The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1883-03-20
AGRICULTURE.

AGRICULTURE.
THE following hints should be worth some
thing to our Southern farmers The Farm aad
Frat Groper says: &c. W. Endicott, of Villa
Ridge, took two car loads of sweet potatoes to
Chicago last week and reports good sale. This
business of storing fruits and vegetables till the
season is over and prices well advahced Is
profitable one, rapidly coming into use A gen.
tleman in New York has expended $50, 900 this
year in buildings and apparatus for storing
peaches, melons, apples, ETC., and expects to
make his money back in one season"
T. F. RIVERS writes to the London Gdrdener's
Cnronick that he has found an efficient remedy
for the scale on orange trees, in simply passing
the fame of kerosene lamp or wax taper,
which is more than the strong constitution of
this insect can bear. For young and tender
shoots he gives dressing Of castor oil. washing
it of in day with hot water and soft soap be-
fore II has done harm TO the shoots. The water
proves hsrmiess if not hotter than $50 degrees.
DRIED FRUrT-The Grocers' Bulletin of Chi
cago makes this valuable note for Southern fruit
growers: A few years age the amount of dried
fruit shipped from the South was scarcely worthy
OF noie, but since then the business has reached
very considerable proportions. The South has
an almost undeveloped mine of wealth in the
production Of fruit, especially for canning and
drying purposes. For the production of peaches
plums, grapes, early apples, aud all the fruits.
the climate is unsurpassed, and yet less fruit by
far is consumed each year per family, whether
in its fresh state or canned or dried than at the
North; where it is produced under far less favor
able conditions. Attention is being turned in
this direction. and each year now sees a
larger supply coming from the South 10 the
Northern markets, giving good promise for the
future In this line of production Our first of the
seasons supply Of small fruits in the Chicago
markets now comes from the Gulf States, the
shipping points receding north as the season ad
vances, giving Us berries, peaches, and apples
weeks before the crops of Southern Illinois-on
which only few years ago we mainly relied
are ready for market. But the business is yet
only in its infancy. and the capabilities Of the
country in the way Of production hardly tested
GLUrEN.-Flour deprived of the gluten of the
wheat, under which general name may be classed
the phosphate and niirogenous elements-which
are stored principally between the outer wraps
and the inner starch body Of the kernel--has
lost the greater part Of its blood-msking mate
rials. This gluten Of wheat may be compared
to the lean Of meat, while the whittier starchy
portions of the wheat may be compared to the
fat Of ofmeat-Americaa Mller
UTILIZE THE WRKDa-As the spring opens
and the weeds begin grow, 1t Is good plan
to have few pigs in convenient pen to be fed
with the weeds, pursley or purslans and other
tender plants that should be pulled out from
among the growing crops, the fence corners and
other spots not especially under cultivation. We
have always found more of these about the
premises than We had time to gather, butalways
found also that they were appreciated and
served valuable purpose In fhe pig pan.
CoLEMAE's RuraI World says: < An Illinois
horticnlturist has constructed fruit house,
which Is to be q protection alike from summers
heat and winters cold. Two rows Of posts are
set in the ground, two and a half feet part,
boarded inside and out, and the intervening
space filed up with straw, packed in as closely
as possible. Two sets of raftsrs are then put on,
the upper set three feet above the lower, which
are boarded on upper sides, and the space closely
packed with straw, after which cheap board
roof Is put on. On the f1th oflast August, with
the semperatufs 90 degrees in the shade, in il
was as cold - an ice house, and contained .
quantity Of apples as sound aa when taken from
the tree two months before"
MIaNoNETTE.-Three or four plants in box,
having large admixture Of sand in the soil,