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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-12-31
Value Of a Single Potato.

California Fruit Grower thus dis
courses On the value Of single tuber:
Did you ever calculate the value of a
single potato, on the basis that that sin
gle tuber was the only one left in the
world? That one would, of course, con.
tain within itself the possibility of re-
stocking the world with a valuable arti-
Gle of food. If one potato would pro-
duce, when planted, but ten potatoes,
in ten years the total product of that one
potato would be 10000, 900, 900, which
would stock the whole world with seed.
IF the world were reduced to one single
potato, it would be better that London
Or Chicago be blotted from the earth
than for that one tuber to be lost.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-12-31
Electric BitterS.

This remedy is becomingso we'll known
and so popular as to need no special
mention. All who have used Electric
Bitters sing the same song of praise. A
purer medicine does not exist and it is
guaranteed to do all that is claimed.
Electric Bitters will cure all diseases of
the liver and kidneys, will remove PIN
Piles, boils, salt rheum and other aftec-
tons caused by impure blood. Will
drive malaria from the system and pre-
vent as we'll as cure all malarial fevers.
For cure of headache, constipation and
indigestion try Electric Bitters. Entire
satisfaction guaranteed, or money re-
funded. Price so cents and 81 per bottle
at any drugstore.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-12-31

so largely in East and South Flori da
And it is becoming q very important
question with some, in the Eastern and
Southern portions of our State where
vegetables and fruits are the leading
products, if the planting OF corn, at least
to a. limited extent, would not be better
than to neglect it altogether, when the
prices paid tor Western corn ranges from
60 cents to $1.00per bushel, and forage
from $4,000 andupwards per ton, to say
nothing of the labor and time in hauling
it.
The land selected was as poor as |
thought could be found on the station,
except some which was almost entirely
sterilized by various causes unnecessary
to mention here. The rows were five feet
apart and the corn on the unfertilized
plot averaged three feet in the drill, the
fortified about eighteen inches. The
stand ON each plot was complete one.
The stand in the fortified plots was too
crowded and, as a result, some stalks
failed to ear while some others did not
bear as heavy ears as they otherwise
would have done.
The fodder was not pulled and the corn
was fully matured.
The land was prepared by bedding with
the New South. The water 1urrow was
fertilized March 14th, and covered with
two burrows by a four inche bull-tongue
and the seed planted and covered with
two burrows by the same pillow.
When the plants began to break the
ground and some we're up as high as one
or two inches, astraight-toothed harrow
was run across the plots, leaving them
level. The use of the harr DIV at this time
is two-fold. First, it breaks the crust,
ensuring a good stand; and, second, it
serves as a working by killing the young
grass and the germs of grass seed just
beginning to ST rout.
The corn was worked by the Planet Jr.
cultivator on April 18th, 25th and May
18th. When laid by it was about four
feet high or when it was punching to
tassel.
The unfertilized plot yielded seven and
t1ree-fourths bushels.
Plot No. 2 was fertilized with Pot-Am-
moniac, manufactured by the Cotton
Ginning Company, Madison, Fla. It's
cost, delivered, was $275O per ton. One
thousand pounds was placed on an acre
and the yield was twenty and three-fourth
bushels. The excess costing per bushel
in round figures $1.O5.
No.'3.-One thousand pounds Of Blood
and Bone was used at a cost Of $1,000
per ton. The yield was twenty-four and
ono-third bushels. Cost per bushel OF
excess was Sill.
No. 4-This experiment was made with
a compost made on the farm, the formula
of which is given below, at therat of one
ton per acre. Outside the stable manure
the cost of materials in one ton was
$500. The yield was twenty seven an
one-third bushels. Cost per bushel OF ex-
cess was in a fraction of 35 cents.
No. 5 was made with one thousand
pounds black cotton seed meal manu-
featured by the Cotton Ginning Com
pany, of Madison, Fla. Its cost per ton,
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-12-31
|NTERL.ACKEN
(BETWEEN LAKES.)
Has 1900 Acres in Orange Groves III
have had a Wonderful Immu-
nifty from Frost.

1t contains three good hotels, three gener
stores, saw and planning mill, bank. money ord
postof1ce, telegraph Office the finest school bull
ing in Putnam county, seed house making Sc,
for the South a speciality, fine congregational al
Episcopal Church edifces, public library, a Ii
erary club, drug store rose garden of mar
culture and refinement found in but few places
the State No saloons and no cattle or hogs ru
ming at large This is the kind of town which Pc
pie seeking southern home are invited to can
and see. If they wish to remain transientIy
spend. the winter HOTEL INTERLACHEN E.
tends generous greeting at very moderate ratt
and very low terms to those who come early.
For particulars write for ILLUSTRATED Int
lachen" sent free to all applicants Address
GEO. w. HASTINGS,
Interlachen. Fla
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-12-31
FOR SALT
One of the Pje0S0nteSf Homes in De
Land, on Clara Avenue.
Next door north OF Floral CIR, We Hotel.

Next door north Of Floral Gre We Hotel.
INOOD, new, nine-room house, finished alloy
VI and below, well supplied with closets an
su rounded by wide verandas, and standing ]
lovely acre orange grove; so orange trees, te
years old. bearing good crops for several year
Other fruit trees, plums, pears, peaches. gueva
bananas. etc. Good well and 200-barrel cister
A beautiful winter home, Apply to
j. L. NTCKOLS, +
DeLand, Fla.
Or to W. N. EYLES, Wadsworth Ohio.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-11-22

mans nerve is not firm just then, he
wants to squint and make sure-he
hesitates, and is lost. The shooting
corrector remedies all this, without
your knowing it. That is where its
value comes in. 1t is small disc of
rubber, the size of nickel, fitted on a
small metal arm an inch or so long,
which screws into small hole made in
the oclS-plate of your gun, on the left
hand side. Put the gun up, and shoot,
and you will find you never saw the
corrector. But it got in its fine work
just the same. In this way the right
eye should govern the aim, but the left
eye, being defective in about seventy per
cent. of men, defects it moro or less.
Put the gun to your shoulder again,
point the muzzle at mark, close the
right eye and you find the corrector,
small as it is, completely blocks the
sight of the left eye, and compels the
aim to be correct.
This is the first important point, but
there are others. Taking the case Of a
bird rising on the wing, like duck, II
is necessary to shoot a foot or so above
it. If one eye is closed, the sight of the
bird by the other eye is blocked By thu
barrels, and he can not tell If he aims ond
foot or sir aboUe it, The corrector renders
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-11-22

the vision clear all round, and the dis.
tance can be gagged to an inch, and
still the sight of the left eye is blocked
as regards the muzzle. To render this
more plain, take an old stove-pipe hat
and push the muzzle of small rifle
about an inch through the center of the
crown. Close the left eye and try to hit
mark twenty or fifty yards away.
You can not, the hat blocks the sightl
The man who shoots with both eyes
open can do it every time. To him tbs
hat becomes ia0isible! To demonstrate
this, take a silver dollar, hold the bot
tom edge by the finger and thumb, hold
it foot from the face, closing the right
eye, and move it until the dollar covers
some small object looked at; then open
the right eye, and the dollar will appear
transparent, the left eye will seem to SEQ
through it, but ii does not, it sees below,
above, around, and the right eye only
sees the object behind the dollar.
This is the theory of the corrector.
1 do not believe it is patented in this
country, and, If not, any one can easily
make it.
A novelty that will be shortly on view
is four-barrelled gun, intended for
quick shooting. Each barrel is fred
SUCCESSFULLY, the four being all aligned
to one common center. For pot hunters
this is an unique weapon. Another for
the same purpose is the Gye gun Tor
Guy gun. as it is called). This is a
gun fitted with movable breech- piece
which contains the cartridge chambers,
and which slides into place on very
ingenious method. The idea is to have
four breech pieces and have man to
load them and hand them quick, as
wanted. The breech can be adjusted
without dropping the barrels. A cu-
rious invention in large punt guns for
wild-fowl shooting is by Sir Ralph
Payne-Gallway, the Irish authority on
guns. 1t is in closing the breech. In
stead Of opening in the usual manner,
two caps, one for each barrel, unscrew
to receive the cartridges and are
then screwed into the barrel cham bers
to be fred. The only objection to this
is the probability Of feathers, etc., get
ting in the grooves of the screw and
clogging them just when least wanted.
VILE p. POND.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-11-22
SOME SHARP REPLIES.
Eminent Mon Who Knew How to Say
Bitter Things on Occasion.

Eminent Mon Who Knew How to Say
Bitter Things on Occasion.
Robert Hall, even when insane, did
not lose his wonderful powers of re-
partee An insincere condoler once Wis.
tied him in the asylum, and said, in a
hypocritical tone: "What brought you
here, MIR. Hall?" Hall touched his fore
head with his finger, and replied :
What will never bring you, sir--too
much brain" The extreme sensitive
ness of Thackeray to criticism is we'll
known. He once said to Douglas Jer-
rold 81 hear that you have been saying
that The Virginians' ia the worst book
ever wrote" II never said any thing
of the kind" said Jerrold 81 said it
was the worst book that anybody ever
wrote" A lady who lived near Thomas
Carlyle kept Cochin China fowls, and
the Growing was so intolerable null
sanoe that the philosopher sent to COM
plain of it. The lady was indignant
why" she said, "the fowls only crow
four times day, and how can Mr. Gar
lyle be so much annoyed at that ?"
1.-THE lady forgets," was the character
istfe rejoinder, "the pain suffer In wait
ing for those four crows" The old
nurse of James l., having followed him
from Edinburgh to London, entreated
him to make her son a gentleman. "My
good woman" said the King, 81 might
make him a laird Qandowner), but
could never make him q gentleman" :"
"They tell me, Sir John, that you like
glass of wine," said George I'LL to the
INV, n low -t,- Chiaf ~, Tra1 str1
who have reported that fact" replied
Sir George Irwin, shave done me great
injustice. / like bottle.' The Duke
of Norfolk, who was much addicted to
the bottle, asked Foote, the actor, in
what new character he should go to q
masquerade. $50 SOBER" was the in
stant reply. A young officer complained
to Napoleon that he had been six years
a Lieutenant 81 served seven years in
that grade" was the answer, "and it
has not prevented me from making my
way" Napoleon was at one period Of
his career a great economist He said,
between st. Cloud and Paris, to Lauris-
ton: why does not the carriage go
faster?" at would" answered Lauris-
ton, 'if more oats were allowed" The
transition from Napoleon to Wellingto ton
is easy On one occasion the Duke was
in imminent danger of being drowned
at sea. The captain of the ship at bed.
time came to him and said: SIT will
soon be all over with u.s." Every WE'LL
answered the Duke, 'then l shall not
take off my boots" At some party a
lady of high rank asked him whether it
was true that he had been surprised at
Waterloo by Napoleon. 81 never was
surprised till now," was the character.
istic reply.-Cassell's Saturday jour
nal
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-11-22
Tho Price of wild BEASTS.

In the European market even wild
beasts have their price. The chief
center of the wild beast trade (says
continental contemporary is Hamburg,
where the price list is as follows: Lions
and tigers average 1000 francs apiece,
leopards 450 francs, spotted panthers
800 francs, while black panthers range
from $500 francs to $3.50 francs. For
spotted tigers the large sum of 5000
francs is paid. The market value of q
rhinoceros varies from $3.50 francs to
23, 900 francs, African elephants average
1,250 francs, Indian elephants 5000
francs. The price of monkeys ranges
from 20 francs for a small monkey to
1880 francs for ohimpanzees and orsng-
outangs. Foreign Exchange.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-11-22
IN AN OLD ORCHARD.

Usrn think Of me alway as deaf and voicels5s,
EIaving no memory for time or things
T1nwstchful OF the passing of the seasons
Unmindful OF the fluttering Of wings.
4&nd wist not that through all the winter
weather,
AS over me the snow its white net weaves,
8ls sharp winds whistle down the barren
passes
Ny gaunt arms hunger for the coming leaves,
and hong once more to see the buds run riot
Among my lichened branches bare and gray,
10 hear again the nesting birds so woong
Adown my borders all the liveong day.
By leaves give welcome when the birds wing
ho1neward
Nroyn Southern winter into Northern spring,
And Ia the late fall days the same leaves lingcr
To sec the last bird southwark turn its wing.
When through the vanished years have for
gotten
In early spring to set my ways ablow,
TO hing broad leaves adown the paths to
sAeltOr
The lambs and children in the hot noon glow
whxn through the vanished years have I for.
gotten,
As sharp frosts touch and scar the garden
ways,
4and snmmer's ample vintages are shrunken,
To bring my fruitase in the autumn daysf
Then think not am alway deaf and voiceless
Having no memory for bud and song,
Tor through my gnarled and barren branches
ever
'rSe thoughts of nesting birds and blossoms
throng.
Lucy L. Tilley, in Harpers Weekly
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-11-22
good paper cartridges. and so may be
thrown away.

good paper cartridges. and 30 may be
thrown away
II desired they can be reloaded to
almost any extent. have one that has
been fred two hundred and seventeen
times, and is in good order yet Regu-
larity of shooting is not all that is to be
gained by their use; owing to their be-
ing so much thinner than paper, they
occupy less room in the chamber of the
breech, accommodate q larger charge,
and practically produce from q twelve
bore gun the shot pattern and execution
of ten-bore, no mean advantage, as
any sportsman we'll knows. The most
valuable invention, however, Is what is
called shooting corrector. Every one
knows that the proper way to shoot is to
shoot with both eyes wide open; but
how few Of the older shots, not to men,
tion the inexperienced sportsmen, have
trained themselves to accomplish this
feat. And yet it is very easy. To dem-
onstrate it, stick up piece of dark
paper on wall, gaze at it with both
eyes, pull up your gun to the shoulder,
then squint with the right eye along
the barrels, and you will find the muz-
zles cover the mark.
Try this on moving bird, and, If
your nerve is firm, and you do not press
the trigger just too soon or just too
late, you will hit it. But the average
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-11-22

manuscript in his hand, he said: "Now,
| Arabella we can have comfortable
| time"
Mrs. Hornbill heard the words and
Mr.. Hornbill saw the door opening, and
with one breath he extinguished the
light and left tho room in darkness as
he hid behind the table.
"Horatio, where are you, and what
does this mean?" she asked, but no an
swer came. Mr.. Hornbill heard his wife
feeling her way toward the table, and
with o presence of mind that showed
| genius he poured glass OF water into
the matchbox.
Mrs. Hornbill felt about the tablo
until she had the MATCHBOX, and then
proceeded to scratch each match with
out any Of them lighting. She then
thought of her husbands vest, and
while on her way to 1t he crept noise-
| lessly into the hallway; and she, find
ing the vest hanging on a chair tried
to light a number of toothpiclrs that she
found in the pocket before learning Of
her mistake; then, trying another
pocket, she found some matches and
lighted the candle.
AS she looked about the room and saw
the dummy she gave scream and ex.
claimed: "Horrorsl you impudent
thing, what are you doing here? Speak,
you Arabellal" And as her husband
entered with the dress-coat on his arm
she turned to him and continued:
Now, tell me it is mistake If you
can. Look at that thing-with No. 9
shoes on, as Hve!"
THAT" said Mr. Hornbill, as he
knocked the dummy over, ''is the Ara
bella that l was rehearsing with, and
now you have spoiled the surprise that
Mary had arranged for you; but this
coat! now tell me that it is a mistake"
"That" answered his wife. "And
now you have spoiled surprise that
John had arranged for you"
Mutual explanations followed, and
the tin-wedding was happy success.
though the surprises had to be omitted.
-Chicapo Newa
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-11-22
YOUR OWN HOUSE.
Suggestions for Industrious Wage-Work-
ers Everywhere.

suggestions Tor Industrious Wage-Works
ers Everywhere.
There is no end of "plans of lots espe.
cially adapted to the convenience Of
workingmen' for sale in and about
Pittsburgh, and there is a big demand
for such lots. The syndicate of speou-
lators buy 10 acres, say at 81, 900 an acre,
cut each acre up into 16 lots and retail
them at from $3.50 to S400 lot This
gives them about S4, 500 for each acre,
and it may cost $500 an acre for expenses,
leaving the enterprising speculators
clear $4,000 or 300 per cent on the ad-
venture. Mayhap the speculator is
worthy of his hire, but there is biblical
authority for asserting positively that
the laborer is thus worthy, and logically
he is entitled to have this hire economi-
sally expended.
If instead Of 16 workmen buying lots
equal to one acre from specuiators,
these 16 were to form little syndicate
Of their own and put up 81, 800, they
could buy two acres for $1,000, thus
giving them double the area in each lot
that the speculators would sell them,
and expend the balance SO as TO have
roadways, boardwalk, fencing and other
improvements. Men who have the good
sense to save money to build their own
homes should exercise this sense little
further and do as is suggested in the
foregoing.
Money invested in this way is as we'll
Invested as in savings bank, and prom
ises much largest interest in case some
time hereafter one may desire to sell
out For don't you see each man would
have the advantage of low price for
his real estate. The 16 with whom we
illustrate this plan would have clean
profit in their two acres Of 81, 900 or S475
each as compared with what others pay
real estate speculators. This is a pretty
good margin to start off with, and would
certainly assure the individual against
loss If he wished to sell. ll.-National
Labor Tribune.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-11-22
CHILDREN AT PLAY.
bliss Harrison and Her Ideas OF Teachil
I,ittle Tots.

Little Tots.
sat among the mothers at the Ar
Institute the other morning aud listened
to Miss Harrison, the high priestess o.
kindergarten doctrines, lecture on play
and the influence 1t exercises over the
after life of the child. She said:
"The moro heartily child plays the
more vigorously the man works. Drudg'
cry is work of any kind in which the
heart takes no part
"Work heartily done is always success.
full financially, intellectually, and
spiritually. Seek ye first the kingdom
Of Heaven and all things shall be added
unto you.' The kingdom of Heaven, in
this case, is that harmony which comes
when the hands do what tho head and
heart desire. The right kind OF quiet,
serene infancy leads into the right kind
Of vivid childhood. The mother can aid
her child ty holding up to him higher
idea of the play 'han he has himself
conceived Of The best mother is she
who remembers the play of her own
childhood and thereby becomes play
mate with her child.
"You can prepare your children for
the right kind of parenthood by helping
them to play with sufficient heartiness
to impress the play upon them. Let the
children do the work of building their
train of cars, but you give them an idea
by waving your handkerchief to the
lady who has gone aboard or by inquir-
ing of the conductor If he is going to
New York. All the great thinkers OF
the world-Aristotle Luther, etc.-have
dwelt upon the Importance of childish
play, and Schiller says: "A deep mean
ing often lies in childish play, but it re-
mained for Froebel to show how educa'
tion begins with play"
To illustrate how easily the mother
can give ideas to the child Miss Harri-
son told the story of young Chicago
matron who is the mother of q four
year-old girl. The child recently visited
her grandmother and heard the story OF
Cinderella. On returning homo she ex-
claimed: Nov, mamma, let us play.
You be Cinderella and I'll bo the step
mother" Her mother assented, and
seating herself assumed a very sorrow
full expression.
"You are not going to that ball, said
the child in her harshest tone. "You
must stay home and clean up your
ashes"
The mothers expression grew sadder
as in broken voice she replied: "Ah,
If only could go somewhere, instead OF
having always to work in ashes" The
child caught the idea that she was play
ing cruel part and in an instant re-
marked: 81 don't want to be step
mother. I'll be the fairy godmother,"
and waving her wand in the air said:
"You shall go to the ball. Here is your
carriage"
After the mothers had joined in a
ssng about the brown leaves of autumn,
the lecturer took up some autumn leaves
and showed how the child could be in
troduced to the mysteries of science.
The dried brown leaves seem dead, but
nature never dies, only changes for
and a glance at the twig from
which the brown leaves have fallen will
discover the tiny green buds which will
be the leaves of the coming sprin" -
Chicapo News,
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-11-22
@"5ra're2 N0ke' RECESS .Goks

this is right as far as 1t goes, but there
is such thing as ''reeess choke"
which is exactly the opposite OF con-
striction. and to many minds is the
more preferable ''choke" of the two, as
there is no danger of wad jambing
in the barrel. A good thing to know
is how to tell when gun is cholked,
and to what extent. To do this with q
breech-loading gun lower tho barrels.
place the breech to the eyes and raise
the muzzle until the light shines full
into them; then slowly lower the muz-
zle, and watch the way the shadow steals
into the barrel.
If 1T enters and progresses down both
sides with even side lines, the gun is a
cylinder. The curoe in the side lines will
give the amount of ',choke." either ''re-
cess" or otherwise. With a muzzle
loader 1T needs an expert; he tells by
the pattern at certain ranges, and by
the feel of the wad as 1t is pushed down
the barrel Another imported article
which is worth attention is the Kynoch
brass she'll. We have had brass shells
galore and have got heartily tired OF
them with their stiff edges and cease
less clang in the pocket when emptied,
and we did not think the increased rapid
ity OF shooting worth the much advanced
cost The Kynoch she'll, however. is a
very different affair. 1t is thin, light
shell OF malleable brass, which whom
loaded in the usual way, is crimped into
a point, holding the wads over the shot
secure. These are the same price ~