The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-06-07

in favor of the rice.
A few little errors and mistakes on
the farm, if not given proper atten-
ton, consolidate and assume big pro-
portions, challenging vigorous and per-
haps costly treatment. Moral: Watch
the little things.
The farmers of the Atlantic and
Gulf States will have to make cotton
only a side crop; that is, make every
thing else needed, then all the cotton
they can. If they will do so the cotton
difficulty will be solved.
The first convention of wheat-grow-
ers ever held in that neighborhOOd
met at Macon, Ca, last month. Such a
gathering is suggestive of one of the
most effective means Of preventing So
called overproduction Of cotton.
Strictly fresh eggs always being a
good price, even when store eggs are
cheap. Farmers who sell eggs should
remember this and so arrange their
business as to market ais the New
York Irishman votes-early and often.
Too many people are careless about
having good watering places for their
hogs. They should have pure, fresh
water and good shade. Hogs do not
require wallows. Give plenty of shade
in summer and good, dry, warm quar-
tiers in winter.
Raise enough grain, forage and root
crops to keep all the animals, ETC.,
fat and sleek, and you will necessarily
have to curtail the much-abuseI, low
priced, mortga ge-breeding cotton
crop, and at the same time get the
same amount of money for it.
Whenever the land is not in clean
hoed crops keep the soil covered with
vegetation summer and winter if you
want to retain and increase it's pro-
ductiveness. If you give humus a
rest' and keep the land bare of vege-
tatiOn, you will sooner or later be bare
of crops.
Mutton is the cleanest and most
healthful of all meats. Sheep diseases
are all apparent; their muscles contain
no trichinae and their glands no scrOf-
ulous bacilli. "A sheep Will actually
starve rather than eat any sort of
filthy food. Americans are rapidly de-
velOping a taste for mutton.
Compared with well rotted barn ma
nure, there are 1880 pounds of phos-
barnyard manure; Al pounds of pot
ash to 10 in barnyard manure, and 81
pounds of nitrogen to II in barnyard
manure. The analysis lis based on a
ton each of hen and barnyard ma
nures.
Among the farmers everywhere
there is much good material for legis-
lators; many able, shrewd, honest, en-
ergetic men with a vast amount of Ia
tive Judgment and good sense, each
one worth half dozen talkative
tricky lawyers or tradesmen. The best
of the farmers may average less polish
than the townIsmen, but they will
wear a great deal better.
The time is coming when the sheep
industry will flourish in the South.
When Southern legislators will be
compelled to make laws protecting
them. When the Northern markets
will look to the Southern farmer for
spring lambs. When choice fresh or
corned mutton will in part take the
place of Northern bacon on the South
erm farmers table. When the South
ern farm shall be enriched by the gold
en- hoof, and the golden fleece shall
supply the raw material for the South
ern factory.
Alabama is getting out from under
the crop lien. North Carolina is re-
storing her lands with the cowpea and
in diversified farming. Texas is max
ing progress in animal farming. Lou
isiana and Mississippi are becoming
trucking and sugar making states,
with tho advanta COS of chnan frniU