The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-08-08

cHcs 10 - IncncS apart. III you only
plant small quantity you can put them
close and cultivate with hoe. When
they come up there is nothing to do but
keep ,lown weeds aud grass and stir the
surface little. 1t is not necessary that
the tubers should he large. Those the
size of marbles planted whole do as we'll
as larger ones. With the first frost in fall
the potatoes should be dug aud kept as
other potatoes for spring planting.
We repeat some of the characteristics
of the second crop seed They are little
longer in starting than the matured tn
bers, but they grow more rapidly and
make marketable potat.Ks 10 days earlier.
They make three to five tubers To the vine,
and all in good soil, merchantable, while
the matured seed will make five To eight,
some being small ones. The second crop
seed will make but one vine to piece, no
matter how many eyes il may have.
Yield from second crop seed will he lar
ger per acre and potat"cs of better shape
inr use. With the use Of second crop
seed there is no more need to import
\ orthcrn potatoes for planting in this
section.
AMERICAN SILK.
New York Uerdid. The silk growing
industry in the United States, which has
kept up Pickering existence for very
long period, is again trying t" get up
revival of energy. What is claimed to
he the first silk-rcaring exhibition ever
held III this country, is now open in New
York, and will remain through the
summer, under the auspices of the North
American Silk Exchange. The exhibits
show the original silkmakers in all stages
of their existence from the egg /" the CO.
coon. The feeding worms are at work
upon mulberry trees and the osagr orange,
and there is a large AMI fine show of co
coons. There are exhibits from twelve
States, and more are arriving. The man
ager stated, in his opening remarks, that
he exhibition was intended t0 prove that
the United States can raise just n good
silk a. any country in the world. This
has been demonstrated, but it has also
proved true that We have not vet learned
how to make an industrial or an econom-
iral success of it fnr any length of time.
President Smith, of the Silk Exchange,
said that the country Is now entering upon
another and more hopeful experiment
hat last year there were - 900 persons
engaged in silk culture i'm the United
States, while next year there would be
50,00O. lie predicted that ultimately the
So 5,0OO,0O now annually sent abroad la
buy raw silk la supply the 80 American
silk mills, would bc kept at home to sup
port Il new AMI most attractive industry,
suited Ia women We hope
Mr.. Smith will live t" see himself called
a true prophet
PASTURE FOR HOGS.
ln,.rirdn FsnD,er: Farmers In the
great hog por'lucing sections of this
are paving more attention To-
pasture for hogs now than heretofore.
One who has given the subject no little
study and tried various experiments in
that brhalf, says that there is no ques-
tion about green oats and peas being
most appropriate food for pigs, and that
it comes ut the very season when pas
turc is apt tn be short. Corn being the
most universal fattening food for hogs
i'm the West after cold weather arrives.
it is very important that the summer
food of pigs should bc more heterogeneous
and better adapted tn the Development
ot muscle and bone than corn The pea
is very rich in muscle and hone building
element, and oats are also superior To
corn III this respect. The oats also assist
in holding up the pea vine, ;" as to pre-
vent early lodging, and thus cauSe it to
retain its succulence longer. The crop
will be sown in the proportion of two
bushels of peas and one of oats per acre,
and well covered. The drill puts them
in best. The united crop should produce
from 10 to 80 bushels of grain to the acre.
Now the grain is only part of the crop.
The succulent pea vine is admirable food
for pigs, and they should be turned in
when the pea is just passing out of the
milk. They will then devour the whole
plant, and it contains as much nutrirnent
AS when fully ripe The sueculent stalk
from 40 to so per cent. as much
nutriment rs the grain. \ good crop
ought To produce a growth in live weight
IN hogs of 500 To 700 pounds per acre
TEXAS CATTLE INTEREsTs.
The Bocrne Register is not blind to
the magnitude and Importance of the
cattle interests of Texas. That paper
says: Twenty years ago on the plains
of Texas cattle were slaughtered for their
hides and tallow. The business of driv-
ing cattle To markets out of the State
was first started about seventeen wears
ago, and amounted to only few thou
sand. Now almost any one county sells
more cattle in one year than were former
ly taken from the State. Each year the
number increases, and now the aggregate
of the season is towards two million head,
and when estimated in money, amounts
to many million dollars"
ABOUT TALKING.
a child brought up with Germans will
talk German with French, French with
English, English with the Italians, Ital-
ian. We all learn To talk, and the child
will learn to talk the language it hears,
whatever that may be. And if the child
hears low, vulgar, coarse, inelegant Ian
guage, it will learn to use that language,
and will use it. And ii chaste, pure,
elegant, elevated conversation, the child
will imbibc the same taste. II behoOves
parents to take care of the manner and
substance of what they say before their
children, and il is also very clear that the
silly, nonsensical stuff talked to children
is not only very silly, but equally injuri-
ous. Children will talk as they hear
Others talk Parents and Others are CON
stantly educating this faculty in children
by their conversation.