The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1880-10-06

chronic dysentery, incurable, unless
moved from the range,
Our Houdans, Brahmas, Cochins,
etc., after running the gauntlet of the
cholera and roupe are becoming
beautifully less; still the blacks near
US have better breed of fowls, from
the proximity of our fine stock 10
doubt. They never steal, so they
say.
The northern peach seeds, choice
kinds, grow quite well at first. The
next year the trees tried to bloom in
April, then leaied in May, but eventu.
ally one by one gave up the ghost, or
lived on, apparently puzzled by their
"environment," of no value in the
least. We tried budding on native
stocks, but the Alexander, Amsden,
Beatrice, Louise, Amelia, Thurber.
and all those extra good varieties, so
glowingly described by Berckmans
q Peters, have been failures. We
tried thirty-seven varieties and the
results were disastrous to all peaches
VI uOrLnern origin.
Apples and cherries become ever.
greens, with surprising tendency to
sprout and distressing lack of fruit.
A few Astrachans and Early Junes
bore sparingly and gave the blue.
jays and wood-peckers rare treat.
We tried nearly all kinds of grapes;
in fact company started vineyard
where choice Hamburgs, Muscats,
Concords, Delawares, etc, were a
specially. We sent to California
for raisin grapes and had hopes. But
no result yet; a nest of green and
yellow worms teasted on the tender
leaves; we had yellow, white, and
red mildew, and wretched little
bee cut the leaves into grotesque
patterns, sac transit!
Our Kittating and other choice
blackberries and raspberries inglori-
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where shaded, and then the fruit was
inferior to5 the common blackberry
| found in old fields.
Figs managed to ripen and sour
during the rainy season, and the
native peach did but little better.
We planted corn in January, it
tasseled during the drought in April,
aud the caring was scAnty; then we
tried April and harvested a double
crop OF soaking corn and chills in
September, How it does rain when
corn is to be taken in.
We tried forage curing, cutting
the tender leaves of the Dhurra ard
Pearl Millet. These make splendid
green feed, but drying fodder in rainy
season was not pronounced success,
one trial satisfied us. Sowed corn
did no better; teosinte was an agra
vation; beggar lice - Desnaodiatna
Ca'aesce'as = dropped its leaves
promptly when dry, presenting a
mass of stems to our astonishing gaze.
We wasted money and time on all
clovers and northern grasses.
Rice planted early, tattened hostsof
partrdges and blackbirds; aud corn
planted in February was harvested
by countless wood-peckers and jays,
still they usually ate but few grains
and the weevils finished the crop.
Our sweet peas, nasturtiums, blue
bells, lilies of the valley and morning
glories either refused to grow or lived
wretched life; fushias grew we'll
one season, shed their leaves and de-
parted this vain world, while our
choice northern roses fared worse,
and we do not bother with them any
more, any more. Oh dear.
We tried bees, and until planters
began boiling syrup they did well.
The hot steam over the open boilers
decimated the colonies, attracted by
the savory smell.
We shingled house in July, and
had fever promptly afterward; we
rose early to work and had fever
again. But we know better now, we
are apt learners in the school of ex'
perience. Now this sounds like a
new chapter OF jeremiah, but any new
country has as many it not more
grievances than Florida; and if In
tending immigrants will come guile.
less OF ideas and willing to learn from
any body, especially the old settlers,
and will subscribe tor the AGRICUL.
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