The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-10-23
AGRICULTURAL NOTES.


lie. S1NsABAUGH of Syracuse, Ne
braska, in a late address before the
Nebraska farmers institute, laid great
stress upon the comfortable housing of
poultry as prime element of success.
Also, regards Yermin rs one source of
cholera-reducing the condition so the
bird succumbs to the first adverse cir
cumstances.
Mr.. L. +. CROwELL, Seneca Falls,
n. Y, has planted several small groves
of various species of forest trees-elms,
naples, oaks, chestnuts, black walnuts
and several other kinds-which he has
raised from seed. The transplanted
groves are heavily mulched with straw,
located in different places where they do
most good as wind-breakers, and are
doing finely. 1t is very laudable work,
planting trees to bless coming genera
tions.-RatrGl Home.
THE famous experiments begun in
1S43 at ROthamsted, Eng, have been
carried on up to the present time. The
effect of every variety of combination
of manures has been shown in the fields
devoted to wheat, barley, beans, clover,
roots, pasture and potatoes. Among
the facts established are-that potash
should predominant in soil occupied by
beans and clover, nitrogen in the ma
nures for wheat, and phOsphates for
turnips.
A LININIENT for removing all sharp
pains stitches, sprains, or pains of
any kind-which the maker declares SUI
perior to any lightning pain killer, is
thus made by the author of a little book
called ''The Horse" Take sulphuric
ether, oil of spike, tincture of opium,
oil of sassafras, aqua ammonia, British
oil, of each, one ounce. Put all tOgeth-
er in a bottle, and shake well before
using. Apply with the hand, and rub
smartly.
WHEN the potatoes are dug the dan
ger to be unprecedented from poisoned
! tops will decrease, but will not disap-
| pear. We should not dare to allow
stock to feed along the edges of a potato
/ patch, for fear the poison used on them
| had been thrown or blown upon the
grass, and common prudence dictates
| that as soon as the potato tops are pulled
| they should either be buried or piled up
| and burned.-MiTrOr and Farmer.
A FRENCH lecturer on agricultural
chemistry advises farmers to set aside
a small portion of their land to be treat
/ ed with artificial manures; by growing
crops on these plots the cultivatOr will
| learn what elements of plant food are
wanting in his soil for the products he
wishes to raise. 1t is by thus testing
the effect of manures before trying them
on a large scale that an economical re-
turn can be reasonably expected. The
idea is Il good one, provided that the
soil of the plots is like that of the farm
in general.
PROFESSOR ASA GRAY has been led to
conclude that Standardization is neither
the cause nor perceptible cause of the
prepotency of the European plants which
are weeds in North America. A cursOry
examination has brought him to n sim
liar conclusion regarding the indigenous
weeds of the Atlantic StateS-thOSe herbs
which, under new conditions, have pro-
pagated most abundantly and rapidly
and competed most successfully in the
strife for the possession of fields that
have taken the place of forests.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Rural Hes
seRger has had good results from the APP
plication of lime, wood ashes and old
iron put around the roots of fruit trees
that were not doing well, thus restoring
the trees to a healthy condition and inn
proving the quality of the fruit. As {
lowing: Heat an ounce of sal-sOda t.
redness in an iron pot, and dissolve it IL
one gallon of water, and while warn
apply it to the trunk. After one appli
cation the moss and old bark will drO1
off, and the trunk viii be quite smooth
HAVE inquiries as to the merits O
ClawsOn wheat. Its great value con
sists in its hardness and large yield
there are other varieties that the miller'
prefer for making flour, but they vii
not pay over 3 to 3 cents bushel more
for them than for Clawson. The Claw
son yields from 20 to 30 per cent. more
to the acre than these fancy varieties
and so the farmers will raise the Claw
son. 1t makes excellent flour, but i
does not give the miller so large n per
centage of the :" new process - flour, SC
they prefer the harder varieties
George GeddeS, O11OndGgG Co., N. !. d.
If we take well developed cornstalB
and dissect it lengthwise, at the axis Of
many of the central and lower leaves
we discover buds cut through lOngi.
tudinally. Some of these buds general
" develop ears of corn. Usually these
ears are near the upper buds noticed OF
the dissected stalk. Now the fact has
been established that all, or majority
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veloped into ears. Such being the fact
why do not corn-growers generally pay
more attention to the Improvement OF
the crop? Even if they are not disposed
to give it the patient attention needed
for this improvement, why not more gen
orally adopt the Improvements made by
others, when it will require less loss o.
time and experiment than otherwise?
singular fact noticed in a cOrnstalk wei
grown, is that instead of the large bud
of the green stalk developing an ear o.
corn, it is the smallest on the stalk, a
the time of ripening; and on stalks
which bear no ears, the buds will be
found to be nearly of equal size, if ex
amined when growth has matured
Some varieties of corn show a greater
number of buds to the stalk than others
and such are usually the most product
ive.-W. II. White, IN Country Gentle
man.
Kentucky's Mighty Hunter.