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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1893-05-03

straight-1S inches two feet-then press the
tops together with the hand and draw the earth
up around it, nearly to the top. in order to
bleach the celery and make it tender.
Another way is also practical-lay off the rows
for the celery twenty inches to two feet both ways.
accord ding to the kind of celery to be grown, and
where the plants are six inches high set them out
eighteen to twenty inches apart and keep clean
with hoe or o cutivator. When fifteen to
eighteen inches high, hill them up, drawing the
dirt up around the plant high as possible to
keep them up. In this way they grow so thick as
t keep each other up and exclude the sun and light
and bleach themselves. have never tried this
plan. but i'll test patch this season.
THE GARDEN
Should be looked after and all plants that
old and useless should be pulled up and others
put in their place Sow lettuce. turnips, rad
dishes. sweet corn and spinach or any desirable
plant for greens; garden BEANS lima beans and
such seeds as you possess to fill vacant ground.
THE GROVE.
Orange trees set out this season should be
looked after and watered If needed. Don't let
them suffer. nor young trees just set out. The
grove should be well worked and kept clean
where it has been cultivated in the old way. If
insects are working at the trees, the spraying
pump must be put to work. Spraying has be-
come universal in this section.
The ground around the trees should be kept
clean, at least until the last of June.
SWEET POTATOES,
The land for sweet potatoes should be made
ready. and If you have not provided yourself
with vines, the ground can be bedded up and the
potatoes planted where wanted in the hill; draw
O furrow in the outer furrow left in bedding up
and put in stable manure cotton seed meal,
the fertilizer lightly, then cut the potato in
small pieces-two or three eyes to the piece, and
plant from twelve to fifteen inches apart in the
row, then cover with Planet Jr
Throw two burrows on each side toward the
potatoes and leave the other furrow until the
potatoes are up; then finish the siding and draw
some dirt toward the vines When vines begin
to run go over the ground with hitler hoe
and finish the ridge then keep grass and weeds
down until the vines cover the ground.
BUDDING.
If you have any citrus fruits to bud this is Il
good month in which to do all such work. This
gives the bud q chance to make good growth
and time to harden up in order to stand the cold
weather, if any. OF next winter. My experience
has been more successful to bud early than to
wait until the rainy season sets in, which often
sours the buds and ills them
H. j. NJ. PORTER.
Monteverde, Fla
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reeS Of not working them to any extent?
ADAMS. On our sand hills they will
grow without even cultivation or fertil-
ization.
HAML1N. have gone a little farther
than that in regard to shedding bloom
and bearing. Assoon as I stopped work
ing them the same as the small orange
trees were worked began to get fruit
on those that had been shedding, and
those that had shed entirely before did
not shed at all then. The time to graft
is any time after New Years as long as
your scions are dormant. The best
growth from grating in our section is
along during the last of June or February
before the tree starts itself. Some graft
ed in April have done fairly well. My
preference would be a moderate sized
stock, although have grated them
when they were eight inches through
but my preference would be the smaller
ones.
WEBER. I had a number of persim-
mons ripening on my table last fall and
noticed the black rot coming on them.
Has any one noticed that on their fruit?
HEALY. I had the same thing on my
fruit.
HAML1N. They won't keep as long
where it is on them.
BAKER. Are all the varieties of the
japan persimmon fit to eat: Some of
the varieties of Japan persimmons that
reach our shores are varieties that are
eaten by the Japanese only in the green
condition and some in the dry condition.
There must be three or four varieties
that are pretty sure to fruit, and then
there are some that may be fit to eat in
an immature condition but not fit to eat
in mature condition.
ADAMS. All that 1 have are good to
eat. The great trouble with stranger
is to have them wait until they get ripe.
The Japan persimmons, such as are grown
with us, are not fit to eat until they are
soft as custard and have to be eaten
with spoon. Our greatest difficulty
with them in the market is to make the
people wait until they get ripe before
eating them.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1893-05-03
Fertilizers.

The following papers by members OF
the Committee on Fertilizers were then
presented:
Mr.. President, and Members Of the State Horti-
cultural Society:
have been unable to meet with the other men,
bers of the committee on fertilizers, so will confne
my report to my own experience and observation
and submit the report of Gee. G. Campbell e mem
Der of the committee) in separate article.
Briefly as to agriculture and truck farming in
Florida while the farmer who has cattle and other
domestic animals his place, with commendabe fru-
gality and industry is enabled by saving and utilizing
the fertilizers gained by keeping stock, to success
fully raise vegetables for his own table, and grain
and forage for his horses and mich cows and often
by drawing upon the muck pond to enlarge his COM
post heaps he is able quteextensvely and salts.
factoriy engage in commercial truck farning yet
the great mass of truck farmers of Florida must and
do depend commercial fertilizers of known chem
cal qualities which be easily and evenly applied
and whose results can be estimated to nicely be-
forehand Il fair consdered) in the raising of
their valuable products AS to horticulture no grove
orchard long remain thrifty or productive I'M
less aided by applied fertilizers, My experience and
observation have mostly been confined to pine land
But have seen and learned enough of groves on
hammock land to know that they too must be fed or
they will not feed their In my vicinity are
many small groves around the farmers houses, that
have been oow-penned or the manure from the sta
bles and cow-yards have been hauled and spread
through the groves and some of them have been &C.
casonaly treated to coating of grass and turf cut
up with hoe and carted on frothe adjacent woods,
and have had no commercial or chemical fertilizers
whatever applied to them, yet in good condition,
though many of them are from twenty-five to thirty
and produce good crops of fair merchsntable
fruit, but not always annually, for have often
heard the remark, 81 have small crop Of oranges
this year, as this is the off year; had large crop
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CONTINUATION OF THE PROCEEDINGS AT
SIXTH ANNUAL MEETING DISCUSSION
ON THE KAKI--sUB'TRoPICAL STATION
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. READ.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1893-05-03
The Kaki.

Following the report OF the committee
on Kaki submitted by Mr.. Woodwork,
was the discussion of the delicious little
fluit. Mr.. Hamlin said,
am rather in practical turn, and do
not know much about this fruit only
that we can raise it in our vicinity with
out any sort of trouble, great many
different varieties, and most of them are
good and come in at various seasons.
The point that desire to receive infor-
nation about is whether anyone has
had any experience in marketing this
fruit? 1t can be picked green and shipped
anywhere but with us this year carloads
of this fruit were allowed to rot upon the
ground for lack of market. was
offered twenty-five trees by an owner if
would come and dig them up and any
quantity of fruit if would come after
it. az allied myself of the fruit to eat.
He tried shipping to various markets
and found no sale for this fruit. There
was no profit in it. I already have fifty
to seventy-fve trees growing and fruiting
quite heavily this year, and | want to
know what to do with it. They grow
very well there and it seems to be the
natural soil for them, but the practical
eide of it is what want to know.
ADAMS. have not had very extern
sive experience. commenced shipping
them seven or eight years ago in limited
way, and found them one of the best
and safest fruits to ship (gather them
just as they begin to turn red). shipped
them in half boxes the same as tangerines
and they usually held about two layers
of fruit. used this Spanish moss to put
between them so that they would not get
bruised. Notwithstanding this fruit is
very hard, I wrapped each one in paper
then put it so that it nestled in the Span
ish moss, and put two layers in half
box. Excepting one year my returns
have always been very satisfactory in
deed. The first two years when I had
the market practically to myself got Sc,
to 81 per box. This last year they
ranged from So. so to S.. 1t requires the
least work, the least fertilizer and the
least attention Of any fruit have on my
place. There was one exception. A
year ago last fall the entire crop was a
failure. There was an abundance of fruit
but it did not amount to anything. It
did not color up and was not good. The
seedless would be full of seeds and they
all shipped badly, and did not succeed
in getting any part of that crop to market,
but except thatone season it has always
proved very profitable and safe crop to
ship. / ship between the orange season
and between the early lemons and late
ones. The best market has been in New
York, but some of the best sales last year
we're in Philadelphia. You can bud or
graft whichever is the most convenient
for you. Those who prefer budding can
do it, and those who prefer grating can
do it just above the surface of the ground.
HEALY. Have you had any difficulty
with the shedding of the early fruit and
bloom?
ADAMS. Yes sir there are some that
won't hold their fruit at all. It blooms
very profusely and on tree fifteen feet
through the branches I would not get
n A~oo NIL O...@ -
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not able to give an opinion as yet. As
to where it begins, think itbeginsin the
branches somewhere.
HART. Has any onehad any experience
in planting where the diseased trees have
been taken out?
H. s. WILLIAMS. believe it has been
stated that trees have come to be seven
years old before they take the disease. I
have taken up quite a number of trees
four years ago and placed them in the
same spot exactly where I removed the
diseased trees from, and they are grow
ing vigorously and nicely now and are
not affected at all. That is my reason
for thinking that it begins in the branches
and not in the soil.
HEALY. In going through the grove of
Mr.. Oliver-a grove about two years old
4 saw very serious cases of blight.
The limbs shooting up had commenced
at the top and died back, and there was
q number of trees in the grove that were
dying back and had the blight.n
SwlNGLE. All can say is that no cases
have come under my observation where
the disease has been contracted by trees
less than Ave years old, but I have seen
trees twelve years old that were planted
in the same place where blighted trees
we're removed and they are healthy TO-
day, and do not believe that that has
anything more to do with it than if they
were planted on new ground. / hope
that the members of this association will
give us their hearty support to obtain an
appropriation to find outabout this ques-
ton of fertilizers. There are SO many
questions to come in. So many different
soils. Whether the sulphate of potash
has the same fertilizing qualities and
values as the muriate of potash? All
these things can not be settled on one
soil. The work on diseases has been e.
tablished and will progress. We now
respectfully ask your moral support and
aid in obtaining this additional appro-
priatiOn.
On motion of Mr.. Healy the chair vas
authorized to appoint committee of
three on the Sub-Tropical Laboratory,
to assist in securing the needed assistance
from the government.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-08-16
His Old Pipe.

"1sn't that q rich colorr' said a well
known lawyer the other day as he held
up brier wood pipe of an almost ebon
hue. Then he stroked 1t fondly with his
hand and finally took to rubbing it with
his coat sleeve. at has taken me over
year to color that pipe. and don't think
you could buy 1t now at any price. I
used to smoke cigars-I do now to some
extent-but prefer pipe when read
ing or working over my papers. You
see cigar is always dropping ashes and
mussing things up. Then the smoke
gets in your eyes when leaning over.
But pipe-oh, there is nothing like IL
for real solid comfort. My wife says this
old fellow is getting dreadfully strong,
but she hasn't the heart TO ask me TO dis
card 1t for new one. See the way that
rich chocolate tint merges in the black
that velvety looking black-aud then the
gloss that seems to have grown up from
beneath the surface.
attached to such a thing. But, on the
other hand, think Of the nights this old
pipe has stood by me when | worried
my brain over legal tangles; when |
grew cross and irritable, how its sweet
perfume has quieted and soothed me.
Friends might forsake me and fat fees
vanish into thin air, but my old pipe was
ever at hand with its comfort. What
sense of calm contentment settles over
me when the work of the day is done
and / sit down in the library at home,
with my wife and little ones about and
this old fellow filed to the brim and 60
ingl Why, man, the cares and worries
Of the day slip off and away with the
curling smoke. Just look at that ex-
quisite colori"-Brooklyn Eagle.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-08-16
Self Medication M n Science.

Imagination has too much to do with
q mans practice on himself. One who
reads the little textbook on physiology
in the schools will Immediately discern
in every rumble of his intestines the
kind of action the gastric juices are tax
ing on the food that has gone into the
stomach, and he soon becomes, if he
pushes his investigation further, mo-
nomaniac on hygiene. 1t is true that a
man or woman who has arrived at the
age of 40 years ought to be able to de-
eide at glance the kind of food suited
best to their digestive organs, and expe-
rience ought to teach them never to
touch any food that disagrees with them.
This is true also of drinking. When q
man is 40 years of age, he ought to un-
derstand himself sufficiently to guard
against all imprudences in either eating
or drinking or working, but that is about
all he ought to know about it. He ex-
poets to be employed as an expert on
others in his own line of study, and he
ought to be willing to reciprocate by
employing a physician when he is sick.
Austin Statesman.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-08-16
Stranded In Artistic SURROUNDING.

It is really amusing and sometimes
pitiful to see how men suffer from the
artistic mania of their wives. l know
Of case where o husband was not al
lowed to touch any Of the furniture in
the drawing room for fear he would dis
turb the effect Of color and outline. He
wisely stipulated. however, that he
should have his own chair In the room,
which he was to be at liberty to do with
as he liked.
Being man Of infinite jest he manag-
ed to evolve tho most delightful and
comic situations when visitors were pres
ent, explaining that 1t was his want of
artistic feeling which made it necessary
for him to carry his chair about with
him. He asked that when his friends
contemplated their surroundings from
an artistic point of view they should
kindly consider him and his chair out of
the picture. Needless to say it was not
very long before all restrictions were
withdrawn and he was allowed to work
what havoc he pleased in the drawing
room as well as everywhere else in the
house.-Boston Globe.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-08-16

New York merchants received a hint
that something ominous was happening
in Brazil and Nicaragua fully "a hours
before the newspapers published their
dispatches announcing those countries,
to be in n state of revolution. When
they presented messages at the cable
offices to be transmitted to their corre-
spondents in the respective countries,
they were informed in the case of Bra
I'll that cipher or secret messages were
prohibited, and in the case Of Nicaragua
that telegraphic communication with
certain provinces was stopped by the au-
thorities.
These two countries operate land tele-
graphs as an adjunct to their postal sys-
tens, and where connection is made with
foreign telegraph company an agent is
maintained to collect the government
tax. This agent in emergencies becomes
censor, and messages not viseed by him
are suppressed. Sometimes notice is
given to the sender that his message has
been suppressed. More often, however,
no notice at all is given.
The notices these agents promulgate
are official, contain bare facts relating to
telegraph traffic alone and are not EN-
bellished by single word of explana-
ton. For instance, the Brazilian notice
referred to simply said, 1.-The employ
ment Of cipher or secret language tele-
grams is temporarily suspended"
It is the duty of the connecting COM
pany receiving such notice to forward
it forthwith to Bern, Switzerland, the
headquarters of all international tele-
graph companies, where the notice of in
terruption, suspension Of privileges or
whatever happens is instantly sent to ev-
cry telegraph station the world over
New York Sun,
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-08-16
why Newport Lacks Single Men.

One reason why there are no more
young men in Newport is because those
bachelors who In times gone by were
fortunate enough to be the guests of the
young married women rather exceeded
the bounds Of good behavior by accept
ing invitations to dine at other houses
without consulting their hostesses. A
young Englishman. who has been made
much of in New York. was asked to spend
Sunday at Newport and Immediately on
arrival informed the lady Of the house
that she needn't feel at all bothered by
getting up things to amuse him, as he
had accepted invitations for every meal
during his stay in the place. This was
simply one of the many cases, and final
ly the young women have agreed that
they do not care to merely keep lodging
houses. Of course it is very we'll to say
that women Of the present day have
made 30 much Of the men that they are
trifle spoiled, but the ordinary rules of
politeness should hold good, no matter
where or when.-Cor Vogue.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-08-16
Chicago's Busy Coroner.

The last annual report of the coroner
of Cook county shows the number of vio-
lent deaths in this county in June of last
year to have been 166. In July follow
ing the deputies held 1T inquests, in
August 1856, in October 162 and In Sep
tember 100. The smallest number of
cases was in February, when there were
but 103. The total number of cases in
vestigated during 1892 was 2,8O1, and of
this number 1,454 were males. Those
who had been married numbered 894.
More than one person a day for every
day in the year is the awful record
charged up against the railroads. s.-Chi-
cago Mail.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-08-16
why n City Flat Is Closed.

There is one fiat up town which has
been closed month earlier than origin
ally intended owing to the janitor and
the hallboy.
When the family moved in last May,
everything ran smoothly for awhile.
That was because the head of the family
clipped the janitor literally and fire.
quently employed his wife. But when a
servant was engaged the janitor began
to sour.
Then hallboy was hired, and he re-
fused to open the door unless he got a
fee regularly. Between the two life was
made unbearable for the family, and in
a moment Of despair the fat was closed
for the summer.
The head of the house is worrying his
head off now trying to think of some
course to pursue when he gets his family
back to town that he may live in peace
without spending all his pocket coin in
tips and without being forced to move
New York Herald.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-08-16
Members of Congress,

The congress summoned by President
Cleveland contains 444 members, not
counting the four territorial delegates.
OF the SO senator's 45 are pretty sure to
vote solidly Democratic, 8S Republican,
8 Peoples. and 2doubtful. The youngest
of them is Edward o. Wolcott of Dem
yer. He was born in 1S4S in Mas
sachusetts and is a lawyer by profess
sion. The Oldest is Justin s. Morrill, Of
Strafford, VT, who was born in 1910
and now is merchant Moreover, he
is the Nestor Of congress, having served
80 years. The rest of the senate is made
up of 81 lawyers, 4 capitalists, 8 jour-
nalists, lumbermen, Q manufacturers,
1 merchant, railroad official. miner,
] stock raiser, car builder, doctor, 2
bankers, l planter, and quarrymen.
The rest put themselves down as IRE
tired. d."-Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-08-16
Rich Sap From Maple Trees.

The more uneven, rocky and ledgy the
land and the drier the soil, except where
cold springs abound, the better are the
products Of the maple. Trees standing
in or near cold springs will discharge the
most and the sweetest sap. lam acquaint-
ed with one tree standing by spring,
seven quarts of whose sap will make
pound of nice white sugar. The rich
ness of this sap will be realized when it
is remembered that it takes 10 quarts Of
average sap to make pound. The black
maple is the richest for sap of any vari-
ETY.. Our poorest sugar orchards give
us about two pounds Of sugar to the
tree, while our best ones yield five and
six pounds tree. Ihave heard of few
extra orchards yielding Z, 8 and 10
pounds to the tree, and one extraordi-
nary one that has yielded 10 pounds to
tree. The quantity Of sugar that can
be made from single trees in one season
Of six weeks at most will depend on
many circumstances.
The more spouts put into tree the
more sap is obtained and the more sugar
is made. From the tree already referred
to as standing near cold spring there
were made 30a pounds in one season
with two spouts, which emptied into the
same tub. They were set in holes bored
II inches deep with three-eighths bit.
Another tree have known of yielded 30
pounds, and third 2s. Still another
tree was tapped with 10 spouts, and 80
pounds of sugar were made, but it killed
the tree.-Timothy Wheeler in Garden
and Forest.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-08-16

System Renovator is the only remedy in the
world that truly .purihes the blood and acts up
them weak. Most medicines undertake to
cleanse without building up Ihls Is wrong. I,g.
up while 1t is cleansing the system. Price, sl.Oo
After years OF success at his ofilce. DIR. Bur-
goon has concluded to put up his tape worm
remedy In such manner that patients can
treat themselves at their own homes. This Is
blessed boon to sufferers from thisterrible anic-
ton who live at distance. Write.
DR.. Bure0on's B0tanfcal Cancer Cure
has no equal on the face. OF the earth. II
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and external, without the use Of the knife-scro:
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These medicines are fully endorsed by the best
physicians. With each OF them there Is q guar
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gist does not keep them, insist that he does, or
DIR. J. A. BURGOON,
GOT Penn Ave-, Pittsburgh
Send stamp for book OF Instructions
s1- For sale ut II. Alex Stokes drug store.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-08-16
A Large Cross In an English Church.

The largest cross in any church in this
country is the "Great Rood" which the
Duke of Newcastle presented to the
Church Of st. Albans, Holborn. 1t is an
enormous crucifx, the cross of which is
over 20 feet in height, and hangs sus-
pended from the chancel arch. The cross
itself is colored dead olive green, and
the arms have terminals of hower-de-luce
and Tudor roses. The sacred figure is
painted and gilt, while on either side
stand presentments of st. John the Di-
vine and the Virgin as "the Mater Dolo-
rosa" The idea Of the work has been
chiefly borrowed from the rood crosses
to be seen still at St. Peters, Louvain,
and at, Oplinter in Brabant.-London
Tit Bits.