The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-05-22

The value of a COW depends much nor,
upon the length of the milking season
than upon the quantity of milk give1
for few weeks.
Roll all the grass lands as soon as dry
enough to get on. One hundred pounds
of land plaster to the acre ON the clover
fields will give big money reward.
Worms at the roots of plants can bc
exterminated by watering with 3 solu.
ten made OF fresh lime and water, USED
after the lime hiss settled. 1t will i'm.
prove the plants.
The National Live Stock Journal very
emphStically says: And every editor
no has three grains of common sense
ought to know that burnt corn is nc
more a cure for hog cholera than it is for
smallpox. There is no specific for thi.
disease; and the man who relies upon
any of the nostTums that are sold, OF
any of the sure cures, like the above
that 90 the ROUNDS of the papers, will
find himself disappointed"
Orchard grass aud clover should be
sOwn together, and as they mature about
the same time, at least two crops a wear
can be cut from the same ground. max
ing an abundance of feed. Quantity OF
seed to the acre, one bushel orchard grass
and one gallon clover seed time of s,w~
ing, ss early in the spring as will admit
on the land heavy brush or light har-
row.
Fresh manure produces but little effect
when applied to CROPS, but when it is
well rotted it then contains much valu-
able soluble matter, absorbable by plants
In fresh manure the most important con
stitutent of its soluble TOTtiOn is potash,
and it contains but small portions OF
ammonia and phOsphOric acid. Rotten
manure on the contrary, yields to the
solvent sction of water large amounts OF
nitrogen and phosphoric acid.
Root crops have done much to redeem
the agriculture of England. The sugar
beet is doing wonders for France. 1t
may be that in the west we can not stand
the labor necessary for raising and seed
ing roots to our live stock for their nu tri-
ment, while corn and hay are so cheap
and abundant, yet it is possible that as a
condiment, and for variety, roots wonld
pay as well as any crop we can raise.
Have any of our readers fairly tried the
experiment
At recent meeting of the Farmers
club at Mercer, Pa, the following recipe
III aAalhAhk EAoANiAAS was EANNns 4uICE
ounces of tallow, two ounces of beeswax,
one pound of Iosin, Melt the tsllow,
then add beeswax, and then the rosin,
finely powdered and stirred gradually
into the mixture. Work it we'll, as the
children do their tsffy. and put it sway
in convenient pieces. WheR wanted for
use, put piece in hot water and work
it over, when it will become pliable.
The top of fruit tree, to secure the
best result in color and favor of the
fruit, should be kept open to the admfs-
sion of air and sunlight If some
branches grow too fast for the harmonious
balance of the tree pick out the buds st
the end and thus force the growth into
the other branches that are not So
thrifty. Five years of cultivation and
watchful pruning and you will never
have occasion to remove large branches.
1t is a terrible loss to a tree to allow
branches to obtain g large size only TO
be slaughtered.
Set a green hand to prune trees where
limbs of any size are to be removed, snd
the chances are, ten to one, that be viii
commence at the top and saw through
the limb until it falls of its own weight
tearing down the bark and wood, infict
ing great, ugly wound, which may
require yesrs to heal, and which, If not
carefully protected from the weather.
will cause such decay as TO DESTROY the
tree. The method commonly recon-
mended TO prevent injury is, to begin at
the bottom and cut half way thr0uaA
and then finish at the top; or with very