The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1884-12-24
1913
FLoRIDIANA.

St.Augustine, has been completed.
The Baker County Star is new paper
started at Darbyville in Baker County.
Many of oul exchanges have it that
hber can be made from the pulp of the
banana. Don't they mean the stalk?
The San -1ntOniO Herald is news
paper started at San Antonio, fernando
County, Florida. q. Nj. Jordan, editor.
Green corn in December is treat that
a Northerner does not enjoy till he trans
fers himself to Florida and not then in all
parts of Florida. To Mr.. +. l.. Evans we
are indebted for green corn brought from
up the river. He has our thanks for it.
Fort Myers Press.
There are about 900 acres of land in
Manatee county planted in various kinds
OF early vegetables, an industry that has
proven very profitable there and one
that will reach much larger proportions
as soon as some other sections are open
ed up to the outside world.-TropicaL
Paradise
The Disston Land Company intend to
make an exhibit of fruits, plants, ETC., at
the New Orleans Exposition. Col. Forbes
agent for the company in this city says
the Florida Herald, has instructed his
sub-agents in different portions of the
Srate to proceed in collecting and arrang-
ing articles for shipping.
A contractor on Henck's road reports
that the grading between Longwood and
Lake Jesup will be finished this week,
and then the hands will be put to work
between Longwood and Apopka. As
soon as the grading is finished the iron
will be laid from Jesup to Longwood and
the work pushed rapidly to completion
-Ipopko Citizen.
Mr.. Andrew Shelley, of the popular
Carleton House, has sent box of or
anges to the New Orleans Exposition, /
that will attract considerable attention |
because of their remarkable size. Fifty |
four oranges very near filled the box,
and layer of very small oranges was all |
that was necessary to bring them to a
level with the sides. The oranges were
gathered from one tree in Mr.. Shelley's
grove across the river.-Pdlatka Ners.
Miss Addie Minis and Julia Parker
have placed on our table very peculiar
flower, very like the cactus, but rather of
fungus growth, which we are not bot
anist enough to classify 1t is creamy
white in color, and the stiff bloom stalk
comes right from the ground, and is
about three inches high, and the flowers
turn downward: it has no leaves, but
sort of husk on the stalk the same as the
flower. Who can tell us what it is?-
Barton Informant.
Mr.. Ozias Burlington has sent III, for
transportation to the New Orleans Ex-
position, a box of oranges which contains !;
but 80 to the box. A sample of the fruit
was sent to the Spring, growing curious
ly in clusters of three, which, in point of
size and flavor, are equal, if not superior
fhlnU - hlV |
We are pleased to see that one or two of
our citizens, at least, are anxious that
Clay county shall have something in the
Exposition.-Spring.
We fully indorse the action of Mayor
Pearce in ordering the police to arrest
every tramp found in the corporation and
put them to work on the street gang. Be-
fore this order was made, our city was
infested with an army of tramps, most
OF them stout, hearty men, who had
adopted tramping as a profession and
kept our female population in constant
dread. These fellows were popping in
unceremoniously at all hours peremptor-
lily demanding something to eat--Idlld-
hasSee Land of FIogers.
A farmer living on the Ocklockonee
river informs us that nearly all the hogs |
in his neighborhood were killed out dur |
ing the summer by cholera. Now the |
cattle are dying with disease that |
proves fatal in few hours after attack
ing. He says that his neighbors call it |
COW cholera, but that it is unlike any
cholera he ever saw. The cattle, he says,
are in good order, and will lie down at
night apparently in perfect health and
are found dead the next morning, some
times three or four in bunch.-Laled of
F0WcrS.
Never have we seen so many people
wandering about without employment.
The fact of 1.-THE big fire here induced them
to come, thinking that they could find
immediate employment. When they get
here the fact stares them in the face that
builders have not procured material to
carry on the work, so they must either
wait or go somewhere else. Speaking of
this we do not mean tramps who impose
on communities, but good solid young
men whose personal appearance indi-
Gates better times. Our citizens should
discriminate between these two classes,
and help the worthy industrious men, if
they can possibly do it.-P0ldtk Herald.
The following recipe for making grape
fruit wine is sent us by Mrs. W. Odiorne,
of Lakeside Grove, in response to a sug-
gestion in last weeks Reporter. 1t is of
the proper proportions to fill twenty
five gallon cask: 13 gallons Of grape fruit
juice, IS lbs. brown sugar, 10 gallons of
water. The outside rind of the fruit to
be taken off, the fruit then cut in quar-
tiers and the juice pressed out by hand
If the fruit is pressed too hard it is apt to
give a bitter taste from the inside skin
Ferment through bent glass tube, the
lower end to be kept in glass of water
, set on a barrel. When fermentation stops
n bung tight. 1t takes about 115 of the
N fruit to make 13 gallons of juice About