The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-06-07
There is hardly business but that win nav

There is hardly business but that win pay
if well followed. The orange business Is a sue
cess, and the young man who thinks that he has
not the capacity or capital for other business can
just well educate himself for this. AS to CAPT.
tai, all that is necessary is TO husband what
means you have and ecOnomize until you are
able TO start; then, with good stock of patience
and pluck you may, in reasonable time grasp
the golden fruit from the trees OF your own and
be prosperous and happy-Pdlatkd Herald, May
24M
The foregoing is well calculated to mislead,
Brother Pratt Stale the amount of capital re-
quired in dollars and cents, and then give esti-
mate of what the new settler can make off his
land the fist three on four gears, and then you
will do him real servicc.-FLoRIDIAN, May 81
"A man comes to Florida with his head full
of the idea of realizing from an orange grove one
of those sudden fortunes about which he has
read in the newspapers. Without stopping 10
consider the time, palms, patience, and quality Of
land required 10 produce such grove as those
who have sold for prices so tremendous, but with
the one thought in his head OF getting piece of
ground somewhere and planting orange trees he
falls into the hands of parties looking out for Just
such men, aud who, taking advantage Of his i'm
petuosity manage to about size his pile " 10
settling him down on measurably poor piece of
land. For men of small means western Putnam
offers the best inducements. A man of means
afford TO purchase fine river fronts on the ST.
Johns; he can afford 10 enrich the soil and
make IT equal TO the richest lands in tn State
but the other must make living while his young
fruit trees are coming ON. Here, then, is the
opening Go To west Putnam, where you can
raise corn, cane cotton, and everything else that
the climate and soil will provide Now when
he comes 10 realize the facts in the case, finds
that he will have 10 undergo enormous expenses
to fertiliZe his ground before il will grow orange
trees or anything else, and that at best he would
have to wait seven or ten years before receiving
any considerable income from his grove. MOI
having sufficient money 10 afford this heavy ter
tiliziDg process, nor To- find himself and family
while waiting on the grove; his land too poor to
produce provisions, and no range for stock, he
is finally compelled to abandon his enterprise
and sell ont to the evcr-hoverng speculaior at
great sacrifice
II is easy to avoid a blundcr like this If suf1
cient care is taken in selecting location, and IN
order 10 do this, man must not forget, that I'M
less he has much money to spare in icriiliZing
and improving his SOIL he must choose land
which will produce well with little or no as>is-
lance of this kind. In the pine land district of
western Putnam, they can comfortably feed and
clothe their families during the interval required
for the orange grove TO mature where the orange
Tree grows thrifty without any ferilizing OF ALL
and where when any such aid Is needed for any
purpose, il is obiainable without expense by the
use of stock.-PaIatka Herald, May 81
That is much better "The truth, the whole
TRUTH and nothing but the truth" is always the
best policy in inducing immigration, as in any
thing and everything else, and we take pleasure
in Withdrawing our former criticism on the
HeTdlds methods