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The Florida agriculturist., 1889-05-08

graph in any agricultural paper or book
In any way discouraging clean culture
for any crop, with the exception of the
few cases. here in Florida, referring to
orange growers. Spaulding, in his able
and really valuable work on orange
growing in California, says that if he
''was compelled to choose between irriga-
ton and clean culture he would unhesi-
tatingly pin his faith to clean culture. J"
And this in California, where irrigation
is considered necessary prerequisite to
reasonable success; and this too from a
man of large experience as a practical
nurseryman and producer of oranges.
Any farmer knows that his only hope of
carrying a crop of corn or cotton through
a severe drouth is by cotinEous and fre-
quent working of the surface, and the
practice is based upon sound philosophy
and well established laws of absorption
and transmission of heat and moisture,
of evaporation, radiation and capillary
attraction few inches of light, well
aerated soil on the surface, is about the
best protection from the scorching rays
OF the sun, and the surest preventive Of
evaporation, and thus serves the double
purpose of warding off the heat and saw
ing what moisture there is. 1t is great
mistake to suppose that frequent stirring
of the surface makes it dry out faster.
Deep blowing in dry time will, but a
light stirring of, say two inches, fire.
quently, and, if possible, soon after a
hard rain, will keep the soil below, in the
best possible condition, and the appear
ance OF the trees will prove it to the sat-
isfaction of anyone who will observe in
telligently.
could instance plenty of cases in point
but don't deem it best or Important. 1
have not as yet learned of single con-
elusive example OF the bad effect of clean
culture claimed by writer's or. those with
whom I have talked. They can simply
tell you of some one who raised cow peas
in the grove, or allowed crab grass to
grow during the latter part of summer,
and had a splendid crop of oranges, and
trees grew well, etc. Yes, and what of it
And who knows but what it would have
done still better under different treat
ment. Show us grove divided in halves
and all treated alike excepting as to cult
ure, and continue the experiment. for
years, then it will have some weight as
evidence. S. BIGELow.
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-05-08
Clean Culturists.
Ida AgriculturiSt:

f5ON s ANrVi
thoughts for the AGRlcULTURIsT and con-
gratulate youupon it's fine, appearance as
well as it's well filled pages of interesting
pertinent matter. 1t is always welcome
visitor, and hope and trust that it may
long continue to be a power for good in
our rapidly developing State. / am much
interested in the able presentation in the
last number of the subject of sco-opera-
tion" and hope you will be able by the
aid of friends of this basic principle and
prerequisite to success, to keep the ball
rolling till the orange growers of Florida
shall present solid frontto the world as
well organized and intelligent mass of
earnest co-workers fully determined upon
securing to themselves justice and fair
play while they are ready and willing to
accord the same to all other branches of
industry, even including middlemen and
commission merchants, though | think
they could be dispensed with more read
lily than most other classes. rfA e-.~.
am pleased with the action of Pierson,
and with Mr.. Young's able presentation
of the subject and hope the good work
may be carried forward and other local
societies organized in time to exert a
healthful influence upon the sale of this
seasons crop, which from present ap-
pearances will be much larger than any
previous crop, and if properly handled
will forever settle the question as to the
profits of orange growing in Florida. iaa
Some weeks ago quite aspace in your
paper was devoted to the apparently
easy task by several very clever CORE
spondents of demolishing "clean culture"
and putting a final quietus upon all it's
advocates and defendants. One writer
called them in plain English fools" an
other said they were "all such egotists
that they could not learn anything" or
words to that effect. I have not the
paper by me having sent it on missionary
wOrk.) ~ sa--.-s ys,e
Now can assure those mentors of the
pen that ''clean culture, though dead,
makes a right "lively corpse" and is
growing in favor constantly even among
the conservative Florida Crackers, and
the ranks of the ''fools'' are being rapidly
recruited from all grades and classes of
agriculturists; and one very significant
fact has been quite apparent for g. year
or more past, viz: That nearly all the
writer's for agricultural papers who pre-
tend to oppose clean culture, really ap-
prove it by advocating what they are
pleased to call compromise plan, which
is simply clean culture modified slightly
just to suit the prejudices ofcertain classes
and to warrant some other name. They
tell us to keep the plow, cultivator, Acme
harrow and hoe going, and keep ground
all clean in grove till June, and then stop
cultivating the ''middles," but be sure to
keep the ground over the roots of the
trees free from all grass, weeds, etc., with
a hoe and rake.
What more does the most radical clean
culturist ask? We have nothing to do
with the middles as such, beyond where
the orange tree roots extend, any more
than we have in adjoining fields, except
SO far as the close proximity of any grow
ing crop tends to draw the moisture from
Smyrna times., 1889-07-10
WE WILL
EXCHANGE
YOUR OLD
PIANO
FOR p
NEW ONE.

If you don't want a new
one let us polish your old
piano and make you think
it new. We make a spec
ialty of renting pianos.
We can sell you pianos as
low as SI65. We don't
want to. Why? Because
a piano even fairly good
cannot be built at that
price.
At 5000 we can give you
a talrly good piano, at $3.50
a tip-tOp piano, $500 for a
tirst-class piano, and from
that you can go as high as
you please. We do not
handle stencil pianos. If
we did we could take any
price you offered, A lot of
new organs, which we
bought because they were
cheap, we are selling at S25
to $40. Same as offered at
$65 elsewhere. Smith
American, Estey, Mason &
Hamlin and other second
hands at S15 to $40.
Several rare bargains in
pianos slightly used.
Smyrna times., 1889-07-10
An Editors Experience.

Major Sidney Herbert, well-known
journalist in agricultural circles, writes
April 18th, 1889 Some five years ago
l wrote a letter stating that Swift's
Specific had cured me of severe rheu-
matism. Since that time l have had
no return of the rheumatic troubles,
although frequently exposed to the in
huences that produced former attacks.
Several of my friends had a similar
experience. and are firm in their con-
viction that 5. S. S. brought a perman-
ent cure. The searching power of this
medicine is shown in the fact that it
developed a scrOfulous faint that was
conspicuous in my blood over thirty
years ago, and has removed the last
trace of it. 1 have also tested S. 5. 5.
as a tonic after a severe attack of ma
larial fever, which kept me in bed for
three months, and am convinced that
its curative and strengthening proper
ties insured my recovery from that
! illness, as was in a very low condition
of health. SIDNEY HERBERT,
Atlanta, Ga.
Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases
mailed free.
/ SWIFT'S SPECIFIC CO.,
Drawer 3, Atlanta, Ga.
Smyrna times., 1889-07-10
Baltimore & Ohio R. R.
Schedule in effect March 10 lsso.
Trains leave Delaware Avenue Depot, Whining
tOl as follows:
EAST BOUND

Express trains
NEW YORK, week days, - l3, 40 26 a. m.
So 0S, e2O3, a5 OS 80 Al p. m.
NEW YORK, sunday, > Is a. m, %l2 Us, - 0S,
PHILADELPHIA. week days. se1S, 10, : 90.
7 80. IS So ZOO, @l0 20 II 10 a. m: sl2 Us, Co
e203, Ol, 5 So, %5 OS, TO- 90, s6 Al, %, 81,
Philadelphia. Sundays - IS. zoo 755.
05 II 10 u. M @l2 OS. 90, s2OS, 90, 3 a. e5 OS
10, 05, s6 Il, ; s., 40 50 p. IN.
CHESTER, week days, y Is, 10. %. So,
IS 50 CO. SO 26 II 10 a. m; $l2 0S 00 - OS, 500
g -. - Us, TO- 0j Sc Al, 10, 81, @lO5 p. m.
CHESTER, Sundays, - lS Z 90, So, . OI. II 10,
a. IN; @l2 0S, co. s2O 90 30, ~5 OS, 10, 05,
WEST BOUND.
Baltimore and Washington, - so, $50, all As
a. m; IS, u i6, - so, sS 05 p. m; All daily 80
q. m, - Is p. m, daily, except sunday.
Chicago and Httsburg, "a 80 a. m. @5 so p. m,
both daily.
Cincinnati and st. Louis, sll IS a. m. and IS OS
! Singerly Accommodation, 50 p. m. aud Il 10
| p. m, daily.
Landen6erg Accommodation, week days, II 90
! a. m; IS and 80 p n. sundays, 80 a. m. and
/ 3 80 p. m.
| Trains leave Marke; Street Station,
For Philadelphia, So .. m. and 235 p. m,
daily except sunday. For Baltimore, 5S5 a. m,
! daily, except sunday. % q. m. sunday only.
/ For Landenberg, ESQ a. m, l0.55 a. m, and 2.S5
| p m, daily, except sunday 925 a. m. on Sunday
| only $50 y. M, daily.
Leave Philadelphia for Wilmington:
Daily. "a 10, - Is. 1900 sii15 a. m, 1900 noon.
1SO, 500, "a IS 4.S0 @5.l5, $50, F7.SO, S10 1910
Daiiy, except Sunday. $50, and f25 a. m.
/ al As, @l25 and $50 p. m
Sunday only. $50 a. m.
Telephone. No. 1873
Rates to Western POiqts lower than via any
other line.
CHAs. o. sCULL, w.M. CLEMENTS.
Genl Pass. Agt. General Manager.
Smyrna times., 1889-07-10
Maryland Items.

Inc ChestertOwn creamery is 5Ox27
!eet, two stories high, and is complete
In all its arrangements.
The Caroline county commissioners
awarded the contract for building a
wooden bridge over the Choptank
river at Greensboro to John b. Lefty
for $l485. Work on the new structure
will begin at once.
A company has been formed at Eas-
ton 10 erect a hotel with the view of
making the place health resort. In
an address at the meeting Dr.. Chan
cellor bore strong testimony to the
freedom Of the Eastern Shore from
malarial and lung diseases.
The States attorney for Cecil county
has given notice through the news
papers of the county that he will pros
ecute any person or persons, body cor
porate or polite, found selling or civ
ing away at his. her or their place of
business, within the limits Of the
county, any jamaica ginger; unless they
be druggists.
Maryland and Delaware Teachers.-
At the joint meeting of the MARYLAND
and Delaware State Teachers Associa-
ton at the Blue Mountain House, Pen
Mar, Nd, this week, Governor Biggs
will make an address and Prof. A. IL.
Berlin, principal of the Boys High
School of Wilmington, will read paper
on THE New Education-What is It?'
Supt Handy and J. Harvey Whiteman
will participate in the discussion of the
topic Scope of High School Course" ."
Smyrna times., 1889-07-10

L Hens Brood Of Pdrtridges.-A nest
of partridge eggs was found recently
by Mr.. 5. NJ. Kemp on his farm a short
distance from Westminster. He car
ried them home carefully and placed
them under a setting hen, twenty eggs
in all, and has now fine brood OF
young partridges. Every egg was
hatched, and the little birds are cared
for carefully by their hen mother, who
seems as proud of her brood as if they
were baby chickens.
Smyrna times., 1889-07-10

1t was predicted that when 7 Ed
W Uaru Addlcks-whose a aspirations at
DoVer last winter for the u. s. Senator
shly-got his charter through the Del
aware Legislature, that this State had
seen the last of him, and that the gran
TIlII!O1quently promised investments with
wilmington as headquarters for his
company, would not materialize. This
0Plhion mas proven an error. in part.
Mr. Addicks has the past week caused
the gas company of Wilmington much
uheaslness by organizing an opposition
company, and the purchase of an old
cnaTter which gives his new company
all the rights it desires.
THE FOURTH AT DovER-Dover
was crowded with people on the Fourth
anu the town was in holiday attire. at
S'oO o'clock Hyatt's Military Band
gave a concert on the portico of the
Hotel Richardson. Following this
came gathering on the green. where
large stage and seats for 1000 Deople
had been arranged. Here after an
opening overture from Hvatt's. n choir
OF ABOUT $50 voices, lead bv Professor
1reldler, Z. 5. Nesbitt, Messrs. Louder
bough, Fisher, Carrow' Stoutand Walls
Mrs. J. L. Wolcott, Mrs. p. b. Louder
Soough, Mrs. CarrOw and Mrs. Fisher,
Miss Sapp and others, sang The Star
Spangled Banner" "Haii' Columbia -
america" Columbia the Gem of the
ocean, and Nearer My God to Thee" ."
John r. Nicholson read THE Declara.
lIG mon OF Independence" and the Rev
Thomas +, Terry delivered a stirring
ADDRESS full of patriotism and solid
An imposing parade of militia. fire
companies, bands and horsemen form.
eG at 80, and was about to start
when rain poured down and caused
everyone to seek shelter. About i
o'clock most of the paraders reason
oleu and marched through the princi
Smyrna times., 1889-07-10

This Saturday half holiday
is an inconvenience to you and
a loss to US. The gamers are
the nearly 1000 persons who
are on our pay roll to-day.
True every one Of them Tex
cept mechanical workers by
the piece or hour gets a lib
eral vacation, with pay if in
our employ six months. But
we are glad to give them more.
People who work as our Peo-
pie do deserve not only the
regular vacations they have
had since the store started,
but this little extra rest and
outing that our goodwill and
your consideration puts In
their way
Bv a little forethought you
can mostly arrange to make
purchases on other days than
Saturdays f; or il Saturday is
the only handy day to be al
the store, bear in mind thai
the buying must be done before
/ P. M.
OF course things you write
for will come just about a
promptly as if the store were
oprn as usual every day dur
ing the heated term.
JoHN WANAMAKER.
Smyrna times., 1889-07-10

The power of the press has again
made itself felt; the green postage
stamps are to be either carmine or me
tallic red. The force of the power cf
ridicule has also made itself in this in
this instance. The new stamps vii
not carry letter any further or any
better than the green stamps do
Smyrna times., 1889-07-10
Buoklen,s Arnica SaIve.

The best Salve in the world for Cuts, Bruises
Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, letter
Chapped Hands, ChilblainS, COrns, and all skin
Eruptons, and positively cures Piles or no pay
required. II is guaranteed TO give perfect salts.
faction, or money refunded. Price p cents pei
box. For sale by James 2. HOfecker, smyrna;
c. q. HarmOnsOn. CLAYTON.
Smyrna times., 1889-07-10

Paul Mergen, Beverly, writes "Suf-
tered from excess and youthful impru-
dence; been quacked for 10 years by
so-called specialists. DR.. Theel, 53S n.
4th St, Philadelphia, cured me.
Smyrna times., 1889-07-10
BY THE BARD OF TOWER HALL.

OFT we hear of wives that lecture
And of Mrs. CandOrs too,
All designed 70 show that woman
Is vixen and a shrew:
But we have our own opinion,
Which we give without reserve
Ihat most husbands who are "lcctured"
GeJ no more than they deserve
woman has no voice in Congress
Nor in Councils of the State.
But she has voice and Justly
When her husband stays out late.
lie mas vowed to love and honor
And to cherish only her:
BY his staying out till midnight,
Tell me what can she infer?
That he is at least unmindml
Ot the solemn vows he made
When, upon the bridal altar
All her hopes in life she laid
And If he unkindly leaves her
sad and lonely, night by night
II she does not give him Jesse"
Ihen she does not serve him right
Mercy on us must a woman
Rise with the mornings early light
But to toll in household duties
From the break of day till night:
Getting Bobby cOmbed and secured
Little Sally Ann in trim,
Mindful of her husbands comfort,
Sewing buttons on him;
Must she do this unrewarded,
Having no approving smile,
With no husbands voice to cheer her
Ana the evening hours beguiie?
NO, by all that makes home happy,
Woman'S worth over all below,
We will answer for the women,
And reiterate the mo"
Until reason, truth and Justice
Lead the husbands ali Alright
When therell be no midnight lectures
In the "voiceS of the night"
When the men will need no dressings
FROM their wiveS-fOr one and all
Will procure their clothes for dressing
AT the Mammoth Tower Hail."
And will be, indeed more pleasant
This not doubt admits
When not the wives but the Tower. only.
Shall give the husbands FITS.
Do not fail to join the irameuse thronp VIII
will visit Tower Hall to-day to secure rood m
md great bargains in Mems, Boys and Children
clothing.
Smyrna times., 1889-07-10
Enhoo.

The transition from long, lingering and pain
fnl sickness to robust health marks an epoch in
the life of an individual. Such remarkable
event is treasured in the memory and the agency
whereby the good health has been attained is
gratefully blessed. Hence il is that so much is
heard in praise of Electric Bitters. So many feel
they owe their restoration to health to the use of
the Great Alternative and Tonic If you are
Stomach, of long short standing you will surely
find reliefby use of Electric Bitters. Sold at soc
and 81 per bottle at Jas P. Ho1ecker's Drugstore,
Smyrna times., 1889-07-10
Boot and Shoe Making.

The subscriber offers his services TO the
citizens Of SmyFna as a Maker Of all kinds
of Boots and Shoes. Work done neatly
and with dispatch. His shop has been
moved from Mount Vernon street to Com
merce, in part of tho Rink Building Oe-
cupied by B. b. Allen.
JAMES n. MORRIS.
Smyrna times., 1889-07-10
3lIuf1rta4stlsrr' 3.
PHILADELPHIA, Monday, Julys /,

PHILADELPHIA, Monday, July 1850
According to the custom be-
gun by US four years ago, the
Saturday half holidays will
commence this week (I3th
inst.), and continue until fur
ther notice,
Smyrna times., 1889-07-10
IMPORTANT TO HOUSEKEEPERS.
RenOvate Your Feathers

And Remove most Prevalent Cause
of Disease.
A new and recently invented machine
will accomplish this without the least pos
sible dangers to the Feathers.
Smyrna times., 1889-07-10

Eent county canneries will not han
sla neaches this season.
Smyrna times., 1889-07-10

Harrington Methodist Protestants
- secured permanent pastor.
Smyrna times., 1889-07-10
15.,,ntv and State Items

.ba North. ll.OO A. NJ, ana $50 P. N.
tfoa he he south, 7.35 and ll.SO A. N.
Smyrna times., 1889-07-10

Wilmington Justices of the Peace
..onot legally try assault and battery
cases.
Smyrna times., 1889-07-10

William Slaughter of Dover, former
l., Of ofSlaughter Station, died in Dover
Thursday.
The National tribune., 1889-02-28
MUSTERED OUT.

AUGMENTATION l. Andrews died of coRssmp-
ton at his home, near Miller, Oak, on Jan. l. aged
50 years. He was member OF Co N, lst Ohio r. A.
S;IMMoNs-L. A. Simmons, S4th ILL.,. died in De-
een,ber last at Wellington, Kan.
RJCfIAIN-Eli 4. McClain, member of L. ID.
Morton Post No 36S, died Dee. % at his residence
near Eureka o., in his Doth year of disease con
tracted in the service He was born in ColuElbaua
County O.; moved to Gallia County, O.. where ne
enlisted in Co l. S6th Ohio, Aug Is 1861; re-en-
listed while at Chattanooga in February 1861; was
,yonnded in left shoulder at Winchester July "a
1891 and discharged as First Sergeant IN June
1865 He was beloved by all who knew him; his
memory will ever be cherished. He leaves a wife
and two daughters.
home in Salem, Mass, recently of paralysis aged
IS years At the outbreak of the rebellion he en-
listed in Co. Il, 23d Mass, and wRs at Roanoke
Island New Berne n. C., where he served in the
the schooner Highlander. He WAS made Assistant
SURGEON al Batcheder's Creek in 1862, and COM
nissioned July 81. He was Post Surgeon at
Plymouth N c., when the hospital was burned in
Winter Of 1863 4, and with Gen. Butler at Bermuda
Hundreds and with Grant at second Cold Harbor
until June 90 1864, when he was made Surgeon Of
the ID Mass. II. A, from June p, 1864, until the
regiment was mustered out in October, IS65.
DAyY-Capt. 7. u. Davy died while en- route
from Denver, Colo, to his homo in Blue Earth
MIMI recently at the outbreak of the war he
-aised and chosen Captain of Co. *, Ist Mimi
Cav known as the Mounted Rangers and after its
disbandment raised Co. H. I'd Mimi. Cav, and took
part in the Indian expeditions under Gen. Sibley
and others. He was brave officer and greatly be-
loved by his command He was instrumental in
establishing Sully Post, No. TO- and served its
Commander for five or six years. Conlrade Davy
was 5s years OF age, and leaves wife and several
children.
Boston, Mass. recently, aged 81 years. The de-
ceased enlisted in Co. of the aboVenaIned regi-
ment Nov. g. 1861, and reenlisted IN Co. e, March
The National tribune., 1889-02-28
PERSONAL.

There has been good deal of talk about Past
Commander-in-Chief Kountz for Postmaster of
Toledo o., but ne says he does not want the place
Gen. Stewart L. Woodford WILL on the invitation
of Post O. Gettysburg Pa, deliver the Memorial
Day Grafton there.
Shortly after the present Administration came
into power it removed Col c. A. White from the
postofice at Greeley, Colo. Col White had given
such excellent satisfaction in the position that
large number of the Democrats of Greeley refused
to sign any papers adverse to him. There is now
a strong effort to have him restored by the incom-
ing Administration. Col. White enlisted April TO-
1861 as private IN the Sd Mass. for three months
and re-enlised for three years in the Sd n. r.. in
which lie was promoted through all the grades to
the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. He was terribly
wounded twice at the battle of Deep Run.
Mrs Frances sherman Moulton. sister to Gen.
w. T. Sherman and Senator John Sherman and
widow of Col. Charles w. Mouton died at the resi-
dence of her son. Charles W. Moulton, in New York
Feb. 81, at the age of60.
Gen. j. D. Cox will deliver the Grafton at the I'M
vaiiing of the Garfield monument at Cleveland, o
Comrade Sam Hills is a member of the Ken
lucky Legislature and ct its last session he did not
forget his old comrades and the GAR. He sue
ceeded in fighting bills through, authorizing the
loan Oh arms 10 1OStS the Stat6 Arse
nal aud to make Memorial Day legal holiday
The latter measure is certainly avictory for old
vets and the G.A.R in Old KRintuek," at least
Hannibal Hamlin said at recent dinner that
there is tradition that the only Yice-Presiden
who was ever entirely in harmony with his chic
was Martin Van Buren,. He wanted to bear testi
mony that he himself was exception to that rule
if 1t was rule When he entered the Office of Vice
President he determined that nothing should pre-
vent his relations with Mr.. Lincoln being entirel,
| cordial and nothing ever did. During their whol
| four years not shadow of a cloud rose betweei
| them 1.-THE only fault / ever found with th
/ President was that he was disposed TO rely NOR
upon my suggestions than they were entitled &c
| And stand here tonight to proclaim that / leve
| asked Abraham Lincoln TO do thing on earth tina
he did not do it, Mr.. Hamlin said that the fruit
full source of trouble between Presidents and Vice
Presidents was that the outside world regarded tn
ee-President much bigger man than lac reall!
is Heis the second man in the Government in name
but in authority he is almost nobody. He has bu
| two places at his disposal-hs own Private SecTe
/ tary and the keeper OF the Senate restaurant.
The National tribune., 1889-02-28
TIE NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
WASHINGTON. D. c. FEBRUARY rs, 1889.
Who Has Filled His Culver Full
est Since the War?

10. children are s heritage Of the Lord.
As arrows are in the hand Of 8 mighty man. so
arc children Of the youth.
Happy is the man that hath his culver full OF
them: they shah fnot be ashamed, but they shall
speak with the enemies at the gate.-Psalm. III.
The Scriptures give the command TO men
to /" multiply and replenish the earth" We
believe the comrades have been as mindful
bf this as Of all other duties imposed upon
them by human or divine laws The rapid
increase of the population Of the country
since the war would indicate that they have
paid due heed to Il. The war demonstrated
TO thcm The need Of having an abundance of
good men in the Nation ready for any
emergency, and they naturally did not pro-
pose that the country should be exposed TO
any future danger by present remissness on
their part.
TEE NATIONAL TRIBUEE-alwsys inter
ested IN every thing connected with the vet
erans-is now particularly interested IN
knowing who Of the boys " who tOted a gun
In 1876 has raised the largest family
since the war. Let US know, comrades, who
has dene the best in this respect since the
surrender Of the rebel armies. 1t viii make
interesting reading for your comrades. and
they win rejoice with you that the Lord has
blessed you with such ~quiTerful.7