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The Florida agriculturist., 1889-06-26
The Tardif Orange.
Pinellas, Florida.

From the inquiry there il for buds OF
this variety of orange, it appears that
there is a grow ng conviction that for
regions where there is no danger of fruit
being frozen upon the trees-hecause of
itsextreme lateness-this is destined to be-
come very popular and profitable crop.
We have just eaten the last one
for the season. 1t was solid, juicy and of
excellent flavor A few hundred boxes of
such would be good thing to have about
this time. It's keeping quality, or rather
lateness, is beyond question. cit can be-
marketed from March to July."-Man-
vile.
Specimens from Mr. Hart fresh from
the trees June 18th, were only just ripe
and in prime condition. The quality was
excellent. PROF. I'll. E. VanDeman in
Pathological Bulletin No. 2, page Ga.
1t is aseedling raised by E. III. Hart, of
Federal Point and is called Charts Tar
diff, "Hart's Late and "Tardiff." The
latter name is the one given it by the
Nomenclature Committee of the Florida
Fruit Growers Association. In point of
quality it's record is a good one wherever
exhibited. At New Orleans the average
score of six entries was 55h in posi-
BILE 81 points.
At the South Florida Exhibition at Or
lando in February, 1887. the judges
speak OF this variety as follows:
We were especially pleased with Hart's
Late or Tardiff, of which several speci-
mems came before the committee. It's
strong acidity, green rind and firm mem
branes in every case showed unmistakabIe
evidences of an unripe orange, and they
would evidently not be fully matured for
two months. While they score low on
account of their immaturity, they were
placed second to none in the estimate Of
the judges
At Sanford in 1888 it is credited with a
score of 90 points in possible 100. That
it's relative merits may be more distinctly
seen, will further add that of 256 speci-
mems that were passed upon by the Judges,
1876 OF them have less than 80 points
each to their credit, and only II have 90
or more, while the Tardiff has 90 and at
a time when the fruit was completely
green.-J. HI. White, in Public Spirit.
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-06-26
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money refunded. Ptlne 25 cents per box
For sale by W. A. Allen & Co. DeT4and
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-06-26
For THE FLORIDA AGRIcULTURIsT.
Pruning and Transplanting.

cultural knowledge and wants to learn
the ways of agriculture in the articles
of newspapers, it is very difficult to take
a fixed point of view of what hewants to
learn.
read in the FLORIDA AGRIcULTURIsT
of June 18th, page $50, under the head,
can Expert on Transplanting and Prun-
ing Trees" an article extracted from the
Elsimore News, by G. w. Varnum, M. D.,
that tree ought not to be trimmed
when transplanted, the writer giving the
reasons to sustain his opinions, which
will aswer in this letter. The same day
read in the New York Herald, of June
18th, under the head Farm Notes." the
following: '1tisvery important in trans
planting trees of every kind, as well as
plants and vines, to cut back considerable
often very seriously. Many trees fail
to grow simply because too much top is
left in proportion to the roots.'
Now, Mr. Editor, how can man prove
for himself an opinion of the subject. |
don't know either one or the other of the
writer's, but l suppose they are represen-
tatives of the science of horticulture, and
cannot find where this difference between
the two writer's comes from. And now,
to give you my views on the subject, |
will state that | am of the same opinion
as the New York Herald writer.
Your writer says: "The tree is already
mutilated enough, for in taking it up,
rarely ever are half the roots left" etc..
see FLORIDA AGR1CULTURIsT, page 800.
Well | am just of the same opinion.
Every tree we take out of the ground
we cut half the roots, and in doing SO
diminish the feeding organs of the tree.
Now, is it reasonable to suppose that the
tree, being transplanted without trim
ming, will thrive as well with half it's food
aa when it had square meal? No! it
has to be pruned or trimmed, and the re-
naming limbs of the tree, if they are left
in proportion with the remaining roots,
will have food enough to live and grow.
DR.. Varnum says:
''2 If pruned, the cutsextremties leave the al
bumen or sap-carrying wood open, from which
the sap that is left in the tree evaporates. The
sap is carried up with great force by capillary at
traction and is pushed out of the cut extremities
and lost"
This objection would be very well if
instead of cutting the roots, we had aug
mented them by some mechanical way;
then the sap would have rushed to the
top and escaped by the cut. But thecase
is not SO; we have reduced the feeders by
half, and it is certain that before all the
wounds made to the roots are healed
there will be no sap to rush and escape
by the cut made in trimming. My expe-
rienct is that all cuts made on a tree, by
nature heal as quick as possible. Surely,
there is some evaporation, but this can
be prevented by coat of varnish, and
even without this precaution, the wound
is healed over in very short time.
Scuppernong grape vines cannot be
trimmed in the winter without bleeding
sometimes even unto death-but if you
dig it out for transplanting, you can
trim it and there is no fear of bleeding,
and when itstarts to grow the sap vessels
are obliterated, and it will not lose any
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-06-26

MAKE Your Own FERTILIzER.-Send for
sample, price, ETC., of our kilncured, dis
integrated, screened Humus for compost
ing with chemicals, cotton seed meal.
ashes, or stable manure. Address. Hicks
Il CLARK, Fort Mason, Fla
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-06-26

If, after transplanting tree, we do not
prune it the terminal will start to grow,
the lateral remain dormant, and the tree
become spindly, the limbs thin and elon-
gated; but if we reduce the head of the
tree and make the cut above leaf bud,
andcut enough, or even more, Of the wood
to balance the loss of the roots, the bud
above which we have cut will become a
terminal and start first, and the sap,
if the tree has been carefully planted, will
start the laterals, and the tree will form
bushy head and will in the same time
develop fruit buds-the sap being con-
centrated instead of running so far as in
the tree which has not been pruned.
The evaporation of the liquid sap is
done by the leaves, so if you don't sup
press an equal quantity of leaves to the
roots cut in transplanting, the evap-
Oration is too large; the roots are not
able to supply the liquid and the tree
suffers. Then the Doctor says: "But
the fertilizer of the air is absorbed by the
leaves, and if you trim the head you are
diminishing that function" Surely the
leaves are necessary to the life of the tree,
and nearly every tree will die if the leaves
are plucked Except the mulberry but if
the proportions otherwise, root and limb,
are nationally guarded, the tree is safe,
and there will be no perturbation in the
function of roots and leaves. Now, if the
tree is of the citrus family, | would only
trim it. There is a difference in pruning"
and trimming" Pruning | employ to
prepare q tree to give fruit; trimming
employ to give form. In my practice,
never cut a citrus limb across, but cut it
to the trunk or principal limb if | want
to remove it, for it is wrong to cut the
limb of that family across. Here | will
state the only case in which tits necessary
to do it-sOmetimes in an orange tree
there is hollow place; if by chance there
comes at the season a water sprout, in
stead of destroying it cut it across to
the length necessary to fill up the hollow,
and soon it fills it up by some of it's la
ternals. This is the only cross cut be-
lieve necessary to an orange tree
When you have your trees replanted, re-
move quantity of limbs to correspond
with the roots destroyed. This cutting
of limb will give air and shape to the
head of the tree, but never cut the limbs
across.
Now | will say this, have one time
been obliged to change some orange trees
from the place where they had been
planted two or three weeks before, and
these trees had not shown any mark of
growing, but had only kept fresh When
dug them out, [ found that very little
1ootlets had begun to grow, and is GER
tain that the trees don t begin to grow un-
til the roots are healed, and are beginning
to grow down before up, as is natural
with all plants, even in the seed.
The Doctor says, GA young tree ought
to be allowed to grow to suit ITSELF" etc.
am of very different opinion. III put
a seed in the ground the growth will, the
first year, give me a stem with limbs all
around, and if | want the tree budded, |
can just graft it on this first growth close
to the root, or even on the root; if want
r IN ioshH I I~ <NID1 10
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-06-26

r HAVE MADE ARRANGEMENTS TO SIP
ply pineapple slips to all who desire them at
$3.50 per 1000 for common red and $50 per 1000
for sugar loaf. Address, W. p NEEED.
Pinellas, Fla.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-11-06
Begging for Charity.
From the Boston Courier.

The 10-cent, ''make two copies" style
of begging for charity was 80 quickly
run into the ground that it had to be
abandoned, but new device has come
to the fore to take its place. 10 the
CHI ritable is sent an envelope directed
10 the person making the collections,
and a card the thickness of a silver
quarter. In the middle of the card is a
hole the size of that piece of money
covered with two laps of paper, one
gummed down and the other lett free
at one edge. The plan is to have the
recipient put in 25-cent piece, seal the
card and send it along.
In one instance person is endeavor-
ing to raise ST., 90 for some charity or
other. This not only involves the re-
ceipt of 1000 quarters. but it calls for
the expenditure OF $50 in postage
stamps on the part of the collector, and
an equal sum from the donors to the
fund. Sixteen per cent. for collecting
expenses seems rather big rate, but
alter all it is In the cause of charity and
in this one always expects rates to be
high.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-11-06
work is done the better, but any time in
fall or winter will answer.
Testing Soil by the Color of Plants

resting SOIL Dy the color OF Plants.
M. Georges Vile, French scientific
agriculturist, alter almost thirty years of
assiduous researches on the expert
mental farm at Vincennes, has made
remarkable and Important discovery of
relation existing between the color of
plants and the richness of soils in fertil-
lzlng agents. His conclusions, recently
reported to the Paris Academy of
Sciences, deserve consideration by all
farmers and horticulturists,
He finds that the color of leaves of
plants undergo marked change when
ever the soil is lacking in phosphate,
potash, lime or nitrogen. The color re-
mains light green or turns to yellow
when the soil is deficient in phosphate,
potash or nitrogen. When none of the
fertilizing elements are wanting the col.
or is dark green.
BY his experiments, NJ. Vile furn-
ishes agriculturists with positive indica-
tions by which they can determine with
the greatest facility what kind of a fer
tilizer the soil needs most or i'm what
elements of fertility it abounds. His
experiments should be repeated by our
Department of Agriculture and the re-
suits published. The practical in 'orma-
ton which might thus be supplied to
American farmers would enable many
of them to make two blades of grass
grow where one now grows. "-NeW York
HoYnIT
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-11-06
He started at length for home in the
very coach, Eclipse, which had brought

He started at length for home in the
very coach, Eclipse, which had brought
him.
It hurt him sorely to part with his
friends. He waved the poor stump of
his arm. wiping away the tears with the
other hand.
eff it were not for my friend, the
Judge, would bring my Rose and live
among you," he said.
He kissed the children again and
again, bowed profoundly to the poor
old women, embraced the sturdy,
bearded farmers. It seemed rs if he
could not tear himself away.
How the boys cheered Even the
old men Joined IN the shout as the red
coach went slowly up the hill out of
sight, Jean waving his handkerchief
out OF the window.
Old Boyce watched it grimly through
his dingy Office window, and then
looked at the cheering crowd.
IAN old beggar," muttered, "whom
they never can make penny off of ! I
have brought thousands of dollars into
the town, but not man in it will give
me civil word ~
Yet.in his secret soul he knew that
he and the poor old cripple had been
weighed in just scales, and had received
his reward
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-11-06
A Terror OF the Seas.

from the New YORK Telegram.
The tests of the naval volcano, the
Vesuvlus, are more than satisfactory.
She can throw five shells from each of
her three guns in seventeen minutes.
Her range is over q mile. One more
test remains to be made. one which will
show with what degree of accuracy she
can throw her shells when rolling on
the waves.
The Vesuvius, compared with the big
cruisers, looks very small. At miles
distance she would be a target difficult
to hit. If she can be handled we'll in
battle On the high seas she will be
dreadful object to encounter. One OF
her 10-inch shells, containing 200
pounds of dynamite, if dropped near an
ironclad, would settle the fate of the big
vessel.
When she has the range she can drop
with these shells 5000 pounds of dyna-
mite within forty-fve minutes upon or
around any object large enough to make
a good target. The subject to SUCH
rain of fire would be in a perilous con-
dltlon, no matter how stoutly built.
Her full capacity, however, with Is
inch shells, containing 500 pounds of
exp. osive each, would be 10000 pounds
in half an hour.
The Vesuvius. of course. could not be
effective unless she was within not more
than mile OF her adversary. which
might begin firing on her half an hour
before she could use her guns. Her
small size is her protection, as many
shot would be wasted before SO small
vessel travelling at a high speed could
be hit
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-11-06
Keep the Cows Warm.

We are reminded in these days of
cold disagreeable weather of the neces-
.sity of little fire to keep us warm. In
deed most of US have already started
the little fire. The most disagreeable
part of the year is the time when the
cold fall days come. We seem to feel
the cold more at this time than we do
when the thermometer is below zero.
This susceptibility on our part to the
first cool weather. of fall should be suf-
ficient to remind us that the COWS are in
danger Of being chilled also, and if they
do become chilled the flow of milk is
permanently lessened. It is wisdom,
therefore, to pay particular attention to
the protection OF our dairy stock: and
we ought not to let this care cease with
the coming of the winter. The COWS
should be warmly housed, not smut up
in tight unventilated stable, but a
stable that is well ventilated and yet
with no unnecessary cracks and holes
in it. Some barns remind US in win
ter of the North Pole itself. 1t is as
cold inside of them as it is outside, and
instead of making them warmer at lit
tie expense for boards and nails, we
sometimes leave holes and cracks open.
and then feed hign-priced food to
counteract the effect OF the cold that
comes through the crack.-PracticaI
Farmer.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-11-06
Presenting a FAVORABLE Appearances.
Manure Clods in Pastures.

No animal except the sheep drops its
manure SO that it does not need break
ing to pieces for more even distribution
over the soil. Even the sheep will
huddle together at night, and drop
their manure too much in one place
but this is usually on the highest part
of the field, that generally most needs
to be tertillzed. Wherever cattle and
horses have pastured during the sum-
mer, the clods of manure they have
scattered over the surface should be
broken>up in the fall. This uncovers
the grass that is smothered beneath
them. and at the same time releases the
manure for use on wider area, where
it will be carried down to grass roots by
rains and m lting SHOWS, and will re-
suit in larger and more vigorous
growth next season. The earlier this
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-11-06
Proverbs of the Sea.

The sea isn't burning.
The sea refuses no river.
The full moon eats clouds.
Every port serves IN a gale.
I'll goes the boat without oars.
A large ship needs much water.
He who can steer need not row.
From the boat we get to the ship.
In calm sea every man is q pilot.
Every sea, great as it IS, grows calm.
Don't judge of the ship from the land.
Being at sea, sail; being on land, set
tie.
Women are ships and must be man
ned.
Better lose an anchor than the whole
ship.
When one falls into the sea he STAYS
there.
He who would learn to pray should
go to sea.
What comes by starboard goes by lar
board.
Where the ship can go the brigantine
can go.
It will not do to have two mainmasts
In ship.
You cannot sail as you would, but as
the wind blows.
ALI the rivers go to the sea, and it
never OVer-runS.
The freshest and sweetest fish come
from the safest sea.
He that is embarked with the devil
must sail with him.
1t is easier TO get away from the bank
than from the bottom.
If the sea boiled, where would one go
to find water to cool it?
He who sends mean man to sea will
get neither fish nor salt.
Unless you have the wind astern you
must know how to navigate.
No one can complain of the sea who
has been twice shipwrecked.
What fear would he have of the waves
who had Noah tor pilot?
The ship which doesn't mind her
helm will mind the hidden rocks.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-11-06
FARM AND FIRESIDE.


NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. her,
SO the little Katies say
Every evening when the twilight
softly falls upon the day.
observation-disclosures her,
Is the strange. oldtime refrain
OF these little insect singers,
Repeated DER and Ger again.
Observation-Disclosures her
Sounds from vine and bush and tree,
Yet unless with care you seek him,
The tiny minstrel ne'er you see.
Katy-let-her-lover her
where the autumn days drew near,
Yet the how, or why, or wherefore,
In the tale doth not appear.
Observation-Disclosures her
Is some doom decreed thy race?
Time forever and forever
May not, cannot e'er efface.
-let-her-lover-kiss her;
Fl1msy mist and gauzy wing,
Though among Gods tiniest creatures
Thou art still a beauteous thing.
-let-her-lover-kis her;
Sylph- like fairy of the night
Ever as the autums follow,
Thou shalt be my hearts delight
-Ne,o Orleans Picdult7.e.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-11-06
THE MESSAGE.
BY HARRIET sME FAD

BY HARRIET SMEAD.
She sat beside the window low
And sang o sweet refrain,
Her face with Joy was all agiow.
AS blossoms after rain.
And swift as thought her needle flew
Above her 'broidery rare,
And fast the siIken roses grew
Beneath her fingers fair.
But now q shadow in the door,
letter al her feet
And quick the bushes mantle DER
Her forehead pure and sweet.
With eager hands she breaks the seal
And opes the missive white;
But ah what specter grim doth steal
From that dear face Its light!
For whittier than the page she turns
Grows ruby lip and cheek:
While in her lovely eyes there burns
A grief she may not speak.
You tell me that words cannot kill?
Well, not the mortal part,
But words when barbed with venom Will
btab unto death the heart.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-11-06
Coupling Pins.

The loss of coupling pins. says the AL
bany Journal, is a mystery to railroad
men. Where they all go to NO one ap-
pears to be able to conjecture. Even
in yards where the same cars that come
in and 60 out again additional counling
pins are called for constantly. At the
West Albany railroad yard the Central
Hudson Railroad uses car load of new
coupling pins month. 1t is safe to
say that 100000 pins are supplied the
West Albany yard in year.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-11-06
The Butcher and the Farmer.

Mr.. Jones sold bullock to Mr.. Lag
arus Tor SIC to be taken and paid for
when fat. When Mr.. Lazarus came for
the animal, Jones said he would like
to have fore-quarter for his own use.
Mr.. Lazarus willingly accepted the or
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-11-06

JAcK-''What are you doing. Mabel?'
Misunderstanding angel cake; don't YOU
want some?" Jack-"No, thanks: /
don't want to be an angel. Pack.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-11-06
Opposition to Oleo.

Under the leadership of the New En-
gland Homestead there has been
formed, in Massachusetts, a Farmers
League, for the purpose of electing
honest butter men to the state Offices
and the Legislature. The anti-oleo bill
failed to pass the last Legislature, and
the farmers are now up in arms and de-
termined to send men to the next Leg
islature who will favor the bill to pro-
hibit coloring cleo like butter. They
have not organized a new party, or
placed candidates of their own in the
field, but will throw their entire
strength to candidates of the regular
parties pledged to work for their in
terests. Their first work is to force all
parties to nominate honest butter men.
They will leave every man the oppor-
tunity of voting his own party ticket
and still voting tor representative that
will protect his own interests. Failing
in this. their votes are to be cast re-
CARELESS of party lines, for honest but
ter men. This farmers league means
business. Candidates are requested to
state, in writing, their position on the
oeo question, and this is to be made
known by the league, officially, to the
voters. The farmers of Massachusetts
consider that they were betrayed in the
last Legislature, and will not put anv
faith in verbal, evasiye promise. The
united action of the farmers OF this one
state promises much, and it will be 8
good example 10 follow.-Fdrm md Fire
side.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-11-06

der, and after the bullock was slaugh-
tered, delivered the meat. A few days
later Jones went to town, called on Lag
arus, and, as preliminary to a settle
nent, asked for his bill. ''Dot's all
right, Mr.. Jones; hat the bill already
made out. Here you are" Mr.. Jones
read:
Mr.. Jones. DR.. to Jacob Lazarus
To one quarter of beef 1876 pounds at 10c... $1e 80
by credit, one bullock ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1900
Daiahce uue u. 5O
"Good heavens, Lazarus, you got
three-quarters of the beef. the hide,
tallow and ofai, and bring me in debt
$3.50 Hows that, old man2'
All, Mr.. Jones, that beef was sheap
at ten cents pound"
But, Lazarus, you only gave me SIG
for the whole bullock"
''Ah, but Jones, dots pizness, piz-
ness, do you see ?"
well, Lazarus, next time have fat
bullock I'll kill it myself, use one quar-
ter and throw away the rest, and then I
will save $3.50. You see ?"
"Ah ali but dots not pizness; farm
ers should not be butchers-dot's bad"
Butchers and livestock Gazette.