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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1893-02-08


are good tools to use. In grassy land it
will be necessary to hoe once and pos
sibly more. The plant must be protected
from grass and weeds.
In blowing it is better to throw the
dirt slightly to the plant and thus form
a low bed in the row. Three four plow
iDgs and one hOeing in grassy land is
usually sufficient work to make O. crop,
and in new land less. 1t may be only
necessary for the last working to run,
very shallow a sweep through the mid
die OF burrows to kill young grass.
TOPPING AND sUCKERtNG.
There is difference Ofopinion as to the
time the plant should be topped. The
Station is experimenting on this point.
but has not decided it SO far by sufficient
testing. The generally prevailing opin-
ion is that when the plant forms it's bios
som buds they should be pinched off.
At this time the plant has formed from
twelve to sixteen and even more leaves.
After topping, sprouts begin to shoot
out from stalk where the leaf joins it.
These should be pinched off and not al
lowed to grow longer than two Or three
inches. AS these sprouts grow very fast
sprouting should be very closely looked
after. Care should be taken not to pinch
off the sprouts below the bottom leaves,
and as the bottom leaves are not as a
rule the best, it may be well not to take
off the sprouts for the first two. From
these sprouts below the bottom leaves,
and which come out above the two first
is where the second, third, fourth and
even later crops are gathered.
HARVESTING
is very irregular. From the time it oe
gins until the crop is gathered, it is daily
work. This work embraces the period
from the first ripening to the last. To-
bacco begins to ripen from six weeks to
two months after being transplanted
The best way to harvest is to Gu the
stalks when ripe near the ground with q
sharp knife. In doing SO avoid cutting
off the suckers or iDjuring them. This
should be done by bending with the left
hand and cutting from below up. The
leaves should not be stripped from the
stalk. Care should be taken not to al
low sand to get on the leaves, as it very
generally Injuries the sale of the crop. If
the plant has not begun to sucker when
cut it will very soon do SO. Three or
four suckers, il The plant is healthy and
the soil good should be allowed to grow,
The second, third and fourth crops
should be treated in the same way. The
fourth crop is small one but the leaves
serve as q filler, or for smoking tobacco,
and if gathered it makes an excellent
fertilizer. The stalks should all be saved
for this purpose and are valuable with
which to mulch fruit trees. 1t will very
greatly increase the third and fourth
crops if cotton seed meal is worked
around the plant after the second cut
ting or even the first. The great trouble
with inexperienced growers is to deter
mine when the tobacco is ripe. Exper-
fence, however, soon settles this matter,
and it is not difficult to learn. The nov
ice ought not to be deferred from plant
ing because of the want of this knOwl-
edge. Color of leaves does not prove
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For THE FLORIDA AGRICULTURIsT.
Fun For February.

y
Such as blowing out aud planting will be
the order of the day.
Plant small piece of corn. / do not
think it advisable to put in the main
crop yet. a few cow peas for early use
will be in order.
Plant sweet potatoes, cutting them in
small pieces and dropping in the bed
when you have thrown together two light
burrows; then throw two more burrows
on top. Fertilize with about 200 pounds
per acre, and you will get quite a fair
crop of potatoes, and the most import
ant thing, you will get early vines for
your main crop. Ny experience is that
we all fail to get our potatoes out early
enough. | have planted as late as Au-
gust 18th, and had a good crop, but last
year | do not know OF anything that
made good crop planted after July LIST,
and my best potatoes were few rows
planted the last week in April, when the
beds were like ash heaps watered three
times. They started off nicely, and when
the rains came they were ready for bust
ness.
am seriously meditating trying inten-
sive potato farming-say 5000 pounds
of fertilizer to the acre, followed by rice
the next year, by cassava. then say two
years by corn, or possibly follow the po-
tatoes by cane, and then rice, cassava and
corn, but only apply fertilizer to the
potatoes. Thus, in five years you have
ten acres under this high farming, and |
am inclined to believe this system will
bring in the shekels and save labor.
We must make our own feed for our
teams. This year fed cane grown for
mule feed. [ ran the whole, stock, leaves
and all, through the feed cutter, and lam
very much pleased with it as a feed. Ii
a longer experience shows nothing harm.
full in it as food, there is certainly moth
ing to prevent us raising cane in album
dance.
Plant rice in shallow burrows, say
about two inches deep, throwing light
burrows on top of it, and just as the first
blades begin to peep through go over it
with steel rake, and rake down level or
nearly so. The effect of this is to thor
oughly clean off grass, which with rice
has been a great task until learned this
trick.
Cassava should be planted. Ii it comes
I'M and is frost bitten it will not hurt it.
A little fertilizer is good Investment in
growing it, and clean culture necessity
until itgetsup SO as to shade the ground.
1t will keep from year to year, sprouting
from the old stubs. We have stalk that
has grown four summers, and will be let
try it another. have never been able to
see any benefit from standing it on end
when planting, but inst drop in the fur
row and cover with the pillow.
Plant pearl millet in rows three feet
apart; fertilize and pillow, and you will
get more green feed for your team than
anything have tried.
Bermuda grass grows in favor with me.
| WAS afraid OF it for a long time, but
after more intimate acquaintance with
it. think better of it. Plant it around
your door yard and take the glare off the
sand, and save carrying so much sand in
the house on damp shoes. l know one
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Tobacco and It's Culture.

ida Experimental Station in reference to
the culture of tobacco. The Station has
been devoting considerable attention to
this matter for the past two years, and
gives the results of it's experiments and
Investigations in the bulletin above re-
ferred to.
The chapters published last week were
devoted to the matter of seed beds, seed,
planting, etc. We reproduce below few
chapters from the bulletin on the char
acter of SOIL preparation of land, har-
vesting, etc.
The land should be either sandy or
that which has q sub soil one foot or
more below the surface. Where the clay
is on the surface it is not regarded as
good tobacco land. Still there is land des-
ignated as clay which has apreponderance
OF sand in it. Such land would not hes
itate to plant tobacco in. AS rule any
land that will bring a fair crop of corn
or cotton, whether they be high lands or
low, experience demonstrates are good
tobacco land in Florida, provided the
high land is not springy, Or the low too
wet, both of which have made good to-
bacco the past season when properly
drained.
Low or fiat lands should be broken up
and then bedded when ready for fertili-
zer. The rows should stand in the
direction of the natural drainage. NOTE.
-"Sandy lands'' is used as the common
term in Florida to designate the charac-
ter OF our soils. All soils which are not
clay, or largely mixed with clay, are
called generally "sandy lands"
TO PREPARE LANDS FOR CULTIVATION
The farmer should begin early. The
first of January is late enough to pre-
pare land for a tobacco crop. If weedy
and grassy two horse pillow should be
used to turn under. II before breaking
up, two-horse cut-away harrow is run
both ways over the field it will be OF very
great advantage. After breaking up, a
cut-away, or a smoothing, Or sharp
tooth harrow, or q heavy brush, should
be used to level the ground. In this con-
dition the field should remain until ready
for fertilization, which should be done at
least O. month before transplanting. II
fertilizer is brOadcasted, harrow it in.
If placed in drills, open with six-nch
shovel and distribute it evenly and then
cover with two burrows.
When ready to transplant from seed
bed level the drills with harrow running
up and down the rows, and then plant.
Narrowing at this time, whether manure
has been put in drills or broadcast, kills
both weeds and grass and destroys
great many seed of each which have ger
minated. Rows are laid of 4, 3R and 8
feet apart. prefer the latter distance.
Plants are placed in drill from one to
two feet apart. | prefer from one foot
to fifteen inches il the soil is rich enough,
and it should be made sufficiently fer
tile.
IN FERTILlZING
care should be taken to make the land
rich. The planter should not be econom
ical here. From 900 pounds to four
tons per acre should be used according
to the quality of the land and the quail
itY of the manure. II stable or COW ma
MIRO from fOur tn ton TONS will not no
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young grove to-day, the first thing he
would do after getting the trees out
would be to seed the ground to Bermuda
grass. | cannot GO quite that far, but if
compelled to make q choice between bare
sand, exposed to sun, wind and rain, and
Bermuda, [ would take the Bermuda.
Set out some grape vines-scupper-
nongs sure-and go slow on others. unless
you have money to spend in experiments.
There will be q test of the Adams
method OF raising a grove without Guilt
walton in our neighborhood. 1t will
work. In my opinion, the objections are
risk from fire, and mulching, if left under
the trees, has tendency to make them
colder, because the mulching prevents
radiation. have been gradually drifting
to less blowing and hoeing, and more
fertilizing in the way of straw, leaves,
ETC., and depending on the cutaway har
row for cultivation.
Fertilizing should have been done last
month, but if not do not delay longer.
The cold has finished most Of the ten
der garden stuff, and we can all start in
even, but don tneglect the garden. Plant
again, if frozen, for next May Or June
plenty OF garden sass will be a good
thing to have in the kitchen.
Keep your crops well cultivated. Don't
let the weeds get the start, and it is easy
to keep ahead, but il the weeds once are
in the lead it is very hard to overtake
them.
Study your land, and plant such crops
as are adapted to it. 1t is not worth
while to plant Strawberries on a high
sand ridge, nor tomatoes on frosty
sink. Keep your eyes open and watch
your neighbors, and see what crops they
succeed with and profit by their expert
ences. Sometimes there is only d. little
knack in someway that makes the differ
ence between success and failure.
Watermelons, if not planted, should be
attended to at once, and it is we'll to
plant every two weeks until danger of
frost is past.
Look out for your seed corn, and know
that you have plenty and that it is good.
[ depend entirely on Florida grown seed;
in fact am afraid to risk any other, for
have known of several failures from
Northern seed.
Now is a good time to transplant
orange trees | do not want anything
less than q two year old bud. and prefer
three or even four year old ones. Most
of us are too careless with trees; few
minutes in the sun and wind will give
them a check that it will take long
while to recover from. Water we'll when
set, and mulch SO as tOsave all the moist
ure possible. Don't undertake to plant
every new variety you hear of. A grove
of four or five good varieties is better
than one of twenty-five, even if the
twenty-five be good selections. Have
you got your place safe from fire? Ii not,
remember that the boy with hound,
shot gun and box of matches is abroad,
and likes to see the fire travel through
the woods; and his fun may be at your
expense, for the boy don't waste much
nervous energy figuring out where his
fire will go before it stops.
DeciduOus trees should be planted at
once. or it will he too late for this winter.
Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1893-07-10
A SUNDAY PICNIC.
One Person Killed anu Another
Seriously Injured.

CHATTANOOGA, July 1O.-About dozen
members of the Tammany political or
ganization, headed by Chief of Police
Mitchell and Police Commissioner Heifey,
took one of the city's patrol wagons yes
terday morning, and drove to Chicka-
maugua, where they intended to spend
the day fishing and boa ting.
About 1890 severe storm came up.
Part of the crowd took refuge under the
wagon and J. D. Crimmins and Mitchell,
with an umbrella raised, got under a
large oak tree. They had hardly become
located when the wind tore the top OF
the huge tree from the trunk, and it
came spinning to the ground with fright
full velocity. 1t struck Crimmins on the
top of the head and the limbs caught
Mitchell. The formers head was fright
fully mangled and the latter had two
ribs and one wrist broken, his foot was
badly mashed and he received severe
cuts over the body.
The injured men were removed to
Chickamaugua Park Hotel, a mile dis
tant, where Cimmins died in half ar
hour. Mitchell is very dangerously in
jured, but it is thought he will recover
Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1893-07-10
BLOWN no BITS.
5000 POund0 of Dynamite Ex-
rlOdes I'm South Denver.

DENVER, Col, July 1O.-Almost the en-
tire city was shocked at 4:3o o'clock
this morning by an explosion of 5000
pounds of dynamite in South Denver.
People were aroused from their beds by
the conclusion in the section of the city
where the explosion occurred. There
was great destruction of win
dows. panes and doors were blown
from their hinges. Two men. it is sup
posed, were blown to pieces. Particles
of clothing and a revolver were found
near the scene. What caused the acci-
dent is not known; supposed to be the
work of tramps
Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1893-07-10
ANO Their BLACK EVE.
All the Courts Hitting .rlllnl AN -
state Bar Scheme!

BALTIMORE, Md, July 1O.-Gov. Till
mans liquor law received another black
eye today when Judge Bond, of the
United States Circuit court signed an
order restraining the South Carolina
State railroad commission from iuforc-
ing the latest issued schedules of rates on
liquor. Hugh l.. Bond .jr., representing
the receivers of the Richmond and
Danville railroad and liquor dealers who
are testing the constitutionality of the
obnoxious law, in his petition says that
the act Of December, 1892, as allowing
the railway commission of South Caro-
lima to make arbitrary rates without
permitting the railroads a hearing
thereon, is in violation of the constitu-
tion of the United States.
Argument on the question of a perna-
ncnt injunction will be heard at Green
vile, S. c., August 1.
Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1893-07-10
THE TRADE HAYES MADE
HOW HE GOT THE LOUIsIANA
VOTE.
Ex-GOv. Cha rnberIaIn Gives some
Inside History of a very Inter
estin& Eseriod-Tlme For Others
To Talk.

CHARLESTON, S. c., June 1O.--At the
recent Congress Of Charities in Chicago,
Frederick H. Wines delivered n memorial
address in honor of ex-President Hayes,
in which he sought to defend Hayes from
the charge that he was made President
in pursuance of a bargain to remove the
troops from Louisiana and South Caro-
lima.
The News and Courier today has a
letter from ex-Gov. Chamberlain denying
the truth of Wines statement and assert
ing that there was a bargain of which
Hayes was cognizant. He concludes his
paper as follows:
II have the evidence of no less than
five of those who took part in the Worm
ley Conference, who have told me in de
tail the terms of an agreement or under
standing reached between Hayes and
Hayes friends, one or both, and the
shrewd, long headed men of the South,
tor removal of the troops. l have seen
and read two written memoranda OF this
agreement or understanding. and j
know that those memoranda and other
memoranda to the same effect are now
in existence which will some day set at
rest all doubts of the fact that Hayes
was either by himself or by his friends,
or by both, a party in every sense of the
word to an agreement whereby the sup
port of his claims to the Presidency was
to be rewarded or paid for by the re-
moval OF the troops, as it was, in fact,
rewarded or paid for"
Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1893-07-10
NEWS IN OUR OWN STATE.

-Bakersville News: Thursday morn
ing an OK wagon driven by VIM. Gar
land rolled into Bakersville with another
load of excellent mica. The mica was
from the famous Cloudland mines oper-
ated by Greene & Penland. The load
contained some of the finest mica we
ever saw.-Wesley Mckinney, who
several months ago deserted his wife and
sought the Glittering gold in the far
West, has returned, and another
woman's heart has been made glad.
Burlington News: On June oath the
mules of Mr.. Wesley Atwater, aged 73
years, ran away with him. He recovered
from the fall and caught the mules which
had torn the wagon to pieces, and drove
them to the nearest house, telling those
he met that his skull was fractured, that
he would die, and wanted to be carried
home to die with his family. There he
died.
shelby Review: Farmers are said to
be disappointed at the turnout" of the
wheat that has been threshed so far this
year. The turnout is at least 25 per
days ago Mrs. George Pruitt. who lives
near Patterson's Springs, found one of
her hens and partridge setting on the
| same nest. The nest contained nine hen
eggs and three partridge eggs.
Shelby Review: correspondent
| writes US from Bladen county that a
| fearful hail storm swept across that
| turkeys, birds, calves and dogs were
| killed by the hail stones and the crops in
the pathway of the storm were totally
destroyed.
| Mr.. Hutz kizziah, of Forest Hill,
| Concord, has a cow which, during June,
| according to the Concord Times, gave
| $50 gallons of milk, or an average of 5
| gallons a day, and from this milk Az
pounds OF butter were made.
The largest lumber deal that has
taken place in this section in several
years, was consummated Thursday
i at Marion. Messrs. Gillian & Mccoy, o
that place, close a trade for about two
million feet near Greenlee.
/ -Bakersville News: Miss Molli,
Pritchard, of Asbcvillc, is on visit to hel
brother, Geo. K. Pritchard.-
Slagle, who has been in the Racket stor,
at Asheville for some time, is on a visit
to home folks.
Two white men employed in tn,
lumber yards of the Golden Valley com
pany in Rutherford county were over
come by heat Wednesday, and it is feare.
both will die.
| -Maxton Union and Scottish Chief
| The raising of goats seems to be gro W
ing industry. We noticed on our recen
trip through the sand hills many herds
|, Shelby Review: Mr.. r. S. Ellis ha
! sold his plantation, five miles south c
town, to Capt. Albert Wesson. The cor
sideration was 81 500.
1t appears that there will be plent
e partridges. The June broods are numeI
: Gus and large.
II The First National bank of Winston
suspended, will reorEauize.
Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1893-07-10
Grover CIeveIanes, citizen.

From IAN Engl,shm ans Impressions at the
Fair" July Review of Reviews.
Making allowance for a popularity in
cheering, no royal parsonage could have
been more rapturously received than was
the plain citizen, Grover Cleveland. In
the simple morning dress of the ordinary
civilian, without ribbon. or medal. or
other decoration on his breast, with
nothing in his garb to distinguish him
from other men. his ruler of more than
three score million men stood out in in
structive contrast to the brilliantly uni-
formed representatives of European roy
atty behind him. 1t was an object lesson
which could hardly be lost on the hun
drcdS present from monarchial states.
Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1893-07-10
OUTLET AND LEYEE.
A Convention to he CalIcd on
July H2.

NEW ORLEANS, July 1O.-Gov. Foster
will today issue a proclamation through
the press calling a meeting of the mem
bers Of all the levec boards of the state,
the levee boards of Arkansas and Mis-
sissippi and the United States engineers
having in charge the levees in the Missis-
sippi valley. The meeting will be held
July II at the State capitol, Baton
Rouge.
The announcement of the governors s
action caused considerable comment.
The purposed meeting is to discuss a
plan for the protection of the alluvial
lands of the valley. Governor Foster is
in favor of a general levee system, and it
is believed he has determined to call a
convention in order to forcstall the meet
ing of the planters favoring the outlet
theory for protection against overflow
disasters. The outlet theroists convene
in August.
Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1893-07-10
ON TO THE NORr1awEsr.
secretary EHOke Smith stops
Awhile In Chicago.

Smith passed through Chicago yesterday
on his way to the Northwest, where he
will combine business with pleasure. He
is accompanied by Mrs. Smith and their
children, his father DR.. II. H. Smith, DR..
Jno. Gerdine, Miss Jackson, Miss Hull
and Claude N. Bennett, his private score
tary, all Georgians. They came in a
private car over the Baltimore and Ohio,
arriving in Chicago at 2:3O yesterday.
They left in the evening in he private car
Manitoba" over the Chicago, Mil
waukee and St. Paul road.
Secretary Smith will visit DEVILS lake.
Great Falls, Fort Custer, Yellowstone
Park and other places in which he is
officially interested before rcturning to
Washington before the beginning of the
special session of Congress.
Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1893-07-10
Movement of specie.

NEW YORK, July 1o.-The imports of
specie at the port of New York for last
week were 81 .1S1 400. of which 81 i 81
SIS were gold and 500. .9S4 silver. The
exports for the week were $1.O63. .O7O,
of which ST ,O61 ,O7O were silver and
So 900 gold. All the silver went to
Europe and all the gold to South
America. The imports exclusive of specie
at this port for the week were $12. .S62,-
$50. of which So. .612.947 were dry goods
and $40, ,249 ,4O3 general merchandise.
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800 AND a MEDAL.
An AshevIlle Man Captures
Prize im Chicago.

Captain ]. w. Glaser has returned from
the Windy City, where he has been for
the past three months. While in Chicago
Captain Glaser held the position of
manager and head waiter in a large res
taurant in the German village in the
Worlds Fair grounds. Last Thursday
taurant, participated in by about 5000
walters, at which a $1OO bill and beau
tiful gold medal were offered to the
waiter who was decided by the referees
to be the most efficient, quickness, grace,
etc, being taken into consideration. The
money and the medal were awarded to
Capt. Glaser, and he is proud of the fact,
to be sure. The medal is on exhibition
at his musical instrument store, No. 26
North Main street
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Pres,aen. Clevelana Improves,

BUzzARD's BAY, Mass. July 1O.-Prcsi-
dent Cleveland passed a comfortable day
yesterday sitting on the broad veranda
of Gray Gables. His rheumatism is
gradually leaving him. and he is now
looking forward to a fishing trip about
the middle of the week.
Later.-President Cleveland took his
first sail down the bay this afternoon.
AS he walked from Gray Gables to the
boat landing he appeared somewhat
lame. He moved very slowly.
Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1893-07-10
VIII Not stop Free Coinage.

CITY OF MEXICO, July 1O.-Mr. Liam
antour, Secretary of the Treasury. AYERS
that there never has been any idea of
stopping the free coinage of silver here.
On the contrary, he states that the
demand for Mexican dollars abroad is
very considerable and is likely to in
| crease