The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-02-28


win do % wsll q Il ed on hay alone. In
this locality the prios Of corn meal doe
not much exceed, per ton, the price q
hay. The manure made from such iced
ing ID, I think, fully equal in value TO that
made from hay. When bran IL fed double
the quantity should be given, four quarts
instead Of the two Of corn meal, and the
manure, in my Judgment, would be equal
ly valuable x steer could be we'll win
tered on two to four quarts of meal per
day, according to his size, using straw %
supplementary food, and gain all the time.
Two quarts of meal weigh about two
pounds, which ct $40 ton for the meal
would make cost of cents day, or %
forfive months. These figures would bear
doubling in the price of corn meal, and
then make it profitable to winter stock
with corn meal and straw, and decidedly
so against the practice of throwing the
straw away"
RABBITS BARKING FRUIT TREES.
There has been much complaint lately
in parts of Mississippi of rabbits barking
young apple trees and other fruit trees.
We had TO deal with these animals in the
latter part Of January, on occount of e
furious raid they made on q hundred
young apple trees We first tried the
newspaper receipt, slice of potato with
strychnine on it laid at the roots of each
tree at night. Not single piece of po-
tato was touched and more trees were
barked. We also tried pruning the trees,
and laying the limbs at the roots of the
trees. This did well as far as it went,
but the trees needed but little pruning,
and. the bark on these did not satisfy their
appetites. But they evidently preferred
the cut limbs to the straight up and down
bodies of the trees. The next day we
sent to the butchers and got bucket
full of fresh blood. With small rag
hand-mop we rubbed little blood on the
body of each tree, and also tied white rags
on the limbs and around some of the
bodies. Not a rabbit has molested the
orchard since. Whether the blood, or
the white rags, did the work, we cannot
say. Probably either would have an
swered the purpose without the other.
The bodies of the trees most injured
low down are treated to q mortar made
of green COW manure and clay, daubed on
the wound, and throw q bank of earth
round and against each body about foot
high. This we will remove when the
wound heals. But some think perma-
nent bank a foot high and four feet in
diameter around each tree beneficial.
HOW DEEP TO SOW GRASS.
The Highland Agricultural Society of
Scotland has ascertained by experiments
that an ounce of red-top seeds contains
425, 900 grass, and of timothy, $4,000.
Of more practical Importance was the
fact shown that the greatest number of
seeds of timothy germiuate at depth of
one-fourth of an inch. "Only one-half
the number sown," says the report, eyer
minated at depth of one inch, and none
at depth of two inches. Orchard grass
seed failed at two and one-fourth inches
The proper depth was indicated at one
fourth of an inch. The result of the ex-
periments in determining the terminating
power of the common field grasses cor
roborates experience and initiates against
the practice of some farmers who SOW
their grass seed with the grain and har-
row in. The proper way to SOW grass
seed is, after the grain has been narrowed
in, cover with light bush, or by passing
over with roller, or if left upon a good
seed-bed it will terminate if not pushed
at all.