The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-12-01
Farm AND HOUSEHOLD.
rRoFIrABLE STOCK DECIDING.

ton of the superiority OF good blood
over scrub stock but We should lev er
lose sight of the fact, that these veiy
satisfactory results are attained only
bv men who have good stock and are
good and liberal feeder, AMI by no
others. Good blood Is unquestienablv
essential as a foundation; but unless
this be supplemented by care, atten-
ton and generous feeding, the result Is
anything but satisfactory, ~ matter
how excellent the sock may be in
point of breeding. This Is especially
true In many Of our improved breeds
of domestic animals. They are the
products of MANY generations Of care
full selection and high ferding, very
greatly removed from the original
type, and whOloiy unused to shifting
for themselves hence, if they be sub
jectcd 10 neglect, put upon scanty fare,
and exposed to chilly rains and cold
winds and driving snow storms, it can
not he expected they viii thrive equal
~ as well as with generous feeding
under good shelter.
II is high time our farmers should
more generally understand that it does
not paw to keep more stock than can
be well fed and cared for. One COW
properly provided for viii give more
milk during the winter ncnths than
three of the half-starved, half-frOzen
animals so often found upon the prem
ises of even 'well-to-do" farmers" A
half dozen well bred pigs, pushed
from the time they are week old,
will make more pounds of pork, and
bring more per pound at nine months
old than the same number of rOoters
kept half-starved till they are two
years old, and thenfattened for market.
a grade or thoroughbred steer, well
fed from birth up to two years old,
will weigh more than one kept in the
ordinary manner TO the same age can
ever be made to weigh, no matter how
long or in what way he may be sub
seqUently fed. These are facts which
every intelligent, experienced handler
of live stock will substantiate, and it
is strange they are not more generally
recognized. No fact in rural economy
has been more completely demOnstra-
ted by experience than that it pays to
keep good stock and keep it well. The
best of breeds viii rapidly deteriOrate
without good feed and comfortable
quarters-even more rapidly than
scrubstOck which is Injured to pTiva-
ton and rough usage.
CLEARING NEW GROUND-A SUCCESS
TON.
Subduing fresh land so as to fit l.
for profitable cultivation, as now con-
ductel, is the very hardest work, and
much of the most fertile land In the
state is covered with such a dense
growth of giant trees that the talk of
| clearing even fsw acres in a season
| is something appalling to the siOutest
! hearted cone horse" settler. Is it not
/ time to begin to inquire if those APP
/ pliances that have proven 50 useful In
mining and tunnelling could not be
made equally efficient In clearing
/ There is more force stored up IN
| sound of dynamite than in the mus
cles Of a thousand men. And why
could not intelligence and circumspec-
tion bring this force to bear in the
matter OF blowing big trees all into
'-sInilhereens" as well as is now, every
day, done in blowing rock 10 pieces?
Prof Popenoe, of the Kansas Agri-
| cultural College, while on vacation
/ Trip to New Mexico the past summer,
discovered new wild potato, which
he viii endeavOr 10 domesticaie and
bring into cultivation if it proves
worthy. It is small affair, as the
Professor found it, the tubes being
less than one-half an inch in diane
ter. But ii IS a genuine pOtato-not,
TO he sure, Of the species SOtdHgDl TT
| 6erOsWlR, yet very much like il. The
tubfr in appearance closely resembles
miniature peachblow in color. The
plant il not new to science, being
found in Gray's botanical list, under
the name SOldHUm jameSii, but if it
! proves TO be worthy To be added to
The list of edible plants, Prof POpenoe
will deserve tie credit of having
brought il into notice.
SHEEP AND THE MEAT SUPPLY.
1t is q fact, however doubted by the
average farmer, that mutton can be
! produced here in Arkansas more
cheaply than pork. That when due
credit Is given for fleece and pelt, and
the sheep properly handled, it Will
give more meat with same cost than
/ any animal on the farm. And this
meat when fresh, is more easily pre-
served than pork, and will keep as
well when properly cured. Let him
who doubts experiment and be con
WINGED, and lie who is convinced, act
| in the light of his knowledge, by agi-
tating for a dog-law that VIII tax the
| heads off of 10000 worthless ours
that now infest the state TO the det-
/ riment of. what should be the finest in
dustry.
RYE AS FODDER PLANT.
Rye gets woody and tough when