The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-12-04
AGRICULTURAL NOTES,
KEEP sweet potatoes - and in a ID

KEEP sweet potatoes dry and in uni
form temperature above freezing.
CHLoRIDEo of lime is recommended as
an insect deterrent for plants, trees and
even for the soil.
IT costs no more to raise good ami
nal than poor one. The food spent
while they are young is repaid cent per
cent.
If pumpkins are fed to mich COWS,
the seed should not be allowed to be eat
en-. They reduce the flow of milk
through their action on the kidneys.
Mr.. MEEHAN remarks that if the seed
of cabbage be sown as soon as ripe or at
that time of year when it naturally
ripens, instead of plants making solid
heads, they viii - bolt" and run to
seed.
MANY remedies have been tried for
the pear blight, says the Country GEN
tLen1G71, and with superficial observers
those which happened to be applied just
before the disease passes off, have the
credit of a certain cure.
ONE of the simplest ways of propa-
eating the grapevine is simply to make
cuttings of the prunings, about foot
long always, including one or two Joints,
and bury them so that the upper end is
an inch above the soil Cover them
with straw, hay or any other coarse ma
terial at hand. A large proportion will
grow next spring. The same may be
said of currant and gooseberry cuttings.
The roots of raspberries may be cut up
into bits three inches long, and placed
in boxes, alternating a layer of soil and
layer of root cuttings. The boxes
may be buried in a dry place out-of-
doors, or kept in the cellar until spring
CLOVER hay is always dusty, and the
dust breathed by horses affects the air
tubes and lungs and causes heaves. But
if it is cut up and thoroughly wetted it
may be given to horses without injury
Timothy hay cut in blossom is also
dusty, and if fed dry to horses is as in
furious as clover hay. There is nothing
in the clover itself that is hurtful. Cat
tie do not suffer from the dust so much
as horses, as they are not SO nervous,
and their mucous membrane is not so
irritable. Every farmer knows that for
one sick OK or COW there are a hundred
sick horses the cause is the difference
in the nervous organization, which
makes the horse the more subject to
disease.
WATER is an excellent protector for
Southern Europe, where the winters are
light, many tender plants remain safely
out-Of-dOOrs all winter without being
covered, by twisting straw into heavy
ropes which, on cold nights, are made
wet and then wound in zig-zag lines
| around plants and among the branches
OF trees and shrubs, each end being sub
merged in pail of water. The water
will rise by capillary attraction and keep
the rope wet the whole length, and in
the act of freezing enough heat is liber-
ated from this water to raise the tenn
| perature of the atmosphere surrounding
the plants, and thus save them from the
| cold. It is for the same reason that
| trees on a moist ground can withstand
a severe frost better than trees on dry
| soil.
| DISEASES of trees come and 90 the
same as diseases in animals. It is the
same with insects. Conditions favora-
| BILE to their increase, of which we know
nothing, occur and they threaten the
very determination of certain species of
| plants upon which they live, or for long
| periods render valueless, over extensive
! districts of country, certain fruits previ-
| Ously of great value to the Inhabitants.
| All at once they nearly or entirely dis
/ '
eral the last or popular remedy for their
/ destruction receives the credit. The his
/ tory of medical practice through ages
| gives convincing proofs of the credulity
of human nature and of the utter worth
! lessness of medicines which for years at
a time were supposed to possess re-
markable specific curative powers.
Fowls can not get along well on
| grain food alone, and must in both win
! ter and summer-the latter especially
| be supplied with some green, succulent
food, or they will ere long become dis
eased or sickly, when the matter of
profit will be very problematic indeed.
Many a time have we seen persons pay
a snug little sum for a small flock of fine
fowls, put them into neat houses and
yards, give them plenty of corn, wheat,
oats, ETC., watering them regularly, but
never allow them bite of green grass
or other green food. The place must be
small, indeed, which can not afford
enough grass for a flock of fowls. If
sOds can not be obtained, cut a bunch
of fine young grass early every morning
for them, and they viii show you how
badly they need it by eating it up, with
evident relish. The labor necessary TO
supply them with this is not very great,
and should be a pleasure, rather than a
task; while the benefits which the fowls
derive therefrOm are very great indeed.