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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1893-02-08
JackSonV111e, Fla.

the world, and that as a consequence,
they are rapidly becoming the most
popular oranges in the world, she GER
tainly has rich boon in this peculiar
gift from nature which stamps her
oranges as Florida product beyond per-
adventure. If the russell is really as
good as the bright, then [ must regard
the russell effect as veritable blessing,
under all the circumstances. Popular
taste may battle against it for time
where it is not known, but only for
short time. The best soon takes hold
of popular taste, and therefore but little
time can elapse ere the russell will be
sought after in England and other
foreign countries the same as it is now
sought after in Tex rs and other sections
of our own country. j. p. STEELE,
Mobile, Ala.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1893-02-08
A Seedless POmelo.

Mr. c.. NJ Marsh, the we'll known pro-
prietOr of the Lakeland nurseries, is Just
now introducing to fruit growers a new
strain of grape fruit, or pomelo, which
possesses the remarkable characteristic
of being seedless. Mr.. Marsh is one of
those painstaking uit growers. pursu-
ing his experiments along scientific lines,
with unwearying patience and intelligent
observation, to whom the State is so
deeply indebted for many improvements
in the quality, flavor and variety of our
home grown fruits. This newest devel-
opment promises to make for itself a fore
most place amongst urfruits. The grape
fruit, or pomelo. is rapidly growing in
popularity in Northern, Western and for
eign markets, and all who know the fruit
will concede that it has qualities which
fully justify it's growing popularity. AS
at present known it is an abundant
seeder. The consumer, or the cook who
prepares the fruit for the consumer, finds
the seeds somewhat of nuisance, and
getting rid of them. When it becomes
known that, with the absence of the seed,
the interiOrskin of thefruit becomes thin
ner, the iuiciness increases, the flavor
improves, and the fruit retains all it's
good qualities in an enlarged degree, fruit
growers will be ready to acknowledge
that Mr.. Marsh has got hold of valu-
able thing. The matter has now pro.
ceeded beyond the range of experiment
into that of certainty, as Mr.. Marsh has
now young trees of the new variety IN
his nursery that are bearing abundantly,
and all true to the strain. The pulp is
somewhat darker than the ordinary
grape fruit, but the rind has that pecu-
liar, bitter flavor which is so highly
esteemed for medical purposes. The aver
age size to which the fruit ;tttains requires
it to be packed "a to SO to the box. Mr.
Marsh has just sent on a big shipment of
buds to the Indian River.-Bartow Pro-
gress.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1893-02-08
For THE FLORIDA AGRICULTURIsT.
The Russet-A Selling Card.

OF course the readers of The AGRI-
cUI.TURIsT we'll k' ow that editor E. O.
Painter went out as a supercargo with
the first steamer loaded with Florida
oranges consigned to foreign port, and
also that report of his stewardship
was made and printed in his paper of
January 18th. That report interested
me very much, though I must be per-
mitted to add, as one who has lately re-
turned from 70 years sojourn in the
States of the S uthwest-a goodlv por-
ton of the TIM in Texas-a portion of
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1893-02-08

that can be used. | have seen the very
best quality of tobacco cured in q log
house, the jOists of which were not six
feet above the floor. A common wagon
shed will serve the purpose to begin
with, il closed on the side by rough edge
boards. The tobacco crop OF the Sta
ton is curedin the upper part of a wagon
and tool house. A great many persons
will doubtless begin the cultivation of
tobacco by planting from One-half to
five acres. In their interest the above is
written. For those who are determined
to make it their business and who wish
to build barns they can do SO cheaply
with rough lumber.
The points to be observed are. venti-
lation when needed, and the shutting it
off. There should be doors at each end
Of the barn large enough to drive q
wagon through. There is no necessity
for q wooden floor, but the stills ought to
be on brick or rock in our climate to
prevent rotting, and the space between
the stills and the ground closed with
plank. Frames from the top to the bot
tom should be built inside on which to
place poles or laths on which to hang
the tobacco to dry. A sharp hollow
spear that will fit stakl, made sharp
enough to pierce through the lath should
be used. The stalk is pierced and slipped
on the lath or small pole and repeated
until the pole is full, not allowing the
leaves to touch each other, and then put
in place on the frames, is the cheapest,
easiest and most expeditions way OF
hanging tobacco in the barns. 1t, how
ever, may be tied by strings to a pole,
or with knife slit may be cut in the
stalk and the end OF the small pole or
lath may be sharpened and pushed
through, but these methods are both
costly and tedious. Care should be taken
to economic all the space possible, and
the number of stalks to each lath or
pole is to be settled by the distance OF
frames apart on which they are to rest.
A shed 80 by 60 feet and from 10 to Il
feet high is sufficiently roomy to cure
five or six acres OF tobacco. Persons
who desire to build fancy barns can do
so, keeping in view the necessi ~ of ven.
tilatiOn both above and below.
PREPARING THE CROP FOR MARKET.
The leaves are ready to strip from the
stalk when the stems are sufficiently dry
so as to show no sap when pinched. Be-
fore stripping, however, the leaves should
be moist enough so that they will not
crumbIe or break in handling. If the wealth
er is dry the tobacco becomes very dry
but by giving it ventilation at night by
opening doors and windows, or during
rain, the condition can be obtained for
handling. A north or a northwest wind
dries tobacco very rapidly. When they
blow shut up the barn.
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the report filled me somewhat with
surprise. | allude to the way the russo
oranges took with the sEnglish people.
Those people appear to have regarded
the russell condition of the fruit as some
thing decidedly AGAINST it, SO much so
as to warrant throwing it into lower
grades. Upon this fact my sup Use was
founded, for out Southwest the very re-
verse is the case.
Entirely the best selling card that the
Florida orange has out Southwest, is It's
russell condition. Everybody out there
knows that the sw eetest and best oranges
on the market are the Florida oranges.
No other orange is so much in demand,
or sells at such high figures. The
that section were from either Mexico or
California, and, comparatively speaking,
they are coarse grained and sour. Hop
ing to take advantage of the deserved
popularity of the Florida orange, the
retail dealer sometimes erects the le-
gend "Sweet Florida Oranges" over his
stock from Mexico or California. His
oranges may look enough like Florida
oranges to deceive the casual observer,
but they seldom do it. The patron in
want of "sWeet Florida oranges" looks
for the russell appearance. Ii he sees it
he buys if not he passes on to the next
stand. The finest Florida brights would
have Jared the same under the same Cir
cumstances, so, as you see, and as has
already been stated, the russell appear
ance of the Florida orange is it's best sell
ing card in the Southwest. at least.
I have said cat least" to have a way
open for saying something more. While
[ had never noticed that russell "trade
mark" as cutting any figure in the sale
of Florida oranges, before going to the
Southwest two years ago, | have been
looking after it little since my return
home, and the result has pretty we'll
convinced me that the same kind of
thing prevails quite universally in this
country. OF late have stood about
the fruit stands of Mobile a good deal,
and have observed that when a man
steps up to buy an orange, he almost
invariably picks out russell if there is
a mixture of russets and brights in the
bin. He may not regard the russell as
the best Florida orange, but he feels en-
tirely sure that he is getting a Florida
orange when he takes a russell.
know that Florida oran re growers
have worried no little over this rust, or
whatever they call it, on their fruit. [
do not know how much it is against
their orange industry, or that it is
anything against it so far as relates to
productiveness or quality; but this | do
know: in face of the fact that Florida
produces the finest oranges known to
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1893-02-08

In asserting, the top and bottom
leaves and those which are ragged should
be put to themselves and tied into bun
dless, ranging in number from twenty
five to fifty. according to size. These
arefor filters. The better leaves should
be assorted according to size, and tied
in bundles or hands from twenty to
thirty each, These are for wrappers.
In stripping tobacco the leaves should
not be smoothed out by the hand, but
put into bundles just as they are on the
stalk. 1t is the habit of some to make
three grades, wrappers, binders and i'll
lers. Binders are those where the leaves
are in part free from holes.
The different grades should never be
mixed in packing, but kept to themselves.
In making into boxes or bales the tips
should lay each other and care should be
taken to pack firmly and evenly. The
ends of the packages should not touch
the box sides, for ventilation is needed
here to some extent to prevent mould
ing. When boxed keep on q board floor
and under no circumstances allow the
box or package to remain on theground,
or in close proximity to kerosene, COM
mercial fertilizers, or obnoxious scent.
The boxes should be as light as possible
and uniform in size, but the dry goods
boxes of merchants serve an excellent
purpose.
BULKING THE CROP.
[ mean by bulking that the farmers of
% county would, think, find it to their
interest to store their crop in ircounty
town for assortment and sale, securing
or building. a bouse for this purpose. An
expert should be employed, who will care
fully resweat, assert and bale the to-
baccO in the same way as the Cubans do.
1t would be better to take the tobacco
to an expert to be sweated just after it is
stripped and assorted, than to wait until
it has passed through the barn sweat.
Wrappers, binders and filters should be
packed and sweated to themselves. In
this way the crop would realize more
money, amply repaying the cost of an
expert. On this line much could be said.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-03-14
a STRANGE TNAM.

hH vas making them perform :. large
black and white tom cat appeared and
went To cycling thc lively rats. Johnny
NED his little team to the prop when he
heard the cars, and the tom cat sat on
tic with his tail across the rail,
'TCritcd his SmcllcrS and glared at the
rats. lille he was watching the hop
ping animals the wheel of Il car cut off
his tail two inches from his body. and
he Instantly went yowlipg and splitting
toward tho mule barn. The cats an
ties made johnny roar "Bet he won't
Hvatch my rats again very soon,' he
said. Soon the trips stopped coming.
II was the quitting hour and Johnny
turned the four rats loose, and said to
the visitor:
Come with NE to the barn, mister
Ii YOU want to see some fun"
Eleven wcll-fcd cats and n lot @,
kittens were purring around the mule
foreman near the feed box Several
Load rats lay on the floor, and Johnny
said that the eats always lugl.cd the
rats to the feed box, no matter how far
away III the mine they caught ,hcm.
vi the mules we're in the stalls, and in
Nc iiic.;cring light from the smoking
nrovcndcr into their managers. Present
y YOU could hear the rats climbing
mp and tnmbin% into the managers. and
NJ that Tic mules struck at the feed
robbers with their noses and .!runted
J he boD-tailcd tom eat bounded out OF
stall with a mammoth rat in his
mouth. and Johnny seized the cat and
took it away Hat the rat had re-
crived fatal bite, and the boy gave it
back to the cat.
The next thing Johnny did was to
reach in mangcr and bring out "a
kicking rat in each hand. lie gave
them free swing over his lap, put them
III his pockets, let them crawl over his
shoulders and then tossed them into
the hay. lie caught two more present
~, held them up by the tails i'll front
Of the eats and stuck them in his
pockets when the cats spranG ut them.
afterward placing them in the one of
the managers.
Il don't know why the rats never
bite me-" said Johnny, unless it is
because they know won't hurt 'em.
like rats better than do cats or
logs, and don't think ever killed
one. I've caught and played with rats
ever since | was Il little boy. They are
so bright-eycd and slicl; that like to
handle EN- and harness 'cm ND, and
guess they all tell one another that |
never hurt 'em when catch 'em. -
y. Y. Sun
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-03-14
SUNFLCWER GIRLS.

WHEN she is under twenty the hair on
her face is POLITICALLY referred to as
peach down"
No Girl. ever thought so much of her
young man that She wouldn't, for the
sake of her church, try to rob him at IL
church lottery.
TIE average girl knows but two adj
jcctivcs, and they are 'horrid" and
cute" which She uses on every occa-
sion from describing Shakespeare to the
appearance of Il corpse.
How w: long for II sight OF the old
fashioned girl with her sleeves rolled
above her elbows and with flour on her
nose Her pes We're SO good and She
was SO much more refreshing than the
modern cir! with Il ''vocation."
.iN Atchison girl accidentally dropped
rcd-liot curling iron down her back the
other day while She was curling her
back hair, and it lodged under her cor
set. For Il few minutes she did moth
ing but practice Dclsartc and the fcath-
or movement Atchison Globe
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-03-14
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

lr is said the city of Pittsburgh now
stands on ground once given in cx-
change for 4 violin.
TANNING is done in this country in
about one-quartcr of the time usually
allowed in Europe
THE origin of the gcyscrs ut Sonoma
Cal. is supposed to bc IL volcanic crater
flied by II landslide.
TIE earliest Ghost was merely the
trunk of an oak tree, scoopcd out and
cut down the center. one-hal serving rs
lid, which was iirs: kept Shut 10y Il
strip of leather, and later by IL s;ri,,
made of iron.
ONE gets an idea of the loneliness of
the Pacific when learning that the City
of Pcliin, SO long overdue, having
broken her shaft and taken to wing.
covered l,2i0 miles without seeing 81
sail. She went out of her way in the
hope Of meeting Il sister ship and re-
ceiving aid.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-03-14
MEN Or MUSICAL MINDS.

DvoHAK, the composer, goes to bed
every night before nine o'clock, is up by
$50 and works the next three hours.
A PARKERsBURG (Va.) musician has
just perfected and patented novel
musical instrument, which he calls a
key either" 1t is simply Il either
played with keys, but it is said to be a
revelation in the way of musical in
strumcnt.
VERDI, who is rs fond of work as hc
was i'll his young days, is busy writing
an opera, the theme of which he will
not tell until the score is further nd
vanced. 1T is impossible for mo to re-
main idle" he says. Il am alive and
well; why should l not begin another
worli?"
BESIDES Signor Boito AMI NJ. Saint
Saens several other eminent European
composers are to receive the degree of
Mus. Doe" from tho Cambridge uni
vcrsity next June. Herr brahms and
Sig. Verdi have been obliged to decline
the honor, the former having such en-
gagcmcnts and the latter being so
hampcrcd by the intirmitics of age as to
be unable to attend in person.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-03-14
THE BRITISH ISLES.

ENGLAND has eighty miles of tunnels.
AT Norwich, Eng, thirty-fvc ton
weight stone has been quarrictl. 1t is
the largest on record.
ENGLISH women who devote them
selves to the Somerset hunts have nm.
qnaliticdly adopted the mems saddle
and don divided skirts, marnish hats
and hlouscs. Some appear in long rid
Ing coats and boots. Engli>hmcn are
said to favor this innovation on long
established customs
a PROPOSITION has been made to con
meet Scotland and ireland by a tunnel
under the north channel Of the Irish
sea at its narrowcst part between
County Antrim in Ireland and Wigton
in Scotland. The length OF the tunnel
would he t"enty-scvcn miles, and
eminent engineers have pronounced
the project entirely feasible.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-03-14
LAND POOR.

I've had another otrc-. wifc-a twenty acres
more.
or high and dry prairie land. as level rs floor
Brady said,
TO tell how things will turn out bcst, q woman
is ahead
And when this lot IS paid fo-, and We have 90.
The decd,
I'll Say i!:at / an sat!s.lcl-i;s all the land we
need:
And ncS; ven soc about the yard ana fix the
house up some.
And manage in tho course Of tire To havc u
better home.
There is no use of talking. Char.cs-yon nuy
tina: twenty moro,
And well go scrimping I'll orr lives End ni,ya-,
lc la;il poor
For tliriY years we've tu-;cu anu shaved ,c,,;.
ing half our needs.
While all We have 10 SHOW FOR it Is tax receipts;
and dcedsi
I'll sell Tho land If it we're mine anG have bet
ter home,
with broad, light rooms to front the street, and
take life us IL comes
II we could live rs others live and have yrh,,
Others do
Wed live enough sight p!casaa,er and have a
plenty, too.
While others have a:nusc:,cnts and luxury ana
hooks.
Jus, t!ll!IH HOW Stiugy VIC haze lived and i,O,y
-, this old place looks
That other farm you bought OF Wells ,ha, tool;
many years
OF clearing up ana fencing in, has COS: me many
tears.
Va, c,,a.,a.
u.s. S'i"'Ic'' We thought OF TX hundred times
A,,, w. n'o1c
en- M'iuCrco IL IL really pail TO always br
o,,,,, ; ;nn' poe, poor,
ns II carc.
N'dr chi'oTch. once so dcaT to us, had never left
our nome
Irclc.c ., ti...,,. 90 .., $500
,Yon;as and ,,,.s "''"' '''''' years -'i
y,-,ur TO- 80 IN n '''S -
~ ,r,iS'. ~ - " '''' ~ ''''"' o''' "oF,'
Men r,i, ~ ri,,, ,,, $50.
frnel, rt,n 60 p'o' o-''' we ''o'
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-03-14
VARIOUS PEOPLE.

SIR EDWIN ARNOLD has abandoned his
proposed spring trip to this country. and
for the present will remain in England,
working up his claims for the poet la,-
rcateship.
Dr.. RoBEIrs BARTHoIow, the emf
ncnt professor of jefferson college,
Philadelphia. who became insane some
two years ago from hard study and
ovcrwork, has recovered his mental bal
ance.
Mrs SARAH kIpPIE, of Scranton. Pa.
still persists in smoking, after seventy
nine years experience of the noxious
and deadly weed. As she is only ninety
nine years old there is, however, time
for her to reform.
RuBINsTEIN says that he would be-
come an American citizen if it were not
for the objections OF his wife Il am ii
Russian of Russians" he told Miss Kate
Field, but am also Il republican. and
America is the land for those that love
liberty"
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-03-14

TRUSTEES SALE-BY VIRTUE OF DEED
=, OF trust executed 10 INC by Cyrus Lair and
d. +. Il indrcd, Jr.. dated December l. 1890 and
recorded in the clerks office OF the Hnsiir%.
Court OF Roanoke. Virgins. in deed hook No n
phse li6, etc and to secure to the Virginia Real
Estate and Investment Company the payment Of
me snm OF TIVE nty-four hundred and fify doIIs1s
$50 IN eighty (SJ) instalments OF thirty
G3,ats I'D each, and one final instalmcnt Of
ens .. ono tS monhs respectively, next succeed
lns INC date OF said deed, with interest thereon
az a. .ne iatc OF dper cent. per from said
ua!c evidenced by eighty (S0) certain nerotiabio
notes, dated December /. 1850, for thirty doiiars
'sr'o) each payable on the first day OF the eighty
~ ~, months next succeeding the date OF said
laSnoie IN cishty-onc (SD months from said date
respectively, with interest as aforesaid and dc.
, ,,nm mssins been made in the payment of the
tWchty.iourih (2lth) twcnty-hfth ia5th) twenty
sixth (:6lh) and (91th) OF the aboya
instruments aud notes and having been reouirad
20 10 90 ny the beneficiary in said deed OF trust.
pnbic a1ction. in Roanokc Nirrinia on SATirR
DAi, APRIL. 18TH. lSg3. AT IL O'CIOCE NJ
III III tontol The Hustlnss Courthouse in said civ
III .nai certain lot or parcel OF land in the CITY of
Roanoke, State OF Virginia ,iesIgnared and d.
scribcd as follows. to-wit: w
BeSinnng Mt point on tho south side of Ta2c-
Wcll street forty four ND feet west of Wheat
stttet. thctcc south five degrees and nine
o. west one hundred and thirty.ninc and
,,hrt, two hundrodths u3o So feet to an alley,
thence with said alley south seventy. four de
Srccs anu fifteen minutes IA i5D west thirty ono
anu SIX tcnths (3i.i) feet to n point on same
,nchce north fourteen minutes To- Is = east one
drcdths 1a55S) feet 10 Tazewcli street thence
Iazcwel street north seventy four degrees and
,,t'e9n minutes a. $50 east forty four t,D feet
10 Tue place OF beginning, together with the
house situated thereon.
TERMS OF SALE: Cash.
,omr m EDWARD LESLEY, Trustee.
NOTE: The deferred instalmcnts or purchase
money on this property are said to have been
assumed by Mrs. Laura Stormfeltz. 3i2 3Ot.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-03-14
OF INTEREST TO WRITER'S.

IT is said that lola, the French novel
list, has made 100000 from the sale of
his novels during the past twenty
years
OSE of the daughters of the late Fan
ME kcmblc is the wcll-llnown translator
of German novels, Mrs. Wistar, of Ger
nantown, Pa.
THERE is movement on foot to buy
Walt Whituan's humble home as his
most fitting monument. The BOSTON
Globe says it is one of the wiscst fan
cics iii current monumental enterprises
TIE "Brothcrhood of Minor Poets" is
the largest English organization of
which the cable gives us any informa-
ton. The combination is announced
to be for purposes of defense and pro-
lection.
FRENCH no"clists recently decided TO
found society for the protection of
their interests, which they consider
compromise by the attitude of their
publishers. This society is now cstab-
lishcd, and among its sixty-odd mem
bcrs are NM. lola. Alphonsc Daudct
Leon Daudct and Edmond de Goncourt.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-03-14
His Terrible Rexsnrn.

ESQ., exclaimed Harold We're de We're,
folding his arms and regarding the
young woman with u stern, pitilcss
gaze, You have cast me aside. Mabel
Fcathcrbone, in order to get n rich wild
over, have you?'
IF You choose to speak of it in that
coarse manner. Mr.. We're de We're" She
replied, raising her head and meeting
his gaze haughtiiy, II have, sir, have
promised To marry Mr.. Wngonsollcr,"
Harold We're dc We're crushed his Int
down over his eyes and started for the
door.
mabel Fcatherhonc," he said, paus-
ing with his hand on the dooc knob
YOU have thrown me over for man
with bari. You will find he is not
the only man with Il bar'l. have one
ut horne filled with your love letters.
Shall sell them t. The rawman, Good
evening. Chicago Tribune