1LTLD: n .. , .. '! . .... . 240 THE FLORIDA DISPATCH.: . --- flit' JJlorida lIispaftll. Is the Kaffir-Corn ? Work for April. draw heavily on the soil, and must be _. An up-river subscriber; writes us, liberally fed. "High culture" is ab- -- -- -- IN FIELD, GARDEN AND GROVE. JACKSONVILLE, FLA., MCH. 29, 1886. under date March 20 : solutely necessary for the productionof ---------- ----.- -. .- --- -' The Spring still lags and much "A Georgia friend has just sent mea large forage crops. Plow deep, REDMOND I A. H. MANVILLEEdltorsNote small package of"Kaffir Corn"-the field and garden work generally accomplished pulverize finely, manure heavily, and I ---- same, I presume, that you are sendingout before this time, still remains cultivate cleanly and often, and heavy from the DISPATCH office and I date of the of undone. After our crops are will be reward. expiration your crops your am a little puzzled to locate it. The subscription printed on your paper (or seed looks like some varieties of mil all pitched and fairly under way,something Upland Rice may still be planted; wrapper) and if in arrears please re let, and has ii!> similarity to our com- may be done by constant, clean but if other matters are pressing, we mit. mon corn. Is it really a "Corn," or and thorough culture, extra fertilizing, advise waiting until June previous to 1-4 some sort of millet, and do you thinkit etc., to push things forward ; and most which we shall offer further sugges- CASSAVA seed ?1S urgently inquired valuable for cultivation in Florida . of readers the our fully recognize urgency tions this too-much-neglected on crop. ., for, by many of our readers. ? of the situation and will .. "Your either the present Watermelons not well advanced, ---- -- ---- --- reply, through FORAGE CROPS, Garden and Grove, DISPATCH, or per postal, will greatly doubtless, use all thrift and diligence. should be planted at once. The best Field and Farm suggestions, etc.-see oblige, Yours very truly I Where Cotton and Corn have sufficiently fertilizers are cotton-seed meal, guanoor Work for April, elsewhere. H. D. E.-A Subscriber. advanced, they should be poultry-house manure, mixed well -e. REPLY.-The Kaffir is, undoubtedly worked out and brought to a clean with the surface earth, in the hill; and RICE be almost considered in- may Corn," in the full sense of the word ; stand. Sugar Cane and Cassava will, among the very best:: varieties are the Florida. It is the degenous to same though the average American gener- also, need a careful working with Georgia Rattlesnake, Peerless, Kolb's here wheat is in Minnesota. It will as ally applies that term to maize only. sweep and hoe. Seed of these plantsis Gem and Ironclad. Muskmelons and .1 grow on high or low land. The straw By reference to Webster, or any stand- very scarce and much sought after, Canteloups: are also now in order; and, is excellent food for cattle horses or ard lexicographer, you will] see that this spring, and our planters should with the exception of closer planting, and of rice will an acre rough bring the word "Corn" has a wide signification. make every eye and joint count, and require the same management as the in the market than of more an acre wheat. We quote : cultivate with unusual care. Watermelon.Okra . 4 "CORN,"u.-A single seed of certain Irish Potatoes, (if any have with- may be planted as soon as the ANGORA GOATS.The Texas Live- plants, as wheat, rye, barley and stood the cold,) may be dug and I ground is warm; and, when very stock Journal says the two principal maize ; a grain shipped this month, and the land abundant, the tender pods may be in Texas well The various cereal or farinaceous grains Angora goat men as as planted either in Watermelons, for a thinly sliced, dried and saved for win- which in ears, and are used for in the United States P. grow are Joseph " food, as wheat, oats, rye, barley, maize ; later crop, or cow-peas, forage, sweet ter soup and "gumbo. Devine of Bexar sixteen miles county, -used collectively. potatoes, beans, pumpkins, squashes, Tomato plants may be set out, and north of San Antonio, and the Arnold In Scotland, the term is generally restricted those already in vigorous growth Brothers in Nueces Uvalde In the United States etc.The Canyon, to oats : , first crop of Sweet Potato draws pinched back to give a strong stock They have from 2,500 to to maize} or Indian Corn, of which, county. several kinds are cultivated," etc. may be planted this month, and be sure and promote early fruiting. 3,000 head each.JACKSONVILLE. ... .- -- In English literature, the word i to put in a little "more than enough." Rye and Oats should be cut and AND lIILLEN.'Ve The sweet potato is one of Florida's cured the latter part of the month, all corn embraces nearly or quite are pleased to see the fact authenti- varieties of grain used for the food of cheapest luxuries-a great boon to man and Sweet Potatoes or other crops cally announced, that the new Rail- man or beast; and our elder readers and beast. The ridges should not be planted on the same ground. way between Milieu\ (Ga.,) and Jack- will readily remember the great excitement thrown up too high, nor the ground Snap and Pole Beans may be planted - 'sonville, (Fla.,) is now a fixed fact and since in regard to plowed too deep-a rather flat bed or for a succession, and those already many years manured with cotton-seed meal worked. Plant the ridge sure thing. Work is progressing on Corn Laws;" Corn Law Leagues ;" growing carefully certain sections of the road, and al- The and ashes ; an old cow-pen broken up Lima Bean in circle,highly manured Corn Law Rhymes, etc., etc. ready twelve or fifteen miles have been and "listed" into low, mellow ridges ; as heretofore suggested. which "Kaffir Corn, to our corres- graded. It is promised that the road pondent alludes, is, probably one of stable or "lot" manure-any compostor Cabbage and "Collards" may be will be finished by October next. fertilizer rich in potash,answers well transplanted, and Egg Plants and Pep- _. the varieties of the"Imphee, from the --------- for this important and valuable crop ; pers set out.Strawberry. Some Things to Do I Dark Continent. It somewhat resem- and the simplest and best mode of beds will need attention. Let us make plenty of corn and bles the seeds of Dourha, and is closely " is the "cut vines Mulch of land the : propagation by as a strip along row rice and sweet potatoes ;-raise all the 1 allied to the Sorghum, or "Chinese soon as these can be obtained. with chopped or cut straw or leaves, cattle, hogs and poultry we can, Sugar Cane. Having satisfactory as- Forage Crops, of all kinds, should working the middles shallow, to keep without trespassing on our neighbors surance of its value as a forage and the and weeds. Cut off all receive special attention this down grads -cultivate a good garden or truck grain plant, we obtained a small quan- year. 1 have suffered on your bearing plants, as of runners Many our people severe ( distribution and for patch-raise a super-abundance of tity for our own use : freeze "timesare fast as they ''appear and when , loss from the January ; ; your subscribers. If it should forage and hay-keep our groves among our hard ;j" money is: scarce ; and a plants have eased bearing, sow one I half valuable Dr. and nurseries in good growing condi- prove even as as portion at least of the thousands paid straight row/ of cow-peas on each of tion, and the "country" generally, Watson,and other Georgia growers as- for northern hay should be kept at the middles/ if the plants are in threeor will take care of itself-with a little sert, it will be of very great benefit to home. Any man who owns land can four foot rows. The cow-peas will help from the politicians! if the and troubleof the State; not, cost keep down/the later growth of weeds ---.---- have profitable forage trifle.-EDs. some testing it is the merest crop grow- and ,tlnd shade the plants from "TIlE FLORIDA CHRISTIAN ADVO- grass . -e-4 in the and and ing day big every year the blight g and burning effects of 1 CATE," the State Organ of the M. E. Prof. Riley, of the Agricultural full fodder-stacks should be found in the long mmer's sun. Church South, is a large, handsomely Department, has examined the orange all barn-yards and horse-lots the com- In our eneficent climate, it is not printed and very ably edited journal, trees in various sections of the State, ing fall. Of forage plants that can be too late tet a for any spring crop: but published every Thursday, by the and reports the scale insect killed successfully grown, there is no end. time flipsfapdly, and all our diligence "Sanford Publishing Company," at wherever the freeze of the past winterwas We have common corn, in the drill ; and energy--ire- needed.--.- Sanford, Fla., at $2 per year, or $1 severe enough to strip the leaves all the different varities of Sorghum, EATING TIE PINE-ApPLE.-A medical for six months. Our friend and from the trees. The eggs however including "Amber" Cane, Millo Maize,I ] writer ays that the same knife former correspondent, Rev. J. P. De have not been destroyed, and growers. etc., all the varieties of Millet, such as"Pearl" I should not fe used for both peeling Pass, is the Editor-in-Chief; and the who would rid themselves entirely of or 'Cat-tail," Hungariangrass and slicing t pine-apple, as the rind ADVOCATE deserves and will, doubt- this pest should watch the trees closelyand German, etc., Dourha Corn ; contains an cid that is likely to cause less, receive a liberal support, not only apply kerosene emulsion,or other the new Kaffir Corn ; Cow Peas,I a swollen muth and sore lips. The from the large and influential denom- good insecticide, as the broods appear. but remember all these Cubans alt antidote for the Hubbard's valuable articleon etc., etc., : use as an ination to which it belongs, but from See Mr. the public generally. this subject in another column. crops, of quick and rampant growth,, ill effects ofthe peel. .