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The Florida agriculturist., 1889-09-04
New Publications Received.

PENvLLA ANURsERY.-CatalOgue for 1890; 4 PIP.
Glen st. Mary Fla: j. E. Cole Free
We have received four-page folder
from the above nursery, giving list and
prices of fruit trees offered. 1t is devoted
to peaches and plums. Address the pub
Usher.
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FRUITLAND NURSERIES. Catalogue of Fruit Trees,
Evergreens, Roses, Etc, for Florida and the
Coast Belt of the Southern States; So pp.
Augusta, Ca: p. j. Berckmans. Free.
The annual catalogue of this well and
favorably known nursery is at hand.
Professor Berckmans never does things
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-09-04
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1889.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.

CORRESPONDENCE.-G Culture and Fer
tilizers, Information Wanted Sweet Cane
and It's Uses-No. 5, Vineyards of Orange
Coloring Lemons. Lake Brantley Committees
of the Florida horticultural Society, He
Stand from Under ....................-.5O2 .5O2
The Story of the POmegranate, To Prevent
Comb from Melting ...........................5OS .5OS
The Cork Oak, A Suggestion to Local Edi-
tors. ,5O4
SELECTED.-The Diamond Grape..................5O2
FLORAL.-'Bouncing Betty" Editorial Para
graphs, Barbados Gooseberry, Floral
Notes-Vines, How to Make Perfumes from
Flowers. Pomades and Perfumes. sos
EDITORIAL.-Hints and Suggestions for Sep
tember, Bulletin No. 6. Apopka Saw Grass
Land and the Burden Pump, The Cork
Oak New Publications Received. ed.............. 500
Answers to Correspondents. .5O7
HOUSEHOLD Little Meta, The Duty of
Being Pleasant. To Remove Mildew. Select
ed Recipes. Chry ystallzing Leaves and Flow
ers Vanilla Tea, Cooking Potatoes, POta-
to Salad, How to Cook Dried Fruits,
Housekeeping Notes. For Rainy Days.. sos
POULTRY.-A Few Points on Duck Culture,
Best Breeds for Florida, Ducks for Profit. 500
.5O9
Y.-Story-"Another' Crime,' '....... $40
Possibility Of Electricity, A Brave Pilot.
Red Clouds Granddaughter Writes. The
Puzzler oil
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-09-04

So FAR Florida has escaped the yellow
fever epidemic this year, and it is safe to
say that in the future we will have moth
ing to fear from this curse. Experience
has taught us that strict quarantine
and sanitary regulations will rid usof the
dreaded evil.
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-09-04

ACCORDING to the report of the Foreign
Fruit Exchange of New York, only two
thousand five hundred boxes of foreign
oranges were imported into the United
States during the past week. The mar
kets will be in good condition to receive
the Florida crop. and if discretion is used
and the market not glutted, we are safe /,
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-09-04
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change must be added. Only l. and 2-cent stamps
taken where change cannot be had. ~
HI-To insure insertion, all advertisements for
this paper must be received by 10 o'clock Monday
morning of each week.
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-09-04
The Cork Oak.

4u6 COTK YAK.
This week our correspondents give us
some information concerning the Cork
Oak. The evidence adduced from the
articles conclusively. proves that the tree
will grow in Florida, but as to whether
or not they can be made to yield profit
our correspondents do not say, probably
because they do not know, as the tree
has never been cultivated for profit in
this country, but more as a curiosity, as
it can hardly be called an ornamental
tree.
If the trees do well here it might pay to
plant them in old fields and on land of no
value for anything else (providing, of
course that the trees would grow on that
kind of land), and in the course OF time,
perhaps, they would prove source of
revenue in the same way as did the wal
nut trees of other States.
The tree is native OF South Europe
and North Africa. The bark, of course,
furnishes the article Of commerce, and
forms on the trunk and branches when
the tree is about five years old. New lay
ers of this fungus-appearing bark is con-
stantly forming underneath that of a
more advanced age, which eventually
forces off the old bark.
Cork intended for the market is gener-
ally stripped from the tree about two
years before it would come off from nat
ural causes. This stripping or gathering
is done every five or six years.
Before the cork is of any great value
the tree must attain a considerable age.
The first then gathered is considered of
but little value. In fact the tree does not
become profitable until it is sabouttwenty-
five years old-a long time to wait for
the fruit of our labor.
The removal of the bark or cork does
not in the least injure the tree, butrather
promotes it's growth. Cork trees have
been known to yield paying crops for
$50 years. The wood of some trees pos
sessing cellular sponginess is sometimes
used as a substitute for cork; the Alliga-
tor Apple of the West Indies is among
this class.
The demand for cork is apparently un-
limited, and if the trees will grow in Flor
ida, in the, course of time a grove of Cork
trees would be valuable, as they require
no more attention than Uncommon oak.
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-09-04

one side of the paper, and write their
articles on both sides of the card If this
rule is strictly followed the editor will
be spared a good many headaches and
our readers will be duly thankful.
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-09-04

If our correspondents will persist in
discussing politics and the tariff, we
would respectfully request them to write
their communications on postal cards
and in this case make exception to the
well-estabLshed rule OF writing ON bu
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-09-04
NOTICE no SUBSCRIBERS.

When subscribers write US to change their pa
per to another pOstOf1ce. it viii save us cOnsid-
erabIe trouble if they will give the old address as
well as the new one Please do not forget this.
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-09-04
ApOpka Saw Grass Land and the Bur
don Pump.

Just north of that inland sea known as
Lake Apopka, there is a. vast tract of
the most fertile land, generally known as
saw grass land, which until recently was
either wholly or in part under water.
Several years ago q company was organ
lied for the purpose of retaining this
land by drainage, and having made q
contract with the State for a certain per
cent OF the reclaimed land, operations
were commenced and have been kept up
until the present time, and 50 successful
has been the work that between 10000
and 10000 acres Of land has been re-
claimed. The drainage was done by
means Of canals running from Lake Apop-
ka to Lake Dora, from there to Lake
Eustis and thence into the Ocklawaha
River.
We have interviewed parties who have
had many years experience in the sugar
fields and factories of Cuba and Louisi-
ana, and they unhesitatingly pronounce
these lands superior to any that can be
found in those countries. The land thus
reclaimed is now being prepared for plant
ing in cane, rice and vegetables. The
preparation is quite expensive, but fort
unately it has to be done but once. This
preparation consists in ditching the land
in two directiOns,-a head ditch running
parallel with the main canal, and smaller
bitches leading into the head ditch. These
bitches are designed to drain off the sur
face water during the rainy season, and
the bitches will be kept free of water by
means of a vacuum pump, invented by d.
P. Burden. This pump is a simple yet
wonderful piece of machinery. 1t consists
Of two cylinders of acapacity offorty two
gallons each. The steam is let into one
cylinder and is Immediately condensed by
an automatic spray of water, which Gre
ates a vacuum or suction power equal to
atmospheric pressure, and the cylinder
Instantly fills with water. While one cyl
inder is filling the other one is emptying
and at the same time receiving steam for
similar condensation and vacuum The
movements of the steam valves are auto
matte and steam can only enter one cyl
inder at time.
One of the most wonderful things in
connection with the pump is the small
quantity Of steam required to operate it
mo engine is used. When we saw the
pump in operation it was connected with
q five horse power boiler, and the steam
guage registered ten pounds pressure; with
this amount of steam each cylinder filed
and discharged twenty two times per min
ute. AS each cylinder held forty-t gal
Ions Of water, this would make ], ,848 gall
Ions per minute, raised height of six
teen feet, with only ten pounds OF steam.
To show what little steam the pump re-
quired, the steam was allowed to run
down until only one pound showed on
the gauge, and the pump continued to
discharge 1,S48 gallons per minute, OF
10, $50 gallon per hour. And, although
it seems uncreditable, it is nevertheless
true, that after the index on the
steam guage showed no more pressure
at all the same volume of water was
raised as long as the boiler generated any
steam at all with pressure enough to en-
ter thA avlindnra
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-09-04

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New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-04-03
Miscellaneous News Items.

Two strangers came to Smiths Creek q
small station about twelve miles from Port
Huron, Mich, and engaged rooms at the
Lindsey house. One of the men was about
fifty years of age and the other considerably
younger. The latter left the hotel early in
the evening The elder man did not appear
next m orning, and the room was broken in
to- He was found lying across the bed with
his throat cut from ear to ear, dead No
knife was found near, but some broken
crockery found in the room was covered with
blood, and it is thought tn at, with the latter
the deed was committed. In the pockets
was found Sl62 in cash, but nothing to iden-
lilly the dead man. In case it proves to
have been murder, it is very evident the OBJ
ject was not plumber.
Capt. Samuel Pedrick. of the scho oner
James II. Gordon, which arrived at Balti-
more from Charleston, reports that on
March "a, when about seventy-fve miles
east southeast of Cape Henry, school of
VIII ales was met. They came SO close to the
vessel that pieces of wood were dropped on
their backs, which they acknowledged by
squirting fountains of water in the air. At
one time the sea appeared like mass ofcon-
fused fire from the gamboling of the crea-
lures. Lines OF phosphorescent light, some
times as faras the eye could reach, were Wis
IDLE from the ships deck as the whales, one
after another, raced through the water All
that night the mighty fish played around
the vessel without accident At6:3O O'Clock
on the morning of the 25th the Gordon sud-
denly brought up" shook from stem to
stern. Looking over the bow, it was seen
that the vessel had struck monster whale.
The water was discolored and bloody, show
ing that the Gordon had struck the fish
terrible blow. The whales disappeared from
about the vessel shortly after the collision.
Capt. Pedrick is confident that there were
one hundred whales in the school, all of
which the first mate, an old wKaler, says
were sperm whales. It is supposed they
were attracted in shore by following the
schools of mackerel now off the coast.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-04-03
Somewhat Cosby.

WASHINGTON. Special Telegram, March ~
In the public printer contest point has been
secured in favor Of Capt Meredith. The New
York candidate, Hart. has Withdrawn from thu
race. and the New York Republicans are giving
ton was made recently on behalf of ChaunceyI
Filley of Missouri for the position of consul gen.
eral at Liverpool it was announced that 1ht
place had been promised to an Eastern man. Il
waf said yesterday that it is to be given t.
Thomas Sherman of Maine. who has for severa
years occupied comparatively unimportan
position in the state department. Mr.. Sherman
was Mr. Blaine's private secretary for many
years. The Liverpool consulshp is one of thu
best of the consular offices. Ex. Gov T. c.
Fletcher Of Missouri is the latest candidate men.
Col. Holloway Of Indiana denies the state
ment that the president told hin
that he could not appoint any NOR
lndianans to Office for some time. Charger
against Mr.. New have been lodged with the com
mittee on commerce. These are said to involvr
circumstances connected with his nationa
bank and also personal difficulty between hi
son and some other enthusiastic Republican
1t is not believed, however. that these allega
t1ods are OF sufficient consequence to have an,
effect upon his confirmation. Senator voorhees,
who has thus far refrained from making a cal
at The White House, expressed the opinion to
day that the senate would not adjourn thi
week as anticipated. There are number o
important nominations yet to be made and
would not be surprised if we are kept at worl
for week or ten days yet The president i
going too slow to suit partisans, but he is care
full man and will not take any step until he ha
thoroughly considered the consequences tina
are likely to ensue.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-04-03
NEWS NJ! NU|NCIATURE.
4 General Review of the News Of the
Day Condensed from Associated
Press Dispatches.
Doings at Washington.

Secretary ofState Blaine has received a
report from the consul of the United States
at Colon stating that work along the
Panama canal has entirely ceased and that
the West India negros are returning to their
home; up to March 16, fully 5000 of the
latter had already left. The consul reports
great depression in business. The Panama
Railroad company is suffering from the
crisis, owing to the loss on local traffic
Two unsuccessful attempts have been made
to burn Colon.
President Harrison issued his proclama-
ton opening to settlement on April % the
Oklahoma lands, the metes and bounds of
which have already been described in these
dispatches. The proclamation designates
those whom the statute permits to enter
lands in the territory in question, describes
its boundaries, prescribes that each entry
shall be in square form as nearly as possib le
and that no person shall be permitted to en-
ter more that one-quarter section The
document concludes as follows: ''W arning.is
hereby again expressly given that no per-
son entering upon and occupying said lands
before said hour of IL O'Clock noon Of the
22d day Of April, A. D. 1889, hercinbefore
fixed, will ever be permitted to enter any of
said lands or. acquire, any rights; and that
the officers of the United States will be. re-
CURED to strictly enforce the provision Of
the act OF congress to the above effect"
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-04-03
What the Nor Invest is Getting in Thu,
Way Of Appointments by the Presi

!
WASHINGTON, Special Telegram, March 81
Territorial matters are moving very slowl,
just now, and il is doubtful if many mort
changes will be made before the senate ad
Journs. Idaho will probably get her terri
torlal offices tomorrow, headed by Col
George A Shupe for governor Montan;
will get a secretary on Friday. Dakota hal,
few changes to expect. The receivershi,
OF the land office at Mitchell, OAK, is vacant
and it is the only place OF the kind likely i,
De hlled before the senate adjourns RALPH
W. Wheelock, editor of the Mitchell Repub
lican, filed his papers to-day, and, il
company with Delegate Matthew's
called upon Secretary Noble, who
expressed himself pleased with Wheelock
and promised to take up the case IN a few
days. Mathews will call upon Presidem
Harrison with MIR. Wheeiock tomorrow witt
view to getting the matter settled at ono,
III order to secure confirmation by the sen
ate. There is not likely to be any change
IN Judgeships. The Huron bar has adopted
resolutions asking for Judge Spence,'s re;
tentIon. This has caused something of {;
smile here. where Spencer is known to hav,
purchased real estate in Huron However
as there are no applications for Spencer
place, he is not likely to be disturbed Nom,
OF the Dakota lawyers seem to care to tax,
any OF the judseships for the short terms
which are likely to run out in November
and there is no scramble. R. NJ Evans. Min
nesota's member of the national commiJ
tee, and other Minnesota lawyers have let
ters on file at the department OF iustic,
recommending Justice Edgerton of Mitchell
for any judgeship that may become vacant
but as the judge has no application on til,
himself it is possible he knows nothing
it. Frank O. Parsons, editor of the Estellin,
Bell, was appointed postmaster at Esrellip,
to-day, and B. T. Cords ut Oldham, Oak.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-04-03
Minor Casualties.

Reports of Dakota prairie fires are begin
ming to come in. The fire in every direction
swept over vast tracts from Cavour to with
in half mile of the east bank of the Jim
river. Between the Northwestern and Mani
toba tracks the country is almost entirely
burned over. The settlers in that locality
suffer more than elsewhere, their greatest
loss being in hay, grain and stock sheds. J..
W. Barrett's house together with most of its
contents, and John Gardeners house we're
destroyed South and west of Huron, strip
several miles wide, and nearly twelve miles
long, was burned over. /. j. +. Dubois fine
farm residence, also his granary and large
quantity OF seed wheat were burned. The
ire is the most extensive one experienced in
tins country for several years. 1t is feared
the worst has not yet been learned.
William Drake and his wife were killed at
La Crosse, as they left railroad train
They could not go up the street because a
freight train was going in the opposite di-
rection from the passenger with one track
intervening, on which Drake and wife and
two men stood. The noise of the trains pre-
vented their hearing the switch engine back
ing down on them until Mrs. Drake was
struck and carried down under the foot
board and Mr.. Drake was thrown senseless
away from the track. His scream caused
the two other men to jump and save them
selves. The engine was stopped as soon as
possible. The body Of Mrs. Drake was lying
under the ash box SO crushed that it was
necessary to jack the engine up to remove it.
The top of the head was crushed in, her
back broken, one leg severed and the body
otherwise mangled: Mr.. Drake was lying
unconscious with dreadful cash across the
right side of his face. His spine is injured,
and there are probably internal injuries He
was partially conscious for few moments,
but did not know of his wile's injuries The
doctors give little hope of recovery
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-04-03
A Tough Indian Story.

News of terrible tragedy has reached
Wash burn, Oak. Ever since Mclean county
had settler it has been the habit of some
few OF her citizens to go up the Missouri in
the spring,to trap beaver. Among the many
who have trapped beaver up and down the
river for the past eleven years were NJ A.
Williams and his brother, Tom r. Williams.
Those veteran trappers of Mclean recently
packed up a few necessary articles and start
ed on one of their hunts and trapping ex-
petitions. They had been gone two weeks
before anything at all was heard from them
1t seemed that the boys encouraged by their
goodluck in trapping beaver, kept on up
the river until they came to the point where
the the Little Missouri empties int the Great
Muddy. Up to this time they had in their
possession something heartily beaversk skins,
and they concluded, from what they could
see, that beavers were plenty up the Little
Missouri. Alter a three days journey up
that little tributary to the great Missouri
into camp. Upon the following morning
they put out about thirty beaver traps, and
found upon going their rounds the following.
morning twenty-five beavers, making in
all seventy-fve frst-class beaver skins The
traps were set again. They were set in In
dian territory and the boys knew it. On
the second m orning after the traps were set
it was found they had been visited and the
game taken out. One Of the boys resolved
to watch and see what became of the game.
The traps were set again, and Tom yolun-
teered to act as spy. His brother who was
an old cowboy and Indian fighter, was alarm
ed at first, but thinking there was little
danger from the Rees, who had always been
peaceful, went off to the cabin, leaving his
brother on the banks Of the stream. Some
time during the night he was aw akened by
several shots fred in close proximity to the
abin, and sprung out OF bed to see his
brother fall across the doorway corpse.
The cabin was surrounded at once by the
redskins to the number of fifteen. William
saw at a glance that his brother was dead,
and what he wanted was revenge. The
Rees, knowing that but one man stood be-
tween them and a big catch of beaver pelts
rushed up to the cabin door firing at ran
dom. Williams remained unhurt, and, TAX
ing a Colts navy in either hand, opened up
on the dastardly reds. His aim was sure,
and every shotspoke the death Of a redskin
Ten shots had been fred by the lone man
and ten Indians lay dead. A panic seemed
to seize the five who remained and they
turned to beat a hasty retreat. Close by the
door stood a double barreled shotgun, heav-
lily. loaded with buckshot, and as the FIVE In
dians ran down the river bank both barrels
were emptied in their midst. One fell mort
ally wounded, but the other four got away,
carrying buckshot in their red skins. Will
Jams, severely wounded as he was, managed
to bury his brother on the banks Of the Lit
tie Missouri and to drift down the river
amid the ice to Fort Stevenson.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-04-03

toral reform. Mr. Bright was defeatet
IN the election of 1857 because he had Cd
posed the CrImean war, but he was elected tn
same year by the Liberal voters of Birmingha
which city he continued to represent for man!
years. During the great civil war in the United
Stat es he expressed his sympathy with thu
Union cause in several eloquent speeches. Aftel
the reform bill of Russell and Gladstone ha(
been rejected by the house of commons in 1866
MI Bright advocated the cause of ELECTORAL re-
meetings in London Manchester, Birmingham
and other places. Referring TO uhes,
speeches he European Times remarked
In all Mr.. Brights previous career he ha.
never put forth such extraordinary power, suct
floods of the very highest order of eloquence or
the great question of the day, during the last
four months. In 1887 the friends of reform
rlumphed, and procured the passage OF a bill
granting the right of suffrage to every house
holder in borough Mr.. Bright entered tn,
cabinet formed by Mr.. Gladstone in 1868 al
president of the board of trade, and resigned tn.
Office on account OF ill-health in MAY, 1871
When Gladstone returned to power IN 1850
Mr. Bright became chancellor of the duchy O
Lancaster, but resigned in 1882, when thu
government began war in Egypt. His sep.
aratlon from the bulk of the Liberia
party on the Irish question is the only incident
in his career which really dimmed it's splendor
he had always been an uncoInprnmising cham.
plon OF Irish wrongs and justified Irish tur.
bulence and disorder i'll view Of the treatment O.
the nation by the government until the franchise
bill brought eighty six Irish members into tn,
house, when he became completely alienated
from the cause and proved one of the most pow.
erful opponents to Mr.. Gladstones scheme OF
home rule. Mr.. Bright was married in 1889 u
Elizabeth Priestman of Newcastle. His wifi
died in lS41 and he was afGerward married il
1S40, to Margaret Leatham, daugh ser of
banker of Wakefield. He leaves four sons ant
three daughters.