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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-06-30
The Lightning Rod Man.
Glencoe Register.

men have made a descent upon the
town. an; have established head quar-
ters at the orthwe>tcrn from whence
they make daily foravS into the coun-
trv. And woe to The hard handed
granger who gives ear to their syren
song. They are a healthy looking
set OF fellows who evidently enjoy
good living and know how to make
other men pay for it. The lightning
rod man is great student OF human
nature. He can tell alta glance when
he strikes the kind of dough that
will work. He is always in IN ac-
tive state of eruption Immediately
after a thunder storm. and is never 50
happy as when some house or barn
has been >tru,'k bV lightning and
bttn consumed. lie is firm beiev-
II N the proylden e Of God, and IS
never 50 eloquent rs when discoursing
to IN awe->tticken farmer upon the
terrible sin IF '',empting Providence
by not placing suitable protection
against lightning upon his buildings.
The lightning rod man always has
the only rod that is OF any possible
account: all others are frauds, and
are simply machines for attracting
10, rather than conductla" from, your
buildings the fatal bolt. The light
ming rod ,aan is very concientioil>.
lie would not Tor his life palm off
uppn YOU worthless rod rs that
other fellow did. No sir; he has Il
reputation t. sustain, which he holds
above price. Whatever he tells you,
yot may depend upon" Then he
don't ask any money down. He is so
anxious t. preserve Your property
that he will take Your note running
one, two, OF three years, at only ten
per ceAt. interest. The lightning
rod man is one of the most accomo-
,latiny fellows in the world. He is a
Humanitarian, a.: i devote> his life to
the grand work of SAYING other mems
property from destruction. \" doubt
these gentlemen who are now honor
INC the town and county wish their
presence VIII be Is heartily received
ami literally patr"niHet rs those who
have rrcrole them in former wears.
Aud for ,leceacy'. sake, it is hoped
that when 4 farmer or citizen of the
town accepts their kind offices
and gives tncm note payaeie at
some future time, for rs much or more
than ;hrir buildings are worth, they
will have ihe grace to pay for 1t when
lac without gramDllng. We beg
our friends in town and country 10
remember that luNtirie> always cost.
Now lightning rod is an ornament
chat we have never felt able to en- ov
:, br;gh, tlree-tined fork looks
we'll. pointing heavenward from the
ROOF Of a stable or house cupola, but
then, rs it is ninety-nine cases out Of
Il hundred OF 10 earthly use, we have
fell obliged "a &c. along without it.
Of course We feel rs is perfectly nat
urll. i little enviouS when we see our
neiyhbor,' houses decked out with =
half dozel Of these pretty things, and
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-06-30
An Earnest Word.
Minneapolis Tribune, June Eth.

Minneapolis Tribune, June Eth.
Have the men of Minneapolis
whose energy, spirit and enterprise
have made the city what it is, been
overtakcn by a lethargy like unto
death? 1t would certainly seem So.
There is 10 longer any organized ef
fort III any direction toward counter
acting the influences that are steadily
and actively at work to once more
put the town in the second place in
point of population, business and in
huencc 1t is not long since our
heaviest dry goods house was suffered
to fail and be hlotted out. Shortly
after, a wholesale clothing house
transferred its business hence. and
now it is positively asserted, and not
contralirted by the parties interested,
that one Of our heaviest grocery
houses, upon which the city has been
accustomed to look with pride and
pleasure, is about to be removed to
st. Paul. Yesterday information was
received of a pretty reliable charac-
ter, that the Chicago, milwaukee, &
st. Paul railroad shops will he located
at Austin, and if the continued eff
forts of the Pione,r Press, Pat Kelly
and others can effect it. the head
quarters Of the telegraph company
will be transferred to that point, up
OH the accession of the new superin-
tendent. which occurs ON the first of
July. On the other hand, st. Pau! j.
getting the benefit Of a huildin" boom
consisting of many fine blocks for as
many business houses, and she is
realizing the promise made her in
respect t" her depot and transfer
grounds, while Minneapolis is wait
ing listIc>>ly, hut waiting in vain, for
like improvements which have been
faithfully promised, but which there
is no apparent steps being taken to
provide Meanwhile st. Paul is
protitirg by the prestige accruing
from her gains and our losses. Tn
less there is something done in Min
neapoliS soon, 50 much will be done
elsewhere that any efforts to counter
act the tendency vii! be vain. There
is no >cnSationalism in these remarks
or this conclusion. Let it be borne
empla,icallv in mind.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-06-30

Know all men by these presents. that
the big blood and liver cure lDr. Mar
shall's Bromoline) will cure you if you
are bilious or oonstipated. Ask your drug
gist.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-06-30
The order of the House: Buy Otter
f, cash.
DO You Believe Us?

q
TAIL You Twill
elthc
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-06-30

The scandinavian Peninsula is Just
at present agitated over an outbreak
among laboring men. It Is reported
that several thousand workmen are
on a strike in Stockholm and serious
riots are feared. In connection with
This i'll feeling, it is believed that the
recent fires in Sweden were of an III
cendiary origin.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-06-30

\ subscriber to a paper in Kansas
died short time since, leaving
four years unpaid subscription bill.
The editor appeared at the grave and
deposited in the coffin palm-leaf
fan, 4 linen coat and a thermometer.
Certainly 4 thoughtful act.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1881-01-05

stances, seen full grown fruit drop.
to some extent, from water standing
about the tree but the loss was tri.
fling in comparison with that caused
by drought on thirsty soils. Neither
is low land fruit at all more liable to
split or rust, or the attacks of insects
generally, and any variation in Quail
ity or quantity must be laid to i'm.
proper statement. Year after year,
1 have gathered fruit from trees
within the limits of tide water
swamp, that, for keeping and Ship
ping, was equal in durability and
firmness to anything raised in the
State.
AT first l dug bitches 10 feet
apart and feet deep, but as they be.
came partially obstructed, the trees
seemed to suffer none during copious
rains, and the conclusion slowly and
lrresistibly forced itself, that the re-
ally vital point was merely to furnish
an outlet for surface water. On sew.
eral occasions, the northeast gales
and spring-tldes OF September aud
October, the river roke to an unusal
height, and stood for several weeks a
foot or more deep in the lower parts
of my grove, the ground higher up
being also completely soaked by
reason of no talltor drainage during
the flood So tar from suffering in.
jury the trees appeared rather bene-
fitted by the irrigation.
ITO be Continued)
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Fortune Seeking in Florida.
tor Of the Florida Agricalturist


L have no doubt bat that nearly
all your readers will be interested in
the discussion OF the subject matter
of this letter, and l feel a delicacy in
venturing my little stubby pen on
the great subject, and it is only after
much reading and twelve years OF
varied experiences in these pursuits
that l have worked my courage up
to the point of beginning. | know
full well how wild, enthusiastic and
extravagant most people who come
among us from the outside world are.
and how many corns will tread
upon while pursuing the stubborn
facts that lie in direct line with nv
subject. But if l blast the hopes, or
shake the faith of single good man
it will be in candor, and in Justice to
his more permanent interests. I
will lay down in the beginning two,
some may think, rather bold assum.
ptlons; that is, that every five acres
OF the high, dry, habitable land, be-
low the 2S0 of latitude in the south
west portio0 OF this State, is a mine
OF wealth, only needing the skilltul
hand and the persistent effort 10
develop 1T. While on the other
hand, 1 well know, and plainly see,
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that for the next fifty years or more,
the whole amount OF money invested
in orange growing will not bring an
s per cent interest, reconing the time
OF a working man, where the work is
invested at 81 per day-Henry Ward
Beecher's bread and water pay tor
labor.-The reason for this average
outcome are various, and ! cannot
attempt to state :hem in detail, or TO
make plain to any one the reason
why this is, or is not, the best or
worst site, the true, or wrong way.
Most prominent among the reasons
of failure is the unsuitable lay of the
land, or bad sub.soil, injudicious cul.
tivation and manuring, and the prae.
tice of trimming. I will call murder.
ing young trees. Insects will de.
stroy or greatly retard great many
trees. High cultivation at one time
and neglect at another will be bad.
But in the first steps great deal
will depend upon the condition of
the land, the condition of the tree
and the season when it is trans
planted. Some advantage may be
secured by mulching at one season,
while some injury may accrue from
it at another. All of those and per-
haps many other points that l do not
think OF at present are little niceties
which count largely in the end
WIN. P. N.
ITO be co,atiaa1ed.l
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1881-01-05
Japan PlumS.

Captain William James, Of Jack
sonville, Florida, writes US regarding
Japan plums;
I will state, for your information
my opinion and experience with the
fruit. | have truitrG the Japan plum
several years and will venture to
state, know of no other fruit grown
in Florida that will pay better than
the Japan plum and is destined to be
a leading fruit. | have had preserves
and jelly made from the fruit. The
latter cannot be eXcelled by any of
the numerous jellies offered for sale
| have shipped the fruit to New
York, it will Sell readily from % to
40 cents per quart (basket). 1t will
carry as we'll as the peach. In Jack
sorville the fruit sells from 25 to so
cents per quart. II ripens from
January to March, it adapts itself to
any soil suitable for orange trees. IL
is an evergreen and most beautiful
and ornamental tree and when in
bloom is one of the most fragrant.
The tree attains the height OF twenty
feet and over. | have some trees
eight years old over twelve feet and
tul OF fruit and blooms. The tree
when well grown commences to bear
al five years old.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1881-01-05
Some Points III Grange Culture.


Written for The Florida Agytculturist by z. IT.
Hart, Of Federal Point, Flo.
Not least, among the perplexities
that beset the novice in orange cul-
ture, are the widely differing theories
and methods OF successful planters.
He carefully notes the directions in
his handbook, only to find some
nelghbor, grown grey among the cit
rus trees, acting Numerically oppo.
site, and reaping a golden harvest.
The book insists that trees should
not be set on land where water
stands less than five, nor more than
twenty feet from the surface, and vet
he encounters groves flourishirg
alike in the porous limestone soils,
when wells are from fifty to 100 feet
deep, and in the low flat. woods-not
suited to orange culture (fl-where.
during rainy seasons, the frogs en-.
liven the monotonous hours of the
night with their sirill pipings. One
tells him not TO plow, manure. prune
or bud, another insists upon ali. till,
finding anything but safety in the
multitude OF counsellors, he is left
very much in the predicament of the
old man and .he ass, who, in trying
to please everybody, pleased nobody
and lost his ass in the bargain.
There has lately appeared in the
Jacksonville Sem and Press an elabo.
late essay on orange culture. from
the pen OF DR., G. W. Davis, a Gen.
tleman OF much ability, and a fluent
writer. The little treatise is in ac.
cordance with the most generally ac.
cepted ideas on the subject, but when
we reflect that the pursuit in this
State rs still III its infancy, it must be
admitted that there is ample room
for discussion and experiment. Nv
own experience of dozen Years as =
grower, with fair success, by modes
OF culture differing somewhat tra,,l
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QUERY-Is it equally severe on
low wet places that are suitable for
the same?
Our soil is what writers on orange
culture usually condemn as alb.
solutely worthless; namely: The
fiat pine woods, underlaid with clay
or hard-pan from eighteen inches TO
three feet below the surface. In
very rainy weather it soon fills up
to the brim and runs over, with fur
rows between and dltches at suitable
intervals. These satety-valves, like
the waste pipe Of a cistern, speedily
remove all injurious excess OF water.
We never suffers from drought or
f1eas, or have to wade painfully or
trundle hand,carts through the
yielding sand, as in the high lands
suited to orange culture ~ In hur-
ricane l have seen these high lands
saturated like quagmire, so that
pines were loosened at their roots,
and blown down in vast numbers,
and orange trees >illed, or injured as
badly or worse than i'll the low lands.
The doleful predictions OF croakers
that our trees would die as soon az
the tap roofs reached standing water
(Which would have given them short
shritt indeed), have been happily
talsified. The crusade against low
lands for the orange is an arrant
humbug that ought to have been ex-
pIoded long ago. II has been kept
up chiefly by those having high
lands to sell, and by persons, who,
living npon lands OF a different char,
acter, knew no better. There is a
very prevalent opinion that nursery
trees from wet lind do not thrive
when removed to places that are
high and dry. This belief probably
originated in the failure OF most OF
the sour stocks rudely torn from the
dark recesses OF a cool swamp, and
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1881-01-05

Mr.. Adams seeds his grove with
Conck (cow) peas in March. Du.
ring the summer, the grove is tended
"a. e. trees hoed around and fences
Kept up) by contract at cost of 90
cents per month, per acre. Decem-
Der when the practical owner returns
from his northern home the weeds
and pea vines are turned under. His
two-year-old trees had l cent each OF
Stockbridge's manure last season.
Thus he is building up fine grove,
but his soil is above the average in
quality. -
Dave Simpson is a young man
who came here five years ago, from
the rich lands of Marion county,
quite out Of health and with very
little capital, aside from his hands
and willing help mate. Without
having purchased a pound Of COM
mercial manure he has fine grove
of 200 trees, averaging eight to nine
feet high, from seeds planted by him.
oN@t' liz oloO Hdo SCS SIdl uuDuEGu
younger trees in grove. He is sup
posed to be worth about $4,000.
What man on farm in the North,
has saved that amount in the past
five years The experience OF such
men gives encouragement to such as
myself, for it shows that OH the best
pine lands poor man can produce a
grove and make a living at the same
time. There are Others who nave
done we'll also, even without previ>
GUS rural experience, and then there
is another class who come with some
capital and their venture results in
naught. 1t You have not energy, in
dustry and perseverance, no matter
If you have some capital, stay where
you are young man" An orange
grove won't take care OF itself.
Neither wi1-i.oiy yoS:: ...7----lr, =,
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T.
present a few remarks, chiefly in the
hope OF bringing out the views ~
Others.
First, l may say that nv location
here on one of he best LANDINGS
along the St, Johns river. was chosen
chiefly oh account Of the great lacili
ties offered for TRANSPORTATION, and
the nne exposure to the Northwest
Wlnd, which passes over several miles
OF water before reaching ME. DR.
Davis is right in stating that in tros+r
weather with wind The air temnera.
ture on the leeward side of the river
Is two to five degrees higher than on
the opposite shore. Sometimes tho
difference is much greater. and some.
times clouds or fog settle doun like
curtain lnterposed to protect yeoe.
tatlon: On the 10Th of last Novem>
Der the mercury in Jacksonville
sixty miles north, stood at 4O7 with
smart frost. AT DeLand. the same
distance south, AZ was observed
"hlle mere, o07 was the loves, mark
ana no frost. In the terrible tre4za
oI 1eoS, severely V felt to the end OF
the Peninsula, 23o was the Iowaet
noalced here. On the I'D of March
1910 1t stood here at 39o with a
clear sky and just wind ENOUGH to
Keep OFT frost, So that string beans in
blossom We're urharmed. The same
morning IN Jacksonville il tell be,
low So killing young budding
orange trees to the ground. On the
SIX cold mornings of December 1S-e
we had 81 ana So, with 2Se once
ana green lines were not frosted In
the great freeze OF December. 1870
sour oranges along our river bank
were only slightly affected. and re.
tanned much OF their juice. But or,
december 18th, 1875 We CAUGHT il
me Northwest wind shifted to
N ortheaSt at night, by morning mer.
curry stood at 3U7 We Jared as badly
Us our nelghbors back from the river
mention the foregoing to show
MHa' great aMelioration of temper. |
S~'re is sometimes produced in cold
N orlhwest wind by an inter, ening
% %sheet OF water. Frequently ON a |
sharp morning, the keen ar, in its
passage over the heated bosom ofthe
river, Is filled with wreaths of vapor.
"nlch DRIFT wildly before the blast.
Dr. Davis declares that most is
more severe on low wet places no.
suited to orange culture.
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Icoming across soIlae heads OF rice OF
Egyptian corn, grown from seed sent
to you by myself one year ago. They
were large and fine, and am conf.
dent it isa grain which will well re.
pay the grower for his labor /
entered the Stase vi0 the St. Johns
river and found the Lower ST. Johns
region just as had pictured it TO
myselt-a low, very gently unduat-
ing country. A friend at Palatka
who had been no further up the river
than that place, but VINO had travelled
from Jacksonville to Cedar Keys and
from Tampa, twelve miles eastward,
told me that it was hard TO find over
ten acres in one place adapted to or
ange growing, the water line generally
being too near the surface. Judge of
my surprise, when I footed it on the
cross ties from Astor to Umatilla,
on finding one stretch OF seven miles
OF line rolling country, just north of
Umatilla, almost every acre Of which
is good for oranges. again, within a
few miles to the north and east of
this place there are hundreds of
acres each Of nice orange land. 1t is
the same, only little more 50, as you
turn south and southeast around
toward Sorrento and on to Zelwood.
The soil grows better as you pro-
gress ill the journey, but the beauti
tu!, little, deep, clear water lake, OF
this LOCALITY become scafcer as we
near Zellwood This is the high
rolling land Of the interior" where
5. Is. Parson, of Flushing, L. l., who
once owned grove on the ST. Johns
but sold it, after three years expert
ence, predicted that the the large or
ange groves OF the future would be
situated. am agreeably disappointed
with this part OF Florida. 1t is SO
much more rolling and beau titul aud
the soll so much better than l had
expected. But few places in the
sandy south end Of New Jersey have
as good soil as we here find. There
are stretches OF several miles where
one will find no blackjack oak, moth.
ny but a splendid growth Of pine
.lmber and thick mat OF wire grass.
The splendid young grove of |
.hlrty acres belonging to D. w.
Adams, (Master OF the National
Irange) on lake Bea1clair and that
u Dave Simpson, his neghbor, on
AXE Dora are splendid specimens of
What can be done without a resort
o heavy doses Of artificial fertilizer.
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I they w6UiTs geTz5nes 1ssvSel seed
liugs and one-half sour STOCKS and
bud all with chosen varieties, after
they had got well started growing.
A couple Of days ago, looking over
my note book, l found an extract
from Mrs. H. w. Beecher's book on
Florida, which says: THE sweet
orange will not grow on wet land any
more than the apple tree. The sour
one is sometimes found in wet To-
cations, and may be used in such 10.
cations as a stock on which the sweet
orange can be worked. But, as the
sour tree is much slower grower, it
must dwarf the sweet tree or perish
beneath the incumbent weight.
None who desire a permanent or
chard of sweet trees would ever use
a Sour stock"
II the above be correes ! or even
partly correct. it would be much bet
ter to plant only sweet stocks. Will
you please tell US something about
this matter, in as early a number of
your paper as you can.
WIN. SoMERvILLE.
Laurence, Mass.
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Sorrento and ZellwOod Country.
'ditor of the Florida Agriculturtst;.

Edat0r OF We FT0Ttda AgT'icn1taTtst:
1t is now over a year since l de.
termined on leaving the western part
of Kansas, (once known as the Great
American Desertp) and making an
effort for home iii your State At
last am with yon aud have seen
many pleasant sii.hts ii ISSe3 80 s,I'e 2Sa"es.l
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M tliIes ne me amount IA. 4 X; ysars
wither and die under a burning sun.
The low land nursery stock ought to
do, and does do the best, from its far
greater abundance of roots; for we
all know that in transplanting trees
this uperabundance OF roots is to the
orchardist, like wool to the shepherd,
the main chance. There is beauti,
tui theory, advanced by writers, but
hardly yet confirmed in practice, in
regard to the greater advantage of
dry land for the orange, in that, as
the roots penetrate deeper, their
toraging area must needs be more ex
tensive, and therefore more adequate.
But when we consider that, in poor
Florida. the tree is dependent, in a
great measure, for aliment upon ap-
piled fertilizers, and the mouth
through which it is terl-Lhat is, the
surtace-ls just as ample in a damp
as IN dry soil, we may ask as re-
CARDS this theory-Ct.i 6ono.o
Further along l will touch upon
the possibility OF an oraLge tree be-
ing better and more safely ted by
the application OF manure to one or
more spots near ii, instead Of by a
universal distribution OF the article.
- person might argue that III bu, ing
very hilly farm he saved money,
because Ii rolled out fiat the acreage
would be greater; and CERTAIN Yer
monter Is said TO have actually
boasted of setting his steep decllvl-
ties Oh edge and tillins both >ldes Of
them.
Rev. T. W. Muore, III his hand
book, thinks the liarl-pan-such as
undellie much oi the flat pine
Woods-to be concrete OF sand,
iron and salt, death 10 the orang..,
but fun and lite to the palmetto.
This opinion might as we'll be aban.
doned as no longer tenable when we
See orange trees, not only living di-
rectly over this deadly hard pan, but
truitlng at so early an age, and SO
heavily as TO render it probable that
they, 100, like the palmetto, find in i:
Iun and life instead OF death.
DIR. Davis thinks trees on wet
lands are more subject to disease,
but when the mode OF treatment is
adapted to the situation | have not
ound them 50. Low land is a con.
'enlent scape goat to saddle with all
heir short t-comlngs, but IN other
places (suited TO orange culture y no
me thinks Of thus going back ON
mother earth. l have, in a few in