The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-10-26
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

TO clean channels skin, wash it in
cold water, with plenty of soap. and
rinse thoroughly in clean, cold water.
ChamOis-skin gloves cleaned in this way
are as good as new. Chicago Journal
Enough sunhower seed to feed all
the fowls ordinarily kept on the farm
can be raised along the sides of the road
and in fence corners, where the ground
is Of no value for general cultivation. -
Chicago TrGbat1ae.
A farmer who writes to the Ma
tiOqGL Farmer says more and better
sugar can be. made from watermelons
than from beets, and he claims to have
made sugar from them by boiling down
the juice and treating it as If il were
maple sap.
For a sauce for boiled chicken. use
two eggs boiled hard and the Iivers of
the chicken chopped fine, add a small
quantity of thyme, lemon-peel and salt;
mix well together and melt half a pound
of butter, Keeping it as thick as posi-
bic, and stir it in.-,St. LO1tis Globe.
Some farmers in California do a
thriving business buying stock hogs and
feeding them in fields of lodged or
sprouted grain. In some cases feeding
wheat to hogs has paid handsomely.
The cost of harvesting was saved, which
often amounts to n considerable sum.
=" What is the proper time and
method of applying lime to land?p
Some prefer spring, but the prevailing
opinion is that it should be put on in
the fall. AS it sinks in the soil fast
enough without help it ought not to be
plowed under but only lightly covered
wit no haFs i
One way to give variety to the
breakfast is to cook some thin slices of
salt pork thus: Put them in cold water
and set them on the stove, and let them
come to a boil; then drain off all the
water and fry them for about four min
utes, or until they are nearly free from
grease; then dip them in a Batter made
of egg and flour, and fry them till light
brown and cfisp.-M T. Post.
For poultry cholera Mr.. Wright rec
ommends dose every three hours OF
rhubarb, five grains; cayenne pepper,
two grains; laudanum, ten drops, adj
ministering midway between each dose
a teaspoonful of brandy, diluted with
less than its. bulk of water, into, which
have been dropped FIVE drops of
fluid. corbOlate; or as a substi-
tutea few drops of carbolic acid may be
used.-I11diG11GpO Journal.
The earliest honey of thezseason ID
the Boston market came from the ''cold
north of AroostooE- County, Me-, a
curious fact of which the American
Catttjcdtor gives this explanation: a-'s In
that section there are early SHOWS which
prevent the ground from freezing, and
when the summer opens the flower
bearing plants spring at once into
bloom, giving the bees a full supply of
food as soon as they are able to work. -
The importance of compacting or
g firming'' the soil about the roots OF
newIy-set plants or over. seeds cannot
be too strongly insisted upon, When
seeds are sown, the sol should be well
patted down with spade or rolled. so
that the earth will come into close con-
tact with the seed. In setting out gar
den plants, such as celery, cabbage,
ETC., the soil should be pressed firmly
about the roots with the foot; and the
same course should be pursued with
trees and shrubs, the soil being first
carefully worked in among the roots. :
Chicago Journal.