The Osceola times., 1876-06-24

OF good from its application. The crop
that receives the most benefit from the
use OF GYPSUM is our common red clover.
In repeated instances 1t has been known
to increase the crcp Ia the extent OF
ton per acre. The favorite method OF
applying it is 10 SOW it broadcast over
the leaves when the plants are one or
two inches high in the spring. A hun
dred pounds TO the acre is sufficient. II
should be sown on calm day when the
leaves of the clover are wet.-Chicago
Times.
Melon CaisWre.
The main part is the after culture.
This Is where 40 many fail with melons
! am speaking Of watermelons, OF course.
l begin cultivating as soon as the plants
show the third leaf, by breaking and re.
moving any crust that may have formed
on the hills, as well as to take all the
hard crust FROM around the plants with
the fingers as deep as the plants will bear,
then dig up the hill deeply and prop
fresh earth around the plants. DO this
~ often. AZ every ten day ys, and oltener il
it rains and packs the ground. Plow
deep between the rows once week, and
~ close TO the vines ~ you can. Con
tinue this culture until the vines are
beginning to run. Then give them n
deep, close plowing then don't permit
the land to he stirred any more, but take
a hoe and level the ground around every
hill for a short distance ahead of the
vine, and as soon az the vines cover that
space repeat the p1acess, until the whole
patch is level ffhink this leveling
process is the most important o make
good melons, especially during dry yea
son. Year before last, when il was so
dry that but few raised their seed, had
plenty Of melons that would weigh from
twenty to thirty pounds and just as
good IA melon could be. The foregoing
is my plan. Who has better one 2
Cor. Rural World.
Speciaiise Farming.
Farming, itself the mother OF every
otheremployment and vocation, has never
been specialized or sub divided as it
should be in order TO be a successful or
paying employment.
This is an age of research and discov-
cry; new sciences are springing into
existence old ones are being divided,
c. g., every important organ in the hu
man body has class of physicians de-
voted solely to its diseases no, also, OF
law, etc. Farming should not be behind
in this onward march of progress.
That which is evcrybody's bushes,
is nobody's business" and the man who
is Jack at all trades" never under
stands or can successfully engage in any
one. Just 40 the farmer who depends {
little on every kind of grain, stock, ant
other farm product, and not on any ont
in particular, will come out at the enc
Of the year with very shallow purse.
The sections of our country in which
the farmers are the wealthy and indie
pendent class are invariably the sections
devoted to some particular branch o
farming which has been found to be tn,
one particularly adapted to that locality
Farmers should raise variety o
grain, stock, fruit and vegetables, in or
der that their tables may be supplied a
the tables of the sovereigns of the sol
should be, but they should depend ol
one or two things for the bulk OF thei
income.
Some farmers seeing others maxim,
money out Of some particular crop o
kind of stock, forthwith rush whole
sale into the same speciality, without tn
experience or means necessary to sue
ceed. They of course fail and lose mon
ey but instead of learning in the schoo
fexpcrience and discovering what thei
speciality should be, they rush wholesale
into the first thing that brings a higl
price in the market, and by the tim,
they are ready to supply the deman,
Others have glutted the market and the,
are compelled to sell their large stock il
hand at ruinously low prices.
| Discover what your soil, market, etc.
are best adapted to and stick to it, evel
though the seasons may be unfavorab
for several years and The market over
stocked, and you will finally make farm
ing pay as well as the sheep raisers o
Vermont, the cranberry growers of Ne
Jersey or the wheat growers of the north
west and Pacifc.-1m. Farm Journal.