The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1885-10-01
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per sent you with this the following paragraph:
@The Lancaster Co. (Pa) farmers have be-
como mliionaires by raising tobacco worth irnm
$3.50 a $3.50 per acre instead Of wheat at 40
per acre. Knowledge isswealth. Many Of the
farms in Lancaster and Dauphan counties are
models of neatncss and fertility - Wilkes Barre
Telephone.
To which the writer can well testify. The
principal part of the farmers are Germans a
saving, industrious law abiding people. The
country is a limestone foundation. dotted here
and there with an outcrop Of the rock, where fire.
qaeuiiy are located kilns for burning stone for
agricultural and building purposes The soil is
OF yellow sandy clay loan, similar to the lands
of Leon county, only about two grades more
sandy or rather OF less glutinous nature. The
land is well farmed and everything done with
that order Of perfection which shows forethought
combined with judgment and an adapted system
resulting in a corresponding thrift which is we'll
belokcned in the appearance of their farms and
improvements Their barns are large, well built,
painted white with blinds painted green, gener-
ally having beneath them bank stables. The
houses as a rule are small but mostly tidy with
surroundings comparing favorably with other
parts of the farm. As rule their barns are well
filled, to which their horses and cattle testify.
Ii is German characteristic in improving their
farms to build their barn first, knowing that the
saving thereby will soon build the house.
1, is this thrift, or looking after Details that
have made these people wealthy. 1t is that
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so abundant and valuable, consequently, proper
| tiona;ely added to their riches
1t may appear presumptous to affirm that the
| same system of doing things adopted here would
| more than double the result but such is the
| case. Yrt Now DISTINGUISHED or overcautious are
the farmers here. They have become so accus-
| toned to that cotton routine that they think
| they must do it IN make the " ends meet" yet
| knowing by past experience that it will not,
but hoping for an exceptional year. 1t appears
to me like mortgaging the future for the present
and the only way out by hoping to be able so io
| do until death.
A few days ago at the solicitation Of a couple
OF friends TO aid them in selecting location,
took trip through Gadsden county, among the
Old tobacco growers. How different is the case
there. All hailed with delight the prospect o
| the old industry being re-cstabshed. They
talked with pleasure OF the old times when To-
| bacco used To bring them Il competency anC
told how much better it then used to pay thar
| cotton, and felt pleased that under the new pro
cess 80 much of what used to he the tedious Ia
Dor is now dispensed with. Very many of them
said "no more cotton for me- and would wa
ger that next year will see quite change il
! crop products tor Gadsdcn county.
| | must not neglect to mention our call on ouI
friend and old townsman, Capt. Mosclcy. W.
found him al the Asylum, at his post oil duty
He received us cordially, although having been
broken OF rest by care and anxiety over Mrs
Moaclcy, who we before were not aware Wa.
very sick We found him pleasantly situated
in comfortable quarters, although with large
| family 10 look after, rs he has one hundred ant
seventy patients and some OF them worse thai
children. But they have ia their Captain al
able and sympathetic officer well adapted to the
position In show ing us Ii rough the diflercn
Departments many of The patients gathered abOu
him having grievance to relate which in re-
turn received kindly reply that sent them of
smiling. There were many pleasing instance:
with many important changes Mr.. Moseley has
made that might note; suffice it to say the
management is excellent and people having
friends there may be pleased that they arc under
~ kind and efficient treatment, and the State
may well be proud Of the Institution and its Of
fcers as 1t compares very favoraiiy with that o
older established ones in the Union, with moro
capital at their command.
Mr. Moscley has in DE- Foreman an able assis
taht whom we found to DC very good company
and who takes quite an interest in Florida's fu
turc. He treated us To a bottle of ScuppernOne
wine which VIC sampled and found equal to goot
Bordeaux. Taking it all in all We had very
pleasant visit and it is with pleasure that
think of it and acknowledge their kindness.
Very Respectfully, c. HoUGHTON.
TALLAHASSEE, Sept. II, 1885.