The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1883-04-03

lieye Il hss nnipe;l j tslns ri 90 = ~
since Be tock hoI s n III the
ment he = pursninK, I helisv6 Il u epoSl
for one and = hah bxies - the acre ye1s'
il and year out. Z
MKAr AND BREAD. OR cO1TUN xND 10 afkx's
AND nRnAD.
Here u what : farmer Of Tr0up county
says to the Commissiouer cf AgfcultuEV
Of the State Of Georgis:
The people here are crazy on cottoni
decreasing the area IN corn and forae3
crops. Not bushel Of home-raised corn
or . hundred pounds Of fodder 70 ~
bought in the county. All of our sup
plies for man and beast (work stock) come
from the North and West. The stock
cattle and hogs depend on th4Wld feids
and small skirts Of woods, md Renef!I
ally poor. Farm stock are poor, and wiz
remain 20 until the farming season
over. They arc I'd on shelled corn arl@
bran from the w."
And here is what is said about Talbot
county in the same State:
81 think the people are becoming alive
to the fact that diversified farming, and
intensifying, is the only wsy By which W
can expect to succeed. It is apparent, sb
far as my observation goes, that those
who raise their grain and meat are thn
only parties who may look for succor,
do not know Of q single party who raises
his supplies who has to ask for succoH
Most Of them buy their fertilizers for cash
and save the per cent. added"
A. p. F., in Home and Farm, writing
from Atlanta, GA, says: Now / am sat
isfied that potash is fertilizing elensent
whose restoration to the soil is indispensaE
BILE, as it is certainly carried off by most
crops in considerable quantities and it il
because cow-pea vines and German kainit
contain such larg percentages of this said
that they are such effective manures at
all times, and most particularly durina
drouths. The fact has been clearly de-
monstrated by carefully conducted expert.
ments in Germany (which confirm my
own experience) that potash, in addition
to furnishing needed element of food TO
the crops. does, in dry years, absorb from
the atmosphere a surprising quantity df
moisture, which it retains in the soil until
it is consumed by the plants-moisture,
which, without the aid of the potash,
would never reach the roots of the crop;
A correspondent of the Kansas Edfl
Daer is satisfied that an acre of sorghun 10
worth more for feeding cattle, horses orl
hogs than an acre of corn, aud says " Ny
fifty head of shorthorns and other grade
cattle that have been fed on sorghum andl
some straw for the last forty days have
gained flesh since they have been taken
off the range, and are now as sleek aris
as fat as if they had been corn fed for the,
butcher. And it is surprising how they,
relish the hard sorghum; they eat it up:
clean, stalk and all, and there is whera Fl
gains over corn fodder, as they will net,
eat all the corn stalks; besides, the safi
ghum stalk is much richer and makes
more fat. My young stock of horses anil
hogs run in the coral with my cattle, ais.li
they are all fat, fed from sorghum" =
English sheep breeders recommend sasti
for liver rot in sheep. The Mark Lane
Express says two methods of administer
ing the salt present themselves one Of
these is to give it with chaff of cut hay:
and straw, or other meat, in a trough :.
the other is to drench them with brine of
proper strength. Most men will be dis
posed to give preference to the former
mode of efecting the cure.
The largest yield of cotton ever tsb-
tanned was by Mr.. Warthen, of Washing
ton county, Ga, in 1874. On one AID
one-fourth acres he made seed cott6n.
6s91 pounds; of lint, 1882 pounds Hle
land had been planted in cotton from the
close of the war to the date of the expt5i-.
ment (ls53). The soil was sandy, clay
subsoil, and had been in cultivation oter
sixty years. Fertilizers used: 400 pouusls
Peruvian phosphate, 60 ox-cart loads rGt-
ten pine straw, 400 bushels stable manure.
and sixty bushels cotton seed.
A. B. Allen, in the LiUe Stock Jo,a7sei,
says: !" / have tried all kinds of fioorssfor
horse stalls have heard OF, and, except
concrete, plank is the only one can keep
dry, and prefer the latter TO the former,
for, if it is not absurd to use the expires
sion, it is the most elastic. have used
plank for MANY years, and / never could
discover that it injured my horses in the
least"
Farmers who are raising hogs shossld
plant few acres of artichokes. When
once seeded they need no replanting, and
will make the most feed for the least
money of any crop that is raised. All
who have tried it speak in the highest
terms of the artichoke.
The Minneapolis Tribune says that
goats are the best land cleaners known.
1t mentions that herd of 1900 entirely
cleared piece Of brush land, consisting
Of 600 acres, in three ynrs. So complete
was the work that not vestige Of under
growth was left.
Plant Jerusalem artichokes in March.
or - early in April az possible. Cut like
potatoes, one eye for hill; hills foot
apart, in rows four and half feeet apart,
From Tia lfiddlstown tvtl Msrcury.
a LITTLE BOY,s PRAYER.
A lady residing ii this village, the
mother Of = bright little boy, was taking
70 him the other night, Just - she was|