The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-12-26
.AGRlCULTURE. a

| H'iuFt 1liM Sosfu cACtca4out8 Va toc A1knA
stock ahd the straw, sawdust or other
mate.ial employed as litter. Il win con-
tain: arotn DC to 80 per cent. of water. The
nitrogen r,Hy be o.4o- to o.0S per cent,
or higher, If produced by highly-fed ami
mals The ash constituents win be Is
or 80 per cent, exclusive of the sand or
eartR present. Of these ash constituents
o.4 20 0.7iwill be potash and o.2 to o.
phosphoric acid. In . word. one ton of
farnstsard manure will supply, according
to ccadiEions already specified, from nine
to fifteen pounds of nitrogen, similar
amosnt ofpotash and from four to nine
pounds Of phosphoric acid
TpE question of stock in the South re-
solves itself into one of grain and grass.
Our farmers must have both corn and
oat Eelds and pastures; and the grasses
must be cultivated specially to secure
full supply of the best forage. Stock
meaHs meat in the smoke house, good
WORK animals and money in the pocket.
Farmers who mix the two, crops and cat
tie, are never in the great straits of
those who do not, for the reason that they
have more chances for profit. 10y
THERE is not neighborhood in the
Uni1sa States than can not, if the people
will concentrate money enough, by get
ting some from all to buy and keep in
stock all that the neighborhood needs in
every lineiof goods, and place it in store
of their own in the neighborhood, where
each can go and buy as need be. Buy
from themselves, as any other merchant
would do who needed articles kept in his
own ptore. In SO doing he saves to him
self An what he buys the profits some
otheH merchant would make were he to
buy from others. 1t is the profit that CO
operation leaves to every one who gives
custom to cooperation which makes it
his own business by putting stock or
money in it and becomes customer.
BsfrH the improved Clydesdale and the
modern English Shire horses were built
up through the infusion of Flemish blood.
The later Improvement of draft hsrses in
England was principally effected through
the Importation of race of black horses
from Holland and Belgium.
Tue Southern farmer who has plenty
of good hay, plenty of oats, and good
large corn crib full of corn, and good
pile 6f fresh cotton seed, and comfortable
she'd and barns for housing all of his an
imaR In bad weather, needs nothing
mora to carry his stock through fat and
comfortable until the spring grasses
furrasb an abundance of green food better
thari ensilage.
THs peach tree has special fertilizer
alsot eneiwhich combines great many
ingledients, but the most suitable for the
purpose. 1t is the cleanings from the
PRIV, This refuse will show in compar-
ison with anything else that can be tried,
as ii gives quicker growth, increases the
fruii5 and colors the foliage to . deep
greq1.; The discovery was made by q
New. Jersey fruitrgrower. who expert
mentad for the purpose, and the most
easuFl observer could easily discern the
apps srance Of trees treated in this way
frons those manured in any other manner
CxAr soils cannot produce to the full
exteat Of their ability unless under
draiSrd. The ordinary routine operation
of pAwing has tendency to form COM
pactsd strata Immediately below the cul-
tivated or plowed portion, which acts e
q bass in the retention of water. Such
soils are Gold and late, because the water
prevents Che heat of the sun from warm
ing tke soil until the water has been re-
movfs by evaporation, which produces
cold /. 50 that in addition to the imprac-
ticabslity of early spring cropping Of such
soilsi every summer shower cools the
eartl.!surrcunding the roots Of the grow
ing paanta, which shus sustain series Of
checks in their progress to maturity.
| THs wealth of State, as Of . person,
consists Id the excess of production over
consumption. Everything that increases
the Quantity Of commodities obtained IN
exchange for any result of industry, en-
courMges production and increases wealth.
| In ls not good policy to let work horses
get chin. 1t costs more to put On fssh
than. il does to keep it on. Flesh that
becofnes hardened by exercise viii be
kept! mp with less food, under ths same
worfs than it took TO put il on. From
is ta s0 pounds of food viii about supply
the dafly consumption Of ofhorses, large and
Tar Jsrsey GOV has, upon many com
petiMyesttials and tesss, eivsn more bot
ter III hsfl milk than any other bred
ahorsng ft 70 be the richesk Ihe fsst
thae rho does not take o. neah = othw
brepds. sl.9xs that rhe i shss bsst -
rhissafSE lsonysrting eow food inso H.
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