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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-05-14

tree think they are we'll worth spend
ing time and money upon in Florida.
What is this root knot and what tcauses
il? Ii it is a parasite can we not apply
something to it that will cure or prevent
it? think we should investigate this,
especially if we can command glass to
examine the root and see what remedy
there is. can remember when the po-
tato beetle first made its appearance in
the West and destroyed the potato crop,
and we all thought we would have to give
up raising potatoes. Prof Riley came
and told us a remedy which cured the po-
tatO beetle. He has done that same
thing in many other lands OF our world.
think it should be investigated with a
view of finding out what the cause is. l
think it is parasite. I think-coperas or
tobacco will prevent it if put in the
ground before the trees are planted
With regard to planting peach trees 1
plan to prepare your ground andfertilize
it some lit lie before you put your trees
in. | think that prevents diseases in
plant life as long as it lasts.
Mr.. BIELBY.-It seems rather ex traordi-
nary that any one neshould ask for an inves-
tigation the root knot It has been exam
ined 1.-THE history Of the insect with cuts
and drawings and all that sort OF thing,
has been issued and was circulated broad
cast some two or three years ago, and
Prof. Neal convinced himself as being
helpless to prevent it. He suggested GER
tain remedies, but they were simply ex-
perimental remedies A fewyear ago the
cure was ashes but now it is tobacco
Now my remedy is an ak. never saw a
tree that had it that was worth saving.
Ihave tried very hard the usual methods.
put $18 worth Of copperas on a little
orchard once and the trees are dead now
[ do not think it did much, il any, good.
My idea is like Mr.. Taber's, to wait until
the root knot passes by, as the insects
come and pass away, after time. 1t is
an enemy to peach culture that we can
not afford to wave aside. We cannot
raise them here. The man who has four
or five hundred trees may get 100 hush
els of peaches. Ihave got fifty trees to-
day, they thatwere planted on a damp soil,
are all right. They were set twenty feet
apart and / cannot drive through them
now | use fifteen or twenty dollars
worth of fertilizer each year and get
enough peaches to supply my small FAM
lily. You know a small family can eat
good many peaches sometimes. Al
though tie trees have the root knot it
does not effect them like it did the other
peach trees on the high land. At the
same time believe they are going to live
through it. | do not think we should
try to cultivate peach trees where the
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rOOtknot hastaken possession of the soil.
A MEMBER.-Can any one give us some
information about the tree borer?
Mr.. TABER.-The tree borer is q little
worm that goes along the surface OF the
ground and gets under the bark and goes
vertically up and down under the bark
for space of couple of inches and they
are very easily eradicated. You can see
the gum OOzing out of the bark and you
can very easily see where they are at
work, and an application with sharp
knife will remove Mr. Borer without any
trouble to the tree, although | never
touched tree for borers yet. LII very
young trees it will occasionally kill one,
but in order to do so there has to be a
great many bOrers in a tree, and the time
and money spent in going over the or
chard finding them, and the labor spent
in removing them amounts to more than
it takes to replace the trees. Mr.. Rum
OF Georgia is reported to have made
money out Of peach trees and does not
touch the borer. We have it TO some ex-
tent. 1t is different from root knot. The
borer can be readily seen by any one just
walking through an orchard. The gum
Oozing out is a sure sign and if you don't
see any of it you can know there is no
harm being done by the borer. 1t is not
considered by peach growers as being
worth bothering with. 1t may be worse
in some localities than in others.
The PREsIDENT.-W will leave this
subject and take up the next which is
Strawberries.
Mr.. Stephen Powers, from the COM
mittee on Strawberries, read the follow
ing paper on the
CULTIVATION OF THE STRAWBERRIES.
Mr.. President and Members of the Florida Horti-
cultural Society:
First, will present some notes on new varie-
ties. and then make brief statement of progress
with the old. For the information on the new
varieties I am indebted almost entirely to Mr.. B.
H. Alden, OF Lawtey, who has shown most COM
mendable enterprise in experimenting with view
to find new kinds better adapted to the soil and
climate of Florida than those we already have.
CLOUD.-This is pistillate variety and needs
fertilizing wtha thoroughness commensurate with
its own vigor, for it is remarkably strong
grower. In lot containing about eighteen va
rieties, which visited. it stood out utconspcuousy
above all others, still growing aim ost with the
vigor of the red clover despite a drouth of about
six months during which not above seven inches
OF rain fell. Mr. Alden and Mr.. AL. Smith both
advise fertilizing it with alternate row of
Noonan clear across the field 1t has very large
roots and it fills the ground with them almost
equal to the dog-fennel plant.
1t is remarkable also for it's prolifcacy; the
plants examined seemed to have nearly as
many young berries and blossoms a leaves.
Close up to the plant they were piled up three
deep in some cases. The berry is not ahandsome
one; it is very thick at the stem-end and much
fattened, scarcely preserving the conical shape
The small patches that have been tried in Lawtey
have yielded from fifty to one hundred per cent
Sacramento daily record-union., 1890-09-13
IRRIGATION CONVENTION.
Delegates From Fourteen Districts in the
State.

TULARE. September 12th.-The State
Convention of the irrigation districts OF
California met at Tulare day. Delegates
were present from fourteen districts-about
half in the State. Many prominent friends
OF the district system, not district officers,
were also present, and have taken an active
part in the proceedings. Among others
were O. c. Wright, author of the present
law. and l. r. Wilbur of San Francisco.
The Association was organized perman-
emily by the election of ]. r. Mcdonald of
the west side of the San Joaquin President,
and j. E. Anderson of Poso Secretary, E.
Oatford, Tulare, Assistant Secretary.
The sentiment prevails that while the
law needs amending in several particulars,
its principles are right, and it is along that
line that the battle is to be fought out.
A Legislative Committee of seven has
been appointed, to be aided by an advisory
committee of one from each district in the
what is wanted and to go after il.
Talk upon the sale of bonds brought out
the following facts; OF twelve districts
which have voted bonds, aggregating $5,-
go 900, of which 81 672 900 have been sold,
$500, 900 were exchanged for irrigation
work and water rights at par and 81, 10000
sold at 80 to 93 cents on the dollar cash.
All this was done since the beginning of
1890.
The afternoon was given up to proposals
of amendments of the existing law, and
discussions thereon. The total number of
acres in the twelve districts is 1,059, ,244.
Average bonded Indebtedness per acre,
$5 81. The highest indebtedness is that of
Escondido, $35 II; the smallest, Browns
Valley, Yuba county, 50 81.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1890-09-13
FIGHTERS ARRESTED.
The Police Interfere with Proceedings at
the California Athletic Club.

SAN FRANCISCO, September 12.h.-The
California Athletic Club gave its usual
monthly exhibition this evening, Sidney
Huntington and Charley Rochette. local
light weights, being matched to a finish for
a small purse. The contest was very tame,
but after Huntington had drawn blood
from Rochette's nose in the sixteenth,
nineteenth and twentieth rounds, the po-
lice entered the ring and ordered the fight
stopped. The boys started to fight the
twenty-first round, and were together with
their principals, promptly placed under
arrest.
Preceding the event of the evening, q
rattling ten-round contest took place be-
tween Charley Turner, of Stockton, the
colored middleweight, and Dan Egan,
known as the Montana Kid" Egan was
in better condition than for a long time
past, and had apparently trained carefully
for the contest. Turner made his usual
careful fight, but in the fourth round, as
the men came together Egan drove his left
into the Stocktonians mouth, and as the
latter rushed on him felled him to his knee
with Highlander on the left temple
Turner arose savage. and drove the KID
back to the ropes, where the latter. blindly
parrying, managed to get his left into the
negros face with telling effect.
The men gave and took several good
blows in the next four rounds, the honors
being slightly in Egans favor. Turner'S
left cheek was swollen. His clever parties
and nimble lodging saved him from the full
effect of many blows. Egan in the ninth
countered heavily on the Stocktonian's s
eyes, causing the optics to partly close
The men swung two-handed blows with
resounding effect from the opening of the
tenth round, Eagan landing on the cheek
and jaw. Turner on the chest or over the
heart. In rush by the latter Egan drove
his left on to his opponents chin, and it
looked as if the Stocktonian was gone. He
tottered and seemed about to fall. Egan
was apparently unwilling to follow up the
advantage, and in few seconds Turner
was all right. The Kid again led his power
full left, which glanced from the negro's
jaw. Turner planted his left over the Kids
heart once or twice, and the contest came
10 close. There was no referee in either
oOntpst
Sacramento daily record-union., 1890-09-13
PRESENT STATUS OF THE BEHRING
SEA QUESTION.

The news from British sealers recently
returned from Behring sea, is that they
frequently saw the United States revenue
cutters in those waters, but that no effort
was made by them to overhaul the poach-
ers. The sealers report, also, that they
had "poor luck" taking comparatively
few seals, and those in open waters. Our
own sealers also report a phenomenal
scarcity Of seals. On one of the Russian
islands of the Aleutian chain, to the shores
OF which three adrift boat-loads of men
were carried by currents, the Aieuts fired,
upon the men, killing one and wounding
three Others. The assault was caused by
the fear the natives entertain that poach-
ers are making devastating raids upon
seals that come to the rookeries, and that
such raids viii work the determination of
the fur-bearer.
We can trust great deal TO the instinct
Of these natives, and that it has led them
Sacramento daily record-union., 1890-09-13
Justly REBUKED.
Editor McP herson Talks Plainly to Santa
Cruz Merchants.


The Sac ramento REcoRD-UNIoS, one of the
oidest o' 4rnals in the State issued at the State
capllaI California, in large commercial city
sustaiu' ID by vast and productive agricultural
lerrlto y. is smaller than the Sentinel which has
nine columns TO the page to the RECORD
uNIo ms eight. The Se1ltind has struggled hard
10 ,aild up Santa Cruz, believing that large,
cf an, well-conducted newspaper is one of the
o .st advertisements a community can have
abroad, and what is the result: not one third of
tie business men of this community are adver
tising in these columns. More than that: they
are not advertising in any established newspa-
per columns This fact is brought home 10 us
from the fact that business men who are not ad-
yertising in established journals that can and
are doing something for the upbuilding Of this
community, have money TO pay for puff adver-
tisng in q one-dsy sheet named the Commercial
Bulletin. If hedging is to be the rule in the busi-
ness life OF this town. the Sentinel will reduce its
size, dispatches, aud its expenses to suit the
frozen movements of the most pronounced non
progressionists Santa Cruz Sentinel.
In the editorial quoted above the Sentinel
has administered well-deserved rebuke
to the business men of Santa Cruz, if it is
true that they give advertisements to a
"one-day shset'' and do not patronize the
daily papers that are working every day in
the year to build up their city. The same
criticism can be applied to business men in
other places than Santa Cruz. But the
Sentinel introduces its subject with very
unfortunate comparison when il says the
RECORD UNION is smaller than the Sentinel.
True. the usual daily edition of the REC
ORD UNION has four pages Of eight columns
each, while the Sentinel has four pages of
nine columns each; but there is wonderf,
contrast in the makeup of the two
papers The columns of the Sentinel are
very narrow and the paper is filled up with
cheap advertisements, while the advertise.
ments in the RECORD UNION are small and
high-priced and therefore much more
room is LETT for reading matter. Take for
example the issue of the Sentinel from
which the above editorial is quoted-Sep :
tember 9th. 1t contained only eight and
quarter columns of reading matter The
RECORD UNION of the same date had
twenty-five columns of reading matter, be-
ing an eight-page edition. On the 7th we
gave twenty eight and one-haif columns,
and on the Sth nineteen columns. The
telegraphic service of the RECORD. UNION
costs probably ten times as much as that
of the Sentinel, and all other departments
in proportion. Brother Mcpherson did
well to stir up the short-sighted business
men in his community who fail to patron
ize the daily papers and have money to
spend on sidewalk circulars" but he
ought not to oraw comparisons like the
above, which are manifestly unjust to this
paper.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1890-09-13

THE California Worlds Fair Conven-
tion has entered an earnest protest against
the dual or divided exposition scheme,
adopted by the Chicago Columbian Expo
sition Directors. The feeling of the Con-
vention was that with her exhibition set
off in a distant park and other exhibitions
of the fair miles away, and her exhibits
divided among departments, California
will be lost sight Of in the fair. 1t is a
correct conclusion. California should ex-
hibit in building of her own, or in space
where she can mass her exhibits. That
collective exhibit is what California
wants, the Convention decided after a
long and hot debate over resolutions to
that effect introduced and warmly sup
ported by Mr.. Mills. The objection was
raised that if one State is granted the
privilege of making a collective exhibit,
all others may demand like privilege.
Mr.. Lubin appears to have met that OBJ
lection squarely by the response, "What
of it? If the States wish to exhibit sep
arately, why 2" The division or de-
partmentizing of exhibits at the Paris
exposition was well enough for European
countries, which could group industries
very well and also products, without loss
of credit. But that system applied to the
United States would not work and it did
not The result was that our exhibits at
Paris were practically masked, lost
whelmed. In country of such immense
territorial area, with States SO widely
separated, with resources so diverse and so
peculiarly related to climatic conditions
along isothermal belts cutting across lines
of latitude; with States so differing in age,
and in the character of their society
and the traits of the people,
there is every reason why those
groups of population We know as
States should be permitted to collect their
exhibits each in an exclusive space, or, if
they choose, in separate building. If
India, Russia, Japan and others are, as is
conceded will be done, to exhibit in sections
wholly Indian, Russian and japanese, etc.,
why should not California, differing as she
does so widely and materially from her
sister States, exhibit the examples of her
soil products, her art, her industrial pro-
gress and her mineral wealth in building
or space reserved to her exclusively
California is to bear the cost Whatever
there is of profit in her exposition she
should therefore enjoy. This is moving
motive with her people in agreeing to
make an exhibit. Sentiment has very
little to do with it, but practical results in
peopling and developing the State have
very much to do with it. We want to ex-
hibit California as a unit, to show her
through the agency of her products, and
the mimic reproduction of her scenery in
all the strength of her claims upon the
home-seeker. This cannot be done so we'll
as in collective exhibit. At the same
Sacramento daily record-union., 1890-09-13
you, TOO"

The Democratic press has set up the
boyish and whimsical cry of "you, too
When the Democratic party is now con-
fronted with the enormous and wasteful
raid its late Legislature made upon the
Treasury, we find the Democratic press
shouting in unison that the Republicans
voted for most of the appropriation meas
ures. This will not do; the dominant
party in the Legislature is responsible
and cannot escape the odium. Even
admitting that the minority voted for
reckless expenditure, do not the Demo-
cratic editors well know that the minority
in political tactics often put the majority
Sacramento daily record-union., 1890-09-13
CUBAN BANDITS.
Captain General Holaveeja, Proposes to
Rid the Island of Them.

New YORK, September 12th.-The New
York Tribune says that Captains General
Holaveeja of Cuba proposes to rid the
island OF bandits. The most powerful BAN
dit chieftain is Manuel Garcia, who signs
himself Garcia, the First King of the
Country People and of Nearly the Whole
Island of Cuba. Garcia receives monthly
assessment from planters and merchants,
to whom he promises immunity from his
depredations, and occasionally he retains
one until ransom is paid for obtaining their
freedom Recently he levied an assess
ment of $4,000 on the railroad company.
The latter refused. and Garcia, at the head
of half a squadron of banditti in blue uni
forms, captured the depot at Quivican, took
possession of the archives and the safe and
set fire to the building. Before leaving he
informed the company that he would in
crease the assessment to SIS, 600. The COM
pany not paying this, he raided another
depot and compelled the employees to tear
out some rails from the track, and the next
train was derailed, and Garcia and his band
fred upon it. wounding some of the pas
sengers. He captured the locomotive en-
gineer and gave him another letter for the
railroad Directors, whom heassessed sgain,
this time to the amount of $4,000.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1890-09-13
% the test of responsibility in such mat

to the test OF responsibility IN such mat
tiers as means to party ends
But, as the San Francisco Gail well says,
the Republican party has not approved
the extravaganza of its own members in
the Legislature, assuming that they can
be made to share the responsibility in a
political sense. The party has not renom-
mated the men, nor has it failed to affirm
atively express itself regarding the open
spigot policy OF the Legislature the check
valve of which the Democracy held. So,
too, as the Call says, the minority in a
Legislature is very often driven by the
majority to vote with it in extravaganza
in order to secure for the State the barest
appropriation for absolute need.
The Republican party always has had
the courage to meet any emergency and
apply any needed remedy. 1t has not
failed to condemn the wastefulness of the
Democracy, or to pledge itself to limit in
legislative disbursements that is sufficient
for the support of the Government and
the maintenance of the State institutions.
But really all this "you, too," whimper-
ing of the Democratic press is amusing,
not to say disgusting. The idea is more
than ridiculous that the Democratic ma
jority in the late Legislature needed any
propping or urging by the Republican
side in its treasury raids. 1t is not in the
history of the party that it has ever ac-
cepted any division of credit for work of
which it was proud, and ii is too late now
for it to seek to unload by an attempted
division of responsibility for lis evil
deeds
Sacramento daily record-union., 1890-09-13

The RECORD UNION, SUNDAY UNION and
WEEKLY UNION are the only papers on the
Coast, outside Of San Francisco, that receire
the full associated Press dispatches from all
parts Of the world Outside Of San Francisco
they hare no competitors either in influence or
home and general circulation throughout the
Stnte
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San Francisco Agencies.

This paper is for sele az the following places:
l.. P. Fishers, room q, Merchants Exchange,
California street; the principal News Stands
snd Hotels, and at the Market-street Ferry.
RS- Also for sale on eli Trains leaving and
coming into Sacramento.
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The rose bud opening to the morn,
While yet the dew hangs on the thorn,
Exhaies less sweetness than is wont
To breathe from lips tnat SOZOD0NT
Has touched with soft crimson glow
That shows the dazzling teeth off so.
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time, while by that method we viii be
best subscribing home. interests, we will be
adding additional attractiveness to the
exposition as Whole and doing credit to
the nation.
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The best place in California to have your
printing done: A. J. JOHNSTON 6 CO.'S, 4l0
street. Sacramento, Cal.
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During the Fair all can be accomn o.
dated with the finest imported and domestic
Cheese, Sausages etc Also fresh Eggs, Butter
and Buttermilk each day. F. BAUMLE, 72S st. If
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.,n and dread attend the use of most

Pain and dread attend the use OF most
cstarrh remedies Liquids and snuffs are un-
pleasant as well as dangerous Ely,s Cream
Balm is safe, pleasant, easily applied into
the nostrils, and sure cure. 1t cleanses
the nasal passages, and heals the inflaned
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Wanted Parties Interested In Deep
well work, alluvial or rock formations, to call
and examine the machine aud outfit on sacra-
mento well, at Fifth and R. Correspondence
solicited. c. W. DRAPER, Agent. s10-1lt(Su)
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Pacific Electrical Works.-Medlcal Bat
teries sold, made and repaired. Headquarters
for all electrical goods. c. A. FISK, 40S street.
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III afflicted with Sore Eyes use DR.. Isaac
EYE WATER, Sold at 25 cents.1yS
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Every Lsdy who desires smooth skin

and clear complexion should use the prepara-
tions of the Carmel Cosmetic Co., war
ranted free from all impure and injurious
substances. ANY desired article sent on receipt
of price Agents wanted everywhere. Send
stamp for particulars to Mrs. N. ]. Butler, No.
207 Polk street, San Francisco. ss-lm
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st., or southeast corner Seventeenth and J.jy7-f
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Decker Bros.'-The artists plano. Write
% KoHLER & CHASE, San Francisco. iel6-Sm
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GENERAL NOTICES.

Painless Extraction of Teeth by use of
local snesthetic. DR.. WELDON, dentist, Eighth
and streets. je22-n
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All these publications are sent either by Mail
)r Express to agents or single subscribers, with
charges prepaid All Postmasters are. e.agents.
The Best Advertising Mediums on the Pacific
Boast.
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TO-DAY!

Elegant creations. Spanish Gupure Hand-run Chan
tily, qualities; sizes, from inches wide and
40 inches long. feet wide and 10 feet long Prices
from ST. $4 SO. Over 100 in the lot and scarcely
two OF the same price. Our sale price
those is from one-haf to tWo-thirds less than you
can duplicate same in any lace house in the State