The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-07-11
FARsa AND GARDEN.
ENRIcHrSG ORCHARDS

All the young fruit trees, says the
COs0stvy Gentleman, which do not make
a growth of two feet for the longest
shoots in . season, need additional stim-
ulating with manure if the ground is
clean and well cultivated; or if they
stand in grass or happen to be encum-
bered with weeds, good mellow cultiva-
tion must be given them This is the
rule for young trees, and the best time, il
manure is applied, is late in autumn or
during winter-the earlier the better
But manure appears to do the most good
on bearing trees, especially apple trees,
often giving good annual crops where
poor and biennial crops were previously
borne. Bearing trees need not grow 50
rapidly as young trees, but if they do not
make annual shoots at least foot long
they need more manure, or both manure
and cultivation. The manure may be
spread broadcast in winter, covering the
whole surface.
WOOD ASHES.
Mass. Ffougsmdn : Leached ashes are
good for almost any crop, but should be
applied with other fertilizers that contain
vegetable substances, like barn manure;
thus applied, on most of soils, and for
nearly all crops, 25 cents a bushel would
be cheaper than commercial fertilizers.
Fifty bushels of ashes applied to two
cords of good stable manure, would pro-
duce better results for most crops than
one hundred and fifty bushels applied
without other fertilizers, or five cords of
stable manure applied with no other fer
tilizer with it.
AN EMPTY CORN CRIB ON A Farm.
An empty corn crib on farm is a truly
melancholy spectacle. In the spring and
summer, while the new crop is growing,
there are many mouths To be filled on the
farm besides human mouths, and if the
corn crib is empty until October, half
starved animals are the natural conse-
quence. Some of these animals can make a
tolerable living most Of the time The
young chickens and turkeys, the sows and
pigs, the dogs and cats, the work animals,
all need favors from the corn crib and meal
tub. And old sheep that are feeble need
a change of diet, even when they have
plenty of grass Corn meal and corn seem
to be the one thing needful for everything
that lives and breathes on farm. True
oats, peas and Irish potatoes may be ripe
in June and July, but starvation stares
many poor animal in the face while these
crops are maturing. If the hogs get the
mango while they are being washed with
carbOlic soap, rubbed with sulphur and
grease, and kerosene oil, they are falling
away and need corn. They need some
thing to resist the weakening force of the
disease until the healing power can have
Its effect. Corn is here the handmade of
medicine.
If COW is under the weather in the
spring and summer, she needs corn-meal.
A farm without corn is like stean engine
without water or wood. An empty corn
crib is terror to all on the farm. Every
thing passes It with n feeling of hvIIO, ar
child passes graveyard at night An
empty corn-crib on a farm means disease
and death among the farm animals-to ul-
innate bankruptcy of the farmer. An
empty corn crib means large grocery ac-
counts and nothing to pay them with. A
full corn crib is like money in the bank,
to be drawn at the pleasure of the depos-
it0r