The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-06-12
BILL NYE'S FARMING.
Apollinaris Water and Other
Stimulants for the Soil.
THE RHoDoDENDRoN IN BLOOM
How Bill Preserves His Elastic and
Rosy Appearancc-secrets OF the
Toilet Made Public.
copyright. 1892 by Edgar W. Nve (,

Buck SHOALS, N. c.. June Especial
Correspondence. This is great pleasure
resort, consisting of seventy-five acres ~
ing along the French Broad. 1t is fire.
quented by myself and a wealthy man who
Is building me house overlooking the
river. The estate lies on this side of the
French Broad. So does the man who
thought he could dig up damp well at a
depth of eighty feet when he knew damp
well that he could not. l had aimed to
celebrate the landing of Christopher
Columbus this summer with a consider
able amount of explosives, but I have al
ready used my allowance in this we'll, and
did not make very much noise. either.
As pen these lines l see the man slowly
emerging from the well. He is the man
who has been digging the well. He has a
stern look and a big dynamite cartridge in
each hand. Come to think about it, he
did not say that he could strike water at a
depth of eighty feet. 1t was feeble man
who afterward turned the contract over to
this one.
l am building a house and studdery
here on the estate and learning how to till
the farm, so that by pieceing out the crop
with my salary / can maintain three North
Carolina hens and possibly add guinea
in the fall.
When George and I-George Vanderbilt
and I-came here to show the Tar Heel
horticulturist how brains would over
master sluggish soil. and how with a
course of careful rotation of crops and by
tickling these overshot farms with the hoe
we could make them laugh-a low, gurg-
ling laugh-we did not know that each
rs hoe hi lie, a.,
livery stable and feed store OH it to en-
rich it.
We are learning that with some sorrow
and irrlgating our watermelons with tears.
We exchange work, weeping on each
others watermelons. My tears go farther
than his and knock the striped bugs
quicker. he thinks. On good day l can
cry over quite patch.
Cow peas are used here good deal for
bringing up the soil. | never heard of
them before. They are ofno use except to
bring up the soil. They do not make good
soup, and they are not u Horticultural ex-
hibit that one would so very far to attend,
bu: for impaired soil and loss of fertility
they are highly spoken of.
Wet down the farm with Apollinaris
water, then put on camphor tar TO prevent
moths from eating the young sassafras
which grows here quite plentifully, and as
a foliage plant ranks with the bull thistle
and jimson weed of the vulgar and nasty
North.
Now dust off the farm, as there might
possibly be remnants of soil on it. Next
mix enough white lime with your red
hillside to give it creamy shade. Some
put blueing in their farms here. Now
lertiliZe the abutments of your farm
with chaos from the barn and summer
faIiow the land. By autumn you can
turn the soil over and cross pillow. This
will bring the under side of the farm to
the surface. This should have top
dressing oil guano, and if you have in the
house two Or three carloads of shad roe
that is pretty gamy, you will find that it
will startle the soil and possibly give a
great stimulus.
At first | overstimulated my farm and
gave it headache. put on it several of
Zola's works and then added some other