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

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ard. 1t is best to try fairly and squarely
a number of the foremost varieties, but
go slow on any new variety. Our South
ern strawberry possibly is not yet de-
veloped, but it is growing
Hoe CHoLERA.-A farmer out in Texas
writes that he has what he thinks is a GER
tain preventative of hog cholera, which
Is simply corn soaked in lime A butcher
in Mobile twenty years ago told him
about it, and he has used it ever since.
having no diseases of any kind among
his hogs, while his neighbor's hogs were
constantly dying with cholera He states
his receipt as follows in Home and Farm :.
"Take, say peck of common lime (un-
Stacked preferred), put in barrel with q
bushel of shelled corn; let it soak three
or four days; keep it well stirred. When
the corn is well saturated with the lime
water, have another barrel or tub and
pour the corn in common hamper basket
to let the water drip, and the same lime
your hogs once or twice a week about a
peck of the soaked corn to every ten or
twelve hogs. There is no danger in Civ
ing too much.
| To PREVENT DIsCoLoRING.-Small things
promptly attended to sometimes do great
good. One who learned it in France says,
to prevent the skin from turning black
after a bruise, take little dry starch,
moisten it with cold water and lay it over
the bruised part Immediately after the
hurt. Raw meat is recommended for the
same but is not always at hand
PEAS AND PoTAToEs-These old stand
bys should not be neglected by the
farmer unless he is quite sure he has
enough already in the ground for the sea-
too much in view of the fact that both are
excellent for fattening his meat hogs i'll
the fall. Ifcorn promises to be short they
are indispensable. Pea planting may
continue into August with even better
results than if planted in June, so far as
the yield of fruit is concerned, but where
the vines are wanted for forage or to rot
on the soil as a fertilizer, earlier planting
is the best But all our Southern corn
fields should be sown in peas in laying by
to fertilize and protect from summer s
heat
CANNING AND EvAPoRATGNG-All farlp>
ers and fruit growers should learn to can
and evaporate in order to save for home
use or market in another form the sur
plus fruits and vegetables they find no
present sale for. Many articles, indeed,
nearly all Of them, sooner or later fail to
pay the expense of marketing, and then
the canning and drying should begin.
All your pickles should be made at home,
and into the pickle barrel of salt brine
may go the late young cucumbers, snap
beans, tomatoes, onions, peppers, &C., &c,
according to your taste. Instead of can
ming you may bottle if you prefer, but
canning is thought to keep them best be,
cause they are canned and cooked after.
ward, while this process is reversed in
bottling.
LAYING BY.-One Of she prime objects
in laying by crops before the dry, not
weather begins, is to avoid blowing deep
after that time and turning up the soil
The one prevents the formation of surface
roots which are necessary for good frait.
ing, and the other aids in the escape
of the moisture so much needed at this
season. The soil should receive all its
deep plowing previous to this time, SO
that the laying by plowing may be shall
low, and then, not to turn over, but tc
stir. Corn natures very rapidly after
laying by, because it then sends up its
roots to the surface, hitherto unoccupied
where they are nourished by the surface
fertility and watered by the moistur.
from below ascending to supply the place
of that evaporated from the surface. Cul
tivation must never disregard these neces
sary conditions.
CoTToN.-As caterpillars are generally
expected to devour the middle and last
crop of cotton bolls, cultivation should b.
directed to the largest and earliest prae
ticable bottom or first crop. With thit
view, the principle fertilizing should b,
done in the drills at the time of planting
the cotton early brought to a stand
deeply plowed until forms appear ana
only scraped to destroy young grass
The casting of forms, unless pierced b,
boil worms, indicates insufficient manuf
ing. :
HoNEY.-Is it worth while to rsiA
honey? A Vicksburg paper describe
five apiaries whose total product Las
year was 55,2s7 pounds, and the who's
product was sold for 5,G2s The yield
ranged from $lO.73 to $49.S4 per colon;
If bees will do that out there on the Ms
sissippi what ought they to do in IT,
Land of Flowers? =
To REMOVE sTUMrs by the use of ssA
petre is to bore holes into them aud "a
them with saltpetre. Insert plugs sti
keep out the water. In two or thu.
months after fill the holes with coal ~
After sufficient time has haen Uiva,, IL