The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-07-11
Send out experts instead of rent
ing tobacco warehouses.

under side between the stems. Thu
2 ripeness Of plant cannot always b.
determined by its color.
Pull all the dead yellow leaves OF
of the base of the stock.
Aztec plant is tipped a sucker
will grow to each leaf, which should
be picked off when two or three
inches long, and never be allowed to
remain on the stalk and be gathered
| Preserve your bean and other seed
in this manner: Put them in a tight
paper bag with lot Of China tree
leaves mixed among them. Another
way is to dust them with air-slacked
lime and bag them tightly.
No soil on the continent of Amer
lea loves to be tickled with a hoe
more than that of Florida.
At the experimental farm the
other night they had essays galore,
but not word about agriculture or
horticulture. In fact but few boys
there are learning anything about
farming-the big end of the whole
institution is very common military
drilling.
All of your small LeContes that
will not do to ship make them into
cider.
Leon county will ship more fruit
than she ever did before.
A sight worth seeing will be Mrs.
Brokaw's century plant. 1t will
bloom ere long.
Cultivate your tobacco the same
as you would corn or cotton.
Corn and cotton have toes. Don't
cut them off with Dixie pillow.
This department gives farm adj
vice in broken doses-solid chunks
don't act we'll on the average stom-
ach.
Wish some one in Middle Florida
would start a wholesale incubator.
We would like to take our eggs to it,
for we are sick and tired of the hen
who deserts her nest when a few
chicks are Matched, or the one who
leaves her brood and goes to laying
before they are half weaned.
Isaac Putoff never comes out
ahead on Florida farm, but James
Prompt gets there every time.
To the colored farmers of Florida:
Education is better than any green
back dollar you ever earned.
Now that we are to have eight
days year road working. would it
not be best for the overseers to i'm.
prove the roads instead of watching
them.
One hundred thousand dollars is
what we want and must have to make
a proper display at the Worlds
Fair, and we hope the Orlando con-
vention will name this amount and
no other sum.
Give the agricultural and horticul.
tural departments OF the Florida ex-
detrimental station thorough 'going
over" In the future let's have fewer
military dress parades and more
farming taught.
1t is an impossibility to give adj
vice that will suit all farmers in this
portion of the state. We merely
give facts-they will fit many cases,
others they will not.
Stock growing involves less pillow
ing, less labor and less machinery,
ard in the long run brings better
profits than any other branch Of
farming.
Crab grass and crowfoot, and per-
haps all of our tender grasses and
weeds, shed their seeds during the
summer and falI !; but they do not
terminate until the following spring
or summer.
The agricultural population forms,
in the language Of Washington and
Jefferson, and Of even older and pro-
founder political philosophers, the
bulwark of nations material
strength and commercial affluence.
There must to more or less ex-
tent be variety Of crops grown as
we'll as different kinds of stock, in
order to feed out so as to realize the
best increase of profit.
The development Of manu- acturing
and constructive industries is an i'm
portant feature Of national greatness,
but it is secondary to the steady
maintenance Of those agricultural
resources which form the very foun-
dation whereon all other material in
terests necessarily rest.
! Strawberry plants are the most
fertile propagatists in the vegetable
kingdom. and the ubiquitous runners
must be kept nipped in the bud, or
the parent vines will become simply
breeders, and not bearers of luscious