The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-12-05


knowledge, how can the rare talent of
decorating the wallis, ornauientating a
fine house, and identifying valuable
home be acquired? ? OF course, some peo-
pie have natural good taste, but none have
perfect taste in arrangement without cul-
tivation, no more than naturally smart
boy or girl would ever be educated with
out the aid of books or other people Of ex
perience and education.
JurE There is prospect of the gem
eral cultivation of this plant in the South,
because it will beat cotton all out Of coun-
tenance for profit, and don't require half
the expensive labor. The plant will grow
sor 10 feet high on moderately rich land
and Is feet on rich bottom, is cut green
and soaked in water to get rid of the pith,
baled, shipped and through with by the
last of July. The coiorcd people all over
the South would soon find jute their most
certain and paying crop, while they need
no machinery to prepare it for market
It is an annual, sown in April three feet
apart in rows, hoed out clean and plowed
one time after fairly started in the drill
No difficulty about selling the fibre as all
the world is using it and yearly increas-
ing the demand No insect troubles the
plant nor does drought or food material
ly affect its growth.
IMPROVING LAND-Now if you found
that hammock field rich with vegetable
matter (humus) when you cleared it, and
you have worn it out since, don't you
think the proper way to make it rich
again is to restore that vegetable matter ?
How can you do that? Why by planting
and turning in more vegetation. Cow pens
will do it the quickest.
CHEAP LANDs.-Lands are lower in the
South now than they will ever be again
unless some great calamity depopulates
the country and remands it to new coloni-
zation. Buyers need not depend on iuc-
tuations to reduce the prices in the future,
because the rapid influx of population
will very soon carry them up to figures no
fuctuation will henceforth reduce back
to present prices.
SEEDiNG.-It is always best to seed lib
orally, whether the seeding is to be grass
or grain; but lIberality does not mean
waste, and this should be avoided in the
making shure of good stand by liberal
seeding. The land should be well occu-
pied and put up to its capacity for pro-
duction in seed sowing, and this is all that
is meant by liberal seeding.
KILLING SAssAFRAs.-The patches of
sassafras taking SO much of the old lands
in all parts Of the country is creating
trouble in the minds of many farmers.
Some of them say there is no way to kill
it, but that is a mistake. Cut it down
three or four inches under the surface,
which can be done when it is small, with
a grubbing-hoe. Then see to it that the
sprouts thereafter bear no more foliage.
1t will not survive long if not allowed to
make leaves
QUERY.-If the farmers of the Southern
States were to invest in og-raising on
their own farms all the money they send
off to the West for bacon, wouldn't they
have more and better meat at less expense?
They would at least save the worry and
modification, and the swine would also
help to enrich their lands.
SWEET PorAToEs.-Bill Arp says he is
going to put up his sweet potatoes in dry
road dust, layer Of potatoes and layer
of dust, filling in between the potatoes and
so on to the completion of the heap-then
cover deep and shelter, to see If he can
preserve them from rotting through the
winter. Why won't any other dry earth
do as well as road dust?
SMOOTH SEED UPLAND CoTToN.-The
varieties and lint of our cottons having
been carried to high state Of perfection,
Mr.. II. P. Jones, of Bullock county, Ga,
calls attention to the Importance and prac-
ticability of improving the seed to such
an extent as to get rid of the lint which
remains on them after ginning. He is
satisfied from long experience that this
can be done to great advantage. II we
are not mistaken, Mr.. Jones has long
claimed to have done this very thing.
The coming cotton is to be long staple
upland, with black smooth seed, and as
Mr.. Jones says, ten pounds heavier to
the bushel, easier to handle and more con-
venient for accurate planting.
HAND RICE Mills Seem to be the or
der of the day. There are three or four
new patents out and one or two more soon
to appear. Some easy and cheap method
of cleaning upland rice among the small
farmers is greatly needed, and hence the
continued effort to invent something that
will meet the demand. Tariff or no tar
if, the small amount of labor necessary to
produce this excellent grain, will continue
to increase its abundance in this country,
as it has in the Fast, until. it becomes, az
it should, the cheapest article of food in
the country. Thousands would plant it
who do not ii it could be easily and
cheaply cleaned at home.