The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-02-21

knees, during the process of picking,
often causing depreciation in value of
from one to two cents per pound cora
pared with those not similarly marked in
appearance.-L Germantown Telegraph.
CHEESE and butter are bringing, rela-
lively, higher prices than ever before.
The exports last year to Great Britain
amounted to ITO, 100000 pounds, worth
over $1S, 100000, large increase over
the past year. Butter was exported to
the amount Of 100000 pounds.
A KENTUCKY farmer residing near
Springfield, in that state, writes that he
weighed forty-one Jersey hogs last month,
Most of them were less than wear old.
and the average was four hundred and
thirty-three and half pounds. These
hogs, he says, were put up about the
middle Of September. Last year he fed
halfbreed Jersey Red and Berkshire,
which at the age, weighed four hundred
and tWenty-slx pounds.
Mr.. HERsFALL, the celebrated English
dairy authority, feeds his herds as fol-
low: Each cow receives nine pounds of
hay, six pounds of rape cake, one pound
each of malt-combings and bran, with
twenty-eight pounds of cabbage The
food Except roots and hay) is given in
q mixed, cooked state, and while warm.
In addition to this food, cow in full
milk receives two pounds of bean-meal
daily, and COWS not in full milking order,
smaller quantities of this article.
MIDwINTER, the proverbiaIIy lazy
season for the farmer, is so only to the
lazy farmer. The grand trouble with
industrious people, no matter what their
occupation, is that they always have toe
much to do. Industrious farmers need
the hints of agricultural papers only as
they may lay before them the work
which had best be attended to. For the
others, the best advice is, shake off your
hundreds of things to be attended to anC
you know it If you don't, sell your
farm and hire yourself out to those whC
d. Rural New Yorker.
A CAREFUL experimenter reports tina
he fed two sucking pigs, taken from tn,
SOW at about six weeks old, and tn,
weights of which were within a few
ounces CT each other, as follows: On
on skimmed-milk with bran and oat
meal, and the ether on an equal abun
dance of rich kitchen wash of unlimitet
quantity. The pigs were killed on tn
same oay. when JuSG TOUR months OIQ
that fed on the wash weighing forty
J three pounds, the one on skim-miIk
little over forty pounds. The meat c
the former appeared very fine to the eye
. but when roasted was coarse and greas
, to the palate; while the other, thong
| very fat, was extremely delicate both i
1 flesh and flavor.
! CALVES or sleeps lights and liver
> which can always be obtained in til
/ market houses for few cents apiece, al
y valuable to feed poultry, for two reason
e They are devoid of bones and the
q closely resemble insect diet. We advi
d the cooking of any sort of meat food a
g ways. These "harslets' Cor those
II swine) should be boiled, seasoned wit
salt and pepper, and fed, say twice
o week, to fowls, where they can be hG
g handily. For laying hens, when confnt
n in winter, this change of food from co
1t slant grain feeding is excellent. Whe
1t confined to small runs or loose cages, til
n meat, chopped up and mixed three tim
n a week with their soft food, will help Il
It youuglings wonderfully.