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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1880-11-10
Vegetable Growing. Etc.
r, in Gainesville San

p. M. Oliver, IN Gainesville San.
ToMAToEs.-This is all important,
troublesome, and, if properly man
aged, perhaps the best paying OF all
our vegetable crops for Northern
market. AS to the different variety
! prefer the Hathaway for shipment,
though the Acme is said by many to
be superior. The Trapley is also
very good. / prefer Hathaway be-
cause it yields equally well, has more
solidity and stands shipment, in my
opinion, better. Have not had eA-
perience enough yet with the Acme
to decide fully as to its merits.
Shall plant and test them more fully
this year, though the bulk OF my
crop will be the Hathaway variety.
Hot beds OF from three to four
feet wide by any reasonable length,
lowing to amount OF acreage TO be
planted), should be prepared in De.
cember and early in January, by
getting plank and running close
wall from east to stay tour feet
high-making the fence to lean or
incline south, or facing the sun, low
enough to just allow the sun to shine
under. No cold rains should be al
lowed to fall on the bed, but water
ing pots should be used when neces-
sary. This fence or wall protects the
plants from the cold North winds
and rains, and gathers warmth from
the sun. Buttons or nails should be
tackled on top the fence so as to al
low strip OF osnaburg or other cloth
to be hung along and allow to sus-
pend on the south side in extreme
cold nights, and then thrown up
after sunrise. This protection will
hold well in very severe weather,
and is the best ! have ever tried.
The bed itself should be raised with
good compost at least four inches
high with poles or plank above the
level OF the common surface. The
seed should be we'll raked in and the
bed we'll sprinkled with water. Care
should be taken not TO sow too
thick, for here in this bed they should
stand until danger OF frost is over,
+see Dept. of Ayr. Ann. Rept., 1858, p. s72.
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standing on his head pinchiDg my
tomato plants. Cultivate well, hoe
and plow every ten to twenty days.
Cultivate as you would cotton. Lay
by perfectly clean and'work as late
as possible. Gather at the proper
stage. Assert, wrap and pack well
and close, and every time ship to
good men with orders to sell on arrl-
val, and if they tail to obey and act
promptly and make prompt returns,
try another good house at once.
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ough investigation Of the insect
enemies OF the citrus fruit crown in
the United States. 10 this end
trip was made through the State of
Florida during the months OF Janu-
airy and February, 1880. The object
OF this journey was simply to make a
reconnaissance, so that the investiga-
ton could be conducted intelligently
and economically. During the trip,
however, we carefully collected spec.
imeus OF all the insects found intest-
ing trees OF the genus Citrus, and
as full notes made upon their habits
as was possible in the limited time
at our disposal, Living specimens
were forwarded to Washington and
colonized ON orange trees in the
breedirg-room. In this way we have
been able to watch the development
of all OF the more important species
from the egg to the adult state. Es-
pecial attention has been given to the
''scale insects and the life histories
of the more important Florida species
have been worked up. We give in
this report only q few OF the facts
thus learned, as We have been unable,
through lack OF time, to prepare for
the press the greater part OF the ma
terial at hand. We hope during the
coming year to visit other parts OF
our orange growing sections, and to
conduct series OF experiments with
remedies. A full report on this sub
ject will be prepared as soon as prac-
ticable.
THE COTTON sTAINER ON ORANGE.
(Dysdercus Saturellus, H. Scht.)
Order HEM1PTERA family CECIGE>
NAE.
Puncturing the rinds Of oranges and
sucking their juice, causing them
to decay and iall to the ground
red-bugs, 17mm. {. 81 inch) in length
with the segments of the body
margined with white, and with
dark wing-coye:s.
From time immemorial the so
called cotton stainer" or 'red-bug'
has been one OF the worst pests witt
which the cotton planters Of Florid'
and the West Indies have had tc
contend, and it would he difficult tC
estimate the immense loss it has oc
casioned. 1t does much damage by
piercing the stems and bolls with III
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Overloaded Trees.
ON the Country Gentleman.

FROM inc country GelettcW0n
Rememberthat thinned fruit grows
larger and finer and sells better; that
by thinning your trees are not ex-
hausted, and would be more likely to
bear every year. Remember, also
that it you allow all fruit to grow,
you will have to pick off all by hand,
and handle carefully and assert
while two.thirds of the same fruit, if
stripped off rapidly when as large as
marbles, would require much less
labor. Your trees would not be ex-
hausted by over-bearing, ordistorted
with broken branches. A neighbor
thinned off two-thirds from his pear
trees, and what was left grew so
much larger and finer that he had as
many bushels as on his unthinned
trees. Ten thousand small apples
Will exhaust a tree much more than
5000 larger ones of equal bulk in
the aggregate and it is much easier
to sweep off the 1000 surplus ones
when first set, than to pick them off
by the help of ladders and baskets
and to spend as much more time in
carefully asserting them in the vain
attempt to find large and handsome
ones for market.
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Mr.. Milton Grover, who sold his
grove, two miles east of the city
last winter to Mr.. William Schover
ling, OF Connecticut, speaks OF re-
turning to this place soon.-.South
FLORIDA Times
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elks S5s1eeS@ 80 tfs +. e. '6oA
Salxia worked by oxen, or the steam
engine. 1t is plain that the cane,
grown on the Rel lands, must be
planted just before the humiliation
covers the field, or it would die of
drought, and must be taken off be-
fore the next rise. Whereas, that
which is grown in fields banked round
and artiticially irrigated, may be
planted at other times, and the
planter is free from the great uncer-
talnty as to the height of the inunda-
zion, which is constant source of
anxiety TO the proprietor OF the Rel
lands, us q deficient inundation
causes wholesale destruction to the
products of the soil
"The manufacture can only take
place at low Nile, so that the growth
Of the cane in the Sharackee lands
does not exceed twelve months, the
planting season being about Febru-
ary and March, and the reaping
commences in January. AT Randa
there were three steam pumping en-
gines winch watered about 400 acres
each. On these fields the canes grow
to the height of ten feet, but on the
Rel lands, where the planting is two
months later, they are necessarily
much shorter. Ratooning for any
length Of time does not answer, and
at least one-tourth of the crop is
planted annually. The canes are
planted in holes banked up with the
hoe, much as in old times i'll the
West Indies the moulding is done
naturally by the deposit Of the Nile,
there is no trashing, and for reaping
short heavy knife is used which
cuts the cane close to the ground.
The Egyptian native cane, as it Is
called, is much like that known by
the same name and now nearly ex-
tinct in Barbados; but the West
Indian varieties have been success
fully introduced. The juice is usu-
ally watery, as might be expected
from the length OF time the canes are
covered by the inundation, and the
yield is not more than four or five
kantare feddan, or about 500 pounds
refined sugar to an acre.
''The chief manures are nitrous
saline earth found on the borders oil
! the desert, ard pigeons dung. Vast
quantities OF halt-wild pigeons are
encouraged to breed in the Egyptian
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+See Dept. of Ayr. Ann. Rept., 1858, p. 272.
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A young lady, who makes all the
family soap, gives the following re-
ceipt for good cheap article: Add to
ten quarts OF water, six pounds of
quicklime tshell lime is best), and six
pounds common washing soda. Put
all together and boil for halt an hour,
and let it stand all night to clear.
Draw off the lye, and add to it one
pound common resin, and seven
pounds of fat (any fat will do). Boil
this tor half an hour, then let in stand
till cool, and cut into bars.
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FLOR IDIANA.
Geographical Divisions of Florida.

Geographical Divisions of Florida.
EASTERN FLoRIDA-Is composed of the
counties OF Suwannee, Columbia. Alachua,
Levy, Baker. Nassau, Duval, Bradford.
Clay, st. Johns, Putnam and Marion.
WEST FLORIDA--Is composed of the coun-
ties OF Escambia, Santa Rosa, Washin gton.
Walton. Holmes, Jackson and Calhoun.
MIDDLE FLoRIDA-Is composed of the
counties of Gadsden, Liberty, Franklin,
Leon, Wallulla, Jefferson, Madison, TAYLOR,
Lafayette and Hamilton.
SOUTH FLORIDA-Is composed of the
counties of fernando, Sumter. Orange.
Volnsia, Brevard, Polk, Hillsborough, Man
aztec. Monroe and D9de-
Mr. Milton Grover, who sold his
grove, two miles east of the city
last winter to Mr.. William Schover.
ling, OF Connecticut, speaks of re-
turning to this place soon.-.South
FLORIDA Times
Mr.. Isler, whose plantation is
about ten miles north of the city,
says he will make eleven bales of
cotton to the mule this year, and
corn, potatoes, syrup, etc, sufficient
for home consumption. -Fl0ridian.
The sweet potato crop promises to
be unusually good. For several
years farmers have been improving
the variety. This was suggested
number of years ago by the Herald.
We regarded it as important that all
cereals should be improved 1t will
P0J0tkd Herald
The cedar mill which will soon be
erected on this island by the Eagle
Pencil Company will add considera.
BILE to the business of the place. The
mill on Atsena Otie, owned by Mr..
Faber, contributes more than any
other one thing to the business of
the place.-Ceczar Key Journal
Col. A. j. Lane is having built
substantial wharf and warehouse at
the head of the Lake Harris canal.
With the present high water the
steamer Mayfower can ascend the
canal without difficulty but it will
eventually be dredged wider and
deeper.-Sa0ater A00ducc.
The largest and finest oranges we
have ever seen were brought to
market Saturday by Titus Larkins,
colored. He says they grew on his
place eighteen miles north Of this
city. We selected an average size
which measured twelve and quar-
I 81. =, e..e., 90, H. Thrill
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its good qualities undoubtedly out
weigh its bad, and it should hot be
destroyed with its injurious relative.
The Portland daily press., 1880-09-08
ALBANY Journal.
Albany Journall. =
How Business Men Will Vote.

How Business Men Will Vote.
A distinguished Republican leader is re-
ported to have said in the course of recent
conversation that in his opinion the key note
of this canvass Is found in tie prosperity Of the
country and:the argument against change in
administration for which that prosperity
stands.
He was doubtless right. The prosperity OF
the country is an irresistible campaign docu-
ment for Republicans. Our opponents cannot
match it, neither can they break its force,
The more the people study it the more thor
oughly are they convinced that the Democrat
ic party's frantic appeal for change is en-
tirely unwarrantable. Reading the future by
the past-and there is no other way of reading
it-what reason is there to believe that to turn
out the Republican party and bring in the
Democratic party would promote purity and
economy in administration or would advance
the common veal? There is absolutely no
reason. The Democratic party has never
been party of reform, although 1t has always
been q party of fair pretences. In 1850, after
twenty wears of Democratic rute, a government
six per cent. bond sold for eighty-nine cents.
In 1880, after twenty years OF Republican rule,
a government four per cent. bond sells for
Si,lO1.8 In 1860, after twenty years of DEM
ocratic rule loan of S1S, ,0O0, 900 exhausted the
market for six months. At the end of twenty
years of Republican rule, a loan Of S150,0OO,-
GOO was taken in single day. Passing from
National to State administration, the contrast
is equally strong, equally destructive to the
Democratic claim that it is to be regarded as
the party of frugality and reform. When,
with the overthrow of the Tweed ring, the Ke-
publican party came into power in the state IN
1872, they discovered in the Stare treasury
Democratic deficiency exceeding SIX millions
of dollars. This enormous deficiency the Re-
publicans made good by taxes, so that while
the Democrats from 1868 to 1877 paid of only
o.. 6.744 Of the bounty debt, the Republicans
from 1872 to 1876, paid off s19.544,773, nearly
four times as much in the same length OF time.
| The consequence of this wise administration of
the State finances was the reduction of the an
nual tax after 1875, nearly FIVE million dollars.
These figures of the National and New
York State Administrations speak in trumpet
tones to the voters of this State In view OF
them we confidently ask the business men OF
this great commonwealth to cast their oailots
for Garfield and Arthur, the standard-bearers
of the Republican party. Our business men
are shrewd, long-headed, not easy to be de-
ceived. They appreciate the force OF the ex,
hibits which we have outlined and will stand
by the political organization which has shown
The Portland daily press., 1880-09-08
Once More to the Front

But few days more remain for active
work in the State campaign; and it is the
duty of all who have at heart the success of
the Republican ticket in Maine, or who
wish to rebuke the wicked men that by
force and fraud sought to steal the State
last Winter, audaciously disregarded the will
OF the people and strove to carry the de-
cision Of elections from the ballot box to
the Council Chamber, to strain every nerve
from now until the polls are closed Monday.
Unless our people wish to encourage repe-
tition of the crime attempted by the Garce-
lon gang they must make the voice of con-
demnation SO ringing that its echoes will
not cease to strike the ears of tricksters for
years to come.
The only way to make that condemnation
felt is to elect Governor Davis by rousing
majority. The election of Plaisted would
everywhere be understood as approval of the
miscount, as condonation of the evil deeds
of the Tabulators That is why they have
gone into the fight with so much energy,
and are so lavish in expenditure and effort.
They know what the true issue is, if the
honest voters of the State do not On the
other hand the election of Davis will mean
rebuke by the people of Maine of men who
instigated and attempted gross outrage
upon their liberties and upon the princi-
pies of free government. 1t would be of
course Republican victory-a great victory
we freely and gladly admit-but to us here
it woul1 have even deeper significance,
and more immediate bearing upon our
honor and prosperity as State. 1t
would show that the voters of
Maine are quick to perceive attacks upon
their rights and eager to rebuke
the authors of them. 1t would show that
we are sensitive to any imputation upon the
honor of our State, and prompt to resent it.
1t would show that we hold to full and
free ballot and an honest counthe at home
where they concern us most. 1t would
show that we hold to local self-government
in its true sense
So it becomes our honor and our self respec.
asIit advances our interests to put to utter rout
the hosts of Fusion and Fraud. To that end
all honest citizens should direct their
efforts. It is not enough to vote Induce
sothers te-vote for the rfgnr. E,rDOf WIN tI,e
weak and the wavering and the misguided.
Let every man take this exhortation to him
self, and devote the time from this day to
election day to missionary work. He can
not more wisely or more patriotically spend
those hours than in giving them to the ad-
vocacy of free government and to the rebuke
of fraud
The Portland daily press., 1880-09-08

GEN. GARFIELD is passing busy summer
in the midst of serene quiet. A telegraph wire
runs from the Mentor railroad station to his
residence, and an operator who resides there
is kept measurably busy with the large
amount of campaign business that has to be
transacted under Gen. Garfield's direct su-
pervision. A great many visitors call dur
ing the day, and although the host of busy
biographers has been largely thinned out by
the completion of their tasks, there are
enough correspondents and reporters on
hand to supply the vacancy. Gen. Garfield
seems to be wide awake to the demands of
the situation, and leaves no effort on his
part undone to provide for contingencies
and to make the canvass as thorough and
energetic as possible.
The Portland daily press., 1880-09-08
DEMOCRATIC OPINION OF THE
COUJNT.OUJT.

There is NO possible way in which Alon-
70 GareelOn can be prevented from maxi
ing himself Governor as long he lives,
and keeping his precious set of vii
lains i'm this State i'm Council for
life, provided they can secure nom
inati Ons for the places, and can find
courage to throw ont Republican returns
enough each year to seat their own tools
i'm the Legislative chamber. Popular liber-
ty thus far has had its throat cut i'm liberty.
loving New England by n scalpel of n Down.
East doctor, and nothing but the hope
that the infinite Justice of heaven will over
take him, stands between this and the fu-
ture subjecti0n of the State of Maine to his
dictatorship, if he is brazen enough to com
Time this kind of work. There is but one
thing that would meet the case with per-
feet Justice, and that would be the short
shrift of this man with n great cord from,
ono of the elms of Augusta. But New Eng
land takes the more tardy, but equally sure
way through the ballot box, and even pup
pet Garcelon and maestro Pillsbury will
not have assurance TO their power
against one more verdict by the sturdy SONS
Of Maine, which they will get next Sep
tcmber.-DEMOCRATIC LOUISVILLE COURIER
JOURNAL ON THE CoUNTOUT LAST WINTER.
The Portland daily press., 1880-09-08
Honest Democratic Opinion.

Last wiuter, at the time of the count-out,
reporters of Boston papers interviewed two
prominent Massachusetts Democrats. John
Quincy Adams, and Josiah G. Abbott, with
the following result; Mr.. Adams said:
He promised that he had made mo careful ex-
animation of the law and did not know wheth-
er Governor Garceloo was acting legally or
not. But know that he is acting stupidity"
said Mr.. Adams; che and his associates have
made miserable blunder in counting out
decided Republican majority on mere techni-
cal points,"
Reporter-But was not Governor Garcelon
bound by his oath to execute the law, in rela-
tion to the count?
Mr.. Adams-The Governor was bound to ex-
ecute the spirit of the law rather than the let
ter. Had he done that he would have salts
fed the people of his State without distinction
OF party, and his own conscience. AS it is he
has made fatal mistake, a sad blunder, one
that will have an injurious effect upon the po-
litical party to which he belongs. am sur
allowed himself to be influenced into such an
action. He must have had very bad counsel
for it.
MIR ABBOTT said in reference to the Ex-
ecutive assumption of power to declare
law unconstitutional:
For merely ministerial officers to disregard
statute that has been duly passed by both legis-
lative branches and signed by the Governor,
without an Intervention of the Supreme Court is
certainly extraordinary and nothing but an ex-
traordinary exigency could justify such an act;
more especially where the Governor and Coun-
Gil could havesubmitted that question to the
Supreme Court, and obtained its decision upon
its constitutionality. I think, in that respect
that great error has been committed. That
doesn't alter in the least the responsibility of
the Council for the act they have done with
regard to lthe Legislature, as to which body it
was just as clear that majority of the people
of Maine, acting under their constitution and
laws, elected a majority of Republicans to both
Houses As said before, the substantial will
of the people thus expressed, ought to be re-
spected, regardless of the mere technical letter
of the law.
1t is for the voters of Maine to say, mex
Monday, whether or not the substantial will
of the people shall be respected by its SER
wants.
The Portland daily press., 1880-09-08

KENNEBEc Journal While the Demo
Gratis of Maine complain that the Greenback
candidate for the Presidency will not fra,er-
nize with them, the Democrats of Missis-
sippi are threatening the lives of the Green
hackers of that State. The statement of
Mr.. Wimberly, the chairman of the Green
back State Committee, explains that he has
been mobbed at Coffeeville, Miss, and has
been warned that he must give "uncondi-
tional surrender of his political principles
or die. In Mississippi, as throughout the
South, any opposition to the Democratic
party is crime which must not wait for
legal punishment. The re idy rifle and con-
venient shot gun will keep the South solid.
The Portland daily press., 1880-09-08
WHY THE SOUTH Is SOLID FOR
HANCOCK

Consider what Lee and jackson would
co were they alive. These are the same
principles for which they fought for four
years. Remember the men who poured
forth their life blood ON Virginia's SOIL
and do not abandon them now. Remem-
ber that upon your vote depends the sue
cess of the Democratic ticket.-WADE
HAMPTON, AT THE MEETING IN THE INTEREST
OF DEMOCRATIC HARMONY IN VIRGINIA, AT
STAUNTON, JULY 26.
The Portland daily press., 1880-09-08

A MEMBER of the Fourteenth Connecticut
volunteers, the only regiment from that
State in Gen. Hancock's corps, has made
canvass to ascertain the political preferences
of the ex-members of that command in his
own town. He reports as follows: For
Garfield, thirty-six honorably discharged
soldiers; for Hancock, five soldiers, two of
whom were deserters; doubtful, three.
The Portland daily press., 1880-09-08

ALBANY Journal: A Republican admins
tration is now paying the public debt at
the rate of ten millions of dollars a
month or two and half millions week.
Does any candid man believe that the Dem
ocratic party would do better than this?
The next time your Democratic neighbor
begins to talk about the necessity for a
change commend him to these figures. They
will strike him as dumb as brazen image.
The Portland daily press., 1880-09-08
H EAD THIS

Whatever may be thought of the politi-
cal campaign elsewhere, every lover of
good governments and common honesty
should hope for the defeat of the unhoIy
peiiticai combination in Maine which
Drought dis8rnce upon that reputable State
last year. We have heard prominent Dem
ocrats express the same sentiment, their
disgust Tor the folly Of the Garcelon crowd
overcoming all party feeling. If the peo-
pie OF Maine do not rise up and rebuke the
political cuf-threats whose infamous rec
ord caused every son of Maine 10 bIush we
snail lose cur faith in natural law.-BosroN
HERALD QND.) AUG.7.
The Portland daily press., 1880-09-08
AN ARGUMENT THAT WEIGHS A
TON.

Here is a Republican campaign dOcu-
ment in a nutshell, that weighs n ton:
Under Republican administration dur
ing fifteen years of pence, SS42, ,6SO,S
of the principal of the National debt has
been pnid, while the current annual inter-
est is $4,000, 900 less than at the close
of the war. The Democratic press md
stump speakers might as well try to tun-
mel through the Rocky Monntains with
hair-pin, as TO break the force of this
nla gnificent showing.