The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-04-03

AeRrCuLrURAL NoTEs.


sheep.
A lining of tarred paper in poultry
houses Is recommended as q preventive
for lice.
If you want manufacturing establishs
ments to come to your towns, reduce
your taxes.
The worst whisky is made from apples.
The next worse from potatoes, but that
is bad enough which is made from corn.
Farmers this year should make de-
termined effort to raise the mortgage on
their farms. whatever else they may at
tempt to raise.
Potatoes cut ten days or two weeks
before planting, and sorinkled with
plaster, viii sprOut earlier and grow
better than when cut and planted on the
same day.
The finest wheat in the world is grown
in Barbary and Egypt, fact which has
always existed and always will, on ac>
count eff climatic influences. The Scotch
is the poorest.
It is reported from jersey that the
demand or the island cattle ia in excess
of all previous experience. France and
America are competing with England
Tor any choice specimens.
urge farmers to associate that they
may have their inspirations kindled.
Farm lie develops steadiness of char
acter; but isolation not only dries up
human sympathies, but The intellect be-
becomes moldy, unless q spirit of iDqui
" Is awakened at some time Of lie
Hon. Jas. Wilson.
1t is stated thrt q Minnesota miller
fnG on m w Of
grinding wheat, which does away with
! the millstones now in use and substitutes
| therefor vertically running granite disc
in direct combination with q circle OF
| French burr. This new process produces
| 80 per cent. Of middlings.
The Island of Jersey, in the English
I channel, produces q remarkable variety
OF cabbage called the Jersey-cOw cab
bage, which grows to the height of three
or four feet, and is cultivated for fodder.
| The stalk, which is tall and very straight
is often made into walking sticks and
| when smoothed off and vanished it il
similar in appearance to bamboo cane.
Three or four bushels of corn meal
with a quart of salt, in 8 hogshead Of
water, stirred occasionally for three OF
tour days until it ferments, is much bet
ter and far cheaper than feeding either
meal or corn to growing pigs. You car
add bran or middlings or Stops to it
and when half used, fill up with water
and 80 repeat, adding meal when needed
and little salt. This will bear q gooc
deal OF thinning, and it's the chespes
method known of making pork.
Many orchards become unrroductive
10 restore them to productiveness SOW
them in clover, and when the clover il
well established turn in the hogs anC
sheep. Their droppings will fertilize the
ground. They will pick up all the worm
tails, and this will wonderfully lessen the
destruction of fruit by worms. ToI
dressing of rotten manure, leaf mold
ashes, lime, etc., are very beneficial Il
orchards that have been in bearing for
few years. Orchards can only be KEEP
by good care, good manuring and goO(
pruning. Labor is indispensable to sue
cess in fruit culture, as in all othe
ShiRgH.
Never put the hands into butter
There is no excuse for doing so, ant
every sense of cleanliness fJrbids it
Even if the hands are clean, still as but
ter absOrbs any and every impurity Will
which 1t comes in contact, excessive per
spiTatiOn OF the hands, or any humer @
the blood might thus be i'm parted TO tn
butter. A wooden ladls should be use,
to lift the butter from the churn or t
turn it over while being washed.
Previous to 1888 there were but fe1
, mules in this country, AID those of 81
! inferior order. It is well known tha
Washington introduced into the United
, States a superior breed of mules A
: soon SIS it became known that this illus
triOus statesman and farmer desired t
stock his Mount Vernon estate wit
mules, the king of Spain sent him i9cl
+ and two jennies from the royal table
and Lafayette sent jacks and jennie
from the island of Malta.
Agriculture can not be carried on b
any rigid rule. The soil of no two field
is precisely alike, or would be alik
; benefited by the same treatment. n
two seasons are precisely alike. All j
variety, change. Intelligent farming j
|, learned to adapt methods to condition
and circumstances. There are fxet
principles that apply to esch condition
The man who mas -ers principles can be
come master in practice. Modify al
: principles according to the soil an,
climate.
, Malt is eagerly eaten by all kinds O
live stock, on account of its sweetness
but the result of many careful expert
ments has shown hat the benefit derive,
from feeding it do not repay the troubl
and cost in mailing the grain. Ever
advantage from the mailing may b
e gained by simply adding a little mo
lssses to the fodder or grain, and this j
much cheaper. In mailing grain Their
is q loss of substance, as well as chang
: of its form in termination, and thi
reduces the actual value of the grain
although it renders it more palatable.
Pomologists generally disapprove O
raising wheat and other similar kinds @
grain in young orchards, on account o
the tendency OF such crops to dry u
, the soil IN summer, leaving the trees t
8 suffer for want of moisture. In we
: soils the grain might be beneficial IN
, stead of Injurious, especially in wet sea
sons; still, as a rule, we should prefer t
plant the land in orchards with som
. kind of crop requiring cultivation il
summer. Potatoes, peas, beans or OIL @
: low growing kinds are preferable to cor
: and table crops.
Regarding borers in peach trees, say
, the Country Gentleman, it is useful Z
heap peck of dry Stacked lime abou
g the peach trees after the grubs have bee
picked out and before the earth is draw
back to the tree. The lime kills an
: grubs that may be left. IF a live CRU
g is thrown into the dry lime it will SOC
die this may be tried to satisfy any In
curing mind. Having used lime
? this way in 1877, the writer found n
borers at all in his trees in 1878, an
therefore has confidence in this means {
e depressing the Expectations of this pest.
E To the innnirv Of one of nnr anhzcrir