The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1883-06-05
AGRlCULTURE.

10 the rallrOeO OepOts ana see the numDef
of barrels of syrup bursted from fer
mentation and wasted, we think their in
terest would induce them to boil it thor
oughly to prevent this loss. If properly
boiled or evaporated it will not ferment,
at least within twelve or eighteen
months.
AS EGRow OLDER WE Grow WISER,
or at least we should do so, but unfor-
tunately the wise part often comes too
late. Most of us see too late how we
might have grown rich if we only
could have been wise sooner. Why don't
the young profit by the experience of the
old? Will some of our readers answer
that ? They have line upon line and pre-
cept upon precept, and yet, every moth.
ers son Of them, and every mothers
daughter too, must insist upon butting
their heads against the same walls of in
discretion and bad luck. The truth is the
hard places in life form the crucible to
refine our human gold. Without them we
should be a premature development of
sanctimonious propriety-embalming the
body polite with the ointment of maturity
for prehistoric interment. On the con-
trary, all nature must progress harmoni-
ously (keeping pace) in development.
GRANULAT1Na BUTTER. - Granulating
butter in the churn was discovered in
1873, and it has since become the stand
ard process in all the best dairies in the
country, and the superiority of the pro-,
duct is everywhere recognized. BY this
process the butter looks globular or
grainy and rich instead of the old slick,
greasy look of that beaten together
with dasher and " worked" with a
spoon, paddle or patent machine made to
squeeze, press, smear and intermix it's
grains.
FEEDING Cow.-It is now pretty we'll
understood that feeding COWS heavily just
before they come into milking is the
cause of the milk fever so prevalent
among fat milk kline, and which has de-
strOyed so many valuable COWS among
breeders in the North and West. Any
thing so reasonable should not be difficult
to understand. Who ever knew a poor
COW to have milk fever? And yet for
good milking a cow should come in in
good flesh. This is exactly the right con-
dition-in good flesh but not fat After:
ward she may be fed as heavily as desired
all through the season.
GooD FLEEcEs.-The prize Merino'
fleece at the Michigan State sheepshear-
ing contest in April last, weighed Al
pounds and three ounces. In Vermont
a ram just one year old sheared "a
pounds and the owner was at once offered
$4,000 for him. To cure foot-rot among
sheep, some breeders now dip the feet in
kerosene oil whether lame or not dip the
feet of all the sheep affected.
CoLTs AND CALvEs.-Soft food in pref
erence to hard and not much concentrated.
Oats are the best grain for colts and
calves, ground up best until they are old
enough to masticate we'll. Nature dilutes
the food of the sucking to prevent it's
heating, infaming and nauseating, and
continues the supply until age and vigor
develop the muscular tissues to bear the
strong food. Follow her example
JUTE SEEDs.-Mr c. Menelas, of Brook I:
haven, Miss, in recent letter to the
New Orleans Picoyune, says that planters
who desire to raise small crops of jute can
get fine seed imported from India, upon
application to Mr.. Richard Frotscher.
No. Is Dumaine street, New Orleans.
Mr.. Menelas has planted over 20 acres of
jute the present year, and is doing his /
best to induce its general cultivation in /
the South. He is confident, as also is
Prof. Waterhouse of Missouri, that in
few years the jute crop of the South will
be second only to that of cotton. 4
BERMUDA ONIONS. = Mr.. J. Wofford
Tucker of Florida, last year imported 900
ounces of the Bermuda onion seeds, and
announces that he will now import $3.50
ounces more for distribution. They are
of two varieties, white and red, the
former being few days earlier than the
latter He says the seeds of this onion
have to be imported annually, indicating
that they do not produce seeds in Florida,
or that the domestic seeds are inferior to
the imported. Growers should proceed
to prove this by experiments as soon as
possible, so that they may not be depend
ent upon importations if possible to avoid
| it.
SOMETHING ABOUT GLUcosE.-A busheI
of corn weighing So pounds will yield be-
tween % and 80 pounds of glucose OF
grape sugar, and in adulterating sugar
from ls to 20 per cent. of the grape sugar
is generally used. In Europe potatoes
are generally used for the manufacture of
| glucose, and the manufacturers find larger
profts'than from corn. A plant called
manioc, a native of South and Central
America, is said to produce SO pounds Of
glucose to the bushel. AS this plant
yields over 500 bushels per acre, it is not
improbable that manioc may be the "su-
gar cane" of the future. The so-called