The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-02-22
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

Filling lamp when lighted is some
thing that ought never to be done. 1t
can be avoided by filling it in the morn
ing.
TIE farmers of Lancaster County,
Pennsylvania, have made s., 600, 900 in
the last ten years from tobacco grow
ing.
"A writer in the Connecticut Farmer
commends the Rocky Mountain potato.
There were two hundred bushels from
five of seed. He saw a sampe of the
Early Belle, which gave six hundred
bushels to the acre.
Raised DOughnuts: One pint of milk,
one pint of sugar, one pint of yeast or
sponge, two thirds pint of shortening,
two eggs, one small teaspOonful of salt,
and one teaSpOonful of cinnamon. Wet
up warm at night, wrap up well, and
in the morning IOI and cut out, let
stand while the fat heats, fry, not too
quickly. The household.
We have entered on s. new civiIiza-
ton, which demands of Us a greater IN
teligence and higher education to I'M
derstand and meet its requirements. To
measure and solve them successfully
means a happiness in our homes, a
satisfaction in our labor and prosperity
enjoy .-I0lCG State ReqjSter.
Cream Jelly Cake: Beat two eggs
in a teacup, fill up with thick cream,
add cup Q sugar and one cup and a
half of -four in which YOU have stirred
two teaspoonfuls OF baking powder
Bake in three round tins. Soda and
cream of tartar give equally good re-
suits if good This rule is also salts
factory when used for chocolate, custard
or cOcOanUt cake. -RuraI NeO Yorker.
Hens are early risers, and do not
like standing around on one foot wait
ing for their breakfast. The morning
meal with them is the most important
one of the day. Boiled potatoes, tur-
nips, carrots, anything IN the vegetable
line, m xed with bran or shorts, sea
soned with pepper and salt and fed
warm, will make any well regulated hon
cackle with satisfaction. Feed a few
handfuls of wheat screenings at noon,
and at night give a liberal feed of whole
grain of some kind.-POuJt7,y and Farm
Journal.
For Pinkeye or In fuenza: You may
give your horse all the good hay he
wants and about three quarts of oats a
day; use him a little three or four times
week; drive him slowly, so as not to
ilOeLD nm AiSluG. dhC d DiCt6 VI IliiIO
about the size of an egg and dissolve in
six quarts OF water; dip out a teacupful
and add half pail Of water every time
he drinks. Give the following: Pulv.
Zingibius, one ounce; pulv. carl on
Ii III, one ounce; sulphate quinine,
three drains; pulv. gentiana, two ounces.
Mix to- ether and give a heaping tea
spoonful three times day in wet oats.
This prescription can be repaired 10y
any druggist. Mirror and Farmer.
An exchange says: elm our opinion
| the time has come when our pride
should be, not in the mum er of acres
cultivated, but in the yield per acre. If
one man can raise as much goo I corn
on forty acres of ground by thorough
| cultivation, as he has cen making from
sixty, is it not time for less acres and
| thorough cultivation?" True, and most
| American farmers think that it is the
number Of their acres that gives them
wealth, when a few acres better titled
would give them better returns and a
deal less worry. Even in port ons of
the United States, the profits from
small farms can be readilydem
while from large ones it often takes a
magni ying glass to see where the profits
/ are.