The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-02-26
AGRICULTURAL NOTES.

A CURE for COW giving curdled milk
is to feed her dessertspoonful of salt
/ peter once day in her meal.
The extent of loss farmer suffers in
! his live stock is about proporhoned to
the amount of exposure to-the animals.
THE value of live stock received at
the Union StOck-yards in Chicago, for
1879, was S114, 795, 1874, an increase OF
more than s., 800, 900 over 1873. ses I'd
In a recent. trial of feeding cotton
seed meal to milch cows, daiFYman
| found by careful tests that the percent
| age of cream increased from Is to 35
| per cent. 1t is claimed that butter made
4 from the milk of cows having daily
ration of eotton-seed meal, is of firmer
/ texture and finer flavor than if oil cake
Is used.
NEVER put peach tree in the place
of one that has died or is dying. 1t is
useless to do so. The disease is there
and will inoculate the new tree. Never.
/ trim your healthy tree with the hatchet
with which you have cut down sickIy
tree or you will inOculate the healthy
tree with the disease.
AS matter of experience, it is found
/ that the mixture of cut straw and root
/ pulp, alternate layers of each, should
stand for at least twenty-four hours before
being fed, after which it becomes heated
of itself, and the cattle eat it with great
relish. There is nothing better for young
and growing stock.
! IN Great Britain machine has been
/ invented by which wet grass is rapidly
turned into hay. The machine has
worked very successfully during the
\ past wet season, and it is said that this
method of making hay is to be intro
! duced on many large estates in England.
The admonition of the old adage, 4" to
make hay while the sun shines," is in
danger of losing its force in that couR-
try. 5000 .s..s
THIS is the season of the year for
farmers not only to secure their wood
/ for the coming year, but also to cut it
/ up in sufficient supply for spring, sum-
mer and fall use. 1t would be all the
better if the stock, well housed, lasted
through the following winter. A suita-
bic out-buIlding should be connected
with every farm, in which a good stock
of wood could be stored, also room
enough for a man to work stormy days
/ saving and splitting.
''AsHEs,'' said Marshall P Wilder, a
! few years since, Z" are worth 80 cents
per bushel to apply to orchards and are
/ the cheapest manure for that purpose.p
/ That ashes have very beneficial effect
/ is shown by the fact that on all virgin
soils recently burned over we get the
fairest fruits and the best vegetables.
/ The same authority cautions the use of
salt as a manure for orchards, believing
that it has no beneficial effect on land
/ near the ocean, where the atmosphere is
/ constantly saturated with salt.
SOME farmers think that top-dressing
/ with manure is best done during the
| winter. In the fall the manure, unless
very fine and evenly spread, viii cover
up iniuriously much of the plant. When
spread in winter, on the contrary, it
acts as mulch and a protection while
the plant is dormant, neutralizing the
effects of freezing and thawing. An au-
thOrity on the subject advises that artif-
cial fertilizers be spread on grain lands
in the fall, and the barnyard manure
after the snow cones.
THE premium butter at the New Jer-
sey State Fair was made from herd of
thoroughbred cows, on the farm of
Martin r. Dennis in Sussex County,
The ordinary dash-chuFn was used, and
only the cream churned. The dairy
house is built of stone, and through it
runs a stream of spring water, with a
I
shallow pans on the floor, which is of
slate slabs. The butter is salted with
Ashton salt, at the rate of 81 of an
ounce to the pound. The feed of the
COWS in summer is pasture only; and in
spring and fall, during the milking sea-
son, four quarts of corn meal are added
to all the good meadow, hay and corn
stalks they viii eat. The average yield
from April 1, 1878, to April /, 1879, was
261 pounds per COW, some of them be-
ing two years old, with their first calves.
The cows were MIXED about nine
months, dropping their calves in April.
THE Cow-pea is destined to do for the
worn lands of the South, the DtTie Far
nleY thinks, what red clover does in
higher latitudes, for it will gather am
mOnia as readily, fattens stock equally
well, and grows with less attention on
their ground Then, too, it is cheap as
compared with commercial fertilizers,
saves transporting and distributing
stable and other manure, and is evenly
diffused over the whole surface of the
field, and easy of cultivation. The land
is laid off into three-foot drills, and 10
or y peas are dropped together at every
short step, and covered with two light
burrows The only cultivation needed
is the breaking out of the middles in
4 two or three weeks, and the running of
a sweep-furrow in the middle when
month or six weeks old. By this time
the ground will be so shaded as to keep
out other vegetation, and it will be inn
1 possible to distinguish where the .origi-
nal rows were. From ordinary uplands
/ 10 or Is bushels of peas can be gathered
from an acre. What hay is not cut for
stock should be plOwed under early in
the fall.