The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-02-13
FAR VI NOTES.

Do not feed all tie good feed now, save
some for early spring feeding.
Mississippi farmers are raising mules ex-
,cnsively f:r market, and find it profi.a-
bic.
Now is a good time to plan out the next
seasons work.
No man can well instruct another just
what it is most fit for him to plant.
AT the Georgian Station nitrogen was
found to the most effective element in fer
tilizers on oats; Cotton-seed meal was the
only substance that paid a good profit.
hold that three out of four farmers will
find it to pay better to grow several market
crops than one, as is quite too often the
case.
No class of people as rule, have greater
expectation of long life than farmers, and
1t is manly because this occupation has
always given full employment to powers
of both mind and body
In pruning small orchards the thumb
and finger were declared to be the best i'm
plements that could be used at the Califor-
MIA State Horticultural Society.
When the farmer gets legislation and
economic and financial systems just to his
taste he will find that the best possible
methods of farming will still be necessary
to the highest success.
1t is rather dishea1toning for the city re-
sident who goes into the country during
vac summer for fresh air and the fresh
hom3 grown vegetables, to find the farmer
sending to town for his supplies ana get
ting large proportion of them in lin
cans
No man, says the American Cultvator,
should spend his time and labor over SO
large an acreage rs t. nccessl'ate the ne
glect to make first class kitchen garden.
In such garden much satisfaction and often
no little part of the profit of Country and
farm life consists.
A gardener of Mauritus has tried to raise
sugar Cane from seeds A hundred seeds
planted in 1890 yielded five minute seed
ings, of which but one have survived and
flourished He believes that by cross
lcrtlliZing the best varieties it is possible
to produce a sugar cane that may be raised
from seeds and would be OF greatly i'm
proved quality.
BY such u larger variety of crops the
grower becomes more assured of god
weather for q portion at least. Droug hts
or excessive rains come only ct certain
parts OF the year end at other parts good
weather is sure to prevail
Now let US all try ani see how much
we can improve the looks of our farms
this year. Say commerce now and cut
the weeds, pick up the scattered farm tools
broken boards, etc. Be- ready by spring to
put the spare time on the pl ace where they
grew this year and raise good crop of
some kind in the season Of 1892
AS he thinks over what he would have
been obliged to pay for such table deica-
cies, the harder lines of his face fade away.
He begins to see that farm life properly
provide. for is a life worth living, say
what you may about it. No other life en-
ables man to make tor himself the many
table Injuries that others are forced to buy,
and make them exactly to his own liking.
Farm work now requires more thought
and skill than it once did, and it follows
the old ru e in all labor, that those who
with brain as well as with hand Can not
work as many hours with both rs men can
who work with either brain or muscle ex-
clusively. They acco mplish more, but
work fewer hours. While they are at
work, however, the combined strain on
mind and body is more exhaustive. This
however, does not tend to shorten life.
Not few farmers, unreasonable as ii
may seem, depends largely upon the gro
Gerry stores for such common Injuries az
tomatoes, green peas, snap beans, turnips
Irish potatoes and the like, many of the
articles having been shipped to the place
of retail trade from distant regions. How
could such farm life as that have much
real enjoyment in itl No wonder people
find an excuse for spreading it before the
world that the life of the farmer Ii hard
and largely devoid Of common epjoymsnts
If we keep horse or q work animal O,
more than one; if we keep any cattle. aheer
or swine, it 10 most At for us to grow some
corn and some oats, even though We could
buy the same at as low q rate 40 it would
cost US to grow them. BY growing al
such crops as are used on the place, 1t dis
tributes labor more evenly through the
year; it leaYes upon The farm the Who'll.
growth of the crop, the stalks and foliage
| and root as well as seed. thus AIDING somo