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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1893-07-12
LET 1T ALONE.


A New York subscriber writes as fol-
lows:
81 have in my otherwise excellent grove, two
acres of depressed land-yearly for the past three
or four years it has been the old story, "killed
in the cold snap" Now, what am to do? cour-
age most gone, yet willing to take another chance
or SO. 1 have tried popular varieties Oh sweet
stocks, also sour it's all the Somewhat shall
try next? friend says, why don't you try Cit
rus Trifoliata budding stock?' at the same
time remarking 4 have read somewhere about it.
That is good as far as it goes but them want
infor med that if 1 write to the 'AGRICULTURIsT 1
will be helped; I'll try, anyway
Our advice is to let the hollow alone.
You might plant it with trees budded on
Trifoliata stock, and the stock would
stand the frost but they would probably
have to be re-budded after every cold
snap or at least every year. The eXpe-
rience of those who have had these cold
hollow fol their groves goes to prove that
it does not pay to bother with them. If
they are planted with other fruit they
meet with the same fate as the orange
trees-the frost kills the fruit buds. You
might plant the spot in pea vines for for
age or let it grow up in crab grass and
make hay for your stock.
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fruit OF this latter class, poorly grown,
and poorly packed, comes in competi-
ton with the fruit OF the intelligent wide
awake grower. These latter will survive
the crisis and continue in the business,
and truly will it be the survival of the
fittest.
It is comical if it were not pathetic to
hear these "drifters" talk. They think
that when they have planted an orange
grove and scratched around it for ten
or a dozen years, that they have done
their duty in making an orange grove,
and when they dump their fruit in boxes
and freight it off 10 market and receive
returns that hardly pay for the expense
of packing they give the State OF Florida
and the orange business Hail Columbia.
There are hundreds-perhaps thousands
of such people in Florida. They are the
drifters, and perhaps when they drift out
of the business it will be no great loss,
but will leave the field open for the ones
who use their heads as well as their
hands.
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WE CAN'T AFFORD TO DRIFT.

The peoIl lie of Flo rida no more than
the people of anyother country or State
can afford to drift with the tide.
Success comes not without an effort even
in the most favored sections of the
world. To plant an orange grove is not
to make success at orange culture, by
any means. 1t requires diligence, per-
severance and the exercise of the brain
as well as muscle, 1t is more than
likely that the orange business will dem
onstrate again that it is a case of the
survival of the fttest-that those who
are most capable will thee who will be
make the greatest success of the bust
ness, that only those who work intelli-
gently will continue to raise oranges be-
cause those who "drift with the tide''
or work their muscles will not be able to
compete with those who 60 about the
The experience of passed years has
shown that the men who make money
out of oranges are the ones who 60
about the business in a thorough
systematic and business-like manner.
They commence with the foundation of
the business, at the tine the trees are
put in the ground, by planting such va
rieties as will sell for the best prices.
They follow this up with careful culture
and intelligent fertilization producing
superior fruit which will outsell the in
ferior article in any market. There are
many orange growers, we are aware,
who claim that an orange is an orange,
and that one is as good as another and
will sell for as much as another. This
is falIacious reasoning, of course. 1t is
folly to suppose that the customer will
pay as much for poor orange as he
will for goo1 one. Therefore it stands
to reason that the man who produces
the best fruit gets the best price. But
the intelligent, wide-awake, money
making orange grower does not stop with
producing good fruit, he makesa point
to put it up in good manner and get
it to good market in good cOndi-
tion. The man who "drifts with the
tide" again hobs up and contends that
it is all bosh to spend so much money
packing fruit, as oranges sent to mar
ket one way will sell as we'll as those
sent another. 1t is useless to reason
with these men, as it is certain if they
will not learn OF the folly OF their ways by
years of expensive experience they ca
not becOnvinced by words either written
or spoken. The only way to do is to let
them drift with the tide until they drift
out of sight, or at least out OF the orange
business, which they eventually will do,
: for no man can continue business for
$sany great length of time at loss, and
kcertainly there will be loss when the
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1893-07-12
WEDNESDAY, JULY -, 1898.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.

FARM, GROVE AND GARDEN-Some Econo-
mic Insects.
The Watermelon Aphis; Tomato letter.
Some Information Desired; The Ruby
Orange............ ....434
Pineapple Culture in Florida; Competition
in Fruit Culture. 40
Correcting O. Great Evil; Some Garden FIX
periments; Potash for the Ptople..............43G
Pineapple Slips; The Peanut; Roberts
Boilers.
The Cocoanut; The Lake egiOn................43S
FLORAI-Six Good Eucalyptus; Sub-Tropical
Trees at Eustis; A Country Ramble.... abb
EDITORIAL-We Can't Afford to Drift; Let 1t
Alone Spain Gives Up; The Pear Blight; .
Paving Blocks OF 44O
Whence Comes the Orange; Heading OH
the Bears.
HOUSEHOLD The Jewels of God; A Revela-
tion (poems); Editorial Notes; Cucumber
Pickles; Rules for Young Housekeepers;
Make Your Will; Soup; a Summer Bath
Potato Pie; About Russell Shoes; For
Group. ......'.'....'....44Z
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.; Word for Ducks;
Silver Wyandottes; A Chapter on Worms..443
LITERARY-Sto beyond The Cit" ........44
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
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Orange and Other Citrus Fruits, From Seed to
Market" with insects beneficial and Injurious,
with remedies for the latter. The text of the bull
letin is both instructive and interesting and is
copiously illustrated. The Florida Experimental
Station, by the way, has never issued special
bulletin, or other kind the citrus although the
orange industry OF Florida is Of vastly more i'm
portance than the orange industry OF Louisiana.
But we bde our time and hope for better days
and new director.
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EDITORIAL CHAT.

THOSE who have an idea that they can
produce oranges proftably without the use OF
potash should read the report OF DR.. Hilga1 d,
who says that for every 10000 pounds OF oranges
produced on an acre of land there is extracted
from the soil 4O14 pounds OF potash, &c 60 pounds
Of nitrogen and 1000 pounds OF phosphOric acid.
The rains in all sections OF the State
for the past month have been reported as unusually
heavy Some OF the old timers predict that we
will have one of those old time rainy seasons
and that the now dried-up lakes and ponds will
again be filed and that as a consequence we will
not be 80 troubled by frosts, freezes and billiards.
in the future as we have been for the last half dozen
years past.
***
GRAPE growing in Florida few years
ago was hooted at Dis an impOssibility. This
season many tons of the fine grapes have been
shipped from this State, and the number OF tons
will increase with each succeeding year for many
years. OF course the prices obtained will not be
near SO high as they were in the early days OF the
industry, but we think they will be prOfta BILE,
and very much better than nothing at all. The
beauty of the grape crop is that it comes in
when other sources of revenue have disappeared.
49,
WE have received from the Louisiana
experimental Station Especial bulletin containing
10 pages and devoted to the subject of 1.-The
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PAVING BLOCK OF FIBRE.

Our palmetto fibre has already found
many uses 1t is used for brushes, mats,
plastering, ETC., and still we think there
are many other things for which it
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THE PEAR BLIGHT.

and we are sorry there are not similar
associations and organizations in every
section or county of Florida. Among
other things the association referred to
has annual exhibits of fruit at which
premiums are offered for the best dis
plays, etc, Aside from this meetings
are held at stated intervals at which
subjects of interest to the fruit growers
are discussed. At one of these recent
meetings, for instance, the subject of the
pear blight was discussed at some length,
and great deal Of light thrown on a
matter of very much Importance to the
people Of that section Of the state.
In discussing the subject Mr.. G.. w.
Mellish admitted that he could not throw
as much light upon the subject as he
could wish. He said that there is no
pear-growing section of the country
exempt from the ravages of the blight
and that no variety of pear was proof
against it's attack. Blighted trees and
trees free from blight can be found
standing side by side on all kinds of soil
with various methods of cultivation and
fertilization. He recommended that
the blighted limbs and twigs be cut out
Of the tree as soon as they appear The
more thoroughly this is done the better
will be the results. In cutting be sure
to go six inches or foot below any
signs of diseased bark, and keep the
saw free from contact with the diseased
wood and burn every twig cut off.
Supplement this with thorough cult
walton, keeping the trees supplied with
complete fertilizer to induce healthy
vigorous growth, and such vigorous
growing varieties as the LeCOnte and
Keiffers will come out all right.
Mr.. Hollowell said that the cause Of
the blight had never been satisfactorily
solved. but his experience led him to be-
lie\e that i, could be guarded against to
a very great extent. He said that the
trees could be injured by kindness, and
that the practice of feeding the trees all
and in some cases more highly condensed
heterogeneous fer Silizer than they could
consume was conducive to the disease as
was shown by the fact that trees thus
treated were more subject to the blight
than those not so highly fed. His trees
that had an application Of stable ma
nure late in the fall were'the ones that
showed blight. A heavy fall growth,
he thought, had tendency to produce
blight the following year. He advised
constant cultivation with very light
fertilization up to the first of July on
the most of our sandy soils.
Mr.. L. w. Frank of the DeFuniak
Experimental Station, thought that if
the blight was not caused by it was
greatly increased by stable manure,
cotton-seed meal, blood and bone and
other heterogeneous manures. The fact
that blight always starts in the spring
would indicate that late frosts have
something to do with 1t. After the first of
June the blight is cut out and is not likely
to appear again that season. We believe
the best preventive was the use of pot
ash and phosphate fertilizer exclusively,
and clean but not deep cultivation in the
early part Of the season, say until the
first Of July, then let the orchard alone
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THE Los Angeles (Cal.) Times says that
il is not beyond the bounds OF probability that,
after the Southern California orange growers are
thoroughly organized. they may be able to affil-
late a similar organization among their brethren
in Florida. Now that is kind, we are sure, and
we will appreciate anything that our California
friends can do for us in the matter of urging
on to an organized condition. fellow feeling
makes US wondrous kind. The California orange
growers have had a taste of the same medicine
that the Flo1idians have been doctored with in
the past-low prices and Improbable returns.
We trust that in both cases the medicine will
prove effective and effect cure of the existing
evils,
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WE have received from the Louisiana
Experimental Station Especial bulletin containing
10 pages and devoted to the subject of THE
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1893-06-23
Good-Natured Indifference.

A certain good-natured fatalism pre-
walls in Russia as to the one crime of
theft. at Saratof on the Volpa a
crowded steamer was about to start,
when the assistant captain, hurryinp
through n crowd of third-class pas
sengers, was suddenly stopped by a
peasant, who had previously COM
planned that his money had been stolen.
Your honor" he said, ''the money
has been found" -
Found Where?"
"Sewed up in that soldiers mantle.
went over there to search for it, and
sure enough, there were forty-one
rouhles and twenty-kopeck piece in
my chsmois purse" <
"Where is that soldier?"
There he is, asleep"
"Well, he must be handed over to
the police"
Handed over to the police? Why to
the police2 Don't touch him, let him
sleep on. Sure, the money is found;
what more do we want?"
And asthe captain proved equally In
different, the matter was dropped
Youths Companion. ~
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1893-06-23
ELKO, NEVADA, FRIDAY, JUNE %. 1898.
THREE MILLION BACHELORS.
That's What the Census Shows and It's
Time Some Repented.

Time Some Repented.
According to the last census reports
there are over three million bachelors
, in the United States, by which is
meant there are three million men
over thirty years old who have never
been married. ...--..0 =. -
This fact, of course, furnishes a yerv
handy text for all sorts of comment
and suggestion. Now and then the
scheme is advocated of making neglect
OF matrlmony a statutory offense,
either by way Of tax discrimination in
favor of married parties or otherwise.
In earlier times, says the Boston
Globe, marriage was com pulsory. The
great world conquerors wanted mate
rial for their armies, and so heavy pen-
altles were laid on neglect to marry.
One interesting question which the
census figures do not answer is this:
"Iow many of these three million
bachelors are single from choice rather
than necessity2"
The factors affecting the ability to
support a wife have been very much
changed under the newer Industrial
and commercial condition. So great
has become the competition for places
among the higher pursuits, and so larre-
iy have women come to fill positions
once exclusively occupied by men, that
the bureaus of industrial statistics
show larger and larger percentage of
men In these pursuits whose incomes,
from their point of view, will not per.
NIT them to marry.
1t is easy to scold the young men in
this matter-quite as easy to find fault
with the young women who are look
ing out for husbands with plenty of
ready money. But there is nothing in
the published census figures regarding
the average earnings of certain classes
OF workers which at all warrants the
conclusion that the majority of these
three million unmarried men remain
single through willfulness rather than
what they deem necessity.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1893-06-23
He Knew Too Much to Live.

The moon sent It's chilly beams across
the floor, forming q pathway of light
Upon the couch the old man slepA in
peace, his face illumined with o child
like smile. A woman, pale and with
baleful eyes, crept stealthily into the
apartment. She approached the bed.
She bitterly contemplated the slumber.
or. "Ah," she hissed, and there was n
thrill of hatred In her voice. The old
man stirred Like the fash of light.
ming she drew from the folds of her
gown dagger and upon the instant
plunged It into the bosom of the help
less figure before her. There wac
short gasp and all was still. A spirit
had gone TO Its maker. For moment
the murderess fingered. "Poor fellow"
she unused, ''and yet his death was
necessary to my happiness. He knew
too much about me. He"-she smiled
hnalignantly-''could remember when I;
was born. Who knows when he might
make damaging disclosures. Safe
safe" Wfping the Rory dagger upon
the fold OF her mentle slts hittc'
''rough the portal ana wac gohd ~
c,it IriL ..ae..
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The Somerset reporter., 1893-02-23
IIartlaI,d.

Robert Linn was in WatcrYille last
Tuesday.
Mr.. stafford ana family have moved
back to the village.
Miss Jennie Goodrich i nj work at
Howard Estes.
Mrs. Hart, who had her arm amputt-
ted n short time since. is doing nicely.
Lawrence Williams. who travels for
Bragg, Cummings \ Co. grocery nrm
in Bangor, was called here by the SICK
ness of his uncle last week.
G.. i. Shaw was called to Dexter last
week by the illness of his father
The village schools II we'll as the ly-
eeum close this week. Both have been
profitable and all appear to regret they
are to continue no longer
IL. G.. Fuller attended the concert and
ball of the Maine Central Relief ASso-
citation at Portland the It'll inst.
Ernest Cook OF Athens, who has been
clcrking in W. +. Smiths store this win
ter. returned to his home last week to
attend the spring term OF school Just
opened in that place.
DR.. f. A. Bean and wife and Mrs. IL
c. Fuller attended the funeral OF the
late Mrs. +. +. French at West Palmyra
last Friday afternoon.
Miss Jennie Wright sprlined her ankle
week before last so severely II to cause
her to lay by for a while.
DR.. f.. \. Bean was WAS in NatrrVillr
saturday on business
The Somerset reporter., 1893-02-23
More POTATO.

Renan had great contempt for mere
words, however eloquent One evening
he met at a sort of literary dinner NJ.
Caro-, the philosopher beloved of fine la
dies, who set himself to prove the exist
ence of God. His eloquent assertions did
not seem to interest the sage. In the
middle of one of his most sonorous pc.
RODS NJ. Renan attempted to make him
self heard.
But all the ladies were intensely in
terested. They would not have their
pleasure spoiled.
"In moment, NJ. Renan, we will
listen to you i'll your turn
He bowed submissively.
Toward the end of dinner NJ. Caro-,
out OF breath, stopped with a rhetorical
emphasis, AT once every one turned to-
ward the illustrious scholar, hoping that
he would enter the lists, aid the hostess,
with an encouraging smile, said:
Now, NJ Renan"--
Il am afraid, dear lady. that am now
= little behindhand.'
mo, not
Il wanted to ask for little more po-
cato '--Fortnightly Review.
The Somerset reporter., 1893-02-23
Somerset Pomona at Scion

TulIy one hundred patrons. represent
,.,f,.. from, <.,# pnr,i.,nd ginohon
Nor'h 7oi'i''i 7''' -i''''u9' i'''7'
skoWhegan and Victor Oranges gather
ed with North Somerset Grange. Solol
,ol,old IL, r.,,l.r r,h,,.,r,. mce,in,, a,
= ''o''' Wv = '''''
the folhena.
Worthy Master An,el li"l"aA irc'la
I'd. Bro. I. u. Salley in behalf of North
so,,or.a, er,ug, corJiLl,- welcomed
,''", r N. 80 -
me i o'i'oiia '".'oi''a' ~ w. '''''' ~ ~
address OF welcome emphasized I'M lae'
that the farmer of today and his alvan.
ta,,og ara. far sun.,ior to those of onI
- :.
ahce'lor7' '"'' Nv i p'0'''''"7 '''Di' - -
telligent and his calling more respected
and honored because of the advent of III,
cr,ns,o and Tho deyelonmcnt - of Grange
nr;ncinlns Rro. ID II BARTLETT in behalf
If thr Pomona re.nouded. Bro. Bartlett,
lad, mon tho briobl .i,lc Of the aori.
',,I,,,rai aaostion and h.Iicvp. that farm
iny -. . husiurss has an encouraging
~ T ,'ot,
49, - r T. Rootbh, aud sarah T.
Pierce and pro Fuoene Donforth favor.
cd tbn Grange With select readings.
worthy Iccturer Danforth introduce
,bo familiar ouestion .sDo the induce.
mnnts fnr vounu men TO settle and re,
m' H. Nsinc over baIonce The induce.
n, mann, To s.ttIe elsrwhcres" Bro
stonben Merrill wa, the first to tax.
~ = 90 ,ha ION an / called mn drcid.
The Somerset reporter., 1893-02-23

II am beginning to believe that there
Is absolutely nothing new under the sun,
but tina, every thought is n revival or an
imitation or a downright plagiarism of
some one which preceded it years and
years age" said Calvin ). Southwood as
he warmed his feet against heater in
the rotunda of the Liudell. Even
the inventions that appear SO brand new
may have existed or their possibility
been suggested away back before the
dawn of history. AT any rate this is evil
Gently true in the realms Of literature,
In this line. if in nothing else, history re
peats itself and the world runs in cycles.
/ attended church Sunday-fact, assure
you-and heard distinguished gentle
man use metaphor as his own which |
at once recognized as used once by Oliver
Wendell Holmes, and which in different
form | once ran across in an old book
containing the Canterbury Tales. Yes
terday read in magazine an article
by writer of national reputation, who
used as his own the expression, Pride
that dimes on vanity, sups on contempt,
This expression was evidently taken
bodily from the Poor Richards Alma
nae of Benjamin Franklin, and this dis
tinguished philosopher | feel sure Dor
rowed it either consciously or uncon-
sciously from an old German book full
of folklore. Many of these old thought,
in more recent writers are unconsciously
reproduced. and in their new dress can
hardly be recognized. A guilty con
science needs no accuser may easily be
recognized in Hamlets soliloquy, Thus
conscience does make towards of us all,
but it appeared far back of that, in the
sacred pages, The wicked flee when no
man pursueth, and no doubt in other
shapes ages before that. No, there S
nothing new under the sun."-St Louis
Globe-Democrat.