The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-05-30
AGRHCULTURE.

A VALUABLE HoG.-Some stock breed
ers appreciate the value of blood. The
sow, Cleopatra's Duchess" in Penn
sylvania, cost her owner twelve hundred
dollars. But it pays to have pure blood,
because there are always thousands still
to be supplied.
JUNE PLANTING.-Rememb that corn
planted in June will make good crop,
while for okra, lima or butter-beans, and
watermelons there is no better time of
the year to plant. For succession, also,
bush and pole-beans, tomatoes, squashes,
cucumbers, lettuce, radishes &C., should
be put in and collards set out
HUMBUG.-Don't order any of that
Bessarabian corn" the american Ag-
riculturist has so we'll shown to be the
meanest of humbugs. In fact, don't order
any new, puffed-up seeds until you can do
SO from reliable parties. Depend upon it,
ninety-nine of every hundred SO blown,
are not worth the postage on your order.
EGG-EAT1NG HENs.-This generally re-
suits from confinement or long setting
without sufficient food. Well-fed hens,
at large, where they have insects and
green picking in the garden or pasture,
seldom eat eggs. 1t is best never to let
them learn the habit, by proper feeding
and and keeping the eggs out of their
way.
EATING LUNcH.-If the stomach needs
an hour or two for rest after the digestion
of a regular meal, which equires from
four to six hours, is it wise to eat lunch
between meals, and refuse to give it that
restP 1t may not seem to hurt at first,
but like the drops of water falling upon
the rock, the lunch eater.
SEED LATITUDE.-Seeds carried North
are later in terminating, and brought
South are earlier in terminating hence,
fruits that may be winter fruits in the
North will be fall fruits in the South.
EARLY FRUTs.-"As general rule" !"
says Cassius NJ Clay, "early fruits and
vegetables are unfit to eat. Such may
suit the capricious and vitiated tastes of
the people of the great cities, but long
growth gives the highest perfection in
pears, apples, peaches, vegetables and
fruits" He, therefore, recommends the
selection of such fruit trees as give the
longest growth to the fruit.
WHAT WE NEED" What the South
needs " is not immigration, but to teach
her own native born sons and daughters
the arts and industries, and the real value
of the glorious land they inh abit-that
life is not slavish drugery, nor yet
round of sensualitY and idleness; but
happy medium of social, physical and in
tellectual labor and pleasure combined.
IMPROVED MAcHINERY.-We are glad
to see Florida farmers and fruit growers
purchasing improved, labor-saving farm
machinery. It argues the end of stump
farming, and the beginning Of concen-
trated, clean cultivation, and more fruits
with less expense.
CLYDEsDALE HoRsEs.-As evidence of
the growing popularity of Clydesdales in
this country, it may be mentioned that
two hundred and fifty stations and horses
arrived in New York during April last.
Importations of all kinds are going on at
a rate never known before. Hundreds of
wealthy American stock-raisers are hunt
ing the world over for something new or
something to improve on.
THIN OUT.-The Importance Of pro-
perly thinning out fruit trees when bear
ing redundant crops is more and more
apparent. To produce fruit that COM
mands good price in market it has be-
come an absolute necessity. This is seen
especially in that intended for exporta-
ton, apples of good size fair and properly
packed commanding in the English
market fully double the price of those
which had not received such care.
L1ME.-It is not likely that you will
put on too much, especially on heavy
soils well stocked with vegetable matter.
Light, friable soils need less, but on the
the former ten to fifteen barrels per acre
plowed and mixed in will be all the
better. If ground raw, or unburnt lime,
it may be doubled.
THE watermelon contains about 95 per
cent. Of the purest water and trace of
the purest sugar, and nothing has yet
been discovered that furnishes SO perfect
and speedy 9 cure" for summer COM