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The Florida agriculturist., 1885-05-06

cheap here as any place of similar adj
vantages, and any one mentioned in
this article will take pleasure in answer
ing any question put to them, and in
fact invite correspondence with any of
youf northern readers who are seeking
a plaee Tor health and mildness OF cli-
Hsate.
We hope we are not selfish in writing
these few lines, but desire it shall be for
ltlae good of us all. More anon,
NERITNS
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| would be most SURPRISING. In that short
| period have no doubt the improvement
would be fully onA hundred per cent.
But this is just Whit is not done. The
cattle are light, and the dressed beeves
weigh from 250 to 350pounds, and do not
go beyond that if they are grown to the
age of four, five or six years. The fact
that such small animals are produced is
proof conclusive that they lack nutritious
forage. They would produce more and
better beef in less time, in half the time
in fact, if they had more feed and that
of good nourishing quality. / have no
means of knowing with any accuracy
how many acres of the present range are
required to rear one OF these light beeves
but | should guess that it is not less than
forty acres. It may be less and it may
be more, and it still leaves room for
many thousand head of cattle. Tie
breeding has been altogether hap-haz-
ard, and their care comparatively moth
ing. Once a year they are driven into
the cowpens and the branding iron is
applied to all the calves and unbranded
animals. The rest OF the year they run
and take their chances. During the dry
season if they hover too much about the
wet spots they crop the herbage off very
C4OoC, u1tNl VllC WCdtNC1 Ol1Co SCtN ely IJOOI
and sometimes they perish in large NUM-
bers. This is very apt to be the case
during the months when grass grows
very slowly, and the range after being
burned over is in no condition to keep
up this growth of succulent cattle food.
When the growing season comes on
again and water is plentiful everywhere
the cattle thrive and get in their best
condition for selling off and slaughter
ing.
The breeding has been worse from this
singular fact, that the Cubans have pre-
ferred the bull beef to that of steers, and
the proper care has not been exercised
to select the best sires for propagation of
the herds. The consequence naturally
is deterioration of the stock. And, as /
stated in the first portion Of the letter,
the greatest Improvement is possible in
this very stock, by a changed system Of
treatment, and that change is surely
destined to come. The coarse and innu-
tritious grasses Of the range will have to
give way in large degree to better for
age, and intelligent herding and pasture
fields take the place of the present pro-
miscuous system, or lack Of system, in
the care of cattle. But l must pursue
this theme more fully hereafter. IS. C.
Clereland, IN Fort Myers Press
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theca business. No other industry was
pursued in anv 81 ystematic manner The
consequence has been that a few are
comparatively weE 6ff, the MANY poor
and dependent. When cattle brought a
good price monelfNas plentiful and ali
Jared tolerablv welE andall were pipched
when the cattle tr2sle was poor. This is
largely the case 8t the present time,
Cuba, which has 8or many wears been
the best market I the cattle from the
Florida ranges, haS been too poor to buv
for the past two sears. and the result
has been hard tii.lls IN Florida. Wheth-
er this state of Thing viii change soon. /
cannot say. Perhaps the Cuban market
will open again tie present wear. and
perhaps not. II ifis the'cattle trade will
continue to be atbressed, though the
constantly incfeafng immigration to
Florida makes a zOlstantly increasing
demand for Florilk beef, and the dav is
not far distant whta all the beef raised
~, ~, :, s,<,;l yfs III <:S1ss ,...1l l. ! y
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~ yHfi 1fsl kaS@aeS1, the Poi .ltS EittiS
ling the ordinary blackness 81 natives.
The whiteness was not a result of leprosy.
The skin Of the albinos is much more
sensitive to the suns rays than that OF
other natives, or even of Europeans.
The contrast between white and dark
relatives having a-striking resemblance
of features is said to be most remark
able.
A peculiarly in workers in German
silver spoons is the color Of the hair,
which in time becomes dyed a pale
green that requires years to change.
The particles of metal-which is chiefly
copper--also produce a disease similar
to consumption.
Disease germs are probably much less
affected by extreme cold than might be
expected. Experiments have been re-
ported to the Glasgow Philosophical So
ciety in which temperature Of 120 de-
grees below zero was insufficient to stop
processes OF putrefaction.
Ten years ago, according to Sir Fred
erick Abel, the loss of petroleum spirit
from leakage and evaporation was as
much as eighteen per cent. but it has
now been reduced to eight per cent. in
mayy storehouses, and in Germany the
leakage is said to be less than one per
cent.
A portable electric lamp, carrying cleo
tricity to last twelve hours, has been
produced.
CCMoUs EXPULSION OF \ PARASITE. -
The so-called shorse-hair snake" is
known to be parasite of the cricket.
1t becomes active only under water, and
a recent interesting statement by DR.. III.
@. McCook makes it appear that the
crickets themselves are aware Of this
popularity, and seek to take advantage
of it. A lady was troubled by frequently
finding the hair-snakes in her water
pals, and watched to learn how they
came there. She soon saw large cricket
mount upon the edge of one OF the pals,
bring the tip of the abdomen Just be-
meath the water, and, with a few violent
throes, expel a black mass, which re-
solved itself into one of the worms. The
cricket seemed much exhausted by the
operation.
A PLANT TRAyELER.--A plant allied to
the lilies-of-the-valley the ConUallari1
p0lgg0ndtum, is a remarkable traveller.
Every year knot forms upon its root,
and these knots drag the plant about an
inch annually from its original position !;
so that in period Of twenty years the
plant will have travelled about twenty
inches from it's first location.
One Of DIR. Livingston's early achieve
ments was the discovery of Lake Ngami,
in South Africa, which was then favor
ite resort of elephants and other large
animals raconf oxrlorar of fbn ca mo
region reports the lake dried up, leaving
an arid spot devoid of both game and
vegetation.
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Bermuda is supposed by some geolo-
gists to be slo5-ly sinking at the present
time, but an inses tigation by Prof. VIM.
N. Rice shows Tit no subsistence has
taken place since 1000-the time of the
celebrated shipwreck there Of Sir George
Somers, which event Shakespeare is
supposed to have had in mind when he
wrote strhe Tempest
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/ sl...h \ salicate, Al M IN. ~

bunch OF dellcateA OtM 4Ored ribbons.
We are told thhe iouble flowers, in
their huge massinA ii color, have more
dignity That maybe. but the dignity
is gained at the secrifce of grace and
feeling-more precious qualities. How
our beautiful Cherokee rose would lose
in all its fine characteristics, if doubled
Tupl' by the ats Of cultivation. And the
Hibiscus, hat is such a perfect type Of
regal srendor, would give up all claim
to its proud position, were its petals
multiplied. The old Greeks understood
Immature and aim OF beauty, and when
fey wished to embody it in a material
y4orm they did it with great nicely. A
fair boy, beautiful and good, so good
that the gods could not give him one
virtue more, so beautiful that the graces
had no more charms to bestow, was
shown his image in the crystal pool, and
10! it was a lily, simple, pure and white.
In cultivating a greater love and t,iste
for simplicity in our flowers, we shall be
able to judge better when nature should
be improved by multiplying petals with
out end. M. M. L.
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Importation of Oranges and Lemons.

j. II. Bostwick, United States Inspec-
tor OF Customs, In his annual report of
the importation of the green fruit, gives
the following figures in regard to oranges
and lemons, which will be of interest to
our fruit growers:
The importation of Mediterranean fruit
at the port of New York during the year
1854 consisted of cargoes and parts of
cargoes OF 260 English steamers and %
cargoes by foreign sailing vessels, and
comprised 932, ,S11 boxes and cases of or
anges, and 1,316,S63 boxes of lemons.
On comparison, of the above with the
imports of 1883, the result shows an in
crease of 130 steamers and decrease of
one sailing vessel.
There was decrease in the number of
boxes and cases of oranges of l15, ,667,
and decrease of 81, 700, 100 oranges, and
an increase OF 357, I'll boxes of lemons,
and of lemons 10Y 1881 800.
The total number of oranges imported
was 228, ,654 $3.50, OF which IS, ,745, ,572 per-
ished on the voyage, an average loss of
3711a per cent. The total number of lem
ons imported was 263, 1872 900, of which
Is, ,436,0S2 perished on the voyage, an
average loss of IL per cent.
The importation of grapes comprised
of,oUU barrels, on which there was an
average loss of 20 per cent. Compared
with the imports of 1883, there was de-
crease of sc, 400 barrels.
The importation of oranges from the
countries and places above mentioned,
consisted of one full cargo and parts of
cargoes by 6 sailing vessels, and 96, ,469
barrels, and II ,647 crates, boxes and
cases OF oranges by 1S7 steamers. OF the
above, 26,325 barrels and 173 boxes,
comprising 1888, ,22O oranges, were from
Kingston, Jamaica; from Jamaica 23,-
400 barrels, and 1,16S crates and boxes,
comprising S,176, $40 oranges from Port
Maria 1883 barrels and 5,194 crates of
oranges, comprising 5,704 ,260 oranges;
from Havana S,232 barrels and 20 boxes
OF oranges, comprising 2, ,810,0S0 oranges.
from Milk River ,658 barrels, containing
Z, SOB, ,720 oranges; from Dominica. l.G7S
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Dr5SIacESOn has SOiu tcli aNAS2 I'll .
Todd. Of Milwaukee. lie mas pun @
cause, and is keeping batcn al ~ hn% 9
lorSSd by himself. Don't kho" ~"
Mrs y. will keep it up, :. o+
house on fpdegrif has pull' Ne's 49,
a. II. Hutss lake front. !. ho,sa on the
north end of thgso9n, 9, nem noc,n;es ,cG a pretty
location and in i2ak iake occupies Ia ane peh Fl the
prettiest places on the " iake lsi q as It has 9
commanding view OF theSDroad sheet O
water, from north to south, a1nd takes il
all the surroundings.
On the east shore we have MN Bate
sons large new house, which is Ner,
handsome and would do credit to much
larger settlement, and is a very valuable
improvement to our community
Mr.. Pollard has built very pretty
verandah in front of his house, and is
improving his place SO much that it is
the admiration of all passers-by. He
has a good garden, and is very success
full in that line, showing that Florida
sand can produce wonders, when care
fully handled and given the proper at
tention.
We must not omit our Sunday school,
as every one of your readers is more or
less interested in church and school priv
ileges in the community in which he ex-
poets to settle. Under the superintend
ence Of Mr.. G. r. Stockton, of DeLand,
our school has grown beyond our most
sanguine expectations. Sometimes the
school house is too small to hold the
people. Two weeks ago the Sunday
school had its annual picnic in Mr.. Pol
lard's S oak grove, and also enjoyed them
selves in rowing and fishing in the lake.
1t is the intention OF some of our Bap-
tist brethren to build chapel just east
OF the school house, and organize
church. Mr.. Pollard has kindly given
a building site, and friends are raising
the money for the building; so you see
we are advancing in religious point of
view. The members of the Sunday
school have been meeting once a week
and studying music under the direction
OF Prof. Hull, and are making rapid inn
provement in singing.
We must not forget to mention the
road that runs almost around the shore
of our lake, making good hard drive of
2ls miles. We regret to say here that
two parties refuse the right of way, and
this is why the road does not make the
complete circuit of our lake. Almost
every Sunday numbers of people from
DeLand and other localities drive around
this road and enjoy it; knowing this is
the best drive in the neighborhood.
Our lake is 111S miles long and "a mile
wide, very clear and deep, water healthy,
and contains plenty of fish. Nearly all
living on its shore have boats and en-
Joy themselves rowing and fishing in
this beautiful sheet of water.
Any one desirous of locating home
IN a good healthy place can find land as
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For the FLORIDA AGRIcuIrURIsr.
Plant Beauty.

1t is the very nature of flowers to lay
claim to beauty. We naturally associ-
ate our ideas of the beautiful with the
roses and lilies, and all the floral retinue
that seem to exist only to make more
lovely our charming landscapes. We,
in our ignorance, often rush into excess
in order to improve nature. We think
too little of the requirements of plant
beauty, and in our aggregation OF MON
strosities vainly imagine that we have
solved the problem OF flower garden.
Says a good writer: ssOur gardens are
turned into mere. theatrical displays for
a month or two. The very borders and
edging are made of glazed Stafordshire
tiles, when the paths are, so to speak,
veneered with black and white and red
patterns; when there is rage for noth-
ing but double blossoms when the good
old flowers which our ancestors loved,
and which our Elizabethan poets praised,
are denounced as vulgar, or cast aside
as unworthy place, because they are
so simple"
We can have no higher authority than
nature, and to depart too far from her
simple laws will degrade all our concep-
tions of real beauty in the propagation
of flowers, It's a pleasure to find now and
then "a man of profound culture, using
hisinfiuence for simplicity, such as DR..
Forbes, Watson, who says: "The fully
opened fewer OF the single peony is like.
the countenapce of living creature;
that of the double has a form so vague
and feature less that We mighteasily for
&I.
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Lake Winnemissett.
Editor FVoricla 1aricatltprist:

Editor Flor6da Agricultpgist:
Iknow you and your readers are al-
ways interested in anything that builds
up this community and its vicinity. and
SO think few words and facts will not
be out of place in regard to therecent
boom at Lake Winnemissett There are
a great many places in this growing
State that are brought to notice through
Your valuable paper. and many letter
has been written asking about localities
mentioned in your columns. 1t is not
my desire to draw,a highly-colored pic
ture, or to over-estimate the advantages
of our locality, but to tell the truth and
nothingsbnt the truth.
Our community is being settled by
good and reliable people, coming from
all points of the compass. Heretofore
our lake and surroundings have remained
unnoticed, but now is gradually coming
to the front and its growth is steady and
healthy, and one that will be lasting.
Property has advanced in value and lake
fronts are in good demand at fair prices
DR. Lyon, of New York, has purchased
the Shaw place, and will erect a
handsome house on the lake this fall or
winter. He also owns forty acres adj
Joining Dir. Pollard on the south, but he
and his wife are so charmed with our
lake that they want to live ON its shore,
and SO have made the purchase spoken
OF. His brother may come here soon
and build near him. The DIR. is phys
ician of large experience, and has made
many friends since coming amongst us.
Last week Mr.. Horace Waters, a piano
manufacturer Of New York, bought fif
teeh acres formerly owned by ". w.
French fifteen. acressof Prof. Hull, and
twenty acres from C I. Pollard Mr..
Waterssha asg ggeat faith in orange culture,
and thinks every one fhat hasa young
:gfoXe viii soon beeoDle lYealtlly,- We
hoHeihe VIII ipfpro q his lands at1pnce.
Mr.. a ,. Lyon his sold to AIr LEM
ces Of Minnesota, ten acres southeast Of
the school house and near tie saw min.
Mr. igop has erected a house. onsthe
shore Of bis beautiful little lakeH ast.
scntil hpG lake IL 3s az ( ll7i l9ii'
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rels and ,c25, ,SUu Grange rom san A an :
HI barrels and I0i crates Of or
hnges. containing .536 800 oranges from
Montego Bay 2,5T3 barrels and $50 crates
and boxes, containing 992 $50 oranges
from Anatto Bay 2,243 barrels and II
boxes OF oranges !; from Nassau ], ,646 bar
rels, containing 559, $40 oranges !; from
!, Trinidad ], ,ll0 barrels, containing b 400
oranges from Porto Rico 1897 barrels and
$50 boxes, comprising AGO, $50 oranges
Port Antonia l ,O06 barrels and 10 boxes.
containing 343 $40 oranges; from Colon,
Rio Janeiro, Barbados, st. Jago, Sam
ana Bay and Central America, 40S barrels
and 10 boxes, containing l96,520 or
anges from Baracoa, in bulk, "A, 400 or
anges; from Mayaguez, in bulk, 492, 800
oranges; and from Truxillo, in bulk,
$4,000 oranges; making grand total Of
30 ,439, 800 oranges, of which IL 1913 800
perlshed on the voyage, an average loss
of 33155 per cent.
A comparison Of the above with. the
imports OF 1882, shows an increase of
2,2S9, ,537 oranges; also a decrease in the
number OF sailing vessels, and an in
crease OF 43 steamers engaged in the trade.
The total number of oranges imported
to this country from the Mediterranean
ports was 22S, ,654 $50, of which 85, 745 ,572
perished en- route, leaving A., ,909, ,288 to
be placed on the market which would
be equal to about 1000, 900 boxes of or
anges as they are packed in Riverside.
The number of oranges imported from
other countries amounted to 81, ,439 900,
OF which IL ,SI3, 300 persisted in transit,
leaving 23,626,600 to be placed on the
market. This is equal to about l68, 1000
boxes OF, or 6S,OO0 boxes more than were
produced in Riverside the past season.
AS yet there are more oranges import
ed into the United States than are grown
in both Florida and California. and there
are four times as many gr0Wnin Florida
as in California.
Regarding the lemon crop statistics rel
ative to the crop in Florida and Califor-
MIA are not so reliable. The Importation
OF lemons is greater than the importa-
tion of oranges. From what we can
gather there are not to exceed so. 900
boxes OF lemons grown in the United
States, and if we should say marketable
lemons we doubt if there are 10000 boxes
grown. Thus we find that the lemon
market has not as yet been touched.
while the orange trade from foreign ports
has been pretty well attacked
California and Florida will in two wears
more practically drive foreign oranges
out Of the market, as the United States
produces a better orange than can be
imported.
1t is now pretty we'll demonstrated that
the United States can produce as good a
lemon as can be imported, and It Is
only a matter Of time when there will be
enough lemons grown in the United
States to supply the home demand at re-
munerative fgures.- Ricerside (Cal.)
Press and Horticulfurisf.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-12-28
SAN FRANCISCO MARKET.

SAN FRANCISCO, December Goth
The Produce Exchange was not in session to-
day, and no grain business was transacted in
VEGETABLES-Ver little inquiry this nom
ing. owing to the fact probably that buyers pur-
chased enough to carry them well over the
l2c z b.; Artichokes, 15c 2 dozen; Carrots
40@50c p ctl; Turnips 60@75e p ctl: Beets
60G75c q ctl; Parsnips, 81 y ctl Caulifower
coarse 2 dozen; Cabbage, 75c 2 cul; Garlic
SC o ID; Celery, SOC ? dozen: Green Peppers, 81
tG50c 2 box; dry Peppers, 10G121ac 2 10 ; dry
Okra, l6GlSc g ID; Marrowfat Squash, SS@10 {
ton.
FRUIT-Custom still runs well on Oranges
Never before has the market been so well sup.
piled at this season of The year with this
description, while the quality of the fruit is
generally admitted to be unusually fine
We quote as follows Lady Apples, 81 ESQ
30 Fbox; Oranges, California, s1@I 70 = box
for common and s. 25t64 4 box for Navel
do, Loretto and La Paz, S20a25 p NJ
Japanese Persimmons, 3od75c q box Ap
pies, 25@50c for common and 65cGSl
2 box for good to choice; Pears
69c@Sl for common, and 81 506D2 D p box fol
good to choice Mexican Lines. S497; do Cali.
fornia, coarse for small and s2@2 80 for large
boxes; Lemons, Sicily, S6G7; Bananas 81 50G,s :
bunch; Pineapples s. SOFAS q dozen; Gran.
berries, SS99 for Wisconsin, and sl0@12 p bbl
for Cape Cod.
BUTTER-The week closes on a rather stead
Ter market than has prevailed for some time
Many dealers are asking advanced rates and in
several cases buyers have paid trife above
our quotations for parcels that were specially
desirable. We quote Fancy, 95e choice,
S093211sc; good, 25@2739c; fair, 1s@2215c; mixed
lots. EXCITE 2 10 picked roll 23G25c q 10 foT
good to choice, and S0d.S215c 2 ID for fancy
frkin, 2212lc for choice; 1St92lc for fair to
good; Sd121Se for poor: Eastern, 10@14c ? b.
EGGS-The tone of the market is of soft char
acter, and the impression is general that a
lower range OF values will prevail early next
week. Sales above 40c are few in number and
light in quantity Quotable at 4O@42119c for Cal
iiornia, and 81 &c q dozen for Eastern.
POULTRY-The demand to-day was largely
nominal. We quote prices as follows
Live Turkeys = Gobblers, 109l2c; Hens, 10012c
z b; dressed. 12a15c: BOOSTERS, 81 for old
and Sd5 for young; Hens. 81 50G5: Broilers,
SiG4 30 as to size; Ducks, 81 50a6 . dozen
Geese. 81 25G1 80 , pair
GAME-Had receipts to-day been even moder-
ate it would hardly have been possible to main
tain the low prices that have ruled for the past
few days. Fortunately, supplies were light this
morning, and no marked break occurred in val
ues. Quail, 75c@S1: Hare 81 50Gl 75 Rab-
bits. 75e@s1 20; Mallards, s292 50: CanYasback,
s. 5064; Sprig, 81 25I 0;WidgeGn, SlGI D: Teal,
SlGl %; Brandt, sl@f 25: Small Ducks, 75de0c:
Grey Geese. s. 25a2 50; White Geese SlGI y .
dozen; snipe, common. S714@5Oc; do, English.
slGl % q dozen.
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Pacific Coast.

A man named Patterson died in Tehama
county recently from the CHAMBERS.
The British bark Arabellsa. ashore at Vic
torla' Is q total loss, and has been con-
demned.
The Nigilantes have held q meeting at
Truckee, 1t is supposed with view of ex-
pedltng the departure of the Chinese
Bernhard Fisher, an old resident and
rich farmer OF Paradise valley. New, killed
man named Shier at his ranch Saturday
Dennis Hanrihan, of Rutherford Mana
county, was drowned Saturday while cross
ing Coon creek. The body was recovered.
Two troops of cavalry and eight conapa
MES of infantry have been ordered from
San Francisco to Arizona. TO suppress the
Indian disorders.
D. w. Dilda, who killed Deputy Sheriff
Murphy near Prescott, A. T., recently. had
already murdered man named Jenkins in