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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-04-03
Grow Your Own Nitrogen.

E. S. Hallet, in the American Agri-
culturist, in an article on the need of
more protein, or flesh formers, advocates
an increased acreage of clover or field
peas for stock feed. In the extreme
South the peas must take the place of
clover, but all that he has written ap-
plies to the cow pea both for making
flesh and adding plant food to the soil.
The Southern farmer in this year of
freeze outs cannot plant too many peas,
nor make too much pea hay, or get too
many pea vines and roots lnJo the soil of
his farm. Substitute cotton seed meal
for linseed meal, which analyses higher,
and the Southern COW pea for clover,
and Mr.. Hallet's article is applicable to
the feeding of stock in the South and to
all the pine and sandy lands in any
Southern state. There is ample time for
a month yet to plant seed for ''flesh
formers" and nitrogen production. 1t
will no longer pay the Southern farmer
to buy Northern hay or commercial nj
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-04-03
Sweet Potatoes.

Bulletin No. IS, issued by the Georgia
Experimental Station, gives the follow
ing general summary:
Commercial fertilizers are to be pre-
ferred to stable manure; 32Opounds acid
phosphate; 800 pounds cotton seed meal;
$40 pounds kainit; 1890 pounds in all,
secures the best results. Cotton seed
meal, as a source of nitrogen, is better
than nitrate of soda; kainit, than mu-
riate of potash; while Florida soft phos-
phate is perhaps little more valuable
than acid phosphate, and cheaper, but
this difference does not altogether COM
pensate for the difficulty of handling
the former. Ridge culture is not re-
commended. Pinching and pruning is
injurious, as is the practice of loosening
the vines to prevent them from taking
root in the middle, particularly if the
season is dry.-Florida Ruralist.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-04-03

and the supply is not equal to the de-
mand, and not likely to be for years to
come.
There are so many farmers who, by
ignorance or negligence, lose their po-
tatoes that sweets for seed are always in
demand at good prices, and often they
are very high. The plan of keeping
sweet potatoes by Mr.. Atkins is
good one. | have kept them not
only through the summer, but until
the next spring, and they terminated,
but it took them two or three weeks
longer than those of the previous years
growth. The raising of sweet potatoes
for seed is quite business here, and
they are sent to every State in the Union,
to Canada and South America, and two
tubers sent last year by mail to Queens
land arrived in good condition. There
thousands of acres are planted for the
vines to feed mich COWS, and it would
pay here.
Many seem to think that the sweet
potato is only adapted to warm climates,
but it will grow anywhere that the Irish
potato will, and in many localities is a
more profitable crop. Worn-out cotton
lands, if allowed to rest year, will
make fair crop of sweet potatoes.
These poor lands, if planted in sweet
potatoes one year, then in cowpeas, and
then sweet potatoes, and again in cow
peas, will then produce good crops of
corn or cotton. AS sweet potatoes i'm
prove instead of improverish land. and,
as they bring a much better price in
proportion to their cost than cotton, it
is to be hoped that more will be planted
than heretofore. Of all the crops that
are raised in the South | can think of
none that will equal Irish and sweet
potatoes as mortgage filters.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-04-03

trogen, when by the planting of the cow
pea or beggar weed he gets hay and
grain, and the little bacteria gathers the
nitrogen, or, at least, secures it safely
for other plant food.
Fattenlng stock, moreover, need al
luminous food as well as COWS do. Corn
can hardly become cheap enough to feed
with profit as an exclusive diet to any
stock. Very fat hogs are no longer in
demand. Prof. Atwater is authority for
the statement that one reason why Ger
many objects to our pork is because it
is too fat. Fat meat is not a suitable
demanding less of it. Weight added by
quick growth costs less than fat: Try
feeding pig on skim milk, linseed oil
meal, and cornor wheat. Keep an ac-
curate &C count of cost, weigh at eight
months. The profits will probably be
an eye-opener. A contractor in my To-
cality, using teams, substituted ship
stuff for part of the corn. His feed bill
was less anu L KNOW Lne Teams were IN
better condition. A horse with his mus
Giles we'll nourished does not use so much
fat. The same is true with man. Health
must also be considered. Well-nourished
animals are far less liable to disease than
either underfed or overfed stock.
The remedy for all the difficulties
noted above is clover; close competition
and worn soil demand it. A rotation
with clover or peas one year in three or
four, will furnish the protein for feed.
With clover some $50 worth of fertilizer
per acre will be added to the soil. The
land is as hungry tor nitrogen as the cat
| tie are for albuminoids. 1t will no longer
pay any but gardeners to purchase nitro
| gen in the shape of commercial ferti
lizers. Improvement in one branch al
ways begets string OF better practices.
| Who could compete with the clover far
mer? None, unless it be the farmer who
raises more clover.-Florida Ruralist.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-04-03
Profit in Sweet Potatoes.

A practical Alabama farmer finds
sweet potatoes his best paying crop, and
Alabama is no better potato country
than Florida. He writes as follows to
an exchanges:
Sweet potatoes are the most profitab BILE
crop that raise. They will make from
200 to 600 bushels per acre, 1000 bushels
have been made, but under extraordi-
nary circumstances,an and the tubers were
of poor quality. But with yield of 200
bushels, and at only Csc. bushel, they
beat &C. cotton long way. They seldom
sell as low as this, and in the spring
bring from SOC. to 81. Extra fine vari-
cites, such as the bunch yam and Span
ish sweets, bring from 81 to SO bushel,
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-04-03
Necessity of Feeding Trees as Carefully
az the Stock.

[ am no chemist. My knowledge OF
fruit culture and the manures suitable
thereto is purley empirical, or as we like
to say, practical, writes o. W. Bicknall
In the Connecticut Farmer. 1t is founded
on the careful experiments of twenty
one years. Long before knew any
thing about the properties of plant food
noticed that some fruit trees and grape
vines on the place bore abundantly of
fine fruit, while others bore none, or had
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-04-03


me a good deal, for there was apparently
but little difference in the quality of the
soil, all of it being fairly good, and the
other conditions seemed the same. After
some years discovered what made the
difference. The trees that bore the best
fruit, the most Of it, and rarely failed,
were the trees that were from choice
we'll supplied with potash. This set me
to thinking and inquiring. They told
me that kainit was the great and eco
nomical source of potash. I bought it
and applied it tentatively to peaches,
apples and grapes first to only few
trees at the rate of two to three hundred
pounds to the acre, which amount l
have since increased. On sandy soil |
find it is needed in larger quantities than
elsewhere, though it pays we'll on all
soils that l have tried it on.
I use from five hundred to six hundred
pounds per acre, with three hundred
pounds ground bone. I am great be-
never In kainit for fruit, not only as
a manure, but as preventive of disease
and destructive insects. While it cam
not take the place of spraying for peaches
and grapes, 1T gives the trees and vines so
much vigor as to enable them largely to
resist the tendency to disease which
often lays them open to the attack Of
parasites.
There is peach orchard here which,
excepting the great freeze of 1894, has
not in many years failed to bear quanti-
ties of the most superb Amsden June
peaches; while other orchards full two
years out of three, that has hit every
every year, with the one exception
named. The owner is believer in feed
ing his trees as we'll and carefully as his
stock. He uses ground bone and kainit
freely, but no ammonia except occasion
ally turning under crop of cowpea
vines.
For eleven years | have been largely
engaged in strawberry culture, having
now in seventytive acres. Here | use
the dissolved bone, instead Of bone dust,
as the former is quicker in it's action, as
suits the needs of this crop. find that
600 to 700 pounds per acre pays me we'll
Kainit or muriate of potash find even
more necessary on strawberries, black
berries and raspberries. 1t not only
makes large and fine crops of berries,
but also lessons the tendency to rust and
blight. On some lots | could not plant
strawberries at all for the ravages of
white grub, did | not use kainit regu-
larly. It drives them away, and also the
cut worm, which is sometimes ruinous
pest. use 600 to 800 pounds kalnit, or
800 to 500 pounds muriate of potash per
acre, with 600 pounds dissolved bone,
and 300 to 500 pounds nitrate of soda,
or 400 to 800 pounds of cotton seed meal
in place of the nitrate. | apply half
broadcast before cropis planted, half the
remainder in November, as top dressing
over plants, and the rest in the same
way the following March.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-04-03
Suggestions.

out having to endure the infection of
such frightful theories as are brought to
our notice in the last issue of local paper.
The idea of the sour sap being forced
downward and the sweet sap forcing it's
way upward, intermingling and so poi
soning the fountains of life and result
ing in foot rot, ETC., cannot be calmly
contemplated by the mind and will surely
result in lunatico de orangoibus or. NAL
de sapibus. 4
There can be no more movement of
sap, sweet or sour, between the living
and dead portions of the tree than would
be the case If the branch were cut off or
the tree cut down. AS far as movement
exists in the tree, it is a movement of
every minute atom of moisture, not sap,
to escape by the nearest route to the
outer air, resulting in a drying up of the
tree,a seasoning of the wood. This evap-
GRAFTON from the whole surface is of it.
self sufficient to prevent any downward
flow if that were possible.
But after all, these discussions avail
little. The question is, what is to be
done? Some are cutting off their trees,
others say don't; in the case of small
trees there is no good reason for leaving
them, all above the ground is dead, the
roots only are full of life, and from them
alone must growth come. The upper
portions of root have dormant buds pro-
vlded for just such emergencies, and to
facilitate their growth, the soil should be
removed from about the stump and up
per root.
For the rest we must with patience
await nature, who will, from these ad-
ventitious buds not intended for ordi-
nary use, IN time restore our trees; and
if it were possible to get buds to insert
at least one year would be gained there
by.
| think those persons who are cutting
off old trees to where buds are pushing
are making mistake, they are likely to
find the stumps will die back still fur
Their.
There are some objections to leaving
the tree as it is, and let nature, in her pa
tient, gradual and safe way, do the work,
without further shock and with no new
read justmentuof forces when life is
nearly gone and powers of adjustment
are low. But, bad as it might look, if my
trees were large, | would not put saw
in them; the old branches and tWigs
might crowd the new growth somewhat
and prevent good form, but tree is
the first thing, and it's style is quite
secondary consideration. Again,it is no
SIN all matter to have most of the mate
rial you have been at such pains and cost
to build up into tree, remain to be grad
ually restored to the soil and in time re-
built. How can you artiicially restore
to the soil any substance so well adapted
to make another tree as the one once a
tree, now dead brush, unsightlv it may
be to the eye and inconvenient to have
around, but in it's makeup precisely
what you must replace if once you re-
move it? D. r. PmsBRY.
The Penn's Grove record., 1895-04-12

There Is q revival of interest In South
polar exploration. An antarctic expe.
Zion is projected in Sweden. Hall
O century has elapsed since much
was accomplished in the exploration OF
the regions surrounding the south pole
The most valuable voyage was that OF
Sir James Ross in 1S39-'43. That ex,
plorer followed what appeared to be an
ice-bound coast for a distance of zoe
miles, and discovered the volcanic
peaks Brebus and Terror, the former OF
which is 1900 feet high. Feb. 4, 1871,
he reached the latitude of rs degrees IL
minutes, the nearest approach to the
south pole that has been reported up ia
tho present time. The Challenger only
penetrated as far as about 631b degrees
south of the equator during Its celebrat
ed voyage. Since then the f~orbiddina
southern seas, with their mountains OF
floating Ice, have been left uninterfered
with to silence by human beings, and
there is a general disposition to believe
that a very large part Of the antarctic
area ts covered by a gigantic ice cap
which, near the pole, may be anywhere
from one to four miles thick. This idea
was entertained by James CroIl, but
It now is questloneds Md at least one
student Of the subject feels assured that.
far beyond the limits hitherto reached
will be found a dwelling-place of hu.
man beings who for untold centuries
have been shut off in this tragic exile
from all their brother men,"
The Penn's Grove record., 1895-04-12
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Eastern and
fiddle States

Charging that her faithless husband
died in Auburn prison from poison,
Wilhelmina Ballauff, of Brooklyn,
asks an investigation.
For alleged theft of jewelry from
John G.. Warth, a company treasurer,
In o New York hotel, Edgar Goldsmith,
a youth, is under arrest.
Two heavy passenger trains on the
Maine Central Railroad we're in COLI
sion three miles from Bangor, Maine.
James Ward, n of the fireman, was
killed, and several other persons were
Injured. Three engines, a postal and
a baggage car were smashed. 3
For fraudulent transactions, Edward
Morton was expelled from the Consoli'
dated Petroleum Stock Exchange, o.
New York.
Four hurglaries we're committed in
the vicinity Of Saltwater, New York
At one place, the farmhouse Of Jane;
Waller, the robbers got 5000 in cash
Theft of $4,000 from Fenton, Con
nor 4 Co., at New York, sends 10 Sins
Sing for four years John Emison, a
bookkceper and Brooklyn church
deacon. 4
Three robbers frightened aged Jame'
Walker and wife, living near Saltwater
N. Y, INTO giving up 5000 in cash.
Leaving behind a $4,000 shortage
w. r. Nolan, clerk of the Park Avenu,
Hotel. New York, has disappeared.
In n struggle with Burglar Philil
Flint, who had entered their rooms
Joseph Raduziner and son, Sigmund
of New York, were painfully stabbed
! but Flint WAS arrested. b
BY eating wild psrsnips a child o
L. Stucke, of Genoa, Neb., was fatalll
poisoned, but another may recover
J A tornado that demolished a churci
and unroofed several buildings, a
Winsborough, Tex, killed a child ant
injured several persons.
/ Jesse NJ. Gregory, who murdered hi
wife Clara, at her sisters home, il
New York city, was found in his lodg
! ines suffering from three bullet wound
and a cut on his left wrist. He hat
infected the wounds in an effort t.
end his life.
William Caesar, colored, who slew
and dlsmembered Mary Martin, il
New York, has Eeen indicted for nun
der.
The collapse of an Orchard stree
building in New York and the KILN.
of FIVE men caused Building Inspecto
I. ]. 0rmsby to be indicted for man
slaughter.
William E. Warner. aPhiladelphlan
was at New York sentenced to 1;
months in State Prison for giving
checks in payment for a saloon Oh
! banks where he had no funds. 2
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Southern and
Western States

After being given up for lost, L. N.
Bailey and j.. B. Bracket, of San
Diego, CAL, got safely out of the desert
| near Yuma.
A boiler explosion in the ruins of II
burned mill at Saginaw, Mich, com
pleted the wreck and killed Frank
Kelley, Il laborer.
Craftsmen robbed the safe in the
Southern Express C~ompany's Office, at
Punta Gorda, Fla, of 5000.
Five years in prison will pay Julius
Schwabacker, son of a Peoria million
aire, who was caught robbing a neigh
boris house.
The arrest of Ex-Governor f. s.. Solo
mon, of Wisconsin, is asked by Ms.
Lydia Virgil, of Frisco, who charges
ENLIGHTENMENT of $3.50.
William Raws, a negro, who was in
custody charged with the murder of b.
II. Kane, a merchant of Newmansville,
Florida, was taken from the guard by a
mob of masked men. They disap-
pcared, and it is believed the negro was
lynched. 3
A wind storm at Tampa, Fla.
wrecked Armenia's cigar factory,
causing $50. 900 loss.
With his throat terribly cut by him
self, II. w Gipperich, of Richmond,
Va, was fount wandering about a
Baltimore brickyard.
While resisting arrest, Mont Des-
kins, a noted desperate, of Magofin
County. KY, wa shot dead by Deputy
Sheriff Howard.
In runaway near South Bend, Ind,
two children of James Hicks were
trampled to death and Hicks and his
wife were badly hurt.
The body of William Rawls, the
negro murderer, who was taken from
guards Of Newnansville, Fla, was
found dangling to a tree and riddled
with bullets.
Terrible burns received in her Bal
tImore home ten days ago, finally
caused the death of Mrs. r. B. Heath,
daughter of the late Commodore
Kittson, of st. Faul. 4
An old feud ended in Samuel Har-
vey,a Vinton CO.. farmer, fatally shoot
ing Ephraim Strausbaugh, his brother
in-law.
A $1,000 shortage was found in
County Treasurer ]. W. LInville's ac-
counts at Pittsfeld, H., and he is
under arrest.
The strangling to death in bed of
Mrs. Riley Thomas, aged IS of Sisson-
vile, w, Va, is laid to her jealous
husband, who is still free.
Mistaking Pat Shea, a drunken man,
on his porch, for a burglar, Professor
w. E. Reynolds, of Milledgeville, Ga,
shot HIM dead.
An inquest owe Mrs. John Carnes,
of V%anceburg, KY, showed that her
neck was broken, and her husband and
mother.in-law were jailed for the crime.
Joseph J. Willis, chief engineer of
the Louisville, Kentucky, Veneer Mills,
was caught in a shaft of a fly wheel
The Penn's Grove record., 1895-04-12
Gable Sparks.

Turkey is too poor to send any war
ships to the German canal celebration.
The Duke of Aosta, who is to wed
Princess Helena of Orleans, has arrived
in London.
The Trieste Chamber of Commerce
has asked Austria to subsidize a direct
steamship line to America.
Despite the repeated expulsion OF
Mormon missionaries, several women
from Brandenburg, Ger, left for Utah
last week. /
England declines to espouse the
cause of Hawaii's ex-Queen.
Italian troops in Africa have captur-
ed Salama end occupied Agama.
The Hoya works near Tamatave,
Madagascar, were bombarded by French
cruisers on April A.
Sir William Harcourt has reintro-
duced in the House Of Commons his
local veto license bill.
No reply has as yet been received in
London to Great Britain's demand that
Venezuela explain a recent insult
British flag.
The Penn's Grove record., 1895-04-12

Consider the great multitude of
Christians who are constitutionally in-
capable OF believing that there can be
any good in any other religious sys-
tenn than their own. How many Prot
estants are there who hold it incred-
lble that any good thing can some out
OF Rome? Can you number the Ro-
manists who are without faith In any
thing the Protestants ever did7
A similar peculiarly is seen in races.
There are many Irishmen who can be.
lieye in nothing but Saxon "~perfdy,"
many Poles who can believe In moth
Ing but Russian "wicksdness," many
Boheminns who can believe In nothing
but the German 'brute," and many
Englishmen who can believe In moth
Ing but the 'unspeakahls's Tusls%Ah
HI YS1F Round.
The Penn's Grove record., 1895-04-12

Cfiiropodists and ~horseshoers In New
York wan the Legislature to prescribe
the conditions precedent to engaging
In their learned professions" But
after all. since the law declares how a
mai shall become a lawyer, a doctor,
or a dentist why should not legal
notes and bounds be put to the wor.
shipful callings of chiropody and veter.
mary surgery? When we peruse the
New York papers We ever think that
there should be a State board of e1
animation and license for editors
The Penn's Grove record., 1895-04-12
T PLAGUE.
It Carries on 100 of coo Stricken and
Causes Sudden Death.

It Carries on 100 of 800 Stricken and
Causes Sudden Death.
The following description of the plague In
Floyd and Both Counties, Kentucky, which
victims, is furnished by physicians sen to
investigate the plague by the State Board Of
Health.
The doctors say 1t is identical with the
plague which swept Ireland in 1856. 1t Ii
malignant, but not contagious, and is due to
local conditions, though about the exact
cause almost nothing Is known. Its most
appalling feature Is the rapidity ofits action.
II longest course does not exceed three days,
and scores died in from two to eight hours.
The symptoms are pain in the head, a high
fever and a tendency to draw back the head
and shoulders. Pains like the singing oil
bees attack the ends of the toes and fingers,
extending to the head. The eyes become
fixed, crossed as death draws near, and the
victim sinks into a stupor, which lasts longer
than the more painful features of the horri-
BILE disease. OF 200 cases $50 died.
The Penn's Grove record., 1895-04-12

Rushing to the gold fields of Yves,
Australia Is the cause of hundreds Of
poor fellows going broke" on the Aus.
tralian deserts during these winter
days, when the thermometer goes to 100
In the shade in the gold regions. Amer,
lean would better investigate carefully
before betaking themselves to that far,
of region in quest of gold. California
has plenty of gold still undiscovered
Without a doubt.
The Penn's Grove record., 1895-04-12

A st. Louis man arrested for wear.
Ing his hat In the theater found the
plea that the lady in front of him was
wearing a larger one not sufficiently
mitigating to save him from $40 fine.
No n thought of arresting the lady.
And her inequality with man Is prob.
ably the thing she is raging about.
The Penn's Grove record., 1895-04-12
Big Timber Land Deal.

nave I purchased aehe. 1000 acres acres Of Potter COUNTY
(Pennsylvania) timber land from William
Dent, and the timber and hemlock bark on
another tract OF 1000 acres. These tracts are
estimated to contain 1,00o, 900 900 feet Of
standing timber. The price paid was $3.50.
900. The timber lands Of Potter County ars
now all practically In the hands OF the Good.
years. whose sawmills are ut Austin.
The Penn's Grove record., 1895-04-12
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New York Clip
The Penn's Grove record., 1895-04-12

The man who advertises Is the one
who often rises
To be among the leaders in the desper.
ate race for wealth;
With this one stipulation, that he does
so with discretion,
And he finds it beneficial to botb
bank account and health,