The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-05-23

or four cents pound for bacon he may
raise two crops of Irish potatoes and
have q surplus to sell; surplus of field
peas to sell; surplus of hay and oats to
sell; q surplus Of butter, and chickens
and eggs to sell surplus of honey to
sell. He can make . barrel or two of
blackberry and grape wine for his own ta
BILE, and some to SELL He can put mp
canned fruits and preseryes--all he needs
for his family, and some TO sell. In
good fruit year he can have fruit from
April to November, and winter apples
until spring strawberries, dewberries,
blackberries, plums, peaches, grapes, 6gs,
pears, following each other from April to
August, and pears, grapes and apples
| from August to November. A good
farmer may provide all Of these things
for himself and family, keep out of debt,
and lay up money without working like
galley slave, and without making
| pound of cotton.
HOW MUCH GERMAN MILLET SEED TO THE
ACRE.
A writer in the Country Gentleman
says: When l can get the German millet
SOW that in preference to Hungarian. /
usually obtain my seed in Cleveland, of
reliable seedman. II one can go to these
seed stores himself and know what he
buys, from personal selection, greater
certainty will usually result in obtaining
genuine German millet seed. ] always
SOW full bushel of so pounds per acre,
for several reasons When sown thickly,
the growth is more to foliage than to
stalk, and by crowding finer quality of
fodder is produced The price of seed
usually ranges from $l.25 to $500 per
bushel AS last summer was a most re-
markable season to mature crops, it is to
be presumed that prices will be low the
present season.
CHOLERA REMEDY.
The following is we'll tested receipt
for chicken cholera: At the first symp-
toms dissolve in one gallon of the drink
ing water half teaspoonful of alum and
the same of copperas; at the same time
give daily in the soft feed little sharp
sand at the rate of one teaspoonful to a
fowl. In severe cases give at once by
hand piece of alum and piece of cop
peras, each the size of q pea, mixed in a
dough, with one teaspoonful Of sand and
a little meal and water. Continue the
medicated water and sanded feed till all
signs of disease disappear.
"PLow DEEP WHILE OTHERS SLEEP"
Atlanta Constitution: Captain W. J.
Born is one of our live farmers, raising
mostly corn, peas and wheat, and only
moderate cotton crops. His corn and
pea crop last year were superb, estimated
at 25 bushels per acre, average. His pea
crop, planted with his corn, was estima-
ted at 800 bushels. He plows deep, plows
often, and keeps his corn clean and well
worked.
Mr.. David Warner raises chiefly corn,
potatoes and pork. His corn last year
averaged 25 bushels per acre, and sold
$500 worth of yam potatoes in your mar
ket. Added to this, he has plenty Of
meat to sell and to keep" and from
small beginning, only few years ago, he
is now one of our most thriving and we'll
to-do farmers.
Colonel George Fl. Hopkins is an aged
farmer, and has grown well off by raising
corn, meat and oats, and but little cotton.
He raises large crops of rust proof oats
on his Beaver river bottoms, and sells to
his cotton friends at ninety cents per
bushel, and corn the same and this
every year.
Mr.. William Perry diversified bis crops
to some extent He raises largely of corn
and cotton both. His plan is to make
plenty of corn in any contingency, and
his surplus labor is put into cotton. From
one-horse farmer after the war he has
grown rich by his methods, now running
from twenty-five to thirty plows.
Mr.. Miles E. Ewings, like Mr.. Perry,
came out of the war poor, with l25 acres
of poor land. A bountiful corn supply is
his objective point, and after this q good
crop of cotton, reaching this year to
eighty bales. Thirty acres of his corn
crop last year was estimated at thirty-fve
to forty bushels to the acre His meth
DDS are to "plow deep while sluggards
sleep, and has corn to sell aud to keep"
POTATOES.
The practice of thinning potatoe vines
to two stalks in each hill, when they ex-
ceed that number, is indorsed, after many
annual trials, by a correspondent of the
american CultiUatOr. This is done at
the hoeing time-the snperfuOus (weak-
est) stalks being treated as weeds The
effect is, as may be supposed, an increase
of large handsome tubers.
CHOCOLATE PIE.
Lovers of chocolate can make this ad-
dition to common custard pie: Beat an
egg to stiff froth, then add pulverized
sugar and grated chocolate with half
teaspoonful of vanilla; spread this on
top of the pie and let it harden for mo-
ment in the oven. Or you may prepare
it in still another way: Put the chocolate
in basin on the back of the stove, and
let it melt lido not put drop of water
with it) when melted beat one egg and
some sugar In with it; in the latter case
it will be regular chocolate brown in
color, and the other sort of gray.
BOSTON BAKED BEANS
Take one quart of beans, pick clean
from dirt and wash, then pour boiling
water over them and let them soak over
night. The next morning pour of the
water, put into a kettle, pour boiling
water over them and boil slowly till Just
soft; take off from the stove, skim out
the beans into the bean-pot, add one
tablespoonful of melasses (some like them