The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1881-06-08

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! on the sing either.
| Another place is one purchased
recently by ". S. Jordan, or Ken
lucky, for which he gave Sl,750.
There are about 900 trees, twenty
bearing, and good improvements,
situated in the town.
f. Z. Saxon has nice grove III
bearing and large number OF young
trees in grove.
These are only Jew instances of
the many 1 could mention, where
very few years since the orange was
only thought of for ornament and
for home consumption. Now the
soil that was of no intrinsic value to
the owner, because OF It's close prox'
unity TO town, it was not planted In
anything of value, has been utilized,
and its value doubled an untold num-
Der of times.
On the road from Brooksville to
Bay Port, is first the place of J. j.
Hale, situated on high hill over
looking the town. 1t would be diff
cult III the run of lite time, TO make
ones self more comfortable than he
is. He has fine large bearing grove
which yields a handsome income, and
a large young grove coming into
bearing. One striking feature in all
this is that the planters OF these
groves have brought them into bear
ing from the seed in less than eight
years without any outlay OF money,
and while they were attending TO
their usual vocation. Passing on we
reach the residence and grove OF J.
II. McKeown. He has probably
hundred trees in bearing, and large
young grove; also, vineyard. His
improvements are very comfortable.
His house looks cosy, sitting back in
the orange grove.
y little way north OF the road, is a
grove OF 200 trees, planted before
and during the war by its present
owner, DR.. w. I. Mayo. The doctor
lives OH the Cult coast at distance
Of fifty miles from his grove, there is
no one on the place, and the grove
has not been cultivated for ten years.
During the last orange season the
Doctor paid some one SO cents for
some tritling work done on the place.
This large outlay OF funds was all
that was used Oh the place. Neither
fruit nor trees were nj ured by the
cold. The yield Of fruit this season
was about $4,000, which gave a
handsome sum after deduclng the
90 cents.
The next place OF importance is
Spring Hill, with the groves of Law,
Peterson and Lykes. These | have
heretofore mentioned-will simply
add that the groves arc grown on
our poor willow oak lands and the
sight OF these groves will convince
the skeptic that our high rolling
pine and oak lands are the lands
where the orange luxuriates. | was
there the other day, and while look
ing at the beautiful, golden fruit felt
there was an aching void nothing in
this world could fill SO we'll as one or
considerable number Of those orau-
ges. Mr.. Peterson played the part
OF the good Samaritan, not with oil
and wiue, but with about six of those
oranges, without money and without
price. l felt very kindly towards
that neighbor.
On over range of these hills Tor a
few miles, and then We land at Bay
Port. There we found Col. Jenkins
and DR.. Drummer, with others, are
gently and quietly spending their
lives in peace and plenty, in the
midst of orange groves, blessed with
health and northumberland are
sung to sleep every night by the song
"The wild waves are singing" Maj.
John Parsons, a resident of New
York City, owns large landed and
commodious interests there. This
is also the main shipping point tor
this part Of the county.
From Bay Port we still travel
north, over hills and valleys OF the
same kind OF high rolling piue land,
willow oak, lnullatto soil, clay sub
soil, from three feet to six and ten
below the surface; to the east Of us
is the Annantligee hammock. l sup.
pose it is the largest body OF ham,
mock in the State. Twelve thous-
and acres OF it are owned by the
heirs OF Col. W. j. Bailee, late o.
Jefferson county. The hammock
lands are unsurpassed, and yield az
fine corn as the bottom lands OF any
, river. Immediately adjoining thes,
hammock lands are The hiph min,