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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1879-04-23
Railroad Movement.

At meeting OF the citizens Of this
district, held pursuant to a public
notice, on Tuesday, April LIST, 1879,
at the post-office of Oak Hill, for the
purpose of electing committee to
represent them in the interest OF the
proposed Jacksonville, St. Augustine
and Indian River Railroad, Mr..
Charles Smith was chosen chairman
and Mr.. G. r. Pitzer secretary.
There was a great interest mani
tested by all present to do all in their
power to aid in the construction of
the proposed road. The following
resolutions were adopted:
Resolved, That we, the citizens of
Oak Hill district, hail with unfeigned
pleasure the prospect of having a
railroad through our part of the
country, and we hereby pledge our
selves to do all in our power to assist
in getting said road completed as
soon as possible, laying aside all side
issues and dissensions (lf there be
any, and uniting as one man and
working for the best interest of each
and all, for the purpose above men,
toned.
-Resolced, That Lafayette Allen,
James Rideout, George Packwood,
Henry S. Barker, and Benjamin F.
Chiffon, be and are hereby appointed
a committee to correspond with the
direcsors of the proposed railroad on
any business connected with this dis
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mentioning, were made to collect
manure for general purposes; All
that was deemed needful, being
saved for the gardens and tobacco
lots by Summer cow-pens. These
were filled with cattle, such as our
modern breeders would hardly recog-
nize as belonging to the bovine spe-
cies. = =
Sheep and hogs were equally neg.
lected." Florida to the letter. "There
is no evidence of any systematic or
artificial cultivation of grasses in
England until the introduction of
perennial rye grass in 1877, and no
other variety of grass seed appears
to have been sown tor many years,
not, indeed, till toward the close of
the last century.
The practice of sowing grass seed
was never known in Scotland previ-
GUS to the year 1902.
1" 1t is somewhat curious fact that
the modern Improvement in cattle in
England did not begin till after the
systematic culture of the higher quail.
ties of natural grass"
If, in regard to the quality and
treatment of our cattle we are pre-.
cisely where England, Scotland, and
the American colonies were one hun.
dred years ago, and if they did not
begin to improve their stock until
they commenced the systematic cul-
ture of the higher qualities of natural
grass, it would seem a plain matter
OF common sense that, If we would
improve our stock, we must first
begin where they did, by the system
attic cultivation of the higher quail
ties of grasses. and the saving Of fod-
der. If we admit that we cannot so
readily enter into the cultivation OF
the higher grasses as they did, we
must also admit that we can balance
this inconvenience by our superior
lfaciljties for raisings groea fodder.
such as fodder corn, pease, rye, oats,
sorghum, collards, and even turnips,
there being no day in the year when
we may not have full supply of
some Of these.
Here l will add further, that from
my own experience with the Jersey
or AlderneY COWS, / am fully salts
fed that unless they are soil fed,"
or fed in some way different from
our native scrub stock, they are in.
ferior to them in every particular
except in docility. But if treated as
their superior nature demands-if we
could give them the treatment that
made them-they will amply reward
every effort and surpass our highest
expectations.
Continued neat aUeek.)
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No. 40

Irlct' to correspond with nonresident
iand.holders of this district. solicit.
ing donations of lands in aid of said
road, and to transact any other bnsi.
ness pertaining to said road that NAV
properly come before them in their
capacity as such committee. fnrtber.
ing the best interest of this commu-
nifty; provided, hoscever, they do not
attempt to bind any party or parties
to any transaction without the con.
sent OF those interested. This com.
mit;ee, or any one Of them, are also
authorized to represent this district
at the general meeting of delegates
from other districts along the coast.
at whatever time or place that NAV
10 IS further Reso1ved, That this
committee keep record of their cor.
respondence as committee, and other
doings in such capacity, and be pre-
pared to report at any time to the
call OF any public meeting held in the
district.
1t was moved and seconded that a
copy of the proceedings of the meet.
ing be furnished the FLORIDA AG.
RIcULTUR1sT. The meeting then ad.
jonrned, subject to call of the com
mlttee. GEORGE r. PITzER,
Secretary.
OAK HILL, Fla, April 1st. 1879.
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Comparisons.

Editor Florida Agricsltatrsst:
One might think, in listening to
the continual complainings at the
little unpleasantnesses and discour-
agements Of Florida life which we
hear from all sides, that it was only
IN Florida that the husbsaSr-a, husbs;a,e1r
! Essgr.< ss,s Z came ~ naught:: thd, !. 8
only here that drought and Hood and
blight and mildew and frost held
their carnival; that nowhere but
here did men look to the earth for
bread and receive a stone--in short
that prosperity, happiness and sue
cess abound everywhere except in
Florida, and all the other sort of
things here.
In looking over the government
crop report for the past year I End
that there are discounts in agricul.
ture and horticulture in other states
than Florida-that, in fact, we suffer
no affliction save such as is common
to all men. On the contrary-like
our native chills and fever-our types
Of affiiction seem of an extremely
mild character as compared with
even the most favored states.
condense the account of the vari-
GUS diseases and accidents and con-
tingencies that have been prominent
in blighting the hopes of the north.
ern husbandman and fruit grower in
nearly or quite every state reported
none having escaped a good aver.
age, and some going through the bill
of fare from A to Ampersand.
Grapes rotted badly; were de-
stroyed by Spring frosts; mildewed;
were too wet in some localities and
too dry in others; were attacked by
a small fly; whole states ravaged by
the phylloxera.
Apples rotted on the trees; were
cut short by Spring frosts, by June
frosts, by dry and bitter rot, by hot
and dry weather, by codling moth;
and when sold were worth less than
the cost of harvesting and barreling.
Peaches rotted badly; were infest-
ed with curculio, and the trees killed
by the borers and yellows.
Pedrs.-Blight, frost, codling moth.
Of the innumerable insects and
depredators of which we read in
every paper-that prey upon every
green thing; of the territory over
run and eaten up alive by grass.
hoppers; of floods that moved one
mans farm from its moorings and
placed it atop of another's; Of hail
storms and cloud breaks,-of all
these it were vain to speak, since no
latitude or longitude is exempt from
the visitations of Providence. Even
Continued on page Se2.
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SCIENCE.-NO. VIII.
BY PROFESSOR J. H. FOWLER.

Written for Florida Agriculturist.
In this and many other southern
states it is the custom to pull off the
green corn blades for fodder; then
allow the no longer nourished ear to
shrink and dry upon the stalk. for
weeks, exposed to wind and storm
and birds and other depredating ami
mails, when, by repeated careful ex-
periments, it has been proven that
the shrinkage, thus caused, in the
corn is more than equal to the entire
value of the fodder pulled off. 1t
has also been proven, in a similar
manner, that cutting off the green
stock just above the ear-as is the
custom in the north eastern states
does less injury to the corn and is a
greater saving of fodder. AT the
same time it has been demonstrated
that to cut up, a. the ground, the
entire stock, with the ear, and shock
the whole together in the field until
the corn becomes perfectly mature,
causes less shrinkage than either. of
the former methods. Here, in Flor.
ida, we have every inducement to
adopt this last method. By it we
could save stock, blade, and " shuck y
or "husk," all of which, with the
corn itself, if we choose, could be
cut up fine together and cooked for
our working animals and mich COWS
during the Winter season. 1 have
tried this method and know it to be
the best and most economical use we
can make Of our corn and fodder,
and that horse, OK or cow will do
better upon it than upon the best dry
northern hay and corn.* In this
way we could clear our corn fields
by the first of August; then plow
in all the green grass and weeds,
with broadcast cow pease. The
green pease we could gather for feed
or turn them under, in the Fall, as
fertilizer; Then SOW the same field
with rye, or oats, for Spring forage,
the stubble of which, if turned
under, would also be a good
fertilizer. Thus we could have
rotation of three different crops, in
and feeding corn fodder and fodder corn
could be cited. We give the two follow
ing, taken at random:
Mr.. Simmons, in Pennsylvania, drilled
10 quarts. in rows 2 feet apart. on of an
acre of mucky land; enriched with Il cords
high, and, when the tassels began to bios
som, was cut and shocked. When dry. it
weighed 2,400 pounds. Judging from his
own experience, he deemed it worth
more for feeding milch cows than the best
hay. They ate 1T perfectly clean. and gave
From 81 acres, B. K, of Peekskill, New
York, cut tons of hay in July, then
planted the same land in fodder corn, and
took off in September tons when dried.
This was eaten clean, without machine
cutting, furnishing one meal per day for
ali bis cattle, to the middle of April.
Fodder corn is generally deemed prefer
able to any other green feed for cows but,
with us. it is probable, all things consid-
cred, that cow pease would be superior for
green feed, while they are probably the
best for green manure.
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Contents Of this Number.

sons.
Page S76---Now, poetry; My wife's New Shawl;
Tact; Bank of England Note Paper Given Away
on his Dodge; The Girlto Get Danger in Sea-
Skin Sacque.
Page 377--Legal Notices; Advertisements.
Page S7S---The Nassau County Fair; Investments in
Florida The Citrus Fair; Our Sheep Industry;
Homestead Patents Floridana Locals.
Page Observation-Disclosures
Page 3SO---Starch Producing Plants; Fish as Brain
Food Are Bees Proftable?; The Industrious
Hen; Principles of Pruning; Making Lumber
from Straw; The Supply of Boxwood; Home
Made Bread; The Preventative Power of the
Pswpaw.
Page e3S1---Advertisements.
Page 3S2--. -.Telegraphic News: Advertisements
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one year, and, at the same time
greatly enrich the soil with what
grows upon it. To repeat:
1t requires about four months to
mature a crop of corn with us.
When the corn is ripe, there is usu-
ally a growth of grass and weeds
sufficient, if turned under, to restore
to the soil the fertility exhausted by
a growth of corn. Now if we plow
in these weeds and grass and add to
this the two or three crops which
may be grown upon the land during
the next eight months, or even one
half OF that growth, as green manure,
we shall find our lands annually in
creasing in fertility while we take
from them one valuable crop every.
year. But we can even do better
than this, for by feeding and saving
manure we can return to the soil
nearly everything that we take off OF
it and all else that may grow upon it
during the whole Of the year. In
our climate something will grow
every day of the twelve months. 1t
is a we'll known, scientific fact, that a
large part of the nutrition of plants
comes from the atmosphere; hence,
instead of dragging labor out of our
little ponies. we can hitch up the
forces of nature and keep them at
work the year around to enrich our
lands. Plants are the machines, the
sun is the power engine, driving
these machines, to gather up, from
the atmosphere and from the deep
subsoils, fertilizers for our fields,
while, at tbe same time, the growing
plants, chemically and otherwise,
modify the mineral elements in the
top soil SO that they are more readily
assimilated by the succeeding crops.
Therefore we are admonished by
science as we'll as by common sense,
supported by experiment, wherever
tried, to enrich our fields by plowing
in green crops. If, to this, we should
add the practice of saving more feed
and thereby improve our animals and
make, by feeding them, more manure'
and cultivate less acres, getting
larger aggregate crops, we should be
taking some OF the rocks out of the
bag.
1t is doubtful, if there be another
state in the Union where so large a
proportion of the agricultural out.
lay is wasted. Prior to emancipa.
ton it was slave labor versus brain
labor and there has been none too
much brains since. Many of us, new
comers, don't know how to use what
brains we have. Everything is new
to us, climate, soil, tools, animals,
crops and ways of doing things. We
have to start new, and learn to un-
learn many things, and when we
have repeatedly failed and the eli.
mate has taken its share Of snap out
of US, our pluck seems to 60 too.
But it costs nothing to hold on to
our common sense. We know, by the
weeds and grasses that grow SO as
tonishingly, and battle our efforts, as
well as by the remarkable speci.
mems" we sometimes see that the
climate and soil of Florida are pro.
ductive, and the fault is in us and
not in them, that we produce SO lit.
tie of everything and utterly fail
in so many attempts. If we have
not that pluck which says I" 1t is in
me and it shall come OUT" we should
have that common sense which sees
that "it is in the soil and climate y
and the right way will bring it out.
The right way is the way of success.
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tCOmpare this weight with the follow
ing G. H. Farnum. Concord, N. H., 1876,
killed q steer. g months old that weighed,
for $1,000. This, dressed, March Ist, 1877,
weighed 9O2 pounds. The meat alone
weighed 748 pounds. This steer was Just
one year old. Such remarkable growths
are now becoming frequent in all the
northern and western states and in Eu-
they were two hundred years agoF
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one year, and, at the same time
greatly enrich the soil with what
grows upon it. To repeat:
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I Not TO Blame.

An erroneous impression prevails among
the people here and elsewhere that the
continuance in the case Of Ross was grant.
ted By Judge Peasants from leniency Gr
abundant courtesy to Ross attorney, Mr..
Foster. Such an impression is entirely
erroneous, as the Judge, under the circum-
stances, could not do otherwise. The af-
fidavit which was presented on the part
of Mr., Foster accompanied by the certi6-
cate OF his medical attendant, DR.. Middle
ton, were of that positive character, and in
such u strict compliance with the statute
in such cases, that Judge Peasants was
left no discretion in the matter, but was
compelled by the statute and the showing
made to grant the continuance as he did
We make these few remarks in simple
justice TO Judge Peasants and explanatory
Of his position in the matter.
The affidavit of the attorney and the
certificate Of the physician were in due
form and as full as would be required. AS
to the truth or falsity of either, we know
nothing, and wish to be understood as care
fully refraining from expressing any
opinion. But we do know that the unani-
nous voice of the Bar exonerates Judge
Pleasents from any dereliction of duty.
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compIexional Indications.

The complexion of persons whose dises-
ton is out Of order, who are bilious, or
who lack vigor, always exhibits an I'M.
healthy tint. 1t by regulating the bod
lily organs and promoting digestion and as
sanitation, that tho parchment hue indi.
GativO of i'll health, is banished from the
cheeks. To rectify the fault of sallow
complexion, use Hogtetters Stomach Bit
ters, an invigorant and Alternative which
removes strength, physical comfort and
personal attracfivenoss-an imperfect d.
gestion and secretion, and q disordered
condition of the bowels. Persistence in
the use Of this inestimable corrective and
tonic will assuredlyiresult in renewed ply
steal regularity and vigor, will tend to in
crease the glow and clear color of health
TO return to the sallow wasted cheek.
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The Bridge,

The repairs on the government bridge
will, without doubt, be completed so that
crossing will be allowed on Saturday of
this week. The old carriage-way road bed
has been replaced by white oak, FIVE
inches thick. The guage of the two car
riage tracks has been made 5 feet 10
inches wide, two inches wider than before.
The iron straps and deck outside the track
have been raised to the level of the top
Of the iron track, and the sidewalks arc
being relaid with yellow pine, FIVE inches
thick, in place of the old two-inch oak;
which will afford better fooihold to ped
estrigns
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Tax Norica.

respectfully call the attention oftax pay
ers that the sale for tax of 1878 will COM
mence at ten clock in the forenoon of Mon
day, June 9th. There being but a short
time in which to pay taxes before the sale,
my Office will be open from seven to nine
o'clock 10 the evening. Office in the court
house.
5-2Od&wtf S. r. PORTER, Collector.
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Old Medford.

Nothing is Superior to the old genuine
Medford Rum from Daniel Lawrence q
Son, Boston. They keep only strictly
pure article. For sale by all first class
dealers inRock Island. Inquire for
Daniel Lawrence Il Sons genuine old
Medford.
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Bucklsn's Arnioa salve .

The BEST sALvE in the world for Cuts,
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Tet-
ter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns,
and oil kinds of Skin Eruptions. This
salve Is guaranteed to give perfect salts
iaCtlon IN every case, or money refunded.
6Else 20 Gents per box. For sale by @.
SPEIDEL, Rock Island, - ~
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Corn Bread

Two pints of sweet milk, and three we'll
beaten eggs, three pints corn meal, one
teaspoonful Dooley's least Pow
der, one teaspoon Of salt, and one table
spoon Of lard Bake in quick oven.
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NATIONAL YEAST has gained its world
wide reputation upon its merits. If you
have never used il give it q trial.
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Linen collars, ruches, veilings, lace top
Lisle gloves, silk gloves, lace mits, lust
opened by MITCHELL Il PARSONS.
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REEDS Gilt Edge Tonic cures the most
obstinate cases of liver complaint. G.
TeGeler & Co., wholesale agents, Rock
Island.
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The following shows the temperature
at THE ARGUS OFFICE to-day as in
Dictated bv thermometer:
TAN. roe above zero 12P.M sSo above zer
9AM. re- P.E.5Jo
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Pozzoni's MediCated Complexion Pow
dsrs

For infants toilet it is an indispensable
article, healing all excavations immediate
ly. Mothers should use it freely on the
little ones. II is perfectly harmless. For
sale by druggists.
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IF you have Sick Headache take dose
Of DR.. Bulls Baltimore Pills; we know
you will find relief.
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The three days display of Ladies Suits
at McCabe's terminates tomorrow even
ing.
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A Card 70 the Public.

Rock ISLAND, Ill, May 10, 1879.
Great reduction in prices. We are sell
ing:
Standard A Sugar IL lbs. for. ..... $l.00
Standard Q Sugar Is lbs. for........ Leo
Choice Rio Coffee 81 lbs. for. ...... loo
Fair Rio Coffee lbs. for. ... loo
Other goods 10 proportion. Give US q
call.
DIFF BUFoRD's Prov FACTORY STORE.
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Inc hne Suits displayed at McCabe
HroS m opening are being rapidly disposed
ol' Inc display continues to-morrow
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For Lace Braids, Thread asd Patterns,
call on Miss Plat, opposite Episcopal
Church. 4dtf.
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The Grand opening of stylish Linen,
Lawn and chintz Suits at McCabc Bros
continues tomorrow.
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The Wsather--To-Day.

BUFoRD's PLow FACTORY STORE.
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REBUTTAL FOR THE PEOPLE.

FRANK ANKRUM-Sworn: Know Peter
Albert, saw him on the evening of March
last; be told me about the murder, that
he knew of it; his story was substantial
- the same IS that read to Mr., Albert
this morning, by Major BeardsIy, and
which was denied by Albert. The witness
stated positively that the conversation al
luded to took place,
By Gannon-This was on the sidewalk
in front of Bowens store; it was between
4 and o'clock the evening of March 18th;
have spoken TO counsel about it and to
others; the way they came to speak to me
about it happened to be 10 the major of
fee; did not go there particularly for that
purpose, however.
Major Beardsley then stated that the
people rested their case.
After some preliminary work and short
delay, the arguments began and States
Attorney Parmenter opened for the people
IN strong speech for the prosecution;
referring to the continuance o! Ross; grow
ing eloquent, Mr.. Parmenter said:
These defendants will appeal for sym
patty, and turning to the defendants and
shaking his hand, said: Gentlemen of the
jury These defendants are the murder.
ers of poor Joe Rosenfeld; they are guilty
of murder and they ought to suffer the
penalty of the law. The orphan children
OF the murdered officer, the widow, the
Concluded on first Page.l
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