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The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-01-30

We want and will keep the above head
ing before the eye of every farm reader
of the FLoRIDIAN until the very last crop
OF 1892 is in the ground.
Mixed crops in Middle Florida are bound
to win. Its only a question of time, and
time moves rapidly. We must wipe out
the tales of woe and encouragement that
come up from, too much dog-leg cotton
raising.
Let us wipe out the old saying, "cotton is
king" until the buyers offer a remunerative
price for the growing of the same.
We can call the old saying back when
good prices come again. Don't let US de.
pend on cotton alone, if it is king. Merely
it being king wont make the dinner table
groan with good things or buy the child
frock.
Suppose one and all had diversified their
crops-raise little of every thing that the
soil will grow, do you for a moment sup
pose there would have been such tight
times. Not much! Strengthened circum-
oIouCCS WOU1u nave UG0U an unknown
quantity.
Up in Georgia and over in Alabama
where they have commenced these reforms
reports come in that there is not near so
much complaint of hard times as when it
was all cotton, and the farmers say they
are encouraged with the plan and intend
to double the dose this season.
They claim that the more attention there
is paid to mixed crops the more speedy re-
lief will come
With them were many doubling Thorn
asses" who could not see the bottom to
mixed farming, but they now do-they
have been looking over their enterprising
neighbors' fences and they intend to fall
into line and keep step to the music of
mixed farming.
They say mixed farming means more
money, more good things to eat, more time
for reading and taking social enjoyments
and more time to send the boys and girls
to school
Do you want these things? Then about
face, turn your backs on so large an ar ea
Of cotton, join the procession and keep
step with the mixed-farming farmers.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-01-30
FARM NOTES.
Rai:e all of your food

Raise all ofyour food
One restaurant in New York city makes
forty-fve tons of pumpkins into pies.
Cotton seed bulls and the ashes from them
contain lots of potash and that's what
tickles tabacco root.
One difference between England and
Leon county. There they raise beans for
horses, cattle, sheep and hogs. Here we
do not raise enough for the humans" let
alone the dumb brutes. Every spring
Randolph has to send to Georgia to get
seed for the farmers to plant.
Oftimes we have to print some cold, ugly.
stubborn facts that may not read very we'll
abroad, but we do it with view of stirring
up the farmers to a sense of his duty.
Put your cow-peas seed in kerosene
barrel. Enter them through the bung-
hole and roll the barrel occasionally.
Feed the COW sulphur one teaspoonful
for three days and the ticks will "Vamoos Sc
the rancho"
Geo. L. Taber says Of pruning: If tree
is one year old at transplanting, it should
ave every limb cut of smooth close to the
stem, and then the top cut of to the 10
quired height This makes a peach tree
look like straight stick stuck in The
ground" Bro. Adams, here's the man to
preach no pruning to and no mistake.
Ifit is your desire, Mr.. Farmer, to grum-
BILE and If you want to keep on grumbling'
make no provision crops ON your land
Hire some farmer up North to raise your
hogs, cut your hay and grow your mules
and horses and you will continue 10 growl
worse than bear with a sore head.
Don't give up the ship as long "a she
sails, and bear In mind that II is always the
darkest before day. This is our advice to
many farmers who to-day, with US. are
somewhat downcast. A faint heart never
won fair lady. There is q brighter day
coming for the soil tiller. The resolution
that is now in progress will bring you out
on top in flying colors. No earthly powe,
can down the honest tiller of the soil
many attempts have been made but ha ve
proved failures 30 will the present way
of doing things.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-01-30

"I'm sure there will be an outlet some
WHERE" is the remark made to Us by q new
grower who talked az if he was going to
put in ten acres of tobacco this season.
After learning that he had no barn, no
Clubhouse and but two old gone-to-rack-
shanties to store the same, we opposed his
ten-acres project and told him that he was
biting of more than he could chew.
Every pound Of good Vuelto Abajo to-
bacco will be wanted, and we desire to zee
the grower of the crop remunerAdvely
paid for every last ounce Of labor he ex-
ponds. It 10 not our desire to zee any
farmer badly bent, ifnot broken, growing to-
bacco; not even % much % crippled. Far
from 1t. That In the reason we % often urge
enc and all NOT to overdo tobacco raising.
Forewarned h forearuasd. Take ouI
advice; either build good tocaooo barn, Il
You intend 70 grow moro than ono acre, or
Il only one acre, ~ sure you have good
| comfortable barn room, even for thai
amount; tTaGh b not disirable, neither
- Il wanted, BY any cigarmaker.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-01-30

The following is just the kind of an as
sorting warehouse we have advocated re-
peatedly. The Tobacco Leaf tells US i, is
at Richmond, Va, and we want one of a
similar character at Centreville 1t is
rightly named, because it is right in the
heart of rich tobacco growing section and
will be richer every year.
Read below Mr.. Centreville folks, and
then let US 60 and do likewise: 'Crop as
sorting is an entirely novel feature intro.
duced here in loose tobacco for 1891, and
consists in the assortment of the whole
crop in the warehouses or buildings ada
cent thereto. This is done by warehouse
proprietors for planters accounts, and fifty
or more hands are employed in this labor
The tobacco is shipped as leaves united in
packages by planters, and is here graded at
cost OF about one cent per pound"
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-01-30

We authorize our advertised druggist TO
cell DR.. Kings New Discovery for con.
sumption, coughs and colds, upon this con-
dition: If you are afflicted with q cough,
cold or any lung, throat or chest trouble,
and will use this remedy as directed, Civ
ing it fair trial, and experienced no bene-
fit, you may return the bottle and have
your money refunded. We could not
make this offer did we not know that DR..
Kings New Discovery could be relied on.
1t never disappoints. Trial bottle free al
N. Lively's drug store. Large size SOC and
Al CO.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-01-30

We mean every horticulturist in Middle
and West Florida, to the next annual
meeting of the state society at Ormond
next May. The president and secretary
have sent out a special invitation to you
We would like to see the next meeting at
Pensacola, Chipley, Milton or Mariana
and believe if someone would give Col
ChipIey and his friends up that way
gentle hint they would put the ball in
motion. The president says: Noprogres-
sive horticulturists, who intend to keep up
with the times, can afford to stay away.
A single idea may save him many dollars
in single season. At this meeting there
will be enough such valuable ideas brought
out for every member to get one or more.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-01-30

Being so firmly impressed with !.
lief that tie average Middle Flor;a.
should have something TO take the -. !.
short cane crop we cannot helm s.
lieve that cassava will, in the near &.
be that thing; and to more fully =.
the farmer on this important cron ,..
we copy good points whenever y. n.
tnem. This time Chas. F. NAV talk. !. !.
frult-Grower. He says: "The 49,
Value OF corn to cassava is not la.s -
one 10 four. and it is a feed 49,
aoapted to our hot climate Ne =.
sometimes will not eat all the o.,
Him, out not 80 with the cassaya ISs|
ieo win other feed the cassaya il n. y
'n.ng eaten. My cow is equally fondas
ABOUT TWO months ago bousat 8.
cows and when l brought them -.
tney were in splendid condition -
were 'strlppers. giving two omar. y. -.
twice day. For a time fed ons -
OF cottonseed meal twice a dav 60
quantity of milk remained at an ave..
Jour quarts per day each. Then I bes.ss
ieed TWO gallons of cassava once a "a, :
addition to the meal, and within fevs..
the flow of milk had increased to sir as.s
each per day. And if the ration of -.
is omitted only two days, the COW win -
only iour quarts Of milk per day. IL
therefore, thoroughly satisfied it Is . -.
per one iced for cows, and at the rate ~
II Will take over three years to fed -
acre of it to one COW. '
Il have made several trips tbnuvh 4.
state this summer, and am surprised a.
50 little cassava raised the farmer 4 I
NO. seem 10 have caught on tell n
my orother farmers, it is the club TO r.
! = e transportation companies heada r.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-01-30
TOBACCO NOTES.

Recently we interviewed an old Virginia
eiear-making darkey who had been listen
ing to many of his color, who are talking
about putting out three, five and eight acres
of tobacco. "Well, tells you, boss, my
old massa when he made a cigar. first he
rsked up lot of trash, dat took de most
for his cigar; den filler and den wrap
per. Now, desc here fool, eight-acres Of
tobacco niggers gwine to raise trash, case
it takes de most of it."
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-01-30

We complied with Governor Fleming's
Arbor-day proclamation, solitary and alone.
and proceeded to set out five live oaks three
water oaks, two poplars, three chesnut
oaks, three wild olives and two fig trees.
There were no brass bands to invigorate,
no speeches were made, but simply quiet
business like little Arbor-day affair.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-01-30

The swan sings sweetest as she dies
You folks over in Gadsden county, that
have been shouting to US across the Oc-
lockonee: "Too much lime for tobacco
over in Leon" read Henry j. Fenton, your
acknowledged authority, speaking of
Leon county and its lime. Says he:
There is no recognizable injury to the
burning quality Of the leaf effected by the
presence of lime. So far as I have been
able to discover"
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-01-30

Once upon time an old Quaker farmer
handed his IN his freedom suit with these
remarks: John, never get trusted. but if
theemust get trusted for anything on this
green earth, let it be for manure, because
that will help thee buy back again" Now
thatyou are commencing another crop sea-
son remember we'll the old Quaker's sound
and plain advice.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-01-30

We are pleased to know that the farmers
and business men in and near Centerville
are doing their level best to prevent the
Africans from putting in from two to seven
acres Of tobacco when they have not house
room for a half acre. We want no trash
piles in Leon county. 1t will injure every
genuine grower
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-01-30

The beetle deposits its eggs under broom
sage grass, where the white grub develops.
Sometime in May the beetle comes from
the ground and you will see him around
the evening lamp. Ifyou have some ra-
zor backs let them have turn at the grubs
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-01-30

GIN buying q cough medicine for chill.
dren," says 81. A. Walker, a prominent
druggist Of Ogden, Utah, f'never be
afraid to buy Chamberlain Cough Rem.
edy. There is no danger from it and re-
lief is always sure to follow. particu.
larly recommend Chamberlain because
I have found it to be safe and reliable. -
Is and % cent bottles for sale by NJ.
Lively, druggist.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-01-30

The tobacco grower of 1892 who does
not pay careful, strict and proper attention
10 his crop at curing time, will lose money
and it would not be drawing it too strong
to say he ought to lose it. 1t would be
the cheapest lesson that could be furnished
TO him. Buyers will never pay top prices
for inferior tobacco.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-01-30
Tobacco makes thrift.

Don't cross the bridge until you come to
it, or in other words, don't grumble because
you have not sold your tobacco crop. 1t
wont spoil; it is neither quicksilver nor
salt-won't run or melt. The older tobac-
co Is, like wines and WHISTLES, the higher
price it will command.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-01-30

If you haven't selected your tobacco
land, here it is: Grayish sandy loan, un-
derlaid with dark or bright red clay, close
to the soil, no lime around but plenty of
magnolia, gum, dogwood, hickory and oak
trees of all varieties, in close proximity
thereto
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-01-30

gene microbes which may have 10,
their way into the blood, after the adm
ration OF Swift's Specific. Finding s
sanguineous medium too warm, 80 to q 9
for their comfort, they skedaddle thu, i
the pours of the skin. leaving the BY
intact. Not only does s. s. 8. cause &
elimination of the said microbes and &
poison produced thereby, bat it assiah i
rebuilding the waste places of the sys,s
resulting from the devitalizing and d.
tegrating effects of the micro organ
aforesaid.
Treatise on Blood and Shu Diseases mailelhAl
SWIFT SPECIFIC Co. Atlanta q
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-01-30

We offer One hundred Dollars Reward
or any case of Catarrh that can not be
cured by taking Halls Catarrh Cure
F. J. CHENEY s. Co., Props, Toledo, o.
We, the undersigned. have known F. j.
Cheney for the last Is years, aDd believe
him perfectly honorable 10 all business
transactions, and financially able to carry
out any obligations made by their firm.
West s. Truax, Wholesale Druggist, Toledo,
Ohio.
Walding, Kinnan s. Marvin, Wholesale
Druggists, Toledo, Ohio.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally,
acting directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system. Price, 75c. per
bottle. Sold by all Druggists.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-01-30

Tobacco growers who in the futura =
pect to succeed in the business shouh !.
10 produce wrappers that will cum ~
when lighted hold fire, burn evenly via J
compact, clinging ash and an arom. !.
taste that will nearly equal the yuelh d
Abajo leaf of Cuba.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-01-30

Why do SO many young farmers 60 west
and locate on the virgin soil? Because
they have stopped back yonder and watch
their dady pull the last ounce OF fertility
out OF the soil on the old farm. Half of
the time he is in the shape of half closed
jack knife, in consequence thereof the boys
don't want to get in that shape and they
take Horace Greeley's advice. Are there
not many Florida farmers getting ready to
run their boys away from the old farm,
something after the above style?
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-01-30

From now until next November the
FLoRIDIAN will contain each week all in
formation necessary to prepare for and
produce first class Vuelta de Abaio
tobacco crop. Subscribed
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-01-30
Cough Following the Grip.

Many persons who have recovered from
La grippe are now troubled with a per-
sistent cough. Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy will promptly loosen this cough
and relieve the lungs, effecting perma-
nent cure in a very short time Is and so
cent bottles for sale by NJ. Lively, drug
gist.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-01-30

If some of the tobacco journals, who are
constantly harping about the farmer SELL
ing poorly-cured tobacco would publish
how to cure it, their occupation, on that
score, like Othellos, would be gone.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-01-30

Milter Bros, Dayton O.; Arendt &
Fringant, New York; J. c. Besley, York
Pa; Esler & Co., Milwaukee, Wis. Gid
Durham, Kansas City A. Smith, SYRIA
euse N. Y. Gentlemen your letters re-
seived in reply to our correspondence in
New York Tobacco LEAF. In reply will
say this is very busy time for US and we
are "hard pushed" financially, and it is
quite an undertaking for US to ride over
parsley settled country like this and gath
n up tobacco samples for each ofyou. We
you'd gladly do it if we had the money to
pend.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-01-30

A conundrum: What is it that when
planted on your farm leaves more than it
takes away? Answer-Cow- peas.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-01-30

Now and then we meet Middle Flori-
da farmer (they are few and far between)
who is "gone goslin" so far as mixed
crops are concerned.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-01-30

Spring medicine is now wanted, for, if
you are out of sorts and feel badly, P. p
P. is the remedy to take and get strong
and invigorated.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-01-30

The term here given is ous {
which was supposed to have beu.
coined during the late war. Iii
claimed, however, that it is an u
word revived, perhaps of Sweda|
origin. Be this as it may, thsusi
certainly no word in the EaeiaI
language that more forcibly =,
presses the action of certain ua g
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-01-30

There are nineteen tobacco buyers a,
Oxford, n. c., and they want to buy all
kinds of tobacco.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-01-30

Follow sweet potatoes with tobacco.
Mellow Soils needed.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-01-30

Wanted in Middle Florida a tobacco
curing process, easy Of management and no
heavy cost attending the putting of it into
successful operation.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-01-30

Indigestion. Dizziness Take Beech
ANS Pills.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-01-30

The merchant who advances to the ten
ant really is the one who can reduce the
acreage of cotton in Middle Florida next
season. Will he do it? is the momentous
question.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-01-30

Keep it steadily before your eyes tina: q
bright mahogany color, with good, white
ashes that will hang on to cigar until
one half smoked is the quality looked for
by the average buyer.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-01-30

Don't sacrifice quality for quantity in to-
bacco growing
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-01-30

Col. Chipley offers the farmers tobacco
seed free, an expert to post them up on the
same terms, and last but not least, forty
acres of land to the one that grows the
best crop That's business all over.
Would that we had Col. Chipley down
IN this neck of woods.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-01-30

Here is just what we have found out
about Vuelta de Absjo tobacco after one
years experience: To raise tobabco that
will fetch the best market price requires
not only knowledge with big e. but art
and skill that comes after a long service
New beginners, this is the whole thing in
O nutshell.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-01-30

Don't leave the farm" is the heading we
meet Is we open our agricultural ex-
changes. Perhaps, in broad sense it is
good advice, but it will not apply to the
average Afro-American in Middle Florida.
We refer to the ones that have only five
esnts-per ound-cotton brains. The SOON
or they "skip" the better for the owner of
the land. Whenever we have q chance
We advise all Of that class not to stand on
their going. but 90. They are of no bene-
At TO agriculture, but rather q detriment.
II 10 part of our new era in farming to re-
Neye the soil of all such make-sdifts.
What the farmers of Middle Florida
want to do the coming spring is to pass
nom field (cotton) that is already over
supplied TO one (corn. tobacco, oats, rice,
sorghum. cane, cassava, field peas peanuts
cabbage, ETC., that is comparatively under.
supplied.
J. g., Monticello, wants to know more
about grub-worms. At one time we filled
she position Of entomologist in state hos-
/ tieulturAl society, and it was made on,
my 70 study bugology IN many ways
We found that the white grub or grul
Wokm b 40 product ofths Nay bsstle, bot
~ known - the June-bug. The be-
me1Aod for J. g., to rid his farm Of than
] % o6ss them no suitable breeding place
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-01-30

Have you some gray looking land? That's
one of the places tor the next tobacco
crop.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-01-30

Find the latest way to do difficult things
On the farm.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-01-30

The nearer one comes 10 raising what
the tobacco trade demands, the better tn e
price per pound will be.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-01-30

We must familiarize ourselves with the
intelligent processes used to insure first
class tobacco crop this year-and all other
years, for that matter.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-19

TERMS AGREED UPON.
Tommy Burns and the Local Club Come to
an Understanding.

Tommy Burns and the Local Club Come to
an Understanding.
1t was stated in yesterdays DISPATCH that
the local ball club was trying to secure
Tommy Burns, of the Chicago club, to cap
tain the local team. Terms have been
agreed on between the two parties, and it is
expected that Burns will sign contract on
Saturday, when the team go there. Speak
ing about the matter yesterday afternoon,
Mr.. Temple, of the local club, said:
ave have agreed with Burns as to terms,
and he will sign contract Saturday. 1 am
sorry that the rumor has been circulated
that we, by signing Burns intend to release
Manager Buckenberger. Please state for
me that Buckenberger will not be released
and that he will not go except go. He will
be our manager, and we will look to him rs
in the past. 1t is not our policy to cast
men adrfft so abruptly. Burns will be
captain and have charge of the players on
the field and this will give Manager Bucken-
berger more time to look after other mat
ters In short, we will have the two men
somewhat similar to the engagement of
Comiskey and Bancroft by the Cincinnati
club. But let it be understood plainly, that
Mr.. Buckenberger will remain with u.s."
of being good one: at least It shows that
the directors are anxious to do all they can
to get tn cir team into line. This ought to
be salts actory to the patrons. Burns is
considered one of the brainiest players in
the business and has had excellent exper-
ience. 1t will also be extremely satisfactory
to almost all the patrons of the club to know
and able man as Mr. Buckenberger is to be
released is false.