The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1881-10-26
A Voice from Back Part Of the
State,
BY I. a, HAGNAUER.


Editor of the Florida Agriculturist:
Some five years--what space of
time in which you ought to have be.
come the leading agricultnrist of the
State and / the biggest colonizer-
say once more FIVE years have eiaps-
ed, and the progress we may count
up is as yet of minute notice to the
world. But meyer mind the time,
stick to your purpose, pursue the
throbbings of your heart with all
the zeal and honesty yon can afford,
and when once success sets in, know
that it drops in upon FloridIan ex>
actly in the shape of Floridian
shower, as thick as hajlstone at any
place in the North. AS tor me, the
Misunderstanding eagerness of intro
ducing number OF good, l mean
really independent immigrants-be
they from the North or from the Old
CountrY-tosthese regions has, after
several years OF sore and nearly futile
trials, at last subsidized in the fact of
their actual dropping in, party after
party, accompanied by the announce
menC of dozens of families to follow
closely. Now, my friend, you know
that | am no Comp. who can dis
pense OF hundreds of thousands
or millions of dollars, else the stir
rings would have responded to the
designs in a different proportion.
But when for months and years not
a cent more is at fellows command,
and he has to rely only on the
straightforward and single exertion
OF his pen and his merely personal
labors, mental as we'll as bodily, 10
make things meet, can there be any
surprise in the failure Of adding, in
the three years past, one single set
tier to the first few ones that pioneer.
ad this colony here, or in the now
sudden succession Of parties here
and that in fact OF very selectable
kind coming on one after the other,
or announcing their coming, both
from the North and West, and the
first ones from my native country,
Switzerland; moneyediparties, profess
sional working men, industrials. far
mers, even professional wine>growers
are foretold to come in time to join
US, to meet their Americanized coun
trymen squarely tor emulation of who
can 60 quicker ahead on these new
regions of Floridian soil. mutually
rejoice in this prospect. and after
some time l may expect that also the
big German Fatherland will give off
tor Florida portion of its immense
emigration. AS to the lesser money.
ed and laboring classes of the Old
Country, it is my opinion it will be
better to wait yet some time until
they can be settled in large bodies
together The pioneering settlement
will have Srst to dispel the dismal
notions rampant in Europe that the
climate and lands of Florida are unfit
for northern Europeans to live, farm,
and thrive in. have already suc-
ceeded to some extent i'll allaying
those fears, for the nonce, in my ma
tive country, 50 that one OF the sew
eral emigration agencies theress has
decided to take an interest in the
subject of moving emigration hithe-
wards. One thing will pro in
this matter a No. pro~loter: The
first comers like II nere, climate as
well as the land, and send home in>
yltlng reports prospecting fairly tor
themselves. to thrive here. Now /
must s'y ! have been fortunate in
selec cJting tor the trial settlement this
Very plantation, Casa Blanca, in Jet.
terson county, as locality reputed
for health from the time it was first
cleared, above fifty years ago, and is
tested as such by all the pioneering
settlers that came by me. The land
scape, too, of middle Florida mean
its northern portion--and the nature
of its soil give satisfaction, and am
sure will please the more they are
fairly put 80 the test. l am sorry that
a same report cannot be given to