The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-03-04
AGRICULTURAL NOTES.

Fowls fed on buckwheat are of fine
flavor.
DURING the cold weather see that
your fowls have fresh water to drink
every day.
shorten the toes of the front shoes and
lengthen the toes of the hind shoes.
Too much clover hay, especially if a
little musty, should never be given a
horse, as it is more or less apt to bring
on cough.
WHEN crossing is made between
Berkshire males and Poland China fe-
males, very valuable hog for pork
packing is produced.
SNEEzING with fowls comes from cold
affecting the air-passages of the head,
and if neglected will result in Group. A
warm, dry place should be provided for
them.
SLATE is the best covering for the
roof of a house, because not being
porous it does not absorb impurities or
dampness, and keeps all below it clean
and dry.
DON'T be afraid of feeding your lay
ing hens during cold weather; more
hens suffer from under feeding than
over feeding. 1t takes a good deal of
food to keep up animal heat, and pro-
vide the material for eggs.
! A GOOD Jersey COW, during ten years
of usefulness, will produce skim milk
enough TO pay for her keep, and three
| thousand pounds of the best butter in
/ the world into the bargain-butter
worth several times as much as the
heaviest beef animal.
MEAsLY pork is a parasitic disease.
| The parasite is a germ of the tapewOrm,
and measly pork is the source, to a great
extent, of tapewOrms in children. If
the pork is well cooked the germ is de-
stroyed, and there is no reason for ap-
pretending any thing of an unpleasant
nature from its consumption.
THE editor of the London HOTttcatL-
tatrist asserts that among all the fer
tilizers proposed for the grape, hone
embody more of the necessary ingredi-
ents than bone meal. 1t should be APP
piled as early in the season as possible.
About ton to the acre makes a dress
ing that will prove valuable two or three
years.
THE canker-wOrms which attacked an
orchard of over 5000 trees iTE Ontario
County, n. Y, last year, were brought
to the ground dead in a few hours by
showering the trees with a mixture o1
1-2 pounds of Paris green to 200 gal
Ions of water. A force-pump threw a
stream high above the trees, where ii
broke into spray and sprinkled every
part.
To utilize feathers of ducks, chickens
> and turkeys, generally thrown aside a:
refuse, trim the plumes from the stump
; inclose them in a tight bag, rub the
whole as if washing clothes, and yoJ
2
down, excellent for quilting coverlet
and not a few other purposes.
S Foul air may be expelled from wei
by heating a large thick bar of iron
: section of railroad bar for instance-reC
n hot, and suddenly lowering it into tn
water, Just so it is submerged. The sud
II den escape of steam forces the foul ga
n upward. When a fire will burn in tn
e well, the air is pure.
\ ! ONE way to utilize straw as a afertilize
= is to stack or pile it in a yard for tn
. purpose, where the stock can run to il
:. In year or two there will be immens
. piles of half-rOtten straw and manur
that makes an excellent top-dressin
70 the first year, and the second year
=. may be plowed under with gres
II advantage to almost any kind of croI
- JAMES BUCHANAN Evans was ono
l. the head clerks in the Treasury Depar
ment, Is years ago, and a great favorit
II in Washington society. He was a note
wit, a graceful dancer, and a FIRE
drinker. A Miss Harvey was Wasl
W ington belle. She belonged to a wealth
Norfolk family, and had been careful
reared. This couple caused a soci
~ fiutter by eloping and getting marrie'
TO They did not return, and were soon fO
lg gotten in the circles in which they ha
moved Even their relatives lost sig
ne of them. A few days ago, while a woI
an was singing and dancing on the stas
" of a coneert saloon at Milwaukee, 81
TO was told that her husband was lyiI
IS unconscious in barroom. It was cor
h, mon foT him to get drunk, and she q
X tached little importance to the messag
w but her daughter, also performer, we
ST to see her father, and found him dyiI
us from a fractured skull. He was t
once eourted James Buchanan Eva
mt and had become a sot. The woman W
ot the former belle, Miss Harvey, and hi
turned her accomplishments to accou
er in low form of the show business.
d, Or the discoverers and conquerors
ast the New World, Columbus died broke
TO hearted, Roldin and Bobadilla we
drowned, Balboa was beheaded, Cort
er- was dishonored, and Pizarro was nal