Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-02-01

tOnished at the simplicity of cultivation.
Corn, not expected to grow here, yields
from 10 to 20 bushels an acre, and is
worth from $1.OO to $3.50 per bushel /;
sweet potatoes average from 100 to 400
bushels per acre, and are worth from forty
cents to three dollars bushel; rice gives
40 to so bushels, worth in the hull $3.50 a
bushel; and sugar cane will. yield, from
$50 to $50 gallons of syrup, worth from 40
to 75cts, per gallon. Fruits and garden
vegetables. are as profitable, and in early
seasons, the latter is a source of much
money.
There is plenty of vacant land now, but
in two years, l can safely prophecy, that
there will be very little, and those who
come first win be the great realizers.
Corners should have little capital, esps-
cially if going into fruit growing. Or
ange trees commence to bear in 5 to z
years, and one who does not farm, or do
anything but orange growing, must wait
until this time, to realizs. Poor men
find here poor mans country. Living
is so cheap, and game, fish and vegets-
bles so plenty, that there is no fear Of
starving. They will have to work hard
for a few years, but after that, they can
reckon on an easy and comfortable time
Capitalists and business men, can find an
immense field for the employment of
their capital and brains. The country re-
quires such to develop it, and when deVel-
oped, it will be the fairest and richest
known.
will now refer to the climate, and in
doing so will give only such facts as my
observation has experienced, and reliable
authorities furnish.
append table Of mean temperature
for every month in the year. embracing a
period of 25 years. ;
Jan. Is; Feb. 6s.5; March 81: April 7l.S;
May IS 6; June 7s.5; July SO.7; Aug. sO.4; Sep
TS.3; Oct. 74O; Nov. 66.s; Dec. go; Spring
721; Summer 500: Autumn 1871; Winter 62.S;
Year II 8; No. of yrs. and mos. Is.
This is for the region 1 speak Of, lati
tuds % degrees, and the altitude of the
country varies from 20 to 100 feet.
A temperature of freezing 80 degrees
for March has occasionally occurred at
Tampa, and light frosts for the same
month are almost an annual occurrence.
The average minimum temperature at
Tampa for the winter for a period Of
twelve years is "a & A degrees.
Now the minimum is "a & A degrees,
the mean over go degrees, and the maxi
mum figures at over 20 degrees.
have been here during one of the Sc
Yersst northern months, Dec, and | have
not sesn the Thermometer lower than "a de-
grses, and there but seldom; indeed, 1t has
not been below go degrees but five days
out of the thirty-one. ae
The maximum temperature Of summer |
generally ranges from 90 degreas to 95 de-
grees, rarely exceeding the latter except in
the northern part of the State. This fact !
is so contrary to the impression generally |
entertained by the public outside Of the
State, that to many the statement ap-
pears incredible. 1t need not appear 50
strange, however, when it Is remembered |
that IN the north temperate zone the days |
are longer and the nights shorter during
summer as We advance fromI the lower to
the higher latitudes, and that consequent
ly the rays Of heat from the sun are longer
concentrated on the sarth's surface with
proportionately shorter night for cooling |
by radiation. The reverse being the case
in the winter, and it is thus that an equal
distribution of heat for the year in the |
lower and higher lstitudes of the same
zone is insured, the winter deficiency be-
ing compensated by the summer excess.
The regular alienation of the land and |
sea breezes, the latter being the cooler by
several degrees. greatly ameliorAtes also
the summer heats of Florida, and marked
ly so all along her extensive coast. In cor
roboration of these statements 1 quote
from Surgeon-Gensral Lawson, who
says
'.Ths climate of Florida is remarkably
equable and proyerbially agreeable, being
subject to fewer atmospheric variations,
and its thermometric ranges much less
than any other part of the United States,
except portion of the coast of Galifor-
MA"
'1n the Interior of Texas, the range is
very great, the summer heats rising to
mean of 112 degrees in the valley Of the
Rio Grande at Laredo Fort McIntosh)
and to 1O3 degrees at the posts on the up
per plains. It falls TO a mean of 90 de-
grees in winetr on the Rio Grande valley,
and to ten degrees on the plains, making
the range near 90 degrees in each case. At
Fort Smith, Arkansas, the range is 1OS de-
grses having the summer temperature of
1O3 degrees, and the winter of -5 de-
grees."
From northern people, who have come
here during the last two and three years,
I am assured the summer is the best por-
tion of the year. For my experience of
the winter. which. to me is more than
PlcdSAHIS 6Ap6cl W AlIu ouluuiSI5 SedoOu
more than l can imagine.
There is summer record kept at our
hotel, and it does not show heat so high
as in Ohio, although it lasts for q longer
period, and, accepting the summer as
vouchsd for, can only say, winter du-
ring the months of Nov, Dec, JAN,
Feb and Mar, sees very few days at "a
degrees, the greater share Of the time be-
ing at go degrees and over.
The winter season here, is dry season,
very little rain falling; but the next sea-
son comes on in June, and lasts 2 or 8
months.
In tropical and semi-tropicsl countries,
we may expect great humidity Of atmos-
phere and great rain fall.
Reference to the records are agreeably
surprising with reference to South Flori-
da.
append table of rain fall in inches
for period Of 10 years
Lat. ss: AIT. 90; Jan. 2.2O: Feb. Sol; March
3.S7; April 1876; May s94; June 7.OI; July H.
10; Aug. 1910; Sept 6.S8; Oct. 9.4O; Nov. goo;
Dec 2.ss. Spring s,5s summer 0s "a; Autumn
lO.8a; Winter sO4; Year 55.47 No. of yrs. 10.