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, 1879-08-06
VEGETiME

GIVES HESENA1I ElT1SF1CTI0S,
Eruptions Of the Skin, Chronic Sore
Eyes, and General Debility.
Read what DR.. Simmons nays:
TEnosA, Miss. juno +, 1878.
II. H. Stevens, Hoston:
have naed .'vegciino'' in my family for two
years. and cordially recomnlent It m renedy fur
Ernpttons Of thu Skin. Chronic Bore Eyes. md
General Debility. | haYs nlH0 recommended It to
great many persons In ais eection. anu thnk 1t
has given EunGrai satisfaction.
Very rcHp'S. UH. j. J. SIMMuNS.
Your worry valuable medicine. ''Fegctfne, " re-
stnrcI tha sight to my littto daughter, saved her
from being h1int aud have no doubt saycd her
lie. Very gratefully,
Mrs. ]. ]. SIMMONS.
, 1879-08-06

SugboTGAN Wis, Nov. IL, 1873.
II. i. Stevens, Boston:
Dear Sir; can fully testify TO thu efficiency OF
ussd Il JSrlnr ths 1ast seven mouths WITH snei
", o. ST. SURE, Druggist.
, 1879-08-06
TE<sETsNE.
VE'GE;'rINE,, i

FOURTH BOTTLE CURED Me-.
NEURALGIA, STIFF JOINTS. ..
IIAHxrDAi, Mo. .AuE. 3, 1878.
II. II. Stevens, noston:
Dear Sir: havc been bothered with Neuralgia
nnd Silt tofnts. an.l have tried several different
kinis Q! medicine. Frgciinc wns recommended
to me. And after trying one bottle 1t relcyea mo
right away aud tus fourth bot1o cured ;lo~ ~
F. Yours truly. JOHN PEfTON.
! nm personally acquainted with john Poyton fol
the Iast yeats, aud Ktlu. hts statement Ii &fdr.
HENRY WALKER, Druggist
, 1879-08-06


8AnAToa4, Aug. h-'rhe weather aud track
ars good. The SUMMER handtcap, one inlle md
half, was won by franklin, with Do,lpto Wood
segoud aud Ostola third. 3ratnblo was tic ja-
yor!se. Time, 2:soH. franklin cot on with
stight advantage, and With h!s light weight kopt
q iaIr lead until near the third quarter, whs1l
Htstpblo challenged and took tie load nsar tho
eyer, carrying tho top weight, and fnluklin,
Bonuie Wood. and Or[o!c easily passed him
ura!nhlc pulled up in tho stretch.
Tl!e French pools pald OH FElnklin 70 to 80.
GlroIlc won the !ya-iurtong dash for 2-year-
olds. defeating KiigcrAfs, t4u only competitor.
, 1879-08-06

VEGETlNE
Tho Best Medicine.
GENERAL DEBILITY.
rnrEronr,E ILL.,, Sept. 81, 1878.
II. X. Stevens. Duston:
Dcss Sir: have been tlhng your ynnahlo mcdi-
cine, ''Seretanc." Fur Genctll Drtitty. and havo
rlo hesitation aayn. that consider it one Of tho
best. u not the best mr.tic!nc In the market Tor
general Inyigotator and Blood Purifier.
j. IL. PORTER
, 1879-08-06
a TRUE STATEMENT,
SCROE7UIA,.

Ms. II, r. Stevens, Dosson:
Iwtsh TO lot you know whit your valuable mcdi.
cine HEeectfns," Ilas done for my six Tclr old
vrl. Fruu tho tmu vile waa AIx weeks old shs f!aa
beUn afflicted with that dreadful scbirRa Scf0fula
During thu last three yeura havu tried many OF The
advertised medicines, aud lure paid to tho rcsahr
docturh over twn hundred dullaEs wlthuut any re-
Vcgetinc, and can honestly sar that shr has re-
cstyod notr bcnct ft1m IT,, than from all ths due,
tors and patent medicines | havy eyer tric., any,
,,sr it in The cun!cnt lepo Ut radical euro 1t no
distant iay. Gratefully yonra, ,,,,
I haye suun,tea 3[r. SchubsrtH with TcgctlAo
during the last year, u,d beltusc tla abovo to be
''"9 -S1'SN' john tEyEs, Drusgst.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1879-03-26

things, our mind was always dis
quieted, and longed to get rid of the
elephant on our hands. In every
part of our State communities like
this would prosper, and they will be
kindly received and assisted by the
present. inhabitants. In confning
themselves to this limited freehold
the cost OF settling a comfortable
home would be small. Being near
together they could render mutual
assistance sociability could be kept
up with the neighbors, and they
would not feel like they had come to
a strange land
The colonists, in the first place,
should be very careful in the
choice of the location. Take
no place because it is cheap.
The first desideratum is health, then
goodness of soil, but the first is the
most essential. With health and
strength the poorest soil can be made
good.
You may have hard time for a
year or two, but let the vision of
your future prospects cheer you up.
Be content with cultivating small
field at the beginning. For the first
three years you can grow enough be-
tween your orange trees to support
your family. You will have plenty
Of game and fish, Keep pig in
the pen to eat your slops, and which
will serve yourself to eat in the way
Of bacon after a short time. The
good wife can have her chickens and
fresh eggs. If there is want you
can only blame yourself Tor not hav-
ing managed right,
| TAT the request of some of oul
friends we republish the above arti-
Gle that we wrote some years back
for the Old Florida Agricultawist
One gentleman in Georgia consid-
cred it so valuable that he had mum
ber struck off in the shape Of hand
bills which he distributed about.
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it is pretty heavily sampled. Rab.
bits take tole of the tender leaves
and 'possums and coons leave prints
Of frequent travels among the plants,
but as yet we have no evidence that
they have acquired a taste for this
foreign fruit. The soil has. thus far,
been too moist for moles and sala-
manders, but we expect them later in
the season, while the "fiddlers are
endeavoring, in a small way, to sup
ply their place by piling up little
mounds of subsoil among the clusters
of choicer fruit, so that even if we
succeed in circumventing the birds
we are not likely to be out of a
wearing subject during the season.
"'Twere vain to tell the all know"
about the hindrances to be me: with
in this pursuit, but the person most
interested in the result assures me
VIRTUE is its own reward" and that
she is amply paid for all the work /
have done. This being thus, it. is
safe to conclude that strawberry
bed will henceforth become a perma-
nent institution in this family.
J. d. MITCHELL.
Daytona, March 10, 1879.
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Contents of this Number.

Page S43---Colonies-.T Twenty Acres Enough; Pur-
suit of Strawberries Under Difficulties; Impor-
tant Laws.
Page S44---speak no III, poetry; Cure For SLAM
der; Pietistic Prigs; Weaning the Baby; Josh
Billings on Flies; The Monkey Question in In
dia; How not TO Preach; A Cat Story; She
Sewed on His Buttons Recipes.
Page 345---Legal Notices; Advertisements
Page 346---Write up Your Locality; Our ornamen-
tai Woods; Treatment of Horses in the South;
Coffee Seeds Received; Rock Springs, --orange
county; The Largest Orange Tree; Savants. -
Attention.; Floridiana; Locals.
Page Observation-Disclosures
Page 31S---Starch Producing Plants; Egyptian or
Dhurra Corn; Starch Factory; How Make
Shipping Crates For Honey; Southern Musical
journal; Something About Potatoes; Muck
Difference of Opinion.
Page s49--Advertisements.
Page S5O-Telegraphic News: Advertisements.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1879-03-26
Pursuit of Strawberries. eS.-Under
Difficulties.

Editor Florida AgricultmriSt
The unusual cold weather Of the
Winter in the states bordering us on
the north has driven upon us an
avalanche of migrating birds such as
we never see except under similar
circumstances. In average winters,
robins, blackDirds, catbirds, thrushes,
and innumerable multitudes of small
er birds for which we have no name,
are much more numerous in those
states than here, but an occasional
winter, like the recent one, sends
them upon us in clouds and the pal
metto hammocks are full Of music
from morning till night, and our gar
dens of hungry marauders whose
appetites stop at nothing that is
green or growing. Not content with
devouring the fruit Of our straw
berry beds, in every stage of devel-
opment, they strip the plants OF
leaves and blossoms, and devour the
young leaves and buds of our choice
grape vines.
Theoretically and on general prin-
ciples we claim to be in the front
rank of small bird defenders, even
in the strawberry season-but only
those who have experienced it know
what a tremendous strain it gives to
ones theories and abstract principles
to have his entire stock of fruit
raided upon every day by raven
GUS, omnipresent and omniverous
crowd, who leave not even leaves to
show where your berries have been
and to save the life Of the plants. To
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1879-03-26
Important Laws.

, The last Legislature passed the
following important acts, and the
Governor has signed them and they
are now a law.
AN ACT To ESTABLISH BUREAU
OF IMMIGRATION.
Pie following is the law, as tur-
nished us by the Assistant Secretary
of the Senate, passed by the Legisla-
ture just adjourned
A Bill to be entitled an Act to estab-
lish Bureau of immigration for
the State of Florida and to pro.
mote the fapi7s settlement Of the
State lands.
The people Of tile State Of II lorida,
represented an Senate and assembly,
do enact as JolloscS
SECTION l. That the Governor,
Comptroller and Commissioner Of
Lands and immigration be and they
are hereby constituted Bureau of
immigration, whose duty it shall be
to encourage immigration and the
rapid settlement of the vacant lands
of the State.
The Bureau, as constituted, shall
appoint, subject to the approval of
the Senate, suitable person to be
known as the Commissioner of the
Bureau OF Immigration, who shall be
subject to the Bureau of Immigra-
tion, and who shall, by advertising,
by lecturing, by the dissemination Of
correct information as to our soil.
climate, productions and resources;
by the arrangement of special rates
OF transportation between the cities
OF the north and west, and of Eu-
rope, to this State, and by such other
methods as the Bureau of Immigra.
tion may approve, invite and encour-
age immigration with the view to
the settlement of the vacant lands;
Provided, that no per capita shall be
paid and no arrangement be entered
into by which the Commissioner or
any other person shall receive COM
pensation upon the basis of the num-
Der of immigrants obtained.
SEC. 2. The salary of the said
Commissioner of the Bureau of I'm
migration shall be fixed by the Bu-
reau. He shall devote himself ex-
clusively to the immigration interests
of the State, and, in the event of his
DEATH resignation, or the failure on
his part to discharge his duties in a
faithful and satisfactory manner, the
Bureau shall have power to appoint
another person to discharge his
duties until the next session of the
Legislature.
Said Commissioner may appoint a
secretary to assist him in the per-
formance of the clerical duties OF his
Office, the salary Of which said secre-
tary shall be fixed by the Bureau.
He may also appoint agents at
suitable points, subject to the ap-
proval of the Bureau, whose compen-
sation shall be fixed by the Bureau
and be paid out of the general appro-
priatlon for immigration purposes.
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COlOnies-Twenty Acres Enough.

We notice that colonies are being
formed i'll several states north and
west for the purpose of purcha sing
land and settling in Florida. We
would advise those coming not to
hamper themselves with too much
land. Forty acres is enough for any
family, and, in fact, we would rather
see the country. divided into twenty
acre, well-kept farms. To those who
consider this too small we will show
what can be done with twenty acres.
-Four acres in orange grove around
the house will contain, at least, 800
trees, allowing an average Of 1000
oranges to the tree, and putting
them at the lowest possible price of
one cent each, will give an income to
the possessor of $4,000 per annum.
That is the income which may be.
depended on year after year for gen
erations, subject to few casualties.
The rest of the land can be divided,
giving one acre to vegetable garden,
five acres for growing food for the
family, which, if the land is well ma
nured and taken care OF, will be more
than sufficient, and five acres in
Guinea grass or fodder crops to feed
the COWS and horse. The remaining
five acres can remain in woodland, in
which the COWS can be turned DUR
ing the day to crop the herbage un-
der the trees, and giving wood suffi-
cient for house use and fencing. I'm
der such system as this we would
build up class of independent citi-
zens, living in their own homes, free
of the cares of want, with sufficient
time on their hands tor public i'm.
provements. How attractive these
communities would be with their
comfortable cottages peeping out of
the dark foliage of the orange groves,
dazzling with whitewash or paint {;
good fences; fine stock, well kept !;
plenty within and beauty without :;
their wives and children rosy with
health from good food and air; a
pretty little church peeping out of
an orange grove, such grove having
been established by all as a fund tor
the pastor, and relieving the congre-
cation of all church dues; and a
pretty school house and town hall
where they can congregate in agricul-
tural and other sociable meetings.
Now this is not an Utopian idea.
1t is simple and feasible, as any SELL
sible person can perceive, To carry
it out people must give mp all pas
sion for land grabbing, they must be
content with their allotted twenty
acres. They may take our word for
it that truer happiness will be
found on that small quantity than in
thousands. We have owned thou
sands in our day, and found it con-
slant worry and curse. What with
taxes and trespasses, and other
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AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION.
THE People Of the State Of Florida,
represented IN Senate and ASSen-
big, do enact as .tolloaos:;
SECTION l. That the County
Commissioners of this State may
levy, in the several counties of which
they are such Commissioners, tax
for county purposes not to exceed
the rate of four mills on the assessed
valuation of the property; provided,
hoaoeDer, that such tax shall not ex-
ceed two mills unless it is proposed
by grand jury of the county, or
ratified by vote of the county.
Approved March 8, 1879.
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AN ACT PRESCRIBING A UNIFORM
RATE OF FARE UPON RAILROADS.
THE People Of the State of Florida,
represented IN Senate and ASSens-
big, do enact as toUoecs:
SECTION 1, Tina. from and after
the passage of this act it shall not be
lawful for any railroad company op-
Grating railroad or railroads in this
State, to charge for the transporta-
ton of passengers over the same
more than three (3) cents per mile.
SEC. 2. Any officer or agent of
any railroad violating the provisions
OF this act shall be guilty Of misde-
meanor, and, upon conviction thereof,
shall be punished by fine not less
than twenty nor more than one hun
dred dollars.
SEC. 3. All laws and parts of
laws conflicting with the provisions
OF this act be and the same are here
by repealed.
Approved March II, 1879.
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"a An extra copy OF the AGRI-
CULTUR1sT for year,' to every one
who will send us FIVE paid yearly
subscriptions.
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No. 45

Said Commissioner shall hold his
office for the period of two years.
SEC. 3. That the total amount
expended for the purposes of immi
grafton and the settlement of the
vacant lands in each and every wear
shall not exceed the amount of the
appropriation therefor.
SEC. f. That the Commissioner
of Lands and Immigration shall be
President of the Bureau of Immigra-
ton.
SEC. 5. That for the purpose of
practically carrying out the design
for which the Bureau of Immigration
is established, an appropriation is
hereby made for the support and
maintenance of said Bureau, and in
elusive of the salaries of Commission
er, secretary, and agents, of five
thousand dollars per annum, to be
derived from any moneys arising
from the sales of State lands, belong.
ing to the Internal Improvement
fund, or out Of any moneys in the
Treasury of the State, not otherwise
appropriated. Said sum of five thous-
and dollars shall be counted an an
nual expense subject to reduction or
increase by each succeeding Legisla-
ture, as the needs Of the Bureau may
require. Said amount shall be drawn
by the Commissioner, under rules and
regulations TO be established by the
Bureau of Immigration provided,
that not less than two thousand dol
lars per annum OF said sum shall be
used in the preparation and distYibu.
ton OF pamphlets, fully and concisely
setting forth the inducements to i'm
! migrants to buy and settle upon the
State lands in the several counties of
the State. Said Commissioner shall
make quarterly report Of his acts
and doings, and of the expenditures
of his Office, to the BEreau OF Imml-
grafton. and the - SHALL -
proved S0y- She b III sDeI5i a.ry
further amount is d1 wn by said
Commissioner. He shall also submit
to the said Bureau, on the first Mon
day In January OF each and every
year, complete annual report Of the
doings and results of his office, for
the information and consideration of
the Legislature when in session.
Sec. 5. That all laws and parts
of laws in conflict with this act are
hereby repealed.
The Portland daily press., 1879-08-21
Domestic Markets.

NEW YORK Aug. 20-Evening observation-disclosures
11,524 bbls; market more active and in some in
at 5093 %; Superfne Wesernsand State 8 409
90; extra Western and State at 1904 40; good
to choice do at 5o96 %; White Wheat Western
extra Ohio at 2595 70; extra st. LOUIS at SO
@6 20; patent Minnesota extra at 5 1896 25
choice to double extra at 6 3O07 so, includ-
ing 44OO bbls City Mills extra at 1505 Is
for West Indies, go for Europe; 5000 low extra
at 1904 40; $500 bbls Winter Wheat extra at
z 3d. closing steady. Southern flour frm;sales 1900
bbls; extra at 5095 20; choice 50g6 rs. Rye
flour steady. Cornmeal is quiet and unchanged.
Wheat-receipts 416, 200 bush; Winter more ac-
tive and 1a9l higher, closing shade lower on fll-
lures; Spring firm and in better demand; sales T.
Spring 71@711ac No at 9igs2c; NJ Sps do oo
Of; ungraded do 95t999c; No 2 Chicago at l 90;
ungraded Winter Red at 93ca1 0914; No 3 do OS
al 101a; Mixed Winter l O91a@1 90; ungraded
Amber at O2gl lO12; No 2 do at l O9A9I 10;
No l do at l 1O91 l L ungraded White at 1 OO9
l 1917; No 2 do at l O914Id1 10; No do "a 600
bush at l IL; SO, 900 No White for August.spec
delivery at II; 40 900 do special for September
TENDER at 10@1 1914. Rye is steady and quiet.
Barley dull. Barley malt nominal. Corn-receipts
12o,652 bush; opened shade frmcl aud closed dull
1865 @465Sc; No White SIC; Southern Yellow at
49, Western do 4a1se; steamer for August at 45c
at 1875 9461 Zee; September 1864 C; October 49, O.
Oats-recepts 81, 892 bush; active and 1ac lower:
sales lie, 900 bush: 30s4 for No 3; 33G331ac do
for No l; Mixed Western 296311ac; White IVES
tern at 3493S 1ac; Mixed State Sac; White State at
37@391sc, including $4,000 No 2 choice CHICAGO
last night 32e; 1000 do to-day 311ac. sugar is
very firm and quiet; refined fairly active and steady
MOlasses nominal Petroleum dull and heavy;
10000 united at GAPS 965c; crude in bulk at az
bbs 596; refined 6as TaIlOw steady at 5sl "a
1916. Pork is dull, heavy and lower; mess on
spot quoted at 95G9 co. sales 1000 bbls on SPOT
aRf q
family mess 13013H. Cut Meats quiet; middles
dull and weak. Lard heavy and &C lower; $50 ties
prime steam on the spot at 95a6 90; $50 for Sep
TENDER at 971a 1850 October at 6 OO66 O21b
go ties city steam at 90. Butter is quiet. Cheese
dull and heavy.
Freights to Liverpool firm Wheat steam 71s.
The Portland daily press., 1879-08-21
sz b (Kennebec Journal
What Will the Decent Men of
Waldo County do about it?

The fusion leaders controlled the county and
senatorial conventions of Waldo. One OF the
candidates for Senator which this fusion con-
vention nominated was James d. Lamson of
Freedom. Lamson was member of the
House last winter. When the bill to appropri-
ate money for the support of the Soldiers Or
phan Asylum at Bath was before the House, it
was opposed by the Democratic-greenback
leaders Of that body. Brown of Bangor OPP
posed the bill. Poor of Sebago opposed it, de-
claring in substance that the county owed the
soldiers or their orphans nothing; that the
soldiers enlisted for bounty and pay and got
them, and therefore the country was under no
obligation to them OF their orphan children.
But of all those who spoke against the State
appropriating money for the Soldiers Orphan
Asylum, no man made such insulting and I'M
patriotic remarks James Lamson, of Free
dom, now nominated as the fusion candidate
for Senator of Waldo county. Mr.. Lamson
said in effect that the pOorhouSeS of the towns
in the State were good enough for the orphans
of soldiers who fell fighting in defence of their
country, or have died since the war by wounds
or disease contracted in the service. His re-
marks were so cruel and insulting to the SOL
diers that as soon as he had taken his seat Mr.
Simpson of Searsport, Greenbacker and SOL
der, arose and denounced Lamson in most de-
served and vigorous terms.
But Lamson opposed and voted against ap-
propriating dollar for the support of soldiers
orphans.
Will Mr.. Simpson of Searsport vote for the
man for Senator whom he so justly denounced
last winter? Will any soldier OF any man who
supported the Government in the war, or
young men who have become voters since the
war, vote for Lamson? Lamson is man of
the Eben F. Pillsbury stripe. and he is nomin-
ated to support Pillsbury for the Senate of the
United States, but we don't believe any man
with drop of patriotic blood in his veins will
cast vote for candidate who has put himself
on record by speech and vote as in favor of
sending the orphans of soldiers to the poor
houses, as good enough places for the children
of those who sacrificed their lives that the
country might live!
The Portland daily press., 1879-08-21
THE FALL RIVER THIEVES.
George B. Durfee Arraigned-Paine Gone
to Cuba.

George B. Durfee Arraigned-Paine Gone
to Cuba.
FALL RIVER, Aug. 20.-George B. Durfee,
the defaulter, was arraigned to-day He
waived examination and bail was fixed at
$4,000.
1t is stated here this morning that Walter
Paine, Sd, has gone to Cuba, and that there is
good authority for this statement. His in
debtedness to the mill amounts to $4,000.
BOSTON, Aug. 20.-The statement of Walter
Paine, Sd, will be published in full tomorrow
morning. The introduction is devoted to a
history Of the early existence of the mill and
the hard struggles through which it passed.
paying no dividends. He says that for six
years from August 18th, 1865, no dividends
were made. Your treasurer held twenty-three
shares of stock, upon the income from which
and upon small salary of $500 he was de-
pendent for the support of himself and family
at time when the cost of living was double
what it is to-day, and he drew and charged to
himself an open book account more than his
salary, hoping on the payment of dividends to
be able to refund the amount. This amount
increased year by year, until in 1872 it had
reached 1874, 65S.82, after which by an increase
of salary, dividends and loans obtained upon
his individual notes the amount was reduced to
$10,377.70 on January LIST, 1875 1t has since
been increased to between SIT 900 and $4,000.
Add to this Paine's loss in futures, nearly
$61 900, Paine's present personal Indebtedness
to the mill amounts to over $4,000.
Up to II p. m. nothing had been learned OF
Paine's whereabouts. Police have been des
patched in different directions in the hope OF
effecting his capture.