The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1879-04-16
Our Indian River Correspondence.
Editor Florida Agr1caelturSst:

$ 'S01toT FLORIDA AgaIcatlturtst:
S This has been an unusually bus
season with us, for which cause w
) have not been able to keep up a
regular. correspondence with th,
AGRIcULTURIST as we could wish
Clearing two acres of hammock anC
extending our grove that much. tax
ing proper care of the trees already
set, budding few thousand seedlings
In the nursery, making and attending
to our kitchen garden, planting our
helu crops-even though they are
very limited in extent-well, no won
der we welcome Saturday night
we have not lost day, yet we are
terribly oehindhand with our work
We have not fingers enough to count
on their separate tips the different
things that are pressing us and ought
TO be done Immediately, and only
one pair of hands to do it all A
nelghbor OF mine, who was Of the
most eXactlng, methodical habits be.
lore locating on Indian River when
ne first settled here kept a memo.
rahda OF what he was to do a month
or SO ahead. Toward the latter end
OF the first month he had occasion to
go to Titusville. and as he had head
winds up there and head winds all
the way back, he necessarily ma de a
SLOW trip. Stopping at our place, we
noticed he was very anxious to aet
OF and we asked him what he was
IN such hurry about. F" Wellg SAID
he' taxing .,a 2E-1 = bis lsesss ~ -. )
sz-..s - =
rand1sal,, to have been back from Titus
vile before | started. | have it here, !
return from Titusville on Tuesday,
P. NJ, and here it is Friday, and I am
not home yet-full three days be-
hind time, and want to make it
up"
"Well," we replied, taking ad-
vantage of the experience of a longer
residence in Florida than yourself,
let us tell you there is no use in try
ing to make it up, and if you aren't
three months behind, before the year
is out, you will do well"
Such, IN fact, is the rule Every
body is behind with his work, un
less some favored few, who have the
means to hire extra help to keep all |
the work up. We simply throw in
these little items for the benefit of
any poor man, or, in fact, any man
who has to depend on his own labor,
and who expects to come here and |
grasp an independence by loungng
on "rosy beds of ease" 1t can't be
done.
We warmly second your idea to
get up citrus show per Sc for the
whole State, and next Winter would
be the time for it. Indian River has
never taken much stock in fairs as
yet, simply because all of her citizens,
with scarcely an exception, have been
too poor and too busy to attend.
We hope, however, to be able ere
LONG to show "the world and the
balance of mankind what we can do
in the way OF citrus show. If, how
ever, every grove In the State sends
specimens, as you suggest, how will
committee ever be got at who can
test them all? We would have to
import the New York aldermen
down in a body for that purpose
Our weather, as usual, is charming,
only rather dry. For the past week
our thermometer has averaged about
760 at noon.
Your excellent Daytona correspon-
dent, J. D. Mitchell, Esq, should
have learned ere this not to seek his
information, either socially, political
ly, or agriculturally, in the columns
of the New York Tribune. The
editors of that delettable sheet have
"cipher dispatch" on tie brain to