The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-10-16
AGRICULTURAL NOTES.

pounds of cucumbers pared and sliced
! cover with salt, adding piece of alum
size of a butternut Next day drain off
/ the liquid and boil in vinegar until ten
der; put in Il jar and cover with a sirup
made of one pint of vinegar, four pounds
of sugar spiced with cinnamon.
IT is said that the Chinese have a plan
of preserving grapes by cutting cir
cular piece out of a ripe pumpkin or
gourd, making an aperture large enough
to admit the hand. The interior is then
completely cleaned out, the ripe grapes
are placed inside and the cover replaced
and pressed in firmly. The pumpkin is
stored in a cool place. Grapes thus
preserved, it Is claimed, will retain
their freshness for long time
The California Horttcstlt,sgist recon-
mends the following mode of keeping
grapes: Spread the carefully cut fruit
thinly on the shelves or tables for few
days, to dry up the stems a little. Then
cut clean, dry rye straw in straw-cut-
ter about an inch long, and cover Iiber-
ally the bottom of a suitable tightly
jOinted bOX,-o which place a moderate
layer of fruit; then cover with the cut
straw literally and lay on fruit again,
and thus proceed. Put them in a cool,
dry place, and the grapes will keep
! sound for several months.
THE Rocky Mountain Hilsbandma1s
says: " The grasses of Montana are
unlike those of California in regard to
killing out by pasturage. Old fields
turned out soon become reset with their
primitive growth. The pasturage is
permanent and almost without limit,
and stock fatten and flourish the year
round. Although there are severe
storms in winter and the snow lies deep
on the mountain ranges there is COM
paratively little in the valleys, and stock
come out in the spring looking better
than they do along the banks of the
Neuces, in Texas
PICCALLLI.-One peck of green to-
matOes, one large head or two small
ones of cabbage, three green peppers
and two red peppers. Take out the
seeds from the peppers and chop with
the cabbage and tomatoes quite fine
Put into a stone pot, sprinkle with salt
and let stand over night. In the morn
ing drain in a colander. Take one
quart of strong vinegar, one pound of
sugar, One-haf ounce each of ground
cloves and allspice, and two ounces of
whole white mustard. Put the vegeta-
bles, vinegar, etc, over the stove in
kettle and boil fifteen minutes. Put into
glass cans and make air-tight.
A WRITER in the Vine and Fruit Re
cOrder says he has discovered from prac-
tice that sulphur, one ounce to a gallon
of water, and sprinkled or syringed over
grape vines, just at nighfall, will destroy
insects and mildew and leave no bad
show afterward. When sifted as a pow
der it has an unpleasant and oftentimes
injurious effect, although it is acznowl-
edged specific manure of value, even
when applied boldly broadcast upon the
soil. Salt applied to vines in connec-
ton with gypsum or plaster of Paris,
forms a manure which acts as a healthy
stimulant on soils of loamy clay,
gravelly or dark, rich sandy loan.
I EXPERIMENTS made with great care,
, during two seasons, upon the farm of
the Ohio State University, to ascertain
the most profitable quantity of seed
, wheat to the acre, have given the fol-
lowing results: Three pecks of clean
seed, drilled into ground which had been
) put in the condition of garden by re-
peated STRINGS (but without manure)
gave a crop of thirty to thirty three
bushels per acre; for each additional
peck of seed, sown under the same con-
ditions, the harvest was increased by
from one to two bushels per acre, until
seven pecks were reached, after which
an increase of seed seemed to cause a
decrease of crOP-nine pecks Of seed Civ
ing no larger return than three or four
pecks.
= LEARNED from a neighbor, says a New
l York Tribune contributor, how to make
| a cistern filter that works perfectly. OF
l 40 common hard brick, and cement
enough to lay them, build up around the
r pump-pipe tube of four inches diane
ter on the inside, the two last courses to
be drawn in so that the last touches the
, pipe; then cement the top close around
the pipe, and it is finished. Every drop
of water you pump must pass through
, the bricks. Some may say, as l did,
l g the water will not pass through as fast
as YOU sometimes wish to use it, You
can't pump it out as long as there is any
water in the cistern, and it is clear rs
crystal, and clean. For Il few days II
Z tastes a little limey, but that soon passes
This filter does not get out of order,
l does not freeze, is out of the way, and
cost for material and labor 80 cents. A
friend tells me he had one in successful
i use eight years.
4 G. E. DAVIDSON, Wayland, Mich,
: who has had three years experience in
cultivating and manufacturing sorghum.
o gives some points of general interest tC
/ sorghum growers. He writes: %
have satisfied myself that the sooner
the cane is made up after it is ripe and
> cut the better the quality of the sirup,
> and the larger the percentage of sugar
: that will granulate. No cold juice
: should be added to the evaporation after
:. it comes to boil. Large deep pans OF
, evaporatOrs are the best. The continu.
! ous-steam process lessons the chances OF
a granulating product from all ground
= cane juice. The running of cold juice
! into hot at any stage of the reduction
: coagulates or sets the albuminOus anC
, waXy elements so that it requires fl
|, tering process to extract them. | alsC
. found that the more the cane-stalk was
, shortened at both ends the better the
). quality of the sirup. The butt joint.
are barren of scaccharinc matter anC
give the sirup a bad taste, and the tor
Joints are worthless. From experiment.
+ on small scale I think the best results
d can be obtained by steaming the can'
IT and expressing the juice by screw press
e ure. The juice IS then free from th'
r waxy impurities that so much hinde
Y granulation, also the fine portions o
'e cane that are ground out in crushing il
5 a mill. OF the practicabiiity of thi
r plan, or its economy on a large scale,
/. am not prepared to compare it with tn
a old method as yet.
Y A CURIOUS happy family is now anus
: ing The Russians at the Geological Gar
; den of St. Petersburg. There are in
: large cage two young lions, two y9uni