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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-03-20
FAIRFIELD.

SuPt. Braun was IN Augusta SUNDAY with
his family.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-03-20

Hi-s Annie 7 Bailey vent ~ Saeo sat
ur'iaY where sine 81; visit h-r -ist"r, Mr.
AAKrv for eeHk
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-03-20

Herbert = Soule If Boston can,e To ii-
old home saturday might called BY thu
-grlous lInr>. Of ij. mother. Mr. SIMMER
~ouic.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-03-20

Little Miss Ellie Ctlrk entertained q
large number OF her friends at her hom. On
Mm,It, street. SATURDAY., mr. sixth birth
dav Anniversary.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-03-20

VIII I'VE IS receiving congratulations on
the advent of son and heir born the mid
III us last week.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-03-20

Rep,e.entati5e John II Roberts Of Nor
~sy was calling og r. ~fs'ls in tlr 'sty sat
Hrday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-03-20

Nr ami Mr. Jsln 2 Dirkes pha have
been in tho eity a fcv di1y> Returned 20
Boston Saturday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-03-20
OAKLAND.

Messrs. Watkins and Skilley of Colby,
were IN town SatnriaY.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-03-20

q. p. elason vent 70 Boston Saturday
! snnruiry
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-03-20

bad leak occurred in the water main on
Western aveuue the latter part of the week.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-03-20
Daily keuuebst 5ournal.
n0SsaY, MARCH 20. 1883.
GARDINER.

GARDINER.
o.B. ela.on vent TO Boston Saturday
morning
caps. Reuben Eastman goes to New York
this morning.
Mrs. Charles GOODRICH Is visiting friends
ia wstervilIe-
Carl Lewis /. at home from his school in
i;eieriea, Mass.
Sheriff Choat q Lineoin county was in
the cjty Saturday.
Mf.. Fre4 Fae- j. On -isorf visit 70 re-
iatiYes "a CunibetisRs Mills.
VIZ s,udley has returned from 4 TWO
week. business snip Jo Boston
Preble & Keeae have purchased large
furniture I-livsry wagon for their fonte-
Mr. Eugene r Hodgk.as aad daughter
went 70 Boston Sstur lag 70 7ieit friends.
woo.leock the tailor il making improve
,nents on the interior u bis establishment
Rep,e.entati5e John II Roberts Of Nor
wsy vas calling OF ff ~n.l- in thr "ity Sat
urday.
Mr ami Mr.. John r pirke, aha have
been in tho eity a fcv di1y> Returned 20
Boston Saturday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-03-20
Shorthand TypewrItIng.

Thorough Instruction Given to Practical WIZ
~ consider Mis. Davis Thoroughly competent a
teach thu fsaae Piiinan .yzfeoi Of sts0rthhna.
sosld heartily recommend her 10 anyone ess. ~
a nrsf-esss teacnef, feflipg eonndeT thI T.. ,hs
hsr experience a. = teacher. already gained n ~
fRb!le schools, added To her thorough rno"i.
.. shorthand. she cannot fsii 10 giss entire
faction. MARY f. BEaI, Teacher OF chorus
aud T;rew riting co,s
For information call at " Is. iialioek ~
Typewri;iBg Once, no Main 1t. mafiai"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-03-20

". , Studis-y has returned from TWO
weeks business tFip 10 Boston
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-03-20

y runaway caused considerable czcite-
ment on Man street saturday afternoon.
The >lrlgtI WIS occupied on Silver street by
two men who ~rr, racing with several
other teams. When near ;he corner of
Silver and Western avenue TIM driver
attempted to pas, tine teams by taking the
81 'ewaik. The sleigh was upset and the
men thrown oIt. The outfit knocked down
down couple of posts and came into Main
street in hurry. Opposite the City hotel
the horse ran into John Ludlow ; sleigh and
osrrturnng it continued up Nam street
ami was caught near Temple street one
OF the men received a slight cut on the
head Mr.. LUDLOW escaped without injury
Tic sleigh was badly stove up.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-03-20

cayt Reuben Eastman goes to NeT York
,Nfs rofsrnzug
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-03-20
HALLOW

VIM Srull of rsro Eizsh"th = former
re-rlcnt uf this city, spout SUNDAY IA tue
fjfY
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-03-20

Mrs t. y HAL avs au-jtrr. Nellie.
will - 10 Ntssarlrti-'-t. THr,la} W 4hi<
week Vi pune, Hal vii r"trru
NY.,fps..fa-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-03-20

Mfs. Eyed Files j. Oh short visit 70 re-
lafiYes n Cumberland Mills.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-03-20

Thomas f. BrANn OF Win>low was sen
fenced in the mtnlcipal court SATURDAY be-
fore Clerk of Courts Shaw. to three months
in jail for vagranGN. Nittmus Was sus-
pended IN the ease of Brawns wife Ala.
Brawn AID hi-4. lie left the Wiuslow town
farm ltaoat TIE to.st Mt OF The otUrsecrs
of the poor and went 10 Koehanl. The
chairman OF the bour,i, G.. T.. Warren. en-
teres, the complaint ADD the parties were
parties were brought here saturday by Con
stable J. Il. Pollard f. \, Waldron APP
peated tor the town Of Wiusiow.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-03-20
CONSERVATORY Of MUSIC.

Ite. TAR Lun NfEriSnEE.
Director.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-03-20

Carl fs7=is /. at home from his school in
f;e!sriea, Mass.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-03-20

N.. NJ a. WW,t, uerr. -,syi,r ~ tp.
high ~cllool ',ill pen "a r ,trtfltn at t-5
harp,, IN Ft,et-e
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-03-20

Sheriff Cnoat q Lincoln county was IN
the sits Saturday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-03-20
In the Spring

The feeling OF lsssitude peculiar to the
season begins 10 be Ie!f- The average
stock of vitality has been pretty thor
oushly exhausted in carrying Its posses
sor through tho risors and changes OF
the trying winter. and as tho more gent
al season approaches and tbs strain upon
the system re.axes . feeling OF prosirsa-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-03-20

Nr.. Charles GOODRICH Is visiting friends
in Wateryi!ie.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-03-20

Iodec ~ 10 T. VI tHr nrw lily cavern
mrat viii prgaErr. Mayor piagley viii
road its inaugural Idrr4s and tin, ranu"il
and borf.l pf "a Irrm"n "a joint convention
a III yl-rt tby 90. officers tor tbF -n.uins
1cHr-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-03-20

feb9odaw
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1893-03-22

crease the cost of putting up small
or medium crops. The big packing house
Can lay in large quantities OF box mate
rial and other necessaries for the work,
and thereby effect a considerable saving
in the matter of hauling, and also avoid
waste; in fact, if the house be suitably To-
Gated the whole item of hauling box
material to and from the grove is done
away with.
To the success of the central packing
house there are q few essential points.
Given, of course, the best appliances and
the proper situation as regards trans
portation, an institution of this kind
managed by a thoroughly competent
foreman, will insure the grower who pat
ronizes it the most satisfactory results
in the long run. The man who packs on
a large scale can afford the best appli
ances. 1t pays him to have them, and to
arrange everything with view to the
saving of labor and expense. Among
other items of economy, in any properly
constructed house, the laws of gravita-
ton at nothing day should easily do
the work OF a stout land at dollar and
a quarter.
From our own experience wethink that
the grower who handles his own crop
from the tree to the car will be pretty
hard pushed by the time he gets through
to find that his shipping expenses per
box are not considerably in excess of the
moderate 35 or 40 cents which are
charged by the large concerns OF this
kind.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1893-03-22

pleasant to contemplate, and we are
glad that the latter very largely outnum-
Der the former class. Side by side with
these neglected groves will be seen, nlce'
healthy orange trees, many OF them
yielding the owner a revenue, but even
a casual observer can see the wherefore
of the case-the fruitful grove is small
one. The man who ownes it gagged cor
rectly his abilities and made success
of his undertaking.
There is still another matter for con-
sideration. The man who attempts to
make large grove, may mot make a
failure. He may trudge along tor years
and finally bring his grove to bearing
age, but the grove when made will not
be as good as it would have been had
his energies been expended on smaller
area. One acre OF grove properly made,
cared for and fertilized is better than
five acres badly cultivated and poorly
fertilized. The next point to guard
agalnst-attempting to little-is worthy
of every attention. The man who ex-
poets to live in Florida and make an
orange grove, should first make up his
mind to grow something besides oranges.
From the time he plants his trees to the
time they will bear profitable crops twill
be an average of ten years. What does
the grower expect to do during those ten
years? OF course if he does not try to
grow anything he cannot grow anything,
but if he tries he can do it, and unless he
does do it, his road will be rough one.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1893-03-22
WEDNESDAY, MARCH %, 1898.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.

FARM, GROVE AND GARDEN-Cocin; Incom-
patibe Doses; Packing and Shipping Straw
berries; Treatment of Non. Bearing Trees. 1913
Upland Rice Culture; Planting Chufas;
New Fence Saw Needed; Frequent Cultiva-
Give the Hog q Chance Moving the Cane
Belt Further South; Big Sugar Scheme;179
Stable Manure, Compost and Commercial
Diversity your crops; $15 Hogs W., $50
The Value Of Irrigation for Orange Groves
italian Bees; Crossing Tomatoes ......."..1S2
FLORAL-A Plea for the Pines; What is
Rattan
EDITORIAL-The Capitalization of Packing;ss
Two Things to Guard Against; Should
Study Economy
HOUSEH OID-Nature's IB ook .(poetry) Keep
up With the Children; Can Girls Row;
STOPPING Shoulders; Some Valuable Re-
cpes Interesting
POULTRY-A Good Homemade Brooder......1S7
LITERARY-Mud Land Stocks
Butter and the Clergy. ........"........."...,189
FLORlDIAN A..
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1893-03-22
EDITORIAL CHAT.

In 1850 Florida produced 998, GA
pounds of tobacco, just twice as much as she pro-
duced in 1890. But within few years will
more than be back at the old figures.
Xxx
SOME Florida orange growers are dis
posed to doubt if it will prove profitable to irri-
gate orange groves. There is undoubtedly
doubt in the mind of Mr.. J. B Stetson of DeLand
who is putting in a $4,000 system for his five
hundred acres of groves
x*x
The orange growers are little ner-
vous Just now. The trees are loaded with bloom
and the prospect for heavy crop is most fat
tering, but the possibility of FROST during the
next three or four weeks causes their sleep to be
light and broken-the frost nightmare will per-
sue them until May.
~.
SECRETARY MORTON, the new head of
the Department of Agriculture, is said to have
hobby known as forestry" II he will ride
this hobby to Florida and induce some of our
timber destroyers to travel awhile the same
"animal," blessed forever will be his name.
x*x
OUR Polk county correspondent gives
us a chapter on hogs this week. He is a true
friend ot.this much abused.quadrupeda and says Is
a''proftable CROP if properly cultivated. If our
friend had the 1900 pounds OF meat which hesoTd
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1893-03-22
TWO THINGS TO GUARDAGAlNsT

There are two things that the new
conner to Florida should guard against.
First, undertaking too much, and, Sec
ond, ate Mpting too little. In the first
place he should be careful not to over
estimate his abilities and consequently
make only a partial success or a tota
failure of his undertaking. Instances
are by no means rare where @ new
conner with the best of intentions and
the strongest determination to succeed
but with little capital to back him up,
rushed headlong into the making o.
ten or twenty acre orange grove. OfcourSe
advice given him was unheeded-he
could make twenty acre grove and he
would make it. But he did not do it.
He worked hard enough, but in the end
his grove was nothing but unpromising,
stunted stumps, or had passed into the
hand of the accommodating individual
who had loaned him the money to buy
fertilizers, pay taxes, etc., and all the
grower has for his years oftoil and hard
ship is the reflection that he did thu best
he could, which however consoling it
may be is not very satisfactory.
It is not uncommon anywhere in the
orange section OF Florida to see the
neglected. abandoned orange groves,
which if they could speak would tell a
tale of tears, of labor unrecompensed,
of hopes unfulflled. They would tell
how the owner labored early and late,
year in and year out fighting the hungry
wolf from his door with one hand and
tiUing his grove with the other, and f.
nally when hope was dead at fruition
deferred, he gave up the battle, and his
years of labor were lost.
This is rather sad picture but it can
be seen almost anywhere in South Flor.
ida, but the close observer will see that
the canvas on which these pictures of des-
olation and deadened hopes are spread
il extensive. That the neglected groves
in most cases are of considerable area---
many of them covering acres and acres.
This is in fact the key to the situation
the man overestimated his ability and
failed.
Now there are other pictures more
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1893-03-22
SHOULD STUDY ECONOMY.

Floridians, we are sorry 20 say, are a
wasteful people. By Floridians we do
not mean those to the manor born alone,
but the citizens of the State generally.
And by wasteful we mean, rather that
they fail to save.
In the Mediterranean countries, and in
fact everywhere that the orange isgrown,
the utmost economy is eXercised-nOth-
ing that will return a particle of fertility
to the soil or cent of revenue to the
pocket Of the grower is allowed to waste
Even the peel from the culls is saved and
the petals as they fall from the orange
blooms are religiously gathered up and
sold to the perfumer.
Perhaps our people would do we'll to
take few lessons in economy from their
Dago friends.
There is, for instance, the matter of
making orange wine, marmalade, etc.,
from the culls, and the business might
and should be developed to great pro-
portions during the shipping season.
Of course it would not be practical for
each orange grower to manufacture the
refused fruit into these commodities him
self, and the only way to utilizes it in
profitable manner is by disposing of it to
factories that might be established in
every orange growing section. Each
grower could then save his culls, and
after days packing deliver them to the
factories and secure so much per thous-
and for them. These factories could
utilize every portion of the fruit, from
the peel to the seed, and while the price
paid would be small it would be Just
that much clear money to the producer.
The amount of vegetables that 90 to
waste annually in Florida can be esti-
mated by the hundred tons.
A LEGAL statistican has estimated that
not more than two-thirds of the vegeta-
bles produced in Florida are marketed.
because of slight defects in the same or
because, by the time they mature, the
markets have become glutted and no
longer profitable, and the vast quantity
OF truck" except what is utilized for
home consumption, is allowed to waste.
This, OF course, is wrong. Canning fac
tories should be established, and as soon
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1893-03-22

last year he would italcize this statement for
the price of pork has almost doubled since then.
x*x
SOME one writes to the Times Union
that he has a process for keeping orangesin their
natural state, at small cost for an indefinite
period, and proposes to make a test by shipping
to New York two boxes Of the tender Indian Riv.
er oranges and having them reshipped to Flor
ida. II this gentleman has what he claims he is
the man we are looking for. All the claims how
ever must be sustained. The method must keep
the oranges in their natural condition, must
keep them for weeks and the cost must be small
very small.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1893-03-22
THE CENTRALIZ EATON OF PACKING.


creasing year by year, toward centraliz-
ing the packing of the orange crop in all
the larger growing neighborhoods. Each
successive season sees the building of
large packing houses in close proximity
to rail or river, where, at fixed price
per box, the grower can have his oranges
handled from the tree to the car. When
all the difficulties attending the picking
and packing of a op, and especially a
small crop, are taken into consideration,
this would seem to be the natural method
There are many factors to be reckoned
with when an orange grower undertakes
to ship crop Of fruit from a small or
medium. sized grOve--factOrs, animate
and inanimate. Chief among the former
is the colored brother, who, in few of
his vocations, is less reliable than when
it comes to the push of getting theyear's
product OF golden fruit on board theca
Work is plentiful and the son of Ham
likes to pick and choose. What practi-
cal grower has not been through the
struggle? His crew are all engaged, his
arrangements made to a nicely, and,
when the moment arrives, some hands are
missing. 1t may be pickers, and there
upon the rest of crew all discover that
they cannot pick oranges, it hurts their
hands, they don't know how, and half a
dozen other excuses, and the plans for
the day are all upset.
Then there are the specialists to be
reckOned WITH the box makers who can
not wrap, the tightening wrappers who
cannot make boxes, and such like, all of
which are nuisances which at every turn
beset the shipper of single crop.
While on this point, let us enter our
protest against this tightening packing,
as being highly detrimental and utterly
unsuited to practical purposes. We meet
many packers who claim to put up eighty
boxes and upwards a day. We met a
few days ago a cOlored packer
who claimed that he could wrap
and pack 100 boxes in day
and had actually done so in this neigh
borhood. While not feeling bound to be-
lieve this "extravagant tale" we GER
tainly do believe that his work was botch-
ed, and, in fact. that in all these cases ofex-
cessive quantity, the quality OF the work
must suffer in proportion. This pitching
of the fruit into the boxes cannot but be
prejudicial, both to the returns of the
shipper Individually and to the credit of
Florida fruit collectively.
To return from this depression, these
worries with the hands are largely
avoided by the central packing house.
Here, where fruit is handled in large
quantities, each man has his own work,
aud naturally does it the better. Here
the specialist is in place; and can make
boxes, pick or pack exclusively, accord
ing to his bent. Futher, good hand is
sure of steady work with the same en-
ployer, and it is to his own interest to be
reliable.
On the other side the inanimate factors
are not unimportant, The waste of ma
terial, and the handling of it in. small
quantities becomes quite an item to in
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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-06-05
The New AppOrtiOnment
ran Coupfv Democrat


The new apportionment laws make
marked changes in this part of the
state regarding both the senatorial
and congressional districts. In the
oath senatorial district Hancock is
set to the south with McDonough
and Schuyler to form democratic
ticket, while Henderson and Mercer
are united with Warren and Knox to
form a district with dark, brooding
republican majority. 1t will be seen
the new 35th district will be COM
posed of parts of three separate dis
tricts. Warren will bid adieu to Nc
Donough and bow to Henderson,
Mercer and Knox.
In the congressional Rock Island
and Mercer part company with her
ass ociate counties in the former 18th
district. We regret to part company
with the intrepid democrats of Rock
island and Mercer. but political ext
gency willed it so. Adams and
Brown with their democratic MAORI
ties will find a warm reception with
their neighbors to the north who
have been battling against such tre-
mendous odds for SO many.years.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-06-05
Moderation the Secret OF Direstio

Moderation the Secret OF Digestion.
1.-THE secret Of digestion is moderation
said an old man the other day. who at 90
has the complexion of a girl and the relish
for food Of a schoolboy. 1T seems absurd
to me that persons should suddenly discov-
er that many articles of food upon which
our ancestors lived to a green old age are
extremely detrimental to health and lon
gevity. l have never considered what l
ought to eat, only what wanted to eat,
but have made it a rule of my life to al
ways leave the table wanting just little
more.
II did not leave the home roof. which
was ON a farm. until I was nearly 50 years
old, and it was my habit from November
till April to eat piece of mince pie every
night just before going to bed. 1t was
rather a small piece, but I invariably took
it and do not recall ever having even bad
dream in consequence
And think, too, that digestion is like
salvation-to be worked out individually.
We are not all Baptists or Methodists; why
must everybody be a vegetarian or some
other food crank? When got away from
the mince pie country, missing 1t, took
fruit in its place. A friend who saw me
eating an apple one night hurled at me the
old saw, Fruit is gold in the morning, sill
yer at noon, lead at night Nonsense l
cried, and retorted with another proverb,
What is one mans meat Is another mans
poison And I've continued to eat some
thing-usually fruit-every night of my
life."-New York Times.