The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-11-15
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

An Illinois farmer, who has had
much experience in laying tile-drains,
says he would lay nothing smaller than
three-inch tile, and would not put down
tyvo-inch drains If the tile were fur
nished him for nothing.
IF the family is very small and
large loaves of bread are likely to be-
come stale before they can be eaten, it
is a good plan to make two little loaves
for one tin. They win keep their shape
all right, and will not run together or
adhere any more than rolls or biscuits
dO.-N. 7. Post.
Jelly Pie: Beat two eggs very care
fully; add to them half a cupful each
of baking molasses and jelly, or boiled
cider, two cupfuls of water and two
rather seant tablespoonfuls of flour.
Place on the stove aud stir until it boils.
Enough for two pies. Two crusts.-
The Household.
"A correspondent of the Rural Nego
Yorker, who has been experimenting in
planting potatoes, large and small, cut
and uncut, says he has never been able
to detect any difference either in the
yield or quality of potatoes raised from
large or small seed. But he has in
every case noticed a marked difference
III the RESULTS ODtsllUGu 1IOLu pidnLAIlkS
cut and uncut potatoes This difference
was invariably in favor of the former
method.
in a paper read at a meeting dur
ING the recent New York State fair
Prof William Brown, of the Ontario
Agricultural College. advanced the idea
that the practice of shearing both lambs
and mature sheep twice a year might
be successfully adopted if accompanied
with high feeding and good care. He
illustrated his opinion with a supposed
case of n lot of ShropshIres, and it is
possible the downs would be better for
this than would either the lOng-wool or
merinos. He would shear in August
and again quite early in the spring, Civ
ing shelter to the newly-shorn ewes for
few days.
There is in the following item that
which suggests a line of action which
may well be adopted in more places
than Texas, and where the cutting of
fences is unknown. The Houston Age
says: Captain Robert f. Stafford and
Captain Joseph Davis have immense
bodies of land inclosed for pasture, and
neither of them has ever had a fence
cut or any trouble with the smaller
cattle-owners. They never fence on
any land but their own. They do not
even fence in all that belongs to them.
When they are inclosiDg pasture
grounds they always leave a little land
and water on the outside for their
ueighbors cattle to Craze on"
-Four years ago I lost two hundred
chickens by cholera, and in trying al
most everything l could think of to cure
it l at last tried white-oak bark, which
cured all that had it. This spring my
chickens commenced dying of the same
disease and 1 again stopped it with the
same remedy. Make a strong decoc-
ton of the bark, and when cool make a
dough of cornmeal and the tea and feed
the fowls all they will eat for two days,
and / think no more will be lost that
are able to eat. am not sure that this
is a certain remedy, but from my ex-
| perience with it / think it worth trying,
and hope some who have cholera among
their fowls viii use it and report
| LOatisUiHe Courier-JOuT7ldt.