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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1893-02-01
Something Besides Oranges.

For THE FLORIDA A GRICULTURIsT.
The continuing cold weather admon-
ishes Floridians not to place their entire
dependence upon an orange crop. Many
FlOridians have lost much from the unex-
pected freezing of their oranges rendering
them not marketable. Other products
not liable to injury by frost but equally
profitable as oranges, might be grown
with less labor-such as pecans, peaches
and pears. Land suitable for them lies
in full abundance all around us, espec-
tally in the vicinity OF San Mateo; there
are hundred of acres now uncultivated
which would produce large and certain
yield of such fruits and also grapes
Some are rich hammocks lying near that
village and near the St. Johns River upon
which steamers are passing frequently
during the day. Much of these lands are
superb for pecans, which would come into
bearing in about ten years while peaches
and pears would begin to bear much
earlier. Strawberries would pay we'll and
bear in one or two years. These lands, in
part, belong to an estate and should be
sold reasonably to settle up.
VIM. THOMPSON.
Palatka, Fla.
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Money not w WOrry.
Palatka, Fla.
Editor Florida AgricuIturiSt:

Editor Florida Agriculturist:
In my article on immigration l said
nitrogen and potash cost us a great deal
OF money. Your type makes me say
worry.
do not see the slightest resemblance
in the two things. The more money |
get the less 1 worry. They are actually
counter currents-an in flow of money
causes ebb flow of worry. Ebb tide of
money is very apt to be accompanied by
high tide of worry.
The potash and nitrogen cost money
and [ am sure most Of our orange
growers can spare the worry much bet
ter than the money. 1t is the money we
want to save, and we shall all hail with
hosannas the day when we can buy
potash with "worry''. We have plenty
of that on hand and when we can buy
nitrogen and po tash with it our growers
will be we'll fed and somebody else will
have the worry.
DUDLEY W. ADAMS.
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So per Annum, in advance

The cold weather does not seem to
have done much damage on the hills
but in this section nearly all plants are
killed half way to the ground and many
have replanted in between.
The old stalk is sprouting out again
but the weather continues so cold that
the plants cannot grow land at this writ
ing we cannot arrive at any definite con-
clusion; but il the weather turns warm
again it will not set us back more than
three or four weeks. but if killed out en-
tirely we still have corn to rely upon.
III. J. M. PORTER.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1893-02-01
Vol. Xxx, No. 5, Whole No. 73S.

Profit of Vegetable Growing in Flor
ida.
Vegetable growing in Florida has be-
come almost as popular as orange grow
ing. The principal kinds of vegetables
grown as field crops at the present time
are Irish potatoes, cabbage, caulif1ower,
tomatoes, string beans, okrs, egg plants,
garden peas, lettuce, cucumbers and
onions.
Those grown in gardens for family
use are the different varieties of garden
plants that are commonly raised in more
Northern States. OF the field varieties
raised for the Northern markets most ex-
tensiye are tomatoes and beans, in some
localities where muck land can be found,
cabbage and Irish potatoes are extern
sively planted. The very extreme
weather we have had for the last Few
wears has interfered with cabbage and
potatoes because the low lands are more
subject to frost than the uplands. The
time was few years. back that potatoes
and cabbage were seldom injured by
frost. Then potatoes could be planted
in November and harvested in February
and even could be planted on the same
ground in March and thereby raise two
good crops on the same ground In one
wear. Cabbage could be set out on the
first of October and harvested in June.
Again two crops are grown on one piece
of fland in one year, SO by using econ
omy many sections of Florida have
grown two crops year.
The muck ground as general thing is
a good producer and will make as good
crops as almost any other soil, and then
take the extra market price into consid-
Grafton and there are but few States that
can compare with Florida as profit
able or remunerative place for the rails
ing of vegetables.
The price of potatoes per barrel In
New York, Philadelphia or Baltimore
ranges from $6 to $50 in the months of
May or June and frequently runs much
higher. The price of cabbage in the
months of March, April and May ranges
from 50 to $4 per barrel and often runs
to $5 or $3.50 per barrel. The yield of
cabbage per acre is 225 to 25O barrels.
The yield on bay land can be placed at
so bushels Cor barrels per acre)and often
more, which sells readily at 81 per
bushel, one barrel of corn with the husk
on is taken for one bushel of shelled
corn
Now if the cabbage will net$1 per bar
rel it can readily be seen that from $285
to $500 per acre is the profit of Florida
muck land.
A fair yield of potatoes on muck land
is 80 to 35 barrels per acre.
Now at the usual market prices this
will net free of all expenses $5 per bar
rel, and we will average the crop at
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thirty barrels per acre which makes po-
tatoes yield in piece $3.50 per acre.
Then crop of corn of even $50 per
acre makes the snug sum of 5000.
This muck land can now be bought at
from $25 to $40 per acre uncleared. 1t
will cost to clear and ditch this land,
ready for planting, from $77 to 500 per
acre and there are thousands of acres
now lying wild in Florida waiting some
enterprising party to open it up.
But the seasons have become SO cold
that we must change our lime OF plant
ing these crops to meet the change of
weather. So we will plant our cabbage
seed in cold frames in the month of
August, about the middle, in order to
get plants to set out the first of Septem-
ber. By doing this our cabbages are ma
tured by the first of December then the
weather is cool and if prices do not
warrant shipment they can be held over
uni prices suit.
This ground can thus be planted to
corn or string beans, sweet corn sells
we'll green or dry, and crop OF either
can be planted after the first of March,
as a crop of cucumbers could be raised.
There is no doubt that if the Northern
market is we'll understood the planter
could be governed by being posted so
that he could plant some crop that is
reported scarce. 1t oftens happens that
the Northern markets are gluted with
certain kinds or class of vegetables and
if truckers will take pains and post
themselves they might profit thereby
and avoid producing a crop of which
there is an over supply and make hit
on some produce which is scarce. This
year it was reported that very great
shortage was evident in the markets for
cabbage. The wide awake planter OF
South Florida began planting extensively
and there was q large acreage put in and
up to December 18th looked very promis-
ing, but since then the severe cold
weather has destroyed from one-third
to one-half of the young plants. The
price is already way up in all the North
ern markets, quotations from Chicago
gives the sales $40 per barrel and New
York gives sales at Sc to $S per barrel.
Now if we had planted one seed the
middle of August wecould have escaped
d rich harvest. Let this be lesson to
us next year anil as said watch the
market supply and be ready to take ad-
vantage of all such chances. The man
that can get tw nty acres of cabbage
ready for market by the first to the mid
die of February next will realize a small
fortune, 23O to 2j0 barrels per acre! The
planter in Flori ; l has had hard luck for
three years and now we must vary our
planting to suit the season.
We have now treated potatoes ana
caulifower comes under the same
head. Beans have been spoken
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of. Now there is no soil that will raise
beans equal to muck. Beans on this soil
grow to perfection long smooth and fair,
and it will out yield any other land, as
high as 175 to 200 bushels crates have
been raised on one acre and they can be
very safely planted in March even up to
the Goth of March and fetch good price
too. On muck land thew can be grown
ready for market in from four to six
to seven weeks and prices rule in April
and MAY about as high as at any season
of the year.
If drouth strikes Florida in May and
June the muck land is the land to plant
on as the early drouth seldom effects
muck or highlands, now, to make low
estimate we will put the yield of beans
at $50 crates per acre and the selling
price 50 90 net SO over all expenses.
You then have the snug sum of 1926 per
acre. Now add the price of cabbage al
ready taken off and you have the sum of
$3.50 to $3.50 per acre. This is not guess
work ithas often been done in Florida
but of late years the cold las already stated
has cutus of, and again the pricesin differ
ent seasons, change and we may not get
the price even if we get the crops. But
even at half that or even One-quarser,
where can you 60 to find better advant-
age. But l will say that this cannot be
done in al sections of Florida.
Now lettuce and cucumbers have not
been entered in largely into this section,
and [ cannot give figures, but [ am of
the opinion that if the question was once
thoroughly tested they would be found
remunerative, but take all other crops
we must learn when and how to plant.
Onions [ have tried thoroughly and
have come to the conclusion thai to sue
ceed we must raise sets one year to
plant the next.
Tomatoes are principally grown on
the uplands. Good sandy hammock is
preferable to almost any other soil. The
muck land seems to be too rich for to-
matoes. II planted on good hammock
land the yield will often reach from 100
to $50 crates per acre per crate andrange
in price from 81 to SIS but seldom over
unless there is a scarcity in the market,
good prices, however, can be looked for
in most seasons until about the first of
June, and often all through June, when
the truckers further North begin to ship,
then prices decline. On good sandy
hammock 25O pounds of fertilizer per
acre is sufficient to raise crop, and on
the Apopka Mountains 600 pounds is
necessary per acre. The yield on these
hills is from fifty to seventy-five crates
per acre, although some claim as high
as 127 crates per acre But taking 70
crates as an average and $3 per crate as
the market price, and $3.50 per crate as
the net the snug sum of $1S6.5O per acre
is pretty good thing.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1893-12-23

merry Christmas, Robert" anG she
paused for his reply.
Helen, there Is more in Christmas
than ! ever knew. 1t puts hearts in
people, Helen: that's what IL does, and
keeps the world together. | don't feel
now that we're cut OF by ourselves out
ON this great prairie. Christmas Is
for everybody. and say merry Christ.
mas 10 you and 10 the children, and 10
The people of that town behind us.
Merry Christmas, with all my heart,
90 rybody everywhere"
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1893-12-23

flame and smoke rushing like 10000
demons over the prairie Isee it reach
the claim. hear Harry crying to get
to the dugout, where you had hurried
us and the few things we could save. |
see you dash back into the burning
house, but | cannot see you as | did
that night, rushing back again, hold
ing our boy high up above the flames
that darted at you like red-hot, kissing
snakes My dream leaves you with that
awful surge of fire between us, and |
gasp with the horror of it until you
wake me to find we are still together.
Waking, I know you are safe and get
ting over those frightful burns. If
could only forget that night might
feel like myself again. Oh. if this
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1893-12-23

Christmas eve or Christmas day would
only take away that horrible dream it
would b. Christmas enough for me"
Merrily pealed the new church bell
by the grove i'm which the prairie yoy-
ayers had halted for the night. Every
window and the open doors sending
rays Of cheerful light into the SUR
rounding gloom serves 10 guide last
gathering thr0ng Of young and Old to
Sunday-school celebration Of Christ
mas e.. Watching With longing eyes
this uuwouted spectacle. two children
erept hand Ia hand toward the church.
and a. the music ui sweet Christmas
antham hoatpd 0ut into the night u
drew them lrrosiailblY to sep fur thom,
solves tho wonders That Wero within.
Two WlsffuI. childish faces. prorlnF
Wlth w.de.eEUd attuHlshWpHt at Gao
nlHrlliIY lighted lHU. l#afiuH Hueh
strange tHrHif uf lelIt caught tfa Ht'
lutl "a uf anH hearted observers. A
slnf se0H SEEMS NWHd NHmT'Hf
ghlMr.n WtNis n.I Wuff otrfi lhln.
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srHeHH. .HHH HHH W WHa W
fNFH mia 0H HNHW tHIA tIaW Oasis
anHE NHNaUs HH HAa sNsmaf W
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aNa aa maasHI
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Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1893-12-23

Who brought the deer round with a jump
and "a jerk
He then seated himself just in front of the
load,
And drove his reindeer to Il smooth, CLASSY
road,
On which they turned south with bound
and snort.
And thought this fine morning twas moth
ing but sport
To fly over the world with bells all ajingle
And carry this load for merry Kris krin-
gle
Gaily onward they move with swift untir-
ing feet.
With eyes brightly glowing and beauty
complete,
With rhy thmical motion, with feet diamond
shod,
Glide over vast ice fields no human hath
trod;
And through billowy snowdrifts of noun
famous height.
Ger plains and through forests they take
their wild flight;
The wild deer and The wolf only crossing
their track,
The deer fleeing lone before wolves in
pack;
The pale sun shining brightly as onward
they go.
The branches above them o'erburdened
with snow.
They soon leave far behind them this
mystical land
OF white feath'ry forests, dense, solemn ana
grand
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1893-12-23

They come TO the place where the genus
homo live,
The little socks gaping cry "Glve, Santa,
giye!n
They speed on to the East and dash back
to the West,
Then fly to the South never pausing to
rest;
While they scatter vast treasures along
their gay route,
Ana leave the home gent TO place them to
suit
Thus for children and babies old Santa
provides,
While onward and on like a whrlwind he
rides,
He goes so far South he nearly sticks in
the mud,
His poor deer are dropping, his diamonds
no good;
So he connects with the harness a few
dynamoes
And then to his home on flash Of light
goes.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1893-12-23

Whiskers tells how
scarce good boA
are in his trips DER
land and sea,
Says, with pathos, he
has travelled "forty
t h Gus n n d miles
since tear
Then tells Robby IL
he'll get him some
thing for his appe-
tite
He can have a mill-
ion presents, every
one "just out OF
sight".
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1893-12-23
ON THE PRAIRIE

in West
ern Kansas. A vast
expanse of level
landscape, dotted
here and there by
the leahess tree
tops of some scant
grove or outline of
a far-off habitation,
stretched away UNI
til it seemed that
hours or days of pa
tient wagon travel
brought no prog
ress toward the
receling horizon.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1893-12-23

"Robert, thou hast
done this evil"
Whiskers says
to little Bob;
"Think ye, We can
here detain me,
other boys and
girls to rob?
Nay, nay, thou
shalt have no
presents, lest
thou lets me go
gIs w.@. -
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1893-12-23

Mean while Robby,
sweetly dreaming
in his little trun-
die bed
OF the morrow with
its presents, hears
a rumbling near
his head,
Wakes and sees the
feet of Whiskers
dan Cling In t h o
open CRATE,
Slowly, carefully de-
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1893-12-23

Then he blesses little
Robby, tells him to
go back to bed:
When he wakes ull
In the morn, he,Q
find a reindeer N
his head
But alas! when up
the chimney he
attempted to emil
CRATE;
Try his utmost, that
big dinner he can't
seem to elevate.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1893-12-23

Robby eagerly es-
corts him to the
t a b lie t h | C k | y
spread
w 1t h to- morrow's
Christmas dinner.
and his eyes start
from his head.
When he sees old
Whiskers swallows
everyt h / ng and
call for rr0re,
TilI Tho NJ GtrV is ne
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1893-12-23

Ana looking ABOUT MN eSpleu us
new clothes;
The first garment he chose had an icicle
fringe,
He drew the next on with u squirm and a
scringe,
He huttoned a vest with polar diamonds
bedecked,
jumped into coat with white snowfakes
benecked,
And then wrapped round his neck long
scarf from the wind
That futtered and ratified an clattered
behind;
He also put on his head soft downy cap
And a white bearsldn in the sleigh for his
lap;
Then Sarta Claus grasped for staff an ici-
Gle stout,
And thought on his journey he soon would
set out
santa's brea kfast was deersteak and bear
steak and whale.
His drink was icewater and not poison alei
His champagne being oxygen hydrogen
gas,
Which made him feel gay as a colt turned
TO grass;
He then rang for Jack Frost, his brisk man
OF all work,
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send them on their way rejoicing.
Hurried consultations wore held. A
Young voice said "Give Them my pres
ent. "Give them mine, And mine,
followed, until it seemed that giving
was indeed more blessed than receiv-
inc. Presents showered from the
wonderful tree. The choir broke out
in another anthem of praise, and the
parents, beginning to feel alarmed at
the unexpected length OF absence, met
their children coming from the church
with boy Juggling basket of gifts
for them and bringing the message
direct from Santa Claus himself, whom
the children had seen in white fur and
long white beard, Merry Christmas
to the family in the prairie schooner"
Christmas Day. The interminable
stretch of earth and sky, of half-white
heritage, of road without beginning or
ending. of the tireless wind, of distance
everywhere. On the Western horizon
the faded housetops of areceding town.
| Again the canvass covered craft creep
ing onward toward the Eastern hori-
zon. Behind the seat the happy chat
! ter of childish voices over undreamed-
of treasures. In front, snuggled to-
gether like pair of lovers beginning
their first journey, the husband and
wife smiled encouragement at each
other and the passing wind caught the
sweet-voiced words:
Robert, l missed my dream last
night. The good Santa Claus who sent
the children back with so many beauti-
full presents took away the horror of
the prairie fire so that feel its spell is
broken. How kind the people were to
strangers they never saw before. Oh,
Robert, this is Christmas Day for us
after all? The sun shines brighter
than yesterday. It's the happiest day
| have seen in months | wish you a
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TX.
Whiskers follows thro'
the parlor, picks -
II o b by's ChristmI
tree, M
Thinks he'll sell 1t to hiN
"Unclen for two dol
lars. maybe three;
Waves good bye to little
Robby as he shuilles
down the path,
Then makes tracks for
Oklahoma to avoid his
papa's wrath.
m. Field and Fireside.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1893-12-23

Visitor Well. willy, did you have a
gnod Time Yesterday Willy .ln disgust
No, aIn't half A. sick ~ / Was last
ghrlstmHa Ihlak
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1893-12-23


uear the eastern horizon where clus-
ter of roofs and smoking chimneys re-
vealed the presence OF the promising
town Of A, which had reached the
mature age of five years. when the
lengthening shadows Of the short De-
cember day confirmed the calendar
record that Christmas eve OF 1873 was
lowering over the land to hide the
rapid approach from the mysterious
regions of the north of the reindeer
sleigh loaded with countless gifts and
driven by the great patron saint OF
childhood the renowned and generous
Santa Claus.
NO Christmas for us, Helen" And
a hand Drowned in sun and wind rested
pityingly, with half-furtive caress,
upon the shoulder Of woman whose
blue eyes and mobile features looked
out with pathetic sadness, foreign to
her years from the canvas cover Of the
wagon upon whose seat her husband
and herself had preserved an un-
wonted silence during that long day :
ride.
no. Robert. nor for the children.
/ And how differently we had planned
/ for this Christmas Eve" And a toar'
\ dimmed glance caught her husband {
face. a. IL seeking some ray OF encour
agement where she knew love reignec
even among the set lines Of grim en-
durance that were becoming perma
nently indexed there
Maybe. said a childish voice from
/ among the warm blankets behind th'
seat, santa Claus Is coming 90 tina
town over there. and he sill trow az
sumplu Out % his sleigh a. hc goes hy.
The mother gave q little ah Yer AM
made NO reply The husi and IN lo'
tone. said
$50. ltfle w0maH uo Christmas A
gU or Zoe ths children ths Elmo tn
p.aifln dee Chat swept away ne can
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Robby. cold and frightened, shivers, doesn't
dare to make a row.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1893-12-23

Slowly, carefully descending; rubs his eyes
and then his pate.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1893-12-23

TIL the PANTRY IS as hollow as his stomach
waa beforp.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1893-12-23

reason why hansum man like me
Should be cheated out of Chrismus wild its
fun and jollity."
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Sas7s Gsa . JOyRssu

~ AIN a cold winter morning old San
"a Ia Claus rose,
'N And looking about him espied his
new clothes;
The Portland daily press., 1893-11-16
THE PRIEST DIDN'T APPEAR.
Singular Story Concerning Belated Flu
neral in Lowell.

Lowell, Mass, November 15.-The
bodies of the late Police Inspector Daniel
W. Hayes, his wife andsdaughter weresto-
day removed from the Catholic cemetery
and reinuerred in Eastern cemetery. 1t
will be remembered that when Hayes
died no services were held either at the
house or cemetery because the priest en-
gagged to attend at the latter place did
not keep his engagement. The funeral
was one of the largest ever held in the
city, and much talk resulted from the
incident His son-in-law, Capt. E. s.
Car, and his daughter as result Of the
indignation secured lot in Edison ceme-
terry and today reinterred the bodies and
had services held at the cemetery chapel
by Rev. DR.. Thomas of St. Paul's
Methodist church. 1t is understood that
there was another body found in the
burial lot other than member of Mr..
Hayes's family. The lot in the Catholic
cemetery will be kept by the family. but
no one will be inferred in it,