The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-05-02


cultivates himself.
THE Massachusetts, Horticultural So
ciety appropriates for prizes, this year,
the princely sum OF $3.50.
A MINNESOTA gardener asserts that
skinned milk, sprinkled on the infested
bushes, is death to currant worms.
THERE are more than $50 named varie-
ties OF wheat, but in many cases the dis
tinctiOns between them are very slight.
SHEEP will eat what no other stock
will eat, and thus save the labor required
by the thrifty farmer to keep down nOx-
iOus weeds.
In the San Jacinto valley, California,
wheat has been an unsaiiing crop for
twenty six years, even producing a fine
crop last year in spite of the limited
rainfall,
THE Stockton Independent says that
attempts have been made in the different
portions of California to cultivate cotton,
but in most cases the results have been
unsatisfactory.
PROF. BEAL tells the Michigan Farmer
that, for a prime, long lived orchard,
where the soil, drainage, climate, ETC.,
are all favorable, he would rather set the
trees more than forty feet apart than
less.
\ CALIFORNIA physician cleared his
premises of rats by saturating one with
carbolic acid and turning him Gdrift.
He thinks kerosene or any other strong
smelling liquid would have the same
effect.
ADMINISTERED in time dose of paint
will save farm implements from an ex-
pensive attack of ricketts," when other
wise they would become, by exposure,
loose jointed and brittle as to woodwork,
and rusty as to iron.
GooD dairymen contend that milk is
partly absorbed when kept for a long
| time in the udder, also asserting that
cows MIXED thrice daily produce more
milk and butter, than if they were only
MIXED twice day.
A COW can yield far greater weight
in butter than she can store up in fat.
An animal might give the product o:
two pounds of butter day, while one
half that quantity could not be laid on
in fat, if fed for the purpose.
THIS is the time when Unthrifty farm
ers save ten cents by refusing to invest
in paper OF tomato seed, because times
are so hard and money scarce, and when
the country peddler comes around at the
| end of the summer it will take the price
| of an acre of wheat to pay him FOR what
! might have been raised On dozen steps
1 square. Such economy Is the road to
poverty and beggary.
| FARMERS TO THE FRoNT.-No Con
necticut legislature in late years has had
so large proportion of farmers and so
very small proportion of lawyers as the
present; yet it seems the nearly unaDi
! nous opinion throughout the state that
| it has accomplished more work of a
/ practical, needed kind than any of its
predecessors in recent days. There has
| been less "chin-chin," less useless yer,
biage, less discussion of fine points of no
practical importance, and less prophecies
about possible contingencies than usual,
but more of the work for which legisla-
tors are elected and paid. This is a
thoroughly utilitarian country, and what
the vast bulk of its inhabitants want is
plain, practical common sense, in word
and deed. not fne-spuD theories or ele-
CANT verbosity.
No foot, no horse;" although every
farmer knows this maxim, it seems as il
many (by the size they keep their ami
mails feet at) expected to double their
teams by contrary Interpretation of it.
\ hoof spread out of all likeness to its
original form, cracked nearly to the
quick, the frog pared till it is as thin as
paper; the sole cut away till the frog
| touches the ground at every step, toes
turned in, and sore knees from frequent
stumbles, are no credit to a farmer now
adavs. If every man who is guilty of
causing the above defects were compelled
to keep his own teet in a similar manner,
thee would be a revolution somewhere.
1t IL not necessary to employ a farrier to
trim horses foot. A plank TO stand on
sharp tUo-inch chisel, and good
mallet, In the hands of a careful man
will, If used once a month, keep hoois in
perfect order and improve them con-
SANITY MOore's Rursl.