The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-11-21

-6s6s&es county scrip 10 It par.
LII 10 sid that there il not milch
eoE IN Cedar Key.
The new eours-hoase in Jacksonville
xin cot sbouf 90, 900.
Capt p. A Hendry, of Fort Myers,
= nov The largest cattle owner in Florida
The Florida Baptist Convention will
neet ~ Lake City on the 9TH of Deem
Der.
The Palstka Journal recommends
the ne Of pyrethrum for the destruction
81 SOod1ioe upon orange trees
Bro Johnston, Of the Apalachicola
Tri5aaa>, thinks the marriage boom is
about 20 strike that town with full force.
An @Old Democrat writing from
Jacksonville 10 the Tampa Tribune, nom.
mates Hon. James NJ Baker, If that city
Tor Governor
One 81 MadisOh's business men has
made hls Eife treasurer Of his cunce m.
lie Il. consequently, prosperous AMI hap
Py,-RsoOrdz.
-FIOrIda oranges were quoted in New
York on the 18th, as follows: s. to g.
F,er barrel, with fair demand; half barred
bOEes. - TO - Papered stock preferred
The Sanford Journal states that T.. r
T1EOrd, Civil Engineer of the South
Florida Railroad, will commence the SUB
Eey Of the line from Kissimmee to Char
l0tte HarbOr, about the LIST OF December,
with . view 10 its final location
Green Cove Spring: Major VOCAL
bach has arrived from his trip North, and
ne understand that be is fully empowered
20 settle al demands against the g. c. S
4 MelrOse Railroad, and that work will
be Immediately resumed on the road
Monticello Constitution: On last
Saturday, the 18th Of November, Mr. SAM
usl Martin presented ms with ripe and
healthy watermelon. He has been sell
ing them for the past month, and We pre-
sumo has some still on the vines in hi-
garden This Is certainly evidence of The
miidness Of this climate.
Lake City Reporter: "Mr. d. Rob
erls, whose farm is some eight miles west
Of town, planted this. year one bu>hel Of
prolific cotton seed, from which he gatl,>
cred $500 pounds of seed cotton, worth
400 lie also had ginned of the same
cOttOn 1873 pounds, which yielded AIS
pounds Of lint and sold for tlO3.75''
The Union of Sunday says sit WEB
runOred on pretty good authority on the
streets last night that Mr.. Henning, lately
elected President of the Florida Central
and Western Railroad, was on yesterday
IN New York elected President of tie
Transit Railroad also This rumor care
from Fernandina pretty straight and ia
probably Correct"
-SumterEille Times: "Last year, in
Our courthouse election, when every votc
IN the precinct was brought out with three
exceptions, Sumteryille polled sixty-siA
votes This year, when the vote fell tween
ty-eight short of registration, and we
know Of several who failed to register, We
Polled niDety-fye votes. How is that fcl
twelve months increase of population 20
Madison Recorder 18th: "The Madi
son county Vegetable and Fruit Growers
Association means business. 1t has a
ready ordered one carload of fertilizer,
and orders are in from various member,
for two hundred and one barrels of seed
Lrish potatoes. The Association meet,
again next Wednesday in the court-houss.
~ O'Clock p. NJ, when any one wis
wishes 20 join and order seed can do So
Lake City Reporter 18th: I'VE were
told on Tuesday by a resident of the =,
Johns nEer country that the old orangs
trees In his section were "dying ont.
There are trees in this county that bav'
been IN full bearing for more than thirt,
yeAu, and still look fresh aud vigorous
bearing - well rs ever, and as fine if no
better fruit than the younger trees. An'
ne don't suppose an ounce of fertilize
Eas ever placed around them.
The Leesbnrg AdUdace gives thai
advice 20 planters: "The policy of on
planters in selling and shipping their CO.
ton seed IL suicidal No commercial fer
tiliser contains half the virtue of cottol
SEED when properly prepared, and not
pound Of the latter should be allowed Il
leave the farm. Enrich your lands Will
cotton seed fertilizer and they will pro
dnce four-fold. Sell your cotton seed ala,
you impOverish your lands and neces
anrily dePlete your pockets"
-Palztka Herald: "The turn tha
Middle Florida has taken in developin,
her resources will make a wonderful
change In that section. Truck farming
dAirying and fruit growing will be four'
20 be better than cotton. The fertility o
the land is better adapted to vegetable
growth than almost any other section il
The State Planters up there who hay'
gone into the truck business have made
money, and IL would not be a matter o
surprise 70 learn that they had taken tht
lead in the shipment of vegetable pro