The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-08-22
Horticultural and Horticultural
DEPARTMENT.
w. Fl. LAWRENCE, Editor.
like view Farm 6 Miles North Tallahassee

Don't SOW or pl6nC AainT COTu
rice, alfalfa or buckwheat in April
and let the May drought catch it.
We have tried it and made total
failure.
We sincerely hope we will never
again see the farmers of Leon
county. or any portion of them, 60
ing to the towns or the mills Irom
March lst to the middle OF July,
buying corn.
The better you cultivate your
land that much better you build up
a foundation for good manuring.
Most all stock will do best where
it can water itself.
Every school in Middle Florida
oupht to have the documentary prlp-
ciples of agriculture brought inside
their walls from four to six months
each year.
If the green melon pickers would
draw their thumb nail over the thin
green skin and then see that on each
side the skin is ragged they will
have a ripe melon. If where you
scrape remains smooth don't pull
that melon. This may give little
trouble of dark night but it works
we'll in day time.
A large tobacco meeting was held
in Leon county's court house on the
18th of this month. Over As grow
ers were there, but not one colored
man. Sometimes it seems to us as
though they do not wish to learn
anything.
The only way farmer can pay a
90 per cent. debt out OF the lO per
cent business he is doing is to get
him more money-money that Is
good but lots of it.
Your soil does not improve by
idleness.
Farmers, make plenty to eat at
home and quit buying. Use this for
your next springs operations.
Plant less, cultivate better, and
keep out of debt. BY so doing you
will not be required to spend one
hour during the year grumbling
about hard times. You may join all
the alliances this side of Halifax and
then the whole combination could
not help you unless you help your
selves.
The way and the only way to put
a stop to the intolerable growing
about the high freights on pork, corn
and hay is to raise these articles
yourselves.
Have you not been told time and
again that if you gathered, ginned,
packed and housed your cotton from
storms better price would always
follow. Badly handled cotton put
on the market has no chance what.
ever. Everything works against it.
The hurt starts with the man that
raised it.
Get ready for fall sowing.
Get little bank and deposit one
dime each day and you will have
enough to 60 to the Worlds Fair in
1893.
If Middle Florida is not an agri
cultural and horticultural country
in the language of P. Z. Barnum
"What is it z"
The best eulogy that can be placed
before the world about Middle Flor
ida is it's productions and resources
To introduce Middle Florida tx
foreign capitalists put on exhibition
at the Worlds Fair samples o
everything you have.
"Keep off the grass " is the sign
we read up North. Bring on tn
grass is the sign that ought to b
placed at every cross roads in Mid
die Florida.
From time to time we offer prat
tical thoughts in these columns, hoT
ing to get the farmers in general t
thinking about the various subject
alluded to. We do not wish to b
personal in the manner we addres
them, far from it.
Here is what the Southern Cult
vator says of Georgia, and it
equally true OF Florida: " Land tbs
will produce half a bale Of cotto
per acre, and give you three or for
dollars profit, will yield three tons
good hay, and give you forty dollar
profit"
Manage in the future some way
as not to send 80 much out Of the Il
commodity that will grow in ever
field on your farm.
There are plenty of farmers in tn
portion Of the state that make syru
corn, meat, potatoes and fodder sui
cient every year for home consuml
ton, nearly all Of whom have fam
lies. What these can and do do G,
i done by their neighbors. Try
q Grow pea vines on every foot