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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1893-09-13
MAKING HAY.

While in the neighborhood of Hunting
ton recently we called at Mr.. Benz. A.
Bradt's and found him busy riding hay
rake, gathering in his first cutting of
beggar weed and crab grass. His
meadow was a young grove on which he
has applied his fertilizer broad cast with
a view of building up the whole soil. In
part of the grove the grass that is cut at
this time is simply raked up and put
around the trees and the grass left to
make another crop and from the second
the hay is made for winter. Mr.. Bradt
claims that the hay made in this way is
much better than where the first cutting
is taken. In the fall after the hay crop
is harvested the spading harrow is put
on and the whole sod cut up and pulver-
lied. No pillow is used at all. In this
way the grove work is ''laid by" for the
winter.
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to be inaugurated the coming season.
AS we have before contended only
grower on an exceedingly large scale,
like Mr.. Stetson, could carry out such
plans single handed, but as this is the
day OF cooperation and as cooperation
should be the chief weapon of the weak
we have great faith in the intelligence,
the enterprise and business acumen of
the orange growers of Florida who are
admittedly the most intelligent soil tillers
on earth. We believe that in time they
will cooperate and that presently, wealth
and happiness will be the fruition of
their labOrs.
On the other hand if cooperation on a
large scale continues to be a failure, if
our weaklings and it must be admitted
that we are weak in the hands of mOnop-
olists, and capitalist being a thousand
miles from where our produce is con-
sumed which must of necessity be sold
and handled by strangers, continue to
refuse the only salvation offered them,
they refuse to band together for mutual
protection and assistance it would seem
that on a small scale such cooperation
at least might be effected that would be
amply sufficient to carry out the system
alluded to above and which is to be in
augurated by Mr.. Stetson.
We have little doubt that the vexed
problem of marketing will eventually
work itself out. 1t may take a long
time for confidence has to be built up,
and no doubt many discouraging failures
encountered before success is reached,
but it Will come, and we fully believe
that the increased proportion of profit
which will come in it's train combined
with the hard and fast limitation Of the
available orange growing area and the
increased range of our market will con-
sign to oblivion forever that popular and
pessimistic bugaboo, the fear of over
production.
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A NEW SIZER.

We have received the following letter
from Mr.. J. H. Goodbar, of St.Louis who
has a grove at Maitland and spends bis
winters there:
AS a matter of Information to the orange grow
ers of Florida, you may if you wish, say that
have now in process of construction q machine
that sizes and wraps oil kinds OF fruit 1t prints
the wrapper and uses the ordinary ream paper.
1t wraps two oranges lemons at once and siz
them accurately and distributes them to their
proper places. Can wrap stem in the twist
not just as may be wanted. Handles the fruit
more carefully than by hand l hope to get
them on the market by Novem Der 1st I feel
that have just the thing the fruit growers of
California and Florida want. asst includes all the
essential points; in fact is three machines in
and can be run by power or hand"
This is truly wonderful machine if it
will do all it is claimed and we hope to
be able to see the first one work that is
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Under the above heading the Fruit
Trade Bulletin, published in Philadel-
phia, has short article the gist of which
is that in Florida, at least, the situation
is not so bad as it looks. In the sister
State however, the outlook is apparently
somewhat gloomy. 1t seems hardly
credible that from four to five hundred
car loads Of oranges should as late as
August the 9Th remain unshipped in
California, yet such are the figures given
in the article referred to. 1t is matter
Of nOtoriety that California had last sea-
son the largest crop ever grown there,
and also that the growers in general had
very poor success in marketing this crop.
Proceeding to consider the question
with regard to Florida the writer in the
Fruit Trade Bulletin says, ""The pros
porous condition of affairs in Florida
shows in clear contrast to Southern Cali
fornia that over production is a myth.
This is surely encouraging. We may at
least congratulate ourselves in this State
that the bulk of our fruit comes on the
market at a time when fresh fruits Of
other kinds are scarce.
The public will wait with great in
terest the result of the marketing plan
proposed by Mr.. J. B. Stetson's mana
ger, Mr.. A. G. Hamlin, which has been
discussed quite fully in our columns
during the past few weeks, and which is
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1893-09-13
THE VADALIA CARDINALS.

One of the greatest charms of Archi-
bald Clavering Gunter's works of fiction
is his apt SMILES. This modern (and
greaD American writer knows how to see
things, draw conclusions and make COM
parsons. In his latest book, Baron Mon
teZ, where he wishes to picture the greed
and avarice of the Baron who wished to
devour, financially, everything connected
with the Panama canal scheme, he COM
pafes him to the little Australian lady
Bird the small insect that has saved the
California orange growers from destruc-
ton by the scale. Mr.. Gunter writes Of
this little insect as follows:
Far away Australia, among other Won
drous birds, beasts, fishes and reptiles,
sect, the Vadalia Cardinalis Its appetite
is phenomenal, it's voracity beyond de-
scription. Though not destructive to
vegetable life, were it large enough it
would eat the entire animal world.
There is also a lazy lower order of
insect that lives dreamily upon the
orange trees of California, known by the
name Of cottony scale. It's form Of life
is so low, that it seems more white in
crustation on the beautiful plants than
an insect which lives upon their leaves
and life
Into the orange orchard, dying from
myriads of cottony scale, the planter lets
loose a few vadalia cardinals. These
prey upon and eat up the lazy white cot
tony scale with incredible rapidity, and
the beautiful plants, bereft Of what is
drawing their life away, survive and
flourish. But after the vadalia cardi-
nails have eaten up all the cottOny scale
insects in the orange plantation, with in
credible voracity they fall upon and de-
YOUR each other, and the survivors again
devour. Each hour they become fewer
and fewer until there are but two vadalia
cardinals left. And these two battle
and fight with each other until one is
victorious and destroys and devours his
opponent. And from that orchard that
once was white with cottony scale glis
tening in the tropical sun, and here and
there spot OF vadalia cardinals, but
one insect crawlS away seeking for fur
Their prey for his all devouring iaws-one
vadalia cardinals.
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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1898
TABLE OF CONTENTS.

ARM, GROVE AND GARDEN-Kaki Cul-
tune; Yellow Fever; Soft Phospha tes.........57
Early Oranges for EurOpe;. Floridas Rice
Production; Rice Growing Experiments. SIS
Foot Rotin the Orange-NOremedyk known
to TIE Disease; Influence Of Tree Stock
Graft... Observation-Disclosures. ..........57S
Artificial Manures for Fruit Culture;
New Competitor
NJ Making Orange Marmalade; The TarO......5Sl
Il Carpet Grass; The Orange Rust Mite.........5S2
.'LORAL-The Blue Cineraria; A Florida
Floral Enterprise A Floral Sermon; YER
EDITORIAL4-Early oranges to England; The
/ VandaI1 Cardinals; Over Production Of
Oranges; Making Hay; A New Sizer.........5S4
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS
p GFOO1 ..'..'ooo
IOCSEHOLD-A Fable; Cooking Cassava;
Who are Gigglers? A Novel Custom; To
please the Baby; Don't Cook Prunes; Taste
of Eggs; Winter Prepara-
lions; A Good Table FOwl.....................5S7
sUR HOME CIRCLE-The Miserable Mill
iOnare; The Mountain King
Technical Terms; Here and There.............5S9
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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-01-16
New England Pensions.

WASHINGTON. Jan. l6. - Pensions for New
Englanders: Maine - Original, Samuel O.
Richardson, Henry Floyd. Charles Frank
John Hodges, Charles ii. II. French, Jos
II. Howard. Thomas A. Jones. Russell GRAY,
G. p. Soule, Roscoe G.. Pulsifer, Andrew
Mitchell, Boratio w. Trefethen. ". Porter.
Albion Richardson, Maleh Horton; addition
al, Granville Glines, George w. Ryerson,
Samuel Hanson.
New ampshire-Original, e. Lord, A. p
sorsen, Horace Irish, l.. Strafford, B. 0sgood,
G. Reed.
Vermont Original, Thomas Murphs, Jos.
Robinson, Seth Power, George Rose, Nathan
Monger; additional, Loyal Remington; origi-
nal widow, Anne Morse.
Massachusetts, - Original, Nelson Marsh
Hubbard Hollister, Frederick w. Ingraham
Walter Studely, Edwin Sprague. John A
Hall, Andrew Horr, N. A. Quincy, Lemuel
Marden, George III. Hatten, Chas. A. Piper,
Gustavps Raymond, Benezer Hubert, Thomas
Tracy, Charles A. Sperry, jeremiah Garret
Chas. Morse; additional, Milo Smith, Peter j
Lambert; original widows, etc, Olive A.
Stone, Sarah r. White, Annie WILSON, c.
Morrill,, Ellen McGunrie, Emira Morse
Augusta Nudd, Annie Minor, minor Of Josh
ua Libby.
Rhode Island-original, John Finnen. Phil
opene NJ. Nichols; reissue, James Cadden;
original widows, ETC., Mary A. Martin.
Connecticut = Original, Edgar Osborn,
Thomas l.. Leitsinger.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-01-16
WAS VERY UNFAITHFUL.
He Could Not Resist Leroy Lyons
Wife's Charms.
SHE LEFT AND HE FOLLOWED.
He Did Not Forget to Convert His Prop
erty Into Cash-A Historic Church
Burned at Medford. Mass, Yesterday
Other New England Happenings

BURLINGTON, VT, Jan. 16.-For some
time there have been rumors regarding the
domestic life of Thomas q. Harding OF
this city, and II was said that the wife of
Leroy Lyons, an employe of the Burling-
ton cotton mills, was taking too much Of
Harding's time.
Lyons learned of the state of affairs and
left his wife some time last month, going
to Boston. On the same day Mrs. Lyons
took later train for Wallingford, as she
said.
A few days later Harding announced
that he was going west with his wife, and
the two went to Montreal. Arriving
there, Harding left his wife, and there is
reason to believe that he at once Joined
the Lyons woman.
A few days later Mrs. Harding received
letter from her departed husband, in
name only, since ii is reported they were
never married, In which he admitted his
unfaithfulness.
The woman then returned to this city,
remaining until Saturday morning, when
she went back to Montreal to the home OF
her brother.
Before leaving Burlington, Harding
converted all his property into cash and
had about $500 when he left.
The Lyons woman has not borne the
best OF regulations during her stay in this
city.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-01-16
"LUMPY JAW"
DIR. Salmon Reports on Experiments Made
In Chicago I'm Treatment of Cattle.

DIR. Salmon Reports on Experiments Made
In Chicago I'm Treatment of Cattle.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.-Secretary Rusk
has received from DIR. Salmon, chief Of
the bureau OF animal industry, a report
on the experiments and investigations
being made in Chicago in the treatment
OF cattle for actinomyoosis or "lumpy
jaw"
The report concludes that the remedy
tried, iodide OF pitassium, is remarkable
success, 63 per cent. OF the cattle treated
having been cured. The greater part OF
these were very seriously affected. The
cost OF treatment Is comparatively small
The disease Is not contagious, twenty-one
healthy cattle having been confined IN
close quarters with the disease for three
months without showing any signs OF
being infected.
The report severely arraigns the live
stock commissioners OF Illinois for alleged
arbitrary and inconsistent rulings by
which grave losses have been inflicted
upon stock owners seeking market in
Chicago. Animals, 1t is asserted, have
been condemned without proper appraise-
ment and owners have not received fair
compensation for the carcasses. DIR. Sal
mon charges, moreover, unjustifiable in
reference on the part OF the commission
ers with the experiments Of the bureau.
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the men came in with their copy all pre-
pared for the printers. The way this re-
vived him was wonderful. At LEO the
compositors were putting the story into
type. Had the story come in twenty
minutes later it would have been too late
for that edition and might not have been
printed at all. AS it was, the next day
the paper had four-column beat on every
other paper in the city. 1t cost about
S4OO in money and probably shortened the
life of each man engaged in securing it,
but not word about the difficulties
under which it was obtained has ever
appeared in print heretofore.
CHARLES j. RosEBAULT.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-01-16
HISTORIC CHURCH BURNED.
Unitarian Church of Medford, Mass.
Destroyed-Parishw VIII Rebuild.

Unitarian Church of Medford, Mass.
Destroyed-Parishw VIII Rebuild.
MEDFoRD, Mass, Jan. 16.-The Unita-
rian Church of Medford was consumed
by fire yesterday afternoon. The fire was
discovered at 1.i3 p.m., by the family Of
Deacon ID. w. Wilcox, who resided di-
rectly in the rear of the historic edihce.
A general alarm was sounded at 1.46 %. m,
and the entire department speedily re-
sponded.
1t was apparent that the church was
doomed, and the firemen directed their
efforts TO saving the parsonage and ad-
joining buildings, also to prevent the
church walls from falling outward. The
fire started near the chimney in the rear
of the church, and when discovered had
worked its way among the partitions and
through the blind attic, and smoke was
pouring out of the belfry.
Mayor Lawrence was one OF the first on
the spot, and he superintended the re-
moval of the church furniture, the
valuable communion service, books, etc.
and he assisted in the work himself The
church that was destroyed was erected in
1882 at a cost, including finishings, OF
s13,797. 1t was dedicated December 4,
1899
This Is the first large fire In Med ford
since September 9, 1850, when the Orthodox
Church on High street, was destroyed.
II Is understood that the parish will re-
build at once on the present site.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-01-16
Bitter Feeling Aroused.

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 16.-The action Of
the football convention in New York Sat-
urday, In proposing legislation that will
confine the composition Of Yale, Penn
sylvania, Princeton and Wesleyan elevens
to college department men, is pronounced
here most unjust by Pennsylvania men,
nom collegisns, and graduates of Yale
Harvard and Princeton. They say the
proposed legislation Is a direct blow at
Pennsylvania and should il be adopted
next Saturday, Pennsylvania will be
forced to leave the association, for her col
lege department is insignificant In num-
bers as compared with her law, medical,
dental and veterinary departments
Sixteen hundred OF her two thousand
men are in these departments and 1889 OF
the 100 have never attended college else
where
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-01-16
Hydrants Were Frozen.

NEWPORT, r. l., Jan. 16.-Newport suf-
fered $500 loss by fire yesterday because
OF frozen hydrants. Above a. m. the
police discovered small fire in the Nut
shell saloon on West Broadway. The de-
partment responded rs promptly a. pos
sible in the binding snow storm, but
found all the hydrants more or less froz-
en-. Only few could be opened and
those only after long delay. The fire
increased rapidly and assumed alarming
proportions, so that three alarms were
sounded before water was finally secured.
The fire was confined TO the building in
which II started, which was destroyed.
1t was cheap affair. The insurance was
1000.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-01-16
NORTHERN DIVISION.
NEW YORK & new ENGLAND


E"ssehker lrain service, Week Days tor-
rected to Nov. go. 1892.
Trains leave PROVIDENCE as follows
For BOSToN-S 0S. IL 40 A. ~, 90 A. NJ RE-
wALPOLE--s 0s, IL 40 A NJ; Ie0 p. NJ
FRANKIIN-s os. IL 40 A. Nj 20. Z Tsp. M.
MuFoRD-s os A NJ; 90 p. NJ
AaRLaINGTonS' IL .i,, y J pBNiGHTsvILE-71o nsS A NJ
oRASsToN, NATIicK, RIVER POINT, CENTRE
VILE WAsHINGfoN-7 10, 10, IL IS A. N.
l2 10 2A5, 80. @ 30. ''11 60 p, M.
o4akkLAMoS.T 81 W 81, 10 90 10 nss. 1915 A. Nj a4S
r3SfiSS 81 s. A.STJS re JS SyiDNicK-7ia aAM
ASSHoSYn3 II ~, % ] 5o 'io Ii IS A Nj a4, so.
SUMMIT = oSSf9o. sTERLrNe-7io sio. A. NJ
c61EfNrEi. GREENE, Moosup. pLArNr1ELD
- 10. 10 A. NJ; l2 Is, el5, I so p. NJ.
JEWETT CITY. VERSAILLES. BALTIC, SOUTH
WdNDHAM. VIM wILLIMANTIc-S 0 10 A NJ: IL Is
HhEIIES{hR.75e 10 An, lslsAA@p.
WpA,TllEdRBduKV p,lld pANBURY. FIsHKILL and NEW
SoRWiCA.s 10, 1SS'lo 10 A. Nj IL is, @p.M.
PHILADELPHIA VIA PoUGHKEEPsfE-e 10
cfHi6nAao AND THE WEST VIA NEwBuRo
pAsGoh ASR EFiE ENp kYs STgkAMNNrArr FS A srArroxs
535, e45 A: NJ; l20, AIS. 620 and ell 10 r. NJ
M.;I2 x go. ss6 10 p. M. ~ A'
Trains tor Boston leave east end OF Union
Depot, ana for Hartford and the West from west
ae, ena For & &pasGSag ana way stations from Gaspes
.'saturdays only: s-Sundays only.
:, Tickets between Bostoa and Providsn QimltedA
W. S. JONES, sapt. A. c. KENDALL a.P.A
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-01-16

their mouths, expected to see Il disappear
under the water. By an unexpected
stroke of good luck, however-the first
they had yet had-the boat landed
right side up, and, with the exception of
shipping little water, was not injured.
Had 1t capsized the expedition would have
ended ingloriously right there. One OF
the reporters and the old man skinned
down pillar and got into the boat, and
few minutes later the draw was closed
No further obstacles were encountered on
the road, and at 8 o'clock the train drew
up at Toms River station.
The reporters would never have known
it, for 1t looked all the world like the
heart OF wilderness. The village was
two miles away over a rough and uncer
tain road. Fortunately, the fireman
knew how to get there, and he started
ahead at trot with his lantern. The re-
porters followed, and all ran every step Of
the way.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-01-16

Mrs. James X. Polk was a devout Pres.
byterian, and OF course a regular church
goer. Her husband went with her. but
as an active politician-Congressrn
Governor, and then President-he baa
many companions who seemed to forget
the distinction between Sundays am
week days.
1t was sometimes awkward for him to
excuse himself from such people on the
ground that he must go to church, and
his wife fell into the way Of managing
the matter for herself-and for him
Shswled and bonneted, she would enter
the room and ask her husband and hi
friends to go with her to church, as she
did not want to go alone.
This habit of hers soon became general
ly known, ana naturally enough, IL .
politician did not wish to attend church
he took care to be out of Mr.. Polk's com
pany as service time drew near.-Youth's
Companion.
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The promise of So frightened the old
mans wits considerably, but even at
the best the reporters saw that the
most serious problem yet encountered
them. In order to close the draw il
would be necessary to have a boat. To
row out from the bank in the bridge ten
der's fat-bottom scow would take about
an hour, as it was a long distance and the
tide would be dead against the rover
To lose that much time at that late hour
would be fatal TO the success OF the expe-
dition. 1t was finally decided to take
the boat on the train as far as it was safe
and then lower IL from the tracks. This
Involved good deal Of risk in the dark
ness, but no other course remained. The
boat was lifted out of the water by the
combined strength of the brakeman, the
old man and the reporters, and put on
the rear platform OF the car. Then,
while the train moved slowly out as far
as the engineer dared TO go, rope. was
fastened to the bow and another to the
stern Of the boat.
The darkness was so intense that when
Ihe men got out OF the car TO the tracks
they were uncertain whether the opening
in the bridge was close at hand or far
away. IL was a very cold night, and the
tracks were covered with ice, making
them very treacherous TO walk upon.
The boat had to be lifted out from the
platform of the car and on TO the tracks,
which was no easy task, considering the
liability Of a man TO slip and 60 down
into the water below at any moment. II
was finally brought down all right, how
ever, and then the men prepared to lower
II to the water. II went all right until
IL was half way down. when one Of the
ropes broke, nearly causing all to lose
their footing The boat turned com
plets somersault, and the anxious repor.
taR VIA IetehlA M.RiAA thaa hearts In
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-01-16
Pears
Soap


What is wanted of
soap for the skin is to
wash it clean and not
hurt it. Pure soap does
that. This is why we
want pure soap; and,
when we say pure, we
mean without alkali.
Pears is pure; no al
kali in it; no free alkali.
| here are a thousand
virtues of soap; this one
is enough. You can trust
a soap that has no biting
alkali in it.
All sorts of stores sell
1t, especially druggists;
all sorts of people use it.