.. FLORIDA FARMER AND FRUIT-GROWER. . J ,R..Ht "'11""'" . time for developing and bleaching any dog that is caught chasing his fine mush, which is as effectual as consists of corn meal - celery.-Louisiana Experiment Sta- sheep. i part, sand i superphosphate. "Concentrated tion Bulletin. Now if be he Northern lye" part, bran 2 parts, mixed well together, a man, or and the soil may be used instead of wet August will do very well lor planting Southern, keeps up a fairly-good, decent ashes. In this process the nitrogenof Further up not too he sloppy or too dry." seed in Florida. The kinds fence and cannot exclude the on says, "I do not like only yet bones is lost, going off in the the habit of that have been found profitable in these piney woods hogs, which are form of ammonia, the odor of which have them feeding whole oats, but ground and this State are the Boston Market and starved to the verge of ravenousness, is very perceptible in the tank used. Here is corn cracked. Mexican Solid. is it to be supposed that he will standit For neither of these a good mixture to feed, he ? No Southern Northern he processes says, and gives *it thus: "Bran z ; or should the bones be burnt. The burning bushels will shoot such caricature of hog corn meal tf bushel, groundoats a a ; of bones is an detriment unqualified bushel Iihtetoc1 as he would the vile mongrel that J4 cottonseed meal to their effectiveness which can peck, ground bone i quart and sand harries - ....... his sheep. only be undone by the use of sulphuric }4 bushel. Mix[ this well togetherand In the village of colonists above re- acid. Shooting the Razorback. feed in a mash. ferred to, the same men who have 4. Bones steamed for three four or The fool-killer has Editor Farmer and Fiuit-Grower: shot such stock above described not been that way as hours in a boiler under of In your issue of Aug. 5th, under the have at the same time had goodblooded a pressure lately. Florida ought to be a good to 35 50 pounds,.can, after drying, be place to raise ducks if head of "The New Stock Law in they will thriveon stock, for the use of which readily crushed in an ordinary barley. sand in referring to "A little the proportions just of quoted. village North. they accepted when they could pay crushing maching mill, and thus beW| have read ern colonists, you say: get it and when they could not rendered more convenient for everything we could get "But against the predatory razor- they went without. A little vigorous Practically little of the use. on duck culture for the last six years very nitrogen and never heard of back there is an irreconcilable hostility, of and lead the sand as a diet for use powder (glue) of the bones need be thus lost. matured ducks and not a few of them have been I or whole oats either. quietly keeping of a better class of stock for Very good bone meal is found inV laid to rest under the orange neighborhood use and the force ol the market at reasonable frequently put a tablespoonful of rates. | sand to a of feed trees. example are gradually converting the quart to be fed to Stock of all kinds have privilege to keepers of such worthless feasts into ducklings ten days old. No mention run at large in Florida according to strawberry and truck growers, to their J.Voul IT isM made of meat, or ground bone. law and custom. When an individual own decided r. Rankin says he uses 12 tons of' advantage. . ... . ..., animal meal into the a year. As he raises comes State and becomes a There ought not to be questionof several resident, he becomes subject to the sectionalism in this matter.any The Edited by E.W..........,...AMSDEN"""'-- ...... Ormond Fla.- -'" thousand ducklings it is presumed laws of the State and the customs of better the farmer the better the swine Notes. he gives a major part to them. We the neighborhood in which he locates. he will keep, the better and more The midsummer number of the always feed twice the quantity of animal - When he violates any law he be- abundant the feed he will provide for Southern Fancier has just arrived. food to our ducklings and ducks comes an enemy to all citizens; and them. No man, North or South, hasa Judging from its reading matter, I I that we do to other owls and they when he kills his neighbor's hogs and keener appreciation than the writerof should say it must be located in the have clover hay for two meals each in fertilizes his trees with the carcasses, the exquisite flavor of the flesh o if second story of an icehouse, to show the day. he is as much an enemy to that neigh the pure blooded razorback, fed and such good results in such hot weather Mr. Boyer speaking of duck raising bor as. any thief. who steals and appropriates fatted on peanuts. as Major- Campbelldoes l We shall[ take for this letter its con in his the South ducks says, his neighbor had 10 nis own use for We withouthesitation young laying before Christmas any property instance. say tents and criticize as we go. whatever belonging to that neighbor, that this peanut razorback Michael I K. Boyer, of Hammonton and at the North they did not and he should be-and isamenableto pork, without the smell or the touch N. J., is now secured as regular contributor i-, expect duck eggs before February. As law. early eggs to hatch are wanted of Berkshire Poland China all l or on to its pages. His first letteris Those people who object to hogs the length of its bristles, is the most on Market[ Poultry South. He says: their why can't first we supply the East with running at large have a right to use savory pork we ever ate. But the "I see no reason why every State eggs. any and all peaceable means to effecta difference between this-which is truegame south of Mason and Dixon's' line A BIG INDUSTRY FOR ATLANTA. change in the law, but as long as a the boar's head fit for a Roman should not have a number of large and We learn that on September ist one hog is property, they have no right to emperor-ard the same hog successful poultry farms. With such of the largest broiler establishmentssouth destroy him just because he is a hog, starved all its life on a diet of swamp mild winters and so many natural advantages 1- of Baltimore will be started in and has the misfortune to have fallen vermin and the butts of 1t. saw palmetto which the West has not got t. the suburbs of Atlanta with a capacity - under their displeasure; or because leaves, is as wide as the earth. No the raising of eggs, chickens and: of 24,000 chicks per year. their fences are so old and rotten or peanut razorback will trouble the ducklings could be made a most profitable The main building will be 25x25, so poorly constructed that no self. trucker's fence; he has something better business. For egij.farming at two wings looxto each, all to respecting hog can refuse to accept on his own side. the South, all the heavy layers are be heated by circulating hot water. the invitation to go through the gap -*-.-. good. The South is more the home of f The incubator will b= 25x25, and will provided. W. II. S. To Utilizo Bones. such breeds as the Leghorns Ham contain 12500 egg machines. Connected ThonotosAM, PI*.,Aug. 7th.We Editor Farmer and Fruit Grower: burgs Langshans, etc., than any partof with this will be an egg farm have known instances where In the next number of your valuable this country. Broiler raising couldbe started to supply a portion of the eggs piney woods hogs forced themselves paper please give a simple process made profitable. Of course there required. Five hundred hens will be repeatedly between the strands of f of treating bones to effect their would be drawbacks ; 'tis so everywhere selected to start with, and increased to barb wire, only six inches apart and solution so as to make their elementsavailable but there are less drawbacks at 5,000 as good hens can be gotten. drawn as tight as they could well be as plant food. the South than the North. This I say The hen houses are to be built airtight drawn, with the posts only twelve feet J. L. DERIEUX. after an experience in both sections of f after an improved plan, and apart. Any man who will keep such Lakeland. the country." ventilation will be controlled in sucha stock running at large in a communityof Any one may with a little troubleuse Speaking of the advantage a manner as to guard against roup. truckers is "as much an enemy this o all the bones accumulating about a market poultry, he says : With i improved To prevent infertility of eggs a reserve neighbor as any thief." homestead in either of three ways, shipping lines there is very pen of male birds will be keep If he is a responsible man, of f says a bulletin of the California Experiment little delay in getting the product t to and changed frequently. course he should be approached in a Station. market. The cost of transportationwould We will look with considerable friendly way on the subject; but if he I. Bones put into a well kept be nothing compared with the pleasure for the outcome of this adventure persists in taking advantage of the (moistened) manure pile will themselves good prices that could be realized i in as so many new features are law to let such stock run at large, then gradually decay and disappear.enriching the winter months at the North. The to be experimented with. A further the owner of the fence must do something the manure to that extent. cost of building South is not morethan description is promised as the buildings else.Native 2. Raw bones may be bodily buriedin one-half what it is North ; land progress. E. W. AMSDEN. Florida farmers in the the soil around the trees; it placedat cheaper, climate better, I see no excuse . county where the writer resides, rec a sufficient depth, beyond the reachof : for holding back." If want to keep hen in a ognize the unwritten right, betweenman the summer's heat and drought, 'What I have so often preached i condition you for laying she should goods and man, to shoot a dog that the rootlets will cluster around eachpiece : verified by one who has tried it northand have a full during the never It is kills sheep. Now, both of these are and in the course of a few years south and is a man who has madepoultry well enough crop to give a light day.meal of property, distinctly recognized as consume it entirely. But it will not a success from a practicalstandpoint. mixed food warm in the in the such by the laws of Florida, and both do to have these root-clusters brokenup : trough but it should not morning be than more have the right, under those laws, to by cultivation every season. G. D. Johnson of Atlanta is another ,a fourth of what the hens run at large. The owner of the sheep 3. Bones may be packed in moist contributor to the Fancier's columns 1- Let them unsatisfied require.and go makes no fence whatever-does not wood ashes, best mixed with a little! ; under the heading, "Does it forced to find their away own food i pretend to do it but the sentiment of quicklime the mass kept moist but Ducks picking ; ; Pay to Keep ? he has a col I it up ,grain; by grain. This will the Southern never dripping. In a few months the and half. Here is giveas community, a strictly um a his ration 11 them healthy exercise and community, sustains him in killing hardest bones will be reduced to a he gives it : "My feed in the morning f; 'MI I tion.TT1P good diges- .