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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1879-10-15

n orthern markets the present season
Tor $500 per crate of one bushel each.
Some of the catalogues of Southern
nurserymen are and have been adver-
Using the plants for sale at so cents
each. They cannot be bought at that
price from nurserymen or others, the
nurserymen themselves, in some cases
known to u.s.. being dependent upon
country propagators to fill orders
sent to them. There have been so
few OF these pears yet propagated
that it will be several years before
the prices may be expected to fall
materially. Small lots may occasion
ally be had, of not well-grown plants,
for a less price, but this is rare. The
small plants are as valuable as the
large ones, for tits age and not size,
the purchaser should look to, if early
fruit is his object.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1879-10-15
Pruning Orange Trees.

P. S. Russell, in Riverside Press, September ID.
Let us take ride over Riverside
to-day and see what the outlook is.
We see ON every hand orange trees
large and small, with tops bending
and almost breaking under the weight
of their foliage. Trees five and
six years old with tops as large as
ten-year. old trees should have, with
two.t thirds Of the, branches on one
side, and still growing more top
heavy each year. Now let us take
another look at Riverside, say ten
years hence, and wesee orange groves
miles in extent, with large spreading
tops, loaded with their golden iruit,
long bending limbs being held in
place by being tied to poles resting
on tie ground, these poles being i'll
number from five to ten to each tree
Il oncescounted nineteen poles under
ore of Mr.. Van Leuven's treesl and
the ground uncultivated, as no Guilt
waiting can be done after the poles are
set up. How do you like the picture ?
Let those answer who do not believe
in pruning. But this is the inevita
BILE result of not pruning. Ii we would
have our trees beautiful in shape
and selt-supporting, we must prune.
There is no other way by which we
can reach this result. And if we
would have our trees perfectly
healthy we must cultivate thoroughly
and deeply, and this we cannot do if
our trees are held up by poles. This
is subject that pages might be writ
ten upon. Ihave said nothing OF the
cost Of poles and the labor of prop
ping up our trees. / have written
this short article with the hope that
the people Of Riverside will stop and
think before it is too late, where this
non-pruning will lead them to.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1879-10-15
THE FLORIDA ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.

is not hemp, how ever, but the fibre
of species of plantain IN. tertiHS),
which does not differ greatly from
the edible banana, and is probably
variety of the same species. Thus
far, according to DR.. Jagor, the SER
viceable fibre has been exclusively
obtained from tie southern portion
OF the Philippines, all attempts to
make its cultivation profitable in the
western and northern provinces hav-
ing failed, A species OF banana grows
in great luxuriance in Western Java,
but 1t has not been utilized as fibre
plant to any great extent. Great et'
forts were made in Celebes, TO cult
vate this fibre, but it has been aban-
doned in favor of coffee, which is
found to be far more profitable. For
domestic purposes, the plantain fibre,
known to commerce also as abaca, is
made use of in many tropical coun-
tries, and in time will doubtless be
largely supplied but for the present
the supply comes, as already stated,
from the Philippines.
ITO 6e'contiutedl
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1879-10-15
Fall Oats i'm the South.

Hon. Thomas b. James, of Geor.
gia, has the following to say about
this crop
Fall oatsinust be the chief reliance
in making this crop ameet the next"
II sown early, they will mature in
time to meet the wants of most farm
ers next spring. An abundant sup
ply of rust-proof seed oats should at
once be secured, or assured, and SOW
ing should commence in September
in the northern part of the State; in
October in the middle and southern
portions. There is perhaps no crop
on which commercial fertilizers will
pay better than on oats. A few acres,
at least, may be sowed as early as
may be deemed prudent, and well
tertilized with an ammoniated potash
superphosphate.
There are several important advan.
tages in favor OF oats as the general
stock grain OF the South, and it is to
be hoped that Georgia farmers uni
versally las few have done already
will soon adopt the system OF farming
which embraces this feature. These
advantages may be briefly stated as
follows: |. The soil and climate have
been proven to be perfectly adapted
to oats, and with the rust.proof oat,
now SO generally known, rust is no
longer feared. 2. The chief labor of
growing the crop is included in the
sowing, which involves little more
labor than would be expended in the
bare preparation of the land for corn.
3. Sown early in the tall,sthe crop is
rarely injured by winter freezes, and
natures a certain crop before the
spring droughts set in. 4 Oats are
less heating and more muscle-produc.
ing food than corn, and. therefore,
better suited tor working animals
during spring and summer. S. 1t
costs less to produce oats than an
equal TODD value OF corn. These, be.
side other advantages, are sufficient
to decide the question in favor of
oats as the food crop for working
stock.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1879-10-15
tian corn will be appreciated much
more than at present.
Homestead Final Proof.

To save time and expense to home
steaders, who wish to make final
proof, and who must first publish no.
tice of their intention thereof, we
would state, that we are authorized
by the proper officials Of the United
States Land office at Gainesville, to
receive on deposit, the amount re-
quired, four dollars, ($4) to cover the
expense OF such publication; and we
will be pleased to give all the aid
and information in our power, to ex-
pedite the business.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1879-10-15
Egyptian Corn and Popcorn.

Correspondence Pacific Rural Press
Mr.. Crosby, of Stanislaus county,
informed me recently that & Mr..
Buckney, within five miles OF Mo-
desto, is now harvesting 100 acres of
Egyptian corn, raised on summer
fallowed land, yielding twenty-five or
thirty bushels to the acre. 1t is the
white variety. Some twenty men are
employed gathering the crop. Mr..
Crosby intends to follow suit an.
other season. He is in raptures about
the beauty of the crop, raised without
water on a sandy loan. 1t is GER
tainly feature in farming worthy of
note. Last season the same parties
raised 100 tons, and consider the corn
for stock feeding superior to barley
or oats, and for chicken feed and
poultry of all descriptions it has no
superior. My half acre for winter
use, will soon be ready for harvesting,
to be used entirely in the poultry
yard. Suppose the farmers OF the
greatplains met with wheat failure,
could they not plow their land early
In spring and plant corn crop, en-
surlng success by having facts like
above to work upon? 1t is as good
food for horse and fowl, why should
it not be good for man, when made
INTO flour? [ 1t is good.-Eds. Press.
The time will come when this Egyp-
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1879-10-15
Value of Sheep Manure.

Sprengel allowed that the manure
of 1, 400 sheep, for one day, is equal
to manuring one acre of land, which
is about four sheep per year. Mechi,
still more recent authority, esti-
mates that 1900 sheep folded on an
acre of land twenty-iour hours, for
one hundred sheep for fifteen days,
would manure the land sufficiently to
carry it through four years rotation.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-03-25
SENATOR coNKLING's PROPHETIC
WORDS.

On the 2Sth of last August Senator
OoNKLING wrote letter to Hon. ALoNHo
B. CORNELL, in which we find the following
prophetic words " The government Of the
" country is passing absolutely into the
hands of those who so lately sought to
destroy How clearly the distinguished
Senator foretold the action of the Southern
Democrats Raids on the Treasury" said
Inc, vast in amount, and without right or
" honesty, are mastering for the time when
' n Solid South dominating the Democratic
party, as it will and must, shall again rule
q" the two Houses of Congress" a few days
age the Democratic Senate, controlled by
the Southern element, repudiated two Union
men who dared ask for an Office, and took
into its employ small army Of ex-Confed-
crates, including even n Chaplain who is n
relative OF JOHN c. BREcKGSRIDGE. The
first Union and Northern man repudiated
was ex-Congressman STFNGER, of Pennsyl-
vania. He went home with fire in his
heart. What win he say to his people ?
What can he say but that this, the Demo-
cratic, party is now ruled by the Solid
South. Northern Democrats have now 10
yield to those who SO lately sought to de-
stroy the Union. Another Union man
discarded by the Democratic or Southern
4 Senate is Professor RANDOLPH MCMAHON,
Of West Yirginia-a State faithful and true
| TO the Union-born of the Union. We may
| ask him with special emphasis If Senator
4 (tn,-,-r An .nl, II
piled, is not verified? What will McMA-
HON say TO the loyal Democrats of West
Virginia, which we hope to see solidly Re
publican in 1890? And MCMAHON is n
kinsman Of the immortal JEFFERSON, whom
Democrats claim rs the founder of their
party! Had he been rebel or Confeder-
ate colonel he, too, might have sailed in
| but rs he was not he was pecipitately cast
overheard. If the oflice-holding and Office
seeking traitors could have lived, as they
claimed they could, without the pale Of the
United States during the rebellion, why
cannot they do so now? They merely
wanted to be left alone;" they could man.
age for themselves; they despised North
d @em interference" Why? Because the
North could not withstand the arrogance,
the seliisAness, the bravado of the South.
The people are waking up to the realiza-
tion Of their situation. We hope they may
open their eyes before it is too late, and see
and understand that the great cardinal
principles of the party which preserved
them in the hour of distress and threatened
ruin, tend to-day, as they have ever done to
the welfare, happiness and prosperity, not
OF one section or two, but TO the interests OF
the entire people
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-03-25
TIE IMPENDING CRISIS.

The Democratic organ at the National
Capital assumes to speak ca cdthedra when
discussing the plans and purposes of the
present and the action of the late Con-
gress, under which the present extra
session was made public necessity. To
give emphasis 10 its utterances it resorts to
double leads TO make its assumptions and
absurdities the more apparent This is a
trick often resorted to by editors, and in
this instance for the same reason that the
quarrelsome braggart profanes at the top of
his voice, to intimidate his adversary. The
assumed mouthpiece OF the Democrats, in
referring to the revolutionary action of the
late session of Congress, declares the stand
that il the Democratic party made in
"the last Congress has met with the ap-
"proval of the people, when it has no more
knowledge or proof from the people TO JUS
tiiy such an assumption than it has of the
direction of the wind at given moment a
month hence. The people of the North and
West have not as yet voiced their views TO
any considerable extent on this question,
and we venture the opinion that if they had
the Democrats in Congress would call a
sudden halt in the direction the last House
of Representatives pointed.
The Democrats have demanded and con-
tinue to demand an abrogation of certain
laws which are in the interest of honest
elections and good government. They have
assumed an attitude of coercion toward the
Executive by saying most emphaticolly
unless these laws can be repealed the
wheels of government shall stop. This is
the Democratic situation, as established and
defined by q recalcitrant South and sub
mitted to by an obedient Democratic party
in the North. This situation was not and
could not be submitted to by Republican
Senate, and an extm session Of Congress is
the consequence, Now the trumpeter oi
the Democratic majority in both Honses
prOclaims TO the country that the Demo
Gratis demand the repeal of the test-onth--
the law which permits or authorizes the
use of troops under any emergency to keep
the peace on election day-and modifica'
ton of the election law relating TO mar,
. HhAlo NhN ohBNA Ni7Ol9i 9p bAANA ~ NAlA ~
harmless in detecting and punishng frauds
that may be attempted or perpetrated al
the ballot-box during elections.
These are the demands which the Democ,
racy make at this time, attended by a men
ace that, unless they are submitted to, ap
propriaions for the support and main
| tenance Of the Government win be with
held and its functions will be subjected T.
absolute suspension, This is the situation
and emergency as presented by the Demo
Gratis. Now each aud every of these laws were
enacted in the interest Of pure and homes
elections, and are as effective and importan
with one party as the other. They are no
partisan in intent, character or effect, an,
hence any effort to disturb, or abIogate, o
change them in way to weaken their ef
fcency, must be in the interest Of dishon
esty and fraud in our elections, Th
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-03-25
PoLL-TAx IN THE SOUTH.

One of the devices prescribed by the Leg
islature of Virginia and of other Southern
States for the purpose Of abridging the
rights of the poorer classcs-which includes
the bulk Of eolored citizens OF those States
in the exercise Of their franchise, is the
imposition of the poll-tnx. 1t is well known
that hundreds of thousands of colored
voters in the South have been deprived of
their right TO vote because they were UNI
able to pay the pOll-tax imposed on voters
by State legislation, In consequence of this
action those 50 deprived have been denied
in proportion TO their numbers, representa-
ton in Congress and in State Legislatures
Now, while a poll-tax may be and no doubt
is a constitutional tax for revenue pur-
poses, yet the State that imposes it runs the
risk of reducing its representation in Con-
gress, if it prescribes the payment Of such a
tax rs n qualification for voting. This
although new point, is not q mere as
sertion, 1t rests upon the construction OF
section 2, Article XIV of the United States
Constitution, which declares, after provid-
ing lor apportionment of Representatives in
d
Congress that
When the right to vote at any election fol
the choice of electors for President and Vice
| President of tho United States, Representative
in Congress, the executive and Judicial officers
Of a State, or the members of the Legislature
! thereof, is denied to any Of the male nhabit
ants of such State being twenty-one years o
age and citizens Of the United States, on in any
way abridged, except for participation in re-
belliOn, or othoT crime, the basis Of representa-
iion shall be reduced in the proportion whicl
the number of such male citizens shall bear Il
the whole number Of male citizens twenty-onC
years Of age in such State.
Now, although a law imposing poll ia.
may declare that the tax is Tor revenue, ye
if il is also enacted that the payment Of thi
tax is prerequisite to the privilege Of yot
ing it is very clear that such a law, thong
it is not "a denial" " of that right TO an
male citizen, yet it is unquestionabiy al
"abridgmentn Of the right, \ citizen may
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-03-25

be unable or unwilling TO Pny the poll-tax,
but under the Constitution of the United
States the State cannot deprive him Of his
right to vote as penalty for his failure 10
pay the poll-tax without at the same time
rendering the State representation in Con-
gress liable to be reduced land that re-
duction is mandatory on Congrcss)
male citizens 50 disfranchsed, because
the abridgment of the right to vote is not
for participation in rebellion OF other
crime' and for no other cause can a State
in any way abridgo" a male citizen of
twenty-one years Of age Of :" the right to
" "vote" " ut the elections named in the arti-
Gle Of the Constitution without incurring
the penalty of reduced representation in
Congress.
1t is clear from this, that if the imposi-
tion of tax by a State, and provision
making its payment sine qua non Of voting
is :" in any way" an abridgment of the right
Of any citizen to vote, then the State that
has such law in its statute book must be
deprived Of its representation in Congress,
in proportion to the number Of its citizens
who have been prevented from voting on
account of their failure TO pay poll-tax-
must be deprived" because the Constitu-
ton Of the United States so commands, and
Members of Congress are sworn Ito obey its
mandates.
The ouly question for Congress is, Have
any voters been deprived Of their right to
vote for any other cause than "participa-
|" tiun in rebellion OF other crimep"
Republicans in the South can make an
swer to that question =" Yes Hundreds Of
thousands of us have been abridged of our
right TO vote for members of Congress and
other officers, because we were too poor to
pay our poll-tax. And when the State
Legislature imposed that tax, they knew
lit would abridge hundreds of thousands of
"us from the right TO vote. If members of
Congress viii obey the Constitution and
respect their oaths, they must take imme-
"diate steps to inaict the constitutional
| penalty on the Southern States for Sc
abIidging our right to vote"
| VIII the Democratic Congress show that
| their oll-boastcd love of the Constitution is
not a hollow mockery--a barren idealty y
| by enacting law TO give effect to this
Article of that sacred instrument? Will
they? Not by any means, for it would sc
4 apportion representation from the South rs
| TO reduce the Democratic members to q
| hopeless minority in the next Congress.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-03-25

changes indicated are intended to disam
the watch-caIe over the ballot-boxes during
elections-to ueal0cn the ssencies now ex-
istfng to enforce the law, and to remove the
Trial Of such cases as may arise from the
United States to the State courts. This
accomplished, and the laws will be cnas.
culated and rendered practically nugatory
for the ends and purposes for which they
were enacted
Then follows the following menace, which
must be taken for what it is worth:
If Mr.. HAYES chooses to veto such a meas
ure, we can fight IL out on that line, and the
more summers II takes the more Democrats
will DO made.
That the President, under high sense of
duty, will apply the veto to these measures
If forced upon him, we have no sort Of
doubt. He cannot do less, and stand ac-
quilted Mt the bar of public opinion. There
can be no safe compromise with palpable
wrong, and all that is essential in the way
of protecting the rights of voters at the
polls, and Of Safeguards around the ballot
box TO secure honest elections and speedy
and copdign punishment of frauds and
wrongs, must be preserved at all hazards.
To give way in any degree on these points
is not only to surrender what every good
citizen holds dear in our elections, but it
will encourage the ex-Confederates to follow
mp with demands thnt their claims against
the Government shall be recognized and
answered without limit. One surrender
more, and the country viii pass entirely
under Southern domination. This surren-
der the President cannot make with safety
to the country or credit to himself, and in
the face of r1lmor and speculation to the
contrary, we have abiding faith in his pa
triotism and integrity in this important and
somewhat alarming crisis No one but him
self can or shah change our views Of Presi-
dent HAYES official integrity.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-03-25
DEFAMATION IN THE PULPIT.

Am giving too mnch Importance to this ma
lions Capital when l say popularize vice here
aud it will be likely to stalk with brazcn face
through the land, demanding the respect or
silence of decent men everywhere? When
white-hcaded libertines, wrapped in the wrap
pings of cx-Senatorial dignity, are met with
puerie scrvility and seeming respect by
crouching sycopbants, J., is not wonderful that
less than Senators ply the same contemplate
trade all over the country.
The foregoing paragraph is reported as
the language used in sermon delivered on
Sunday last by the pastor OF the Metropoli-
tm Church. 1t is Enthusiastically pointed at
ex-senator CAMERON, who is the defendant
in trial now pending before the District
Court.
il is an honored maxim of the common
law, approved by all English-speaking ma
tions, that citizen is presumed to be inno-
cent until his guilt is proved For this rea-
son it has always been regarded as unjust
and indecent even for the editors Of our
secular newspapers to denounce an ac-
cused person rs guilty while his trial
is pending. The interests of justice and
good government demand that juries shall
be left, as far as possible, uninfluenced by
outside opinions during the pendency of
trial, but shall be free to find the truth in
accordance with the law and the facts BY
| what rule Of right or propriety, then, does
| the reverend gentleman assume to decide
the guilt Of defendant when only his ac-
| cusors have been heard, and before his evil
dence has been presented to the court and
jury? If it should turn out In the trial
now pending in the City Hall that ex-Sen-
ator CAMERON proves that his accusers are
wicked conspirators, who, by forgery and
fllsehood, are seeking to levy blackmail on
man wholly innocent of the charges
made against him, how will this declaration
from the Metropolitan pulpit appear in the
estimation of just and fair-minded men Is
the reverend gentleman willing to stand as
the abettor and defender of such con-
spiracy? If e popular pastor Of one of the
| foremost churches Of the National Capital
sets this example to all his humber breth-
| rem in the ministry, may we not say, with
justice, that he popularizes the indefen-
| sible and vicious habit of pulpit defamation,
| and sets an example which, to use his own
language, "will be likely to stalk with
brazen face through the land?" When
ministers of the Gospel, wrapped in the
"wrappings" Of priestly dignity, set such
examples in high places, what may not b,
expected of those who occupy humber
pulpits ?
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-03-25

THE New York Herald exhumes the fol-
lowing which appeared in THE NATIONAL
REPUBLICAN more than year prior TO its
passing under its present management:
We hope no Democrat will be left in the SER
vice when these discharges are finished. No
matter how high the position, no matter who
recommends him, let every Democrat step
down and out.
The Herald adds:
The remembrance Of this candid expression
Of opinion must go far to lessen our cotem-
porarys present grief Mt the prospect of seeing
Mr.. GoRHAM aud the other Senate officials re-
placed by Democrats,
We reproduce the above utterance OF THE
REPUBLICAN to say that we indorse 1T most
heartily, and to add the remark that in the
removal of Mr.. GoRHAM we have no regret
to express except that which relates 10 the
good of the public service. Neither Mr..
GoRHAM nor his friends have any grief oyeT
his removal, for it is one of the casualties of
political warfare TO which they submit with
becoming grace.