The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1886-04-10

small farmer would do we'll to buy forty
acres in Florida TO multiply the future
profits of his labors, but if he farms ten
of it well the first year and twenty OF it
in five years, he will accomplish a great
work, and have a small fortune in his
untouched lands.
HEALTH AND HABITS OF LIVING.
Many Northern settlers will be slow
TO learn that It is a great transformation
from the rigorous climate of the North
to the almost tropical climate of South
ern Florida, and those who refuse to
understand the common sense laws
which require reasonable adaptation OF
habit and diet to climate, will suffer
thereby. There is nothing to appre-
bend from the popular bug-bear of ma
laria in Florida, If any measure Of care
is exercised in selecting a location. 1t
will be more difficult to make such a
mistake in Florida than it would be in
Pennsylvania or Kansas, but it can be
made. The chief peril to the health
of Northern settlers in Florida is in
their own neglect of the plain laws OF
nature which the commonest COmpre-
hension should understand and obey.
The savage OF the Arctic region lives
and thrives on blubber and even the
Arctic navigator can relish a dish of oil
that would be applied only to his coarse
boots or harness at home but neither
savage nor navigator would live a
month in Florida on such diet, any
more than they would live if clad fc1
an Arctic winter in semi tropical eli
mate. The Northern settler transfer
red into Florida climate must accept
the lighter, cheaper and in every way
better diet that nature offers him. Fruits
and vegetables, so abundant around
him, must largely take the place of his
strong meats, greasy cakes and gener-
ally heavy dishes which make the sys-
tenn feverish with needless heat even in
the North, or his liver will become slug
gish, bilious disorders will be bred and
general i'll health imputed to the climate
when it is solely the fault of the sufferer
himself. While the extreme of heat in
Florida even in what is the nearest ap-
proach to tropical climate that can be
settled, is not as great as that of Phiia-
delphia, the almost perpetual summer
requires for both immigrants and ma
tives lighter food and more care to
avoid exhaustive eXertion but there is
no reason why residents should become
eaervated. There is vastly more suffer
ing from Northern diet in Florida than
from malaria and when it is consid-
cred that Florida only imperiously eX-
acts the diet that common sense sug-
gests in the North, there should lie
willing obedience to the laws of health
in this region.
COST OF OUGFIITING y FARM.
The cost Of purchasing and Quitting
a farm IN the section of Florida to
which the bulk OF immigration will turn
its steps, is much less than in any part
of the West that is at ali inviting to set
tiers. While lands in the thickly pop
ulated and well improved parts of the
State along the lines Of transportation
are as dear as they are in Chester
county, the more fertile and more GER
tainly productive lands now just opened
farther south can be purchased in good
locations for ten dollars per acre, and
they are about as cheaply prepared fo1
cultivation as the heavy-sodded prairie
lands Of the West, which require yeal
Of the tanning before they produce al
all. When once brought under cultiva-
ton, one mule is abundant for the best
of blowing, and no heavy teams are
necessary for hauling. Buildings are
erected much cheaper here than in
Pennsy lvania, as lumber is abundant
being one Of the products OF the State
An outlay Of twenty-five hundred dol
lars would buy forty-acre farm, build
comfortable house, procure stock and
implements and put one fourth the
farm in first class cultivation, with ar
orange grove in the ground. No barns
are needed, as hay is stacked and stock
require little protection at any season
of the year. Half that amount can be
had on credit on the land and improve
ments, but at double the rate of inter
est that like good security would COM
mand IN the North. This estimate is
for what would be large farm for one
who expects to cultivate it himself and
for what would be regarded as good
improvements ; but those whose neces-
sites will accept the pinching self denla1
of a majorityso Western immigrants,
can start small farms on little capital
except industry and economy. and they
can live Eomfortably all the year on
their own products after the first -four
months. I'm short, the small farmer, OF
the youag man who seeks to earn a
home and farm for himself, has every
advantage of climate, cheapness and
fertility OF soil, early and bountiful pro-
duct and easy market facilities in
Southern Florida, and it is undoubtedly
the most inviting part of the Union
now open to young men whose capital
is their industry. \. X. NJ.
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who suppose themselves To he troubled with moth.
ing more serious than a severe ii I'D stubborn cold
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treatment will cure catarrh. For sale by every
druggist III the land.