Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-06-24
Facts from the Farms.

From the present outlook the fruit crop
in Laurens county will be failure.
Griffin boasts of a hen which commenced
laying last Christmas, and has not missed
one day up to date.
George w. Newsom, of Washington
county, made on Az acres of land 81
bushels of good wheat.
A cabbage leaf from the garden of Mrs.
A. L. Blackshear, of Laurence, meas
ured twenty-five inches across.
Mrs. F. F. Glenn, of Dallas, has a one
fourth Jersey COW, just years old, that
has given 1872 gallons Of milk and 33
pounds of butter.
CT. Dugg has exhibited at Sandersville
a cotton boil which was pulled from a
stalk one foot and half high, with 80
squares on it. Mr.. Dugg says this is an
average stalk on the acre OF land.
A turnip taken from DIR. G.. L.. Mason's
garden, in Washington county, day or
two ago, weighed eight pounds and meas
ured five feet across the top. The doctor
has a twenty-five acre field Of cotton
which will average two feet high. He
has other fields very near as good.
Col. W. Fl. Tibbs, of Dalton, has a mag
niticent farm. and his crops are in the
finest condition. his bottoms being we'll
ditched. He has about 100 acres in cot
ton, the balance in wheat, corn, oats, ETC.,
all having done well. The Tibbs farm Is
perhaps the finest in that section of the
country.
FLORIDA.
Waldo's stock of nursery trees is i'm
mense this year.
BIackberries sell in . Tallahassee two
quarts for nickel.
Caterpillars are reported in some sec
tons of jackson county.
Strawberries are still plentiful in some
gardens in Alachua county.
In Alachua county some orange trees
are blooming for second crop.
Grapes are Going finely In Alachua
county, and are nearly ready for ship
ment.
At Middleburg is growing an okra stalk
13 feet high, with eleven branches bearing
623 pods Of Okra.
Capt. A. r. Goodwin. OF Jackson county,
has sweet potatoes Of this years crop that
are as large as a mans arm.
Sheep shearing IL about over, and in
spite OF all the bad luck santa Rosa
county will ship large amount Of wool.
From 1900 TO 10000 crates Of vegeta-
bles have been shipped this season from
what is called the "Orange Bend" settle
mcuI IN OlANkt tDuhAgs
W. b. Joyner. Of Leon county, did not
have his oats harvested In the usual way,
but had them pulled up and the roots
chopped of with an AK.
r. NJ. HAYES, living about five miles
south OF Ocala, has shipped this season
ten car loads OF melons. He II the larg-
est melon grower in Marion county.
W. d. Vickers and family Of eight per-
sons. from Johnson county, Tex, have
moved into Polk county, where they pro-
pose going into the sheep raising bust
ness.
W. L. Michael, o Longwood, says he
planted sweet potatoes last year June %.
he dug them Sept. 26, and many OF them
weighed 10 pounds each. From 100 hills
be dug 40 bushels.
Several orange growers in Putnam
and Orange counties are experimenting
with the summer orange, and think IL
will not be long before crops can be
gathered in July as well as February.
Notwithstanding the heavy rains Of the
past month. the groves, gardens and
fields about Waldo are generally free from
standing water. Who're proper outlets
nave been made for the surface drainage
no material damage has been done.
Ocala Banner: Mr.. Elchelberger's
striped orange, mention Of which has
been made IN these columns before, ana
Thought TO be q freak OF nature, ie thought
30 no longer, ana IA now believed TO be
distinct variety. as the tree has borne the
same orange successfully for three years.
The stripes resemble the stripes on lemon
grass, and give the orange a beautiful
look.