The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-04-10
SOUTHERN FARM AND HONE.
AaRrCuLTUnAL rorEn.

the value Of the sheep and half the value
of the cattle.
To save the posts from decay, dip the
ends to be set in the ground in petTo-
leum or paint, or char them.
Sheep fatten quicker when loose in
pens OF half a dozen, than by any
method of stalling or tying up each
sheep.
Lay plans for the year without DELAY.
The tOrehand man works to great sdvan-
tage. He loses no time; everything is
done at the proper moment.
Pick up the odds and ends thst are
going to waste around you. Hides
horns, hoofs, bones, wax, moss and many
other TRIES have cash value.
A farmer by the name of Dunning, in
Cook county, Ill, raised last year one
hundred tons of squashes from forty
acres of land, and had good corn crop
besides.
A small quantity of superphosphate
dropped upon potatoes when planting
increases the yield, and is a remedy
against worms and insects, by which scab
and other diseases are produced.
Liberal feeding is true economy. The
. N should be to induce animals of all
kinds 10 eat all they have q good appetite
for and can digest, by changing food and
also changing methods Of preparing it.
As soon as warm weather comes on
lice and ticks become active, and annoy
the animals greatly. A mixture of lard
and kerosene oil, put on the back and
Drlsket OF COWS, calves and sheep will
have good effect.
If you own but FORTY acres of land or
only ten, be content with it. Improve
1t IN every possible manner. Push pros
duction to its utmost limit. You will
soou find that "little farm well TILED
is better than gold mine.
Whether the evening or morning milk
OF the COW is the most solid in butter, is
what Is engaging the attention of scien
lists. 1t is claimed that the evening
milk produces nearly twice the butter
that the morning milk does.
Never try to beat colt into doing
thing; or, If nervous, he may turn out n
vicious horse, and if stupid, he may
become stubborn. Remember that by
patience and geu tieness he can be got To-
do anything that will not hurt him.
Farm harnesses should often be well
washed in CASTLE soap, and after being
nearly dried, treated to a liberal amount
OF the best neatsfOOt oil, well rubbed in
to perform the work properly the har-
ness should be taken entirely apart.
In order to properly fumigate the
poultry house, put INTO burning sulphur
pound 0i old tobacco leaves, or a piece
OF common resin twice as big as an egg,
and close the house perfectly tight. In
scots can not live in that kind of an
atmosphere.
To make hens lay the whole year, give
each hen half an ounce of fresh meat
every day, and mix a small amount OF
red pepper with their food in the winter
Give them plenty of grain, water, gravel,
and lime, and allow no cocks to run
with tLem.
The Workshop of the farm is now a
busy place. Every implement in the
least dilapidated should be overhauled.
repaired and painted or oiled. There
should be no delay in these matters, for
the busy season is upon us. Soon everv
tool will be needed for use.
Fattening beef animals pays; but
trying to fatten inferior animals is a
waste of energy, time and labor. The
animals should be selected with special
reference to the rapidity with which
they will fatten; to the quality OF the
beet, fneness of bone, compactness ,f
body, and small amount of offaI which
the CARCASS will yield.
Country folks are in general so fully
occupied with affairs that they have no
time to discover how lonesome thew
really are. So far as this is concerned
we think it a misfortune. We are too
busy; we work too hard we take too
few or no holidays read and think too
little, and do not spend sufficient time
In social culture. There is no reason
why those who plough the soil, or "whose
talk Is OF bullOcks," should not expert
enee the rehnements which are the result
OF formal social lite. In business. a
bargains, in pursuit of dollars, no man
Is seen at his best. He is thorny, spiny.
with his back up, as a porcupine's might
be, at his business Let one doF his
working clothes, and enter a room full
OF his neighbors - men and women.
youths and maidens- and he is q man of
another kind He naturally falls into
the ways of an intuitive kindness; the
doing to his companion what be would
that he should do to him. He "lets
himself out" to please, and, after an
evening spent IN social converse, be
Tetlres with many rough corners and
asperities toned down. For a few DAYS
the influence remains. It would be per
ma emit il it could be reinforced now and
then, and the good results would be
most agreeable and useful There is no
difficulty in bringing these good infu-
ences to bear. Two or three persons with
energy and some magnetism about them
can put them in motion with ease. Now
Is the time to begin the effort Rural
New Yorker.