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THE WEEKLY LEDGER;: GAFFNEY, S. C., APRIL 2, 189(5.
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object of oai v,rsal mtorcst—viz, “Onr
gocial Becrc^'" 118 - ’ His text was cho-
^ from ICorinthians vi ( , 81, '’They
jsethis' sU1 'M as not abusing it.”
Judges iri> 2 ' : “*' U J it oamo to pass,
f beD their t( ‘rts were merry, that they
*(d, cull auison, that ho may make
«sport"
There ff eri S.OOOpeople assembled in
^ temple 0 ’ D ig'a. They had come to
pok sport of eyeless iSamson. Tlioy
^ cr o all ready for the entertainment
Theybegso to elap ami pound, impn-
j^ntfortlio amusement to begin, and
fhfjcriwl' “Fetch him out, fetch him
oat!” loud. r I see the blind old giant
yimiiijr, If 1 by the hand of a child into
gprerymid t of the temple. At his
jntappearance tlici.' goes np a shout of
bnglitrr ami derision. The blind old
iJaitpretomis ho i.' tired, and wants to
netliia.-- 'If against the pillars of the
hoofe. .So li says to the lad who leads
him, “F .'O’.v mo where the main pillars
ire!" Tho Jad d' s so. Then the strong
gio pciH Ins right hand on one pillar
aadhi: left hand on another pillar, and
pith tho mightiest push that mortal
■jade, throw himself forward sa-
Whole comes doWU in
Bfroua crasii. ’rinding the audience
Ig:a] s ia a ' .!.• press. “And so it
to pass, when their hearts were
that they said, call for Samson,
I ho may make us sport. And they
fed for .Samson out of the prison
sc, and he made them sport.”
other words, there are amusements
lit are ck tructive, and bring dow*
■stcr un i death upon tho heads of
|*o who practice them. While they
Dgh and cheer, they dio. Tho 8,000
ho perish'd that day in Gaza, are as
thing compared to tho tens of thons-
Dds who have bee n destroyed by sinful
luseincnts.
I'or I’hc, Not Abase.
But my first b xt implies that there is
(i lawful r. :j of tho world, as well as an
klawful abuse of it, and tho differense
fbotwecu ti ■ iiiunC’hristianaud the man
jan-Cbristian is tliat in tho former ease
the man ina ;o’ s the world, while in the
latter ev.so tho world masters him. for
whom did < od mako this grand and
beautiful world? For whom this won
derful expenditure of color, this grace
fulness of line, this mosaic of the
ground, this fresco of tho eky, this glow
ing fruitago of orchard and vineyard,
this full orchestra of tho tempest, in
which the troo branches flute, and the
winds trumpet, and tho thunders drum,
and all tho splendor.-i of earth and sky
oome clashing their cymbals! For whom
did God spring tho arched bridge of col
ors resting upon buttresses of broken
Storm cloud? For whom did he gather
tho upholstery of tiro around tho win
dow of tho sotting sun? For all men,
but more especially for his own dear
children.
If you build a largo mansion and
spread a great feast after it to celebrate
tho completion of tho structure, do yom
allow strangers to come in and occupy
tho place, whilo you thrust your own
children in tho kitchen, or the born, or
tho fields? 01), no! You say, “I am very
glad to seo strangers in my mansion, but
my own eons and daughters shall have
the first right there.” Now, God has
built this grand mansion of a world, and
ho has spread a glorious feast in it, and
Whilo those who are strangers to his
grace may como in, I think that pod es-
becially intends to give the advantage to
pis own children—thoso who are the
pons and daughters of tho Lord Al
mighty, those who through grace caq
Jook up and say, “Abba, Father.” Toq
Oounot mako me believe that God gives
more advantages to tho world than be
gives to tho church bought by his own
blood. If, therefore, people of the world
bnvo looked with dolorous sympathy
upon thoso who mako j)rofossion of re
ligion and have said: “Thoso new con
verts are going down into privation and
into hardship. Why did they not tarry a
little longer in the world and have some
of its enjoyments and amusements and
recreations?” I say to such men of tho
world, “You are greatly mistah on,” and
before I get through I will show that
thoso people who stay out of tho king
dom of God have tho hardships and self
denials, whilo those who como in have
tho jr.ys and satisfactions.
In tho name of tho King of heaven
and earth I servo a writ of ejectment
upon all tho sinful and polluted who
have squatted on tho domain of earthly
pleasuru as though it belonged to them,
whilo I claim in behalf of tho good and
tho poor and tho truo, the eternal in
heritance which God has given them.
Hitherto, Christian philanthropists,
clerical and luy, have busied themselves
chiefly in denouncing sinful recreations,
but I fool wo have no right to stand be
fore men and women in whoso hearts
there is a desire for recreation amount
ing to positive necessity, denouncing
this and that and tho other thing, when
wo dy not propose to give them some
thing better. God helping me and with
reference to my last account, I shall en
ter upon a sphere not usual in sermon
izing, but a subject which I think ought
to bo presented at this time. I propose
now to lay before you some of the rec
reations which are not only inuecont,
but positively helpful and advantageous.
Tho Charm* of Mu»lc.
In the lin t place, I commend, among
indoor recreations, music—vu-al and in
strumental. Among tho first things
created was tho bird, so that tho earth
might have music at tho start. This
world, which begun with so sweet a
serenade, is finally to be demolished
amid the ringing blast of the archangel's
trumpet, so that as there was mnsio at
bo music at the
i uly art has often
uses of supersti-
we all know it
high moral cul-
tho start there shall
close. Whilo this In av
been dragged into the
tion and dissipation,
may bo tho nn ans of
tore. Oh, it is a grand thing to have
onr children brought up amid the sound
of cultured voices and amid the melody
of musical instruments.
There is in this art an indescribable
fascination for tho household. Let all
those families who have tho means to
afford it have flute or harp or piano or
organ. As soon as tho hand is largo
enough to compass tho keys teach it
how to pick out tho melody. Let all our
young men try this heavenly art upon
their nature. Those who have gone into
it fully have fouud in it illimitable rec
reation and amusement. Dark days,
stormy nights, seasons of sickness, busi
ness disasters, will do little toward de
pressing the soul which can gallop off
over musical keys or soar in jubilant
lay. It will cure pain. It will rest fa
tigue. It will quell passion. It will re
vive health. It will reclaim dissipation.
It will strengthen the immortal soul. In
the battle of Waterloo, Wellington saw
that the highlanders were falling back.
He said, “What is tho matter there?”
He was told that the band of music had
ceased playing, and he called up the
pipers and ordered them to strike up an
inspiriting air, and no sooner did they
strike the air than the highlanders were
rallied and helped to win tho day. Oh.
ye who have been routed in tho conflicts
of life, try by tho force of music to rally
your scattered battalions.
I am glad to know that in our great
cities there is hardly a night in which
there arc not concerts, where, with tho
best musical instruments and tho sweet
est voices, people may find entertain
ment. Patronize such entertainments
when they are afforded you. Buy season
tickets, if you can, for the Philharmonic
and the Handel and Haydn societies.
Feel that the $1.50 or $2 that you spend
for the purpose of hearing an artist play
or sing is a profitable investment. Let
your Academies of Music roar with the
acclamation of appreciative audiences as
sembled at the concert or tho oratorio.
A Sound Body.
Still further, I com mend, as worthy
of their support, tho g> mnesinm. This
institution is gaining in favor every
year, and I know of nothing more free
from dissipation or more calculated to
recuperate the physical and mental en
ergies. Whilo there are a good many
people who have employed this institu
tion fhero is a vast number who aro ig
norant of its excellencies. There aro
men with cramped chests and weak
sides and despondent spirits who through
the gymnasium might be roused up to
exuberance and exhilaration of life.
There are many Christian people de
spondent from year to year who might
through such an institution bo benefited
in their spiritual relations. There aro
Christian people who seem to think that
it is a good sign to bo poorly, and be
cause Richard Baxter and Robert Hall
were invalids they think that by tho
same sickliness they may come to the
same grandeur of character. I want to
toll tho Christian people of my congre
gation that God will hold you respon
sible for your invalidism if it is your
fault ami when, through right exorcise
and prudence, you might ho athletic
and well. The effect of tho body upon
the soul yon acknowledge. Put a man
of mild disposition upon the animal
diet of which tho Indian partakes, and
in a little whilo his blood will change
its chemical proportions. It will become
like unto tho blood of the lion or the
tiger or tho hear, while his disposition
will change and become fierce and un
relenting. The body lias a powerful ef
fect upon tho soul.
There are good people whose ideas of
heaven are all shut out with clouds of
tobacco smoke. There aro people who
dare to shatter the physical vase in
which God has put tho jewel of eternity.
There are men with groat hearts and in
tellects in bodies worn out by their
own neglects—magnificent machinery,
capable of propelling a Majestic across
the Atlantic, yet fastened in a rickety
North river propeller. Martin Luther
was so mighty for God, first, because lie
had a noble soul, and, secondly, because
he had a muscular development which
would have enabled him to thrash any
five of his persecutors if it had been
Christian so to do. Physical develop
ment whicli merely shows itself in fabu
lous lifting, or in perilous rope walk
ing, or in pugilistic encounter, excites
only our contempt, hut we confess to
great admiration for the man who has a
great soul in an nthletio body, every
nerve, muscle and Lone of which is con
secrated to right uses. Oh, it scorns to
me outrageous that men, through neg
lect, should allow their physical health
to go down beyond repair—a ship which
ought, with all sail set and every man
at his post, to bo carrying a rich cargo
for eternity, employing all its men in
stopping up leakages. When you may,
through the gymnasium, work off yonr
spleen and your querulousness and one-
half of y< ur physical and mental ail
ments, do not turn your hack upon suvh
a grand medicament.
Innocent Hilarities.
Still further, I commend to you a
largo class of parlor games and recrea
tions. There is a way of making onr
homes n hundredfold more attractive
than they aro now. Those parents can
not expect to keep their children away
from outside dissipations unless they
make tho domestic circle brighter than
anything they can find outside of it. Do
not, then, sit in your homo surly and
unsympathetic and with a half OOO*
damnatory look because of tho sportful
ness of your children. \ r ou were young
once yourself; let your children bo
young. Because your eyes are dim ami
your ankles are stiff do not denounce
sportfulness in those upon whose eyett
there is the first luster and in whose
foot there is the bounding joy of robust
health. I thank God tiiat in our draw
ing rooms and in our parlors there are
innumerable games and sports which
have not upon them the least taint of
iniquity.
Light up all your homos with inno
cent hilarities. Do not sit down with
tho rheumatism wondering how chil
dren can go on so. Rather thank God
that their hearts are so light, and their
laughter is so free, and lla-ir cheeks aro
so ruddy, and that their expectations
are so radiant. The night will come
soon enough, and the heartbreak and
tho pang and tho desolation—it will
como soon enough for tho dear children.
But when the storm actually clouds the
sky it will be time enough for you to
haul out your reef tackles. Carry, then,
into your homes not only tho innocent
sports and games which aro the inven
tions of our own day, but the games
which come down with tho sportfulness
of all tho past ages—chess and charades
and tableaux and battlcdoor and calis
thenics and lawn tenuis and all those
amusements which tho young people of
our homes know so well how to con
trive. Then there will bo the parlor so
cialities—groups of people assembled in
your homes, with wit and mimicry and
joviality, filling tho room with joy from
door to mantel and from tho carpet to
•ho ceiling. Oh, is there any exhilara
tion like a score of genial souls in one
room, eacli one adding a contribution of
his own individual merriment to tho
aggregation of general hilarity?
Suppose you want to go abroad in the
city; then yon will find tho panorama
and the art gallery and tlio exquisite col
lections of pictures. You will find tho
rnnsoum and the historical society rooms
full of rare curiosities, and scores of
places which can stand plainly tho test
of what is right and wrong in amuse
ments. You will find tho lecturing hall,
which has been honored by the names
of Agassiz in natural history, Doromus
in chemistry, Boynton in geology, Mitch
ell in astronomy, John 13. Gough in
moral reform, and scores and hundreds
of men who have poured their wit and
genius and ingenuity through that par
ticular channel upon the hearts and con
sciences and imaginations of men, sot
ting this country 50 years farther in ad
vance than it would have been without
tho lecture platform.
Outdoor Sports.
I rejoice in the popularization of out
door sports. I hail the croquet ground
and tho fisherman’s rod and the sports
man’s gnu. In onr cities life is so un
healthy and unnatural that when tho
census taker represents n city as having
400,000 inhabitants there are only
200,000, since it takes at least two men
to amount to one man, so depleting and
unnerving and exhausting is this met
ropolitan life. Wo want more fresh air,
more sunlight, more of tho abandon of
field nports. I cry out for it in behalf
of tho church of God as well as in be
half of secular interests. I wish that
our ponds and our rivers and our capi-
toliuo grounds might bo all aquako with
tho heel and the shout of tho swift
skater. I wish that when tho warm
weather comes the graceful oar might
dip tho stream and the evening tide ho
resonant with boatman’s song, tho
bright prow splitting tho crystalline bil
low.
We shall have the smooth and grassy
lawn, and wo will call out people of all
occupations and professions and ask
them to join in tho ball player’s sport.
You will como back from these outdoor
exercises and recreations with strength
in your arm and color in your cheek and
a flash in your eye and courage in your
heart. In this great battle that is open
ing against tho kingdom of darkness
we want not only a consecrated soul,
bnt a strong arm and stout lungs and
mighty muscle. I bless God that there
aro so many recreations that have not
on them any taint of iniquity, recrea
tions in which wo may engage for the
strengthening of the body, for tho clear
ing of the intellect, for tho illumination
of tho soul.
There is still another form of recrea
tion which I commend to you, and that
is tho pleasuru of doing good. I have
seen young men, weak and cross and
sour ami repelling in their disposition,
who by one heavenly touch havo waken
ed up and become blessed and buoyant,
tho ground under their feet and tho sky
over their heads breaking forth into
music. “Oh,” says some young man in
the house today, “1 should like that rec
reation above all others, but I have not
tho moans.” My dear brother, lot us
take an account of stock. You havo u
largo estate if you only realize it. Two
hands, two feet. You will havo per
haps during the next year at least $10
for charitable contribution. You will
have 2,500 cheerful looks if you want
to employ them. You will havo 5,000
pleasant words if you want to speak
them. Now, what an amount that is to
start with I
You go out tomorrow morning, and
you seo a case of real destitution by the
wayside. You give him 2 cents. The
blind man hears the pennies rattle in
his hat, and ho says, “Thunk you, sir;
God bless you I” You pass down tho
street, trying to look indifferent, but
you feel from the very depth of your
soul a profound satisfaction that you
made that man happy. You go on still
further and find a poor boy with a
wheelbarrow, trying to get it up on the
curbstone He fails in the attempt. You
say, “Staud back, my lad; let mo try.”
You push it up on the curbstone for
him and puss on. He wonders who that
well dressed man was that helped him.
You did a kindness to the boy, but you
did a great joy to yonr own soul. You
will not get over it all the week.
On tho street tomorrow morning you
will seo a sick man passing along.
“Ah,” you say, “what cun I do to make
this man happy? He certainly does not
want money ; lie is not poor, but he is
flick. ” Give him one of t'loso 2,500
cheerful looks that you have garnered
up for tho whole year. Look joy and
hopefulness into his soul. It will thrill
him through, and there will be a reac
tion upon your own soul. Going on u lit
tle farther, you will como to the store
of a friend who is embarrassed in busi
ness mutters. You will go in and say:
“What a lino store you havo! I tliiuk
business will brighten up, and you will
havo more custom after awhile. I think
there is coming u great prosperity to all
the country. Good mornings” You puss
\
out. You have helped that young man,
and you have helped yourself.
A Thought to Carry.
Colonel Gardiner, who sat with his
elbow on a table, spread with all extrav
agant viands, looking off at a dog on
the rug, saying, “How I would like to
change places with him, I ho tho dog
and ho be Colonel Gardiner,” or those
two Moravian missionaries who wanted
to go into the lazaretto for tho sake of
attending tho sick, and they were told:
“If you go in there, yon will never
como out. We never allow any ono to
come out, for he would bring the conta
gion. ” Then they made their wills and
went in, first to help the sick and then
to dio. Which was the happier—Colo
nel Gardiner or the Moravian mission
aries dying for others? Was it all sacri
fice when tho missionaries wanted to
bring the gospel to the negroes at the
Barbados, and, being denied the privi
lege, sold themselves into slavery, stand
ing side by side and lying side by side
down in the very ditch of suffering, in
order that they might bring those men
up to life and God and heaven? Oh,
there is a thrill in the joy of doing good!
It is the most magnificent recreation to
which a man over put his hand or his
head or his heart.
But before closing I want to impress
upon you that mere secular entertain
ments are not a fit foundation for your
soul to build on. I was reading of a
woman who had gone all tho rounds of
sinful amusement, and she came to die.
She said, “I will dio tonight at G
o’clock." “Oh,” they said, “I guess
not; you don’t seem to bo sick.” “I
shall dio at G o’clock, and my soul will
bo lost. I know it will bo lost. I havo
sinned away my day of grace.” Tho
noon came. They desired her to seek re
ligious counsel. “Oh,” she said, “it is
of no use. My day is gone. I havo been
all the rounds of worldly pleasure, and
it is too late. I shall die tonight at G
o’clock. ’ ’ Tho day wore away, and it
came to 4 o’clock and to 5 o’clock, and
she cried out at 5 o’clock: “Destroying
spirits, ye shall not havo mo yet; it is
not 0, it is not G !” Tho moments went
by, and tho shadows began to gather,
and tho clock struck G, and while it
was striking her soul went. What hour
God will call for us I do not know—
whether G o’clock tonight, or 3 o’clock
this afternoon, or at 1 o’clock, or at this
moment. Sitting whore you aro, falling
forward, or drooping down, where will
you go to?
Tho lust hour of our life will soon bo
here, and from that hour wo will review
this day’s proceedings. It will bo a sol
emn hour. If from our death pillow we
have to look back and seo a life spent in
sinful amusement, there will bo a dart
that will strike through our soul sharp
er than tho dagger with which Virgiu-
ius slow his child. The memory of tho
past will mako us quake like Macbeth.
Tho iniquities and rioting through
which we havo passed will como upon
us, weird and skeleton as Meg Mcrri-
lics. Death, tho old Shy lock, will de
mand and take tho remaining pound of
llosh and the remaining drop of blood,
and upon our last opportunity for re-
penturv-e and our lust chance for heaven
tho curtain will forever drop.
Tho Tltlo Settled.
One of Washington’s lawyers used to
practice in Kentucky, and tells good
stories of his experiences in tho moun
tains of that state.
“I went to recover a tract of laud in
Bell county,” lie said, “and was mot at
tho door of tho cabin on tho place by
the man against whom I was instructed
by my client, a widow, who held tho
claim through her deceased husband, to
proceed. I accented him, and explained
the nature of my visit, being anxious to
settle the matter peaceably if possible.
“ ‘Stranger,’ ho said slowly as ho
looked into the open fireplace medita
tively. ‘This hyar ’pears to be kin o’
bad business. I’m a peaceable man an
don’t want no trouble with nobody.
Dad fust cum hyar when I war a hoy,
an thar seemed to bo a heap of trouble
’bout the title. Fust an lust, I reckon
thar war on killed. Then wo didn’t
hyar no more ’bout tho title till dad war
dead, when a foliar cum ’long an thar
war mo’ trouble. He’s buried jess bo-
yunt that thar poplar.
“ ‘Then two y’ar ago another cum at
mo, an his widdor, it seems, don’t want
ter drap it, an hired yo’ us a lawyer.
I’m a peaceable man, stranger, an don’
want no trouble, but it seems to mo
this hyar title orter bo settled by this
time, ’cause I hain’t got uo time goin
ter cou’t ’bout It. Thar ain’t but ono
way ter settle it. I don’ like ter hov no
font with a woman, but I reckon I’ll
hov to, lessen yo’ air williu ter settle it
with mo right hyar. ’
“I excused myself from that mode of
settling it, and upon reporting to my
client, she refused to allow a suit to bo
brought, so the man’s title cun bo re
garded as settled.”—Washington Star.
The Sutherland Eviction*.
There has just died at Kirtomoy, on
tho northeast coast of Sutherland, Mrs.
Betsy Mackay, at the ago of 102. She
was a native of Strathnuvcr, and was u
grown up woman when that fertile and
once populous strath—about 18 miles
long—was ruthlessly cleared of its in
habitants in tho second decade of this
century. She hud a vivid recollection
and many stories to tell of the harrow
ing scenes witnessed when old and
young, weak and strong, were turned
out of their homes- Tho people got half
an hour’s notice to pack up their be
longings before tho torch was applied
to tho thatch of their dwellings. Tho
burning lasted six days, and from ouo
eminence over 250 blazing cottages could
bo counted! Avery different state of
things, it is pleasing to record, prevails
on the Hutlierland property nowadays.
—Westminster Gazette.
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DRAINING SLOPING GROUND.
Economy anil Effectiveness of Direct De
scent of Ditches Over Oblhjuo Ditches.
A mistaken comvo is often adopted by
placing the lines for tho drains in an
oblique direction down tho slope, in
stead of directly down by tho shortest
course. Such ditches aro needlessly lung
and aro made with much additional la
bor, and, what is still more objection
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{Juetsr Town.
There has not been a lawyer in the
town of Boxford, Mass., a place of 1,000
or more inhabitants, in several years and
recently tho one lone policeman compris
ing tho town’s force was discharged.
The town is said tube in excellent finan
cial condition and a bustling community.
OBJECTION*AHLE SLOPING DRAINAGE,
able, they perform their intended work
in a very inefficient manner. Cut 1 rep
resents tho portion of a field, the lower
part of whicli toward the spectator re
ceives tho water from tho sloping land
above. Tho dark lines aro tho ditches,
laid in a slanting direction, and aro
much longer than those in cut 2, which
run by tho shortest cut directly down
tho slope.
An objection to tho sloping drainage,
ns already stated, is that it carries off
tho surplus water in a very imperfect
manner. As water will not run up hill,
all tho water received by such ditches
presses toward the lower side, and as
tho ditch is expected to draw water away
from tho soil on the upper side, from a
distance of a rod or more, by tho porous
texture of i nch soil, so tho earth, being
equally porous on the lower side, will
allow it to leak out and pass a rod or
more on tiio lower side toward tho next
ditch below.
But if tho ditches aro cut directly
down tho slope by tho shortest course,
no water can leak out, as there is no
lower side, but it all takes the ready
channel offered it and rapidly escapes.
This ready channel in effect draws tho
water from tho soil on each side, tho
bottom <,f the ditch being lower than the
adjacent soil, whilo tho natural descent
of tho ground and tho downward cur
rents aro quickly carried off by the cen
tral ditches—cut 2—tho arrows in both
tho figures showing the currents.
Says Country Gentleman, authority
for tho foregoing: The difference should
be always borne in mind between tho
si r.-
DRAINAGE WITH DIRECT DESCENT,
water currents as they soak slowly
through tho earth by natural drainage
or as they rush rapidly down hill
through tile or other smooth and straight
artificial channels which tho owner of
tho land has provided. By tho natural
drainage, creeping slowly by minute
quantities down tho slope, added to tho
slow natural evaporation, two or three
weeks, or even a month, aro often re
quired to render tho soil dry enough for
mellow cultivation, whilo by regular
ditching tho w hole may be accomplished
in u day or two. But with tho sloping
or diagonal ditching represented by Fig.
1 tho work may bo needlessly retarded
and tho drainage rendered longer and
more imperfect than with tho lines of
direct descent.
Spreading Manure In Winter.
A great many farmers hesitate t o draw
manure and spread it on their fields as
made because they fear that what is
thus spread in fall and winter will be
washed away by spring floods. Follow
ing are some statements on tho subject
made by American Cultivator:
There is really no danger of this, ex
cept to land subject to overflow. Tho
heaviest rains soak through tho manure
into the soil beneath. Very rarely, if
ever, docs this water thus manure soak
ed roach oven to a foot beyond where
tho clod of manure lies. As a matter of
fact, unfermented manure has little fer
tility that is in soluble form. There is
reason for farmers to dcla£ drawing
away their manure piles if they aro
waiting for them to ferment. This fer
mented manure has plant food immedi
ately available. When it is put on grass
land in winter, it shows with the first
warm days of spring in tho brighter
green of tho grass to which it is applied.
In winters when there is very heavy
snowfall tho application of fermented
manure late in full will start now
growth under the snowbanks.
Protection Acnlnst Cold.
In Florida it is usual to protect the
strawberry plants from light freezes
with tho common wire grass hay, which
j is shaken or spread over tho plants. It
is told in tho Florida Fruit Grower
that a perfect protection is made of the
wire grass cemented together (in sizes
according to tho plants to be covered) by
boiling pitch sprinkled on to tho hay.
Those covers can be cheaply made of
, any size and easily handled, costing lit
! tie but the labor of collecting the mate
rials. If properly cared for, they will
; last for more than one season and are a
I perfect protection against any freeze in
Florida for any vegetablo or fruit grown
there.
Tho new onion culture consists sim
ply in sowing tho seeds in greenhouse,
hot) Is or ulsowhoro and then trans
planting to the open ground.
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