The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-08-13

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Il A wise breeder selects his bred
and sticks TO il, not changing With
any passing within or fashion.
i A horse cannot be properly fed at
less cost than thirty cents per dav
This makes heavy drain when !.
farmer carries one or two idle head.
| The surest way to lessen your own
particular agricultural depression il.
Ito reduce the cost of production.
Make this your constant study.
| If one must keep more horses than
can be proftably employed all the
time, the extra ones should be. good
brood mares. They can pay their
way by giving colt each year.
Plants as we'll as animals may be.
improved by natural selection. The
careful selection of seed is the initial
step toward better crops.
Bookkeeping is the beginning
and end of profit in diversified farm.
ing. The beginning, for it enriches
the soil. The end, for it affords a
profitable means for dlsposing of
many crops.
A free and full discussion of aeri-
cultural subjects always rebounds to
the benefit of the industry. There
fore encourage the institutes.
Fifty turkeys would find a good
supply of insects upon four-acre
field in some seasons, while in others
they would keep ten acres very
clean.
The rental value of the land and
the plant food taken by the crop are.
two items that must not be omitted
in determining the cost and profit.
Neighboring farmers should con.
fer together regarding their crops
and stock at every possible oppor-
tunity. It will prove to mutual ad-
vantage.
In the exchange of commodities a
man must have something IN hand to
get something he needs with. Money
is generally acceptable to all classes
in this exchange. To get the money
the man must produce something, or
have something.
The best way to determine just
what crops are the most profitable is
to ascertain exactly the cost of pro-
ducing each. This can be done by
keeping daily account of labor and
expenses.
No farmer ought to grow pro-
duct that cost him more TO produce it
than he can get for it in market. It
cannot be considered as a money
crop if he produces it at loss.
To be successful the farmer must
have his home on the farm, and re-
side at that home. He must make
that home self-sustaining, and to do
this the cost of production must be
reduced to its lowest possible point.
For pear trees that bear poor fruit,
try liberal dressing of wood ashes
applied to the ground as far out as
the branches reach over, aud wash
the tree with strong soapsuds.
Ii a merchant should sell his goods
without first knowing their cost, he
would soon 90 into bankruptcy.
Farmers are selling goods every day
without knowing their cost.
If the farmer uses an OK to pillow
with and he is slow of gait; if the
soil is poor and needs high fertiliza-
ton; if the feed for man and animals
be costly; if the plant itself is suffi-
cient in productive qualities; all,
separately or collectively, help to iu-
crease the cost of production.
Rice is said to be fine for a forage
crop. Two or three tons of forage,
if cut green, can be raised on an acre
at cost Of $40. The straw itself is
excellent, and stock like it and thrive
upon it.
A farmer will use a dull, round
cornered wedding hoe, the remains OF
two or three seasons work. With
such a tool one acre day hoeing
young cotton would be full days
work. A new hoe, costing forty
cents, would be able to hoe one and
half acres per day, and thus save the
cost of the new hoe about twice .
week.
The prudent man counteth the cost
of constructing q building, and
models the building In accordance