The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1883-07-17
strength and great endurance. He crosses
well with other stock and sells high.

well with other stock and sells high.
JrTE.-Mr 5. ID. Phelps, in Home and
Form, is endeavorng to convince the
Southern people that they cannot raise
.lute; first, because they have no machin
cry to clean it and second, because thev
cannot get labor as cheap as in India
The same might have been argued against
cotton. But the people commenced plant
ing cotton and the cleaner came. .Jute is
not quite so dependent upon machinery,
but can be rotted in water 1t is work
peculiarly suited to tens of thousands of
colored people, and when these find how
easy it is to make few dollars that way,
.ute patches will spring up all over the
South. Some people still think cotton
cannot be proftably produced for less
than 10 cents per pound.
IMPRov Ed MACHINERY.-An up-countrv
writer says, farmers are trying harder
to prepare land for improved machinery"
That is the right direction. Take out
the stumps and rocks, fill up the sinks
and holes, pad over the bitches and stop
the washes, and get ready for the sulky
breakers and cultivators. This is putting
at least five laborers and their expenses
into one, with the prospect of better cult
vation and greater yield. We expect to
see the time when no thrifty farmer will
be found plodding knee-dcep in the dirt
and dew after the plow but instead, he
will be seen with clean shirt on his back,
mounted on model vehicle, behind a
wcll-bred farm horse, manipulating the
soil exactly to his notion Then he will
be Lord Of the Manor"
KILLING BERMrDA.-A farmer who
plants cotton on Bermuda grass lands,
breaks or turns over the sod with turn
pillow. then harrows thoroughly. His
theory is rapid cultivation, giving no time
for the roots to take new hold Surface
cultivation sufficiently rapid to produce
maximum crops, he says, will surely de-
stroy Bermuda on upands.
CURE FOR STYEs.-Dr Louis F'itzpat-
rick has found, after many trials, the local
application Of tincturc of iodine to exert
a well-markcd influence in checking the
growth. This is by far preferable to the
nitrate OF silver, which makes an un-
slightly mark, and often fails in its object.
The early use of iodine acts rs a prompt
abortive. To apply it the lids should be
held apart by the thumb and index finger
Of the left hand, while the iodine is
painted over the intamed papilla with
fine camclhair pencil. The lids should
not be allowed to come in contact until
the part touched is dry. \ few such ap-
Picati"ns in the twenty-four hours is suf-
ticent
rr.A Nl>r,.-A gentleman OF mucn ex-
perience recently assured us that we could
not say too much in favor of pea vines as
fertilizer. The growing of peas, clover,
&c, says the Georgia Agricultural Com
missioner, is unquestionably cheaper
and more certain method of improving
land than any plan that involves the pur-
chase of commercial fertilizers, or trans
portation to the field of composts and
tertilizing material of any kind. But to
make use of them they must be planted
in season. July and August are the last
two months of the pea-planting season.
Will You plant peas now, or buy guano
next spring: Sit right down and count
up the cost of both-then act promptly
like a man of business.
SETTING THEM FLAr-A correspondent
recently wrote from his county that it
would "takc two more cotton crops to
set the farmers fiat" Would it not be
better to leave out one of them? Cotton
is a good thing to plant in a cotton coun-
try, but call cotton " is everywhere a
risky business 1t is like keeping only
one line of goods for sale in a store. If
that line happens to take tumble the
store-keeper must close out for having
nothing else to sell
:" Instead of dying out" says the
Central Presbyterian, " the Jewish body