The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-06-27

the hot weather. Pine saw-dust is not
a good mulch for hot weather, or, in
fact, any other saw-dust it should be
straw Irrigation will cure the dying out
defect, where it can be resorted to.
Strawberries need abundant watering.
CATHING CRows.-Sometime since the
Montezuma, Ga, Weekly told how
farmer in that section caught eleven
crows in one morning in his field, by ar
ranging a number of twine strings with
loops to slip over the top of the stumps
the crows would light upon. Concealing
himself perfectly, he would draw the
twines when the crows were on the
stumps. But crows are cunning fellows,
and sometimes very suspicious. If the
twine strings are of good size, and white,
SO far from catching crows, such strings
stretched around fields will keep them ont.
A farmer told us few days ago that by
this means he had always been able to
keep them out Of his fields.
PLANTS WITHOUT Son--What is the
world coming to? A French scientist has
now discovered the plant secret of ma
ture. He takes up any and all plants in
or out of bloom, preserves them perfectly
without willing or dropping leaf, and
keeps up, nay, increases their growth and
bloom, without particle of soil. Having
found out the fertilizing principle of nature,
he applies it to moss and imbeds the
roots of the plants in this fertilized moss
Thus Towering plants are insured at all
seasons, in the most perfect state and
decoration secured al all seasons.
RAISING PoULrRY.-Every farm ought
to be well stocked with poultry. Well
kept hens are almost as valuable as well
kept cows. The cow affords beef and
milk, the hen eggs and chickens, and are
not so far apart in results to the com
post heap as difference in size would
seem to indicate. Besides, a good surplus
of fowls can be raised on every well man
aged farm at very trifiing cost, while tbcy
are OF great advantage in destroying in
sects and furnishing food for the family
and for the market.
FLORIDA PRosPERTY-One paper SAYS
money is pouring into South Florida inst
now; another blesses the well-to-do in
dustrious young men of Jasper, and a
third says the people are working more
and spending less than ever before. All
over the State railroads are building and
towns are booming while new settlers
continue to pour in.
VEGETABLE PERFUMES, it is said, ex-
ercise a positively healthful influence
upon the atmosphere, and those which
develop the largest quantity of ozone, are
laurel, cherry, clover, lavender, mint,
juniper, fennel, rosemary, bergamot and
some others, while anise, nutmeg and
thyme furnish the least.
DRIED TOMATOES tomatoes are
now dried and packed like figs; scald,
skin, boil slightly with sugar, then dry
thoroughly and pack in small boxes
Many think them better than figs.
RooT PRUNING.-Mr. J. II. Moore, of
Arkansas, ian excellent farmer,) doubts
the feasibility of root pruning for corn,
as every sensible farmer should. He lost
several crops by deep blowing of corn
when the roots were large enough to be
pruned, and he may loose several more in
that way if he likes. The writer knows
another man who lost fine field of corn
by that foolishness. The breaking of
corn land should be as deep as possible,
but the cultivation shallower and shall
lower as it itapproaches the tasseling stage,
when it must be let alone.
A Coon TINE CoMING.-A reaction Ia
taking place in the use of ground wheat
Some people are coming to their senses
and concluding not to starve their dear
little children any longer on miserable
flour starch pap. They are, therefore, now
feeding the ground sohOIe soheat, which
has muscle and bone-forming gluten in it,
as well as Notwithstanding fatty material.
Now we shall have stronger, healthier
children, and grown people better able
to resist fatigue, malaria and epidemic
scourges.
Do MoLEs EAT Corn ?-Yes, and they
eat all kinds of potatoes, chufas, peanuts,
grain, and the larger seeds of vegetables,
but they don't eat the seed of the castor
bean or palma-christa. The way this
bean prevents their depredations in the
vegetable row is that it is repugnant to
the mole, and when he comes to it he
leaves the row, under the impression, per-
haps, that the rest Of the seeds in that
row are castor beans. If sticks are stuck
close together across each row, they will
have the same effect upon the moles.
TUCKAHoE AND MILK.-In Vick's Flo
raj Monthly for June it is stated that
Tuckahoe, or Indian bread, ais employed
in the Southern States, boiled in milk as
a nutricious diet in diseases of the bowels
instead of arrowroot, and has been recon-
mended in a medical work as q starchv
food, while it has no starch" Il is well
to live and learn. Nearly fifty years ac-
quaintance with Tuckahoe and the South