The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1880-01-28
State Gleanings.

State Gleanings.
Yellow jasmlnes are in full bloom.
Jacksonville has Board of Trade.
Orange trees are making strong
growth.
Capt. Boynton is porpoising about
the st. Johns river.
Quantities of Florida strawberries
are being sent north.
The South Florida journal has
published the premium list for the
fair in Orange county.
Ex-Governor Reed, of Jackson
vile, has been appointed Supervisor
of the Census for this State.
Arrangements have been made for
shipping strawberries from Jackson,
vile to New York at cents per
quart.
General Gilmore estimates the
cost of improving the Volusia bar by
jetties at $4,000, and the cutoff be.
tween Lake George and Monroe, at
$4,000. .,
An otter, four feet four. inches in
length, was killed yesterday by the
sanitary workmen on Hogan's creek.
They seem to be plentiful about our
water courses Union. ie ,
The Florida Land and Immigra-
ton Company has sold to Mr.. Alfred
Stamford White, of Liverpool, 1880
acres of its lands in Alachua county,
to be occupied by colony of English
immigrants.-Mirror.
Pretty girls are now more numer-
GUS in Monticello than in any other
town in Florida, and if they all make
'bids" during "leap year" the supply
of young men will be exhausted =
Constitution.
The warm weather has been very
favorable to the cattle in the range,
which are said to be in remarkably
good condition for the season, with a
greater abundance of young calves
than is usual for this time of year.
Tribune.
One of the date palm trees in Mrs.
John Friends yard, has three flower
buds on it. The same tree blossomed
last year, and would probably have
borne fruit, but the flowers were
whipped off by severe southeast
gale.-EGpress.
Palmetto paper manufacture is
perfect success, aud we learn from a
friend of Mr.. Heron, the patentee,
that it is the present intention of the
company TO establish about twenty
mills in Florida, at places where the
material will be near at hand and
transportation easy.'-Mi'ror.
Mr.. F. DeFerro, on the 10th of
January, had early peas, and on the
10Th, Mr.J .Sealy shipped two crates
OF green peas through A. G.. Biglow
to Sulzbacher Bros, in Nashville,
Tennessee. Now, where is the man
who says we can't grow early veget-
ables 1T we try ?-Lake CSty Re
porter.
Several of our State contemporaries
are boasting OF orange blossoms in.
their particular localities as some
thing extraordinary. Now, if they
will just come up and take prone
made with us about the city, we will
undertake to prove to them that they
are no rarely in Tallahassee this sea-
son.-F2ogidiase 50
Mr.. Frank Ross has rearranged his
apparatus and on Monday morning
began the work of making Ice. He
has spent about three months in fit.
ting up and .rearranging his ma.
chlnery, pipes, etc. He expects to
turn out thirty tons of ice on Satur..
day and will from that time be able
to supply all demands tor ice. He
is now running from sixteen to eigh-
teen hours per day.-Breese.
We.were shown another handsome
piece of workmanship by, Mr.. Castell
at his candy store in Mitchelrs build.
ing. 1t is an imitation of the Church.
OF the Immaculate Conception in this
city, made entire of spun candy. II
has every door, window, step. etc
just as seen at the church, and is
readily recognized as model of that
edifce, by those who have seen it,
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