The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-09-11
AGRICULTURAL NOTES.

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GRAPES, " almost as fresh as when
taken from the vine =" the previous fall,
were shown the past spring in San
Francisco, preserved, the Pacific Rttr0J
Press says, in powdered bark of the
sugar pine.
1T is said that when a melon vine is
found dropping in consequence Of the
presence of the fatal borer at its root, its
life may be saved by laying it in a trench
few inches deep and covering it with
earth, with the leaves left out as a mat
ter of course.
ENGLAND is largely dependent on
America, also, for fertilizing material.
The London journal Of Horticulture is
authority for the statement that the
great bulk of mineral superphosphate -
used in that country is made from the
famous phosphate deposits at Charles
ton, S. G.
IN 1876 a Georgia farmer planted
single grain of wheat and harvested
1,717 grains; in 1877 the yield from
these was y pounds; this year the crop
is - 50 dozen bundles, not yet threshed, -
but which he thinks viii give % bushels
the product of one grain in the third
| generation.
A VISITOR to the hop districts of New
| York writes to the Utica Herald that the
/ growers would sooner allow their
/ chickens to be killed than skunk, ~
since this useful creature, usually in
such bad OdOr with most people, proves
a very great help in the struggle against
/ the grub which does so much injury to
! the vine.
a RECENT experimental shipment of
! - American horses (fr0m Richmond,
] Ind tn H1NTa a gratifying
success, the animals making the voyage
without accident, arriving in splendid
condition, and bringing 1920 to S270
each, for the French cavalry. This may
prove to be the starting-point of a profit
able export.
AN old gardener writes as follows:
''After trying for a number of years, al
most in vain, to raise good celery on or
binary dry garden soil, finally borrow
ed the use of little batch of reclaimed
swamp land-deep black muck, well
drained but moist, and for the two past
seasons have grown on it very fine cell
cry with but little labor
IN Germany new seed fertilizer has
lately been patented for the purpose of
giving immediate nourishment to the
young rootlet as soon rs it starts. This
fertilizer is designed to form a coating
| ONCI bllC SuI1tlCG VI INC SbctlS bIldJ are
planted or sOwn. Its essentials are re-
ported to be / 900 parts of gas liquor, 12O
parts sulphate of iron, 100 parts phos-
phate of soda, 20 parts of saltpeter and
80 parts sulphate of copper.
DILUTED earbolic acid is said to be a
complete eXterminator of the potato
beetle and other insects infesting crops,
and it should be used in preference to
Paris green. But it is destructive to
plant life unless it is sufficiently diluted
with water-one pint of carbolic acid to
one hundred parts of water. This i'm
portant fact should be borne in mind.
The cabbage-grub may be prevented by
setting the plants in mixture of lime
and SCOT. Wood-ashes have also been
similarly used.
In Normandy cider is said to be pre-
served by putting about half bottle OF
sweet oil in the cask and plugging the
bung with wad of cotton. The oil be-
ing light can not combine with the cider,
but forms n thin covering, which pre-
vents the oxygen of the air coming in
contact with it. The cotton filters the
air entering as the cider is drawn off, so
that no insects or impurities can pass.
Cider in bottles is put in cellars, the bot
ties being covered with few inches of
earth, which keeps the cider at an equa-
BILE temperature and prevents the bottles
} from bursting.
"WALDOn says in the Ohio Farmer
that after II years of experience with
mules on the farm he considers them far
: superior to horses, and would ALWAYS
recommend, where two teams are kept,
! that one should be Il mule team. They
are better than horses for the following
reasons: They endure the heat much
better and are not so liable to sickness
! or injury, and when famed or CALLED,
they recover much sooner than horses
! They also have Il greater endurance and
= will do more work. They require less
feed and will last many years longer
than horses. Notwithstanding the preju-
dice existing against them, they are, as
n rule, as trusty as horses and more re-
: sponsive to kind treatment.
! In some experiments in fattenine
; sheep Henneberg and others found thai
q in the case of adult animals there is nc
! production of additional flesh during the
fattening period, but that fat only i,
q produced. A part of the animals were
= killed at three different stages of the
Z process, and the proportion of flesh and
fat was determined; of the former the
relative quantities were as 100: 80: 102
, and of the latter 100: 287: 339. They
e think that there is a limit beyond which
e this loading down with fat is a benefit
D neither to feeder nor consumer, and thai
d, this limit is reached at the middle period
a and that the fattening process should
l not extend over three months, anC
should be pushed ahead rapidly within
: that time.
IN favor of frequent milking, a French
agricultural journal reports that q in al
experiment with three milkings a day
: for IL days COW gave 10 quarts O
2 milk. With two milkings the same COW
D gave only lac quarts in the same mum
/, Der of days. Moreover, analysis show
: ed that the milk in the first case wa.
e richer in butter globules than that in the
e second case in the proportion of Al tC
= 50" Observations with similar result,
d have often been made in this country
e The fact is well established that the
shorter the time the milk remains in the
: udder the greater the quantity and the
D richer in butter, the wasting away OF
/ fats being less and the aggregate secre
ton more cOpious. The owner of the
= Whitestown herd of Holsteins finds it {
q paying practice to milk three times
day.
' THE reason poultry killed at home
e though young, is not as tender as tha
, bought at the market is, the former j;
7 generally not killed until wanted, and
r when eaten is still rigid with death,
! while that bought at the pOulterers has
! been killed at least hours-more Otter
: days Poultry ought to be killed several
r days before being eaten, dressed al
once, and with few bits of charcoal in
Inn, Il s,l.a, fr.4-. ,r-e