The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-08-27

Saturday we felt that the mercury
was about to creep up to the 100 mark
in the shade, but few minutes after
GALL aboard" was sounded our pull-'er.
wide-open engineer famed the perspi-
ration from his brow and made us as
cool as q cucumber will be in one OF
Senator Mann's cold storage ware
houses.
Here we met Col. S. S. Harvey
one OF the prime movers in getting
the State Horticultural Society TO
meet in Pensacola next April and he
Is just as enthusiastic on the subject
as he was st the last meeting in Or
mond. Like the Col, we are work
ing hard to make this meeting q
grand success and expect our readers
to aid us with their presence.
As We passed through Gadsden
county We heard good news for the
tobacco grower in Middle and Yves,
Florida. 1t is this: The immense
packing house OF Hermshein Brothers
just moving into Quincy from New
Orleans. are rapidly completing their
new packing house and will be on
hand to Try the 1892 crop. Compe-
tition is what the grower wants and
without it chances are poor for any
big money to be made.
We heard of d. \. McDouga!
raising and bringing 10 Quincy stalk
OF tobaeco seven feet high with the
top leaves fally mAtured and capable
OF making frss-c,ass wrapper. He
lei, plenty s, home almcs; As tall.
n. B. Floyd Is Que Of the cid
growers AMI knows how 10 get $50
per pound for wrappers He claims
seventy-hye per Cent. on wrappers
for his crop this year, bang the
finest crop he has ever grown in
Gadsden county or anywhere else.
In one day he put into his houses in
irs,-class shape 200 pounds OF the
weed.
Captain Bates, J. T. Howard and
many Others whose names We cannot
now call 10 mind, are reported as
having handsome crops. wei boased-
With al immense crop in GadsdeD,
and an unusually large one in Leon
and other counties. certainly ought
70 entice buyers and give US a lively
competition with the home buyers-
Around Chipley can be seen many
fine pear groves, rather young Yet,
but in = few years viii make money
for the owners thereof Peach or
chards are also numerous and the
trees all seem thrifty.
Pensacola is to have big tobacco
show on October II, and i. Is TO be
hoped that rs many OF the growers
In West Florida viii attend as posi-
bic, even il they have no leaves to
exhibit 1, will be q good place for
one and all to go, to meet with the
general grower and compare notes.
all Of which will have a tendency to
improve the next crop
AT this tobacco exhibition tobacco
buyers from, far and near are 10 be
invited, and every grower attending
should bring one or more samples
with him, and If he does NOT desire
20 make . public exhibition Of them
show them to the buyers and If be
or they do not make . sale they viii
get m opinion Of whAt their crop i
worth aud may do them good; Il
say the least Of it, NO harm win b
done.
Last winter and spring Col w. D
Chipley, who ably represents ths
farming interests Of the Louisville
md Nashville railroad, Distributed
TO many Of the farmers choice Cubar
eeed, and ut the same time offered !
prelninm Of forty acres Of land, TO b
sesected In the county along the hn'
of the PcnsScola and Atlantic rail-
rod, for the best 100 pounds, speci
nnen from each Of the counties
Et0nl whas Ne en- gather, there i
J ~ b : lively composition A,