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 It is supplied with a BEMIS PLANTER, which opens, plants, waters,
and covers at the same time. This machine has been thor-
oughly tested this year and found to be very successful in every
respect. It will pay for itself in the saving of expenses in a single sea-
son in a crop of from six to ten acres. It is also equally as well adapted
to planting all plants, such as cabbages, &c., as tobacco, and I very
readily commend it to our tobacco as well as our vegetable growers.
Mr. C. C. Chapman, who made a very fine crop of tobacco this fast
season near this place (Lake City), used one of these machines, which
I saw operate frequently. He planted regardless of drought, and his
heaviest loss from any one planting was not larger than 10 per cent.
After having become accustomed to its use his loss was reduced to
5 per cent. Those who expect to make the growing of tobacco their
business in the future should by all means supply themselves with this
admirable machine for transplanting.

ANALYSIS OF STATION AND CUBA TOBACCO SOIL
 AND CUBA TOBACCO.

 The soils of which the following analyses were made were taken
from Station Plots, on which the experiment was made the past season,
and also from a tobacco field in Cuba.
 The tobacco analysis was of tobacco that had ripened on the Cuba
soil.
 The analyses were made by Dr. J. J. Earle, Prof. of Chemistry in
Agricultural and Mechanical College.

 SOIL ANALYSES.

 Column One-Fla. Soil.
 Two-Cuba Soil.


Moisture at 110 . .
Organic matter . .
Sand and insoluble matter.
Carbonic acid (CO..) .....
Sulphuric acid (SO3). ....
Oxide of iron (Fer 03) .. .
 lime (CaO) .....
 magnesia (Mg 0). .
Phosphoric acid (P20,) .
Potash (KO) . ..
Soda (Na0) .... ....


 One.

 1.00 per cent.
 .95 "1
97.00 "

 .007 "
 .790 "
 .130 "
 .008 "
 .053
 .018 "
 .030 "


 Two.

14.20 per cent.
12.30
30.32 "
4.20
 .12 
29.4(0
7.60 "
 .17
 1.60
 .16
 .084 "


 99.98 per cent. 100.15 per cent.
Nitrogen to..... . ...... .028 .32
Ammonia ..... ...... .034 .39 "

 The suphuric acid is combined with the lime to form sulphate of
lime (gypsum.) The remainder of the lime is combined with the car-.
bonie acid to form carbonate of lime, and with the phosphoric acid to
form phosphate of lime.