The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-06-06
AGRRCULTURE. A

DEEP CULTIVATION 1t stands to reason
that deep cultivation is the best. Where
there is more moisture, sunlight and &C
cessible fertility, there must be more
growth and yield of fruit. Any farmer
or gardner can prove it by digging out
hole two or three feet deep and several
feet in diameter, and planting one or two
rows right through the illed-up hole
The corn, cotton, oats or vegetables in
the deep broken soil will appear to have
been fertilized in comparison with that of
the shallow rows.
MANURlNG PoTAToEs. Let common
sense rule-whatever kind of manure you
put on potatoes, remember that they
have not the means of collecting up fer
tilizers all over the middle of the rows
like corn-that is the reason for drawing
the soil into ridges for potatoes-that its
fertilizing principles may be collected up
and brought within reach of the tubers
They should, therefore, be manured in
the hills, but it should be mixed in the
soil of the hill, and not dumped in lump,
unless you have enough, as a spade-full
to fill in all around.
NEW VEGETABLEs.-Among new vege-
tables introduced during the last few
years may be classed the Egyptian early,
red beet, the Jersey Wakefield cabbage
and the improved cantaloupe, or rough
skinned nutmeg melon. These are con-
sidered now as at the head of their re-
spective classes for excellence and early
maturity, and no gardner would be ex-
cusable for overlooking their advantages.
GAS TAR. - The editor of the FIuit
Recorder puts gill of gas tar in pat
ent pail of water and stirs it up well; he
then sprays it over the foliage of his
fruit trees, or hangs rags around about
on limbs dipped in the tar, to keep off
eurculio and other insect pests. He also
believes that salt narrowed in well keeps
off bugs and worms that infest the gar
den.
SEEDsMEN.- and nurserymen
who publish journals in connection with
their business, and take up whole pages in
answering supposed enquiries of their
prodigiously numerous p" patrons, win
be found, on close analysis, to have asked
and answered their own questions. We
know one that is a thoroughly prolific
specimen of this order. Let the reader
note that the great body Of such aues-
tions and answers are directed to the re-
commendation of specialties and varieties
of that particular seedsman or florist. AS
q general thing such questions and an
swers are bait thrown out to take you in.
Cur FEED.-One way some farmers
grow poor is want of economy and in
dustry to feed their animals properly
How many throw down several bundles
of oats to the horse and permit him to
chaw off !" the heads and trample the
straw, with large percent of the grain
under his feet This method requires
double the quantity Of oats to keep the
animal in flesh. If cut fine and sprinkled
with water, when very dry, half the oats
might have been sold to buy something
else. The same class viii put corn in the
trough or box for the horse to eat and
walk off to eat breakfast, while al the
fowls on the place gather to the horse
trough and eat up the corn, or the trough
is so arranged that the horse takes .
mouthful and turns his head to drop one
half Of the corn on the ground-but the
farmer expects the horse to keep fat all
the same.
| FooD DIeEsrIoN. COW will generally
digest or turn her food into milk in about
six hours, consequently she should be fed
all day, or ut least every six hours, If she
| il TO be used - min and butter ma
chine. 1t is astonishing how quick the
| milk and butter Of poor COW win begin