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or you will be too late The " guide
housewives in Rock Ledge ham
mock are now busy with their pots
and pans, their kettles and Jars, their
scales and measures, while the way
our sugar buckets are sent 9if 10 the
store is fearful to behold.
A correspondent Of the old Agyi-
c'fitpria, who sought to enIighten us
on the guaya question, said the great
trouble with the Florida guayas was,
they would not make . jelly that
would st01,G Now we doubt if
said correspondent ever saw an ounce
Of jelly made from Florida guavas,
in fact we doubt If he ever raised
enough guavas to make a glass of
Jelly. Now" cur folks made some
yesterday, that not only would stand,
but you could have rolled it up in a
paper and carried 1t III your pocket
for any distance, without its loosing
its " fair proportions unless indeed,
you served it as the boy did the stolen
egg, sit down on it. We have eaten
some guava jelly in our time-the
imported article-but this is our first
taste OF the Florida jelly, and it was
at least equal to the best. The only
difference was in favor Of the home
made article, and that is in the fact
that it is several shades lighter than
any Of the imported We ever saw. It
is well known that the seed of the
guava viii sprout, and as near as we
can learn, all the seed Of the genuine
guaya jelly Of the Indies, produce
the large Florida gua0a when plant
cd in our soiI. But We propose to
speak of this subject again, as we
wish to present few facts in con
nection Herewith, the exact figures
Of which we do not now have. More
anon. Elk ALBANIAN.
Rock Ledge, Fla, August, %, 1S7S.-
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TWO CRACKERS ABROAD.
What They saw about Knoxville,
East Tennessee.
L0atoy -E7orida A9ricultyiR

Laltoy -E7oriO1a A9yiculturia;
'The Great Kennesaw Route So
licited our patronage. We gave it,
and are satisfied. From Jackson
vile to F'ernandina we think it ad-
visable to pull down the blind and
occupy the forenoon with thoughts
of home, but IN the afternoon there
is pleasant sail up the inside pas
sage, and then an hour in the cool
Of the afternoon for walk about the
green, bread streets of quiet, shady
cid Brunswick. The next morning
you are in Macon, and have time for
an early morning walk among its
mansions on the hills. Dinner at
Atlanta, where the two crackers
stopped of, and while enjoying the
kind hospitality of friends, viewed
with interest the great city that has
grown up from the ruins OF the war.
BY the afternoon train Knoxville is
reached at 1916, and at that hour
the two crackers took the "bus :"
(no charges y to the Central Hotel,
where they found their friend Dow,
the Mighty Hunter Of the Halifax" :"
passing the Summer. Just after
breakfast the next morning Mr..
Dickinson's double seated buggy and
noble span Of horses would be ready
to take him and any of his friends
out to his farm three miles from town
and Dow's newly arrived friends
were invited to 60. The two crack
ers went to see MODEL Tennessee
farm, five hundred acres Of woodland,
field and garden; fifty acres in clover.
Some twelve head Of short horn cat
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Contents of this Humber.

Page 121-E'rom orr Indian River Cores
pondent; Two Crackers Abroad; From
our Daytosa Correspondent; Salt Neces-
sary to Animals.
Page 129-By the Stile poetry; Wild
Strawberries; Recipes.
Page What know abort Honey Dew;
Advmts.
Page 124-WorL for SeDtenlber; Through
Noilsia County 10 Crescent City; An
swer to Correspondence; Floridiana.
Page l25-Locals; Bananas A New Source
of Wealth; How Grapes Ripen: Potato
Growing; Ady'mts.
Page i26-Suaar; Lime and Pea Vines :;
Legal Notices.
Page 127-A Beau tif III and Rare Flower :;
Tobacco Poisoning; ADV 'mts.
Page 12S- Tclegraphic News; Adv'mts.
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or elsewhere, without supplying him
self with the necessary tools, and in
my experience, based upon years of
deprivation, there is no tool so essen
tial and none that will turn out such,
dividends as an investment in per-
manent subscription to the Florida
AGRICULTUBIST will secure.
J. d. Mitchell.
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Hoy to cure Goat-in.the. Yard
Portland. Mains. Aug. la, 1878.

How to cure Goat-in-the- Y ard
OF the terrible nuisance called goat.in
the-yard the New York Times hmm
orist says "Tbere is indeed one rem.
edy which has been extensively ad-
vertised, and which is honestly be-
lieved in by many persons who have
never triedi it. tits known as q dried
apple cure. The victim of goa.-in-the
front.yard leaves a bushel of dried
apples and bucket full of water
where they will attract the attention
of the animal. The goat eats the
dried apples, drinks the water, and i'm.
mediately begins to swell He swells
to enormous dimensions, and finally
SO it is said-explodes with tire.
mendous report, and is scattered all
over the country in pieces too small
to admit of identiiicationn
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FROM OUR INDIAN RIVER COR
RESPONDENT.
-E1ito,' E2ort.M Agriculurist

Et1ito' Eyorteiu ANiculturia:
1T is very interesting to compare
the temperature Of the States to the
north Of us, with ours, especially
during a heated term, such as has
lately been experienced by our Eel
low citizens north Of Mason and Dix
on's line. The day that it was dan
gerous to step out of doors i'll St.
Louis and other cities in the north
west, when the thermometer marked
1867, ours was only 92s from L A.
VI. to p. NJ. 1t has averaged So
as its highest average for several
weeks past, while our nights have
been deliciously cool and pleasant
for g Natures sweet restorer, balmy
Sleep Yet we have had hot Sum
mer, rather above the average we
th1hk, as the heat would last longer
each day than any Summer heretofore
since we have lived on Indian river.
What makes orr Summers so very
pleasant here is the prevalence OF
our south east or ocean winds. These
winds generally rise from s to io
o'clock A. NJ, and blow steadily I'M
til about the same time in the even
inc. The effect is seen in lowering
the thcrmomet from six to eight
DEGREES in less than an hour. This
Summer, however, we have had more
westerly winds than | have ever seen
here, and consequently more rainfall.
Hot and sultry as it has been, how
ever, we have done our allotted task
daily, hoeing, grubbing, cutting, etc,
etc, and have felt no Inconvenience
not even days sickness. In this
respect, we arc more fortunate than
the majority Of our neighbors, for IN
truth there is q good deal OF sickness
on the river, Of 4 mild type Of bilious
fever, but nothing dangerous, as far
as we know, yet moro sickness than
we have ever known during our four
yesrs here, to put it all together. The
prevalence of westerly winds sweep
ing across the St. Johns prairies,
now covered with stagnant water, is
10 doubt the cause.
This day is fair type Of our usual
Summer weather. It is now near
ten O'Clock, and the thermometer
marks $50. Our south east wind has
sprung UP andis blowing a astiff breeze.
Should we go down on the river
bank, in ten minutes we wonld be
mcomfortably cool. We are thus
particular about the weather, because
all our northern correspondents, ana
their name is legion, invariably ask,
"Can we stand your long hot Sum.
mers ~ Let them compare our fg-
ures under this date with theirs, aud
they will be answered ; ut daylight
the thermometer marked 760, at noon
$50 aud at sunset so.
Give us your recipe for guava jelly,
marlnalade, etc, rs soon as possible,
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tie were turned uponlthe second crop.
Wheat produced thirfy-two bushels
to the acre, corn one hundred. Veg
etablcs Of all kinds grew in the great
est abundanceand rankness. Thirty
hives Of Italian bees were shown as
the increase of four in two years.
About the barns was shown the
wealth Of the place Bins full of
wheat from floor to ceiling; and on
the outside hundreds 81 tons in ricks
all beautifully tbatchea in the old
English style. One would expect to
see fine stock, and it was there. A
full blooded short horn bull, aged
two years and three months. stood
14s hands high, and Weighed 100
pounds. He was of course a herd
booi, animal, and i near relation Of
his, COW, sold once for s42,0@.-
The previous season Mi. D. had sold
three steers weighing in the aggre-
gate $500 pounds lie lhs one
young COW that gives seven gallons
Of milk day. One porker was no
ticed-a Berkshire three feet high
and six feet long WI be killed in
the fall, and is expected to weigh
1000 pounds j Two hundred pounds
more than my horse Think of it, a
low minded, roofing pig to weigh 200
pounds more lhan my Arabian cours-
er iFlorida variety.
The two Crackers rode thought
fully to town. There i man in
Knoxville who has a new variety of
strawberry Ii only grows to be
eight inclses ia rirou4 Arence. The
market was i f,tsss' scene. vssa.ssoas
in from al parts, stalls full and
everybody marketing. Eggs at re-
tail FIVE cents per dozen, wholesale
three cents. Chickens ten cents each.
The old carthworks of Fort San
ders on a hill by the edge of the town
make point Of interest. Twelve
thousand men stormed the fort just
as the gray dawn was breaking. The
bitches were deep and the ramparts
steep; unseen wires stretched along
the edge Of the bitches hundreds
Of men fell over the wires into the
bitches, others leaped to mount the
fort, but heavy guns swept every
d itch and bombs cut to second
fuse were rolled over the banks, the
old commander himself standing by
the bank lighting them with his cigar
and tossing them over; musketry
swept the top-seventecn hundred
men fell in fifty-three minutes and
only one got inside the fort.
Arriving in the northern cities dur
ing the recent red-hot spell the two
Crackers eyinced such a decided
partiality for the cooling beverage
called "soda p" that have thought it
appropriate to sign myself
ONE SODA CRACKER.
Portland. Mains, Aug. Il, 1878.
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SALT NECESSARY TO AN
MAILS.

The true value of salt for feeding,
to ANIMALS is neither as we'll under
stood nor appreciated as it should be
by large class of farmers, and the
best mode OF feeding is too frequent.
ly ignored, even when its, Importance
is fully admitted. That it is actual
ly required by animals is shown by
the amount of salt contained in the
blood of the human species, it being
fully one half Of one per cent, and
575 per cent. of the ashes of human
blood. Investigation has proved that
where salt is supplied with the food,
this proportion is invariabIe, and
where not supplied other parts ofthc
system supply the deficiency, to their
injury. What is true Of the human
species is equally true of our farm
stock and animals, which suffer the
same troubles when deprived of salt.
When the equilibrium of any part is
disturbed, the whole system is weak
ed, and the animal becomes liable to
! disease, and the system succumbs
| when attacked
4 Salt is a great aid to digestion, and
prompts them to ffeuSe as Is epfdeniicesd1i
by their resorting to salt licks and
other natural sources, previous to and
during the early settlement of our
country, and by what may be still
witnessed on the pampas of South
America and other wilds, where herds
of horses and other cattle travel miles
to obtain the much needed supply.
1t is an undoubted fact that where
animals have unrestrained access at
all times, to salt, many of the diseases
to which they arc liable arc warded
off and prevented by keeping the
system regular. We find that when
salt is regularly given them only
good results follow, as is evident in
their exemption from disease. Where
free access is had to salt, stock will
take only what is needed, but where
the supply is inconstant, surfeit is
often taken which frequently oper-
ates injuriously
The invariable presence Of salt in
tissues of the body shows conclusive
ly the important influence it exerts
in the production of flesh and fat in
animals. Salt assists digestion by in
crcasing the flow Of saliva, aiding al
so by the promotion of thirst, and
constant fow of fluids, to assist in
dissolving much of the food that 9th
erwise might be imperfectly digest-
cd. Actual experiments carefully
conducted, have demonstrated that
where two hogs were tattened, ono
fed salt in its food, and the other with
salt excluded, the one fed salt food
fatted very much faster, and in sever
al weeks less time. It exceeds in
weight by a considerable proportion
the one fed without salt in its food.
It is an unquestioned fact that all our
food products contain a greater or
less proportion of salt in their struct-
ure, but that the animal economy re.
quires an additional quantity, is equal
| ly true. Farm animals, when kept
at grass, or on green succulent feed,
naturally take more salt than when
kept on dry fodder; at least such has
been my observation.--W. II. w. In
Country Gentleman.
8-ps - ..-----
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FROM OUR DAYTONA COR
RESPONDENT.
Editor Florida 4gricMtssyyst


Witha hearty endorsement of Mr..
Manvillc's excellent article in the
lAGRICULTCRIsT Of August Z, "Iiints
to New Corners" allow me to sug-
gest an amendment, to-wit; That the
very first thing to be done is to sub
scribe for the AGRICuLTURIsT and
buy all the back numbers that can be
found. They will prove mine Of
untold wealth to the possessor, and
inexhaustable. The placers can be
worked and re-worked, month after
month and year after year,
A preacher once, in Tilicutt, Conn,
attempted an illustration Of the dur
alton of eternity thusly: you may
multiply the grains Of sand upon the
scashorc by the drops Of water in the
ocean, and that by ten thousand times
ten thousand-and still the bells will
toll in the dark cay erns OF hell
eternity, eternity, eternity. ~; by
this time the preacher was out of
wind.
The digestion and practicing of
the valuable knowledge, sound adj
vice and practical suggestions of the
AGRICULTURIsT of the past is job
second only TO the arithmetical prob
lem above quoted, and I warn all
men against attempting it without
the aid of large-headed wife on
daughter with more leisure than wo.
men usually get in Florida, to recon
flofsre sttssx
| furnishes every week, labor enough
by its suggestions, to keep busy any
ordinary sized family, and | would
let bygones be bygones, were it not
that those papers contain matter that
is Invaluable and that cannot be found
so readily elsewhere. They embody
the practical experience, the sclenti-
tit theories and the educated thought
of nearly everyone of the best horti-
culturists not only ofthe State but of
the whole country, and of the world,
and familiar acquaintance with the
contents by the "new comer''will rem
der his yoke easy and his burden
light-comparativcly.
A good Deacon in New England
whose particular vanity" was CLAIMS,
and yet whose stomach always re-
belled most vigorously against the
infiction, prayed once during Sc
we're cramp collie brought on by I'M
due indulgence-"Lord spare me this
once, and promise never to eat an
other clam as long as | live-very
few if any" Nothing will lift the
burden of life from our shoulders en-
tirely--thcreforc say comparative
ly;;" but the straps that bind it to our
back can be padded SO as not to gall
our shoulders, and the inner man can
be fortified and strengthened by the
story of those who have travelled the
same weary road in advance OF rs,
| and by the guide boards set mp all
along the route by Redmond, Mason,
| Manville, Codrington and a score OF
other equally valuable contributors
10 the AGRICULTURIsr. Of all the
struggles in darkness and doubt, the
Encouragement of many failure, the
annihilation of many we'll founded
hope and the destruction Of many a
seemingly rock anchored castle, that
clouded the years of my first efforts
in Florida,-of all these, Mr.. New
conner will encounter but every few,
if any"
A man cannot expect successful
ly to accomplish apioncer work, here
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London Bun Young precious II
shall never marry, ma, dear" Mamma:
aMarry, dearl what do you mean =
Young precious: "You know, | could
not stand your being a mother-in-
Jaw
Smyrna times., 1878-04-10

Ifyou want Coat Pants. Vest. or SUIT
90 and see the assortment Of Fashions and
Suitngs, at Fowlers.
Approaching the good old times again.
--Muslins from jc. and upwards Calicos in
abundance, old prices. Raymonds, oppo-
site Delaware House.
Ny new Spring StocI; includes the finest
and best styles of Hats and Caps | have
ever kept. S. L. Kahn.
Fowler is putting in better Innings and
Trimmings than has ever been used in
Clothing in this town.
Tschudy has a lot of Chester Paving Brick
always on hand. They are the on IS kind
fit for paving.
\ Wamsutta Muslin, 20 hundred Linen
Bosom Shirt already finished and laundricd
ready to put on. Good fit guaranteed, for
$l.2j. S. l.. Kahns, Clothing and Tailoring
Establishment.
If you want anything done III the Tailor
ing line, do not trust it to inexperienced
hands, but call on L. F. McCurey. up stairs.
over Fowlars store, he will do it in first.
class city style, and guarantee fit or no
sale.
Good assortment Of Wall Papers, cheap,
at Tschudy's.
You are welcomed, whether you buy or
not. to see how cheap Dry Goods and
Notions are to be sold this year-I87S-at
Raymond's, opposite Delaware House.
Bones! Bones! BoNEs!-Highest cash
price paid for old bones. J. T. Tygert & Co.
Bed Ticking, TaJLe Linen am IgIae Piguee.
Cheap. 4 Dccidcf Bcrgai, IN Block Alaaca,
p cts. Fair Dcaltn2. Honest .Rsas,re. Lo~
Prices. Raymond's, opposite Delaware
House.
good assortment Of Clothing for chill.
dren from 81 years old to 800 pounds in
weight at low prices, at S. L. Kahn's, Cloth.
ing and Tailoring Establishment, Main ST.,
Smyrna, Del.
If you want Pumps, 90 to Tschudy's; he
has big lot and sells them cheap.
| intend to make a Special Trade in
Hamburg Edgings. Come and inspect the
large lot of NEW ONES received this Spring.
The prices will insure their sale. Ray
mond's, opposite Delaware House.
Having bought job Lot of Hamburg
lnsertings at very low price, will sell them
at l0c. yard Raymond's, opposite Della,
ware House.
Smyrna times., 1878-04-10

THE PEACH CRoP.-There is nothing as
Sometimes a frost that will hardly chill a
baby will sweep it off, then again, as in rs,
the buds may be filled with ice and yet a
full crop follow. The temperature and
buds were in about the same condition this
spring as in 1875, yet that season every
tree was well ladened while this, in our
locality, there will in most orchards not be
a third of crop. The singular freak of
this spring is that here, where the buds
were unopened, they were SO badly DANA
gsd, while in the lower part of the PENN
sula where they were in full bloom the
prospect now is for a good crop. We quote
from the papers in Lewes Delaware and
Salisbury Maryland. DR.. Knowles, of the
Break1oater Light, says: "There has not
probably been any one rode more miles
through the country, nor visited more
localities on the Peninsula, than we have
We invariably made it our object to visit
every orchard possible, with view to ex-
pSdCn OuNtSs anu " dSCSTldltl
their condition. We have examined fully
a hundred different orchards, and feel fully
justified in saying that there is at this time
a fattering prospect for a good crop of
peaches. On an average we did not find
mora than one half the buds dead" The
Eastern Moreman, at Salisbury, says: $50
far the peach blossoms have not been
materially injured, except in some few
orchards where the blossoms are entirely
killed. Appearances so far indicate there
will be crop above the average in Wicom-
leo county. Apple and pear blossoms are
not injured very much if any" Captain
James P. Snow, Jacob r. Alice and John
R. Griffin, formerly of this Hundred, now
residing in Tuckaho Neck, Caroline county,
Md, say their prospect now is for good
crop of peaches. Prof. Groves brother, on
a large peach farm in Kent CO., Md, says
his crop is not materially injured. In all
these places the trees were in bloom when
that cold Sunday blast came down on us.
Smyrna times., 1878-04-10

The situation in Europe seems less
threatening than it did few days ago, and
there is some reason to hope that the East
ern difficulty may be settled without war.
Evidently England does not want war, and
the attitude of Germany and Austria is not
such as to encourage Russia to insist upon
substituting the treaty of San Stefano for
the treaty of Paris, which the other Powers
recognize as still binding upon all the par
ties to it. But, Notwithstanding the more
pacific indications at present, England is
preparing for the worst. Yet her very
preparations may be the means of prevent
ing war. The chances now appear to be in
favor of an amicable settlement or the
matters in dispute.
Smyrna times., 1878-04-10

1t is intimated at St. Petersburg that
Russia is disposed to look on TRANQUILITY
while England betrays the waverings of a
nervous policy. Russia is said, however, to
have asked Prince Bismarck to act as
mediator between her and England. 1t is
stated at Constantinople that Russia has
offered to withdraw her troops from the
suburbs, if the British feet retires. The
Khedive is disposed to throw off the Otto
man yoke, if Turkey enters into alliance
against England. Vefyk Pasha is very
sick.
Smyrna times., 1878-04-10

Anderson the convicted Returning Board
forger of Presidential election returns, has
been set at liberty by the Supreme Court of
Louisiana upon technicality. He was in
dicted and convicted of falsifying the con-
solidated election returns. The Court says
the consolidated returns is not an official
paper, and therefore not forgible. The
Commissioners returns are the legal papers.
On the consolidated returns Hayes and
Packard were declared elected
Smyrna times., 1878-04-10

Mr.. Polk, door-keeper of the House of
Representatives, has been discharged for
Irregularities in the discharge of his official
duties, and General Charles w. Field, of
Georgia, elected door-keeper in his place.
Under the pressure Of Congressional in
huence, Mr.. Polk appointed more officers
under him than the law allowed. 1t is to
be hoped that General Field will keep
strictly within the lines of the law
Smyrna times., 1878-04-10

Mr.. Hc%.,. .o facilitate Congress.
sional business by using the old Hall of
Representatives for business sessions of the
House, and the present Hall for important
occasions, seems OF doubtful practicability.
The American Congressman needs desk
to put his feet on, and no freeman would
be summoned to his legislative duties by a
base and peremptcry gong.
Smyrna times., 1878-04-10

& bright and beautiful child shows in its
very expression that its BabyhOod not associated
with Opium. cordials ete-for the continued use of
Opium is antagonistic to health That valuable and
highly recommended Remedy for the disorders of
BaDynood, Dr. Bulls Baby Syrup. is absolutely free
from Morphia and all other dangerous agents. and can
be safely employed at ali times Only 25 cents per
bottle.
Smyrna times., 1878-04-10

CHEsTER's Big DAY--President Hayes and
part of his cabinet, with about 10000 peo-
pie witnessed the launch of the new iron
ship Para, at Chester on Saturday.
Smyrna times., 1878-04-10

THE TIMES is published every Wednesday after
noon by ROBERT d. HoFFECKER, Editor and Pub
Usher at Smyrna Delaware.
TERMS-SUBsCRIPTIoN-On year $500 in advance, or
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discontinued until all arrears are paid-only at the
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ADVERTISEMENTS will be inserted at the rate of
Seven Gents aline for the first insertion subsequent
insertions Three-and a-hafcens. Aliberal discount
made to quarterly, semi-annual and yearly adverti
sers
Smyrna times., 1878-04-10

The Republicans, with the aid of the
Texas delegation, seem likely to "sit down on .
Mr. Bannings Army Bill. When It comes 70 a cues
Lion OF greasers" or no "greascrs," the average
Texan rises decidedly above party"
Smyrna times., 1878-04-10

France is said to have informed Russia
that she would take part in no combination against
England. more decided expression of French sem
spectator.