Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-01-14

rupted prosperity. There is no section Of
the country wlich does not have It's pc
RODS Of disaster. The wheat crop fails in
one locality and the corn and potato crop
ia another. one year the fruit growers
suffer and another year vegetable farmers
meet with losses.
/ The northern part OF Florida is visited
/ by freezing weather every few years, but
| it is very seldom that the cold is
sufficiently severe to destroy orange trees
in the orange belt.
! II is all nonsense, therefore, TO say that
orange growing in Florida has received
INJURY from which it will never recover
! Doubtless there ars plenty OF croakers all
over the State who are saving that orange
growing, so far as Florida is concerned,
is an industry OF the past. They Will
/ live TO acknowledge their mistake, In
/ deed they are altogether premature in
making their opinions public, because it
is not yet known bow great the damage is.
Tits agreed, OF course, that al the or
auses on the trees are destroyed, and
/ those who are qualified to make an esti-
mate cay that the loss from this source
viii amount 10 at least 100000 What
/ the amount Of the damage to orange and
other fruit bearing trees is, nobody is able
( vet 70 say. That the damage is great
/ must, Of course, be admitted, but it ia
/ not so great that it cannot be repaired.
Thcre are a few perhaps who win not
! risk anything more in the orange growing
! business, but il is safe to assume that the
number will not be large The fact that
! Il ere had not been severe cold weatt er
/ in the orange belt for half a century be-
/ fore the present freeze will he accepted as
pretty conclusive evidence that another
| such frceze may nor be expected for an
/ other half century, and perhaps not in
much longer period.
/ Doubtless in 1885 there was the same
( r. of talk as there is now. 1t was porob-
ably sad then toat 1t was useless to
undertake to grow oranges in Florida.
| But dtd that sort of talk destroy conf
dence in the orange growing advantages
/ OF the state? II d.d not. The orange IN
tercsts of Florida in 1885 were almost as
/ nofhIng compared to what they are now
and It IL sale to predict that a half CEN
/ fury hence they viii be as much greater
/ than they now are, as the interests OF the
present are greater than were those Of
/ So.
The trees that have been destroyed will
/ be replaced by others, and new nurseries
will be planted. Orange growing may
receive a temporary check but it will be
only temporary.
ltmus nor he supposed, however, that
/ the prosperity Of Florida is wholly de
| pendent upon oranges. The State has
| other and great interests which are being
rapidly developed. The growing of early
vegetables, for instance, has be-
come a source OF great revenue.
It has been demonstrated beyond
an question that in Florida veg
ntables can be raised Tor the great North
arn cities earlier and more proftably than
10 any other state Other interests which
are being developed will in tine attract
very great attention. There is no frca-
4ion for Floridans to be disheartened on
5cuount OF the little set back which their
state has received. With COURAGE and
extra energy they will soon repair the
damage which has been done.