414 State Horticultural Society. 



and Imrn on the grovind as soon as dry. Next plow deep with a sharj) 

 plow, cutting only about two-thirds as much as the plow would turn in 

 order that every root may be cut off. Soon after the plowing has been 

 done, say in three or four days, harrow the ground thoroughly, tearing 

 out as many roots as possible, and exposing them to the air and sunshine 

 until they are dry, when they should be burned. In two or three weeks 

 the plowing and harrowing may be repeated, but I have seldom found 

 that necessary. If the work has been done thoroughly and at the right 

 time (close of fruiting season) there will not be many sprouts to mark 

 the location of the old plantation, but if done in the spring it would most 

 likely increase, rather than diminish, the number of plants. It is im- 

 portant, therefore, that the right time be chosen for the work. — Orange 

 Tudd F'armer. 



SOMETHING BADLY NEEDED IN THE COUNTRY AT LARGE 

 TO WIT: LOCAL DEALERS IN (UNMIXED) AGRICUL- 

 TURAL CHEMICALS. 



Editor Rural World : Do we live in an age of progress or do we not? 

 Are chemical fertilizers a necessity to be employed by the many, or simply 

 a luxury to be enjoyed by the few? If they are an actual necessity, and 

 we fully believe that in thousands of instances they are, why not place 

 them within reasonably easy reach of those they are calculated to benefit ? 

 After an extended tour of the rural districts of almost the entire south, 

 and conversations innumerable with hundreds of the most progressive, up- 

 to-date and wide-awake farmers and planters of this section, we have no 

 hesitation in making the assertion that, enormous as the sale of commercial 

 fertilizers — in the aggregate — may now appear to be, the amount sold 

 would easily be doubled, trebled, or even quadrupled, if the soil tillers 

 of this broad land could but get what they needed and wanted, and at 

 the time they needed and wanted it. 



The terms nitrogen, potash and phosphoric acid have— to all truly 

 progressive farmers — become as familiar as household words ; they know 

 what they are, whence derived, and what they are good for ; but, unfortu- 

 nately for them, and unlike any and every other article of commerce, 

 when the farmer undertakes their purchase, he finds so many obstructions 

 and restrictions thrown in his way, that he has to either give it up in 

 disgust or buy something he neither wants nor needs. For quite a number 

 of years the farmers of the interior have been acquainted with the fact 

 that when purchasing any of the salts of potash, it could be purchased in 

 the form of muriate cheaper than it could in any other form, this latter 



