The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1884-07-09
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FLoRIpIANA.

Daytona is to have an election foi
town officers on the 23d.
There is some hitch at Daytona about
the locating of the SEVILLE and Halifax
railroad which may end in stopping the
road altogether.
Capt NJ. 0. Burnham, of Canaveral,
was in town last Saturday. The Cap
tain expects to ship q large number OF
his famous Egyptian Queen pine-apples
this summer.
There are said to be fifty varieties OF
mangoes. The market has been sup
piled for some time with several varie-
ties deliciously ripe and going as low as
seventy cents per hundred.-Key Vest
Democrat.
Our melon growers, so far, have got
good prices for their shipments, and they
feel encouraged. "NIelon farmers" are
rather numerous in the county this year,
and if they turn out well we can expect
large increase in the acreage planted
next year.-Mdridnnd Times.
Pine-apples are reported as worth but
fifty cents dozen in New York, at which
price the producer or dealer cannot af-
ford to ship them. Quite a lot were sold
recently at auction at one and half
cents each. They were packed and sent
to Tampa and probably little made on
the shipment,-Key Vest Democrat.
Florida is the greatest country III the
world for strong old men. On Tuesday
a gentleman, siXty-siX years of age, walk
ed from New Smyrna to Enterprise, over
thirty miles and didn't get in much be-
hind the mail hack. Nearly half the
way he had to walk through water, some
of it upto his pits.-Enterprise Her.
aid.
Mr.. j. d. Hartsfield brought large
bundle of oats to our office Saturday, as
specimen of what poor land would do.
They are decidedly the finest we have
seen. He says he has a good field of
them that will average him over 20 bush
els per acre, and from the sample shown
us, we would say that the yield will be
probably greater than he claims.-Mori-
anna Times.
There are about three hundred negroes
working on the Jacksonville Tampa and
Kew West r. Il. miles west of here and
raising a young hell of their own out
there. Shooting and cutting scrapes are
OF almost daily occurrence. A pack of
gamblers hang about the camp fleeing
the laborers out of their wages. A reli-
able white man or two connected with
the work should be deputised and this
sort of thing suppressed.-Ente,prise
Herald.
1t is understood that the contract for
the building of the drawbridge across
the st. Johns, at Buffalo Bluff, on the
route of Jacksonville, Tampa & Key West
Railroad, has been awarded to nj. S. Car
ter < Co., OF ST. Louis. The draw will
be two hundred and thirty feet in length,
and eight hundred feet of piling viii be
required. The contract of the entire gra-
ding between Sanford and Palatka has
been let, and the work is being actively
pushed.-TrOpicGl Paradise.
To show how easily money has been
made on real estate recently in the vi
entity of Tampa, we will give one little
instance; About one year ago young
gentleman purchased a small tract of
land Just north of town for conSidera-
tons aggregating about $500. The land
was considered by many almost value
less, but the purchaser thought other
wise, and the result has evinced his wis
dom. He has already sold off large por-
ton of the original tract in building lots
at a rate that will bring him about 81 900
for the entire tract, and the remaining
portion is increasing i'll value daily
Tampa Tribune.
The Haltdr Journal thus describes a
place belonging to Mr.. Bacon as follows:
There are here 700 orange, lemon and
lime trees including in all 30 varieties.
Amongst the oranges besides the favor
lite Florida varieties are the Nutmeg
Tangerine, King Orange, Satsuma, Dan
cy's Tangerine, Maltese Oval, st. Angus
tine Seedless, Hicks Seville, Harris Tar
ditfe, Maltese Blood, Atwood's Sugar
Sweet and many others. Mr.. Bacon has
also experimental successfully with
many other fruits. He has the variegated
lemon, lemon of Genoa, variegated bitter
sweet, Otaheite and Lemonia Trifoliata
for dwarf stock, Kumquot, Persian lime
Japan plum, persimmon, and ounce, Lee
Conte pear, Jujube, Cherokee plum,
Honey and Peen-to peaches, almond, fig,
banana, English walnut, pomegranate,
or 10 varieties of grapes, Catley's
guava and other guavas, apricot, pine
apple, Early Harvest and Red Astrachan
apple Cooking well but not old enough
to bear), and of course several varieties
OF mulberry. Among the latter he has
four year old Downing everbearer,
loaded with fine fruit, the spread of
whose branches is now So feet