The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-11-06
FARM NOTES.

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yield better revenue than great estates
lily cultivated. 1t may perhaps be bet
ter put by saying that every farm, large
or small, should possess a good farmer.
LAND which without an application of
manure will give yield of Is bushels of
wheat per acre will, by the addition of
80 pounds of nitrogen, in a favorable
season, give from 50 to 40 bushels of
wheat with proportionate increase of
straw.
JOHN WALTER, member of Parlia-
lament, addressing an agricultural
meeting, expressed his concurrence in
the views now becoming widespread,
that British farmers could not compete
with America in growing wheat, but
must grow what pays.
Mr.. n. OHAIER, Dayton, Ohio, tells
the Fruit Recorder that in the fall he
puts on his strawberry beds a covering
of straw, free from grass or other seeds,
only deep enough to hide the plants,
which in spring grow up through it,
leaving it as an excellent mulch to choke
down weeds and keep the fruit free from
sand.
WEEDS on gravel walks may be de
stroyed and prevented from growing
est salt. This is a better method than
hand-pulling, which disturbs the gravel
and renders constant raking and rolling
necessary. One application early in the
season, and others as may be needed
while the weeds are small, will keep the
walks clean and bright.
GOING in debt was a very common
habit few years ago. TWAS altogether
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so common now. Farmers have seen
the evil of it. They have seen it is much
easier to get into debt than it is to get
out of it. 1t is like getting into quick
sand. Every effort to get out only sinks
one deeper. The cash system is far bet
ter. 1t makes one more economical.
1t is better to deprive ourselves of lux
uries than to pay too dearly for them
afterwards.
A CORRESPONDENTS from Berlin, Conn,
says, that the best purifier of cistern
water he has ever tried is bag of char
coal. Lower it into the cistern with a
stone attached to it, to keep it down.
The amount of charcoal should vary
with the size of the cistern. To change
it once a year is often enough. For
scaly legs in poultry he has found an eff
fective remedy in a mixture of common
kerosene oil and lard, to be applied freely
every second day. He has found by ex-
perience that this would cure the ailment
in a short time.
THE stock kept upon a farm affords
the owner a ready contingent market for
all the grains and grasses raised and this
market is never OverstOcked, but the de-
mand is always greater than the supply
Cultivated fields are subject to wear and
tear, and, like man, require repleniSh-
ing with food. The best way to furnish
it is to consume all that is raised on the
farm; in fact, this is the only way to
make the land respond literally to our
behests; hence the farmer has double
inducement, and should act upon the
suggestions that point out the right way.
SANDY soils are comparatively unpro-
ductive, chiefly because they are too
loose. The object of treating them
should be to render them more compact.
Still they are plowed as frequently as
other soils, and generally are plowed
deeper. This of course renders them
more loose. There is no occasion to
plOw sandy land except for the purpose
of destroying the weeds and grass that
grow on the surface. This may be done
by an implement that will cut the roots
and leave them to die by exposure to
the heat of the sun. After they are dry
they may be burned or. if the land is to
be devoted to cultivated crops, the thin
turf may remain on the surface to serve as
mulch. Sandy soils are especially bene-
fitted by mulching but are injured by
plowing, and change in their treatment
is essential to their productiveness.