. .' ",', '"",.. t 'r-:; ";..'" , \f"64'. ,. ,. ,.-- :, : -' --- ---SHE FLORIDA DISPATCH. [FEBRUARY 14,188t. . little covering is needed, not over two. had the crab grass cut for hay, thinking l .A.I: ? z... :F.3Si ! The farm, or three inches. that if there was any Texas blue Quicker germination can be secured grass roots left, I would give it a chanceto . 'W::...:: .c ::: :: : ::: ::: : :::::::: ::-;: ::: : the shell but But lo and behold THE by breaking outer carp come up. ! Raising: Peanuts. must be taken not to injure the nut or where I had cut the crab grass the >We think this a profitable crop to hull that encloses it ; I prefer to plantat other had already started up as thickas grow in the Gulf States., The choiceof least two in each hill and place the the hairs on a dog's back. Well, so Most Sontllorn City 1 of FlortQa. seed is'a very important item. Last hills two feet apart in the rows. If I find there is no choking it out. After February we saw an article in the the patch is large, four feet each way the hay had been saved, I then turned - ,Grange Advocate from a gentleman in is the most desirable distance betweenthe my horses and cattle on it, and let Clay county, Mississippi, in referenceto hills. Press the earth down on them graze on it for four weeks. I Deep wa'er Railroad Terminus. Fertile the red California peanut. The the seed after covering. thought I would see if stock could kill nit and Ve.etabl Land" High Kolllng writer purchased two bushels and Nearly all the nuts sold at retail it. Last week I to-ik the stock out of Pine Lands Climate.f..r Building.Magnificent Balmy Sun and and Salubrious Pea- turned over to a negro to be plantedon have been roasted, and in purchasingseed it (one part of the patch had weeds valids'Bathing.Sanitarium.Sportmen's Tue Paradl Pleasure-Seeker e. The In shares. ,The two bushels plantedan some care must be exercised in growing as thick as they could stand), Resort. acre (estimated). The crop is on the selection. There two varietiesred so I cut them down and let them get land too poor to raise corn or cotton and white. Either is good, but thoroughly dry. Four days ago I set profitably. It has not been worked as in this section the white yields the be'st fire and burnt the dead weeds and old Fine Opportunities for Invest- it should have been, but the prospect returns. dry grass, which of course, burnt all ment. for a good yield is nevertheless very Sufficient cultivation should be givento the tender grass that had put up. Well, flattering. There is a large amountof keep the soil mellow and destroythe : now you see, I first tried to choke it vine-a very luxuriant growth of weeds. Most\ of this work must be to death, then the stock could not kill 20,000 CITY LOTS. vine for the peanut. We will therefore I. done while the plants are young and it by trampling and eating it, and 'be able if we manage properly, to before they begin to run. After the when the fire burnt over it four days house considerable hay from this acre. vines have started to run well a little ago, it has grown an inch or mo"e high 1r 'iile i l 1 t There is no richer hay than the pea- attention will so cause them to cover since. This morning it is looking as nut affords The advantage of this tho ground that the weeds will make green and coming as thick as ever. 1- V particular breed of peanut is that it little growth. Many\ growers of pea- Now, as I said, 1 am just waiting to adheres firmly to the vine, and when nuts follow the plan of throwing a see if it will grow up two or three fret . thevine is pulled up, very few of the small spade full of soil on each blossom high after doing all I could to kill it. nuts remain in the ground. This, at a short time after they appear.In If it continue to grow and make the least, is the statement of the party harvesting pull up the vines and crop-as it did last winter. Then Mr. from whom we purchased the seed. lay on top of the vine to cure. Many Editor, Florida has been Redeemed.As 1r.au..L1II ,,...-. the vines and them will then have th* finest The nuts are very large. There was gather up lay on we countryon . not a single cull among the entire two racks to dry out. If it is the inten earth for) raising all kinds of stock. , bushels of seed-every nut was good. tion to pick off the nuta immediatelyafter There will be no use for having any them off the vines it is and horses in the Several years ago we planted about pulling more poor cows two acres in peanuts, but they were not necessary to cure them in the field, winter.I \Wnu the small kind, and at digging time at ao the peas can be cured after they are shall let your readers hear from it -i- least half of them were left in the taken off. When it is desired to defer again. There are a great many persons ,. ground-did not adhere well to the picking until other work is not press waiting to see just how it will ' vine, ,and the expense of gatheringthem ing, care should be taken to dry thor- turnut this winter. 1 am almost sat- / 4, .+ was very considerable. The oughly, for they mould very easily. isfied 1 imy! own mind, that it is a crop did not pay. We think, however, The peas must be separated from the grand success, but will wait a little s that the peanut me have now will not vines by hand. while longer before I record it.- W. only bear a much heavier crop of both Any farmer's boy with a little dilli- P. Home, in Florida Agriculturist. - nuts and vines, but will thrive better gence can raise a patch of peanuts . than any other on poor land, and can with profit, for() with fair cultivationthe Phosphoric Acid in Bone and vices yield enormously.S"1dher.Lit'e Broad avenues every four hundred feet be gathered at very little expense. Rock. Wide s'reetd every two hundred leek, One When the crop is harvested we shall Stock Journal. hun ired spacious Public Parks. Plenty of ---,- Phosphoric acid is the same substance fresh air assured. A magnlHceat Beach 100 have something more to say. If the feet wide and five miles long, Is laid out In a well Texas Blue Grass. no matter from what source it splendid drive and boulevard. Situated In turns out as as we anticipate, crop Monroe county,30 miles south of Punta Uor- we shall certainly advise general cultivation No doubt but some of your readers comes. That in bones is identical with da,on the most southern habitable portionof . by our readers. The labor would like to hear whether the Texas that in South Caroliiio Rockand, when I toe Peninsular of the Gulf Coast. to make the is blue grass is going to prove a eucceesin necessary crop very made solvable by treating with sulphuric - little. Florida, or not. After experimenting with it for I under acid, the soluble portion is also An Ideal City in Tropical Florida. Below we publish an article creditedto two years, am the Rural Messenger, on the cultivation the impression now, that it will be a identical from both sources. But \.. , of the peanut. The party who grand success, in this portion of the whilst the ph sphate of lime in bone Blocks 200x403 teet. Lots 50x100 feet. With sold us the nuts mentioned above, ad- State. But let me test it two months and Carolina rock are identical in 'DI>)feet laue. 25 per cent..of proceeds devoted . vised for this particular variety, clay more before J give my final decision chemical composition, they differ in to city Improvements. r soil in preference to sandy soil, and on it. I am waiting to see if it will their physical or mechanical condi hence we had them planted on clay grow up and make as fine a growththis tion. That in rock is denser and less Lots Ten Dollars Each. land. E. M. winter without any cultivationthis readily acted upon,either by sulphuricacid year, as it did last with cultiva- or by the solvents of the soil. HOW TO CULTIVATE PEANUTS. tion, when it made the finest grass pas- Hence, if ground hone and ground wlthrmt Odd numbers reserve.will ttre be sold Inducements for ninety to those days The following is from the pen of a ture I ever saw in the dead of winter Carolina rock are applied to land seekln homes in tropical Florid:*. For information, maps,circulars, etc., call Missouri planter : The freeze had no effect on it in the without having been treated with on or address Any soil that will raise good corn or least. I find that the dry weather nor acid, the ground bone will produce potatoes? will produce peanuts ; yet the cold hurts it. quicker and better results.I Also, for JOHN A. GRAHAM, when it can be secured, a light, rich I will state how I have treated it like reason, the undissolved or insolu- loam, easily warmed up and readily this year. I wanted to find out if it ble portion of bone treated by acid General Manager Naples Town Imp.Co., worked is the best. They should not could be choked out by grass and will produce better results than the 13: Mohawk Block (over Postofflce), be planted until after all danger of weeds growing in it, in the summer undi-sol ved portions! of Carolina rock Jacksjnvllle, Florida. frost is past. Generally from the 1st months, also to see if I could not havea treated u ith acid In other words, the to the 10th of May (April in Florida) summer pasture of. crab grass on it insoluble phosphate of lime in bone is is a good time to plant. and then see if it would court up in more valuable than the insoluble phosphate - Plow thoroughly and harrow until the fall and make a good pasture in of lime in Carolina rock. Bone Authorized Agents: the soil is in good tilth. On ordinary the winter, The crab grass came up also contains three or four per cent. of R. O. ROBIKSOV! fit Co.,Orlando, Fla. ....... good soil fertilizing will be unneces and grew to be three feet high. In nitrogen, and has that advantage over J. E. MITCHELL, larapa, Fla. 'r nary but if any is given it should be fact it was so thick all over the patch Carolina rock. Acid phosphate is a .IAS.C.L.P.MITCHELL SHOW&,Co.Tallahassee, Boston, Mas Fla.*. . applied upon the surface and thor 'that it really looked like nothing could general term, and embraces both dissolved WHITLKDGE&TATUM, Bartow,Fla. : F. HINSOS flames trot Fla. , oughly worked into the soil. Mark live under it and I thought that the bone and dissolved Carolina BANDLIX J. A NILES, Key west yj Fla. . off the rows about three feet apart, blue grass had gone up the spout this rock, which is not aramoniated W.: T.E.C.M.WATSON GRAHAM, Pensacola/ braldeatovrn, Fia., Fla. ; _'- making the furrow shallow, as very time. About the last of September I L. Lyons in Southern Cultivator. CARLETON: A CKAWFORD,Fort Ogden,Fla*' . 3 .