Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-01-08
Florida Letter.
Hartland, Fla, Dec. %, 1891.

Hartland, Fla, Dec. %, 1891.
TO my many friends:
will again pen few lines for pub
lication thinking that some of you
would like to know more about this
Sunny South and the products raised
here and when planted. | will give you
a brief description Of my winter garden
80 you can sec. the way we northern
men pass away. the winter here. |
commenced TO plant out vegetables
about the middle of October, consisting
of irish potatoes, cabbage, turnips,
onions, radish, lettuce, peas, beans, etc,
and have been planting ever since.
have one barrel of potatoes toplant yet
and about one acre of beans which
intend to plant about the first of jan
uary. | have potatoes III blossom,
some Just coming out of the ground
and some only just planted, beans the
same. Therefore you can see that we
don't have 10 hurry in planting our
crops and we are not thrown back as
many of you farmers are by long spells
of rainy weather, as there has only
been one rainy day since | have been
here, now over two years. Neither
have we had any drouth but plenty of
every little cloud that rises brings Il
slight shower and usually in the night
time, the days being bright and sunny.
No high winds, no heavy storms, not
much thunder and lightning. This
fall and winter 30 far have been re-
markably fine, just like our Indian
summer north; crops looking splendid
". Fos our Christmas dinner today
we had in the way of vegetables,
turnips, radishes, lettuce, green onions,
ripe tomatoes, all of these just gather
ed from the garden. My beans and
peas are not quite large enough to use
but Will be about January first. ! am
also preparing lands for planting out
orange and lemon trees, want to set
them about the first of February. The
greatest trouble | have Is to keep the
pesky varmints from eating my chick
ems. The other night something stole
into my hen house and took nice
chick. | set Il steel trap and this morn
ing behold | had u very large wild cat
caught by one of its paws. managed
with the help of Others to cage him.
He is very fierce and resembles the IT,
ger very much. Mr.. Bailey, my wife's
father, is here with me this winter and
he thinks of taking the animal north
with him i'll the spring.
have not marketed any of my gar.
den truck yet, but expect to about the
middle of January. Last winter prices
ran as follows: irish potatoes, $500 pei
bushel; turnips, Sl.00 per bushel; cab
bage, Acts per ID; beans 81 90 per peck
This was our home marketprice. Rock
Ledge, my nearest market place, II
miles away, has four large hotels, one
of them having five hundred sleeping
rooms and am told that every room
is engaged. These hotels are closed il
the summer season, but ~ soon as tn,
cold sets in up north people begin Il
flock south as the climate is very
healthy and the weather pleasant il
winter In passing up and down thu
river in the winter season one woulC
think that nearly all the north wa
down here. Will now close for thi
time, wishing you all Happy New
Year. j. c. HAET.
Pronounced Hopeless. Yet Saved
From letter written by Mrs. Ada +
Hurd, of Groton, =. d., we quote
"Was taken with Il bad cold, whicl
settled on my lungs, cough set in anC
finally terminated in consumption
-Four doctors gave me up, saying
could live but a short time. CAV
myself up to my Saviour, determined
| could not stay with my friends ol
earth, ! would meet my absent one
above. Ny husband was advised 4
get Or. Kings New Discovery for con
sumption. coughs and colds gave
Il trial, took i'm all, eight bottles; il Ina
cured me, and, thank God, am now.