The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1880-08-18
FLORIDIANA.
Geographical Divisions of Florida.


MIDDLE FLoRIDA-Is composed of the
counties of Gadsden, Liberty, Franklin,
Leon, Wakulla, 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 D3de
Ned Corrlgan and J. p. Lewis
went out Monday morning, the on
schooner Fairy Bell and returned
the following day with twenty-five
head OF turtle weighing upwards of
$500 pounds. Who can beat this p
Ce6Zttr Key Journal.
More letters of inquiry relative to
this portion of Florida are being re.
ceived Dy our citizens than ever be-
fore since the settlement of the
county. We want a larger immi-
grafton fund in this State Orlando
Reporter.
1t has been decided, after mature
deliberation, by the Board of Direc.
tors OF the Fair Association that no
effort will be made to hold the next
State Fair at Tallahassee. The Mid
die Florida Fairs are fixed facts"
and any attempt to better them by
calling them State Fairs would be
work of supererogation.
Colonel Dancy says that the juice
of a lime and a teaspoonful OF salt
mixed and taken before breakfast at
intervals through the summer, is a
preventive against malarial diseases.
He has tested the mixture
thoroughly series of years in his
own family, and it has proved posi-
tive remedy.-Breeze.
There is strong and growing i'm
preston among the close observers
in this city, that Florida will have
this winter the largest travel that has
ever yet visited her. Real estate
agents here report great increase
in inquiries, and state that letters
generally show that inquiries are of
the better classes Breeze. Z
Mr.. G. FL. McGinniss has on ex-
hibition at his store an egg plant,
raised in the Garden ct .Cantei', 6 G.
E. Dyke, weighing five pounds ten
ounces. Middle Florida cannot be
surpassed by any spot in the world
in size and variety of its vegetable
productions. No man will suffer for
food IN Leon county if he will only
work three months in the year.
Patriot
The first figs from Florida sold in
New York at $3.50 per bushel. They
were sent from Jacksonville in a re-
frigerator Surely the price will en-
courage the production of this deli.
cate and delicious fruit. 1t is capa-
BILE of bearing transportation, sells
well in any market, can be cured at
home, or used fresh and ripe upon
our tables. Plant more figs and add
to the wealth OF our State.-L0he
City Reporter.
The census enumerators OF this
county has run upon an aged in
dividual, who bears the name Of
Merideth Peterson, colored. He
says of himself, that was born in
ITO; and hauled wood to the city
OF Washington, at the time General
Washington was President. Inever
saw him but heard the people at
Washington City speaking Of the
General; l could have seen him if l
had put myself to some trouble
-Mari07ana Courier.
The future of this section along
the St. Johns River. and the ada
cent counties in the interior, can
hardly be estimated. Ten years
makes wonderful change. During
the next decade the orange crop
will become rich. Religious and
educational interests Will keep pace
with the increase of the land and the
advancement OF commerce. The
young generation OF the present will
step in and reap the fruits of the
labors of the past. Palaces and resi-
dences will be as common on The
St. Johns river. as they now are on
the Hudson. Sixty millions OF our
home race will furnish an immigra-
ton and material tor the further de-
velopments OF the State. General
Grant said that the possibilities OF
this State was great, and that the
future would bring untold wealth,
and make FLORIDA one of the richest
States in the Union. Comparatively
we have everything but wealth. But
the time will come when we will
have a wealthy State, to add to the
finest climate and most generous