The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1879-02-26
well, j. E. Hart. Jacksonville; B. A.
Coachman. Bronson, and Capt. P.
Houstoun, Tallahassee.
FlOrida's Climate.

Editor Florida AQricatlturist:
A brief stay in Florida last March
produced most favorable impress
sion. The climate was at the time
delightful and everything out Of
doors was bright and blooming. I
have interested myself sufficiently to
subscribe for Florida papers, your
own among the number, and have
been amply repaid with the items of
interest cleaned from them. The
rigors of northern Winter and the
long cold Spring naturally incIines
| those who are susceptible to the sud-
den changes to look toward a section
where perpetual Spring and Summer
exist What northern people par
ticularly require to induce them to
turn towards your State tor home is
definite information as to the climate.
Ofthe Winters they have been made.
acquainted by correspondents writ
ing to northern journals. Of the
Summers, they are in the full belief
that they are hot almost beyond en-
durance. They are led to suppose
that the malarial fevers prevail to an
alarming extent the Summer long
and that the lively flea, mosquito and
other insects make life next to unen-
durable. IT you want increased i'm
migration-particularly OF the class
OF people who are possessed Of intel
ligence and means, give them facts as
to the temperature OF the Summer
months, the health rate, as compared
with sections of the north, and the
insects. Plain matter of fact state
ments answer better than more learn
ed or scientific ones.
The journals of southern Calitor-
Mia have learned that it pays to tell
their eastern readers all about the
climate the year round, the health of
this and that section and of the crawl
ing, jumping or flying insects they
are troubled with, and what applies
to California will apply to Florida.
B.
Philadelphia. Dec. 81, 1875
Our Philadelphia correspondent
cannot have read many works upon
this State if he has not seen the nu-
| merous articles written about 4ouf
Winter and Summer climate. We
have on sale at this office pamphlet
on the subject written by Dr. w. s.
Baldwin, an eminent physician, Of
Jacksonville, price 10 cents. DIR. F.
d. Lente, of Palatka, Florida, has re.
Gently published another work on
the chmatology of the State. A
| good deal has been said on the same
subject by our correspondents in this
paper and the old Florida Agriced-
tawist. Our climate in Summer is not
by any means SO hot and oppressive
as it is in the north. Cool breezes
from the sea blow every day and the
nights are usually cool and comfort
able, often necessitating the use of
blanket. Mosquitoes are annoying
in some parts Of the state, but we
have. never, at any time, found them
as bad as we did in Illinois and other
western States, or in northern New
York, New Jersey, etc. Sand flies
are troublesome onlyin sultry weather
previous to rain. We remember
spending week in central Illinois
some years ago when the only way
Of getting from Chicago was ty can
al boat. AS night approached shelves
were hung up to serve as beds tor
the passengers and everything but
blessings could be heard on account
of the mosquitoes. On the prairie it
was impossible to sleep in the night
time, the pests even seemed to be
proof against smoke, and we had to
lay awake all night, brushing. Of
malarial tevers we have our share,
| like all newly settled countries, but
they seldom turn out fatal. The
death rate of the city of Jacksonville,
the largest city in the State, right
on the banks of the ST. Johns river,
and the population composed Of many
northern invalids, will compare ia
vorably with any city in the United
States. The records of the medical
men of the United States army vouch