The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1885-01-07
FLORIDIANA.

single grape vine in Levy county
yielded this season 900 pounds of fruit.
We ate SEINE strawberries from Miss
James garden this week. Strawberries
for dessert on the 10th of December
What do our Northern friends think of
that ?-EmpOria Gazette.
Mr.. O. j. billiard has shipped this sea-
son nine hundred and seventy.fve boxes
of oranges and has over one hundred
boxes still on hand. All this from a
three acre grove.-Emporid Gazette.
Another large number of Italin immi-
grants arrived by the Mallory steamship
San AntoRid from New York. They all 90
to South Florida to help build the rail-
roads in the that section.-FerHaadiR
Mirror.
A gentleman wholives just outside the
city limits plucked and ate ripe grapes
from his vineyard on Christmas day,
and several of our citizens enjoyed the
luxury of strawberries fresh from the
vine on the same day.-Palatka Ne,os.
Mr.. Malcolm Baker is now making ex-
tensive preparations for vegetables on
the hammock land under his care. Sew
eral thousand cabbage and tomato plants
are already set One cabbage now meas
ures, unheaded, twelve feet in circum-
ference Orange City Times.
Bookkeeping may be made to contrib
ute largely to the support of a family
while an orange grove is coming into
bearing. Francis Trueblood came to
Archer one year ago with twenty stands.
Five were lost, as result, perhaps, of
delay in transit. He now has forty-two
stands, and has taken so far $50 pounds
OF honey. One stand alone yielding POO
pounds. -GdineSCiUe Adrocdte.
Mr.. Simon Snider, newcomer, desir-
Gus OF seeing an alligator, hired little
negro boy to row him in boat to some
place on Frog Creek where one might,
likely, be seen. The boy, spying huge
lizard, and we'll knowing that it was not
good gator day anyhow, pointed it out
to his passenger as the monster he was
in search OF and drew his pay-$2.50 So
does the black diamond cut the white
Gut Coast Progress.
The gross receipts from the Jackson
vile postotfice for the fiscal wear ending
June 30, 1854, according to the late re-
port of the Postotfice Department, were
$33, l57.29; clerks hire was 50, 2S9.37;
rents, light and fuel, 81 $50; incidentals,
Ylo4.S5; net revenue from the postoflic
for the year, $20,0S772. The net reve-
nue. for the office in this city was nearly
half as much as the net revenue of all
the Presidential postoffice in the State
(of which there are fourteen) combined.
Semi Tropical.
Upon the keys south OF us there grows
a veritable Upas tree, called the Man
chineel. Any one taking shelter under
it during rain or sleeping underit when
the dew falls is sure to be poisoned. One
who experienced it says cit swells a fell
low all up and makes him feel as if he
had been skinned and peppered" Saw
ing some of the wood to make cane for
the Exposition Mr.. Hall suffered from
its poisonous effects so severely that he
refuses to handle it again at any price,
HdEfar Journal.
There is no man in the State better
qualified to fill responsible Office than
Col. John ID. Broome of this place. And
there is no one who deserves more credit
and reward for the success of the Demo-
cracy i'll our county than he. During the
past campaign Col. BroOme labored hon
estly for the success of the Democratic
party, without single thought of receiv-
ing any reward for his efforts Since
Democracy has had control of our State
government, Nolusia county has never
been honored with a state office, and as
turn about is fair play, we think that
now is the time she should be rewarded
for her years of toll for Democracy. Col
Broome is an able lawyer and has been
identified with the State for many wears,
and is eminently qualified to fill the.
position to which we nominate him
Judge OF Circuit Court of this Judicial
Circuit.-Echo.