The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1883-07-10
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+ Fruit INcREASE.-W While the North is
preparing to increase her apple crop in
answer to thr new demand made upon
hen IN European markets, we Of the south
should endeav"r to make some If our
rroduNts known over there 1t could he
don" III several of our early fruits in the
Srrlng, II we were cntcrprsin9 enough
! t" start Il line OF steamers direct. and
"ltll ;" immense country tcemlng with
wealth 1t is n shame that we have done
nothing in this direction I,ut we are not
restricted to green fruits. We can now
dry, cann and bottle our fruits and vcgc-
tables, and 60 even into foreign markets
ahead of the Northern States. Why
/ don't we do it t?
nos HAS any truck
iarmer become discouraged and cursed
out the markets and newspapers because
be shipped few crates Of potatoes or
rucunbcrs and failed to realize :" Ii
there be such let him answer how often
he failed to realize on cotton. Don't
everybody know that when Il gold mine
is discovered thousands rush there while
only few gather the gold? And is it
not SO IN all industries, trades and pro-
tc->ions: All cannot succeed, else all
would be rich, and riches would cease to
be riches. Do YOU enquire why this is
50: Ask nature: it is part of her econ
omy to compel men to action. You well
know you would not work if you were
not obliged to do 50.
Success IN Somebody has
written how the IIolander succeeds in
dairying: that, in the beginning, when he
saw a good cow he bought her, when he
has Il good COW he keeps her, and as soon
as he finds that he has bad COW he sells
her. This is not bad beginning or end
ing. The last, especially. should impress
itself with some force npon some Of our
farmers as we'll as the dairymen, for
good COW ought to be as valuable to the
farmer rs to the dairyman. Bad or very
inferior COWS should be fattened and sent
to the butcher, and good ones put in their
places, not only to increase the needed sup
ply Of milk and butter, but to reduce ex-
pen>c and trouble of management 1t is
a matter Of economy as we'll az Of profit.
Tue AVERAGE FAEMER.-Do we really
know how well off we have grown? Men
sometimes get to going so fast that they
are unable to estimate the speed or per
cclvc any satisfactory walking station.-
In agriculture we have been going up
with down grade speed, and We have ac
complishcd so much and so easily that
any halt or slack is a failure in our whir-
ligig operations But Mr.. Coffin says
the average farmer OF to-day would have
been called wealthy man forty years
ago. \ man was accounted rich who
had sold his farm for $4,000. To-day it
is not uncommon for Il farmer to have
several times that amount in the bank be-
side his much more valuable farm and
stock
MlIkING.- Careful experiments have
shown that COWS MIXED three times dav
yield milk richer in fat than if MIXED
twice "A day, and also considerably lar
ger quantity of milk but we should think
this pushing things too far. If the foun-
tain is thus compelled to yield double, is
there no danger of premature exhaustion?
Some lat must 90 to the animal, and how
shall it if so constantly drawn off for but
ter and cheese? Experiments should 90
on with our German friends to the decis-
ION of this point. 1t may be that bovine
digestion and assimilation will be found
equal to the emergency. but it does seem
that no amount of success will satisfy
mans cupidity. He turns cows all into
milk, butter and cheese, hogs all into lard,
horses all into legs, ribs ard nostrils,
fruits all into monstrosities and all chang
able creation into detormities of one sort
or other. All for the sake of the al
mighty dollar-but it shows that he is
a smart, busy, thrifty creature, and after
all, is but fulfilling his destiny. His work
belongs to and is a part Of the economy
of nature, and no insect, animal or crea-
ture produces greater changes or turns
the wheels of evolution faster than he
does.
SORGHUM VS.. SUGAR CANE.-All the
sugar Of Japan, we are told, is made Of
sorghum and in 1878 100000 pounds
were exported. AS there are thirty or
forty millions of people there, and it is to
be presumed that they reserved home
supply, the aggregate crop must have
been immense We are informed also
that sorghum is grown by cutting the
stalks and burying them in the soil as we
do sugar cane, except that they plant in
the fall, start the sprouts in winter and
set them out in the spring. 1t would be
interesting to know if the plants would
do any better treated in that manner in