The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-05-16

the borders of the tden are set in
lucerne.
CARP.-The distribution of carp goes
bravely on, and AmeriI will soon be the
great carp-producing country of the
world. Our magni6ceIk lakes and rivers
have no equals, and theif area will be sufi-
cient to supply the wo4d with fish. The
propagation Of salmon i Northern waters
is also progressing with great rapidity,
millions of them ere annually being
placed in all available streams.
PoTAToEs.- -One man finds ashes bed
ded on the best of ell fertilizers for sweet
potatoes. He may possibly be right in
his case, but we think live or frst-class
stable manure will beat bis ashes badly.
But never mind, both are good. Put on
all you can get, and everything else you
can get in the way of fertilizing materials.
Turn the ground black that is the
texture it must have for all kinds of crops.
INTENsVE-Is it easier to make the
family support on 90 acres or on 100
acresP Can you keep 40 room house in
order as easy as 10 room house, and can
you live better in 40 rooms than in 10 :?
When a man has got an elephant and
finds that he cannot manage him, common
sense ought to suggest that the elephant
might be exchanged for a COW or horse,
even at the cost of non-paying ambition.
The ENGLISH SPARROW = This little
bird, which now sends up wall from the
Australians, is bidding fair to do the like
In America. 1t runs off all the other
birds and dimes upon nearly all the seeds,
fruits and even buds of the fruit trees
1t is said they will strip peach tree of
all its fruit buds in few minutes.
The MOTH, from which tent caterpillars
are produced, is stout, thick-bodied in
sect, of dull, reddish brown color, with
two straight, white bands across the fore
wings" 1t matches from coceons, and
deposits its eggs in cluster, forming a
ring or belt around one of the small limbs
near its end. They are coated over with
sort of varnish and remain there until
the next spring when they hatch.
BAD CooKING-W What is the matter
with your pinched, sickly looking chill
drenP Why, bad cooking of course
The meals are got, not cooked, in hurry,
the fire was poor, the wood wouldn't burn
and the bread was half raw and smoked,
the potatoes scorched on one side, the
meat fried into cracking, and the hominy
or rice sort of water-saged mush slop-
while, ha-ha-ha- well, you never did
draw decent cup of coffee in your life
1t is too much trouble to learn to do
anything decently. eff the children die,
l can't help it; done the best 1 could"
CLOVER AND PLASTER "A Northern
farmer says he has field which has been
kept fertile for seventy years with clover
do the like with clover without the ZEE pfaSG. ffsG
ter-Indian clover. But the plaster is
good though.
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tenths of the foot ailments of horses can
be traced to their standing on plank floors.
Sure enough, if nature had intended the
horse to spend his life upon plank or rocks,
she would have hardened and ridged his
hoofs like those of the goat.
A SHEEP grower says: 1t is folly to
keep old sheep. They should be turned
off to the butcher in their prime. 1t does
not take half the amount to fatten them.
When they get old and thin, in order to
put them in the condition for slaughter,
the whole structure must be rebuilt
Four sets Of lambs are all any eve should
bear; this will bring her to five years,
and this is the age when, with little ex-
ira care, she will round up to full round
carcass Exceptions may be made when
the breed is scarce, aud the blood is more
desirable than anything else.
BONES broken up as fine as possible
with an axe, put in barrel and treated
with strong unleached ashes kept just
moist enough for the alkali to act upon
the bones, is said to so eat into them
that when dried afterward they will crum-
BILE, and may be thus made available for
crops.
MANGoLD WURzsL For our long,
often dry summers, deep growing plants
are most available. The mangold is little
grown in the South, but our farmers
might make it very profitable for winter
cattle food. In the North they have to
be taken up and housed, but here they
could be left in the ground as rutabagas,
and fed as occasion required.
The practice is common among the en-
gravers and watchmakers of Germany of
hardening the tools in sealing wax. The
tool is heated to whiteness and plunged
into the wax, withdrawn after an instant
and plunged again, the process being re-
peated until the steel is too cold to enter
the wax. The advantages claimed for
this method are that the steel becomes al
most as hard as . diamond, and, when
touched with little oil or turpentine, the
tools are superior for engraving, and also
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