The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-01-15
AGRICULTURAL NOTES.

For throat distemper, CRATE fine
small, green, wild turnip; or if dry,
give a heaping spoonful, mixed with
bran or oats. 1t is good for cough
also.
A FEW drops of ammonia added to a
gallon of water and applied once a
week to all pots of flowers viii do much
good and keep the pots and earth from
souring.
SOME one who has experimental in
the matter says that handful of bran
scattered in each hill of potatoes when
planting win increase the yield one
third.
A DAIRY8IAN says: Never keep a poor
COW the second year. No man can af-
ford to keep a COW that viii not make
from 200 to 220 pounds of butter or its
equivalent every year.
For potatoes and tomatoes take one
wheelborrow load of earth where the
vine is to stand and film with half coal
ashes and half soil. The yield viii be
nearly doubled thereby.
SOAK oats in tepid water before feed
ing them to horses. Old horses with
bad teeth can then masticate the grain
sufficiently, and greedy young animals
will not swallow it whole.
A SOFT, firm, velyety skin is nearly
always found on a good COW, and a
thick, hard hide on poor one. a soft,
firm skin denotes rich milk, while a
soft, velvety skin indicates quantity of
milk.
FARMERS do not fail so much from
want of knowledge as they do from
want of action. If their knowledge is
not applied to labor, prompted by ener-
gy and perseverance, it will accomplish
nothing.
THE following rule in blowing is rec
commended: {" Never turn up over one
or two inches of unfertile subsoil in one
season; and, when so turned up, the
land should receive a dressing of ma
nure.'
THE yearly dairy product of New
York is 111,373,361 pounds of butter
and 90, 725, 172 pounds of cheese. OF
this total, thirty-three counties make
annually S3,47S, 73U pounds of butter,
and 95,9S8, 800 pounds of cheese.
ONE of the plainest indications of I'M
successful farming is to see manure go
ing to waste, or unemployed. When
/ this is seen there is no need of looking
beyond the stables and yards to find out
the condition of the farm, or to judge of
the success of its. owner.
1 IT is d great mistake to keep cattle
/ stabbed all winter and then turn them
out in spring, exposing them to cold
storms of wind and rain. Stock, es-
pecially dairy stock, and all animals
! giving milk, should be carefully pro-
tected in the spring until the days and
nights are warm.
THE cheapest food in America is corn
bread properly made. 1t is also very
healthful and invigOrating. 1t is the
main dependence of the very poor. Il
requires but a trifle over a pound of il
per day to keep the human system il
health and vigor, and this pound costs
only about one cent.
A CORRESPONDENT of the PZougbnaGa
writing from WATERFOWL, Mass, state:
that he has been very successful in cur
ING warts on the teats of cows by amply
bathing with water in which beans hav,
been boiled. Have any of our reader
had similar success in the use of thi
simple remedy?
TWELVE quarts of milk day is quit
| common for Kerry. cows-the smalles
} of British breeds-but several cases ar
on record where they have given whel
flush, during period Of several weeks
| as much as twenty-five quarts, of quail
, ity, the London LiUe Stock Journal says
inferior only to that of the Jersey"
Mr.. ISAAC c. PIERCE, Rochester, n
Y, reports steady Improvement in tn
quality of apples from an orchard i
which he has kept hogs for several years
He does not think crop rotation Away
necessary; has raised garden corn o.
the same plot for successive seasons, an
the past year the yield was at the rate c
$50 bushels of ears per acre.