The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-06-06
New Yorker.


Agricultural Notes.
1t is state d on good authority that a
teaspoon of Cayenne pepper, mixed in a
quart of oil and rubbing the harness with
the oil, will efFectually protect it against
the gnawing of rats. 1t il als1 said that
an ounce of aloes to one gallon of oil will
afford the same protection.
The Chinese, with whom agriculture is
held in higher estimate than with US
were the first to use night-sOil. They
forbid its waste and furnish receptacles
to receive it. They mix it with clay
and then make dried cakes of it, which
can be transported any distance or pre-
served for any length of time.
Experiments have lately been made in
| Germany to determine the value of the
common nettle as textile fibre. The
weed having been treated the same way
as hemp, yielded q fibre as fine as silk
and as strong as hemp fibre. A consider
able area of ground is now planted with
the nettie ia the Prussian province of
Nassau Popular Science Monthly.
Make the roads everywhere on the
farm before the ground is firmly settled,
| as it makes the best job, and is not SO APT
to wash away by heavy rains. When
left until haymaking then the ground liz
too hard to pick or ploW, and what il
thrown into the road remains loose, and
draws heavy when we come to haul in
| hay and grain. But when it is made
early in the spring it settles firmly fast
| by the time the baymaking and harvest
ing comes in.
The following calculations are made
| by Prof johnson: A foot in depth and
an acre of surface of sand will hold
| 1876, 900 pounds of water; prairie soil
win hold 1,524,6 pounds, while peat
viii hold 2,047 800 pouods of water.
| The average rainfall in New England
| being forty inches annually, equal to
! 9,075, 900 pounds per acre, it would, at
| the ordinary rate of absorption, all be
held in in u feet in depth of the sand,
or in six feet in depth OF prairie soil and
in ~ feet in depth of peat.
| Prof. Roberts stated that by means oil
the accurate balances belonging to the
| University he had ascertained that bu.
shell of timothy contains 81, 900, 900 seeds
| 1--WE omit all but the round numbers); 8
| peck to the acre gave forty-One to the
square foot. A bushel of clover seed
contains 1000, 900 seeds, being nearly
four times as large as timothy seed, and
| one peck to the acre is equal to eighty
seven seeds to the square loot, or one
| quart is ten seeds to the square foot
! Country Gentleman.
Many suggestions have been made
with the object of fastening and pro
noting termination. According to some
experiments, this object is accomplished
by the application OF moderately strong
solution of potash or soda to the seeds
Weak solutions of chlorine gas in wateI
have also been recommended. It is al
legged that camphor has a wonderful in
huence in favering the termination o
seed, and that, unlike turpentine, which
has been employed for the same purpOsI
it is never, even when used in excess
hurtful.
f. NJ, of Montgomery county, N. Y.
writes: Oceans are neglected too much
by farmers / find them very prof liable
and cultivate them every year as regu
lar Drop. Last year, at the suggestion o
friend, planted two acres OF a six-acrt
corn field in beans, putting beans anC
corn in alternate hills, about two fee
apart in the rows, and rows three and 4.
halt feet apart. The balance of the fielC
was planted in corn, in hills three and 1
half feet apart each way. l used the
small white bean, twenty quarts to the
acr'. From the two acres 1 harvested
about forty bushels of beans, and thu
yield of corn was not FIVE bushels less pc
acre than the balance of the field. Tht
bean crop was much more profitable thar
the corn. / stack beans around stake
TOUR or five feet high, and thTesh as sool
as dry enough.