The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1879-05-28
AN attempt has been made to burn
the records of fernando county.

AN attempt has been made to burn
the records of fernando county.
The court house at Tallahassee
has been burnt down. Loss $4,000.
Hamilton county had no occasion to
levy the two mill tax. The county is
free of debt.
Our old friend and correspondent,
2. 81. Mason, writes for the South Flor
ida Citizen of Apopka-
MIR. Whitney of the Fernandina Ec-
press, another bachelor editor, has taken
a wife unto himself. Please receive our
congratulations.
Mr.. W. A Colberth of Marion
county, was shot dead while blowing in
his field, The supposed assassin has
been arrested.
The election fraud cases are being
tried in Jacksonville Two inspectors
of election have already been convicted
of changing the votes in Marion county.
AN exchange says THAI bed Of pot
ash aud gypsum has been found in
Orange county. There are lots OF such
deposits in St. Johns county.
lone of our exchanges reports, that
Col. j. Ira Gore of the Cedar Keys Jour
nal is laid up with the matrimonial fever
That has lately settled two other young
editors. Pratt OF the AdVdnce is itching
to get it.
The agricultural editor of the Jack
sonville San and Press is in a fix to
answer correspondent who inquiries
what West Indian yam is They want
cn,o1alNn1xy ko FOL Il
once described pineapple tree, now
tell US about the yam tree.
-. Several experiments are being made
in the State with the palmetto for differ
ent purposes. We have seen SO many
failures in the past, that we have no con.
fidence i'll any now being tried, unless
there are practical men at the head but
there is plenty of money in it as other
countries have found out.
.Replete as was the fair with curios-
tiles, vegetables, articles OF use an orna-
ment, we must mention the funny. The
glass case owned by Mr.. Koerner besides
a large variety of ferns, has in it little
partisan statuette of the fisher-gi partly
concealed By the ferns. One of our
friends from beyond the city limits, said
upon seeing it, Look there That's
the Garden Of Eden and if there amt
Mother Eve hiding In the high grass -
Fea7aa1adSi2aG E.rpress
Il notice an interesting editorial in
your paper of the 10Th inst, giving an
account of Survey of the Caloasahat-
chic river and line Of levels to Lake
Okeechobee Col. Meigs' views with
regard to draining large bodies Of the
hest 1nor land in t1a ic1
tionably correct You are, however, in
error in locating New River This river
empties into the Atlantic little north
of Biscayne Bay and about sixty miles
south of Jupiter Iulet Snake creek,
Arch creek and the Mama all flow into
Biscayne Bay. All of these streams
have considerable fall, almost cascades,
where they flow over the rim of the
Everglades. They are all navigable for
large river steamers to within less than
one mile from the fall, showing that it
would require but little canaling to let
off an immense volume of water from
the Everglades Il. Williams in
Tampa Guardian,
1t is stated that Mr.. MolI, who is
erecting a sugar manufactory III jack
sonville, will enter into contract with
any number OF Florida planters, to take
all the syrup they can produce in five
years, at the rate of forty cents per gal
Ion, delivered at his m&Dufactory. The
syrup, however, must be of q certain
prescribed quality. and susceptible of
yielding eight pounds OF clarified sugar
to the gallon. Syrup of the prescribed
quality is seldom made in this State, and
would command in the northern markets
from sixty to seventy five cents per GAL
Ion; consequently we cannot believe that
the much Wanted enterprise of Mr..
MOL will have tendancy to increase
the planting of cane and manufacture of
syrup. A fair article of syrup (much
below Mr.. Moll's standard), has always
commanded in this market from forty to
fifty cents per gallon. and even this has
not had tendancy to stimulate an in
crease production. Again, the planter
can convert his syrup into sugar on the
plantation. by very simple process
clarity the same. realize eight pounds to
the gallon. aud SELF in hishome market,
for from eight to ten ceuts per ponnd
Under this view of tbe case, we cannot
conceive wherein Mr.. Moll's enterprise
is to be of advantage to Florids.--Monti.
H.