The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1883-07-24

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ferior place There is no denying this
There are notable individual exceptions,
but the rule holds good just the same"
Now that was a farmer who said that and
a staunch friend of the farmers. II it is
true isn't it time for the farmers to rebel
to rouse up from their lethargy? Why
are they inferior? Because it is generally
supposed that anybody can farm, and
| all who find themselves Without wit
enough for horsc-swaping, gambling,
cheating, sponging, steaing, ofice-seek-
ing, bearing, bulling, speculating, brow
beating, loafng and getting living by
"cheek," have to go to farming. OF
course these jolly fellows look down on
the simple farmers but bear in mind that
the interrupted mass of unsophisticated
tillers of the soil constitute natures re-
serve fund, to reproduce the higher spec
linens Of the race, when these fast fellows
have all burned out" played out or
been hanged out. Don't send your sons
to join that higher order of society, but
educate them outside of the corrupting
cities-educate them as near home az pos
sible, and above all, educate them to be
farmers-to be enlightened agriculturists
to be Independent lords of the soil,
able to command the resources of mex
haustibe nature, and scorning to strug-
gle for living in the feeble currents of
overcrowdcd trade
DOES TRUCK-FARMING PAY Let not
farmers be disturbed by the fears of some
that truckfarmirg will not pay. Those
who expect to make sudden fortunes by
it may be disappointed, and as consid-
cradle number of men at all trades be-
come impatient and disgusted if fortune
fails to respond promptly to their loose
halt-hand summons, it is very likely that
some of them in like manner will retire
from the truck farms. Nobody has ad-
vlsed the farmers to drop everything else
and go to truck-farming, but to diversity
with truck, and thus increase the proba-
bility of profit. Truck farming compels
the adoption Of the intensive system
of farming, and it thus pays by enriching
the soil for other crops that may be
planted after the truck is gathered 1t
gtgGsathes, faam&illv am&lv enus shpp9ance of.early
more costly articles of food, and as such
early productions may enter great mar
kets in the countries where they cannot he
produced at that season, it is wholly un-
reasonable, nay, nonsensical, to argue
that it will not pay to send them there
Let farmers go on learning how to pre-
pare the soil, how to cultivate, how to
pack and ship, what varieties to plant,
how to market, in word, bow to produce
at the lowest practicable cost, and results
will take care of the profits.
PEAR CULTIvATIoN-The veteran po-
mologist, M. p Wilder, once remarked:
Pear-growers can scarcely 60 amiss or
too far in the use of ashes, charcoal, lime
and salt about the roots of their trees to
produce healthy trees and sound fruit"
And to this the Pennsylvania Pomologi-
cal Society adds: If cultivation is given
at all it is bad policy to do it by blowing
near the trees, but the ground should be
dug or stirred by pronged hoes or spades.
Low branch pruning was also earnestly
recommended as beneficial, while stimu-
lating late growth of wood, liable to be
bitten by frost and thus bring on blight,
was interdicted
CoLORED LABoR.-Colonel Dennet, Of
the New Orleans Picayetne, recently Wis
tied several parishes in Louisiana on tour
Of inspection among the farms He says
he learned that the colored labor system
is broken staff, and that every year it
is worse than ever before. That there
were no prospects in sight of it ever be-
coming any better-that paying the col
ored laborer 81 a day the year round does
not satisfy him, and that he works more
reluctantly now than when he obtained
but $l5 per month and rations That
high wages give the colored man more
money for whskey supplies, and paying
up every Saturday enables him to spend
his money Sunday in drinking, gambling,
dissipation and vice, and often keeps him
from the field two or three days or more
the coming week. In fact, the Colonel is
out with colored labor and earnestly re-
commends the substitution Of white.
The MuLBERRY.-A paragraph in Six
and Fruit Culture says: :, I" 1t is said that
wherever the apple will grow the null
berry will flourish, and wherever the lat
ter is found silk-culture is possible hence,
from Maine to Florida, and from the rock
bound coast of one ocean to the Pacific
slopes of the other, the United States
owns field inviting this industry now 80
rapidly developing" Very true, but
what is the use of hitching the mulberry
on the apple -? The latter will grow wher-
ever the apple does, but it will also grow
where the apple will not The high,
sandy bammocks of warm climates are
peculiarly adapted to the growth of sew
eral species of mulberry but unadapted
to the growth of the apple. a.......