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CUBAN OR FLORIDA PINEAPPLES.

1t is only within short period says
the New York Fruit Trade Journal, that
Florida has taken up pineapple growing
to any extent and we find that several
companies are being organized for the
purpose OF marketing this product both
in its green state and for canning. The
Mirror of Commerce says in recent is
sue: Florida raises better quality Of
pineapple than Cuba. This may be
news to many but it is fact. While
talking with Savannah IMPORTERS of
fruits, men who handle great quantities
of pineapples every season and who have
the benefit of years of experience to en-
able them to judge accurately as to the
quality of fruit, found that they regarded
the Florida pineapple as superior ar
ticle to the Cuban. 1t is more tender.
less stringy, more juicy and sweeter,
They expect to see the Florida fruit grad
ually drive the Cuban out of the markets
of this country. They believe that its
cultivation in that State will become
more general year after year, and that
the immense increase in acreage reported
in the past two years is merely an indi-
cation of what may be expected.
The Southern part of the peninsula as
we'll as the keys, is fitted by nature for
the raising of pineapples. How it came
to be SO long before this was discovered
is really mystery. It took but few
experiments to demonstrate the fact
to the satisfaction of all.
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market and fifty cents per box to pack,
then we can hardly see the profits of
growing them.
But let us go little further. Arecent
issue of the Los Angeles Times contained
the following paragraphs:
"On the 18th there was an auction sale of Cali
fornia oranges in New York, shipped by Los
Angeles commission house, when Washington
Naves sold at $162h to $1.87h; Riverside seed
lings at $15O and Rivera seedlings at $1.3713 to
$3.50. Finding the sales going at so low price,
q large portion OF the shipment was withdrawn.
At about the same time, a shipment of two
loads of seedlings, made from Riverside by G. E.
Packard, was sold at auction by H. B. Hart
ranft, OF Philadelphia. at $1.2O to $2.15. The
highest New York price would leave the grower
profit of about 81 cents a box, while the lowest
would bring him out II cents a box in debt.
Continuing the subject little further
the Times says:
New York and other Atlantic points not only
get Florida fruit cheap, but they get the first
pick of the Mediterranean fruits at low prices. A
report from New York, dated March 14th, states
that the best fancy Cantanias considered better
than Washington Navels-were selling at So. The
report added that the trade did not take to Cali
fornia fruit.
But the Citrograph says that even from
England comes the verdict that the Ma
wells are the best. We have a little evil
dence from that quarter, too. One Of the
largest fruit dealers of Liverpool writes
us. under date of April 1st, that a con-
signment of California Navels had been
sold at good prices at from eighteen to
twenty shillings. But he adds that the
high price realized was due solely to the
fact of the Navel "being a novelty, and
in consequence thereof dealers were eager
to supply their customers with sample
lots, the result being that many Of them
have since had to resell at loss"
We still hold to the position that the
California orange is mot in it, as COM
pared with the Florida article, and we
know that the despised Seeding of Cali
forna, when sells from 70 cents to 81 on
the trees is almost as good as the much
Dragged of Navel, though not so hand
some in appearance.
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"WEDNESDAY, JULY 5, 1898.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.

FARM. GROVE AND GARDEN-Some Econo-
Can Farming be Made Profitable. ..............4lS
Advantages of Pea Vines; Pecan Cultureln
a Nutshell; New Redemption LaWS............4l9
Points on Irrigation; Will Glover Grow in
Florida; Hints to Grape PickerS; DeSOtO
County '.-i-O
The German Kali Works Exhibit at the
Worlds Fair: Bagging Grapes Won't Pre-
vent Mildew and Black Rot.....................42l
Usual June Weather. 4zo
Intensive Irrigation; Fifty Cents Per
Bushel for LeCOnteS; Profits OF Potash;
Culture of Pines at Orlando ~
FLORAIl-Inquiry about Pampas Pumes;
The most Popular Rose; How to Treat Cut
Flowers; Summer Musings; Pruning Large
EDITORIAT-The California Orange; Cuban
or Florida Pineappes; The Agricultural
Products of the South; Tell Us the Plan
The Purse Web SPIDER Please AnsWer...'42o
HOUSEH OLD - Little Things; The Wind
Broom (poem); Editorial Notes; Sisters
Influence; Preserving, Drying and Can
ming; Decorate Your Piazzas; Household
Helps; A Tasty Lamp Mat; Steamer Pill
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Securing p Laying
Strain; Warmth During Incubation; Con
ditiOn Powders. ........... ..4Z|
LdTERARY-Story, beyond The City 42S
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. AL
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TELL US THE PLAN, PLEASE.
Editor Florida Agriculturist:

Editor Florida Agriculturist:
Your Springfield, Mass, correspondent in the
issue of June 18th, claims to have way of pack
ing oranges that keeps them in good condition
for several weeks. Why did he not tell US how to
do it, and if there is real virtue in the plan give
Others an opportunity of benefting by it?
A. J. S.
Yes, we think that would be the best
plan. True, it might be sacrifice on
the part of our Springfield correspond
ent, but at the same time it would be an
unselfsh act and one that would be ap-
preciated by Florida orange growers.
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cotton that if that single crop fails, ruin
and desolation to the entire farming
community will follow says the Manu-
facturers' Record. While tits true thata
certain number of cotton planters still
hold to the time-honored plan of plant
ing nothing but cotton, so as to accum-
ulate debts ia respectable manner, the
time when this can be called q universal
condition for the South has happily
passed, and new and broader farming
industry taken it's place.
To say new industry implies that the
South has always heretofore placed it's
dependence on the cotton crop. This
10 be misleading. Prior to the war
there was greater diversity in the crops
of that section than even now, and it
would be more proper to say that at this
time the country is recovering the bal
ance which was then observed between
it's various crops, and with this is feeling
the advantages which have come through
newer methods, improved machinery,
better railroad facilities, and the develop
ment of its vast mineral resources.
In 1892 the cotton crop of the South
was valued at about 1915, 900, 900. The
corn crop was valued at $248, 100000,
wheat over $4,000, 900 and oats about
$25, 100000. These three products then
were of equal value with the cotton crop.
Adding to them the value of tobacco
raised, over $22 ,OOO,O 900; of rice, about
$10,0O0,000; Florida oranges, about
$4,000 900, and of garden truck, fruit and
vegetables shipped North, between
$4O,O00.OO0 and $5O,OOOOOO, the total
value of the products named amounts
to about $4OO, 900 900.
1t was only in the years Immediately
following the war that cotton was raised
almost othe exclusion of other products.
This was because the people we're al
most penniless and cotton was the one
crop upon which advances could be Sc
cured. The condition ofthings has been
steadily improving, and within the past
two years the lesson taught by planting
too much cotton has been so impressed
upon everyone engaged in it that there
has been a general effort TO raise more
foodstufs, and particularly to provide
the food needed on each plantation or
farm.
The Southern farmer to-day is not
soley dependent upon his cotton crop
for a living. In west Tennessee, Arkan-
sas, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas,
while some few are following the old
plan of purchasing food and planting
cotton, the vast ma ority are raising di-
verslfed crops, and each succeeding
year will see this plan carried out in a
greater degree. In the States of Geor-
gia and North and South Carolina cotton
raising will soon hold second place, as
to value, among the agricultural pro-
ducts of the States, not necessarily be-
cause less will be raised, but because
of the increase in the production of &C.
reals, fruits and vegetables. Through
the west I'm part Of the cotton belt such
condition will not be likely to exist,
but cotton will never again be raised in
place of food products, as has been done
hn oct
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THE AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS OF
THE SOUTH.

There appears to be an impression a.
mong those who hava seen but little of
The South, particularly during the past
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1893-07-05

ENCOURAGING news for the South comes
from Washington to the effect that President
Cleveland has decided that in view of the re-
markable development in agricultural matters
the South has made and is still making, she is
titled to the assistant Secretary of Agriculture
and consequently the successor Of Mr.. Willitts
will be appointed from this section.
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DIR. DE Pass has refused to resign the
position of Director of the Florida Experimental
Station at the request OF the new Board Of Trus-
tees. He says he has no particular objection to
resigning except that it would look like retreat
in the face of the resolutions of the legislature
after his course had been upheld by the oldbOard.
1t makes very little difference to the people of
Florida whether the doctor comes down or is
taken down.
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A CALIFORNIA paper says: 1t is given
out that orange and lemon growing by electric
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ADVERTISING RATES.

Rates for advertising furnished on application,
by lett or in person.
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EDITORIAL CHAT.

A READER in Orlando desires some gin
ger roots for planting. viii some OF our sub
scribers who have it for sale please correspond
with us?
#*ss
MEssRs Haynes, Young & Bailey,
says an exchange, have received returns from the
first shipment OF grapes sent on June 9th to
e. NJ Travis, New York; they brought Sc per
crate of twenty-four pounds.
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TERMS.

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Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-12-29
The Thrift OF Good Spending.
rFrnr1 uarrarsa paxar1


If you would live long and prosper, cult
vste liberal mind. That Is to say, let not
tho little foxes of daily expense gnaw I'M
pleasantly at your financial consciousness.
Part as oheerfully with your dollars as you
greet them and never by any means be of
those mistaken souls who grudge the most
necessary spending. Otherwise they would
feel reprehensibly prodigal. The thrift of
good spending Is utterly beyond them.
Good spending does not imply lavish
ness. Indeed, 1t Is straitly opposed to the
useless frittering away of hard cash.
Neither does it mean the keen bargain
ing, the rasping calculation that in many
minds stand for economy. Always that
money Ia best spent which brings the lar.
gest returns, whether of comfort, luxury,
the desire of the eye or the pride of life.
| As womanhind spends mostly for per
sonal and household matters, IL may b,
well to make . somewhat more special ap
plication. If you would spend well neve
buy cheap or sleazy stuffs, loud patterns o
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wALLINGFORD.

sfPfnafore,, To BE Given February s.
meriden wheel Club and Lakesides
TO Play Polo Saturday Afternoon
james Doyle Arrested-St. Paul,s
Parish Christmas Tree Enter
tainment-Mizpah Chapter, o. Il. .. E,
Install Omcers-maurice Flynn of
Cook Hill Dead.
W. N. Foster has purchased of w. T.
Perkins, G. B. Allen and o. 1. Martin a
farm of thirty-fve acres, with house and
barn, in North Haven.
Ivy lodge, K. of P, win elect officers
this evening.
"Pinsfore" will be given here February
5 for the benefit of st. Psul's guild. @.
81. Tibbitts, Thomas Peers and James Sny-
dam comprise the committee of arrange
ments.
Maurice Flynn of Cook Hill died
Wednesday night of pneumonia, aged
twenty-five years. Funeral Saturday morn
ing at Q O'Clock from Holy Trinity church.
The Meriden Wheel club polo team win
play the Lskssides on the lake Saturday
afternoon, weather and ice permitting.
The people are still looking for the first
electric car from Merldsn and expect to
see 1t soon.
The skating on the lake was fne yester-
day. Although there was quite little
water on the Ice It did not interfere with
the skaters, excep; when they slipped up.
Mrs. J. T. Campbell of Litohfsld, Neb.,
is the guest of her brother, /. F. Bulls, of
Main street.
Miss Marietta Gilbert of st. Remys, N.
Y, who has for two weeks been the guest
of her brother, W. K. Gilbert, Is Ill with
chills and fever.
The installation of the officers of A. 81.
Dutton post, G. A. R., will occur Friday
evening of next week, and not this even
ing, as some of the local correspondents
have stated.
There was a large attendance at the
Christmas tree and Sunday school enter
tainment In st. Paups parish house last
evening and the event proved q very
happy one for the many children, as well
as the older folks. Each child received Its
customary bag of candies and oranges.
Rev. j. ]. Blair arrived In town yes
terday and was the guest of w. b. New
ton.
The officers of Mizpsh chapter, o. e. S.,
were installed last evening by Past Worthy
Patron e. II. Johnson.
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DOWN THE CHIMNEY HE WEN
--------
GRANTS A HEARING.

Judge Townsend Will Hear the q ues-
ton of Precedence-The Sherih,s
Attachments.
Attorney Arthur Perkins of the firm of
Perkins & Perkins of Hartford, counsel for
Receiver William Hart, appeared last night
before Judge Townsend and made Q mo-
ton that Sheriff Preston of Hartford be
summoned before him and show to the
court reasons why he should not be held
in contempt in attaching the rolling stock
of the New York and New England road
over the precedence of receiver appointed
Wednesday by Judge Townsend. Mr..
Perkins claimed that the freight trains of
the New England road had been tied up
in consequence of the attachment, and
general traffic on the road suspended.
Judge Townsend promptly after hearing
| hearing will be held to-day az 2:30 p. m.
HARTFORD, Dec. 2S.-AIl the rolling stock
| of the New York and New England road
in the East Hartford yards Is tied up, and
| tonight the yard Is choked with trains.
The attachment placed on the road In still
in force and only few esstbound freights
were allowed to move. Westbound trains
| are held in the yards. The ten Baldwin
locomotives lease by the road are at work,
but all the other engines are in the round
| house with fires drawn. If the attachment
Is not raised by tomorrow the freight will
be removed from the cars by the consign-
ees at the East Hartford yards.
PROVIDENCE, Dec. 2S.-At 4 O'Clock Mr..
A. A. Strout, on behalf of the 7. O. Plat
faction, accompanied by George q. Nor
man, jr., of the firm of T. Il. Prince Il
Co., bankers Of Boston, arrived. Mr.. W.
| O. Loring Of Boston made o motion that
W. T. Hart be appointed receiver and
stated as his reasons that Mr.. Hart was q
recognized railroad man, whereas Mr.. Platt
was not, that the former had been trustee
of the Bunnell mortgage and had been
director and president Of the property. Mr..
Strout considered Mr.. Hart not the proper
person to be appointed, as he represented
the second mortgage bonds, which were
practically owned by an enemy to and
rival of the road. he thought that imme-
diate action was not necessary. Judge
Colt thought more time should be given
for the presentation of reasons by both
sides, and adjourned the court to Boston
to morrow at 10 O'Clock
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-12-29

garments whose only Recommendation e
their pronouncedness- Leave all such for
the very rich folks and crAnks. One class
can afford TO throw them away when the
gloss In of, the other itly exploits itself
with such array. Remember that BY cheap
stsffs are meant not inexpensive, honest
fabrics, which are well worth anybody's
wearing, but the limitations which msssuer-
ade under fine names. Anybody who
lar should avoid them as she would the
plague. In fact, Shakespeare's Injunction,
costly thy habit as thy purse can buy
10 most excellent wisdom for all Whose gar
ments are likely to have long use. A fne,
smooth, frm-woven fabric, well colored,
but not gaudy or striking, looksHwen as
long as there In Q thread of itpfAn the
more 20 IL fit and fnish be of the best and
the cut only moderately of It's seasons
fashion. Usually ID Is the eKsgssrations that
serve as esr-marks of q special seasons
style. Better, much better, though, q
thoroughly good garment of Ave years back
than cheap and tsudy one entirely up to
date.
Many Q woman who wastes each season
$40 piecemeal on the most ephemeral fur
bellows and frillings, would stand aghast at
the suggestion of putting 30 much money
In length of good lace. Yet, abe could
keep 1t from year to year; put It to uses
innumersble; get out of Ii q hundredfold
the distinction that her ribbons and ruch-
ings afford, to say nothing of the heavenly
satiafaction which such possessions bring to
the truly feminine soul Even If she herself
have not fne feeling for lace, the envy of
her fellow women will be q sweet SAVIOR un-
to her spirit.
II is the same with jswelry; one good
bit is worth CARLOAD of glitteripg trash
tue" The golden rule for than lie always
Much, not many" You disregard It up
on pain of numbering your abiding place
with an ever-growing litter of things you
cen scarce endure either to keep or give
away.
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CFrom AN Outpost Of Civilization" by Fred
eric Remington in Harper's Maya

Il eric Remington In Harper IS Maya
zine for December.l
One night the patron gave bale. The
vaqueros all came with their girls, and q
string band rendered music with q very
dsncy swing. I sat in corner and eb.
served the man who wears the big hat and
who throws the rswhide as he cavorted
about his girl, and the way they dug up the
dust out of the dirt floor coon put me to
| coughing. Candles shed their soft luster
and tsllow" down the backs of our nsoks,
and the band scrsped aud thrummed away
In q most serious manner. One man had q
harp. two had primitive fddles and one
a guitar. One old fiddler was the leader,
and as he bowed his head on his instru-
ment could not keep my eyes off of him.
He came from Sonora and was very old he
| looked as though he had had his share of
q very rough life; he wss never handsome
as 8 boy, / am sure, but the weather and
starvation and time had blown him and
crumpled him into a ruin which ressmhled
the pre-eIisting ape from which the races
sprung. II be had never committed muir
der 1t was for lack of opportunity; and
Sonora Is q long travel from Plymouth
Rock.
Tom Bailey, the foreman, came round to
me, his eyes dancing and his shock of hair
standing up like q Circassian bssuty's and
pointing, be said: "Thsr's q woman who's
prettier than q speckled pup; put your
Irvine on herr Then as master of ceremo-
niles, he Strengthened up and sang out over
the fddles and noise: Dance thar, you
fellers, or you'll git the gut"
In an adjoining room there was q very
heavy jug of strong water, and thither the
men repaired to pick up, go that as the
night wore on their brains began to whirl
after their legs, and they whooped st times
in a way to put one's nerves on edge. The
band scrsped the harder and the dance
waved fast, the spurs clinked, and bang,
bang, bang went the Winchester rihes In
the patio, while the chorus viva Ell pa
tron" rang around the room-the Old
Guard was in action.
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Arrested for Wife Murder,

WORCESTER, Mass, Dec. 28.-Johanna
Graves, aged twenty-three, wife of Will
lam W. Graves, died at Hotel Albion, q
boarding house at No. $50 Front street,
about O'Clock this morning and her hus-
band was Immediately arrested, charged
with causing her death. An autopsy this
noon revealed the fact that death had re-
suited from the rupture of one of the mites.
tines. Both man and woman were drink
ing last evening, and when Graves arrived
home about $50 O'Clock he found his wife
very drunk. She was screaming and re-
fused to be quiet and he assaulted her
with his fists, SO the landlsdy of the hotel
asserts. The trouble continued most of
the night, and this morning Mrs. Graves
com plained of being very ill, and her hus-
band returning found her dead In bed. He
denies that he assaulted her and ia much
overcome.
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TO PROTECT BONDHOLDERs.

English Interests In the Atchison
Road Are Awake to Their Condition
and That of the Company.
LONDON, Dec. 28.-The financial editor
of the Westminster Gazette says this after.
noon in an article on the affairs of the
Atchison railway system:
Although we fully recognize that Mr..
Rheinhart, as president of railway COM
pany, standing in a precarious position,
may find 1t necessary to be very reticent
in dealing with an interviewer on the
position of that company, yet we
feel that a man making such misstste-
ments as appear In the official report of the
position of the company Is not entitled to
the confidence of the shareholders. We
have welcome information that steps are
to be taken to force . committee here to
protect the bondholders. The names of
those undertaking the task will represent
the largest English interests in Atohison. y
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Yellow Fever at Rio.

BUENos AYRKs, Dec. 2s.-It is an.
nounced here, on advioes from Rio De
Janeiro, that yellow fever has broken out
ct that capital and five deaths from the
disease are already reported.
The latest reports from Rio Janeiro are
to the effect that the city Ia being violently
bombarded. A number of persons have
been killed by shots from the insurgeni
vessels. A heavy FIRE IL returned from the
government forts. The severity of the
csnnonade has greatly alarmed the popu
lace. ALI the shops are closed.