The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1883-07-03

~ az "ii IbI IHc nOneSI Olu lauy IN
N&w York who sent out her sons to sell
'n3asses candy for living have large
capital to start the business with And
ves, the result was the famous Stewart
casidy house, one of the wealthiest in the
w's,d. How much tobacco could the now
m1i"nalrr l.orllards raise the money TO
l's'Erhase, when they started out in the
maouiactnrc of snuff? Do you note that
The. now great city grew with its little
masiniactorIes So will your town grow
IN proportion to the increase of honest
industry
CREAM SErAEAToR.-There has been in
vchtcd an instrument or machine for sep
araaing cream from milk Immediately af-
tet milking, SO that there is to be no
mere waiting for the cream to rise and
soaring OF milk TO be thrown out. The
difficulties of :hunderstorms and warm
wtAlhcr are overcome, but, of course. we
-; to have no more buttermik, because
the machine takes all the butter out. Il
i get To" costly for general use, but it
ha< already entered the dairy farms and
our ank"c ingenuity will soon adapt it
t" :h" private family.
fI"~ FOR LEON CouNrY.-There is no
liner locality in America for growing FIGS
'ban the high, rolling, mellow lands of
Middle Florida, and Leon county is espe-
ci'.l'y favored with choice spots for the
! purpose. Now hat they can be so easily
cried or ryaporatc'l a great trade in dried
fissS Ought to spring up in Southern Geor-
@la ami Middle FIorl? 1t is a shame to
lIp"rt at high prices what we can raise
~. hr.tcr quality and much cheaper
l"cy are, too, among the most palatable
aIa! Erallhul OF food articles. All the
"erld, IN all ages from Adam down, ap-
l';;t@Ia''d figs. y gentleman in New
'f'eaiS some years ago was engaged in
tn:s rahnlng business and he said he never
"9e H''ic TO supply the demand for pre-
NerTcf Sngar figs. The demand is still
'l,snPTlie'l and waiting for this favored
region to 'lo its duty. All should not 90
lnf' titr bean and potato business. Let the
Good ihings be divided ont with as long
dvlsi4,n As possible, so shall all derive
the greater profit
>EXrEE'fNCE proves that mixture of
l''t," water and milk is food and medicine
bIIh t. the young and old when the func
hans of digestion and assimilation are
ice5lr \ stomach taxed by gluttony,
lrrtatrd hy improper food, intlamed by
alcohol, entecblel by disease. or other
w,Sc untitled for its duties, will resume
~ work, it is said, and do it enereeti-
ra1iy On a diet of bread and milk and
iinr-watcr; four tablespoonfuls of the
I;ut"r to 4 pint oi milk.
thr early truIt ani all the large frult grow
ot, the first vine | have never seen a
large melon or pumpkin grow on a
lfanc!, or lateral vine All the fine melons
grow on the first vine The nearer the
fiuit gets to the root Tor hilD the earlier
it will ripcn. If the first and second drop
off (as is sometimes the case in cold, wet
seasons), the crop will not be very prof
table, as it is ;hc early melons that bring
the money"
!. II is known that queen bee has de-
npSlted rs many as 1000 to 1000 eggs in
/ tScnty four hours, and in twenty-one
/ days they all emerge from their cells per
/ feet bees, there being about 35 900 to 40
! fpoo workers in good colony. The en-
; tire colony becomes new every two or
/ three months during the working season,
: owing to the amount of honey obtained
and the distance travelled i'll gaining it.
CorrERAs (sulphate of irony makes an
excellent tonic for animals. If small
quantity of it is dissolved in water and
kept in a jug or large bottle, it may be
psed without Inconvenience. Only few
/ tpoonfuls Of such solution are necessary
! once day in the drinking water, and for
| poultry it is considered by some invalua-
ble, as it can be poured into the water in
! the drinking vessels.
/ IRISH POTATOES IN WARM CLIMATES
! Somebody out in the Northwest has been
Etrying to convince people that Irish po
Estatoes, though originating in. warm eli
Emates, are best adapted to cold, producing
I finer tubers in the North than in the
I South, and proving more prolific. The
late crop will probably correct this erro-
rcous impression. Now that the South
e'has fairly entered upon their cultivation
+ we see fine tubers as ever come here
{ from the North, both in size and quality,
while our truck farmers are not at all sur
prised at the yield of from fifty to one
hundred barrels per acre. The only rea-
son why the North ever beat us in its
! production is that they planted Irish po-
. tatoes while we planted cotton.
Il FERrIIIzING.-The secret of successful
ID farming lies not in any one or two things,
! but if any one of them is more important
than another, we should say, it is a
4 knowledge of the art of fertilizing. This
|: knowledge is to be acquired alone by at
) tention to the operations of nature who
never makes a mistake, however complex
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