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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-07-02
Cultivating and Pruning.
Midland, Fla.

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Editor Florida AgricuIturist:
How 1 do pity you! Really you throw
up thesponge and call for quarters in your
"Advice for June" Gin June 4th issue.)
"Of courseit is more than waste oftime
and space to advance any advice as to
cultivation of the grove. Every grove
owner has his. own ideas, and the proba-
bility is that he is SO firmly welded to
them that nothing we could say would
wean him from his folly" Am sorry, but
can't help it; we old cranks have our
''ideas," sure enough, and we are hard to
"wean." That's so, and one naturally
concludes that you had just been reading
over the article on the first page OF your
excellent paper of the previous week, con-
tanning such far-reaching and erudite
statements as ''this everlasting blowing,
narrowing, cultivating and hoeing, never
giving the tree or soil any rest, never al
lowing a blade of grass to take in some
of those elements the free air would so
lavishly spend upon it, - etc.
"Again, the grower who has got it into
his head that an orange tree should be
pruned, and with a knife and saw, makes
a wanton attack on this delicate plant"
ETC. every little leafet has it's little
root that feeds it, and the plant suffers in
proportion to the injury we have done
either"
The foregoing was doubtless in your
mind when you, in despair, gave up the
hopeless task, and you perhaps recalled
the case of my neighbor, Capt. Hester,
which reported, in which he allowed one
half of his fine model grove to "rest'' from
"this everlasting blowing, narrowing, cul-
tivating and hoeing' for a reasonable
portion of the summer, and did allow Ga
blade of grass Eyes, several of them,) to
take in some of the elements the free air
would SO lavishly spend upon it, while
he cruelty abused the other half by per-
sistent and thorough culture, in accord
ance with the teachings of all agricultural
science and the uniform practice of every
successful worker of the soil since Adam
wrought in Eden (f he ever did).
Mr. Hester had good crop of very fine
oranges, but fully three-fourths of it grew
upon the half which was SO shamefully
treated and neither "trees nor soil al
lowed to rest" Mr.. Hester and his man
in charge both think they will fuse brains
enough to find out for themselves what
is needed, both for the growth of the tree
and for perfect fruit" and this season
will risk the consequences of not allowing
that delinquent half quiteso much crest.
CA real, genuine, modern discovery that
cultivated crops of any kind, and the soil
also, need rest from cultivation, and that
the crop will do better by being obliged
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-07-02
Rucklen,s Arn1ca SaIve.

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Corns, and off Skin Eruptions, and posi-
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box. For sale by both the drugstores.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-07-02
Loss in Ordinary Sugar Manufacture.

mills and open boilers employed to man.
ufacture our sugar cane cropsin Florida.
was aware years ago, when | used to
manufacture for myself that the loss was
very considerable, but had a good chem
list to come to my old two rOller-mill,
pulled by one or two good horses and he
proposed to show me by actual expert
ment that / was losing nearly one hall OF
my crop. would have set him down on
my bill Of estimates as humbug, full
fedged, buzzng about to get free meals
and good lodging, while prospecting our
State or hunting up school to get a lit
tie money out of to get away on.
But the fact has been so undeniably
demonstrated by actual experiment that
any man who will dispute it, should at
once go down on the bills as an ignO-
ramus in sugar making, no matter how
wise in other matters.
| met neighbor the other day, who
pointed to his two rOllermill with gen
teel boast of how clean it took the Juice
out, and remarked, 81 got five barrels
of clean sugar off that little patch,' bare
ly one-third of an acre. | told him he
had lost barrel or more of the crop on
his mill, but he dissented at once from
my opinion.
Had known then what | learned since,
from an article of experimental chemical
analysis, from q copy of the Louisiana
Planter and Sugar Manufacturer, of May
Bird 1890, | would have surprised him
more if possible, by telling him he had
lost two and one-half barrels Of his crop.
We will just figure little on it here and
by an extract from the above mentioned
organ of facts and figures, which to doubt
is to dscredit, or set aside as false, all
chemical demonstrations.
This gentleman got five barrels which
at 200 pounds each, made 1000 pounds
of dry sugar from small fraction of over
one-third of an acre. Allowing then that
one acre of such would have given IA
barrels or $500 pounds dry sugar per
acre Now let Us add one third or loss in
juice, which will appear shocking1y in
credible-etill much too small-and we
have forty-one and one-half barrels to
add to fourteen aggregating Is and one
hall barrels per acre or 3,7OO pounds net
sugar. Now we paid one of this gentle
mans neighbors 6 cents per pound for
the same quality of brown sugar, which
price given on 300 pounds would be
1924. Now subtract as loss from this
$74 66% which is but one-third and there
remains $149 33h for sugar the estima
ted loss Off Add to this $3.50 for drip
pings, on the whole little enough, and
you have $179.33 per acre, $74.33 4 as
loss.
This reminds me of the sad loss of cot
ton planters in the Middle States where |
used to run up and down and turn sum-
mersaults on cotton seed piles back OF
the gin houses where enough seed lay
and rotted annually to have betrayed all
expenses on every farmers crop in the
land, leaving the lint as clear gain. No
wonder farmers are poor.
But to talk to our ordinary cane grow
ers in South Florida, who use the one and
two horse power mills and open kettles,
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-07-02

daring lntruder.) Dear Mr.. Editor, II you
would in future thrive and grow fat, just
give half your dinner to some neighbours
dog, and if you wish your cow and horse
to grow strong and do you good service
give one half of their ratiOns to some
range cows, for this is in accordance with
modern science.
/ will give one little item of personal ex-
perience: In the early spring OF 1891
was visiting my son here and spying out
the land to see if | would like to make for
myself ahome in this much talked of land.
Having been accustomed to care for fruit
trees all my life, my son wanted me to
look over his bearing orange trees and
prunc them for him. That | did not feel
like doing, without knowing something
of the habits of growth, etc. But, as an
experiment. selected one of the smaller
trees-a Seeding that was capable of bear
ing, perhaps, three hundred oranges, but
was in a VERY bad condition-really sickly
from scale or other causes which [ knew
nothing about.
| decided to try "heroic" pruning, and
with saw and knife and shears | made "a
wanton attack on this delicate plant"
and when was we'll under way, my wife
came out and asked what [ was doing,
and if proposed to kill the tree, ETC., and
said there we're more limbs on the ground
than on the tree, etc. But [ finished the
job had undertaking. "thinned it out"
thoroughly "opened it up shaped the
top, and let in the sunlight, just as [ had
been accustomed to do with my apple
trees. This was in the latter part of
March, and [ soon left for my Northern
home.
When we moved here the nextfall to try
our fortune in raising oranges the very
first thing did was to examine my expe-
rimental tree and note the result Of my
heroic treatment, and was not surprised
when found it loaded with fine fruit and
apparently the healthiest and most Wig
orous tree in the grove of some five hun
dred trees.
[ have watched it since, and in all these
(nearly Sky years it has been fruitful,
thrifty and shapely. Such are facts, and
can be gathered by the score and hundred.
Still do not advocate or practice excess
sive pruning, and know that very great
harm is done by too much pruning, es-
pecially by cutting away low branches
that should shade the trunk of the tree.
want no more high-topped, long bodied
orange trees that require forty foot lad
der to pick the fruit when grown. would
avoid all extremes and note carefully the
results of different methods in culture and
try to find the golden mean" and fol-
low it.
For six years [ have been doing it
faithfully, and think have learned few
things, and one is that the orange tree
though a "delicate plant"-will stand
more than any other tree of my acquaint-
ance, and will survive and recover from
more set-backs and mal-treatment, and
to this one fact | attribute much'Of the
difference in opinions practiced in caring
| for it.
1t will do fairly well under almost any
system or no system; when well worked,
or when allowed to rest, but cannot do
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-07-02

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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-03-08
PERSONAL MENTION.

GEORGE PROCTOR is in from Union.
A. LEvITE, of Evanston, is at the Cullen.
w. NJ. RAGLAND of Springville, is in town
BERT SEYBoLDT is in from Fort Du Chesne
JUDGE DUsENBERY came up from Provo yes
terday
FRANK BOYER came up from Springville yes
terday.
LAMONT CALL was down from Bountiful yes
terday.
DIR, J. B, KEYsoR has just returned from q
months trip to the coast
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-03-08
ADJUSTMENTS.


Edgar w. Nye, as his parents named
him-or plain 'Bill" as he has made him
self known to the world-made his first
ungainly bow before Salt Lake audience
last evening, and much we regret that it
is likely to be his last. A very select
audience of probably four or five hundred
people assembled to greet him, and it is
safe to say that the number would have
been doubled but for the strong counter
attraction at the Grand Nye gives an
entertainment which is like himself dis
similar to anything else on earth, in the
earth or under the earth. He appears on
the programme as it were, in snatches,
gives an anecdote, then a recitation, then
reading and then some stray remarks, all
being intermingled with piano solos, violin
solos, etc., and the whole working up an
evening most genuinely delightful. AS his
long, lank form, surmounted by the per-
fectly bold head and moonlike bespectacled
countenance which have been made so
familiar to readers of THE HERALD
made its appearance and came down
to the front after the manner of
some immense baby-a big round
of applause went up that should have made
MIR. Nye feel perfectly at home. He began
by saying they had arrived so late in the
IOWn budG bISy were SUlHoWudG weary,
they only had time to dress themselves and
buy some real estate samples, of which he
was going to take home with him. He re-
lated anecdotes of his experience since
starting out on his stage career, and re-
lated how his trainer had suggested
various modes of making up his pro-
gramme, including the hiring of power
full brass band to play half an hour
at the beginning of his lecture, half
an hour at the close, and possibly
right on during the lecture itself. He had
also thought of hiring pugilist and had
gone to his room for rehearsal. He had
vivid recollection of going to the room-his
mind was not so clear as to his coming
away. There was horneton the wall, one
of the old fashioned base burner kind of
hornets, and while the pugilist was looking
at that, Nye had dealt him powerful
blow-one that would have killed him
easily-if he had been there. He told an
amusing little yarn of an Irishman. and
read, la schoolboy, with a manner that
told his mimetic powers were as
strong as his descriptive, the story
from McGuffey's reader published
In The HERALD few Sundays
ago. The effect, with his third reader
covered with colico, was something ire
sistably ludicrous. Being recalled. he told
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-03-08
The Salt Lake Building.

WASHINGTON, March 7.--After unim-
portant business the Senate proceeded to
consideration of bills on the calendar The
public building bills on the calendar hay
ing been reached, the following passed:
Oakland $500, O00; Cheyenne, Wyo., $780,
600; Helena, 100000. The bill appro-
priating $500, 900 for Salt Lake city having
been reached, Plumb moved to reduce the
appropriation to S40O,000.
Paddock opposed the amendment and
said site centrally located could not be
had for less than 100000. The appro-
priation should really be S7O0,000 The
rents now being paid there by the govern
ment are fifteen thousand dollars to twenty
thousand dollars year.
Plumb asserted that when he was in Salt
Lake city last summer a suitable site
could have been had for twenty
thousana dollars or thirty thousand dol
lars. The bill went over without action
and the Blair educational bill came up as
untinis he'd business. Hale opposed the bill.
Blair then addressed the Senate. He in
sisted that the Republican party was
| pledged in It's platform to the passage Of
his bill, and he predicted that if that party
failed to make good its pledge, that fact
would put an end to the party. He was
not mistaken as to the source from which
most of the misrepresentation In the north
concerning the bill had come. The Judi
cial power of the country had decided that
the way to get control of the schools was
to get control of the press. The press had
received its full share of attention and had
manifested it full share of subserviency
The New York papers were monopolies of
the worst kind, aud the country papers
had been perverted and poisoned by them.
After executive session, adjourned untl
| Monday
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-03-08
FINALLY WOUND UP.
After Seventeen Years in Business, Mr.. Gold
berg Retires.

Mr.. L. Goldberg, for seventeen years
past one of the prominent clothing merch-
ants of Salt Lake, has finally closed out
his stock end will hereafter be found in the
walks of private life. To HERALD re-
porter who dropped into his establishment
yesterday, Mr. Goldberg said: ''The
whole balance Of my stock has been sold to
Mr. Richard Morris, of st. George, who
secured great bargain by cleaning up the
whole l believe he intends to use the
stock to supply the hands who will work
on the new canal in st. George. My lease
does not expire till the end of March, so l
shall keep my Office here till that time. A
new front will then be put into the build
ing and the partition wall taken out to
make the stores ready for Mr. Kellner, the
new tenant"
Mr.. Goldberg also said that he wished to
return through The HERALD his grateful
thanks to the whole public of Utah, ire
spective of class or party, who. had ex
tended him their patronage during the past
seventeen years; 1T was his intention to.take
| life quietly for a while, but if events so
shaped themselves in the future that he
should decide on entering business again,
he hoped to be able to.command a renewal
of the patronage of all old time friends.
| Mr. Morris. whose purchases amount to
ffty-two big cases, is pushing off his ship
ments to St. George. He acknowledges
freely that he got everything at prices I'M
heard of before, and he says he will offer
the goods to the people and the stores in
the south at rates which will be great help
to them in the straits to which many OF
them are reduced by the failure of their
water supply.
| Mr.. Morris has some fine real estate in
terests in choice parts of the Thirteenth
ward, which he will remain here to dispose
of
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-03-08
Forfeiture of Railrnad Lands.

WASHINGTON, March THE Senate COM
mittee on public lands this morning re-
ported general land grant forfeiture bill
framed on the same lines ass the bill passed
by the Senate during the last Congress.
The bill forfeits to the United States all
lands opposite to and conterminus with
that portion of any railroads not now COM
pleted and in operation, for the construc-
ton or benefit of which lands heretofore
have been granted, provided, however,
this shall not be construed as FORGETTING
lands heretofore earned by the construc-
ton of any portion of railroad under any
act of Congress making grant of lands,
Persons in possession of any forfeited
lands under title derived from the state or
corporation to which the restored lands
were granted, are given the right to pur-
chase the lands from the United States in
quantities not exceeding 800 acres by any
person at the rate of S1.25 per acre
at any time within two years
after the passage of the act. Where per-
sons or corporations hold land to which,
under the terms of this act, they cannot
obtain title from the United States. they
are given six months within which to re-
move growing crops or improvements
which may be made. A clause added to
this section provides that it shall not apply
to any lands in Iowa in which any person
in good faith has made or asserted his
right to make pre- emption or homestead
settlement. The bill repeats certain sec
lions of several acts in regard to land
grants in Iowa and Minnesota which
conflict with its provisions. In home
stead entries of forfeited lands,
parties will be given credit for the time
they have already been on the land. If it
shall be found any lands heretofore granted.
to the Northern Pacific railway company
and restored to the public domain lie north
of the Garrison line, in Washington, per-
sons who acquired title to these lands from
the railway company prior to July, 1885,
shall be entitled to purchase the lands
within one year from the United States at
the rate of 81 80 an acre.
The city of Portland, Ore, is confirmed
in certain riparian rights of way which it
secured in order to obtain good water
supply.
In cases where grants are made to aid in
the construction of main and branch lines
and the grants conflict but only one line
has oeen completed, the grant shall not
inure to the benefit of the completed road.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-03-08
A SUGAR Combine.

New YORK, March Z. = The reported
combination among wholesale dealers in
sugar has caused considerable comment
here. There seems to be no fear, how
ever, that the price of sugar will be iu-
creased to any great extent. F. B. Thur
Der says the combination has existed
between New York and New England two
years, and now it is proposed to extend it
to the entire country. Twelve hundred
firms in forty years have Joined it, 1t is
not trust, but the object is to prevent If
regularity of prices and cutting below
legitimate profits. The price at which
sugar may be sold to retailers will be tele-
graphed daily to wholesalers, and at the
end of the year dealers will give rebate
4 cent per pound to all who have not cut
under established rates.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-03-08
Mutiny at Sea.

NEW YORK, March THE story of a
mutiny is told by Captain A. M, Praby, of
the ship Rieta, from Rio de Janiero.
The ship was from Calcutta, and put in at
Rio. She was commanded by the second
mate with nine sailors before the mast
the captain, first mate and five sailors
were in irons. Several days out from Cal
cutta some salt pork was given the sailors
and during the night nine mutinied.
When they complained of the food, the
captain said he would starve them into
submission. The men armed themselves
with pistols and swords and headed by the
second mate commanded the captain TO
give them the key to the store room. The
captain refused, summoned the first mate
and five seamen. They only could find
two pistols and a musket. Two of the
sailors that stood by the captain were shot
down. The captain and first mate anG
three sailors were placed in irons, but the
mutineers brought the ship to Rio. The
British consul was informed and nava
court convened which sent the mutineers
to jail. They will probably be shipped tc
| England
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-03-08
HOW NOT TO Do IT.
DOlph's Special Committee Still
GrOpes in the Dark.
FORFEITURE OF RAILROAD LANDS.
A Senate Bill for the Same Reported Plumb
Moves to Reduce Salt Lakes Public
Building Appropriation.

WASHINGTON, March6.-Senator Dolph's
special committee having failed to extract
any information from the newspaper men
to-day, took another tack and beginning at
the head of the list summoned members Of
the Senate to appear before it and put them
through course of questioning similar to
that applied to the newspaper men. 1t is
understood that those summoned to day
asserted they had never disclosed the pro-
ceedings beyond the limitations of the
rules. The examination of Senators will
require two or three days. The impress
sion prevails that a resolution to imprison
the correspondents for contempt will fail,
but there is a probability that some Of
them will be certified to the district at
torney for prosecution on the charge oil
sedition.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-03-08
Government Postal Telegraph Arguments.


WASHINGTON, March THE House COM
mittee on postofice, etc., to-day resumed
consideration of the postal telegraph, and
was addressed by Ralph Beaumont, chair
man Of the legislative committee of the
knights of Labor. Representative Wade
introduced in the last Congress bill for
government telegraph embodying the
knights Of Labor's views, but the
bill died with many others. He did
not think the postmaster generals bill
was good business proposition What
farmer would buy half farm when he
could buy whole one. No government
was abundantly able to buy the whole
thing and carry it on without furnishing
business opportunities for some one else.
This country now is practically
government of corporations by
corporations and for corporations.
DIR. Green, said Beaumont, was solicitious
about the people in the telegraph business
who would be ruined by government COM
petition, yet he was president of the cor
poration that had repeatedly crushed oppo-
sition companies and other people who in
vested money in the telegraph business.
The witness favored Wade's bill and said
the government should own, oper-
ate and control its own system
He admitted thatifW anamaker's bill result
edi n cheap telegraph rates for the people
generally he would be better pleased than
under the present system. He wanted the
bill passed, but as all legislation was the
result of compromise, he should be glad to
see Wanamaker's bill passed as an opening
wedge
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-03-08
JACKSON AND LAMBERT.
Parson Davies Tells How the Troy Man Man.
aged to Puzzle Peter.

CLEVELAND, March Peter Jackson
and party arrived to-day. In an interview
Parson Davies den led the story that Jack
son was nearly knocked out in Troy by
Lambert 1.-THE latter" he said, ''is a
professional wrestler weighing 240 pounds
who went in to get the 800 promised TO
any one who stood before Jackson four
rounds. He got it, too" said the parson,
mournfully. HE would agree to no one
for referee but saloonkeeper friend,
and then insisted on eight-ounce gloves.
Now what can any one no with pillows!
Then he didn't fight. He rushed in,
grabbed jackson around the waist and
tried to throw him. Peter obeyed the
rules and called for foul. The referee
wouldn't allow it, then or when Lambert
repeated his tactics. In fact, all Lambert
did was to run around the stage trying to
keep away from Jackson, and when he
failed in that, would duck his head, rush
in and catch Peter around the waist. That
was all there was to it,"