The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-09-12
lost, the knowledge gained will am
NV renav.-Dixie Farmer.

An instance mas come TO our per
sonal knowledge where, in two pieces
of land, a heavy green crop of COW
peas was plowed under as prepare.
ton for the planting of strawberries.
Not only was the next crop almost a
total failure, but the land was rem.
dered heavy and sodden for two
years. In an adjoining plat crop
of cowpeas was allowed to ripen and
stand on the ground all winter, and
in the spring the soil was as mellow
as an ash heap.-Fruit Grower.
Florida land needs dung, muck,
humus, decayed vegetable matter, to
furnish base for the addition of her
phosphates and cotton seed meal.
Hundreds of horticulturist and truck
ers keep horses and COWS and buy no
foreign feed for them; their excre-
ment, liquid and solid, absorbed in
the muck pile, permanently enrich
ing and giving filth to the soil, pro,
ducing forage sufficient between or
ange or other fruit trees for increased
stock and increased fertilizer. A
good article of muck with little pot
ash analyses pretty nearly the same
as COW dung; and the horticulturist
or trucker that can get it on to his
fields at a cost not to exceed 50 per
cord, has the equivalent of COW
yard and need not resort to cow
penning.-Fruit Grower.
The part of wisdom for all fruit
growers is, without any particular
regard to the prophecies Of the
weatherwise, to make preparations
to protect their trees every winter,
just as if each one in turn were to be
the most severe experienced.
All farmers ought to grow at least
enough of the small fruits to satisfy
the wants of their own families.
Deal sparingly with the general
travelling salesman; invest sparingly
in the high priced varieties; go to
your neighbor, get some good thing
he has and pay him back in kind;
deal with reliable nurseymen who
expect to sell you fruit plants after
the ones you buy are in bearing.
There is no pleasure in a loosing
business. Though our fruit garden
become a burdened paradise, it's
glory is all gone when the sheriff
comes to take it.
There must be taste in the pre-
paration of fruits for the market. 1t
is common saying. "There is moth
ing in STYLE" AS mere matter of
useless display it is foolishness. But
good taste is not style-it is not
pride in any offensive sense. 1t is
the application of common sense to
our business.
There are shoals in the path Of all
beginners; 1t only requires resolution
and good sense to be successful.
Small fruits are refining in their
influences. They promote health
and enjoyment. They pay, by re-
ducing doctors bills, even if no fruit
is sold, but generally good fruit will
find a market if sold even in the
country. There is nothing myster-
ious about the business. Good sense,
vigilance and industry are the princi-
pal requisites.
He told his son to milk the COWS,
feed the horses, slop the pigs, hunt
the eggs, feed the calves, catch the
colt and put him in the stable, cut
plenty OF wood, split kindlings, stir
the milk, put fresh water in the
creamery after supper, and to be sure
to study his lessons before he went
to bed. Then he hurried off to the
club to take leading part in the
question: GLOW to keep boys on
the Farm. bloomington Ga. Enter
prise.
We constantly see the spectacle of
aSouthern farmer who owns hundreds
of acres Of land becoming poorer
year by year, while his adjoining
neighbor of German origin, perhaps,
is growing rich from the careful
cultivation of his five or ten acres
| DeLand Agriculturist.
| We know it is best for us to rely
upon corn, ground peas, sugar, cane
sweet potatoes and cotton, oats and
rye, field peas, ETC., but, alas, toe
many put the cotton first, in the
middle and at the end, and come out
at the little end. We sell our cotton
seed and buy commercial fertilizers
and get in debt by so doing; and we
will never get out till we stop it, fol
the sheriff even can't put us out Of
debt some times, we are two fal
gone.-Fruit Grower.
To cultivate small fruit is to cult
vate the beautiful always, in the
fruit and in the soul. 1t is a bust
ness in which there is constant com
munion with the infinite source Of
all power and all law. Its tendency
; is to cultivate reverent spirit and 8
true dependence. There is in it the
mental qualification of hpino on