Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1867-09-25
FRuIr-RAIsINe IN FLORIDA.

grand picture Of the productiveness of the
soil in that rocohstructructed region,
which he thinks will soon be one Of the
greatest fruit-growing countries in the
world, when the, steamboat and steam-car
shall have made its products available
for market. Already other pursuits and
other crops are fast dwinding into insig-
nifcance besides the claims Of fruit The
writer is J. II. Sanborn, who is an enthu-
siast, evidently, and may, for what we
know, have an interest in Florida lands,
but if half he claims is realized, any rea-
sonablo man would be satisfied.
The orange crop is one of the most prof
liable. The profits which have been re-
allied from the sale Of oranges, orange
groves, and even orange land, have been
immense. The most luscious, sugary
melting oranges, vastly superior to those
Of any other portion of the known world,
are raised here as surely, as certainly,
aud regurarly as apples in Western New
York. Hundreds of thousands are sold
here every winter at from $50 to 60 per
thousand. The reputation Of Florida or
anges for sweetness have been remarkable,
but we learn from Mr.. Sanborn that the
sour trees are dug from the woods, plant
ed in groves, and budde into sweet trees
They are generally put 20 feet apart,
giving 100 trees to the acre. When five
years from the bud, they will yield 500
oranges per tree, At 10 years, they will
average 1000 oranges, If the trees were
we'll manured, and the grove well cared
for they would average double these am.
cunts.
Hire is one Of his estimates Of proba.
bilities for the benefit Of such as may be
interested Suppose young man comes
here and buys forty acres of land on TIC
cast side Of the st. Johns River, for $400
He hires ten acres Of it cut at s. per cord
himself clearing up and burning tht
brush and bushes. He gets at least two
hundred cords of wood. The total cost Of
land and wood is 5000. The wood will
cost s Il per cord more to get it to Jackson
vile, making $500 expense. Here he car
sell it for 81 per cord any day---iS may
be S.. Thus he will realize enough from
the sales of the wood on ten acres to pay
the wood, clearing the land and the whole
forty acre purchase, with reserve Of
enough more wood to buy all his house
lumber, and stock his farm. If he runs
short Of funds he can sell more wood. oil
divide up his land, and sell it readily, ii
ten acre lots at double the cost per acre
A little rose tinted, perhaps. aud to de
TER a rush from the poor or moderate who
might be Influenced by him, he says nc
one should come there, or in any new
country, with less than $1,000, as sick
ness and unknown contingencies requiring
money are constantly liable to occur. W.
continue Mr.. Sanborn's calculation, based
on.thc young mans ten acre farm, doubt
ing the possibility. however Of melons
and sweet potatoes, and tomatoes, under
the shadow Of the orange trees
Having sot out 1000 orange trees or
his ten acres, he can raise crop of mel
ons among them which should pay well
as those shipped from Savannah general
ly bring s apiece in New York, and over
$4,000 co have been raised on an acre.
These are off in June. The same ground
is then planted in sweet potatoes. Or Q
crop of tomatoes can be taken off June |
and then potatoes planted. Tomatoes
sent from here last spring brought from
Sc to $40 per bnshel in New York. Cos
of sending was 75c per bushel. Greer
peas. melons, tomatoes, sweet corn, carly
squashes, Irish potatoes, cucumbers, let
tuce, etc, can be planted in February
taken off and shipped North and the
same land make good crop of sweet po
tatoes by October, when it could be put
in beets. cabbages turnips, sweet peas and
all vegetables; thus giving three crops
for the same land. In five years he woult
have for his grove 100000 oranges. worth
$4,000, and increasing, till his income
on the tenth year may be $4,000. MIR
Dummitt, on Indian River, has l6 acre'
in one grove, from which he sold his or
anges on the trees, for $4,000 last winter
Hc has been offered $4,000 for the grow
which is now about 10 years old. Hi
grove is SO remote, he seldom gets NOR
than 81 per 100 oranges, on the trees
If his grove was near Jacksonville, he coz
get five times his money. When 20 year
old the tree will average 1000 oranges
which at tie lowest price they have beer
sold here, would give $50 per tree On
hundred trees would give $4,000 yearl,
income. The young mans 10 acres Q
trees would give 100000 annually. NO'