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The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-09
Grow Something the Brewers want
and Must Have.

They are all rich and pay good
prices for what they get. They con-
sumo an enormous amount of rice,
and rice every farmer in Middle
Florida can grow, but he won't do it.
It is fact that the United States
does not grow half the rice it con-
sumes. Import it, that's what we do
exactly and pay high duty on the
same and then sit down, "suck our
claws" and growl about the hard
times. No wondor we are having
hard times. We brought it to our
doors by running wild, going farm
crazy on cotton! cotton! cotton!!!
Just read the census for minute
on rice; over 81 100000 worth i'm
ported from other countries while we
are sitting idly by growing about
hard times-no money. Grow rice
in the future aud put part of that
million dollars down into your pants
pockets.
There is no excuse for scarcely
farmer saying l can't grow it.
There's no cant's in we'll developed
farming. Not one farmer in fifty
but what has acres of swamp or
mucky land just the very thing for
tip top rice crop. If any there
should be that have not the low
lands buy seed of the upland variety.
that requires little or no water.
We have proof before US that rice
can be grown that will bring from $40
to $55 per acre, which will beat cotton
all hollow.
Away with Improbable cotton
and introduce profitable rice.
1t is not too late to SOW an expert
mental crop at least. Give it trial,
at any rate you will have some tor
home consumption and stop leak on
the farm by keeping the money you
pay for it at the store at home.
Two crops can be grown in one
year-try one.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-09
a Tobacco Warr1.-

The Tobacco Leafs sound -.
will apply with full force to Flo. ;,''
therefore we ask you to read !.
is the warning we have 40 - y
sounded: If you raise good c,s'
you are doing good in your d., .0p
generation, but if you attemn, 'aa
grow an article which was new. "
tended by nature there "
are doing something which ~
suicidal to yourselves, as vel,
killing to us all. You food -
markets with an article wb;oh Ds
|, best be described 81 as "basta,d"' :, ),
"mongrel." "
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-09

1t is the next thing to useless for
any farmer to believe or for a mo-
ment think that the Almighty will
pour into their laps royal increases
from their farms. Good land, good
seeds and good work are the only
things that will make their hearts
light and their wallets fat.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-09

AS long AS we can find a lead
pencil and piece Of paper to write on
we intend to advocate wi tn hearty
good will: Small farms we'll titled and
free from cut tn roat mortgages, for
all Florida farmers. This class of
farms will double discount the best
of the so-called big farms covered
with miserable mortgages.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-09

Why don't some inventive fellow
get up a broadcast fertilizing dis
tributor that can be attached to a
corn planter or grain drill, taking off
the burs that hold the corn and
wheat and inserting the fertilizing
apparatusf It can be done and they
would sell like hot cakes from the
griddle.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-09

Tobacco is delicate feeder, but it
must have phosphoric acid, nitrogen,
lime and potash to a certain extent.
First become satisfied that your land
needs these plant foods before you
try anybody's phosphates.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-09

Farmers, if you 60 to the prima-
ries divided, to select delegates to do
your thinking and nominate candi-
dates, your "cake's all dough-" If
you expect better times you mnst do
many things for yourselves.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-09

We can easily raise every pound
Of corn consumed in Middle Florida
each year and then have old corn in
the crib at gathering time if we will
only do it. The way is to put in a
less number of acres, tend it great
deal better and fertilize well. The
sooner our farmers come to this con-
clusion the better for them fnan.
cially.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-09

Chas. E. CAVITY of Louisville, KY,
has invented steaming machine
that will restore to first class shape
the worst funked tobacco known.
He is a brother-in-law of. V. Gully,
on the Ronalds' farm near Talla-
hassee.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-09

A wise man once remarked: --"It
is better to wear out than to rust out"
Probably he had reference to the
Florida machinery that stops out of
doors about 1874 days each year.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-09

Clean your tobacco land thorough
ly before plant is put into it. No
danger but what enough weeds will
start thereafter. The point we wish
to make is to start free.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-09

Don't imagine because you have
grown tobacco for a year or two that
you know all about it. There are
plenty of men who have raised the
weed a natural life time, yet they
know nothing about it worth
speaking of.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-09

The shipment of tobacco-stem fer
tilizer from Virginia to South Florida
is becoming quite a business. Two
carloads week are now being trans
ferred from the F. G. &. p. to the
Florida Southern en- route south.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-09

Mucky land will produce a stiff
harsh leaf.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-09

If you are not doing just as we'll
as you think you ought to on the
farm, study we'll everything connected
with that farm and apply yourself
closer to what your studies have
taught you.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-09

The aveage Florida clay soil is un-
fit for wrapper tobacco. Itproduces
a leaf that acts as if it had been
at Qrchod
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-09

Last year we set tobacco plants
by moonlight and found they did
just as we'll as those we set the same
day in the morning when the dew
was on the leaves.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-09

Last year we had hens and no
strawberries; this year it will be no
hens and fine prospect for straw
berries ad libitum.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-09

A tobacco plant will not grow
right with coldroots. Pick land
free from cold sub soils late on the
season. Find this class of land AMI
keeps it in tobacco for several years.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-09

Bright people are the quickest to recog-
nize good ming and buy it. We sell lots
OF bright people tie Little E4r!y Risers
Ii You ale not bright these pills will make
you so. NJ Lively.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-09

Grow any kind of crop on your
land that sends its tap root down
into the subsoll.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-09

According to accredited statistics
in 1880, the yield of lint cotton in
the Southern States, allowing the
bale of cotton to weigh 500 pounds,
stood in the following proportions:
Missouri, one bale on two acres, and
81 pounds over; Louisiana, the same,
with 20 pounds over; at Kansas the
same, with II pounds over; Ken.
lucky lacked Ia pounds of making
one bale on two acres; Indian Ter.
1itory, 80 pounds; Virginia, "a
pounds; Tennessee and Mississippi.
SO pounds each; North Carolina SO
pounds; South Carolina, 4e pounds
over one bale per three acres; Texas
% pounds over one bale per three
acres; Georgia, Sc pounds under one
bale per three acres; Florida, 76
pounds under one bale per four acres;
Florida is at the tail end as usual.
only 424 pounds on 4 acres or 100
pounds to one acre. No wonder
when the negro awkwardness and
dirty manner which the crop is ham
died is taken into consideration. It
is often stated that the average ne.
gro knows nothing but cotton grow.
ing. We have watched them on d.
yers and numerous occasions and If
their work in Leon county is an aver.
age sample in Middle Florida. thew
know but COMPOUNDED little INFLOW
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-09

Gadsden county last year grew 43O
pounds of tobacco to the acre, getting
81 cents per pound for the same.
This made about 100000 pounds
which brought to those farmers $685.
100. Once more we repeat: Grow
tobacco as they do in Gadsden
county.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-09

Tabacco, of the Cuban variety es-
pecially, is nothing more nor less
than a tropical plant, therefore it
must have a sell decidedly warm and
deep.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-09

Home supplies are what you want
you can't eat cotton.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-09

Ifyou have tobacco land that you
believe is two poor, try BaIdwin's
Tobacco Company's fertilizer.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-09

A two-year-old razorback has
eaten his head off before he comes to
the scaIding barrel.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-09

There is not a plant that grows on
American soil that is more suscepti.
BILE than tobacco.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-09

There is more in farm planning
than in the hard work.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-09

Without health, happiness, Gods
glorious sunshine and the pure rari-
fed air whistling through your whis-
kers, what is there in life worth liv.
ing for?
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-09

Are you still hunting for steel
mixed or light-brown soil for your
tobacco crop?
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-09

The best time to set tobacco plants
is when the soil is loose and fresh,
after a showery day is Away ex-
cepted.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-09
Every inch of ground in the
tobacco field should be made mellow.

Take table fork with you when
you 60 to the bed to lift tobacco
nlanfa.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-09

Whatever fertilizer you use, be
careful not to get it on the leaves of
the tobacco plant.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-09

The roots of a cowpea penetrates
the soil to the depth Of three and a
half feet.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-09

If we had to preach a sermon on
tobacco culture, we would take for
our text: "Stir the SOIL" says Home
and Farm.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-09

Mark off the tobacco rows three
feet between each one. The richer
the soil the closer the plants
should be set.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-09

What is a strawberry? The best
fruit a person ever put into his or
her mouth, but what is it made of ?
The Rural New Yorker will tell Won.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-09

Il is truth in medicine that tho -,
est dose that performs the cure ia w. small
De Wits Little Early Risers are tb tae oe,t
est pills, will perform the cure and ss sa a
best. NJ. LIVELY. u are The
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-09

II duh spiritless and stupid: II your
t 1iooo 70 thick and sluggish; if your appe.
s g Is capricious and uncertain, YOU need a
SSrsssparilia For best results take De
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-09

1t is estimated that seven tons of
water goes into the barn with every
acre of tobacco. During curing that
water to a great extent must evapo
rate in the barn, consequently it is
highly necessary that thorough
ventilation be accorded to every
leaf.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-09

If you have planted your tobacco
seed remember that ''like produces
like"
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-09

Lay away fifty cents each week
from now until next summer and
you will have nearly $40, which will
take you to the Worlds Fair.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-09

Young man il, you have learned to
be a farmer stick to it.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-09
TOBACCO NOTES.

Press the soft earth around every
tobacco plant, but not too harl.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-09

Farmers we'll organized never feel
lonesome.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-09

While the tobacco interest of
Florida is in its infancy, it is already
very considerable and is likely to be.
come greater. A single fact confirms
this. A great northern firm has become
so convinced of this fact that it has
lately purchased several thousand
acres of Florida lands for growing
tobacco, and will stimulate by system
attic means this important industry
on large scale. The writer recently
travelled with gentlemen who are
heavily interested in both tobacco
and sugar in Cuba. They did not
hesitate to admit that though these
industries were young, and at present
to degree uncertain, there was no
use denying that they were bound to
have a great development, and that
Cuban capital might come to Florida
in the near future to engage in both
sugar and tobacco raising.-Florida
Hustler.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-09
FARM NOTES.

Are you raising cotton just for the
fun of it?
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-09

Supply what the trade calls for in
growing Vuelts Abajo tobacco.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-09

When a tobacco plant is lifted
from the bed be sure that all of the
fbrous roots are attached. Try not
to disturb the surrounding ones, but
if you do and the day is hot, firm
them into the ground and sprinkle
them well.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-09

Late to bed and early to rise will short
en- The road to your home in the skies"
But early 10 bed and Little Early Riser"
the pill that makes life longer and better
and User. M. LIVELY.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-09

Much that we have to say about
farming should not be taken as q
universal application. Home first,
world afterwards, is what we are
after.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-09

Unless your land is very damp
high ridges are not desirable. 1t
furnishes the land with a chance to
dry out and produce you a light
WEIGHT cr0n
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-09

Kill every gray or brown looking
miller about the size Of a horse fly, that
'buzzes around the burning lamp.
Many of them are the ones that lay
the eggs that hatch the tobacco
worms.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-09

HE WEEKLY FLoRIDIAN IA
TOBACCO NOTES.
Press the soft earth around ever y
tobacco plant, but not too harl.
Mucky land will produce a stiff
harsh leaf
Supply what the trade calls for in
growing vuelta Abajo tobacco.
If you have planted your tobacco
seed remember that '1ike produces
like"
There is not plant that grows on
American soil that is more suscepti-
BILE than tobacco.
Whatever fertilizer you use. be
careful not to get it on the leaves of
the tobacco plant.
Are you still hunting for a steel
mixed or light-brown soil for your
tobacco crop?
Ifyou have tobacco land that you
believe is two poor, try Baldwin's
Tobacco Company's fertilizer.
The aveage Florida clay soil is un-
fit for wrapper tobacco. 1t produces
leaf that acts as if it had been
starched.
If we had to preach a sermon on
tobacco culture, we would take for
our text: "Stir the soil,' says Home
and Farm.
The best time to set tobacco plants
is when the soil is loose and fresh,
after a showery day is alwa Us ex-
cepted.
Last year we had hens and no
strawberries; this year it will be no
hens and fine prospect for straw
berries ad libitum.
Tabacco, of the Cuban variety es-
pecially, is nothing more nor less
than a tropical plant, therefore it
must have a sell decidedly warm and
deep.
A tobacco plant will not grow
right with coldroots. Pick land
free from cold sub soils late on the
season. Find this class of land AMI
keeps it in tobacco for several years.
Last year We set tobacco plants
by moonlight and found they did
just as we'll as those we set the same
day in the morning when the dew
was on the leaves.
Clean your tobacco land thorough
ly before plant is put into it. No
danger but what enough weeds will
start thereafter. The point we wish
to make is to start free.
The shipment of tobacco-stem fer
tllizer from Virginia to South Florida
is becoming quite business. Two
carloads week are now being trans
ferred from the F. G. &. p. to the
Florida Southern en- route south.
Gadsden county last year grew 43O
pounds of tobacco to the acre, getting
81 cents per pound for the same.
This made about 100000 pounds
which brought to those farmers $685.
100. Once more we repeat: Grow
tobacco as they do in Gadsden
county.
Late to bed and early to rise will short
en- The road to your home in the skies"
But early 10 bed and Little Early Riscr."
the pill that makes life longer and better
and User. NJ LIVELY.
According to accredited statistics
in 1880, the yield of lint cotton in
the Southern States, allowing the
bale of cotton to weigh 500 pounds,
stood in the following proportions:
Missouri, one bale ON two acres. and
81 pounds over; Louisiana, the same,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-10-29

elevator men and railroad companies. has grown
mp under republican administrations and has
ROBBED the farmers. The agitation over this
question has been Of lively character, not only
In THIS state, but in the two Dakutas and 1t has
placed the republican party on the defensive
from the outset of the campaign. 1t has not
strengthened the democratic party to any extent,
the direct beneficiary being the peoples party.
ana the question permeates the presidential,
congressional and legislative contests. The
rePubilcans talk OF 10000 plurality. that is for
Puohcauon, but privately they will esteem
themselves lucky if they pull through with a
pare plurality The democrats can scarcely hope
to elect their state ticket. but hope to slide in
between The other two if the peoples party vote
exceeds the alliance vote of two years ago
Inc most serious part of the campaign 10 the
repuohcans Is the almost certain loss Of the su-
preme court judges. The republicans, as in
former years, nominated two republicans and
one democrat The peoples party nominated
a democrat and two popuists and the demo-
Gratis nominated the two democratic candidates
OF the other two parties and Endorsed one of
the populiSts. so that it is practically demo-
cratic . peoples party fusion on the Judicial
Summing up the campaign in Minnesota the
democrats have had by far the best of the con-
test up to date and have been constantly the
aggressors. The populists appear TO be holding
,helr own, and perhaps gaining. and the repub-
hcans between the two are having a mighty
hard time
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-10-29
GEORGETOwN.
AN OLD MAP ERoUgHr Il,

AN OLD MAP BRoUaHr To LioHr.
There has recently been found among the
papers of Henry Foxall. who in life owned
much of the property TO the south and rear OF
Georgetown College. a map that was drawn by
Fenwick. the county surveyor in the year 1870.
On this map Prospect street. which now APP
parently terminates at 3sth street, runs all the
way out TO the Foxall road. and ms il Is duly
recorded in Liber W, book IA. folio SIS. Il
question as TO the ownership of the land over
which Prospect street extended would go La, i'm
the opinion of a prominent lawyer, now practi-
cally settled in the Districts favor The Com
missioners have expressed desire TO see the
map and il will be sent them.
COST or HANDLING COAL
Coal that is brought from the mines OF Cum
berland by railroad brings IS cents more a ton
in Baltimore than that which is brought to
Georgetown and sent around in boats The
difference is caused BY the handling. That
which comes via the canal and river to Balti-
more receives a handling at the mines when il IL
loaded into the cars which convey il TO the
boats, then is dumped. receives another dump
when loaded into vessel and another still at
Baltimore when the boat to be loaded is reached.
That which comes by way of the railroad II
loaded directly ON the cars at the mines and In
not handled again until Baltimore is reached
The piore the coal is handled the more dusty 10
becomes, and consequently the less valuable.
NOTES.
should the Washington and Georgetown or
Metropolitan railroad companies succeed by
the coming summer in extending their lines 10
the Aqueduct bridge several well-known gen.
tlen,en will place upon the canal electrical
launches Of the latest and handsomest pattern
10 run to the interesting points above. The
launches will have a seating capacity Of seventy
five each.
Messrs. Archibald GreenIees. Samuel II.
A, IN
mittee of the First Cooperative Building Assoc
citation, have examined the accounts of the
secretary and treasurer for the month of Octo-
Der and report them accurate in every psrticu-
lar
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-10-29
AGAINST POLICY,
The Movement Against the Writers Con.
tinued in the Police Court,

The Movement Against the Writers Con.
tinued in the Police Court.
The first move made in the policy cases today
was made by Lawyer Moss, when he appeared
in Judge Miller's court and asked that day be
set for the hearing in the case of Moses John
son, the colOred man who is better known as
Nose johnson. Johnson, it is said was
interested in the policy business. and he was
thought to be a ''spotter" because of the fact
that he was often seen in company with officers
of the police force. The charge against him is
promoting policy.
my client" said Lawyer Moss, has now been
confined in Jail three weeks and think he is
entitled to trial.
Mr.. Mullowney said he would confer with
Capt Cole and would agree upon a dag early
next week.
is there any reason why his bail should not
be reduced from Sl.O01?" asked Mr. Moss.
There Is every reason III the world, replied
Mr.. Mullowney, why the bail should not be
reduced"
Judge Miller thought that no harm would be
done by allowing the bail to remain at the
amount fixed.
MORE WITNESSES.
John Carter and Susan Harris, colored. who
were convicted and sentenced some DAYS ago,
meie Oiousht iu-o court, ana, upon motion OF
Mr.. Mullowney, the court changed their seu-
fences, 80 that they were released today
1t is said that they will be used as witnesses
against some of the persons doing business
across the river.
No action has yet been taken in the case in
volving the charge OF promoting policy against
Detective sutherland and Policeman Grealev
The witnesses who were before the grand
jury yesterday, as published in yesterday 8
STAR, gave evidence on which the grand Jury
returned Il verdict against the firm of Beverage
Gardner at Monte Carlo. There was no rec
ord made OF the Indictment in the clerks office,
but it was known about the streets that such
action had been taken and Lawyer Sillers. their
counsel, called at the CITY hall to make some
arrangements for them to come in and give
bail.
The officers were unusually active today. and
something new i'll the prosec utions, in the way
OF surprise, is promised either tomorrow OF
early next week.