The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-05-16
AGRICULTURE.
AssEE, FLA, May 4, 1882.

SUGAR SHORTAGE There is an esti-
mate in the West of loss of 10000
hogsheads of sugar from the next crop
by the recent floods in the Mississippi
river. If true, it is an additional reason
why the farmers in other cane-growing
regions should make the best of their op-
portunity. Eighty thousand hogsheads
out of the American production will be
apt to make some difference in the price
of sugar. 1t is too late to replant the
flooded bottoms with sugar-cane, even if
the seed could be obtained, but sorghum
can everywhere be planted in May.
STANDARD From DwARFs.-If pear
trees set upon ounce roots in grating
for dwarfs are set out afterward and
placed seven or eight inches below the
point Of junction, the pear will send out
roots of its own and become standard.
We have half . dozen fine Bartlett's of
this character, no longer dwarfs, but large,
fine trees at twelve years old. and bear
WATERING HORSES AT WoRK.-It is
down right cruelty to plow or work the
horse, mule or OK whole long, hot sum-
mer day, and only water the animal three
times. The plowman will leave his thirsty,
hot painting horse in the plow and go off
half dozen times to quench his own
thirst at the spring, and leave the poor
animal to suffer. The animals should be
watered half way between the morning,
noon and evening meals as well as the
man.
Sow FOR THE BUGs.-C Cantaloupes or
squashes may be protected from the bugs,
says a Western grower, by planting
around the hills, about foot off, circle of
radishes. The bugs will find employment
among the radishes from which they can
be routed by sprinkling of whale-oil
soap and water.
PINE SrRAw.-In Virginia they care
fully save all the pine straw, as the very
best means of raising sweet potatoes
The straw is carried to the cattle stalls
where it is exposed as an absorbent and
then applied as fertilizer for sweet po-
tatoes. In stiff soils needing friability
the plan is excellent. Only few local
tiles in Virginia can procure pine straw,
and those districts are the potato districts
of the State In Georgia and Florida
vast pine forests are annually burnt over
and all their valuable straw thus de-
stroyed.
CESSATION IN MARES is usually
eleven months, but often, says Turf,
Field and Farm, runs over two or three
weeks, probably delayed by cold winds
or backwardness, in spring, of the grass
or pasturage. 1t may reasonably be
supposed that favorable or unfavorable
conditions will vary CESSATION in animals,
as they do other operations of nature.
HoLsTE1N cattle seem to be growing
rapidly in popularity. The latest herd
book shows in this country to date, 1893
bulls and l,744 females. They are Dutch
or Danish cows, from Holstein, south OF
Schleshwig in Denmark, which province
Bismark some years ago took from Den
mark and added to the German Empire.
They are also the COWS most in use in
Holland.
TEN ACRES. - Colonel Tom Howard
has been telling grange how ten acres
will support family of eight persons
bundautly. He allows four acres fol
100 bushels OF corn, three for 40 bushels
of wheat, one acre for clover or other
forage for two cows and one horse, one
acre for orchard, three-fourths of an acre
for potatoes, and one-fourth of an acre
for garden. The orchard has 25 trees
each of apples, peaches and pears, and
two Indifferent cows give 800 gallons o
milk with 800 pounds of butter. TIL
wheat gives nine barrels of -four, and the
one acre Of potatoes % bushels of Irish
and 100 bushels of sweet. Thirty hens