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Budding Wax.

Editor Of the Florida Agriculturist
have question to ask, which
may prove, answered, OF much i'm
portance to many of your SUBJ
scribers
DIR. q I'll. Mason, of Apopka Guy,
last year informed me that gentle
man had told him that the binding
tor securing buds in the orange
should not have the least grease
about it, or it would prove fatal to
the bud. @f
Last year l budded many lemons
successfully, using cloth soaked in
the common compound OF bee's-wax,
tallow and rosin, as | had been &C
costomed to use on peaches and
pears iii Alabama. AS desire and
propose this coming season to bud
many oranges, will you please inform
me, if you deem it worth while,
through the columns of the AGRI'
CULTURIsT, what is the best prepa-
ration for securing the bud Of the
orange to the stock; with any other
information relative to the same
which you may deem proper.
J. III. G.
Apopka, Orange Co., F1a., Mar. 90
Bee's.wax, tallow and rosin are the
proper substances to make grating
wax. Ed
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were rising early to take care ,of
their stock, turned over with the
characteristic thought and express
sion, "Thank God, have no pigs to
feed!" 1t is astonishing how much
sympathy this class of people have
tor their working neighbors; the en-
ergy of others seems to have a mel
ancholic effect on them, and they are
always ready with the original and
generous sentence, 81 told you So"
The profits of orange culture have
been so oftentimes stated and such
statements have called forth so many
adverse criticisms from newspaper
men, who are too frequently seized
with great desire to do some one
some good, which is generally a blind
leap in the dark, and which by acci.
dent and the grace of God, they
sometimes accomplish, that | almost
fear to state results I myself have
obtained.
From a statement given me for
puuilCaIiOu NY my SOlHnlSSIoIi lHcIl
in San Francisco, Messrs. A. Lusk &
Co.. OF the amount of money they
paid me in 1877 and 1878, which was
SS,2l0, the profits that year were
over 81 600 per acre, as the orchard
was less than seven acres. | do not
anticipate any such results in the fu.
ture. Nor would l wish to en-
courage others with such hopes; but
l do believe that, by growing good
fruit, when the trees have acquired
an age OF from ten to fifteen years,
for all good fruit sold, a result OF
from $3.50 to 5000 per acre, net, may
be obtained.
Consumption increases always at a
greater ratio than production, when
transportation facilities are afforded
the producer. Put this down as
rule to which there are few excep.
tions. When men cease to flock to
cities to make their living by their
wits, and when all consumers in the
country go to work to earn and pro-
duce something, then you may fear
over production, and not until then"
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Growth i'm Orange Trees.

Editor Of The Florida A9rioBHraist: E:
One year ago, the middle OF this
month, / budded a lot of small trees
in my grove and at the same time
this month I took with me respon.
slble man and measured the growth
of some OF the buds which are as fol-
lows:
list. Navel orange, height 10 feet,
circumference AZ inches, size OF stock
when budded l inch in diameter.
End. Navel orange, height feet,
circumference 81 inches, width 8 feet
8 inches, size OF stock when buddeG
inch in diameter.
3rd. Lemon, height II feet 10
inches, circumference 81 inches, size
OF stock when budded II inches in
diameter.
4th. Lemon, height IA feet. cir
cumterence 81 inches, size of stock
when budded l inch in diameter
The oranges both bloomed this
spring. l think these growths, con-
sidering the size OF the stocks on
which they were made, have been
rarely equaled If ever excelled, many
more OF them are nearly as large.
My orange grove OF about 800 trees
has never done better than this spring
Notwithstanding the excessive wet o:
last fall. M. l. SMITH.
DdytolsG, FSo., March %, 1880.
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Calico Hop at Sorrento.

A correspondent of the SANFORD
Journal gives the following amusing
description OF Calico Hop at Sor-
rento. These back-woods orange
growers have good time OF it if
they do have to work hard:
Sorrento is not dead, neither does
she sleepeth. The latest big thing
was Grand Calico Hop, which took
place at the Public Hall, on the Oath
ult. When the crowd had assem-.
bled, which consisted of thirty
couples, besides lots Of big boys and
our little ones, the exercises were
commenced. The ladies were arrayed
in bright. new calico, and q large
number of neckties were made by
them, to correspond with their at
tire, which were to be furnished the
Manifested orange growers present,
in this wise. The neckties were
placed singly in envelopes, sealed up
and put into a box mail keg) in
charge OF Miss Grace Reeves, to be
drawn by the gentlemen. The tie
drawn corresponding with some
lady's dress, the lady was considered
the partner of the gent holding said
tie. The merriment which this novel
ty created was greatly enjoyed by all.
The difficulty some of us BIG GREEN
HORNS had in finding ladies WHO
wore dresses to match our neckties
can better be imagined than described.
1t is known that many of US are
wonderfully deficient, not only i'll
distinguishing but i'll contrasting
colors, and then, the ladies, COP
BLESS THEM, would annoy us and
vex us, and bother us by trying to
argue us out of the notion that her
dress was like that tie. "That amt
like my dress" II amt your partner"
could be heard ringing out all
through the hall, but the holder of
the necktie would urge his claims,
and, holding it up Tor her to gaze
upon, proof positive would secure
HIM a partner for the evening The
distress OF some OF the old married
men was plainly depicted upon their
countenances, when it was discovered
that some of theirrichly calico dressed
wives had "gone off, with some
old bachelor. After a real good,
Jolly hour of this fun the dancing
commenced. john Osborn, with his
violin and the irrepressible Lockerson,
with i his banjo, kept every one
moving in a good natured way until
one o'clock, when the young folks
said they ielt kinder tired, the mar
ried men hunted up their wives,
shouldered the babies, and all went
home feeling better, and wishing
That the calico hop had lasted longer.
We shall probably have a masquerade
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Weddings VS.. Budded Trees.
Editor Of The Florida .Agric,d'ssSrist:'

Editor Of The Florida Agric'Gss'rist:
Very frequently people are disput'
ing and quarreling about matters
that have been decided and settled
long ago. This, methinks, is just the
case with that question they COM
menced discussing anew in your
highly esteemed paper, ). e., whether
seedlings or budded trees are to be
preferred. 1t is a fact that most fruit
trees vary from the seed. This means
if we plant the seeds we very seldom
get tree that produces the same
quality of fruit that the one produces
from which we took the seeds. 1t is
fact too that variation does not
mean ameiioration, but rather deterl-
grafton. This means if we plant five
hundred or thousand seeds from an
extra tree, even if the latter does not
grow in the vlQulilY Of any trees bear
ing sour or Indifferent fruit, most OF
the seedlings ilfproduce fruit infe-
rior to the one from which we took
the seeds, which does not exclude, of
course, that if treating them well, we
may get nice number OF good and
fair trees and even some extra trees.
Furthermore it is fact if we bud
seeding and take care of II, we
invariably will get trees that produce
Just the same kind Of fruit as the one
from which we took the bud. There
fore if man is going to plant out an
orchard or vineyard he never raises
his apple or pear trees nor his vines
from the seed, but selects seedlings
that have been budded from that
kind of tree he wishes to have in his
orchard or vineyard. And, there
fore, if man is gong to plant out
an orange or lemon grove and does
not wish to have nearly as many va
rieties or sub-varieties OF fruit as he
has trees, nearly all of which are not
of extra quality, he either buds his
seedlings himself or buys budded
ones, for only then he assure to raise
first class grove.
l spoke Of disputing and quarrel
ing about matters that have been de-
cided and settled long ago and l
said so because / know that any ex-
perienced and impartial fruit-grower,
and any writer on horticulture, and
especially the culture OF the citrus
family. and any botanists will confirm
the facts l have been mentioning
above. So the Pathological Com
mite of the Florida Fruit Growers
Association tor 1877, 1873 aud 1879.
and SO Moore in his splendid hand
book on "Orange Culture" who in
chapter II, says: "The best quality
OF fruit can lie insure ed only by bud
ding from the best varieties"
10 those OF the seeding men"
who are "cryin. treason" as soon as
man does not swear to their views,
and are accusing him OF partlallty
and calling him nursery man" etc., L
have to say that j have neither nur'
sery nor bearing budded grove SO
that they will hardly be able to find
out personal ground against the
opinions l am advocating. But
of course | started grove and
started him just i'll accordance TO the
advice | could gather from the best
and most reliable, practical as well as
theoretical growers, .. e., have been
budding about the third part OF my
seedlings already and the two other
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Over Production of Oranges.

Mr.. Shorb, of California, in an ad-
dress made at the Riverside Fair
made use of the following words as
reported by the Riverside Press and
Horticultawist
"The cry of over production have
heard ever since my boyhood days.
1t is a remarkable fact, however, that
this cry'is generally INDUCED in by
those who never had nor never will
have a pound of anything to sell or
ship. They are like unto the i'm
proyident farmer who being disturb
ed by his energetic neighbors who
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To Correspondents.

In writing to the paper will our
correspondents be good enough to
write on only one side OF the sheet?
as, when both sides are written on, it
not only makes it inconvenient for
the compositors, but the handling OBJ
literates some of the writing and pre-
vents it's being true to copy.
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Agricultural Societies.

Florida Fruit Growers Association.-Dr'
J. C. Kenworthy, pres, Jacksonville; d.
ii. Elliot sec Live Oak; d. S, Place, cor
Sec, Waldo.
New Smyrna Agricultural and Fruit
Growers SOciety.--Dr. j. NJ. Hawks. pres;
NJ. b. Rolf and NJ. Lewis, vice-prests.; w.
S. Hart, sec. and treas.
Orange Ridge Agricultural and lmmi-
grafton Society.-Dr. b. B. Bennett, pres.;.
John Cannon, Sec; j. Y. Parce, cor. sec.
DeLand. Volusia Co. Weekly meeflngs
Lake George Fruit-Growers' Associa-
island: Judge A. B. Bartlett, vice-pres.-
Georgetown; w. z. Wright, Esq, vice.
pres, Drayton Island; w, H. Lente, ESQ.,.
vice-pres., Seville; A. II. Manville, Esq.
sec, Lake George; Rev. L. Hind, cor. Sec.
Georgetown; S. U. Hammond. ESQ.,, treas;
Fort Gates
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THE FLORIDA AGRICULTURIST.

thirds, well, shall bud them as soon
as the time will have come for it,
for only that way l am sure to make
a number one grove in the end.
CHARLES NORMAN.
Johns Pass, Fyo., March 10, 1880.
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LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
County Officers of volusia County.


State Senator.-Hon. Seth French, Or
State egislature.-Charles Doroughety
Port Orange.
Collector of Revenue.-J. B. Jordan, DE
Land.
Clerk of Court.-J. w. Dickins. Enter-
prise.
County Judge.-F. ]. La Penotiere. En-
terprise.
County Sheriff.-Wm. Cone, Volusia.
County Surveyor. ID. Broome, De
Land.
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.
James RIdeout, Oak Hill
w. S. Thayer. Enterprise.
NJ. N. Voorhis, DeLand,
j. ID. Price. New Britain.
Joseph Cnderhill. VOlllsia.
Ininaers0ditis est verG Uirttts.
Messrs. Ashmead Bros. are our agents
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New York Market Report.

Prepared for the Florida Agricuturist by Fra
ser 4 Edwards, l07 Barclay St., New York.
Fla. cucumbers per box. 1890. $500 % 500
Fla string beans, fat, per box 500 %
Fla string beans, round per box so a
Fla. tomatoes per peck. 80 a 100
Fla potatoes, choice, per Dbl. ZOO "a
Fla. potatoes, culls, per bbl... 800 "a 400
Fla. oranges bbl- boxes. 80. 400 a 500
Fla. oranges bush. boxes. 800 q $50
Fla. straw berries per quartz 10 "a .25
Charleston green peas per box 1.25 "a $50
Southern asparagus per dozen 800 "a 100
Choice potatoes sell well, but stock
coming to hand mostly 100 green. Peas
are dong IA trife better than last week,
vet supply is fully up to demand. straw
berries are running off considerable and
selling at quotations.
March 81. 1880.
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State Finances.

From the Floridian4
Total assessed value of property 49, 794, 5000.
Total receipts in 1879 1854, 6S9.8
Total variants issued 255,520.63
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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-09-02

Our regular army has little hold upon
the affections of the people of to-day. and
its superior officers should certainly. as far
as lies in their power legally and with
righteous intent aim to defend the right,
which to US is the law, aud the institution
which they represent. It is well-mean-
ing institution. and it would be we'll if it
should have an opportunity to be recog-
nized as a bulwark in support of the right
of the people and of the Law. w.-Hanccck to
Sherman. December, 1876. - 81
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Cured of Drinking,

..'Ay oung friend of mice was cured of
an Unsuitable thirst for Liquor, which had
so prostrated him that he was unable to
do any business, He was entirely cured
by the use of Hop Bitters. 1t allayed all
that burning thirst; took away the appe,
tite for liquor; made his nerves steady.
and be has remained sober and steady
dosire to return to his cups; [ know of a
number of others that have been cured of
drinking by it. From lesding r. r..
Official. Chicago, Ills.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-09-02

Thousands Of people, who are afflicted
with diseased liver. indigestion. heartburn
sour stomach. or a generally intolerable
biIiousness, as it is termed, use mercury,
This is done reluluctantly perhaps, but tn e
common place argu . ent is. Oh, nothing will
reachTthe liver and spleen except blue mass
Could get something else | would asc it
Reader, yoU can get s1.uething e,sa. and
that something else Is Simmons Liver
Regulator 1t is equal in power to blue
mass. and without any OF lis Injurious
fleets
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''Tbe thirteenth. fourteenth and if
teenth amend ;neots to the con>,itu'l lon OF
tho United a,es. em6odyisg the resnlts
of the var for the union are inyiolable.
IF called 10 the presidency | should deem
it my duty to resist, with ali my power,
any attempt to impair or evade the full
force and effect of the constitution. which
in every article. section and amendment,
is the supreme law Of the land. w. 8.
Hammock
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REV WIN ANDERSON, Fordham, N. z, cured Of 20
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MILE AIMEE. Opera Prima Donna, 81 have received
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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-09-02

The superior officers Of the army are so
regarded in such great crises, aud arc held
to saoh responsibility, especially those at
or near the head OF it, that it is necessary
on such momentous occasions to dare to
determine for themselves what is lawful
and what is not lawful under our system.
Hancock to Sherman, December, 1876.
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COMMERCIAL
Chicago Market.

CmoAeo. Sept O.
wheat-shade lower; s7H sept; esX Oct; s9k
Nov.
-Corn-Higher; 4oG4015 Sept; 4Os 041 Oct; ii y
Nov.
Oats-HIeher; 27x Sept; 2sK Oct: % Nov.
Rye-74Is bid cash and sept; 70 bid Oct.
Barley-T6 bid cash and Sept: 7S bid Oct
Pork-steady; ~ 30 Sept; 16 wa Oct; 12 20 Nov
Nov.
WHISKY IL.
LIVE STOCK.
8 Cattle-Recepts $500; active and strong; ship
ping 00Gt4 80; expert 00G15 SO
Hogs-Receipts 1900; excited and 1Oc higher .
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It Takes like wild-Eire.

Thousands of voluntary mpliments
and recommendations are pouring in. all
declaring Gillet's Cream Dry Hop Yeas"
much better than Compressed or any other
yeast. It is now piade in cakes instead of
crumbs, aud is put up 10 air-tight packa-
pps
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Bric-a-Brac.

Ladies are wild about Brio Brac''
and will talk, talk, talk about them world
without end. Such ladies should buy
SOZODONT and luse it before they
descant upon their hobbies, especially If
the prosecuted one is male. 1t gives q
favor to the conversation,