The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-02-27
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AGRIC.L-... - 80.

Sheep iatten quicker when louse in
pc ~ OF bali dozen, IMAM any method
OF sailing or tying up each sheep.
P ok up the odd and ends that arr
going tn waste around you. Hides b rms
hoos, bones, wax, moss and many other
trities have q cash value.
A farmer must be something beside
labOrer. He must be a man of re
sources, and raise by his own energy TO
any emergency.
''If ali the banks 10 New York tailed
their failure would not inf ct so great a
loss on the nation as the failure of dairy
ing tor single year, Ex-Governor
Seymour.
Do not grumble at the low prices Of
your products. 1t don't help the matter
bit. just 20 to work and see if you can
not lessen the cost of production 80 a. 70
leave you margin for profit, even at
low prices.
Sheep growers in England claim that
feed Of cotton seed an turnips is not
only the safest for tattening sheep, but
will put on the most fat and make the
best mutton at the least cost. 1t also
produces the strongest manure.
Do not attempt to keep too many
fowls together. One hundred in q single
yard will not produce nall the eggs they
will II divided into four parts. 1t will
cost n" more to feed, but il will be little
more trouble to attend to them.
The average age OF sheep is ten years.
Cows have an average of fifteen years.
Hogs have been known to live forty
years. The average of the horse is twelve
years The elephant lives to a very great
age. There is white elephant now liv-
ing in the Imperial Menagerie in Russia
that is said to be over $50 years old.
The manure from ton Of clover hav
is estimated to be worth 1854, or about
as much as the hay is worth in many
places. 1t should be well understood
that clover hay ought to be fed on the
farm and never sold il any hay is to be
sold let it be the English meadow, the
manure from which is only about half IS
much.
For winter feeding, where cattle are
kept in stalls and heavily fed, there IL no
better dlVisOr tor CornmeaI than wheat
bran. 1t is also cheap, and furnishes
what the Cornmeal lacks When cattle
are led on cOrnmeai as the principal food
tor tattenlng, 1t Is apt to Cl0y if ted In
too large quantities, hence our best
feeders are IN the habit of using bran as
the cheapest and best means for render
ing the meal ted more digestibIe In
this each feeder must use discretion is
to the proper quantity used.
1t Is we'll known By all hunters that s
rabbit is never found in the same bed il
which one has been killed the same sea.
son, especially il one particle Or blood
has been split; therefore, if you wi
kill hare and rub the blood even 3
very small portion, on the loiy of s
frui'-rree, 1t will not be mulvsted by
tn m that winter, | have one huudre,
trees 1 have treated thus or tourteeT
years and never hgd them ba ked, uu
les ! hsppered to miss one Oae han,
is -Lfi iauC to rub fl Cy trees [Colmau'
RuIat World
To aid farmers in arriving st sccurac,
in estimating the amount laud in dit
ierent ii Ids under cultivation, tre al
LOWING table Is Given: vsrds wide b.
96S long utAn l acre; 10 yards wild
10y 48i long contains l sc,e; 20 yard
wide by 242 long contains l acre.
yards WIDE uy l2l ION" contain l acIy
20 yards woe 10y 694 lorg contains
acr. 80 yards wide - 6r4 oug cJntsIn
l acre 90 feet wide 10y 72S Tong contain
acre; 10 eet wide by 397 long cru
tains acre 100 feet wide by 1863 ION
contains l acre D feet wide by 1871
long contains l acre 440 feet wide by 9
long contains ! acre.