The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-12-16
r. J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO CO.,
WINSTON, N. C.

The Citizen says the acreage devoted to
the weed in 1896 will be a great increase
on any year past. Quite a number of
farmers have expressed a determination
to plant as much as fifty acres. Numerous
tenant farmers will also put in from one
to five acres
Florida Irish Potatoes.-Can Irish po-
tatoes be properly grown in Florida. The
Orlando Reporter states that a farmer at
Longwood decided to plant late crop.
He bought five bushels of culls, small
potatoes the size of a walnut, at cost
of 81 per bushel These were planted in
an acre of pine land. The crop will not
mature until the middle of December but
from an examination of the condition of
the crop recently, it is estimated at $50
bushels.
A Little Precaution Pays.-Mr r. Chris
Jensen of Oviedo was in the city to-day.
says the Orlando Reporter. He says his
tive-acre grove is coming on nicely. He
had his trees wrapped with three or four
thicknesses of newspaper last winter, and
sequently he will have fruit next season.
He argues that ii is cheaper and better
in the end to pay four or five cents per
tree to have ones grove properly wrapped
than to pay one-haf-cent TO one cent each
for a cheaD job AT five cents per tree
1t would cost only 80 cents to wrap tree
ten winters, which would insure bearing
grove. Nothing else that can be done
to the grove will give as good a return for
the outlay as will properly wrapping the
trunks of trees. Orange growers should
this winter.
Hardness. of the Pineapple-A Flor
rida grower writes TO the Barlow
fact that up TO this time old pineapple
roots which we thought killed are still
terminating. am now fully convinced
that no pineapple root will ever be killed
by freezes here two inches below the sur
face. Those who plant large, long slips,
and set them deep, need never fear even
with degrees more cold than last win
ter. / have taken up and transplanteG
nearly 600 slips in the last month, moving
the whole, old plants as well, into new
patch, and | am not mistaken in my eX-
perience here, however different that of
others may be in other localities. AND,
were ! going to transplant 100000 plants,
or any amount which were too short
to plant deep and leave the bud out,
would put them in at least four or five
inches deep if the whole bud went under.
| have tried covering them entirely up and
know they will come up. If the bud dies
the other eyes on the root Will sprout
and eventually come out Shall ] say you
caut kill them? Well, you may scala
that is about your only chance to get
away with them"
Buckwheat in Florida-A Florida paper
says: Mr.. d. r. Strait of Altoona viii
this week begin harvesting the third sue
cessiVe crop of buckwheat grown and
matured this season. Each crop required
Just sixty days from sowing, to harvest.
The yield was very good, although
grown without fertilizer, and the grain
was well filled out Owing to weather a
large portion of the second crop, the
heaviest of the three, was lost in harvest
ing. This crop was of the Japan variety,
and demonstrates its adaptability to our
soil and climate. In addition to the use
fulness of the grain, the straw is greatly
relished by cattle. 1t will, when better
known undoubtedly become a staple
farm crop in FLORIDA" 1t is hardly nee
essary to state that. with the exception
of tender fruit, oranges, pineapples, Ntc..
anything that can be grown in Florida
and higher That is such crops as buck
wheat upland rice, fall Irish potatoes,
fnhaccn. etc.