The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1880-02-25
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secret is in selecting the seed with
care, draining the fields, keeping out
the cattle, and having sound fences.
| Investigator" wants to know what
is good for cabbage worms. Bless
your soul, man, cabbages, of course.
A good, plump cabbage will lastssev-
eral worms a week. .oV 3.EOuX
William Augustus to sleepy room.
mate: "Come, John Henry, why
don't you get PUP With the lark as 1
do?" John Henry grimly: "Been
up with him ali night ,r
Early one, morning, a banker was
found on his knees at his front door,
trying to unlock it with his lead pen
Gil, and saying, "sHowze This !? Some.
bozzys been toolin' with re combina-
ton" - 80.
There is always an irrepressible
conflict going on in ones mind when
he sees a.small boy taking his first
smoke, as. to- whether the boy is
smoking the cigar or the cigar is
smoking the boy. sti Qu 6as9.l
1t has been discovered that the
South Carolina willow. which grows
very plenti5ully that state, is equal
to the best imported basket willow,
and it is thought the cultivation and
shipment of this material may be-
come an imporlant'industry. 5gaJ
fFar ia
The Marion Democrat says Kan
kakee has a justice who beats them
all in the way of doing up a Job Of
matrimonial splicing with neatness
and despatch. This is the formula:
Have'er ?", ayes" 'sHave'im ?"
Eyes" married; $500"
ID An 1rreverenU exchange publishes
the following Thint::"a "A subscriber
to a southwestern paper died re.
Gently, leaving four years. subscrip.
ton unpaid. The editor. appeared
at the grave and deposited in the
coffin a palm leaf fan, linen coat
and thermometer nr H.,
% No true lady will bounce out Of
the room and slam the door after her
when asked to forego her new silk
dress for few days and let her hus.
band settle an old cigar bin.-De-
troit Free Press. And no true man,
simply because lie edits {. paper, will
rrusd 1ffto 5F'ns wftn lis + iasnifv stess 4
bles. -Loutsoale Courier Journal.
T. .5AA4 .'tl A@04ia 10 @aa.5S
AS two, newly arrived Irshmen
were walking up street in San
francisco, a. pavement trap door
opened suddenly, and a Chinese store
porter emerged. "Begorra said
one Of, them, IF the haythens haven't
got tunnel clane through from
China, bad luck to Thin" :.
Julia and Pauline, figurantes at
theatre, have a little tiff. 81 hate YOU
so, you mean thing" says Julia, shat
| wish you hadn't brooch to your
back " Sand I hate you So" re-
torts Pauline, that if you were
drowning before my eyes I wouldn't
lit my little finger to give you cup
of cold water-there |"
Fence posts or timber cut for other
purposes in September will be more
durable than if cut at any other sea.
son. Many farmers give it as their
experience that fence posts cut in
August or September will outlast by
many years others that are cut in
winter or spring; and if the ground
ends OF gate posts are slightly
charred before sinking they will not
rot for years. st
The pain caused by the sting of
plant or insect is the result of Ger.
tain amount of acid poison injected
into the blood. The poison being
acid, common sense points to the
alkalies as Ne5proper means of cure.
Among the most easily procured may
be mentioned soft soap, washing
soda, liquor of ammonia, smelling
salts, quicklime made into paste
with water, the juice OF an onion, to-
bacco juice, chewed tobacco, bruised
dock leaves and carbon of soda.
II wonder what makes 1t look 50
dark and gloomy out of DOORS" said
Mrs. Hickenlooper to the next door
neighbor, who had just run in min.
ute to borrow a couple of fresh.laid
eggs. 81 guess it's because your win.
dows need washing gently remarked
the next door neighbor, critically run.
ring her forefnger up and down the
glass. And then there was a sort of
GOODNESS fell like a wet sheet on the
assembled multitude, and the next
door neighbours cake wasn't as rich