The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1883-05-22


bas one been sick an hour. These hog.
3tave been fattened in a close pen, and
f&heir principal food was corn meal made
iRto dough. This dough / have saltsd
least :onoe day Sometimes my hogs
;woald fail to clean out their trough in
that case would put handful of salt into
Ray bucket, with some water, pour it into
sheir trough, and they would lick it up
se5th much relish. In addition to the salt,
IL feed Goals from the stove. make it
regular custom to feed coal, and it is
astonishing what quantity a hog will
3est, aud how healthy and robust it will
faake hitn. Let the hogs have plenty of
salt and, charcoal, and we shall hear less
l1f the cholera"
II; NrrRp-GLYcERiNE is made by first ad-
Isding gltcerine to the strongest nitric acid.
Iykept very cool, and then gradually mixing
sthe solution with concentrated sulphuric
;acid, when glyceric trinitrate separates as
. yellow oil, which is violently explosive
Sander special conditions. If heat is ap-
piled 70 as to set up chemical decomposi
stson in any portion of the mass, and the heat
sbe continued, the reaction will continue
with rapid acceleration, and the whole
mass will be suddenly transformed into
ats gaseous products. A conclusive deto-
'nation, such as is produced by fulmina-
ting powder, will explode nitro-glycerine.
with tPbalte aa ,nrSs Il mixture of nitroglycerine
Ia Lr-:caaI
guhr, and is much safer to handle. Many
OF the oxher preparations known by fancy
rames amongst miners are similar mix
lures of nitro-glycerine with some inert
and absoptive material.
| Our While they are
5pst now planting their garden truck from
Tennessee. and Virginia northward, down
here in the South we are shipping nearly
all such ARTICLES to Northern markets.
And the good of it is they can never
| catch up with us on that score. IF they
ehip to us in the fall and winter, we are
,, bound to return the compliment in the
spring and summer. That is all right,
and shows what grand country Amer
lea is. No famine in such a country
checkered all over with railroads until the
people prove uugrateful, and the land
spews them out of her mouth
GARDENING, says Bacon, lis the purest
Of hum han pleasures, the greatest refresh
nent to the spirits of man, without which
buildings and palaces are but gross hand
work. Nothing was ever truer, and
yet, when in their grossness almost left
off gardening in the middle ages and
took to architecture. Fine palaces and
churches and public structures were
erected with no thought of ornamenting
and beautifying them with the splendors
of the garden. But good taste began
+ slowly to assert itself as civilization i'm
proved, until no person of cultivation and
good taste now erects splendid building
without its finishing accompaniment, the
garden Such garden is not the plant
ing of vegetables, but a collection and
blending of natures tastes and beauties.
The Horn Oats mentioned last week,
MIR. c. c. Pearce having ten acres ready
for the sickle, are not "new" in this sec
rion, as supposed. The name Horn, at
tached to them, is that of Mr. Daniel A.
Horn, of Boston, Thomas county, Ga,
who has for years been raising them sue
cessfuhy and distributing them through
cut the country. They will produce we'll
on all the rolling lands of Middle Florida,
and perhaps with greater certainty of q
crop than any other.
The Bermuda Onions now under ex-
pertinent by some of the truck farmers of
Middle and South Florida, from all &C.
counts, are destined to create sensation
when fairly tried. From 800 to 500
bushels per acre has been claimed for
them in other localities, and we see no
reasons Why Leon county may not equal
the yield in any other section.
SHEEP SHEAR1NG.-H you take from
your sheep the heavy coats of wool and
turn them out at once inte chilling winds
and rains, don't be surprised if good
many are missing next time, and don't
lay it all to the sheep-killing dogs. Sup
pose some one should do you that way
You woald probably not only "take q
aevere celd," but have terrible epizootic.
JERSEY Cows.-The great esteem in
which this breed of cattle is held was re-
Gently shown by the sale of Jersey calf
for sl2,5oo, to the proprietor of the Fifth
Avenue Hotel, N. Y. 1t was sired by
Black Prince of Hanover. The Jersey
has so far proved to be the best adapted
10 the South of all fine breeds, harder,
and giving better results as mixers.
GIRfs IN AN AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.
The Iowa Agricultural College has .
domestic department for teaching girls
the noble art of housekeeping, and the
managers declare that it is running sue
cessfully. During the past year As girls
have taken instruction, and the course
seems to include pretty much everything
from bed-making to cooking and enter
taininG visitors. Lectures are given upon