The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1883-06-12

over she cOuntrvr Answer: Because the
old-tiame farmer made his crops year by
year, 'harvestedI lived on the produce, or
when he invested, put the money into
houses, lands, negroes, stocks, bonds, &c,
until .he had dried up the fountain Of his
wealth, never having thought Of recu-
perat'ng or restoring the soil, and thus
rendaring inexhaustible his resources.-
Are there any such farmers nowP We
pause for reply.
"TwENrY BALES ON SIXTY AcRxs."-
Is anybody preparing to harvest such
crop Of cotton as that this yearP We
trust not, as the season seems to be un-
steady and the probability is that he will
sink deeper in debt instead of getting
out. Why not take the cost of seeding
and cultivating the forty acres and be-
stow it in fertlizing the twenty acres.-
This would give the twenty bales at
about the same cost and allow more time
to go. fishing. 1t would be better to
run truck-farm, raise poultry or keep
dairy farm than to plant cotton at the
cost of sixty acres for twenty bales.
FODDER CoRN-Has any farmer par
TALLY failed in his oat crop, and now
looks in dismay at his belated field of
stunted corn? If so, let him now be
equal TO the emergency, while yet there is
time. Plant a few acres of fodder corn
for winter forage, and another acre or two
OF sweet potatoes to help out the meal
barrel and fatten the meat hogs, ducks
chickens and the neighbor's, or his own
honest defendants of Ham.
DELICATE APPLE SAUcE.-Pare, halve
and quarter sufficient quantity of nice
stewing apples; put them into baking
dish, and cover thickly with sugar-bits
of lemon peel may be added, if liked.
Put plate over the dish and set it into
a pan hayinga little hot water in the bot
tom, and place in hot oven. Bake until
the pieces are clear and tender.
GREEN PEAs.-With many people green
peas are green peas, English we mean,)
but do you mix young crisp peas with
the older ones with the shells turned vel
low, and boil them until. the young ones
are properly cooked, and then try to eat
them The old will be found only about
half cooked, or if you proceed to cook
dun the old ones, then the young ones
are cooked to- soup or jelley, and no
longer delicate. Take the hint when you
pick for market if you desire to get the
best price. 1t takes quick work to get
peas into a far off market in first-class
order, as we'll as judgment when to pick.
RAISING CALF.-And you desire TO
separate and raise the calf from its mother.
Well, here is the way it is done by a
farmer largely engaged in stock-raising.
The calf is tethered in the grassy field OF
pasture and allowed GIVE quarts of
milk, given three times day, in summer,
and in winter, one quart each of wheat
bran, following with little hay. But
you say you can't give five quarts of
milk-very true, for that is perhaps as
much OF more than your cow gives. Then
you must give less quantity of milk
and make it up with cornstarch, or the
"settlings from the meal and hominy
stirred in milk-warm water.
PAINTED CATTLE.-Some of our Yankee
friends, it seems, have learned to streak
and speckle their Jersey cows, not exactly
with poplar sticks as father Jacob did.
but. after the order of the horse -sharpers.
"A Southern man writing North says that
not long ago he bought Jersey heifer
whose color was extraordinarily fine, but
which has since disappeared. Now, it
may be that after all, the change of eli
mate and food effected the change in the
animals hair.
ALL VEGETABLES that are grown for
their leaves or stems require an abun-
dance of nitrogenous manures, and it is
useless to attempt vegetable-gardening
without it. TO this class belong cabbage,
lettuce, spirtach, ETC. The other class,
which is grown principally for its seeds
or pods, as beans, peas, ETC., does not re-
quire much manure of this charter: in
fact, the plants are injured by it. It
causes too great growth of stem and
leaf, and THE earliness-a great aim in
vegetable-growing-is injuriously affected.
Mineral manures, as wood ashes, bone
dust, etc, are much better for them. For
vegetables requiring rich stable manure
it is best that they have it we'll rotted and
decayed. Nothing has as yet been found
so well fitted for the purpose as old hot
bed dung, though to the smell no trace
| Of ammonia remains in it.-Gardener's
Monthly.
HoEING and the frequent stirring of the
surface of the soil are good substitutes
for rain. Those parts of the garden that
are most frequently cultivated show the
best results. 1t is probable that corn,
watermelons, tomatoes, Lima beans and
cabbage, and possibly other plants, if
vel! started in good deep soil may 90
through ;wo months drought without
vefy serious damage. A deep, welLma-
nueed soil suffers much less than shallow