The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1888-05-17

+ f-RxIeiueise HwsaS: II = evident hat Ea-
serpsfk b too healthy Snr physicians 10 exc out
an ex1Bee1ce tbs lAaesa departure being Dr.. j.
Z Rssbss, who iea Mosday Sor 0rssa Cove
A sAinese nnilI fpr making dimcossou cypsess
shingles has been started By man named I'd
w.ris, at Silver Springs. The real estate
boom still cDnfinues In Marion county. Over
| $4,000 worth Of land wss sold last month 10
nau-s residents Of Florida. "A Northern capital.
let has s~lecsed beautiful site at Mauatee for .
hoGeI Of 100 rooma. and work on The building
will begin - soUu - possible. Fifty acrrs al
land owned BY the Hillsbosouvh River Brick
Company viii furnish enough clay to keep the
machine running fpr one hundred yrars to come.
| -Gsinesviile DAILY Akcooate: Mr.. Elias Syl-
vester. an enierpsising farmer residing seven
miles north OF Gainesville, brought TO this Of
| fee on Saturday, - . specimen OF wha, ne can
do In Florida about Q peck Of nice. clean, we'll
Oiled wheat The sample produced leaves no
mom to doubt that wheat Of splendid quality
can be grown in Alachua county. Only about
an acre Of ground IVES put in wheat. the seq
beins spread broadcast On this single acre.
Notwithstanding only . half bushel OF grain Was
sowu, Mr. Sylvester says he will have ten or
| fifteen bushels of wheat, despite the fact that
the weather has been extremely unfavorabIe Tor
! the production Of wheat Mr.. Sylvester is co.
tbusiasic over the result OF bis experiment. and
expresses the conviction that with proper atten-
tion good wheat can be produced in AiacbuS
county in any quantity desired. This IS GER
! lainly encouraging and ought TO satisfy the most
skep:ical that diversified crops in this State can
be made 10 pay handsomely. Mr.. Sylvester is
entitled to much credit for having given the mat
ter bis attention, and having demonstrated be-
vond question that good wheat. in paying guam
titles, can be raised in Alachua county
-Kaeimmee Leader: At our request Captain
RD-e has kindly given Us an abstract of the Op-
eraiOns Oi the SUGAR Company inr the past sea-
son which We publish elsew here in this issue
The arIIcle requires no comment, cafnes lis
own weight but We W -ud like t ask iht par
,icular attention If our readers TO one or two
prints The best of the cane was usesi Tor seed.
OF The poor cane ground, owing 10 various
C .uses, >uch rs latene-s Of the seasnD, mex
peii+nced labor incomplete condition Of the
mill, &c. only about so per cent OF sugar ac,,
uAlly 10 the cane was obtained. but even with all
these draw backs The net yield pr acre. AFTER de-
Quoting all expenses, was $52 70. In what
other section can the planter ob'nin sucn RESULT
We are informed that Governor WarmMh, OF
Louisiana, made an average at his sugar mill
this season Of 100 pounds per ton, and that
Colonel Bringier has gone IN inspect the mill
with the design Of making The one AT St Cloud
in every particular Just az perfect and complete
With our mill brought TO the same perfection
the net yield per acre, instead of being $50
would be nearer $50; and on account Of our
superior soil and longer season, giving the cane
time 10 mature, We believe II would far exceed
that
Lake City Tobacco Plant: Professor F. B.
Noodle lett for Washington. d. c., Wednesday
morning, to bear In person resolutions of Florida
Tobacco Growers, as published in last week.
Plant. protesting against any reduction of i'm
por duties al present on the article of cigar lea
tobacco. He will be absent probably week or
ten days. The new water works system is
about completed, and the mains and hydrants
are nearly ready to have the water turned on
from the pumps. Major Albert ]. Russell
State Superintendent OF Public Instruction DR.
E. S.'Crill, Treasurer, aud General w. D Barnes
Comptroller. were in the city Monday looking
after the interests of the Florida Agricultural
College, with the Governing Board, Of which
they are all connected. 8. There are now being
received more letters from intended settlers IN.
curing about Columbia county lands than al
any time tor years. All we need further is
little judicious advertising, and live real estate
agency. One of our Lake City truckers in
| forms Us that he has sold 30 far this spring $5(
worth Of beans, peas and tomatoes from an in
vestment OF less than $40O in seeds, and now ha
the same land in corn. The contract has beer
| or il about being let for the construction of thu
workshop for the Industrial Department to b
maintained 10 connection with the State Agri
cultural College and Florida Experimental STA
tion at this place.