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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1882-06-07
Agricultural Questions.
Press and Horticultarist.

IrCSS ana HOTItCUttGflSC.
A farmer writes and makes inoui.
ries about ensilage, concerning which
notes have previously been published.
Most of the experiments thus. far
noted were made in the New Eng
land or Middle States, where the sys.
TEN was supposed to be more needed
than elsewhere. But Prot. Mcbride,
Of the University of Tennessee, has
made number OF experiments, from
which he decides that a farmer can
get 1000 pounds OF ensllage from
every ton of green food put in the
silo. This represents loss of 20 per
cent. The next and more important
question is regarding the value of the
ensilage as food. What is its nutrl-
tive quality? Only practical feeding
tests can settle this question. If the
fermentation destroys the organic
matter to such degree that four
pounds of green forage are worth but
one pound of the same material made
into hay, then there does not seem
to be any gain. But it two pounds
Of ensilage are equal to one pound OF
hay, the value OF the former is evl>
dent. From Professor McBride's
experiments precisely this result was
reached. it does not support the
rose .colored views of some of the ear.
lieradvocates ofensilage, who thought
it would work an immediate reyolu.
ton in the American system; but it
does give considerable reason TO
think that a further trial is advisable.
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and that 10 COME an II here near sup
plying the coming an pand we shall
need hundred trees vhere we now
have one.
Tue possibility OF safe transporta-
ton in retrigerators IS no untried ex.
pertinent. 1t was successfully accom-
plished by Col. ID. FL. Elliott, OF the
Dispatch, a year or more ago, and
the Figs were soldin New York iii
our recollection il correct at forty
cents per quart. We would ask no
more profitable or remunerative bus.
mess than to produce figs by the car
load at half or even one>quarter oil
that price; and we confidently advise
all our trut-growers who live within
reach OF transportation lines to plant
Figs largely and at once.
Layers from low hanging branches
may be successfully made now, but
the better way is to plant cuttings
just where you want your trees to
stand next spring, as the buds arc
beginning to swell and show signs OF
growth. For some unascertained
reason, rooted fig trees when trans
planted do not succeed well; and we
therefore recommend the setting Of
the cuttings in the spring, just where
the future tree is desired, cultivating
this cutting carefully, but never
"litting' or removing it. 1t will be-
Gin to bear The second or third year
at latest, and last life time.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1882-06-07

- - - - -
ever seen in my apiary, or any one
else's, and that these bees are supe>
rior to any as honey gatherers, both
in quality of combs and quantity of
honey. J have, during the thirteen
years l have kept bees, carefully test
ed the merits Of those bright golden
Italians, and also the dark ones, and
the crosses have made, and ! speak
from my experience. observation, and
the Interchange Of ideas with others"
In crossing the Cyprians and Syr-
ians with the Italians, the best res
sults seem to be obtained when Cyp.
rian or Syrian queens are mated with
italian drones. Ii the mating oil
queens could be as easily controlled
as the mating of our domestic ami
mails, superior race OF bees would
probably soon be developed. 1t is
possible that a mixture OF these diff
terent varieties OF bees may result in
a bee that will be far superior to all
Others.
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desire to live in a Southern climate
and q taste for cattle raising, may
cultivate-aad probably to much adj
vantage. To professional breeders,
also it is suggestive, for if the cattle
raisers of "the land of flowers" do not
now recognize the Importance of I'M.
proving their half-wild cattle, it will
not be long taking into account the
rapid progress being made in the live
stock industry OF the country before
they will see the necessity of doing
so.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1882-06-07
Catania Oranges.
RiUerSide IreeS.

RiUerSide PreeS
While in New York, Mr.. E. G.
Judson, of Redlands, purchased three
oranges imported from Catania in
Sicily, for the regular market price
of fifty cents for the three. Two OF
these oranges he sent the editor OF
the Press and Horticultanist, saving
the third for his own sampling. The
two oranges arrived last week IN
good condition, by express, and were
laid before the lemon committee at
one OF it's sessions. They were very
large aud fine samples; those
present pronounced them as fine, if
not superior, iuSsize, texture OF rind,
and general appearance, to anything
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Bees.
DttSs
". 4. Hutchinson in Country Gentleman.

". 4. Hutchinson in Country Gentleman.
Italian bees are considered to be
superior in the following respects :
They possess longer tongues, ana can
gather from flowers that are useless
TO black bees; this superiority is not
SO noticeable in the height OF good
honey harvest, as it is in poor sea-
sons, or in times of scarcity, when
the Italians will often be storing sur
plus from red clover, or from some
other source not available to the
blacks. They are less disposed to
rob, or to be robbed, than are the
black bees. They are almost proof
against the ravages OF the bee moths
larva. They are disposed to remain
quietly upon the combs while being
handled, which saves the operator
much annoyance, and enables him to
find the queen with little trouble.
They are more amiable in their dis
positions, as we'll as more active, en-
ergetic and enterprising.
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The Plum Aphis in Florida.

Vim. II. Ashmead, in the Pacific Rarot Press.
In your issue OF May 2Sth, Mr.
Edward Berwick gives an account Of
the depreciation done his plum trees
by the plum aphis. He also asks
You for information in regard to it.
aud says perhaps, also some kind
reader will give his experience. AS
l have made the A0hidjdce of Florida
a special study for the past two years.
possibly my Investigations on the
plum aphis here will prove OF
value to your correspondent, and
others of your readers.
In Europe there are several aphi-
DIES that attack the plum. The most
common are, AphiS 2orat'ai, Koch
.Phorodon mahateJ, Fronscolomb
and PhoroClon Atnaatli, Schrank.
These have undoubtedly been i'm
ported into America on nursery
stock, or otherwise, and are now
pretty generally distributed through.
out the country,
DR.. Asa Fitch, in his s'Report on
Noxious, Beneficial and other Insects
of the State of New York; (vidt
Trans. N. Y. State Agricultural So
oiety, 1855, page $3.50, describes an
other species, under the name Of
Aphis prannJolin, which Prof
Thomas, an authority OIL this family
thinks Identical with AEhaS lre1ai
Koch. This is probably the species
referred to by Mr.. Berwick Prot
Thomas says:
"This species appears to be quite
variable, but the following taken
chiefly from the original description
by the author of the species, will
probably enable the reader to iden.
tity it: The winged specimens meas
ure about one-seventh of an inch to
the tip of the wings; the body is
OF shining black color except the
abdomen, which is pale green with g
black dot on each side of the two OF
Al. !
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1882-06-07
Cattle Raising in Florida.
Prairie Farmer.

Prairie Farmer.
Few persons, probably, outside of
Southern Florida are aware of the ex-
tent and importance of the cattle rails
ing interests of that State, but that in
dustry has been a prominent one since
its earliest occupation by white men.
One of the leading cattle owners of
Florida writes that long before 1T was
admitted to the Sisterhood of States,
cattle raising engaged the special at.
tention of large class OF its citizens,
and this has continued to be the case
Among the owners Of herds in South
ern Florida, are Zeba King with 3d.
900 head Hendry Brothers, 10000;
H. T. Lykes, 10000; J. T. Lesley,
5000; Summerlin g. Son, II, 600; Ben
Guy, 5000; irwin Lockel, 1000; w.
Is. Henderson, 1000; w. H. Van
derripe, Nelson LOCKED, a. G. Zlp~
prer, w. II. Willingham and several
others own herds of from 5000 TO
5000. The trade is so extensive that
Florida beeves largely supply the de-
mand tor beef in nearly all the mar
kets of the Southern States and the
West India Islands. Since 1872 not
less than $4,000 head are annually
shipped to Cuba alone, and a quar-
ter OF a million OF dollars annually is
represented as a safe estimate of the
cash value OF cattle and trelghts ac-
cruing from this branch OF the trade.
The writer referred to, (who is him,
self cattle raiser) states that the
great cattle-grazing belt OF the State
embraces the counties of Monroe,
Manatee, Hillsboroueh, fernando,
Sumter, Polk and Brevard. Cattle
are raised, however, in considerable
numbers in every county in the State.
Brevard county is supposed to take
the lead in point of number and
quality of stock, Its territory EN-
braces the broad and rich valley of
the beautiful Kissimmee River, which
rises in the billy country of Orange
county, flowing gently into the great
southern lake, Okeechobee. These
vast herds are owned by no less than
1000 individuals, many of whom are
engaged in farming and trui. gro "
lng,while many are employed almost
exclusively i'll the cattle business,
owning from ten to fifteen thousand
head, spoken OF sometimes lin deris.
ion) as Seattle kings"
But it appears mat little or no
pains have been taken to improve
either the quality OF the cattle or the
} grazing resources of the country.
IN, q A..
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1882-06-07

A lady of this city says she cured
her husband of staying out late at
night by going TO the door when he
came home one night and whispering
through the heyhole us that you,
Willie ?" Her husbands name is
John, and he stays at home every
night now, and sleeps with one eye
open and a revolver under his
pillow.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1882-06-07

is indispensable. The ground should
also be moist and low, but not too wet.
The deep, moist, black lands are good,
but the made lands are the best.
WhatI mean by made lands are lands
made by soil deposited by changes
in the flow of streams or rivers.
These soils are the natural home of
the willow. The land should be brok.
en- as deep as possible (say ten inches
as late in the fall as the weather will
permit. and also thoroughly narrowed
before freezing commences. Planting
should commence as soon as the
frost is ont of the ground and while
the ground is still very soft. The
slips should all be ready prepared.
They should be cut about ten inches
long; tied up in bundles, with the
buds all one way, and either set In
shallow water, covered with earth,
or placed in the cellar until needed.
In planting, l think it best to have a
long cord, and stretch, it across the
plat, pushing the willow slips into the
ground alongside the cord. In this
way the rows are made perfectly
STRAIGHT. After planting one row
move the cord three feet and plant
the next row. This can be done quick
ly by having one person at each end
feet apart at every point, and will be
Of the cord to move the pegs and
stretch the cord. The rows will be 8
straight enough to admit of easy cul-
tivation. 1t will be necessary in push
ing the slips into the ground, to have
thick leathern pad for the hand aud
no slips should be used except those
that are large enough to be showed in
the ground without bending and
breaking. The slips should be set
about ten inches apart in the rows.
Closer planting would not hurt, but
they are ealser cultivated when at
this distance apart, and will get thick
enough in few years.
AS soon as the buds commence
starting, and the ground gets dry
enough, cultivation ought to com
mence with hoe and cultlvator. This
cultivation should be repeated often
enough through the season to keep
down the weeds ana keep the ground
in a good condition tor the slips to
grow. The slips will probably grow
about three to five feet high the first
season. Some willow growers cut
them off in the winter Of the first
year, so as to secure straight shoots
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1882-06-07
AMBER, MARVIN & STOCKTON,
Bankers.
81
Oldest Established Bank i'm East
Florida.

Organized in 1870 by Mr. d G Amber, and gen.
orally known as Ambler'S Bank
TIansacts general banking business. De-
posts received. Discounts made and Ex-
change bought ana sold on most favorable
promptly RENTED.
Correspondents Importers s. Traders Ma.
tional Bank, New York; Merchants National
Bank Savannah, Ga.
Resident Correspondents of Brown Bros &
Co, Drexel, Morgan & Co, Jas q Kings Sons
Kountze Bros, New York, and other promi-
nent Bankers issuing Letters of Credit. 1S2tf
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generally be sufficient, if not packed
in too large quantities for some days
after. Be sure they are dry before
bulking, or they will lose their
bright white color, and will also lose
greatly in value. Never let them
get wet after peeliAg, or they will
turn black, unless Immediately dried
After they are thoroughly dried, tie
them up in rs to 1OO>pound bundles
for shipment or hauling to market.
The profit depends upon how cheap>
ly you get the work done, and upon
the demands of the market. Good
land ought to produce about 5000
pounds of marketable willow per
acre. They are now worth about
four cents per pound They ought
to be put on the market at cost of
two cents, with good management,
which would leave net profit OF
500 per acre.
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JUNE z. G
MISCELLANEOUS.
NOTICE.

hygienic boarding house for persons who
were patients at the Danville n. "
Water Cure-Dr. Jackson's Our Home
on the Hill Side,"-who has fine loca-
ton on one of the most beautiful little
lakes in Orange county, desires about $500
buildings aud furniture, for the opening
OF home for invalids on a small scale.
Acquaintance with parties who keep
boarders for the above 'cure" during sum
mer gives peculiar advanta ges Ill secur-
ing custom, and the knowledge possessed
tice of the ''healing art" according to Hy-
dropathic methods, gives her special quail
ificatiOns as manager of such an enter
prise. Address HYGIENE" care of the
FLORIDA Agriculturlst, DeLand, Fla. II
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1882-06-07
A Varied Performance.

Many wonder how Parker's Ginger
Tonic can perform such varied cures,
thinking it essence of ginger, when in
fact it is made from many valuable
medicines which act beneicially on
every diseased organ.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1882-06-07

Blood from slaughtered animals is
worth $50 a ton, $1,000 a carload.
The hair from $1,000 hogs is worth
$50.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-04-19
FLOATING FANOIES,

Never ask a woman her age-that is, no
that woman. Ask some other woman.
Women brains are smaller than mem
brains, but they need a bigger covering-and
they get it.
A grocer of our acquaintance says hi
never heard his customers accuse him oil
giving short weight in his goods, and be
never accuses them of giving him short
wait for his bills.
"Eda, is your father at homer" said 8
bashful young lover to his sweetheart: 81
want to propose something to him" mo,
Clarence, papa is not at home, but / am.
Couldn't you propose to me just as well?'
And he did, with perfect success.
The CourSer-J Journal reports the following
IS an actual conversation in Louisville
First Citizen-"What's the news p Second
Citizen-"There's nothing of importance ex-
cept the death of Longfellow." First Git
"Well that's bad; he was a grand old boss,
the gamest eyer produced in the Bluegrass
country"
When a Kentucky Congressman was IL
formed that he could have all the garden
seeds that he wanted from the Agricultural
Department, he exclaimed ''Seeds, what
do I want seeds for ? But hold on! Yes, yes,
| believe / do want a few" And he forth
with sent for a h%alf-bushel of cardamon
seeds, the only seeds he had any use for.
Said the Texas man to his northern guest
''There isn't much fun going ON this week.
Now if you'd come q week ago, ! could have
taken you to three l~ynchings and q dance,
but just now there isn't much sport on hand.
However, if you like, we'll go down to the
saloon and start a fight. I've no doubt the
boys would go in and make it pleasant for a
stranger" Texans are hospitable men.
A man who has listened to woman's society
small talk, at home and abroad, says: IT
women would only occupy themselves more
with the loftier things in life interest them
selves more.in the work which daily occupies
the attention Of men, and talk and think less
of how their new spring bonnet shall be
trimmed, or their new spring suit made, they
would soon find that by making themselves
equal with men Intellectually they would be
fully accorded all rights.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-04-19

the fate of each of these is given briefly as
follow: Kerry confessed to the Otterville
robbery and is serving out a term. Berry
died from the effects of . shot by a Missouri
sheriff soon after q train robbery On the
Union Pacific road. Mccoy went to sleep
under a Texas rose and never woke up in
this world. John Younger was killed by
Capt. Lull Of Pinkerton's force. who paid
for the righteous deed with is own life.
Miller, Caldwell and Pitts went too near
Mortified and were killed, while Cole, Jim
and Bob Younger were taken in the sam
raid and are boarders to-day at the expense
of the State of Minnesota. Bassham is in
the Missouri penitentiary, and Bill Ryan is
in the Jail at Kansas City. Frank James is
d declared by his friends to be a helpless in.
valid.
THEIR CRIMES.
The record of their principal crimes is as
follows:
Liberty, Mo-, bank robbery-several men
murdered.
Russville, KY, bank r~obbery-S1O0, 900 sc.
cured, one person killed.
Robbery and fatal fight at Battle mountain
California.
Gallatin bank robbery.
Raid at Columbia. Ky, murder of Mr..
Martin.
Robbery Of the Corydon, Iowa, bank,
$40, 600 captured.
The great robbery of the cash box at the
Kansas City fair.
Wreck of a Chicago, Rock Island & Pa
cifc train.
Stage robberies in Missouri.
The Gadshill train wreck.
Murder of John w. Wicher, the Plnkerton
detective.
The terrible fight at Dr.. Samuels resi-
dence.
The San Antonio stage robbery.
The Muncie train robbery $55, 600 in
cash secured.
Huntington bank, Va, robbery, $40, 600
secured, several men killed.
Lamine bridge train robbery, ST. 900 Sc
cured.
The Mortified, Mimi, Union bank rob-
berry.
Big Springs express robbery, 500, 900 Sc
cured.
The Glendale s. Alton train robbery.
The above comprises only the notable
crimes .perpetrated by the James brothers
and their gang. The number Of small rob-
berries committed by them is almost innumer-
able, while scores of persons, if not hundreds
have been murdered by them in cold blood.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-04-19
The Fate of The James Gang.

Of the original james and Younger gang
McGuire was taken from the independence
Jail and lynched, Archel Clements was killed
at Lexington, Mo, by Montgomery's militia.
The body OF Dick Burns was found a few
weeks after with the head split open, and
was decently buried. Shepherd was shot by
Jesse James, but is still alive and living in
the vicinity Of Kansas City. Jim Road fell
in with a Texas sheriff who was q better
shot than he, and there was a quiet funeral
down there. He figured conspicuously in
the affair at Gad's hill, on the iron mountain
road. Bud McDaniels, who was as hand
some q man as ever sat in a saddle, was at
the Muncie, Kan, affair. A woman played
the deuce with him, too. He had q mistress
in Kansas City, and ladened with jewelry he
rode into Kansas City one evening after dark
and was galloping up Main street when he
woke up q policeman who halted him for
fast riding. A row was the result, in which
Mechanics was arrested, and when taken to
the station and searched he was recognized.
lie WAS SCub UhCh " 1Aobo1Cs oAN SSoAiA
tired of prison life, he escaped. he was
surrounded in q thicket, given away by q
negro, and was shot to death before he
would surrender. His mistress tried to add
a link to his career by committing suicide.
Not long after, his brother, Thompson
McDaniels, was converted into q corpse in
Huntington, w. Va, where he had gone
;. O draw some money" out of a bank in that
village. His 'pal," Jack Kean, was cap
tured latter, and is now serving q term in the
p~enitentiary.
THE O1HER MEMBE
Of this Missouri banditti band were Hobbs,
Kerry, Berry, Arth Mccoy, John Younger,
Clel Miller, Bill Caldwell, Charlie Pitts,
Cole. Jim and Bob Younger, Tucker Bas
sham and Bill Ryan. A recapitulation O
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1882-05-23

To-day Mt I.ampasscs the trial OF j. T.
Bonner OmmenC' on ii change of Venue
from Bell county. The subject of this no
tee is perhaps better known In Waco NJ
"kalamity' hvving been contributor
from this place to the Houston Post AMI
since corr, spondcnt from other parts.
Mr. Bonner was indicted for being impli-
G ted in the robbery of Teblcr's jewelry
store a Bolton so we und, rstand. few
years ago, and has had four trials ia Boil
county at different terms of the district
court, the jury in each case falling to
agrCr. At he last term OF court In Bolton
the judge saw no nearer chance OF convic-
ton or acquitted than before and he was
not adverse to the change. Previous TO
his last trial Mr.. Bonner married beHuti-
full and interesting lady OF ROckdale who
IL we'll known in Waco and nj his LAST
trial she sat at his side in court with that
devotion only known to vile. OF Mr.
Bonn rs guift or Innocence or the par
ticulars surrounding his ease we know
but little, but 1t seemed apparent thai his
case could not b" decided for or against In
Bolton, and ii is 10 be hoped for him and
also tor the relief OF the courts, that the
fifth trial, which is now on hand, may re-
suit In disposing of this burdcnsome case.
Do not suffer from sick headache mo-
mcnt longer. 1t is not necessary. Carriers
Little Liver Pills will cure you. Dose ,one
little pill. All druggists sell them -523l W
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1882-05-23
A Now Mineral Wcu.

Through tie agent OF the Texas tx
press company ut Hco, we are in receipt
ola jug OF water from the mineral wells
at Dutfau, which are now spriEging into
notoreiy Tor the curative properties the
waters are said to contain. The Waer is
certainly pleasant in It's effects and not al
together unpleasant in taste and no doubt
will Yet add tame TO the pleasant little
town where the wells are located. !.
has been chemically aualyzcd by r.
Noelckcr, professor of Oh, mistry in the
Galveston Medical college, and shows
sodium chloride, sodium sulphate, mag
neSium chloride, magnesium carbonate
and calcium carbonate In different parts,
and if the wafer continues to show the
standard gwen it by the analysis, it will
prove a great benefit in many forms OF
diseases. We shall await opinions from
those better posted than ourselves and also
the reports OF afflicted persons who may
be benefited by the use Of he water, hoI-
ing that Dutiqu has In these wells some
thing that will be an advantage to her
and q benefit to mankind.