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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1883-01-10
Experimental Garden and Farm.

!. Editor ofthe Florida Aqriculturtst:
The article on Experimental Farm
and Garden in Florida" in the DIS
patch of Nov. 13, by G. J. Kenwor-
thy, M. D., should be read by every
one interested in the prosperity oi
Florida and her citizens; and I trust
that our Legislature will give the
matter their attention, and that an.
other year will not pass before the
State will have an Agricultural Col
lege. with an experimental farm and
garden connected with it; State
Board OF Agriculture, and an organ
ization in each and every county in
our State that will, with the State
Board and Agricultural College, etc..
work in unison for the successful and
more general diffusion of agricultural
and horticultural as well as pomo-
logical knowledge. 1t is matter
of the greatest Importance to all, and
I hope that it will be established at
an early day.
have had several offers of plants,
trees, fruits, seeds, ETC., from foreign
countries, from friends in the navy,
Through such means and our minis
ters and consuls, large number of
very valuable contributions could be
had. One of our consul generals,
wrote me the past summer that he
would be glad to assist in sending
anything that would be an advantage
to US, and that would add to our ag.
ricultural productions and resources.
l have at this time friends in France,
Japan, Persia, and in China, who
would contribute gladly, and have
neglected to get seeds or plants from
them, owing 10 my inability to incur
the necessary expense in transporta.
. ton aud the uncertainty Of being able
to cultivate them. "A short time
sinceI received a package of seeds
from Japan, some valuable plants
from China, all by mail, and have
lost them all for want of proper
place to cultivate them and knowl-
edge in regard to their culture. All
such l would be glad to send to the
experimental gardens, if such were
in operation. Have we not enough
practical men in our next Legisla>
Jure to start this, and at once: If
not, let us see to it that in future
such and no other get our votes.
This is OF far more Importance to
Florida and her citizens than the
question which is often asked, is he
Republican or Democrat? Give us
a business mans party and let US
have more practical legislation. Gov.
Bloxham has done much for the
State by his sale of lands TO Disston.
Now let him give us an Agricultural
College, an Experimental Garden,
and State Board of Agriculture,
and it will give the State such an i'm
petus and growth that it will soon
place her in the front ranks among
States, agriculturally. A.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1883-01-10
One Way OF Doing Things.

| Orlando Reporter.
The following suggestive contribu.
tion is handed to us by one OF our
business men who sees the tendency
of existing evils.
One way to promote prosperity in
comparatively new town that bids
fair to be the pride of the nation,
that boasts of its healthfulness, enter.
prise, and salubrious climate, of the
high order and intelligence OF it's
population, of its being the center of
attraction, and truly the Saratoga of
the State.
Fl IRsT. Omit everything in the form
of park, that would be attractive
and pleasant for strangers and they
might tarry longer than they other.
wise would.
SECOND. Leave all the old lum-
ber, paper, and other trash exposed
to view, as that lends a charm that
distance makes more beautiful.
THIRD. Don't build any cottages
to rent, as that might induce people
to hire them who would otherwise go
somewhere else to rent or buy.
FOURTH. If you do have a build
ing to let, especially in the center of
the town proper, let it to parties who
are able to make the greatest nuis-
ance of it, thereby compelling those
OF more gentle nature to go block
out of their way to avoid it, other
wise good class OF business might
be done which would be more apt to
enhance the value of the property.
These few briet points should be care
fully thought over by the owners of
valuable property and future pros.
poets taken into consideration.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1883-01-10
FertiIlzer For strawberries.


Truck Farming IN che Sontb is
growing in Importance each year.
Strawberries are an important crop,
yielding sometimes as high as $500
to 500 per acre. A farmer in Alach-
ua county, Ga, who has realized as
high as $500 per acre from his straw
berries, says the best fertilizer for
this crop is cotton-seed meal and
ground bone applied at the rate of
200 to 800 pounds per acre. He sets
his plants out the last of October or
first of November, and gains the best
results on soil that is an. admixture
of clay and sand. After ten or twelve
years experience he prefers for his
section the Newman Seeding straw
berry.
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there is not much difference, except
in that which comes by cultivation,
and the plant food that is used in
these varieties"
by their fruits ye shall know
them," is a very old rule and 1t is by
this rule that the people have come
to regard highly the fruit known
among o. hx the name at the head
of this Communication. Where it
sprang from or what its reputation
was in its own country we care not.
]. FL. FOSTER.
zangeri,ae, Orange county, Fla.
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Relair Premium Lemon.
Editor Of The Florida Agriculturtst:

Editor Of The Florida Agriculturist;
Referring to my advertisement of
small trees of the above fruit, l am
asked "What is it, what are its char
ac.erlstics, what its history" l
know very little about it; but what
/ do know is so favorable that, was I
starting lemon grove, I would plant
almost exclusively of this variety. I
have never seen the Eureka and &C.
noa lemons, therefore cannot com.
pare the Belair with them. But that
it is a first class fruit / know. 1t
ships we'll, has few seeds, good acid,
and the rind is so devoid of bite:
that one may eat it as they would
the most pleasant, sweet orange rlnd.
/ have had the cut fruit stand expos
ed to the air Tor twenty~four hours;
I have left the cut fruit in water
some hours; aneighbor has subjected
it to cooking, and in no instance has
any bitter been evolved. 1t is a
good, vigorous grower, healthy
| tree, and when not loaded too Teayy
with spring crop maturing from
November to JaDuary--it viii put
| on some bloom in the Summer and
ripen such fruits the next spring,
when the spring crop are as large as
wa,nuts.
AS to it's history l can only say
this: In June, 1879. few buds of a
choice lemon were given by the Belair
grove manager to a neighbor of
mine. He got one bud to take on a
stock which had been set out two
years previously. The next year it
matured some fifteen or twenty fruits
and from its marked everbearing
character the owner supposed that
he had the Villa Franco. The fol-
lowing year (1881) it matured about
$50 fruits, still showing the ever
bearing character. This year it has
been so loaded with its crop, estima-
ted from counting portions of the
tree TO be $50 to 500, and toward
fall with the scale, that no summer
blooms have been produced. In this
gentleman's lemon grove are Some
twenty or more younger trees, near>
ly all with fruit. -
Some specimens OF the fruit were
placed roughly in a box with oranges
about year ago and shipped by
common freight to the North. The
oranges arrived in damaged condi-
ton, but the lemons were all sound.
The party who received them was so
convinced of their worth as com.
mercial lemon, that he Immediately
gave orders tor the planting of sew
en- acre grove of them.
About a year and half ago the
Belair manager informed my neigh
Dor that he bad given him buds of
the Belair Premium lemon at the
time in question, end so it has bes
come known in this locality as "Bel-
air Premium" On writing to Gen.
Sanford's manager for fuller particu-
lars as to this variety, | received a
reply from which l quote: "The
name 'Belalr Premium gave TO a
a lemon about II months ago, be-
cause the State Fair had given us
first premium on it, and also Orange
county several times. may have
said, and believe | did to one man
not far from you, when describing
his tree, 1T is probably Belair Pre-
MUM 1t may be one of FIVE or six
other varieties. We consider that
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1883-01-10
Poultry Raising a Profitable EN-
plOyment for Women.

| RIOy AAAOAO lOA w VAOn'
Editor of The Florida Agricultssrist:
AS have many friends and rela-
tives who are readers of your valua-
BILE paper, l wish to give them my
experience in poultry raising.
Left in destitute circumstances,
with three fatherless children to sup
port, was driven to action. pur>
chased 25 common hens and 2 Plym-
9th Rock roosters. My hens were
Young and healthy and good layers,
because well fed.
About March let my brother came
to visit me, and made me an incuba-
tor that held 24O eggs The mate
rial cost Sc, and it took him two days
to make it. Between March 1st and
july 1st l Matched FIVE incubators of
chicks, in all, 968 chicks. l sold
them when about three months old,
at the hotels in the villages near by.
The first 16 dozen brought me 500,
or 1925 per dozen. The next 16
dozen brought $50, or SIS per dozen.
The next 16 dozen brought 2, and
/ the ssasuai~ins "a. i sold
brought $81. Total ESS55. / paid
Cor feed $47.2 %, leaving FOR my labor
$2S5.75, and this without any capital
to start with. Ny brother, living in
.Pennsylvania, made an incubator at-
ter going home. and cleared on his
chicks $497. He did not raise as
many as did, but he shipped his TO
New York and got higher prices. /
was too far from the railroad to ship
conveniently.
AN incubator is real easy to man.
age, and takes but little time, one
hour day being sufficient. You can
hatch all the fertile eggs, and hatch
them early, before you can get hens
to set. l have now five incubators.
and / expect to hatch 5000 chicks,
aud l know l can clear SO cents on
each chick. / only have small
house and lot, but you need but lit-
tie room when you sell them SO
young,
This is work that any woman,
though in feeble health, can do, in
fact, only good exercise, and it is
very profitable. I know there are
thousands of poor people who would
turn their attention to poultry rais-
ing if they only knew how much mo
ney they could make at it. Any one
can get plain directions for making
an incubator like mine, by sending
stamps to prepay postage to the G.
S. Incubator Company, Newark, N.
J. I hope that many of your read
ers who are out OF employment and
have leisure time, will try the poul-
try raising and report their success.
MRS. ANNIE S. G.
Snasburg, NJ Y.
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SunfOwers.
zitor of The Florida Agriculturtst:

Editor Of The Florida AgrIcuLtuTtst:
If any readers OF the AGRI cULTU-
R1sT want few Sunfiower Seeds,
and will send me three cent stamp
TO pay postage, l will send them a
package. The sunfowal will grow
anywhere, and is an excellent plant
to absorb bad air and to prevent
malarial diseases. 1t should, there's
fore, be planted about pig-peps,
barn yards and hen-roosts, and serve
a double purpose. A single plant
will often have as high as SO blooms.
FRANK MURPHY,
p. 0. Box 6.
Donnelsvizle, Clark CO., Ohio.
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Bic Turkeys.

Geo. Yan Derveer in Poultry Review and Journal
1 wish, through the Reoieao and
Journal, to inform your correspon>
dent, J. r. Baker, who inquiries of
your readers the heaviest weights
known to them in Bronze Turkey,
Pekin Ducks, &C., that as a breeder
of the former. 1 would say that l can
boast of having the largest pair of
Bronze Turkeys ewes seen together,
their weight together being 72 lbs ;
gobbler, AZ; hen, 80 lbs. Have had
gobblers to weigh A lbs, and have
three different hens to weigh 80 lbs.
each, which, I believe, is the largest
hen ever produced in the world.
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The SatSunla Orange.

Editor Of The Florida AQricuttuTSst:
The Satsuma, although the most
provokingly slow grower, is almost
sure to bear fruit the second year
from the bud. Quite number of
those l transplanted last winter
blossomed and ma:ured their fruit
this season, one ripening eleven speci-
mems. They were small, but a
very bright, handsome color and
prime quality. This variety will un'
doub:edly come to be used largely
as an ornamental tree, as from its
low growth and weeping habit, no
tree or shrub can be more beautiful,
when covered with its deep yellow
fruit. From what l have seen OF it.
l. am quite confident it would &c
safely through the winter as tal
North as Charleston, if budded neal
the ground, SO the stock could be
covered with earth.
A. +. STYLES.
GJo,,rZole GrO9,e. Jacksonville. FJQ
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1883-01-10

Some years ago, an editor at the
South, wishing to congratulate Gem
eral Pillow after his return from Mex
leo as battle SCARED veteran, was
made by the types to characterize
him as 'sbattle scared veteran" The
indignant general, rushing into the
editorial sanctum, demanded an ex>
PLANTATION, which was given, and
correction promised in the next days
paper. Jud dge OF the editors feelings
on the morrow, when, as if to heap
horrors upon horrors head, he found
the general styled, in the revised
paragraph, 'that bottle SCARED vert-
eran.n- YOUTHS Companion.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1883-01-10

The Sabbath should be used tor
the threetold purpose OF rest, worship,
and doing good.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1883-01-10

The foundation of every govern"
ment is the family. The best and most
prosperous country is that which has
the greatest numberiof happy,fresides.
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"A. Il. Oily LES
Glendale Grove, Jacksonville, bSo'
Milford chronicle., 1883-01-12
A Stage Coach Story.

A good story of the old Arkansas
stage line from Fayetteville to Alma,
now supplanted by the railroad, is told
by correspondent of the New Orleans
IiD'es-DeD1Ocrat His fellow passengers
on a certain night were a mild-eyed col
lege professor and a plain, blunt man in
a checkered shirt and trousers TO match
At one point in the road the professors
hat blew off and over the precipice. but
caught on bush ten feet below. The
professor was terribly distressed. and
offered S25 for IFS recovery. When the
driver, who let himself down bv one of
his reins, had returned the hat and re.
cejved his reward, the professor ex-
planned that bills amounting to 81 GOO
We're sewed under the lining. The stage
rumbled on and everything seemed favor
able for quick trip, when suddenly
road agent stepped out from behind a .
tree. He semched the passengers. but
found so little to reward him for his
trouble that he got mad and swore he
would take their clothes and send them
on naked to the next station. His re-
volver was an unanswerable argument.
and they were about to strip. when the
man in the checkered shirt called out
Look in the lining of that fellows hat
and you will find some money" The
poor professors 81 900 was soon in the
pocket of the robber, who forthwith de-
'amped. The stage went on, but such
was the rage of the driver and other
passengers at his poltroonery that he of
he checkered shirt had to walk. The
lext day he appeared in the hotel at
Alma, took the professor aside. and made !
lim accept $1,000, saying that he knew .
le appeared like dirty scamp, but the ,
act was he had $4,000 under false !
oles in bis boots, and must inevitably I
AVE lost it if he had not devised plan /
escape being stripped. He was a -.
ich broker and had donned his rough /
ostume to avoid trouble in the noun
aims. a
Milford chronicle., 1883-01-12

Has met success at home never accorded 10 any
other proprietary medicine. 1t has successfully
comoated the strongest competition and by its su.
perlor merit today commands the largest sale and
the greatest confidence wherever it has been intro
duced.
Inc remarkable results in disease so universal and
with such variety Of characteristics as catarrh
prove how efectually Hoods sarsaparilla, acting
through the blood, reach every part of the human
system.
am under great obligations to you for the bene
mt have received by taking only three bottles of
your valuable Sarsaparila. Having been a sufferer
from catarrh for six or eight years. and having tried
nearly all the wonderful cures sure cures inhalers
etc' and spending nearly hundred dollars without
neneht, accidentally tried Hoods sarsaparilla; the
elscharge from my nose was greatly increased, the
nrst bottle took, then it gradually became lees,
and IN taking less than three bottles ind myself
SO greatly improved that write to let you know the
iacts' think one or two bottles more will make
: cure that I would gladly have given hundred
1ioliars for Let the sufferers Of New England know
mat hoods Sarsaparilla viii cure catarrh,m
NV, A. ABUFW.
Milford chronicle., 1883-01-12
A PhysicIan,s Story.

Among the papers left behind him by
a German physician who died few
weeks ago is one containing notes of GER
tain conclusions he had arrived at dur
ing professional experience of more
than forty years In one of these notes
he expresses an opinion that at least a
third of the illnesses of the patients who
sought his advice were purely imaginary
He found itnot only against his own in
terest, but also against that Of the self
alleged sufferers, to destroy the illusion
by informing them that there was really
no cause for anxiety. I'll health was to
them matter of almost vital import
ance. To destroy the pleasing belief
that they possessed this blessing was an
absolute cruelty. In the few instances
in which he broke TO them the terrible
truth that they were quite well he found
that the result was genuine illness. For
the patients, al interest in life departed
with their favorite occupation Of nursing |
'aselves, and their health became Sc
%acted by nervous depression.
1t. as a rule, weakly per-
8ug ones. With
the best
.,o
Milford chronicle., 1883-01-12
About American Cattle Diseases.

The Board of medical and scientific
experts of the Agricultural Department,
who have been engaged in investigating
epidemic diseases among domesticated
animals of the United States, are pre-
pairing their report to Commissioner
Loring. They have devoted special at
tention to epidemic diseases among
cattle. They have been successful in
developing important facts relative to the
disease peculiar to the cattle of the
Southern Atlantic and Gulf States known
as splenic or Spanish fever, but more
commonly known as Texas cattle fever.
The Board finds that the propagation of
the disease occurs only in the summer
and early autumn and hardly ever occurs
after a heavy frost. The last case re-
ported was on November 30 No cases
are reported as existing at the present
time.
The report Of the Treasury Cattle
Commission was sent to the House by
the Secretary of the Treasury. In dis
cussing the conditions requisite to secure
the admission of American cattle to
Great Britain, the report concludes that
lit is vain to hope that England will
remove the restrictions imposed SO long
as we fail TO show that the last vestige
of infection has been wiped out from our
land; !" and further, "that nothing short
of the absolute and undeniable extinc-
tion of this disease in the United States |
will reopen the British market to our
live cattle and save us those millions |
that we are now every year prodigally
end we might almost say insanely
throwing away"
The report also discusses the import
aDce Of the extinction of lung plague in
America to the home cattle industry and
estimates the present yearly losses from
ung plague in the United States at from
y, 900, 900 to 33,OOO,OOO, and the pros
'ective loss from lung plague at $50
100. The capital represented by the
resent yearly losses at 5 per cent would
e from S40,000,0OO to $50, 600, 900. and
nat represented by prospective yearly !
'sses at the same rate at 81, ,OOO 900.
o prevent this loss, the Commission ~
itimates the sum required TO stamp out
le lung plague at $1,000, 900. and
commends the requisite legislation. !, II
The governing principle in all these a
is that the Federal "
ovenment shall forbid the movement v
store cattle out of any infected State,
erritory or district, except after II
such as is now imposed on
e cattle imported from infected foreign "
iuntries.
The report recommends that the Sec &c
tary of the Treasury be empowered to
der the instant destruction Of MI cat 81
or other aniii1ds When in quarantine @
We evidence of dangerous contagious
'ease The report is signed by James 10 10
w, E. F. Thayer and j. H. Sanders.
Milford chronicle., 1883-01-12
5000. 90 REWARDi

VIII be paid for the detection and con-
vietion.of any person selling or dealing
in any bogus, counterfeit or imitation
HOP BTTrEBs, especially Bitters or
preparations with the word Hop or
HoPs in their name, or connected there
with, that is intended to mislead and
cheat the public, or for any preparation
put in any form pretending to be the
same as HOP BIrrERs. The genuine
have clusters of GREEN HoPs notice
tlis) printed on the white label, and arc
the puest and best medicine on earth,
for Kidney, Liver and Ner-
yous Diseases. Beware Of all others,
and of all pretended formulas or recipes
Of HOP BITTEBs published in papers, or
for sale, as they are frauds and swim
Hes. Whoever deals in any but the
genuine viii be prosecuted.
HoP BmrERs NFG. Co.,
Rochester, N. Y.
Milford chronicle., 1883-01-12
DIeLens and tne aHeraId,, Renorter.


George Alfred Townsend writes to the
Cincinnati Enquirer: 1 will tell a story
that Mr.. Osgood, the Boston publisher,
gave me during the week. He said when
Mr.. Dickens wanted to come to read in
America, few years before his death, he
was very sensitive about the reception he
would have after his lampooning the
country in 1912. So he sent his agent,
DR.. Dolby, ahead, who called on Fields
& Osgood and asked them to take the
agent to the newspaper offices in Boston
and New York. Among other places he
was carried to the Office of James G.
Bennett, the founder of the Herald.
The old man listened to the questions
DR., Dolby put. When he was asked if
Dickens's comments on America long ago
would injure his reception, Bennett said;
''No; the American people are great
enough to overlook the errors or impu-
dence of young man who meant to sell
his wares about us in England" After
Dolby got through, however, old Ben
nett remarked. "Who is this Dickens
anyway? He is nothing but reporter.
1 have got four OF five men in my office
who are better reporters than Dickens.
The old man was perfectly serious about
it, too.