The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-08-01
SOUTHERN FARM AND HOME.
Stacking Glover.

Stacking Glover.
In stacking cover at least six quarts
of salt should be scattered through ev-
cry ton as it is laid up. 1t is important
that the center of the stack bottom,
when the rails or poles are laid, should
be raised twelve or fourteen inches high
er than the outer edge. There is moth
ing in hay making that pays better than
to make coed stack foundation, espe-
cially for clover hay. In building the
stack keep the center solid and high,
and the outside comparatively loose, and
rake down well. If one desires to ven
tilate use a sack, say eighteen inches in
diameter and four or five feet long; fill
it with chaff or some light material;
place it upright in the center on the
foundation of the stack and build up
around it. AS the stack rises the sack
must be drawn up, leaving hole in the
center from the bottom to top which
should be properly capped over to pre-.
vent the rain from getting in. In con-
clUsion, the writer IS prepared to admit
that hay made of grass after the seeds
and the stalks are fully matured, will
last longer than that made as suggested
above. Old straw or brush will last still
lOnger-perhaps longer than the cattle
II Cor. Farm and Fireside.
Cultivation OF the SOIL in Dry weather
1t is difficult to make the average in
tellect understand or comprehend how it
is that corn fl ed or a cabbage or q caul-
iti0wer-patch is greatly benefited by con-
slant stirring of the soil about the plants
in dry weather, and especially if there
is a total absence of weeds and the sur
face is not only dry, but powdery and
dusty. But such is the fact, and under
our climate, in a summer of average
dews, it is believed by many to he possi>
BILE not only to make a crop of corn, but
cabbages, without drop of rain from
June to October if only the soil is stirred
about the plants two or three times
weekly, or OfteDer. But the stirring
should be shallow in very dry and exces-
sively hot weather, the object being to
bring fresh earth to the feeding roots and
not too much to wound or disturb them
When the soil Is saturated with mois>
ture, and the temperature is high and
sustained, the PlOw may be run both
deep and close to the corn rows or cab
bages may be hoed down to the cost of
half their feeding roots, provided thew
are hilled up with moist and fresh earth:
and both corn and cabbage will be invig-
GRATED by The operation.
In the case Of stirring the
earth often in dry weateer, the
benefit derined by the plants is
believed to be not only from the Hnper-
ceived manure in the soil, but from the
nitrogen therein, fresh earth, whether
dry or wet, bringing new supplies of
available nitrogen, and benefitting the
plants accordingly.
After three wet and cool summers, we
seem to have fallen on a dry if not a hot
one; and if summer draught and
an early frost shall hereafter appear in
the order of the day, let nobody be sur
prised. The sudden cessation about the
middle of June of the raiuf all over q vast
strech of corn-growing country, and the
incoming of bright weather, has already
very seriously threatened the outcome OF
the corn crop, and it behoOves those
having corn growing to make the most
OF 1T; that Is, In dry weather to keep the
plOws going as long as it is possible TO use
them. And SO of every other hOed crop.
Stir the surface, and stir it often; and
much OF the injury from severe drought
may be avoided Home ard Farm.
The French CO-Operatil q Dairy SyEtem.
In the departments - EmEa and Doubs
produce cheese. These associations,
numbering nearly 1000, are known as
truitieres. The plan has extended to
the neighbOring lowlands, as 100 of
them exist in Frache-COmte, cheese
forming the chief wealth of these dis
tricts A tOwnland clubs together, tao
lily, to bring all its milk to be manufac.
tured into cheese, and the latter is
divided pro rata. A president and a
committee are annually elected chalet
IL selected in an elevated position, con-
slsting OF large kitchen, q milk-rOom
and cellar. Here the milk of FORTY or
two hundred COWS i manufactured. The
milk Is brought every morning and
evening, measured and weighed. and q
receipt given. If the milk has been
adulterated, skinned or turned, it is
refused, The mornings milk is strained
and mixed with cream of the previous
evenings milk, and then placed in the
copper rennet added-three quarts of a
preparation of the latter to four hundred
OF mi'k-and coagulated. Every .hree
hundred quarts of milk yield q cheese,
and each member, irrespective of what
number of cows he pOs ssses, receives 3
cheese for every three hundred quarts
of milk to his credit; his initials
are made in the curd except
for his private use, no member
can retire his from the common
sales. The more the curd has been
heated the less it is subseq uently beaten
After being placed in the mold it i:
turned five or six times during the
twenty-iOur hours, the cloths being
changed as often placed on a dry shelf
the cheese is sailed in the morning, dried
with a cloth in the afternoon; the salt
ing requires two months IN summer anC
three IN winter, and when it has imbibeC
from two to four per cent. it is cured
Cheese made FROM curd too much heated
~ soft and cracked; when the tempera
ture Is too low, more salt is required
When attacked by mites, the cheese i
carefully cleaned, then washed with :
plckel, and when dried, rubbed over Will
oil. 1t Is an error TO believe good chees,
can be prepared without good milk. On,
pound OF cheese is made from eight Il
ten quarts of milk. The cheese thu
prepared, know as the "gruyere," is tw,
feet in diameter aud four inches thick
weighing from fifty to ninety pounds
aud varies in price from half a franc t,
one franc per pound. The whey isgivel
to pigs, and also to cows l. Industri
Lsitiere.
Grape Culture.
The following brief, practical and con
densed rules Tor the management O
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