The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-06-27
Agricultural Noten.

Agricultural Notes.
A garden is a constant amusement; a
happy combination of work and play a
study and a recreation a source of health
both for body and mind.
If you are a farmer be a good one
Farm well. Have good orchard, good
garden good stock and an intelligent
family. Be intelligent yourself, and
thus secure the respect Of all who know
you Ploughman.
The addition of slack lime to rotten
manure while in the dungheap is alto
gether Objectionable, because lime pos
sesses the power of again iberating the
combined and fixed ammonia, as the
powerful and pungent odor which is by
this means evolved makes sufficiently
evident.
A correspondent writes the Poultry
World that he has tried sunhoWer seeds
as food for his barnyard fowls with sue
cess. At first they refused to eat them,
but soon they learned to open the seeds
take the kernel from the hull, and this
they eat with relish, and it rendered
their plumage more glossy soon after
they began to eat them.
Some experiments on spring barley,
published by Paul Soraner, in the Bot,
anische Zeitung of January, 1878, afford
some interesting results. In dry air,
branching was greater than in moist
the length of leaves was greater in moist
air, but the breadth was less A moist
atmosphere was found favorable to the
length of leai-sheath, to growth of the
principal stem and to roet development.
The Jersey milk has the largest glo-
bules, it will consequently make irmer
butter, winter and summer the cream
will rise quicker, hence it will retain
more of its own fine flavor and be less
exposed to taints. But then, Jersey
butter is also yellower, and the reason
/ il, accordingtO DR.. SJurtevsnt, that the
fats of the Jersey, as a race, are colored
with an orange pigment which remains
in the butter C0lman's Rural World
At the exhibition of the Central
society of Horticulture in France some
year or so ago, the public were enter
tanned with the sight of a yellow gourd,
! into which had been inserted the stalk
of a green, pear>shaped gourd, from
which large slice had been cut off and
replaced by q corresponding section of a
white gourd. The operation of grating
squashes is stated to be an easy one, and
offers opportunities for very interesting
combinations TO amuse the public at
exhibitions. One precaution is neces-
sary, and this is to raise the skin of the
fruit to be united, so as to bring the
| cellular tissues in course of formation
into contact Scientific Farmer.
In China, during the summer months,
all kinds of vegetable refuse are mixed
with turf, straw, grass, peat, weeds and
earth, collected into heaps and, when
/ quite dry, set on fire. After several days
of slow combustion. the entire nrass is
converted into a kind Of black earth.
This compost is only employed for the
manuring of seed. When seed time
arrives, one man makes holes in the
/ ground, another follows with the seed,
which he places in the holes, while 8
third adds this black earth. The young
seed planted in this manner grows with
such extraordinary vigor that it is there's
by enabled to push its rootlets through
the hard, solid soil, and to collect It's
mineral constituents.
In marketing vegetables remember
that much depends on the attractivess OF
their appearance. Don't heap them in
confused mass, but arrange garden
stuff so that their good quality shall be
apparent. OlteDtimes the best selection
carried to market by themselves will
bring more than the whole crop, good
bad and Indifferent, Unfortunately
thrown together. A box of strawberries
each berry OF nearly uniform size and
appearance, will sell for more, and more
readily, than the box which gives a con-
fused look to the berries. The good
farmer studies how to please his Gus,
toners, and doesn't grudge a little care
in sorting or washing, in order that his
wares shall show the best they are
capable of.
Some experiments have been made al
Brussels in breaking-in horses by means
of an electric bride. The apparatus
called the EngstOrYn bride, after its In
ventOr, consists simply in a couple oil
reins, along which run electric wires
At the end of the reins q small electrict
battery is attached, which is entirely in
the hands of the experimenter. By
pressing little knob the electric cur.
rent acts on the corner of the horses
mouth, and, after few consecutive OF
intermittent shocks, the animal becomes
perfectly decile. A very intractable
mare was brokenin after one experiment
with the Bride The inventor asserts
that runaway herses can Immediately be
brought to a standstill by this appara-
, tus.
We talked recently with a stalwart
Delaware farmer who states some facts
as to the business in the northern pari
Tot the state. For a two hundred acre
/ farm his calculation would be a five
years rotation of crops corn, oats
wheat, grass, pasture forty acres each
Surprising he kept a moderate sized
dairy, say twelve COWS expecting Il
feed some beef cattle besides), he should
need three arm hands besides himself, K
whom the current rate of wage. is SO
month, aud the usual cost for board $IC
more. This makes a wages bill of $780,
year to begin with, and our frienC
;; says il he rented he should not expec
to pay less than 81 900 for a two hun
dred acre place, increasing his first ex
penses to 81 900 year. With wheat a
| $1.25 and corn at fifty cents, he fiud
there is small margin for profij,-TFarn