The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-04-04
FLORIDA.
orange. and rh.ir CuIture. COTTON. Etc.

Oranges and Their Culture, Cotton, Etc.
LoSGwooD, Fla, March 3i.-In e recent
issue Of your valuable paper. quite lengthy
article appeared written By Mr.. Carr, whom
il seems is sojourning al Orlando In justice
to Florida and the orange business, 1 wish
to Tefute some OF Mir. C.'s statements. To
begin with, he tells among other things of
the cost of making grove and how many
oranges may be IS a rule 90 got from ten
acre grove. He says that there are usually
one hundred trees to the acre, aud estimates
the crop per tree as six hundred oranges.
The one hundred tree to the acre grove is
thing OF the past as nearly every one who
Owls grove or has had one set out in the
last five years puts from forty to sixty trses
to the acre, and as for a grove in good
healthy condition Gas ii ought to be from the
money he spends on IT in bis estimate) pro-
ducing only six hundred oranges per tree is
all folly.
4 tree, under ordinary circumstances,
when eight to nine years old, will bear any
where from 900 TO 60O0; consequently on a
ten.Tcre grove of 600 trees, allowing ], 200 "a
safe estimste) 10 the tree, you will have a
nice little sum OF no, 900 oranges. Now, this
may seem fesrfullY exaggerated, but it is
not. To cite case of wonderful production,
the speer grove, near Sanford, which con-
tains something over 500 trees, prOduced
something over 1000 COO oranges. This is an
old grove, but it has been keeping this up for
some time.
When the cost OF taking care OF one acre
OF orange grove Is 500 IL means that the
party who takes care Of IL is to furnish the
fertilizer and to plow, hoe and harrow IL
The time for fancy prices for groves is passed.
but still they are held away up.
SO much Tor the production. Then Mr.. @.
puts the cost and receipts together aud finds
himself tfguratiyoly) losing money,
exceeded the income OF the grove
So would any one having fine bearing ten
acre grove and only getting 10000 oranges
of IL, aud paying 500 per acre 20 have IL
taken care OF and furnishing the fertilizer
also. But, take for instance, a crop OF even
10000 rom ten acre grove and 4 will
make ct least eco boxes OF fruit. Put these
Of - 90 per box "a low estimatel and the
amount IL 81 600 The cost OF taking care OF
the grove at 500 per acre would DO 500, and
600 boxes az tiiteen cents per box would be
tuo, making total OF $500 then the wtap.
pefs would cost about 80, making ia all tbO5
leaving profit Of fnl1. Now this is away
down on the production ola producing bear.
ing grove of ten aefes
will let the Grange question rest hers
ahd speak Of one or two other little mislakau
NJ. q makes lie epote OF Che cotton raised
IA Florida, Now there ~ M hns long.tiber
cotton raised In lhih Bate "a there IA IN any of
the other cotton producing States, cie0ufHs
the yield iH not 80 enormous az II Ia "a some
OF the others hui ~ III considered very Hne
cotton indeed The nnehl 81 vegelt hlas are
raised here, aud whoa the hotels Gan get
them they do Noe, mean hotels, rot CON,
mon hHah foundfifs Take tie Altamonte
for instance. They have the beet OF tfesh
vegetables aud, Ia laot genuine tfush cows
mukl not from the Tin nov, "a W. sail the
condensed mlik, bat from the hlmen pure
/ article,
have high pine land garden that have
had, aud have liHa vegetables IL, We had
elegant straw berries "a February, Ia regard
/ 10 beef have not mueh % say. except that
/ once ia . while 1oa do CONS aof0ai good
/ piece OF Florida beef,
II you would cars O. have lengthy article
| on he range question | will take pleasure
la writing ono up for your readers, lias'
! peeuuly you're, g. ID. w.