The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-09-18
AGRICULTURAL NOTES.

keeps away the lice
For wind-galls, use a padded band
age, with astringent lotions, applied tw,
hours a day at first, adding two hour
/ every day after until it is kept OF
continually, is the usual remedy. Res
from work is helpful to cure.
A GERMAN publication says carboli,
acid and water viii drive ants away from
any grOunds-100 parts of water to on,
of carbolic acid. Mix in a tub and stil
repeatedly for "a hours, taking off the
scum that rises to the top.
AGOOD whitewashing, with fresh lime
at this season of the year, will destroy
the vermin found in almost every hen
merry, which will be a great relief to the
poultry. A foul hennery is a persecu.
ton to poultry and keeps them from
laying. A few cents worth of lime
and a few minutes of time will do the
work effectually.
DEPTH TO Sow WHEAT A great
deal has been said first and last as to the
depth at which to SOW wheat, remarks
the Prairie Farmer. Experiments have
shown thatupOn ordinarily compact and
moist soil, wheat germinates most
promptly and produces the strongest
plant when sown at a depth not exceed
ing one inch from thence up to six inches
it came more and more feebly.
TENDENCY OF THE HIGH BREEDING
OF FOwLs.-So things are coming to
this pass, says writer in the London
Gardeners Chronicle, that we are likely
soon to have in England beautiful birds,
''tOO good to be eaten,' kept like race
horses, not for their utility, but to gain
prizes-while our markets will be sup
piled with birds of no breed at all. For
if, as [ suspect, exhibitions tend to pro-
duce pampered, tender birds whose eggs
and chickens can not be depended on in
a bad winter like our last, those who
rear fowls for market will gradually
cease to buy their eggs, and will content
themselves with harder, commOner
birds; and the fine birds, of superior
size and excellence, which were to have
been introduced into every farm-yard
and cottage-garden when exhibitions
had drawn attention to them, will but
find their way to our tables.
LIME FOR POULTRY are a
hundred ways proposed to obtain lime
for egg shells, bones, etc, for our hens
Some of these are of the most curious
kind. One would suppose that lime
was one of the rare substances in this
world. Burnt oyster or clam shells,
burnt bones, even egg shells themselves,
are recommended. Teaching a hen to
eat her own eggs is best done by throw
ing the shells to her. How many folks
in the country have oyster or clam
shells? Then again, gravel-hen's
teeth-is not as often supplied as it
ought to be. A late writer actually rec
Ommends pound bits of glass, or queens
ware as being better than gravel. How
strange to see people going so far cut of
the line of common sense! Now, both
of these very difficult things to accom-
plish for the health of our feathered
bipeds are easily done by making a NOR
tar of small gravel and lime, in the man
ner of stone masOns, and when the NOR
tar becomes hard, breaking it up small
with an AK. Keep this little piece of
and burn all egg shells, and the moral
and physical character of the hens and
their husbands will be in the ascendant.
Gentleman
LAME HORSES. the horse
is one of the most powerful, ambitious
and sensible of all our domestic animals =,
vet, in a certain sense, it is far from be-
ing a hardy one. In this respect the
horse is not equal to the rough-and-tum-
bic usage which the mule or even the
OK can bear without exhibiting marked
signs of the severe discipline to which it
has been subjected. The horse is very
delicate animal, and if pounced upon in
a passion while encumbered with the
harness, and possibly with a load too
heavy for easy movement, the chances
are that efforts to escape punishment
I l. L.
muscles as to produce lameness. Rough,
cruel men are not fit to take care of an
animal having the spirit, tenderness and
susceptibility pertaining to the horse.
Were such men less frequently trusted
with the management of stable stock,
there would be fewer limping and COM
paratively worthless horses on our pub
lie thOroughfareS. The greatest care, it
is true, can not prevent accidents to
horses, but with proper attention the
halting ones would constitute the eXcep-
ton, and not the rule, as is now too Of
ten the case.
IMPROVING THE PIG-The National
Lire Stock Journal inquiries if in the i'm
prOvement of the breeds of hogs we have
not carried the tendency to lay on fat
too far? 1t is admitted that many a
show cow, or sheep, or hog, is too fat to
be most profitable, either for the butcher
or the consumer. There IS limit to the
profitable production of fat. Is it not
true that the disposition to lay on the
fat is in excess of what is really desira-
BILE in the case of several somewhat high
" priced breeds? The proportion of
lean meat has been reduced to a mini
mum, except in the hams and shoulders,
and greatly decreased in these. For
- home use" do any of US prefer such
pigs? If any have doubts on this point,
let them examine the carcass of a well
fattened hog, or look at sides of bacon,
or even at a ham or shoulder. If OppOr-
tunity offer, let a comparison be made
of the carcasses of model well bred pigs,
always kept in high condition, and those
of common or grade pigs, which have
had more length of body, perhaps a lit
tie more length of leg, and which have
fed during part of their lives on good
grass or clover as almost their sole food,
and which have never been without
fair amount of daily exercise. 1t is quite
possible the decision may be, that while
the one set would give the greatest profit
when sold on the market, the other
would be much the more desirable for
family eating. 1t is high time we were
calling halt, so far as further develop
ment Is concerned, with each of several
breeds. 1t is time to look more closely
to constitutional vigor, to activity and
general vitality, than some breeders
have done.
Primitive Innocence.