The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1883-07-10

attract attention to the tremendous ad-
vance of the sorghum industry univer-
sally. 1t is now coming seriously into
competition with our sugar cane, and
few more wears will find good article of
sorghum sugar in all the markets of the
world. Our sugar cane growers of the
South must look to their laurcls if they
do not mean to fall into the wake of ad-
vancing sorghum.
The quantity Of food needed by stock
varies even among animals of the same
age and breed, and it necessarily varies
to greater extent among animals Of diff
terent breeds | pom this subject farmer
IN Angland says it is sufficiently correct
to reckon sheep consuming IS pounds
OF green food an OK or COW, $50 pounds;
calf, 40 pounds, and a yearing 80
pounds daily. At this rate an OK or COW
consumes rs much as five sheep. The lat
ter will require lo,22O pounds, or nearly
five tons apiece; the former, $3.50
pounds, or nearly twenty-five tons, of
green food for its yearly maintenance.
TIE MAN MAKES THE SoIL-It is said
that there is more difference in men than
in the soil they till, which may be true,
but We say the man makes the soil where
it is not already made. Two men with
farms side by side on the same character
Of soil will show widely different degrees
Of prosperity and thrift. Some men are
slothtul, obtuSc and dull to degree that
excludes all spirit, foresight and advan-
tagc. They never improve anything, and
never see any merit in the wide awake
activity of a thrifty neighbor; but the
latter can take the poorest land and in
few years make it the richest. He not
only improves his own but his skill and
success improves his neighbours land 10y
showing its capabilities and the advan-
taGes of the section.
Co-oPEEATIoN.-Dc Delaware peach grow
crS are to meet and cooperate against
glut in the peach market. They propose
a fruit Inspector who will throw out all
inferior fruit If only the best are mar
keted they think a glut will be avoided
and good prices maintained. Does not
this afford Il valuable hint for Georgia
and Florida fruit and vegetable growers?
Much has been said of inferior shipments
of vegetables North during the present
season, and even now the press is con
stantly reporting returns showing the to-
tai loss of the articles shipped, and in
some cases, bills of expenses added to the
losses If none but the best were shipped
these losses might be prevented, together
with much disappointment, chagrin and
Encouragement to producers.
BARNYARD manure is the natural form
in which the food clements of a crop
should return to a soil 1t contains the
potash, phosphoric acid and compounds
of nitrogen, SO essential to the growth of
CROP and by putting on manure there
is an addition of that which was sub
tracted by the crop from which the manure
was made The crop may be fed to farm
stock and a part of the plant food ele
ments retained by the animals, but large
per cent. Of the essentials pass them, and
are all the better fitted to act quickly
when returned to the soil. Manure is
put on the soil to enrich it this is be-
cause manure contains plant food there
fore, it is a complete manure. Super
phosphatcs, potash salts, nitrate of soda,
etc, are special manures, and contain only
part of the essential food elements.
Crops require food, and if the soil is not
already rich enough 1t should be fed, be-
cause it does not pay to grow starved
crop.