JANUARY 28, 1892] THE. FLORIDA DISPATCH, FARMER AND FRUIT-GROWER. 67 I - the weight of what has finally to be "bunches to tassel" is the time when I little to destroy the grass in the drill. Poultry piled in heaps to burn. Plenty of nature makes every effort to reproduceitself. Plow out the middles with a good , time is a great lessener of labor in the It is then that the tops grow turning plow. Three weeks from date -- - - Edited E. W. Fla. by AMSDEN Ormond clearing uj? of rubbish. In good I slowly or slower than they did until of second plowing give it the third weather two partly dry logs rolled to this :tage of development is reached, and last plowing, very shallow with a How to Make Money With Capons. gether will burn, but with green logs and the roots begin to spread in every sweep. Your corn is then laid by in I receive letters from and unfavorable weather the log heap direction, in order to meet that period gbod condition.In people livingin of the Western States in must be large and well built to burn. when the plant suddenly shoots into using fertilizer it is best to mix many The small stuff that does not get on tassel and begins to ear. To mutilatethe one-half cotton seed meal with any which they state that it is an easy the log heaps can be raked up in roots at this time must result in standard guano. That is the formulawe matter for them to buy cockerel chicks four months old from heaps and burned last. The conditions small, imperfect ears, commonly called used. from two to ten under which the work is done "nubbins," with more cob than grain, This was in Escambia county. The. to fifteen cents each, and in some will, of course, govern. If time is and grain improperly developed, and editor of the Free Press states that he cases lower. One man wrote me that he could thou- plenty, a year or more, the first step, cob unfilled with grain and covered visited the field in company with sev- from Texas buy each. With such as stated, is to deaden trees and cut with shuck. Uniformity and normalor eral gentlemen, and they all agreed sands for five cents it down saplings. If the time is very natural growth of cob, grain and that the yield would be fifty bushelsper facts existing, certainly opens an field for short and the piece to be cleared shuck must be the object of the farmerin acre. The Cloptons were am- immense a very profitable in these cockerelsand small, it may be best to haul off every- order to obtain the best results. It bitious and planted for seventy-five business, buying of them for market.If . thing instead of burning it on the would appear, therefore, that if work- bushels per acre, but the drouth making capons ground, but this is wasteful of potashas ing corn and mutilating the roots, at which prevailed in West Florjda re such an opportunity existed to well as of time. The points to observe a period when such results follow, duced the yield.Fertilizers. buy birds at the prices named, I are that everything in pine, .even if the corn is in the grass, shouldbe r would give up my St. Bernards,. whether green or dry that has good discontinued. And if workingcorn That Will ,Last. Berkshires, strawberries, together with heart, will .burn out easier than it will so late produces a condition favoring Mr. Bielby, in his remarks on fertilizers all my farming, and devote my whole grub out, and that the tap-root is the the weevil it farther appears for orange groves, said opinions time to collecting these birds, capon- point of attack. I have not here that the custom ought to be abandoned. differ very widely on the proper kindsto izing them and feeding for market.It . treated of the burning of stumps by These are the only facts I adduce andI be used. He still believed in min. would be a very easy matter for boring a hole through them and put- here suggest them in the hope that the eral fertilizers, as sulphate of potash, me to make a profit of one dollar a ting in kerosene, nor of blowing up thoughtful farmer may duly weigh bone phosphate and sulphate of am- bird.Bought with dynamite. These are species of them and with me co-operate in test- monia. He applied all on the surface. in July, it would not cost fancy farming, well enough for amuse- ing them.Fla.. Ex. Sta. Bulletin, He would use everything available, me over fifty cents each to feed until ment. Good, old-fashioned, red fire No. 16. including stable manure and .even February, with corn worth one dollar t with fat pine accompaniment, is sufficient f-4 muck, but thought "sawgrass muck"not and sixty cents a hundred pounds at k for practical use. Cassava Queries. very profitable hauling. He that. But it is impossible for me to JUD PIERCE. Editor Farmer and Fruit-Grower: thought the secret of the results with buy such birds here in any number, Spring Hill,Mobile Co.,Ala.,Jan 13, 1892. I would like to say to the many muck was in what additions they madeto and the few I do find cost from e parties whose letters of inquiry con the composts of other fertilizers. twenty-five to fifty cents each. Evenat Fodder-Pulling Favors the Weevil cerning the planting, fertilizing, cul- Tobacco stems gave good results in these figures I buy all that I can I observed last year and this that tivating, digging and feeding cassava, his neighborhood. Groves fed on find, and make a very satisfactory the corn unaffected with weevil was that I have received, that I will writean tankage (blood and bone) looked profit. perfect in its development. That is, article for publication in the FARMER well; when fed on bone meal they People living near the large citiesof the cob was uniformly filled out to AND FRUIT-GROWER soon, in whichI looked still better. Stable manure the West are particularly well '' the end small will all their in used fresh the surface is ben- these cockerels whether or large, with answer questions on very located to buy up young - well matured grains and that the full. The most important question (to eficial. Ammonia from fish producedthe caponize them, grow them up shuck covered the entire ear, adher me) asked in these letters, they will best growth. He strongly advocated to large capons, and as they visit these ing closely to it and extending beyond find answered in the "Cent-a-word col the use of raw phosphate rock.It cities from day to day they can look firmly, closing around the end and umn." < CHAS. F. MAY. is slow at first, but its effects last around and get the very top price for thus protecting it. I noticed further Eustis, Lake Co., Fla. for years. He believes in fertilizingthis their capons. They would frequentlybe that the pulling of fodder had the year for years to come, not the able to supply places with a few effect of. causing the shuck to loosenon Good Pine Land Corn. "hand to mouth" method for this year pair each at as high a price as twenty- the ear and as this is usually done In response to an inquiry by the only, and thinks lime on land where five cents a pound.. But no matter before the grain was too hard for the Alliance editor of the Marion Free grass grows would be valuable, and whether they live near cities or not, weevil to pierce it for egg deposit, it Press as to their plan of cultivatingcorn that sulphate of potash is preferableto if they would buy up several thou- suggested to me that fodder pullingwas the Clopton Brothers, of Brent, the ammoniated potash, because of sand of the youpg cockerels that are possibly a fruitful cause in assist- write the following: the chlorine in the latter. offered for fifteen cents, or such num- ing the weevil into getting into corn. Yours of the i3th to hand ; will .. bers as they can care for, and proceedto For the pulling of fodder exposesthe comply with your request as near as STATE OF OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDO, }) SSe caponize them, and then feed them ear to the sun and causes the possible. LUCAS COUNTY, until they have matured, they can shuck to loosen on it, thus making it First-Break your land with shovel, FRANK L. CHENEY makes oath that then kill and dress them, and forwardto easier for the weevil to find its way to broadcast and harrow close to pulverize he is the senior partner of the firm of our large Eastern markets, where the grain. Again fodder pulling, the clods. F. J. CHENEY & Co., doing businessin they will find a quick and ready sale. done at the time it usually is, before Second-Layoff your rows five feet the City- of Toledo County and They will get from eighten to twenty the stock and ear are matured does apart, and run back in the furrowsthe State aforesaid, and that said firm will cents a pound for birds, when the result in preventing the shuck from second time with shovel plow. pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED ordinary chicken is selling for ten to adhering naturally to the ear and Use 500 pounds of fertilizer to the DOLLARS for each and every case twenty cents, and they not only make thus nature's protection of the grain acre, only using half before planting of Catarrh that cannot be cured by'the this gain in price, but will also makea from its enemies is seriously interfered Third-Distribute 250 pounds in use of HALL'S CATARRH CURE. gain in the weight of the bird of with. That the shuck serves as sucha the rows and throw four( furrows backon FRANK J. CHENEY. two to four pounds, according to the protection and is for that purpose, it with shovel plow. At the proper Sworn to before me and subscribedin bird. scarcely any one will doubt. If. this time for planting, about the loth of my presence, this 6th day of December In the West, where corn and grainis be true, therefore, it becomes a March, open' the rows with small A. D. 1886. plenty and cheap, the cost of grow. matter of the first importance to cul- shovel plow; drop the corn about '-A"" ing the bird must be very light, as all tivate corn upon such methods as will eighteen inches apart, aid cover witha { SEAL } A. W. GLEASON, they require is corn, with some boneto .. produce the best results. And if corn board. .| Notary Public. strengthen their legs.Many . is cultivated so as to produce the Fourth When the corn is large Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken inter farmers in the State of Iowaare heaviest grain and its natural and enough to plow, run around it with a nally and acts directly upon the blood doing this very same thing, and most perfect development, then it is tongue scooter close and deep, then and mucous surfaces of the system. they write me they are making" more reasonable to suppose that this con- apply the balance of the fertilizer on Send for testimonials, free.F. money with poultry than ever efore.V . dition will protect it more thoroughly each side of the row, and throw two J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. \ th such tools to do the work as can against its enemies, if not entirely. furrows with a shovel to cover the JCSfSold Druggists, 75 cents.ForMalaria be procured at the present day, it becomes Whether there is anything in this fertilizer, and let stand until the next S4 a very simple matter to capon- theory remains to be seen. I am sure plowing. Just three weeks from date Liver Trou- ize, and a farmer can caponize a of this, however, that the working of will be the time for plowing again. cockerel as easily as he can castrate a corn as late as the common custom is Use a half-winged sweep about twenty ble,or Indigestion,use pig.-GEO. Q. Dow, in American must be an injury. For when the corn inches, with the right wing turned a BROWN'S IRON BITTERS Poultry Journal. .