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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-07-16

they will weigh nine hundred pounds;
take again two hundred pounds acid
phosphate and one hundred pounds
kainit, mix and spread over the seed, be-
gin on the manure and keep on in this
way, buildingup your heap layer by layer
until you get it as high as convenient,
then cover with six inches of rich earth
from fence corners, and leave at least six
week; when ready to haul to the field cut
with a spade or pickaXe square down
and mix as thoroughly as possible. Now,
we have thirty bushels OF manure, weigh
ing nine hundred pounds, and thee hun
dred pounds chemicals in the first layer,
and thirty bushels cotton seed, weighing
nine hundred pounds, and three hundred
pounds of chemicals in the second layer,
and these two layers combined for the
perfect compost. You perceive that the
weight is 2,4OO pounds; value at
cost is,
30 bushels cotton seed, 12@ c.,..............$375
400 pounds acid phosphate. 45O
200 pounds kanit,. 140
Stable manure nominal. ...................
Total
Or, for 2,4OO pounds; a total
value of $9.65. This mixture MAKES
practically q perfect manure for cotton
and splendid application for corn"
This is identical. with that used by my
self, except that used 800 instead of 200
pounds OF kainit and fifty instead of
thirty bushels OF cotton seed meal, which
cost me 16A instead of 12A cents per
bushel.
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81 per Annull, in advance. 6.

plantation to the mill. Success in only a
few, instances would stimulate the pro-
duction of cane, and with an increase in
the crops more mills would follow.
Sugar manufacturing in Florida is no
longer an experiment. 1t is an assured
success, and with a yield OF syrup to the
acre never yet equalled OH the finest plan
tations in Louisiana, the rich lands in the
Florida sugar belt should all be cultiva-
ted, every foot of them, within the next
two or three years. There is no more in
viting field for the immigrant farmer,
and the cheap excursions of the coming
fall should result in settling a hundred
sugar planters in the Tohopekaliga re-
gion.
Extensive advertising OF the advan-
tages of that section will do the business.
Nothing else will.-Times-Un Union.
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For THE FLORIDA AGRICULTURIsT.
ORANGE GROVE FARMING.
How to Make a Living and an Or
ange Grove at the Same Time.
BY S. L. NECHE.
Continued from page 25S.

The last chapter | believe left the
sweet potato question unfinished. In my
annex-that is piece of land adjoining
the grove on which [ planted such crops
as | thought unsuited for the grove, [
stated that COW penned before planting
the potatoes. When this land was Occu-
pied by other crops-for instance when it
was new it was planted in upland rice
I raised excellent potatoes between the
rows OF young orange trees.
made low beds, two between each row
of orange trees. | selected rainy day
in which to throw up these beds and the
boy with the slips followed Immediately
behind the plOw. Nothing more was
done until the slips had taken roots and
commenced to grow well. In about three
weeks l took good sized stick and be-
tween every two plants | punched hole
into the ground and in the hole [ put
handful of dark cotton seed meal. The
result was very satisfactory, as the
yield was abundant and the tubers fine.
The potatoes were dug before the vines
had been killed by the frost and the vines
were trenched around the young trees,
and some of them used as mulch on a
few old, large trees growing around the
house. feel safe in saying that the vines
furnished an element of plant life equal in
value to the cost of the cotton seed meal
with which they were fertilized.
However, | would not especially advise
the planting of potatoes between the
rows of young trees if it is possible to
have apatch out side the grove, although,
of course, it does no harm. [ think re-
suits are more satisfactory if they can be
planted on other land and rotated with
other crops.
THE FORAGE QUESTION.
The matter of forage troubled me for
quite long time, but believe ] have
finally solved it.
In the first place found that it was
rather risky to take anything in the way
of forage from the land upon which the
orange trees were growing. For a while
planted pea vines and rotated with rye,
and made good hay in this way but
eventually abandoned the plan as being
detrimental and impoverishing to the
soil. still grow these crops to some ex
tent in my young grove, but instead of
making hay OF them turn them back
into the soil.
[ also found that it was the best plan
to feed the grass green; that is in pature
form, and let the stock gather it them
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Another Insecticide.

To destroy bugs on squash and dcucum-
Der vines, says the Southern Cultivator,
dissolve a tablespoonful of salt petre in a
pailful of water; put one pint OF this
around each hill, shaping the earth SO
that it will not spread much, and the
thing is done. Use more saltpetre if you
can afford it; it is good for vegetable, but
death to animal life. The bugs burrow
in the earth at night and fail to arise in
the morning. 1t is also good to kill the
GRUB in peach trees-only use twice as
much, say quart or two to each tree.
There was not yellow or blistered leaf
on twelve or fifteen trees to which it was
applied last season. No danger of killing
any vegetable with it; concentrated So
luton applied to beans makes them grow
wonderfully. =
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DeLand, Fla, Wednesday. July Is, 1890.

selves With this object in view plowed
and sodded with Bermuda about two
acres Of rather low landnear a little lake.
This is now as fine a pasture as anyone
could wish, and all the attention it re-
quires is slight dressing of cotton seed
meal once year.
From pea vines planted in the annex [
made all the hay required for my stock.
I had but little trouble in saying it in
good order and it was greatly relished at
all time by my stock.
CORN.
However, I did not depend entirely up
on pea vines for my forage. Each year
l saved considerable quantity of corn
fodder. And l wish here to give my
opinion that it will not pay to plant corn
in Florida to be cut and cured in the
stalk for forage. In the first place it is
difficult to cure, and in the next place
stock will not eat it readily unless cut
very young, and at that time it is so full
of juice and immature that it is almost
impossible to cure it properly. Iplant
the corn between the rows of young or
ange trees, fertilize it with the Furman
compost, and before the blades have
commenced to ''fire up'' have the fod-
der pulled in the good oldSOuthern style.
One year [ planted corn between the rows
Of civ Of nd
gathered from it several hundred small
bundles OF fine fodder and one hundred
and twenty five bushels of good corn. l
would have done better had it not been
for our untimely drouth just as the ears
were filling, which cut theyield somewhat
short. Other seasons Ihave gathered as
much as thirty bushels per acre of fine
solid corn. This you will bear in mind is
in an orange grove on pine land (al-
though the land is considerably better
than the average pine land.)
give below the Furman formula used
and the method OF making it as given by
Mr.. Furman himself in one of his pam
phlets.
FORMULA.
'"Take thirty bushels well-rotted stable
manure, or we'll rOtted organic mat
ter as leaves, muck, ETC., and scat
ter it about three inches thick upon a
piece of ground so situated that water
will not stand on it but shed off in every
direction. The thirty bushels will weigh
about nine hundred pounds; take two
hundred pounds of good acid phosphate,
which cost me $22.5O per ton, delivered,
making the two hundred pounds cost
1926, and one hundred pounds kainit,
which cost me by the ton $14, delivered,
or seventy cents for one hundred pounds,
and mix the acid phosphate and kainit
thoroughly, then scatter evenly on the
manure. Take, next, thirty bushels
green cotton seed and distribute evenly
over the pile, and wet them thoroughly;
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FIG. ITO KEEP THE SUN OFF.

49,
dy this cut notches in the upper ends
of the cleats back of the front board.
shown by dotted lines at a; then bythav-
ing place to put through an end gate
rod at C one of the hind end boards.can
be used for foot rest, b."
The anti-steal bar shown in the second
cut is another very simple yet effective
continuance for locking the stable door.
illustrated in the same journal as was
the foregoing.
1T consists simply of a couple of pieces
of strong bar iron. The upright at the
right of the door is mortised to allow
the longer bar to pass back far enough
for the other end to enter the upright
at the left The left end is notched
as represented, and short piece is fas-
tened by single bolt, allowing the
notched end to play up and-down. When
the bar is pushed in the catch rises TN
I'll the notch is passed, when 1t drops into
the notch in the bar, holding it firmly.
ITO open it is puzzle to the uniniti-
ated. The key is short piece of fence
wire, which should hang near at hand.
Move the bar to the left, which raises
the catch, pass the key through d ghmlet
hole represented just over the catch,
press against the catch, holding it up
when the bar can be pulled out. There
are several advantages in this mode of
fastening. 1t is inexpensive; there is no
trouble if the key be lost, as another can
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-07-20
wedding Rye from wheat.

In wheat growing localities rye is a
weed, and an especially dangerous one to
get among seed wheat. We have known,
says Toronto Mail, some wheat growers
who would not grow rye on any part Of
their farms, as it would get into the
manure piles and thus spread to the
wheat field. Rye is much more hardy
than wheat, and in bad seasons it in
cTeases. As its tall heads Peer above the
wheat, ten days or more before the latter
heads out, there is ample time to go
through the field with sharp knife and
cut out the intruder. 1t is curious to
note the prolificacy of rye when it has
good chance. Each of these stools is
from a single grain, and each will have
from four or five to eight or more stalks
with well filed head, and altogether
bearing often fifty to sixty times the
number of the grains from which it
sprung. As the farmer is doing this job
he may well wonder why rye, as sown
in the field for grain, does not yield at
this rate, and whether he does not usual
~ SOW three or four times as much seed
as would be needed if the plants were
better manfred and the soil better fitted.
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seo-szrEEN

tees on credentials, permanent organiza
ton, ordero of business and resolutions were
then appointed and recess taken until
$50.
Promptly at that hour The convention re
convened and the wheel revolved The
committee Oh permanent organization re-
ported i'll favor of NJ. A. Breeder as chair
man and George II. Madsen secretary.
Little w. f. Kelley was made assistant sec
rotary and Richard Z. Young sergeant-at-
arms with power to pay all bills, provided
he could raise the stuff.
The committee on credentials reported
sixty eight delegates entitled to seats-that
being al sent in-and then the battle be-
gan.
When the smoke cleared away the follow
ing were found among the ruins John G.
Tyler, recorder; John Kirk, sheriff !;
Edwin Dix, assessor; Edwin is from
Plain City). L. r. Rogers, attorney;
William V. Helfrich, treasurer; r. G.
Coolidge, collector; Charles L. Holdings
worth, clerk; Il. w. Ferris, surveyor;
Marsh Allen. coroner; Fred Hoy. select
man. Erred is from Slaterville.) z. II.
Mcdaniel, justice of the peace first pre-
Hcinct; Bernard Cerness second precinct;
Achilles Perrin, third precinct; Valen-
tine Gideon, fourth precinct; Phillip
Ford, constable. The slate went through
without a break, the only fight being on
recorder. When on the third ballot De
Voto was laid on the shelf.
The Liberals are more than dissatisfied,
and The opinion is. freely expressed that if
the Peoples party put up good ticket
they will win.
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months ago, jocularly assuring their
friends that city in which Jack the Rip
per" could do his ripping with impunity
was safe enough place for them. They
cracked banks and "sneaked" cash and
bonds in England. France and Germany,
and were arranging for a return to Amer
lea with fortune in hand when mishaps
befell them. Billy Burke writes thus as
suringly TO an American friend:
THE cops may insist on my staying and
circumstances may compel me TO accept
the pressing invitation, but that can only
be for time. L will rate Wall street for
you in the fall
This noted criminal is rated by the Off
GERS of the law as the most adroit bank
sneak alive. His origin is unknown, but
he begun his criminal career in Chicago.
His first great exploit was stealing 100000
from the Galesburg, Ills, bank. In 1881.
with the aid of two ''pals," he succeeded IN
grabbing 100000 in bonds at q bank in
Cohoes, n. Y, but was captured His
friends secured his escape by STRAW ball.
He was captured again, but broke Jail, and
while all the detectives in all the cities
were watching for him he stole s., 200 from
a Detroit bank. He next organized d gang
to work banks on scientific principles"
and it is reported that they secured $780,
600 before being broken up and scattered.
William O'Brien, alias Billy Porter, alias
Lord Morton, is still more noted, but
chiefly as burglar He was born in Boston
in 1850, is fairly well educated, consum-
mate actor of assumed characters and has
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-07-20
In FARM AND GARDEN
Things Said and Done by Wide
awake Farmers.
SOME POINTS IN CORN CULTURE.
Unpatented Devices that Save Money and
Contribute to the Comfort and Con-
yenience Of the Farmer.

Ii our cuts are shown some clever con-
trivances. The ones illustrated in Fig.
/ emanated' from the brain of Min
nesota farmer, who described them orig
inally in Rural New Yorker as follows:
Having frequent occasion to make
long drives with the heavy farm wagon
in hot weather. l one day arranged an
umbrella as shown at Fig. 1. l cut %
small burr oak, ,about an inch in diam
eter at the butt, lied the umbrella to the
small end and theSother end to the seat
back. The oak is very tough and will
bend to any desired position without
breaking. hold the umbrella in range
of the sun by tying the end of a halter
strap to the handle and hanging the
headstall over the edge of the load at
the right point.
Where the seat is hooked ION the top
box it is quite tiresonne either to let the
feet hang in midair CT to Keep them
upon the top of the end board. To rene
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when brothers Nos Q, 8, 4, 8 and 6 ar
rived, and they were wrangiing as TO
who should sail in next when cousins
Jim, Tom, Bill, Hank, Pete, Charlie and
Sam arrived. They were followed by
brothers-in-law Joe, Jack, John, Abe
and Washington, and as the agent looked
around he was forced to exclaim:
"Good heavens! but are you all re-
lated?"
"All-allr' they shouted.
"And are there any more"
"Any more! Why, there isn't any
body but Mckinney in the whole town
ship. Wait until the nephews and un-
cles and grandfathers begin to arrive
''Fd rather not" groaned the agent as
he fell back. xiii me now and let's
have it over with. Detroit Free Press
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his management was so sl1illfuI that he
could not be identified. He returned to Bos.
ton five years ago and promised his relatives
that he would abandon his criminal career;
while there he formed acquaintance with
many people of some standing, including
the police, and became an ardent admirer
of John L. Sullivan
BY way of preparation for an honest life
he burglarized a jevelry store in Brooklyn
and another in Troy, then, informing his
friends that he had $4,000 in cash and that
it was enough, he went to England and os-
tensibly settled down as Billy Norton. He
married respectable English girl and
actually lived in quiet domesticity for three
years or so, but the old habit broke out
again and his immediate future is not
bright
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STRUCK THE WRONG FAMILY.
Tho Woes of MasI,er Who Went Out
to Mash.

Tho Woes of MasI,er Who Went Out
to Mash.
1t was in little southern town called
Mckinney. A windmill agent from
Ohio bowed to a girl who passed the no
tel veranda. He claimed he thought he
knew her, but it was doubtless bogus
claim. I think he was sort Of masher
-"general southern agent for the cele-
brated cyclone windmill, and MASKING
done at short notice" The girl had
scarcely passed when man waited upon
the agent and said:
ssI have come to knock your head off
for bowling to my daughter
And he thumped him all over the YER
anda and left him wreck. The agent
had only gotten upon his legs when an
other man approached and said:
"You tried to mash my sister, and now
I'll mash you"
And he also did the humping act in a
vigorous manner. aud had only tinished
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COMMERCIAL.

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cidedly apparent In smoorning uown-Sne
slight inequalities to be found in every
piece Of plowed land.
LAND LEvELINe FLoAr AT WORK.


It consists of two 3xa inch hemlock
scantlings 8 feet long, set the broadcast
way up and down. about three and
half feet apart, with four boards foot
wide nailed from one to the other, Us
shown in the figure. Drawn by team
of horses and weighted somewhat this
float has wonderful effect in evening up
the surface by passing lover the plat. To
level inequalities in plowed land the
driver steps on thel float when a hump
is reached. In this case the scantling
takes off and draws along lot of the
soil, and by passing to depression near
by, by stepping off the soil is released.
Of course if there arel larger humps or
depressions the shovel scraper is the tool
first required
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CluckS.

There are several advantages in the
keeping of large breeds of fowls. One is
that they are none easily confined, and
another is where yoNssell on the market
they will bring more.on account of their
extra weight
Examine the little chickens for lice.
Dust pyrethrum over the hens.
Some consumers claimAt that eggs pro-
duced early in the season. have better
flavor than those which, hens lay after
they run at large and live mainly on
grass and insects.
The secret of success in the poultry
yard is not in Matching but in feeding.
The cost of keeping ducks where the
facilities are good is merely nominal, as
y large portion of their daily fare is of
the coarsest and cheapestIkinds.
A friend in Catskill. N. Y, asks the
following question: What is the best
and cheapest fattening food for young
chickens after they have got to weigh
about one pound:" The chickens need q
variety of foods in which corn meal or
cracked corn predominates. We should
prefer the cracked corn, and should
also feed little wheat'with plenty of
grass or weeds.
Use earth for an absorbent in your
poultry house, but be sure and clean out
and renew it before it becomes foul.
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New York General Market.

NEW YORK, July 9-Hops-Dull, steady.
Coffee-Options steady, unchanged to points
up Sales, 1890 bags; July. 17.25; August,
17100l115; September. 1860; October. Is 90;
Spot Rio, steady; fair cargoes, 20: No. Z, flat
bean. 49, 6lS%.
Sugar-Raw, firm. fair refining 1916; cen
trfugals 90 test, 81 LIE; refined quiet, Il lower;
ira C, 55s; yellow, 42l@5,0O; off A, 3 9-l6@52l
mould A, 6 3-16r standard A, 6 ZIG: confection-
ers' A, 20; cut loaf, ga; crushed, Ga pow
der9d, 6 BIG; graduated. ga.
Wool-Steady; domestic fleece, 33G3S.
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Points in Corr, Culture.

Experiments made at the Ohio Agri-
cultural station dur ting past seasons
throw considerable Light upon, if they
do not entirely settle,I some points in the
cultivationiof corn ;sbout which farm
ers are not entirely agreed either in the
DRY or practice. Asl cultivated at the
station the following appears to have
been pretty well esta blished. AS class
the large yellow dent varieties were the
most productive. Large white dents
take second place. In the flint varieties
the large white hints take the lead, fol-
lowed by mixed fiints, and these by yell
low fl3nts. Taken as whole or as indi-
vidual varieties the flint corns are not
profitable class for Ohio lands unless it
should lie in some of the northern sec
hons
In seven years experiments in deep
shallow planting the average results
show an g advantage in,favor of planting
one inch rather than two inches deep.
The create st amount of marketable corn
was produced where the stalks averaged
twelve inches apart; the variations in
yield were slight, whether planted one
grain every twelve inches, two every
twenty-fourl three every thirty-six, or
four every forty-eight inches. Three
years trial has not indicated any
marked differences in the reproductive
qualities ofNoorn from the butts, middles
or tips of theears Whenever any vari-
alton existed>it was in favor of middles
and tips and against the butts. The
average results of two years expert
menfs favored. deep cultivation rather
than shallow, ami indicated that corn
shouldibe cultivated more frequently in
dry season than in a wet or ordinary
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She Had outgrown 1t.

A lady who teaches select school for
girls, in looking over the copy book of
little Fanny, aged H., discovers an en-
velope addressed to that young lady.
81 hope, Fanny said the teacher,
holding up the envelope, ''that this does
not contain love letter"
"Why, what an idea," replied Fanny,
81 have outgrown all that foolishness
years and years ago. Texas Siftings.
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The Correct Bee Space.

I
NtThere is undoubtedly u certain space
which the bees are least inclined to fill
with wax or propolis.N What according
to your own experience, is the exact
measurement Of tho correct bee space?"
The foregoing query was recently asked
and answered in The American BE
Journal
Mrs. l.. Harrison replied: Three
eighths of an inch: possibly. a shade
scant.
A. J. Cook answered: Scarce & of an
inch: about 5-16 of an inch.
G. NJ. Doolittle said: Five-sixteenths
of an inch.
James jHeddon replied: The same that
Father Langstroth gave us over thirty
years ago-scant 4 of an inch, Tor. more
exact, 5-16 of an inch above the frame;
& of an inch will doyery well atathe ends
of the frames, and inch is all right at
the bottom, below the, frames.
J. E. Pond said: 1t is impossible to fix
frames in practice so that they will space
exactly throughout the whole hive. I
use the ten frame Langstroth hive, 144
inches wide, spacing the francesca that
) inch dummy will fit closely lin one
side of the hive. use the dummy for
convenience in working, and consider
the shacing as above stated to be as
nearlyeight as possible to get it.
The editor concluded with the state
ment that, the exact measurement of the
space required for bees, for'easy passage,
is SIG inch, but they will not fill "a space
with comb (which is not more than 6
inch in siZe.S
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A LAND LEvELING FLOAT.

Popular Gardening Tells of It's Value
and How to Make It.
The simple home made continuance
shown in the annexed cut has been found
Of valuable assistance in evening up the
surface of the soil preparatory to seed
ing down lawns. Its value is also de-