Weld will not be ten bushels
And yet these latter parts are naturally
the strongest and richest land in the
field.
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Cow JOekeyiuE,

There is cheating in all trades but
ours" so runs the ancient saw. If one
wishes to buy trotting horse, he expects
to hear him extolled as taking a three
minute gait as a natural iog-and trot-
ting low down in the thirties, +" if urged
as being able, with training, to " do
his mile in thirty" or twenty-five and a
half" as the case may be, but the test is
easily applied. The horse is hitched up
to the road-wagon, and made to show his
speed on the road, or on the track by the
watch. That settles the matter of speed.
If every other point could be determined
as accurately, there would be little COM
plant of the jockeys. / am led into this
train of thought from talk l had with
gentleman who has gained no little
fame among hOrsemen from his study
and comparison of pedigrees and perform
ances of trotting stock. He is perhaps
better known as " Hark COmstOCk," than
| quite fancy to Jersey stock, and would
probably buy & few good COWS, if he
could know what he was buying. Said
he: " I want a well-pedigreed COW that
| somebody has held a watch on" That
| puts it in a nutshell. In hOrse-dealing
nobody thinks of getting big price for
a TrOtter that has not been timed, but
our coW-dealers brag about their milk and
their butter, about the pedigrees of their
COWS, and they test their entire herds
| together, or make some positive tests
and publish-not the weights but an
estimate. Now, a horse never gets " &
record" by his owners watch, and it is
not fair that a COW should. 1t is time
for us to stop talking about jockeying
as if it were something peculiar to horse
dealers. am beginning to think thai
the cow-jockeys can give the horse
jockeys several points, and beat them a
! that, They certainly could if horse buy
eTs were as creduloUs as those who pay
the big prices for milk and butter COWS
especially for Jerseys. Now and then (
cow is brought to far test. In a few
herds COWS are Systematically tested, anC
the whole process is open to the inspec
ton of those who are curious. A few
dealers are really anxious that a buye
should know all about cow which h
buys, and viii have her milk weighed
her cream exhibited, and several milk
ings saved, to be churned before tn
buyer, and to his satisfaction, but the
are far between.--An,erican Agrjcult,rist
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AGRICULTURAL.
Two AppIe.Trees.


II happened thus on one green afternoon,
When harvest fields we're waiting for their moon,
And fruit was ripe and good,
That two amid the orchard grasses strayed,
While apricOts and yellow peaches made
Bright stains on the warm wood.
And on branch that hung right overhead
Two golden apples grew, fecked through with red
"a Grew perfectly side by side.
"They are for us, sweetheart: Love made them air
With color of thy cheeks and OF thy hair;
Come gather them, sweet bride
She stood on tiptoe in the pleasant place;
The swaying leaves made shadows on her face,
r--r.r The apples touched her feet.
''How this is mine and this is thine. but We
VIII make OF them gracious memory
They are too fair to eat"
Then, half in loving earnest, half IN mirth,
They hid the fruit IA the rich warm earth
~. And year by year there grew ,.,-,
Two trees, that made green shadows oy their door,
And bore of golden apples wealthy store;
Cold fruit iecked rosy through.
In autumn nights within their scented shade
Would freely drop their store.
Or shed with lavish grace their sweetest flowers
2 Upon young lovers in the srring-time hours,
Telling the old tale DER:
Two trees that always thought one couple fair,
One aged couple crowned with silver hair,
Who held without sigh
Sweet sessions, where clear memory sat content,
Serenely satisfied with life well spent,
And Immortality.
there are two graves beneath two appIe-trees-
I've happy graves, made by the sweet spring breez
with apple blossoms white;
Lappe in cool grasses when June's roses blow;
In aUtumn's splendor, or in winters snow
Always peaceful sight
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-10-25

When vital action is sluggish, a stimulaEt,
provided it be pure and properly medicateG
is the most reliable agent for imparting the
necessary impetus to the semi-dOrmant or
gans, acceIeratIng the langUid circulation and
averting the maladies to which functional
inactivity gives rise. Physicians who have
employed Hostetter's Stomach BItters in
their practice pronounce it the most salutary
tonic stimulant they have ever used, and es-
peciaIly commend it as a remedy for torpidity
of the bowels. liver, stomach and kidneys and
as a resuscitant of vital energy. The medici-
nal value of the Bitters is due to the fact that
with their basis of pure old rye are combined,
in perfect chemical harmony, the best restO-
ratiye and life sustaining elements known to
medical botany. The Bittess never dGtrriOr-
ate in the most unfavorable climates.
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grows so spontaneously, and covers an
unknown number of acres of land.
Again permit me to say viii send to
any person wishing topropagate this grass
small package of the sod without
compensation. When 1 say cOmpensa-
ton | do not intend to be understood to
saw, Twill pay express charges of transport
tation, but simply that l viii put it in a
box and start it forward. The express
agent.holds me responsible for the amount
OF charges incurred for transportation,
and in the event the consignee does not
pay the freight, am forced to Iiquidate
the amount. mention this in order to be
fully understood, and hereafter to avoid
the painful necessity of T" paying bills y
and reading letters, in substance, swear
ing g that all philanthropists are not
dead. Respectfully. ID. w. RICE.
CLINTON, Miss, Sept. %.