The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-11-02
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.


hended, carefully pull the tomato vines
that are yet loaded with fruit and hang
them up in the cellar, as many will
ripen sufficiently for use.
"A guest-chamber should always be
furnished with a hand-glass button
hook, pins, hair-pins, brush and comb,
clothes brush, and also needles, thread
and scissors. -Harper's Bdzar.
Give one day to thorough cleaning
of your cellar. Throw away all dirt,
rotten wood and decayed vegetables, if
any. Brush down the walls with an
old broom and apply good, thick coat
of whitewash. IA. I. Herald.
"A Missouri sheep grower advises
breeding from polled rams. The ami
mails, he says, fight less, are never fly
blown around the horns, are more con-
veniently sheared, keep easier and grow
larger. This is his opinion, after nine
years experience. st. Loatis Globe.
"A correspondent of the Near En-
gland Farmer SAYS he doesn't see how
farmers can find time to be idle at any
season, and especially in summer or
fall, when there are bushes to be cut
stone to be picked, fences to be built
and repaired, buildings to be erected.
wood to be cut and land to clear. Time
is money. to the farmer as to every one
else, and he is a spendthrift who idles it
away.
Always select good ears of corn for
seed-the best you can find. Take
| them from the stalks bearing two or
more ears. A perfect earl says the
american AGTicstkbztrist, . has all rows
perfect, a small butt end, the cob well
tipped out with grain and covered with
| husks, the kernel uniform and well
ripened. +" The careful selection of ears
is one of the ways of improving the
| quality and increasing the quantity of
future crops.
For chicken pie make the crust like
baking powder biscuit, only a little
shorter Have it half an inch thick and
/ line a four quar5 pan with it. Broil two
/ small chickens. until tender, and place
| the pieces smoothly in the pan; sprinkle
salt, pepper and little -four over them
and add about a large tablespoonful of
! butter; pour over all a little of the
i liquor the chickens were broi.ed in and
spread on the top crust about half an
inch thick, cutting ir-ho,es in it. Bake
until the crust is thoroughly done. =
Chicago Nea0S.
"A man who once gets thoroughly
| into the work of breeding fine stock is
seldom willing to abandon it for some
other pursuit, no matter how lucrative
! the new venture may be-. The field it
! offers for the study of scientific physi-
ology, the possibilities of combination
and development, and the broad oppor-
tunities for experiment, are afforded in
no other business. There is fascina-
ton in the production of fine stock
which no other industry can claim. =
Ne10 England Farmer.
| A
/ bowl that viii hold good large pint
| put into it two cups of sugar, then pour
/ boiling water on until the bowl is full,
add piece of butter the size of large
egg; as soon as cool enough add one cup
of yeast, putting all into a larger dish
or pan, nutmeg or cassia, a little salt,
and -four to make a stiff batter, let it
rise until morning. stir in flour to
knead, let rise again, then roll and cut
out before the fat is put on to heat, as it
gives them a ehanee-to rise a little be-
fore frying. Set them into the oven to
warm before eating Prairie Farmer.
Diseases Of Fruits.
Diseases Of fruits. like those of ami
mails, may be classed as contagious, in
fictitious and transmissible. believe il
is through the latter class that most OF
| the fatal fruit diseases have been intro
duced. If this be true is it not in the
| power of human agencies to prevent
them? If so, how is this to be doneP
By the selection and planting of healthy
seed. Are we doing SOP Are not many
of us aiding in the introduction and
spread of diseases by planting the seed
of diseased fruits? Let us see if this is
| true There is a mania with most peO-
pie for new things. New fruits come in
for q share. and, ifthey are said to ripen
early, they are sought after everywhere
This eagerness to obtain new and early
ripeEing fruits induces persons, DESTROYS
of making money, to devote their atten-
ton to producing them. 1t is a we'll
| known fact, that the diseased specimens
of fruit ripen first Gf they ripen at all
| These first ripening spe eimens are
selected for planting, and, by repeatin 2
| the operation q few times, extra early
ripening fruit may be obtained, but
often so diseased as to be entirely worth
less Unfortunately, because of their
early maturity, trees of such are prOpa-
gated Snowy pictures are made of the
fruit, which is given some pleasing
name. and the trees are sold at exorbi-
tant prices. The idea of obtaining
/ peaches that will ripen in this latitude
by the fourth day of July ..takes," and
the trees of such are quickly bought and
planted. In due time the owner is re-
warded with crop of rotten peaches;
if not rotten, little, tough, dry speci-
mems, not fit to put in aperson's mouth
! Nature has its laws of production. Any
violation of those laws must produce
inferior articles. I do not wish to be
| understood as charging all fruit-pro-
ducers and tree-propagators with selling
worthless varieties. l know gentlemen
engaged in the business, who, after dis
covering a variety to be worthless.
would dig up the trees and destroy them.
Such men are an honor to their profess
sion.
Fruit diseases may be spread by in
Notwithstanding and grating. or
when pruning. The bacteria, or fungus
matter from the diseased tree, may be
carried on the saw or knife to the
healthy ones, and in this way all the
trees of the orchard become diseased
When trees are affected by diseases that
are transmits BILE, either IN the seed or
by incubation, the only safe method is
to dig them out and burn them, roots
and branches. About twenty-five years
ago, l discovered a peach tree in my
orchard affected by the Fellows. l
commenced digging about the roots,
and pruning the branches of the tree,
with the hope of getting rid of the dis
ease NV labor proved Intellectual, and
in a few years every peach tree IN the
orchard became diseased. l had prob
ably carried fungus on the saw to the
healthy trees when pruning. Determln-
ing to prevent a further spread OF the
disease. every tree in the orchard
was taken up by the roots and
burned, and the land cultivated for a