The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1882-05-03

! Northern meadow and pasture grass :
es Good lawns may be made with
the Bermuda and Para, which spread
not unlike the poas (blue grass).
The crab and crowfoot, ANIMALS,
make hay not inferior to the North
ern grasses, when cut at the proper
season, and well cured. Good crops
of these may be made by blowing the
land narrowing and rolling in June;
the seed will be IN the soil, and the
crop cut in September, with sythe or
mower
WELLS,
in the pine woods of this region,
strike water at from ten to eighty
feet in the dryest seasons. The water
thus found is bright, and free from
all minerals, as lime and magnesia
and of the annual temperature of the
climate, 73 degrees Fereinheit. 1t
does not become stale by standing in
a vessel exposed to- the currents of
air, in this, resembles water kept in
the ungIazed waters vessels in New
Mexico. Water in contact with the
ground does not stagnate, in this res
sembling the water pool on the
plains in Kansas, and Wesv, but diff
ters in being clear and bright.
CLAYs
of South Florida are marls, or finely
comminuted sands, near kaolin, and
generally are not tenacious enough
to be moulded and burned into
bricks.
for building purposes are scarce but
an excellent, if not more than sub
stltute; for either stone or brick is
prpa;iaa ~ iSaRa sias.s ;sshi:s e 6.
number oi-small spfIhg syss On omanl
farms at the North. 0nlow fiat landl
like unto the ordinary "fiat woods
Of Florida-much like the "bottom
lands" along rivers at the North, a
least in some respeots-well water
is obtained at depth OF FIVE to fit
teen feet, but in many cases it is no
desirable for house use, and in such
situations, cisterns are preferable. Ii
Orange county, on the high rolling
lands, the depth at which one CAL
"strike" water, is like "'Lo,' the
poor Indian" said OF his pale>faced
brother, "mighty uncertain" 1t ran
ges all the way from fifteen to eighty
feet. know of one well of the lat,
} ter depth, where water was obtained
in soft lime stone with evidences O.
bone remains, and was not very de
sirable in quality. Also another
where for large part of the eighty
feet, the we'll is cut through soft lime
stones with shells in it. The water
was struck in the pure sand jnst be
meath the stone, and seemed to be or
the same level with lake less thar
half mile distant, as the water ir
the we'll follows the rise or tall OF the
lake closely. This water is GA No
II, and though l am told that water
in wells over thirty feet deep is quite
warm, this, is nice and cool. Still nc
well water here, and but one spring
| know of, is as cool as the well OF
spring water at the North but I do
not find that I mss the "cool draught
from the north side" Of my Kansas
well, halt so much as ! had expected
to. A friend some ten miles east OF
Tampa, Florida, where the land was
supposed to be but fifty feet above
ocean level, dug over seventy feet,
most of the distance through soft
limestone rock, to get six inches of
water in sulphur lime rock, which he
could not use. In this part of Orr
ange countY,my more:accurate knowl.
edge, extending over about twenty
to thirty square miles, 1 only know
Of three wells. We nearly all use
from our beautiful little clearwater
lakes, which are always "soit". The
coffee colored water is hard. We
regularly provide days supply of
drinking water the evening before,
and expose it to the Delightfully."- cool
night air. In the morning it is set
in some shady place, and despite the
rise of, the thermometer too near the
nineties these fair April days, it tastes
nice and cool until near the close oi
! the day. Within my knowledge our