The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1879-07-09

father Of his country, for he could
do thing that Washington acknowl-
edged he could not do, and at the
same time look you right in the eye,
showing great experience in that par
ticular line OF his business. should
imagine that If this reliable agent
has stuck close to his business since
that time, using due diligence and
industry, he would be very suitable
man to father some Of these colored
descriptive pamphlets that are circu-
lating so extensively, yet from the
honest and impartial efforts you are
making, through your paper, to give
the public honest information about
each section of the country, its pecul-
iarities of soil, climate, disadvantages
as well as advantages, have hopes
that in the end a person seeking a
home will be able to get information
that would be reliable. | believe
that if the truth, and only the truth
is told of our peninsula, the induce
ment will be great enough to bring to
our sunny land thousands of good cit
liens from more Northern States, yet
l believe in your suggestion, that each
part OF the State should be written
Of in candid and truthful way, so
that any one looking for homes may
have something to guide and aid him
IN making a selection OF the locality
that suits him best. All men do not
come here for the same purpose or to
follow the same calling, hence par
ticular part of the State might suit
one man while not suiting another /;
for instance to man Of means want
ing to make Florida a winter home.
no place would probably suit
SO well as on the shores Of the mag.
'nifcent st. Johns. Here, while en-
joying the genial warmth Of the win
ters sun, he would be thrown in as
sociation with other pleasure-seekers,
who, probably like himself, were not
hunting place to make fortune,
but place to expend pleasantly
some of the gains made in the money
marts Of the world. The convenience
of access offered by the St. Johns,
and with its large number of nam.
moth hotels where the wealthy con-
gregate during winter, does offer sd
vantages to persons who are simply
looking for pleasant winters home.
Should the newcomer be in hunt for
farming lands, those rich hammock
lands OF Alachua and Marion coun-
ties would probably be the most de-
sirable place for them to locate. If
the emigrant should desire to fol-
low stock-raising, then let him go to
the lower peninsula country, with its
broad grass-covered prairies there
he can get domain large enough for
a kingdom, and if he be a man of
some means and ambition, he can, in
few years, count his cattle by the
thousands. Now, l hardly think l
have as yet trodden on any oae's toes.
or run counter to most opinions in
my suggestions as to locations; but
now comes the last query: Where
shall the man locate who comes to
Florida desirous Of fruit-growing-
the average man 1 mean, who has vet
his fortune to make, who wants and
needs all the advantages he can Get
to aid him in fighting life's battles
successfully? Now, right here I
would pause and hear the responses
OF the thousands of your readers, a
greater number of whom would saw:
Why, right here, in my neighbor-
hood, of course, is the place; why,
amt we got the soil particularly
adapted to orange growing-healthy