The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1883-01-17
FLORIDIANA.
Biographical Divisions of Florida,

W, u. u MARION.
WEST FLORIDA Is composed of the cour
ties of Escambia, Santa Rosa, Washington
Walton. Holmes, Jackson and Calhoun.
MIDDLE FLoRIDA--Is composed of the
counties of Gadsden, Liberty; Franklin
Leon, Wakulla, Jefferson, Madison, Taylor
Lafayette and Hamilton.
SOUTH FLORIDA-Is composed of the
counties OF Hernando, Sumter. Orange
Volnsia, Brevard, Polk, Hillsborough, Man
aztec Monroe and Dade
Deer are plenty in Sumter county.
A new Methodist church is being
built at Lake George.
The Middle Florida Fair opens at
Tallahassee on the 10th inst.
1t is said that nearly 500Northern.
ers are arriving daily at Jacksonville.
A company is soon to be formed
to build railroad from Lake City
to Jasper.
The Braidentown Progress typos
INDUCED in eating watermelons on
Christmas day.
The Orange Growers Gazette says
the lemon trees in that locality were
not injured by the late trosts.
The Lake City Reporter speaks Of
lot Of corn having recently been
sold there at 20 cents per bushel.
The Tampa Guardian speaks OF
sweet potato weighing fifty pounds,
which was presented to the editor.
The SumtervilIe Times has been
the recipient of nine and ten pound
turnips, with tops tiTe feet in length.
Mrs. J. W. Epperson, OF Bronson,
had ripe strawberries picked from
her garden, for her Christmas dinner.
The St. Augustine Weekly has a
grapevine growing III its Office which
contains several lunches OF green
grapes.
During the month Of December,
twenty thousand crates of oranges
passed over the Florida Southern
Railroad.
The thermometer has been report-
ed as marking 22e at Tallahassee,
and yet no injury resulted to the or
ange trees.
The editor of the Suwannee I3ulIe-
tin was last week the recipient Of
lae s.as Ct sgs oEangss cQQps st chickens
and a---town lot.
M. d. Smith, Of Madison, has res
fused $50 each for six Florida COWS.
Rube Marsh, of VoIusia county, has
several that $50 would not buy.
Sorgam seed readily brings 65
cents per bushel. A bUshel weighs
60 pounds. So says the Orange
Growers Gazette.
Capt J. L. Peterson presented to
the editor of a Pensacola paper sew
eral fine apples gathered from the
tree on the 10th OF December.
Twenty>six business houses have
been erected at Palatka within the
past eighteen months and thirteen at
DeLand within the last nine months
"A correspondent of the South Flor
ida Journal is having excellent sue
cess in raising Irish potatoes on high
pine land. He uses fertilizer, Of
course.
Mr.. w. Mendenhall, of Sumter
county, offers a building for free
school and proposes to pay a good
teacher to conduct the same. A
noble spirit, truly
The sugar and syrup crop of Colum
bia county this year is the largest
ever known. And the four cotton gin
ming establishments there have been
overstocked with work TO keep the
article ready for shipment.
Parties from Thomas county, Ga.
have purchased land near Archer
aud will go into sheep culture on &
heavy scale. Volusia county con
tains several thousand acres thai
should now be devoted to stock cul
ture.
Some one has knocked the bottom
out of Hamburg Lake, which covered
twenty acres in Lake City, and it il
going dry. Tie Reporter edito
says so, and ne may have been dr.!
when he said it.
DIR. J. M. Jackson showed tn,
Bronson Enterprise editor speci
men of $40 oranges taken from ire,
seven years old from The SEED. TIL
average weight of the oranges wa
oae pound.
Mr.. Quinby, OF Aurantia, on Indial
River, is raising an excellent articl,
OF broom corn. Several crops may
be made from one planting of seeC
!, nv cutting off the cane and allowing