Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-06-09

! during the summer months; therefore an
abundant crop this year is TO be regarded
as an inestimable blessing in sanitary
as we'll as in an economic respect.
FLORIDA.
Four Brooksville cabbages filled a bar
rel.
Jackson county's fruit crop will be very
large.
Madison county oats are five feet high
with full heads.
The LeConte pear trees at Quincy are
loaded with fruit.
The watermelons of Madison county
are looking finely.
A Polk county onion weighs one and
three-quarter pounds.
A Marion county man has l65 acres
planted in watermelons.
The Gulf Coast Progress reports a sap
podilla that weighs thirteen ounces.
Barlow Express: Some of oar citizens
have corn that is now in full tassel, and
in few weeks fodder will be ripe enough
to pull.
And now comes Mr.. Webster, living
some six miles from Eustis, who says he
had three-quarters of an acre of strawber-
ries this year from which he realized over
/ $1,000.
! A party at Lake Worth planted some
corn on Nov. 25 last. This was harvested
some time since, and seed selected from
/ 1t for the planting of a second crop, which
Is now upwardsOf two feet tall IN the
! patch.
Altoona Inder: b. l. Milan sold $50
worth of cabbage from one-seventh of an
acre measured ground, without iertili-
izer. This was the net proceeds after
! deducting the expense OF shipping, crates,
! commissions, etc. Little better than rails
| ing corn in the North and selling it tor
| 20 cents bushel.
Fort Myers Press: Mr.. Robert Crawford
has the ramie plant growing finely on
his premises. 1t is destined to he one of
the most important of vegetable tibres Tor
woven fabrics, and perhaps the most use
fll of them all. A company organized
for its cultivation here would no doubt
make it highly profitable enterprise.
Gulf Coast Progress: Mr.. John p. Will
Jensen showed us, the other day, IA clump
OF oats bearing eighty-six perfect stalks.
No rust or other imperfeCtion appears,
and in all respects the oats are as line IN
appearance as could be desired. No extra
pains have been taken TO fertilize or other
wise care for them, although in his gar
den.
Kissimmee Leader: Mr.. Patrick's gar
dener, on Paradise Island, has given us a
curiosity in the shape of corn tassel,
each spear of which, by some curious
freak of nature, has turned into an ear Of
corn with the silk hanging from each err
mel. There are some twelve or fifteen ears
altogether, forming a queer specimen of
the freaks of nature.
Orange County Reporter: Few men In
this vicinity nave done more to demon
strate the possibilities of agriculture in
Florida and afford n practical denial of
the claim that nothing can be raised
here" than l.. j. Watkins. He came mere
and began work upon a tract OF new land
less than year and half ago. He was
a novice in all that pertained to Florida
farming and fruit growing. But he had
good large stock of practical sense and an
equal amount Of energy, and has employed
them TO good advantage. He now has 20
acres set out in grove, the ground being
grubbed of roots, stumps, etc, and Is as
clean as a garden. Resides this, he has
ditched and reclaimed several acres ofwet
prairie, and upon this land, ordinarily re-
! garded as worthless, has had and still
has a splendid vegetable garden. He has
supplied his family with an abundance of
fresh vegetables for the phst eight months,
besides selling in the market sufficient to
supply necessary groceries Tor Il year.
He has but fairly begun He expects to re-
claim more OF the prairie and g0regularly
into truck farming next winter Push is
what does it.