The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-11-14
FARM AND GARDEN.
FRUIT TREES MUST BE FED.

mich COW, and if the former at not as
frequent intervals as the latter-annually
at least, and better in the spring and fall.
When the country was new and the soil
rich in all kinds of plant food, fruit trees
grew and bore large crops for years. They
then began to fail everywhere, and in
some places have disappeared altogether.
However, if the old ones were starved
out, new race has made its appearance
but it is confined principally to the mar
row areas about the homestead, where
the ashes from the fires and the waste
from the kitchen have afforded those ele-
ments of plant food, both organic and in
organic, the soil in other places has been
deprived of by repeated crops"
THE KIND OF SOIL NEEDED BY DIFFERENT
FRUITS.
beyond the broad statement of the
three or four great facts in successful
fruit growing, that the seed fruits like the
apple, the pear, the ounce, the grape and
others require land rich in potash and do
best on granite and slaty soils, that the
stone fruits like the peach and its cogenies
the nectarine and apricot and the cherry,
the plum and others are best suited in a
limestone soil, that all soils must be we'll
drained naturally or artifcially, and that
the areation of the soil about the roots is
an essential condition of health and fruit
fulness, we shall have little to say at this
time concerning fruit growing except this,
that extensive plantations of these should
never be made where the real nature of
the soil is in doubt But small paintings
may be INDUCED in with profit about
every home and farmhouse in the land
where there is square rod of unoccupied
earth on the condition that the waste of
the kitchen and the hearth are literally
applied to the spot where the trees are to
be set and after an annual application of
the same as long as the tree lives"
GREAT TRUTHS IN AGRICULTURE ACCEPTED
SLOWLY AND CAUTIOUSLY.
1t took European and American farmers
hundreds of years to find out the merits
of red clover as fertilizer; now farmers
everywhere in the North and West, on
limestone soils, praise it almost extrava-
gantly. 1t took Southern farmers nearly
hundred years to learn the fertilizing
virtues of cotton seed, and the value of
cotton seed oil. 1t will probably take
Southern farmers a quarter or a half CEN
tury more to realize fully the value of the
field pea as fertilizer, and the value of
pea vines as winter food for cattle and
horses and mules, and to fully understand
the merits Of the pea for fattening hogs,
and for sheep and stock, and for table use.
1t is decidedly more valuable crop than
clover, for these reasons: 1t takes red clo-
yer about eighteen months to mature
fully from the time the seed is sown, and
is valuable as a fertilizer, and for forage
and grazing and seed. Field peas mature
in from two to three months, grow in the
same row with corn, actually benetiting
the corn crop and the following crops of
any kind the crop is the best and cheap
est fertilizer for old wornout lands, and
good for any lands; the vines, as forage
crop, are nearly or quite as valuable as
clover hay; the pea is valuable for table
use, for seed, and for swine and stock
food, sown broadcast, two or three bush
els to the acre, the whippoorwill pea
makes two crops in a year, a heavy
growth of vines which smothers weeds
and grass, and gives heavy yield of
peas. Who cannot discover that the
Southern field pea has many advantages
over red clover? Besides the above, peas
will grow on sandy limeless land where
red clover will not grow. "There's mil
lions in it " for the Southern farmers, and
they, most of them, know it, but the
millions are not for this generation
Stsrkville, and other Southern industrial
colleges and schools, will train up a gen.
Grafton of young farmers who will find
hundred times more independence and
wealth in the field pea than in the cotton
bag.
RYE EOR sOILING.
F. Sanderson, writing for the american
Farmer from Plains Farm, Md, on rye
for soiling, says:
"The ground for this crop should be
located near the barn, to be handy for
feeding, and it should be in good heart.
Let the ground be deeply plowed, but
don't plow up the sub-soil, and thor
oughly harrow, then spread six or eight
three horse loads of we'll rotted manure
over it, and harrow this in-harrowing
it lengthwise and then crossing; the OBJ
ject is to thoroughly fine and work the
manure into the top soil. Having done
this roll your ground, and then drill in
the rye three bushels per acre. If ma
nure is scarce drill in 500 pounds of some
good fertilizer per acre.
Last season / drilled in two acres of
rye using four bushels of seed to the
acre, viz: drilling two bushels one way
and then crossing it with the same amount
of seed. By the last of October it had
completely covered the ground and it
was over foot in height.
"By referring to my journal find that
it was fit to cut April 18th, from which
date it was fed to my milking cows, pro-
ducing an increase Of four gallons per day
over the regular winters feed of clover
hay and mill-feed and corn chop. This
rye ground was cut over three times and
has now upon it stand of clover over a
foot high"
CABBAGE WORMS.
A teacup of salt mixed with bucket
or ten gallons of water, will kill cabbage
worms without injuring the cabbage
sometimes, at least, as we know from pos
tive experience. But it strangely hap
pens that some of these remedies for evils
in the garden that work well in some in
stances do not seem to do much good in
others. Some have tried salt on cabbages
TO destroy the worms and have found It
. failure. Perhaps they did not use salt