The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1880-06-09

is the better. No one who wants a
good lemonade has it made twenty
four hours before it is required for a
drink no matter how free from bit
terness the rind may be; and for hot
drinks the small amount of bitterness
in the rind is not an objection. So
we may safely say, that for the pur-
poses Tor which nine out OF every ten
lemons grown are used, the rind is of
no consequence, or use, and it is
wholly immateriar whether it be bit.
ter OF sweet.
Now, what is the first and general
objection to many lemons-a thick
rlnd. That is an objection that is
reasonable and valid, and will always
stand. There is an immense deal of
nonsense talked and written about
the rind of lemons, for commercial
purposes. To-day on Fifty street
they are selling San Diego lemons
that are far superior, for most pur-
poses TO the imported lemons, be-
cause they are taken from the tree
fully ripe, with a fresh aromatic fla.
vor, that no lemon picked green and
ripened in box on a sea voyage, can
have.
Speaking of the imported lemons,
l commend the following extract
from the notes of traveller in Italy,
published in HarperS Magazine of
October, 1879. He says: "Garda
is the largest of the Italian lakes
thirty-six miles long. 1t starts in
the fertile plain of Lombardy. i
The great industry, wher,
ever a little soil has been found at
the foot OF the mountains, is the cul-
tivation of the lemon. While
the summer climate is well suited to
the ripening Oft the FIX - SEsV shell,
SsFii5Sssnssssses. .SSssd but the figures ATT arc
not accessible
THE PEABODY FUND
has been a great help to all the south
ern schools, but principally to the
academies. Last year the amount
received by Florida from this source,
for all school purposes, was about
$3,500 The total value of school
property In Florida is $l16,934.50;
the number of school houses is 634;
the amount paid out for teachers
salaries was SS5 1850. There are few
actual school building in the State,
as the patrons OF the schools furnish
the school rooms and board the
teachers on the old time principle.
The amount of money for school pur-
poses realized by interest on the
fund and by taxation is about three
mills of the valuation, which is some
$4,000. In the superintendent
biennial report, submitted early in
the year, he gave the total number
OF children of school age" in Florida
as 1885, and the number in atten-
dance as 36,961, with an average
daily attendance of 23,933 The in
crease in the school population from
1873 to 1879 has been nearly IA 900.
The number OF teachers employed
now are 640 male and 335 female.
The salaries average from $40 to $50
for the month. In Tallahassee, Jack
sonville, ST. Augustine and Fernan-
dina the schools are of more
finished character. There are graded
schools and teachers of experience
and proper training. In Duval county,
ty, where Jacksonville is located,
there are twenty-six male and forty
one female teachers, and the masters
salary at Jacksonville is $3.50. The
average length:of the term is eighty
one days. Thirteen thousand five
hundred and twelve dollars are paid
in teachers salaries, and nearly $50.
900 worth of school property is
owned in this county. There are
nine counties in the State where
there are no school children. The
superintendent, curiously enough,
does not seperate in his report, as is
the practice in other States, statistics
respecting colored pupils and schools
from white pupils and schools. This
is getting to be an important feature
of the reports, as it shows the COM
parative increase OF white and black
school children, aud gives the clear.