The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1879-07-02
State Gleanings.

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Our last Washington Market Ladec
quotes Florida water melons at so to IS
dollars hundred.
@. Fl. Bridges, of Sumter county, has
sent to Jacksonville beet weighing II
pounds, 28 inches around and % inches
long.
1t is reported that new grass has
been discovered in Orange county suita-
BILE for, and we'll adapted to pine lands.
Col. Davies arrived at Volusia with SO
hands to begin work on the Lake Eustis
and ST. Johns Railroad. The work will
be commenced at that end of the route.
-AdU01ace.
Orange growers say the trees are not
SO heavily fruted this year as last year,
but the fruit is adhering to the trees
much better. Neither the drought nor
the winds have caused the fruit to drop
to any great extent.-Banaer.
DIR. w. A. Shelby brought iu ctron,
Tuesday, taken from tree 3! years old,
weighing nearly 81 pounds. 1t was Z!
inches long, Is inches in circumference,
and was not exhibited as a prodigy in
size, but as a specimen of perfect fruit.
The tree has borne two crops before, and
now has about rs citrons on it, of uni
form size with the one brought - orange
County Reporter.
We return thanks to Bro. Pratt for
the following handsome notice in the
Herald "THE FLORIDA AGR1oULTUR1sr,
published in DeLand, Volusia county,
should be in the possession of every
planter in the State. 1t abounds 10 val
liable information on every subject con-
nected with our farming. fruit and veg
etable interests. MI Codrington- its
able editor, spares no pains in his make
up of the paper, and is about the best
posted on tropical and semi-tropical
matters in the State or out OF it,
We are informed that gentleman re
siding in WaEulla county, by the name
of Cox, who is cultivating small farm,
upon rising one N morning last week was
surprised to find that during the night
his residence had been changed from q
region where water could not be seen
and situated on the border of lake
When he had retired the evening before
his house was miles away from any pond,
lake or river, but upon going out next
morning, his surprise can be imagined,
when, instead of his garden, an immense
sink, so or go yards square, filled with
water, running up to within Is or 20
| feet of his residence, met his gaze. Dur
ing the night this transformation oc-
Cured, leaving not even a vestige of
the tallest pines and other trees which
were standing in their majesty only IL
hours before. These sinks, however, are
not untrequent in that county. 1t has
only been but short time since, that a
sink occurred near Lavender's mill, more
remarkable than the one alluded to
above, in that it occurred on the very
top of hill-one of the highest points
of land in the country. Viii not some
one explain these occurrences ?-FVor-
iClidn.
We received a turtle few days since,
which was marked on his back the date
of 100, and also the Spanish coat of
arms, indicating that this old resident
was in existence one hundred and seven
ty-nine years ago. What changes this
old fellow of the sea has seen. The rise
and fall of empires on the continent
on which he lived, emerged from the
thraldom of despotism, with the rise of a
Republic that has become the great con-
servator of freedom, and the advance
ment OF civilization, and the glory of
the world A few words in Spanish on
the shell was translated, which says ::
"Caught in 100 by Hernaudo lie Go,
mez. in the st. Sebastian, and was car
ried to Matanzas by Indians from there
to the Great Wekiva," (Which is now the
St, Johns River. On Tuesday the 18th
of June the turtle was turned adrift in
the st. Johns river at Palatka, with the
inscription on his back Eastern Her.
aid, Palatka Florida, 1879. 1t may be
supposed that this time the old fellow
has scented salt water, and gone over
the bar at high tide, and probably few
generations hence may take him up at a
Spanish port on the other side Pa.
IdtkG Herald.