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4 THE SOUTHERN WORLD, MARCH 15,1882. tick.” But what if the merchant should say: “O foolish and impecunious generation, ye seeketh after tick, but no tick shall be given you save the tick of the prophet Jo nah.” You know, my brethren, he tried to obey the Lord on tick, and the consequence was that he got ducked in the sen and swallowed by a whale, and walloped around generally in a way that made him “git up and git.’’ Just so will you get soused in a sea of trouble, swallowed by a whale of debt, and walloped about until you will look meaner than the sneaking “yaller” dog that Adam found slinking around his kitchen, and has slunk around the universal creation ever since. O, misguided brethren, are you content to sit, like a legion of Lazaruses, at your mer chant's doors, and feed on the crumbs you can beg from their bounty? Can you stand up like men and feel that you are free born American citizens as long as you whine after others for your "vittles?" Then rise, rise ye slothful farmers, from the bog holes of credit, soarnloft on the blessed conscious ness of having raised your “vittles,” and year after year you will rise higher, and higher when your lives shall reach the “sere and yellow leaf," you will perch on the pinna cle of independence, and, planting the point of your thumb on the apex of your nose, you will be able to twist your fingers in contemptuous defiance at the hordes of Shy- locks who lie in wait for the unwary farmer, trying to gobble up all he makes by furnish ing him “vittles.!' And when the caterpil lar, like the angel of death, shall spread bis wings on the blast, and sweeping from cot ton field to cotton field, shall gather into his capacious stomach the crop of the South, then rising from his feast, like an eagle with bloody talons, shall startle the land with his exultant screams of GUILD RES, WHERE’S YOUR "VITTLES?” then you will be able to smile “with a smile that is cliild-like und blund,” and shout back the defiant answer: “I got you that time old fellow, 1 raised 'em myself." Thendrom every hill-top and out of every valley, ten thousand times ten thousand “sperrits of just men made perfect” will kick up their heels and shout DULLY KOR YOU. OX-BUTTJEB. Northern exchanges continue to publish fulminations against oleomargarine, and the law making powers of several States and Congress have been invoked to prohibit its manufacture, or at least its sale as genuine butter. Under heavy penalties, manufactu rers have been required to brand upon each package of the obnoxious rival, the word “oleomargarine,” and there is but little doubt that that the cow-butter” interest would be glad to see this new manufacture prohibited by law. To a disinterested out sider—a mere consumer of butter, this war fare appears unjustifiable. If oleomarga rine is not pronounced unwholesome by competent and disinterested authority, or is-not found to be deleterious by those who consume it, it is a little difficult to find a substantial and unselfish reason for unnec- cessary restrictions on its manufacture and ■ale. It does not appear that those who buy butter for consumption are making any fuss about it, and it would seem that the genuine butter producers are rather suspici ously tender of the palates and stomachs of consumers. The opposition to the sale of oleomargarine by butter makers is a very high tribute to its excellence as a substi tute for the genuine article. For our part we much prefer a good quality of real butter to even the best of oleomargarine; but the latter is superior in every sensible respect to more than half the ituff what is sold as butter in Atlanta. We have several times lately been constrained to buy the “oleo” because an even passable article of the genuine could not be found. The idea of the dairy men seeiUB to be that theirs is such an old established business—having existed “time whereof” even the most ancient history “runneth not to the contrary"—that they and their cows hold a prescriptive indefeasi ble right to supply the world with butter, and that it is an unwarrantable usurpation on on the part of any one, to offer an imitation or substitute. The butter makers want something in the nature of protection—not against foreign competition, but against their own neighbors and fellow citizens! Manufacturers of oleomargarine are de nounced as unscrupulous and unprincipled because they are seeking to introduce an ar ticle as butter that so nearly resembles it ttykt Qveij good judges arc liable to t>9 de ceived and Imposed upon; and they ask leg islative interference to prevent the “dear” consumer (?) from being so grossly deceived. What will be done to protect the poor un lettered man who cannot spell out the forbidding word—o-l-e-o-m-a-R-o-a-r-i-n-E? Would it not be a good idea to require every manufacturer and dealer to furnish some genuine butter alongside of every pack age of “oleo" and require the seller on oath to tell euch consumer "which is which?” So far thcra is no intimation of similar movements on the part of pork-packers against the manufacturers of cotton seed oil —alias cotton “butter"—alias “salad oil,”— alias “cookoline,” etc. The reason of this, perhaps, is the fact that the cotton seed oil bears so little resemblance to hog's lard to the eye that no one is liable to be deceived by it. But what of its sale as a substitute for olive oil? Theanswer is—there is no manufac turers of genuine olive oil or growers of olive in this country. Indeed, we are told that the foreign producers of olive oil are the principal buyers of cotton seed oil to be sold again as the genuine olive. This is a hint to the butter men. Let them go into the butterine and oleomarga rine business and make it reputable Then where are the manufacturers of glu cose or corn starch syrup as substitutes for cane syrup and honey. They ought to be prohibited or put on terms in some way to protect the dear people from imposition, and cane growers and bee-keepers from such dangerous (to high prices) competition. In all seriousness we do not think there is any greater necessity for legislation in one case than in the other. The people should be protected from the imposition of such articles as are either worthless or inju rious and whose quality or character cannot be detected by ordinary inspection; and they should also be allowed the full benefit which conies from competition and increas ed production, where no harm can result to them. The remedy for the dairymen is in their own hands. . Let them make such a quality of butter and at such moderate prices as will effectually break down the business of imitators. I’eople will npt buy the imitation when they can get the genuine at the same price. The truth Is (W6 fear) the dairymerr fore see failure in the effort to compete in prices and so cry “wolf” promptly, and invoke leg islative restriction and popular prejudice in their behalf. • There are those who even now are expect ing greater revolutions in the art of manufac turing food—even from crude and unassimi- lable materials. Sytheticul chemistry as ap plied to the production of food is in its swaddling clothes. It is not now so devoutly believed as for merly, that science can never successfully supplement natural processes in the pro duction of compound substances, different in no respect—save their origin—from natu ral organic compounds. Rapid progress has been made in manufacturing useful buil ding materials of straw, waste paper, sand and lime; and a great variety of useful and ornamental articles are now made which are utterly unlike the original materials. The manufacture of oleomargarine, it is true, is not a purely scientific process, but its close imitation of the genuine is very suggestive of what may be achieved. We are surrounded on all sides by the element which enter into the composition of butter, sugar, etc. We breathe them every mo ment; we drink them also with every drought. In the light of the achievements of science during the past fifty years, who will put bound.! to her further progress in any direction—save towards Divine attri butes? We need no literal Creative power, but only to comtiound elements already created. If the ingenuity of man can devise new forms of food by the direct combination of these elements, instead of waiting on the slow and roundabout processes of nature,— food that shall be found wholesome, pala table and nutritious, and less costly than-the natural articles—people will ap prove and adopt them in spite of legisla tion. R. J. R. Mr. P. J. Berckmans, of Augusta Ga., says that the demand for superior fruit is always greater than the supply. The va riety of peaches ripening from the middle of June to the last of August will generally be found to be the most profitable. We can compete successfully with growers living four or five hundred miles nearer New York. We have other fruits that are as profitable as peaches, notably the wild goose plum and early applet!, Horticultural Bonanzas. One of the evils of the times, growing out of a desire to please, rather than a disposi tion to seek and promulgate truth, finds ex pression in the columns of leading political journals, occupied by the effusions of “spe cial correspondents” in which the profits of particular enterprises are exaggerated, for tunes won without labor and fame acquired in a single newspaper article. An important question for the. reader to ask himself when he reads the effusions of these “specials” is—how much was he paid for this? Is this a truthful representation of facts made for the sake of truth itself, or is it an advertisement for which the correspon dent is liberally paid by those whoso enter prises and profits are so thoroughly ven tilated. We have recently read several “specials” on matters relating to horticul ture, which suggested these inquiries. Men who have, according to their own state ments to us, lostynoney by their enterprises, have been represented as marching with flaming colors at the head of a grand army of bonanza kings. A large quarto monthly apparently advocating the interests of south ern industries, fills its pages with hand somely gotten up advertisements of indi vidual enterprises, which suggest to the unsuspecting reader, wonderful - enterprise on the part of the editor in collecting so much instructive matter relating to the va rious industries seeking his patronage. He never suspects that every page of the paper is occupied by an advertisement for which a round sum has been paid, and paid just because it is presented in the deceptive guise of editorial reading. The rending public demands sensation; the ungarnished truth is too plain to be ap preciated or believed. Baron Munchausen is the hero of the times and his effusions are devoured with all the relish with which “sweet sixteen” gulps a dime novel. Now, these extravagant reports of profits arising from special enterprises, while they serve the temporary purpose of pleasing and perhaps profiting the interested parties by advertising their business and putting money in the purses of the specials, and the papers in which their effusions are pub lished, do much mischief, exciting expecta tions that not only never have been, but never can be realized in a legitimate bus iness. Florida is strewn with the wrecks of the fortunes of hundreds who have been en ticed to the State by golden-tinted articles on the “golden orange,” which, like the “golden hoofed” sheep, has furnished the inspiration for numerous “bonanza” effusions. The natural effect of such gaudily painted pictures, is to encourage wild adventure by inexperienced persons who knowing noth ing of the toil and expense which have re sulted here and there in success, but too often in signal failure, look only to the re sults os pictured, venture their atl in a bus iness of all of the details and roads to suc cess in which they are ignorant. We do not remember the time when we were not interested in horticulture in all of its ramifications, but we have never known extraordinary results or unusual success at tained without a display of unusual energy, enterprise, judgment and skill on the part of the successful party. We desire to warn the readers of the Southern World against embarking in any branch of horticulture with the expectation of making fortunes without the expenditure of money and 'a- bor and the display of enterprise, energy, skill and sound judgment. In warfare, the thousands who fight and fall, or fight and fall, are unhonored and forgotten, while he who by some fortuitous circumstance sur vives the conflict, wears the laurels which were won by others. So it is in every bus iness of life: the few who make remarkable successes are held up as beacon lights, but too often prove only lurements to disaster. Now we would not deter any one from giv ing his time, labor and money to horticultu ral pursuits because of the false beacons held out to them by sensational writers. On the contrary we urge all who live in the country to devote a portion of their time to such pursuits, believing that if intelligently pur sued, it will afford not only a reasonable profit, but to those who have the refinement to .appreciate it, a high order of pleasure. Horticulture followed for pleasure, consti tutes the esthetics of agriculture, and when intelligently pursued for profit under wisely selected circumstances, affords as reasonable a promise of success as any other business, J. 8, N, The Science and Art of Budding. Every bud upon the branches of a fruit tree, is either a fruit blossom or a tree em bryo. Those that produce blossoms are known ag fruit buds, while those thatproduce roots ami branches, and grow up like a tree, are called leaf buds. Buds are single or double; that is, one or two at the same place. Of the single buds, the leaf latds at the time of budding, are the large round plump buds, at the base of the leaf stein. The fruit bud is designed to be ready by the next season, and hence is not generally well developed in the preceding June, July and August: but the leaf bud continues to grow, and is ready to expand as the necessities of the mother tree requires. Of the double bud, one is a leaf bud, and the other is a fruit bud. The leaf bud possesses individual vitality like a seed, and by development reproduces its parent tree in all its characteristics, no matter to what other tree it is transferred. A Bartlet pear bud transferred to an apple tree produces Bartlet pears; Moorpark Apri- cott to the peach—Moorpark Apricotts; the White English peach upon some other peach or plumb—White English peaches, and so on, the bud always retaining its true individ ual character. The bud will thrive as well upon any other tree of its species as upon the tree where it grows by nature, if properly transferred ; as it is entirely separated from the wood of the mother tree, and can grow as readily in the wood of some other tree. The principle of its growth is the same in both instances. There is under the bark, and between the bark and the wood, a partially formed woody matter, called the cambium. It gives support to the roots of the buds, which be comes deeply embedded in it, as it ripens into durable wood. This cambium is the same in trees of the same species, hence, will nourish any one of the buds of the family just as well as another. Take a switch from this year’s growth from the tree you wish to propugate from. Cut from it any double bud, or well formed single bud, as you wish a leaf bud to propagate with. With a sharp knife begin to cut one-fourth of on inch before the bud, skinning just a little of the wood as the knife pops under the bud to one-fourth of an inch in the rear of the bud. This will give the bud, with its shield, a half inch long. Go to the tree upon which you wish to insert it, and make a cut through the bark a half inch long, perpen dicular with the tree, or sprout into which you wish to bud, and at the top of this cut through the bark for a fourth of an inch at right angles to the first cut, making a let ter^. Now carefully raise the bark so as not to break it, or disturb the cambium under neath, and slip the bud in, so as to have it fit to the bark above, and the end of the in cision below. Then with a soft woolen, or cotton rag string, tie the bark down tightly above and below the bud. In too weeks cut off the string, and leave the bud to grow, which they will do, either at once or the next season. When they begin to grow cut off the tree just above the buds, and the bud will soon, in a thrifty stock, produce another tree of the desired variety. Budding is best done directly after a rain. The buds should be inserted in young trees, or in new shoots upon old ones. It can be done any time from the first of June to the Inst of August. The time differs a little in the different kinds of fruit. The rule is, “when the skin slips well from the wood, begin to bud.” Three or four buds should be put into the same tree so as to provide against failure, as every bud does not live.—[W. E. H. Searcy. Dr. Hoskins, of Vermont, says; "Very few know the productiveness of the garden strawberry under good cultivation. . I have picked four peck baskets from a square rod at a single picking. Crops of 200, and occa sionally over 400 bushels to the acre, are reported, and ISO bushels are only a fair crop. At ten cents a quart this crop would give a return of (470, more than half of which will be clear profit Mr. Vick is quoted as saying that the “ white worm,” or any other worm, in pots, may be destroyed by sticking three or four common matches down into the soil, also one or two up jn the drain opening. The phosphorus on the match is certain death to the animal life, and a powerful fertiliser to plants. The San Francisco Call states that Gen. John Bidwell has shipped to the Eastern States and Europe over 10,000,000 pounds of fruit during the last six months.