The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-08-01

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Fenton was present.
How would blowing deep and cul
tivating shallow do in Middle Florida!
| Disaster is the only thing that
moves some farmers.
Get into the cash system just as
soon as you possibly can.
Sprigs of cedar, china-berry leaves
and ashes will keep insects out Of
garden seed.
Success on the average farm de-
ponds more on management than
greenbacks.
Pick up every peach stone you
see-them you don't see hunt up
and plant them in long rows and
when large enough graft them.
In Florida $50 bales Of crab grass.
100 pounds each, have been cut from
10 acres of land and sold at 9l.OO
per bale.
| 1t is cheaper to feed on good hay
than to pull fodder, to say nothing
of the cost of raising fodder, and
besides that it is so much cheaper
to Craze than to feed, to let stock
gather their own food instead of
gathering it for them and carrying it
to them.
Are you the owner of a we'll
ordered and skilfully managed farm?
There is no profit in light crops in
Middle Florida.
There is not enough fertilizer used
make all you can this season and if
you have no enough next spring,
buy.
With more grass and less blowing
Florida soil can be brought up to q
higher standard than it is to-day.
Point to a family that improves
and who are first class farmers, when
their diet 365 days each year consists
chiefly of corn pone and fat, rancid
bacon.
Blooded hogs, horses and cattle are
the only ones that pay good dividends
on Florida farms.
Did you oil the harness before
the cultivation Of the crops began :?
Good fences make good neigh
bors, no fences at all make good
neighbors quarrel and their stock
mischievous.
From September to February is
the time to SOW grass seed in this
section. Buy no more northern hay
from this date henceforth, but in
stead lay off from three to five acres,
prepare the land by deep blowing
and thorough narrowing, SOW there
in any Of the grasses you we'll know
that are adapted to this soil or CHI
mate and you will have from one TO
three tons per acre to pay for your
trouble, besides the same can be cut
two or three times each year. Good
hay always commands good price,
no matter where it is offered for
sale.
This summer has nearly passed
away.
Over one half Of 81 gone, how
does your fal ming record stand
Look over the farm work you
have done thus far this year and see
if you cannot make an improvement
during 1892.
Lots of crops you can SOW this
fall, break up the ground and SOW
them.
Think over what you have left
undone on the farm since the new
year began and mend all gaps in the
future.
Now is the time to reduce all
unnecessary expenditures Of money,
by SO doing you steer clear Of Mr..
Mortgage next spring.
A little rye this fall, what says our
farmer friends? Next spring the
stock will be thin and downcast,
how nice it will be TO turn them into
tall rye patch. 1t will be on hand
if sown this fall, before the grass is
hardly long enough to nibble, then
allow the stock to feed on it until
plow time, then pillow it under and it
will be found that the soil is in bet
ter condition than land in the vicin-
ity that has been allowed to remain
idle. Rye keeps the ground busy all
winter and is on hand in early spring
time.
A farmer without a plan for the
future is like a ship at sea without q
rudder or compass.
To keep the wolf with his blood
shot eyes from the front and kitchen
introduce no mortgage into the fam.
lily during the crop season of 1891
no more stake ups"
! Commence cutting beggar weed
after the dew has gone-cut until
3 p. M, cock up before night. If
the weather is fair let them stand a
few days then put under cover or
stack in rain and wind-proof shape.
1t is the dew that causes the leaves
to shed. Cut when from two to
three feet. then there is less wood