The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-03-21
Facts Ter the Farmers.

AT the risk of being charged with a
desire to bull the poultry market we
mention that a game cock was lately sold
in England for five hundred and two dol
lars.
The Western Advertiser cites an ex-
perience which it thinks warrants the
conclusion that "good, clean wheat
straw, with one-sixth of its weight in
bran, is equal to meadow hay in feeding
properties"
AN English grape grower, whose vines
were much affected by the mealy bug,
applied, with small brush, a mixture
of pint of spirits of wine and four
ounces of petroleum. He describes the
result as q wonderful" the insects were
destroyed and the plants suffered no
harm.
SEVERAL persons died recently at
Youngstown and Girard, in Ohio, of
trichina spiralis. The lesson is that hogs
should be kept healthy, and then if you
will est pork, instead of selling it to your
neighboT, see that it is very thoroughly
cooked, as these deadly worms survive a
temperature of 40 degrees Fahrenheit.
Two thousand ballots were lately de-
posted by hog guessersas to the probable
dead weight.ot porker in this city, the
guesses ranging from 143 to ], 999 pounds.
When slaughtered and dressed, in pre-
sence of the interested concOuTse, the
carcass tipped the beam at 759-precisely
the number of pounds set down by a
! Jerseyman, who, according to the con-
| tract, was declared lawful owner of the
ponderous pork.
! THE increase in the export of cheese
| from this country during the last seven
| teen years has been extraordinary. In
| 1860 the amount was oily 1855, 799
| pounds, while in 1877 it had reached
the enormous aggregate of 107, 1864, 666
] pounds The foreign demand has grown
| rapidly with the establishment of cheese
factories, and in England the American
article is fast gaining a high reputation
| in competition with the product of the
| best home diaries. Some of it is sent
back to this country as English u
cheese.
OUR milling industry, the American
Miller maintains, ranks next to that OF
| iron. The number of mills is over
twenty-five thousand, affordIng employ.
ment for more than sixty thousand men,
whose annual wages are about 500,
600, 900, and turning out yearly fifty
millions barrels of -four, Of which foul
thousand barrels are exported to foreign
countries. Pennsylvania has the most
mills (nearly $4,000. New York stand,
next with about 1900 and other states
follow, with from 600 to less than 100
Minnesota mills are largest. and employ
the greatest average number of men
namely, five in each.
CHE giant vine OF Montecito i
pictured now in foreign horticulture
papers. This famous plant, as attentiv,
resders will remember, grew at the placl
whose name it bears, near Santa Barbars
on the California coast, in black, sandy
loan, with a subsoil of stiff clay Sas 81
to 90 years old, trunk 10 inches in al
sz2@tSS- - .SS base ..u -IuCllSs Enrc'
feet from the ground; was occasionally
watered from a spring containing sulphur
and has borne in one season an estimated
crop of $500 punches, averaging l.
pounds each. Showing signs of decrepi
tude, it was cut down, forwarded il
segments TO Philadelphia, and set up il
its original form, trellis and all, for tn,
edifcation and advertisement of visitor
to the centennial exhibition.