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out II q new dress ard presents hand-
some appearances,
Mr.. Tanner is just finishing his very |
nice residence on New York avenue op-
posite Capt. Rich's. -
The Democratic party willl-v,d their
primary meeting at this place on the
Doth, in the Town Hall.
There are several new buildings 60
ing up in Orange City. The groves
around there e looking well.
The Metho ijst social at the school
house last week Tuesday night was very
sparsely attended on account OF the
Ainy weather.
Parties wishing good reliable 1nsur-
ance onaqtores, stocks, dwellings, barns,
and contents. call onG. W. Pearce, De
Land. Box 105. ot
We regret to announce the death OF
Miss III. Patterson, formerly of Hunting
ton. Ind, which took place last Friday
at her residence, two miles west of town.
Preaching at Beresford Presbyterian
Church on the second and fourth Suns
dav in each month, by Rev. Gilbert
Gordon. Prayer meeting every Sunday
evening at o'clock.
Several picnics that had been ar
ranged for the Fourth had to be given
J uu on account of the weather. Still
there were few daring ones who venH
, tured to Blue Springs and had as good
+ a time as could possibly be expected on
, such a juicy day.
' Mrs. Brinly, who left here last Tues
a day for Louisville, KY, to spend the
summer month in her old home, tool
7 with her two fine, large pine>apples
one of which weighed five pounds will
s all of its suckers and crownlets taken Oil
They weIe grown by Mr.. o. P. Terry.
y MIR, J. A. Huffman left for Ashland
e Ohio. on Sunday to see his father VIII
y is dangerously i'll. During the pas
i season he had many contracts for house
| which he completed in cred1tabs
:. manner. Several more have been let t
him which will be commenced on hi
- return in q few weeks. Mr.. Hutfma
l. is a thoroughly practical man and an
d one entrusting work to him will not II
a ret it.
X Rev. J. D. Bohannon writes ID
/? Gillen that he got home three days afte
he left here and did not find the journe
painful or fatiguing. An operation ht
been performed on his foot, but L
states vat the doctors are not very col
n. fident bout its getting better and tea
the limb will have to be amputated. t
reports the weather very warm
Georgetown, KY, and misses our +
ue freshing breezes.
il, Mr.. j. Y. Parce. Mrs. Stedman al
Of. two daughters and Miss Mamie Broom
al left on Wednesday as S'r the Mort
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Notes from Illinois.

Editor of The Florida AgricaH'trtst'
The season here was cold and wet
up to June 1st; since then, warm I11l ana
excessive rain all over central Illinois.
The season is regarded as the wetest
and most backward ever known. For
a month an average Of two days a
week is about all that could be had
dry enough to plant corn. The re-
suit is that all corn on low land has
either rotted or become overgrown
with weeds. Much land prepared
has not been planted and no more
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A Fine Large Grove.

We inspected lately a one hundred
acre grove belonging to the Messrs.
Hulst-father and son-half way be-
tween this town and Orange City,
and were much pleased with the Or
der and thrift, in which everything
was kept. The trees have made a
wonderful growth this year, and we
noted that the Navel orange, which
is said to be such shy bearer, were
in this grove loaded with line, hand|
some fruit. In such a large grove
we expected TO see many trees inject
cd with insects, but such was not the
case. they were nearly all clean and
healthy. One Navel orange tree IL
the Rev. Geo. Hulst's grove wa'
loaded down with fruit, and we an
afraid to state the number OF fruit OF
q Sicily lemon tree in Mr. w m
Hulst's grove; they hung IN mug
lunches to the ground. Few farmer
can beat the old gentleman in vege
table growing. His onions' caOOag'
turnips, tomatoes and potatoes are a
first class. His average yield
sweet potatoes is a bushel to ever
fifteen feet oil row. Mr.. w. hul'
informed us that he tertilized mostl
with that made by Geo. w. Bake
, and that he is satisfied with the r.
sults. The old gentleman OF ~
as active as his son, and to their l
dustry and energy we attribute u
success they are making
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plant both. If more than one sprout
comes from the same tuber, cut be-
tween them and set the parts in diff
ferent hills. Have the land ready
and transplant every few days as fast
as sufficient number of plants ap.
pear to justify attention. If the
ground is dry, pour pint of water
into each hill around the plant, using
care to cover all moistened soil with
dry, to prevent baking.
BY this means fall crop of pota-
toes may be grown with as much
certainty as crop of sweet potatoes.
The only difficulty about growing a
fall crop rests in getting the potatoes
to sprout in time to make before
frost. This may be done generally
by mulching heavily just after rain
to retain the natural moisture, but
with nothing like the certainty of the
plan here proposed. The potatoes
planted for the second crop should
not be cut as for the spring crop, on
account of the greater tendency to
rot in warm weather. The crop
planted as here directed, is Guilty ted
in the usual way, but need nc be
aug until needed for use, as they do
not become watery as the spriog crop
is if left In the ground.
AS they approach maturity, how
ever, and before severe frost occurs,
enough earth should be thrown upon
them to prevent freezing. They may,
however, be dug and stored for use
during winter if it IS preterreds We
have had abundant crops grown in,
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card to these fine pears which are
now growing SO much in favor ana
which will eventually become source
of great profit. South Florida Can
boast of her oranges and Middle
Florida OF her pears:
IA gentleman of this city has a
three. acre LeConte pear grove, set
ont last season, less than mile from
the corporate limits of Tallahassee,
for which he last week refused cash
offer of $500, or $153.333 per acre.
Don't they boomP :.
wrbe LeConte pear enterprise Is
not more than two years old in this
| community. Already fifty acres are
set out within two miles OF Tallahas
| see. and careful estimators state tna'
one hundred acres more will be p,uI'
out in LeConte pear groves this fall
zone of our LeConte pear growers
a few days ago measured pear OF q!
one of his young trees, and tound III
circumference TO be 81 inches on
way and 10 inches the other. "A
this pear is not yet fully matured
NAV grow to the size OF an ordlnar
watermelon.
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thin. pull one out unless the potatoes
are a bad stand. Cans patches when
the stand is poorly, Wll give like
yield, but it is net Rassible TO put
corn in cane, whese there is but an
ordinary stand without serious dams
age to the sugar4esep Wide skips
only, will admit it in sfety. All our
new farming folk will have to do,
if they doubt us, is togiye it a fair
trial on one half the cane patch.
Now there is one grand advantage to
the farmer in this earIg planting; if
no more-it gives him nice sound
corn to use by the mideiP Of June or
before, when he is glad q throw the
last of his old weevil eaten crop to
the hogs, if any is left ben- When
early patches are plant in January
outside of the ''standoger lot, peas
of any of the corn>feld varieties, may
be planted between, d % the hills,
which will often result il an early
and profitable crop. Nov in this
early corn planting q the potato
patches, there is proof beyond doubt
that corn OF the best mssured quality
can be successfully groN almost, or
entirely without any GULL Kation at all.
We have grown 1t t0 & maturity
and liberal yield, and Heyer turned
over a cIod in foot ofEn when the
ground was fresh and pBet foul with
grass and weeds. AS to putting a
plow in such patches, ISL Got dreamed
Of. And the hoe is usaEg 50 lightly
that the corn roots ara plbgef touched
nor the soil stirred to9the depth Of
an inch, And YET ths grows.
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appearances did not compare favora-
bly, with those grown here. These
prices are for large quantities in bulk.
AS to the relative value of plants
grown here, and those brought from
the Keys, there is difference OF
opinion. How far this difference is
the outgrowth OF interest, am un~
able to say. But this know, that
both my experience and interest
point in the direction of home grown
plants. And if to be planted in a
colder region than this, my prefers
ence for home grown plants would
be very decided.
JAS. H. WHITE.
Island Home, June %, 1882.
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sflsss sasiCs Ey y5sSzs 4lsis VSl1icce: III many
places the roadsidAA Pre cultivated
up to the wagon lrsck The stock
industry is not ceM Mtyed in few, but
all own more on Fes OF horses, cat
tie. sheep and hd Us, At least enough
for their own con Sunption, and per-
hans a few to selk1 The pasture is
shifted every yeaSs thus tertilizing a
field for corn-ln TACT, coW-Lehhlng
a certain amount iii land. The pas
ture fences are cob bstructed OF WIRE,
and are easily MOVED. For Eater,
wells with wind. mills are a very
common and pra'pticable source OF
| supply. The resulictlon OF stock at
first met with much opposition but
tine legislature palssed local option
hills. allowing eaGh town TO decide
ltbe matter. In 4, Is State each cuun'
ty is divided intdhowns.e Iown al"
ter town adopte t the no fence slue
of the question, until now 1t is the
generally accepted fact that 1t is 1af
preferable to allow growing crops to
run at large than stock. It the chlucn
bug could only be fenced In, grea'
source of alarm and loss would oe
, removed. Since living here my Vle"'
in regard to fencing IN Florida nave
changed. l perceive now tnaC
patch of sweet potatoes, felo o
corn, garden OF vegetables, grow
OF orange trees, never will 90 IN.
:; nelghbor any harm-are much 10 o
' preferred to few head OF cattle, o
a herd of voracious useless hogs.
X hope the next Legislature Will pas
/. a general law allowing each coun'
|, to decide the question tor ltseli' HNe N
}. the true friendsot Florida, laying asia
IS all other issues, see to 1T that ON
N men i'll favor OF such a law are hoii
re mated for the Legislature this iai
1t certainly is Democratic TO alio
each community to decide the que
tion ior itself. BY the way MI ~
itor, when l get a patent for Ian
from the United States, Is there
clause in it allowing any ones stol
eI to teed on it without my PERMISSION
ia EL1HU PRIDEAUX.
Is. Is. Leon, Mi'an., Js4ly6, 1882.
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without selection, and the test OF
reeling applied; the quantity and
quality will be the conditions tor
premiums. Application for compe-
tition must be endorsed and the
amount of this years cocoons raised
by the culturist, testified to by some
responsible person. Stock must be
sent not later than December l, 1882.
Anyone with sufficient land to
grow few mulberry trees can add
the rearing of silk worms to the
daily care, and find it a source Of
pleasure and profit. Tie work oc-
cupies but a small portion of the
year, and a child can attend to the
daily gathering of leaves and feeding
the worms. If a supply of mulberry
leaves cannot be had, an Usage or
ange hedge will answer every pur-
pose. The Usage orange leaf is adj
mirable food for the silk worms, from
which they spin splendid silk.
A very interesting event OF ma
tional interest, connected with this
subject of silk culture, has just oc>
Cured in Philadelphia. The Wo'
mems Silk Culture Association select.
ed silk from twenty>six families living
in fourteen states had it spun on a
Yankee" reel, made into web OF
$4,000 threads of silk, and woven as
brocade on a jacquard loom, re-
quiring $500 needles to form the
original and striking design. This is
the first brocade ever woven in
America of American silk; and prob
ably the heaviest in texture Of any
lhroeade evNn woven. It ~
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Pineapple Plants and Planting
.itor Of 7ne Forida .AgrtculturtN:

Editor of The Florida AgTicoltuTist:
An article with this title published
last year In the FLORIDA AGRTcUL-
TURF ST and afterwards repnblished
in the Dispatch, has brought me so
mauy inquiries, that now resume
the subject and in this public way
state few of its prominent facts.
Pine,apples are propagated by
means of offshoots. Suckers come
up from near the ground. Slips sur
round the base Of the fruit. Crowns
grow upon the top of the fruit.
Crownletts are little secondary
crowns surrounding the crown. The
value Of each depends upon its size,
rather than its kind. The largest
Will fruit soonest, and is therefore
the most valuable. Slips are most
numerous and therefore the princi"
pal dependence for large paintings.
When the fruit is ripe, the slips are
from three to five inches in length,
and are lett on the stocks to grow.
They will grow about two inches
per month while the warm weather
lasts. If set early and well cared
tor, by winter they will be as large
as if they remained upon the stock
where they grew and have the adj
vantage of being established and
rooted for the early spring.
On the Florida Keys and Bahama
Islands the fruit ripens about q
month earlier than here. This year
tbs about month earlier here than
usual Last year our first shipment
was June 25lbnthis year May 18th.
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What Others Think Of Us.

Editor of The Florida Agricult"rtSt:
I see an X on my AGRIoULTURIsT;
inclosed please find So to renew my
subscription.
have taken your paper but six
months and it has given me more IN
formation in the mode of southern ag
rlculture than one halt dozen OF the So
called Southern Agricultural papers
which are nothing but rehash from
Northern papers, OF which we nave
an abundant surplus. 4: " "
Merriam, johnson Co., h0S.
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On the Cultivation Of CNyn and
other CrODS.


Editor of The Florida A9riculturist:
We have heard and read many
things about the cultivation of the
soil and have been more or less in"
terested in much Of it-not SO much
interested as disgusted. We have
both witnessed and experienced the
cultivation OF the soil for more than
forty years, and are not very learned in
agriculture or horticulture. Still,
from common sense and experience,
we have acquainted ourselves with
some important facts which we think
may be beneficial to those of our
"turn of mind" who are yet young,
or not too old to learn. especially
those who do not know as yet how
to cultivate South FLORIDA soil. We
have been a constant cultivat tor in
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Wesley Female Institute, Staunton,
Wave take pleasure in directing at
tention to the advertisement of this pop
ular seminary. 1t is located in one of
the healthiest climates in the world,
where every breeze contributes to the
physical vigor Of its pupils. 1t presents
attractions unsurpassed if not un-
eoualled in the Union. Its buildings
are home-like and elegant, grounds at
tractive, scenery grand. This school is
attended by 139 boarding pupils from Is
different States. 1t has made great re-
ductions in the cost of education.
Among the lowest terms in the Union.
Board, Washing, Fuel, Lights, English,
Latin. French, German, Instrumental
Music-S238, for entire Scholastic year,
See advertisement. For Catalogue adt
dress Rev. VIM. A. Harris, President.
Staunton, Virginia.
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subscribers.
important Notice.

The red X opposite this on your
paper denotes that your subscription
has expired and that you are ex'
pected to remit if you wish the paper
continued for this paper is conducted
strictly on the cash system.
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Mr.. Hull has greenhouse full of rare
and choice plants, both fruit and flower
ing, native and foreign, from which
stock he is now selling.
A sad affair happened little to
the south of us few days ago, near
Judge Prevatt's; Mrs. Monroe COM
mtted suicide by jumping into lake.
The weather is very warm, but we are
having plentiful showers and the health
of our vicinity is good.
On Friday evening a very pleasant
social gathering of friends and neigh
bors took place at '.Gembleau," Lake
Leila, the residence of Mr.. Hull. The
occasion was the rather rare event OF
the blooming of ''Cereus Grandifora''
or Night Blooming Cereus. The noble
| flower began to unfold its snowy petals
about S o'clock opening gradually until
between IL and II o'clock, when it was
fully expanded. 1t was a fine specimen
and of tue following dimensions From
the stalk to the tip of flower, II inches;
diameter of bell on cup 10 inches; depth
of cup 81 inches. A table was placep
| against the tree upon which the plant
climbs. on which we stood, lantern in
hand, to examine this rare specimen,
whose chastity and immaculate beauty
shrink from the light of day. While
awaiting the full expansion Of the flow, ',
er, all sat upon the grass ''a Ia Indian"
in front of the tree, and whiled away
the hours pleasantly in social chat and
singing Of old familiar melodies
and Lome songs, accompanied by Mr..
Browns fine guitar, The moon was at
full and lent its silvery radiance to the
fairy.like scene, soft ana gentle breeze
, was blowing from the lake. and every
! thing seemed to combine to make the
: night truly enjoyable. At late hour
the pleasant little party bid each other
!, goodnight, feeling the good influence
o and benefit of such social exchange.
It a. A. II. J.
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Value of Pea Vines as a RenOva'
tor of the Soil.

N. o, Price Current.
To more fully illustrate the value
OF pea vines as renovator of the soil,
we will give the testimony OF Prof;
Liebig, the celebrated agricultural
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The de Barry Line.

This fine line of steamers running
on the St. Johns river, is .being re,
Oruited with other vessels for the fall
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-12-14
Oyerdid the Thing.
PIOWn1dn.

A man from Park City, recently
came into the Cliff House, consider
ably excited, and inquired if a certain
person was stopping there. He ex-
blamed that the man had done him
Dirt" and he was anxious to lick him.
Finding that the man had just left the
house, he rushed out after him, and
finding him on Tribune Avenue,
walked up and announced that he had
come all the way from Park City to
lick him, and accordingly he started
in. In few minutes he had black.
ened.both the mans eyes, walked all
over him, and reduced him to a gen,
eral wreck. When he had finished
the Job, he stood the man up against
the wall of Walkers bank, and re-
marked:
Now, you contemplate, lop-eared
scoundrel, want you to understand
that consider you the most infamous
whelp 1 ever saw. You dirty little
cur, l." ,
Hold on!" said the man who had
been licked, taking of his coat. L
think that after thrashing man you
have no right to abuse him. l can
stand a licking, but l won't stand
abuse from any living man, no mat
ter how much he weighs. Now, I'm
going to lick YOU" ,
He was as good as his word, and
started in with the most business-hke
air Imaginable and knocked his late
victor into the gutter. Every time
he got up he knocked him down with:
Blast, me 1 can stand abuse.
When he got through with the Park
City man the crowd thought be was
pile of rags and mud.
Now, look here my friend, SAID
the last victor; next time you hex a
man, let well enough alone. Don't
abuse him. You handled yourself
well enough while you were licking
me, but you overdid the abuse. y
Salt Lake Tribune.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-12-14

held upon the ranches, and next spnng
be repienished by the natural increase
and by purchase from the Texas
drive and next August the shipping
season for all mature animals VIII
again open. Stock growing on the
ranch system is the best use to when
the most of the vast Rocky mountain
country can be put. The agricultural
possibilities are limited to the lands
susceptible to irrigation, which form
but a small percentage OF the whole,
In order to give stability and perman'
ence to the cattle interests, a change
in our government land system is
urgently needed, by which ranchmen
can become the owners or lessees OF
such amount of land not adapted to
agriculture as they require for their
business. At present they are simply
squatters, occupying the government
domain free of rent, and giving no
compensation in any form other than
the amount of taxes which the State
or Territory collects upon theirh'rds'
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-12-14
Thread Industry.

The thread industry of the United
States, which dates from 1855, shows
wonderful growth. The consumption
of thread of the best grades in the Unit
ed States is $1,000 spools per annum.
American manufactures turn out daily
$4,000 dozen spools containing 200 yards
each, which is far from meeting the de
mand, and European manufactures find
a large market here. The manufacture
of spools has become a large industry,
for besides supplying domestic thread
makers with spools which consume g.
600 to 1900 cords Of wood per annum,
the foreign thread-makers purchase
American spools, and in many cases
wind their thread here, by which they
escape paying higher duty. Ameri-
can thread-mAkers. no Sever, claim to
be able to undersell them.
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decades, if the matter is taken up by
its public-spirited citizens in an ener-
getic. American way. The farming
Of domesticated ostriches in this colo
nv is comparatively speaking a new
thing. They first attracted attention
between 1868 and 1870, during the
great financial depression existing in
this country at that time, andit is now
universally conceded that to them
alone the general and wonderful pros
perity of this country at present is due
It having mainly assisted to double
the export and import trade OF
Cape Colony within seven years, and
owing to the tremendously increasing
demand of the trade generally, 1t IS
but natural to suppose will increase
in the same ratio.
Only lately l have known a Dutch
farmer in this district to obtain 10
guineas ($5OW per pound for his best
blood feathers. .,. ... =. 81.
Should this lead to any inquiry ON
the subject, and l sincerely trust it
will, l shall at all times be most
happy to furnish any and all infor-
nation gratis to all who would address
me direct, as l should wish to see the
profits of an industry so productive OF
wealth to thepeople llypartaken
If by INV own countrymen, ..'
FREDERIC w. EssEsDEN.