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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1893-03-29
81 per Annu1l, in advance

in my opinion as soon as this is prohlb-
tied there will be more malaria in Flor
ida to the square inch than is now to
the square mile. The fires are the best
malaria DESTROYING agents in the State.
But the subject of most vital interest
to the people you do not mention that
is reasonable transportion rates by some
if not all our railroads. 1t is
astonishing how silent the Florida
newspapers are upon this subject.
believe they are all afraid to advocate
such thing it looks as if they were by
some honest or dishonest influence in
the power of the railroad compani es.
The on.y thing the people of Florida
now need of great Importance is law
regulating freight, express and passen-
ger rates. We can raise products il
abundance, but We are taxed to death
to get them to market. just shipped
four crates strawberries to New York
four days enroute-expressage $5 %, net
vile so cents, almost half of the amount
to New York per crate. My oranges
netted me about 60 cents. Expressage
from so to 95 cents per box. AS long
as this thing continues, don't say ga
howl from Manatee," there will be
more "hoWls." There is much sup
pressed grumbling, it will break out
very soon. All the people need is pa
per or two that will stand boldly up
for their rights, paper that will not be
subdued by little favor given by the
Sbylocks. Come on Mr.. Neeld--I am in
with you and so are thousands more.
F. w. OHLIN GER.
We hardly think it necessary to dis
cuss this timber protection matter-the
fact that timber is protection from frost
is too Well-knoWn and generally admit
ted to need discussion. When we say
save the timber, we do not mean that
another pine tree shall not be cut but
that no more shall be cut than is neces-
essary.
Our correspondent IS unjust IN MS re-
marks concerning the papers of Florida
being subsidized by the railroad corpo-
rations, and he must indeed be very
careless reader of the Florida papers to
say that they are silent on the subject
Of transportation charges, for they most
emphaticaly are not. They have repeat
edly raised their voice in protestation
against the grasping policy of tie trans
portation companies, but it has availed
but little. We don't know what plan
our correspondent has to propose, what
remedy to offerbut the chances are that he
will propose government con,rol OF lail-
roads--at least We judge so from the
tone of his letter, and this is imr mrractjca-
BILE, impossible and undesirable. If he
has anyother plan than this, we would
like to hear from him.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1893-03-29
Vol. Xxx, No. IS, Whole No. 745.
FOR THE FLORIDA AGRICULTURIsT.
Superiority of the Russet.

Superiority of the Russet.
Another orange shipping season is
now rapidly drawing to close, and,
with the exception of the Harris Tardiff,
by far the greater part of the years crop
has been marketed. During yet another
season we have seen the russ ct orange
still absurdly Disseminated against, by
a sort of conventional stigma cast upon
it bv the trade, and uniustly relegated in
the open market to a secondary place.
A careful examination of long series Of
quotations for the current shipping sea-
son shows sometimes difference of
dollar box between the prices OF bright
fruit and russets, while difference OF
from fifty seventy-fi e cents is OF ire
ouent occurrence. and all this because
it has never been plainly put before the
average consumer in the North that it is
not the skin of the fruit that he eats, but
the luscious pulp inside it.
This condemnation of the russell is
most absurd convention. We do not be-
lieye that any competent, unbiased
Judge could be found who would not
give the russell the first place for excel
lence of favor, and this surely is the
matter of first importance in judging of
the value of fruit, particularly from
the consumers standpoint. We co no!
buy oranges to look at only. 1t is very
true that for the Christmas trade the
bright orange may be more desirable on
account Of its superior fitness t~r decora-
tive purposes. The same may be said OF
a certain class OF trade in large cities,
where there is always demand for good
looking, snowy fruit OF all kinds for the
tables of the wealthy, but this trade
represents an infinitely small fraction of
the whole, and, for general uses, that is
to say, for the purposes for which ninety
Pine out Of hundred oranges are bought
and sold, unquestionably the russet is
the superior fruit, and if the fact could
once be brought home to the Northern
consumer, We should soon see an end OF
that absurd discrimination against it in
the market, which, as we have already
said, is the merest trade convention.
A wide experience of the opinions ex-
pressed on this subject has convinced us
that when once the attention of orange
consumers is called to this point, the
preference for the russell is almost uni
versal in this country. The following
circumstance which was brought to our
notice by the shipper makes us believe
that the same would be the case abroad.
Eight boxes of oranges were shipped to
England in January 1892 as gifts, each
box being packed one-half with brlghts,
and one-half with russets, and all from
the same grove The donor requested
his friends in every instance to give
candid opinion as to the relative merits
of the two grades, with the result that
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1893-10-22
Everyone His Own Life Preserver.

The children of Italian beggars are
often seen to be covered with tumors
and wens, while otherwise they are
perfectly healthy. An inquisitive sur
geon has found the cause of the swell
ing. 1t is a trick of the father or
mother to appeal the more strongly to
the charity of the world. With an in
strument like hypodermic syringe the
skin is punctured and the breath is
blown into it, causing it to stand out
like tumor or other excrescence in
way that would deceive almost anyone.
DR.. Sylvester, an English physician,
has made practical use of the discovery
by converting a mans skin into life
preserver. His method is to puncture
the flesh of the cheek, from the inside
of the mouth, until the small holes
reach to the outer skin. By then clos
ing the mouth and blowing hard the
cheeks are filed with air, so that per-
son seems to have little balloon on
each side of the face. 1t is almost i'm
possible to sink in that condition.
After leaving the water gentle pres
sure of the hand forces out the air and
the cheek resumes the normal shape.
1t is therefore possible for every man
to be his own life preserver.- Paris
American Register,
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1893-10-22
How a Snake Bite Was Cured.

Whisky and rattlesnake bites are
supposed to be inseparable, but Riv-
erside (Cal) doctor recently success
fully treated a rattlesnake bite with
out the aid of the intoxicant The
treatment was: The hand and arm
were first thoroughly cleansed in hot
medicated wash, and the places where
the fangs entered were lanced, so that
the poisoned blood might escape. 1t
was again washed clean, and 1915 per
cent. oily solution of camphorated
picnic acid was injected into some
twenty-five places in the hand and
arm. The only remaining treatment
was to keep the parts perfectly clean.
The doctor says that anyone bitten by
RATHER should Immediately suck the
wound and spit out the blood, then tie
handkerchief tightly above the
wound and open it with clean pen
knife to let it bleed. While this is be-
ing done not moment should be lost
in getting to a surgeon. The snake
may also be killed while you wait. q
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1893-10-22
OUR FORESTS.
Statistics Disprove the Rumors That They
Are Disappearing.

Statistics Disprove the Rumors That They
Are Disappearing.
According to some facts and figures
presented by Henry Gannett in a
recent issue IN the New York Sun
there is to-day nearly if not quite as
great an area of woodland in the
United States as when the white man
set foot on our shore. There are
not SO many square miles of mer-
charitable timber now as then, but
the territory occupied by growing trees
is about as extensive as it was four
hundred years ago, and these trees will
in time grow to size suitable for the
production of lumber. Some of Mr..
Gannett's statements are quite incon-
sistent with the general belief that
American forests are giving out. He
says, for instance, that only about two
hundred and seventy thousand square
miles, or less than one-tenth the area
of the country, is artifcially cleared
land, while to offset this loss there has
in recent years been great extension
of wooded land in the prairie states as
well as in some of the natural tree
growing states. A table is published
showing the total area and the wooded
area of each state, the fig ures having
been obtained from reports of the CEN
sus and agricultural departments, from
official surveys and in few cases from
careful estimates As a grand result
&c oh hof hn rrno6o6 i,,f ~
United States, excluding Alaska, is
nearly one million one hundred and
thirteen thousand square miles.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1893-10-22

oyster can obtain. The French have
developed the conditions of oyster pro-
duction with highest success. They
have proved in the use of the still pond
how to provide the best conditions for
profusion of food organisms as the
surest aid to the rapid and tasteful
conditioning of the oyster. They Gre
ate a pond, shallow and well warmed,
almost currentless, where salt water is
kept uniformly tempered by fresh
streams, the bottom so disposed that
the sediment, otherwise very fatal,
will deposit naturally in the trenches
and not overspread the prolific beds of
oyster food organisms. 1t is necessary
to learn and follow the conditions of
success developed elsewhere through
experience, and adapted and modified
to our particular situations if we
would get satisfactory results in mat
tiers like these. 1t is clear, however,
that this general science of propaga-
ton of life in the waters, for utility
and profit of man, is yet but in its in
fancy. The development of it through
study and experience is clearly des
tined to great results.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1893-10-22
STIMULATING GROWTH.
A Practical and Scientific Use of Elec-
tricity in France.

A Practical and Scientific Use of Elec-
tricity in France.
A practical, scientific use of cleo
tricity is made in France to stimulate
the growth and increase the product
of field crops. An apparatus which
has been successfully used is called the
geomagnetifer, says the Philadelphia
Record, and consists of high pole set
up in the field where the potatoes or
other crops are growing. 1t supports
an insulated head of galvanized iron,
which terminates in the air in a sort
of plexus of points and branches made
of copper. This collector of electrici-
ty communicates by wire with net
work of other wires, which ramify
through the earth around the foot of
the pole and among the growing roots,
beets, cabbages, potatoes or other crop
buried deep enough to be out of the
way in cultivating the crop.
1t is found by experience that this
apparatus collects the electricity which
always exists in the atmosphere, and
which is made especially manifest by
storms, rain, wind, ETC., and transmits
it to the earth and the stratum of air
nearest the earth. The resulting
stimulus to the crop is very marked.
In one test within superficial area of
thirty-two meters the potato yield, in
proportion to the yield of adjoining
areas not electrically stimulated, was
as ninety-one to sixty. Another report
showed sixty-three Kilograms of pota-
toes, as against thirty-eight Kilograms
grown under ordinary conditions.
Other root crops and grapes give equal
ly good results.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1893-10-22
A FRENCH HERCULES,
He Carries a Burden of 220 Pounds TWEEN
ty Miles with Only Two Rests.


ty Miles with Only Two Rests.
Frenchmen are not so famous as
some other nationalities for athletic
feats, but this condition is not caused
by lack of strong men. Among the
laboring classes of France the colti-
neurs are particularly muscular, as
they necessarily must be, their work
being similar to that of our longshore-
men. To test the strength and en-
1urance of this class of men, Partisan
journal recently organized novel
race among them. Each man was re-
quired to carry sack of gravel and
sawdust weighing one hundred kilo-
grammes 1.-TWO hundred and twenty
pounds) and walk or run with it to
Corbeil, distance of twenty miles.
Ten started in this race, leaving the
Rue Feydeau in Paris at three o'clock
in the morning. The first to reach the
goal was Jean Labasse, who covered
the distance with his great load in
fourteen hours, arriving at Corbeil at
ten o'clock in the evening. This lusty
youth, who is but twenty-four years of
age, rested for the first time after
travelling three-fourths of the distance,
and but once afterward.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1893-10-22
MANY MILLIONS OF EGGS.

Distributed by the United States Fish
Commission All Over the Country.
The United States fish commission,
which busies itself with the propaga-
ton and distribution of edible fish in
the waters of all parts of the country,
stocking rivers with species new to the
region, distributing eggs and young
fish to the lakes and seacoasts, and
working in vast number of ways to
the one end, distributed during the
year 1892 the prodigious number of
SOC, $50, 432 eggs and fish, embracing
nearly every kind of food fish known
to the world The largest operations
were in shad. Next to shad, cod was
the fish most distributed, andof white
fish, lake trout, pike, perch, salmon,
fat fish and Holsters the distribution
of eggs and young fry ran far up into
the millions of each, almost every
state and territory getting a share.
The work of the commission is of great
importance and substantial value.
From year to year the results are
cumulative and already are becoming
the country. 1t is regarded by the
Portland Oregonian as singular that
nature has not developed various kinds
of fish in all waters well suited to
them; but it is SO, and the work of the
commission to an extent thus supplies
a deficiency of nature. Shad, for
example, was not native fish in cur
Do fa h11t 70
mission has introduced it, and now it
is beginning to appear in numbers in
most of our streams from California to
Alaska.
The commission is giving great at
tention to study of the oyster and
means and conditions of its propaga-
ton. 1t is admitted that on our coast,
as well as on the Atlantic, there are
many places where cultivation of the
oyster can be carried to high degree
of perfection, with increasing profit.
On the coast of New Jersey canals have
been dug from the ocean into the in
terror on small scale, opening into
ponds, and the success that has been
attained IN the production of the oy-
ster in that locality proves that if the
work were carried out on an extended
scale it would become a source of i'm
mense utility and profit. The like can
be done at numerous places on the Pa
cltic coast, where fresh and salt water,
under proper conditions, can be
brought together. Success in oyster
culture depends, to very greatextent,
upon the feeding conditions that the
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1893-10-22
THE PACIFIC SQUADRON.
Chief Cause of the Numerous De-
sertions of Seamen.
Stringent Restrictions Render Service at
Mare Island So Unbeatable That Com
petent Men Are Hard to
e. Retain.

Capt. Ludlow's requisition to the Sec
Rotary of the navy for men for the
Behring sea fleet and the desertion by
the dozens of sailors from north-bound
vessels in Puget sound have attracted
considerable attention in marine cir
cles to the fact that enlistments in the
United States naval service are be-
coming beautifully less every day.
Not only is the Behring sea feet hav-
ing hard time getting men, but the
news has leaked out that the whole
Pacific squadron is short of seamen,
and that there exists spirit of discon-
tent among those that are enlisted
which almost borders on mutiny.
A San Francisco Call reporter inter-
viewed dozen or more seamen from
the navy yard separately, and as these
mems statements, with the exception
of two, agreed in every particular, it
might be well for the secretary of the
navy to investigate the cause of some of
the mems complaints.
''Why do men of the Pacific squad
ron desert?" was asked of a seaman of
He answered: ''For the simple rea-
son that the restrictions placed on the
men of the Pacific squadron are more
stringent than at any other naval sta
ton of the Uaited States. A sailor is
allowed absolutely no privileges at all
when on duty at Mare island. Unlike
the British navy yard at Esquimalt, or
even the yards on the Atlantic coast of
the United States, Mare island is bound
up with lot of rules and red tape
which makes sailor a slave in every
sense of the word every hour of the
twenty-four Vessels of the Pacific
squadron, especially those on local
coast and Behring sea duty, appear to
be commanded after the fashion of the
Mare island navy yard. Fines are i'm
posed for the least incivility and
breach of discipline, and no other time
save that allotted for shore leave is
given to seamen during which they
might call their souls their own.
$50 degenerated has become the
naval service of the Pacific coast
through the enforcement of trifing
and aggravating rules at the navy
yard and also on board of vessels of
the Pacific squadron that good men
will no longer sign to serve here. The
consequence is every greenhorn that
comes along is picked up, and the aver
age crew of naval vessel on a Pa
cific station consists of the scum of all
nationalities. Naval seamen dread
duty at Mare island about as much as
they do life in prison. Nearly all the
time of the men stationed at the yard
is spent in bowling and scraping around
officers and working on senseless jobs,
sometimes of a very mental nature"
Several Of the late crew of the The
tbs, men from the Omaha and few
of the Montereys crew told stories al
most identical with that of the Ali
ance man. Perhaps it is not the fear
of northern voyage alone which
makes men desert the United States
navy and renders the present scarcity
of sailors so obvious.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1893-10-22
p A Queer Little Quaker Custom.


Near the city of Philadelphia there
are few quaint old villages where
Quakers and Quaker customs are to be
found just as they were in the days Of
good old William Penn. You have no
idea how odd some of these customs are.
A few days ago New York lady was
travelling through one of these little
villages, and, being tired, she stopped
at an old brick farmhouse to rest I'm
mediately there came out little girl,
dressed all in gray, who invited her to
come in the house and have cup of
tea and some cakes. When the lady
had partaken of her refreshment and
turned to go, she offered the old fash
Toned maid in gray some candy out of a
sweetmeat box which she carried at her
belt.
''No, thank thee,' said the little
one bashfully. 81 thank thee-but
no."
please take the candy" urged the
lady, 81 want to give it to you because
you have been so kind to me-"
For minute the little one hesitated.
She put out her hand, as if yielding to
temptation, and then drew it back res
olutely, as she said:
81 thank thee, no. 1 may not take
the candy now, because when thee
asked me first, if would have some,
told thee no, and now may not take
any until thee comes some other day."
IN. Y. Ledger.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1893-10-22
The Elephants Couraea.

An elephant gives perhaps the best
instance of disciplined courage to be
seen in the animal world. They will
submit day after day to have painful
wounds dressed in obedience to their
keeper and meet danger in obedience
to orders, though their intelligence is
sufficient to understand the peril and
far too great for man to trick them
into belief that it is nonexistent. No
animal will face danger more readily
at mans bidding
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1893-10-22

Little Miss De Style-I think you is
real-real thoughtful and considerate.
Little Miss De Fashion-Does you?
Why?
Little Miss De Style Cause you
didn't invite me to your party. Is'pose
you knew we was awful exclusive
Good News.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1893-10-22
Proclamation of Reward.

Proclamation of Reward.
TERRITORY OF ARIZONA,
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.
To all to Whom These Presents Shall Come
Greeting:
WHEREAS, Information from authentic
sources has been received by me that Frank W.
Curry, citizen of Tucson, Pima county, was
murdered at Arivaca, in the said county, on the
10Th OF September, 1898, by some person or per-
sons unknown:
Now, therefore. 1, Charles NJ. Bruce, acting
governor of Arizona, by virtue of the power
and authority in me vested, do hereby offer
reward of one thousand dollars for the arrest
and conviction of the person or persons who
committed the aforesaid murder.
In witness whereof, have hereunto set my
hand and caused the great seal of the territory
to be affixed. Done at Phoenix, the capital,
this twenty-frst day of September; A D. 1893
CHAS M. BRUCE,
Acting Governor.
JsEAL. F. B. DEvRREUx,
Asst Secretary of Arizona.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1893-10-22

Is prepared to turn out on the shortest
notice the Best and Cheapest work
ever put up in Arizona.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1893-10-13

BYa vote of 200 to 10l the house
Yesterday passed the bill repeating the
federal election laws. These laws
have been az object of deadly hatred
by the Democrats because they stood
in their way in the matter of COM
piete sweep in the south. and the car
rying of northern cities by fraud. The
growing restlessnesS in the south was
simply the forerunner Of the break
that must in time come in the solid
south, unless something is done to
prevent. With the hated laws out OF
the way there will be positively moth
ing in the way of counting up as large
maiorities as desired and nothing
short of a revolution will be able to
overcome them. The people may grow
as restless as they please, but If the
oligarchy can have the counting OF the
votes free from all danger of federal
interference, they do not care for whom
they are cast. Outside of New York
in the north, the repeal will. probably
make but little difference, as most of
the large cit es,. if not all, come under
the operation of the Australian ballot
laws.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1893-10-13
McCLEARY SPEAKS.

OF Congressman McCleary's speech
Saturday on the federal elections re-
neal bill. a Washington dispatch says:
He made an excellent impression
and his speech is unquestionably one
of the ablest delivered on the subject.
He started out picturing MacAulays
New Zealander sitting in the house
gallery and asking whether theDemo-
cratic majority was an enemy TO Inc
government, since it was bent upon
stripping it of the power to protect
the congress from fraud in the cleo
tion of it's members. He is told tnat
the Democrats propose to repeal bne
law because it is unconstitutional.
Then McCleary went into the ques-
ton of consUitutionality showing tnat
the trainers intended that congress
should have the power to control tne
federal elections. This is clearly
shown by the debates OF the constltu-
tional convention. On the question
of expediency McCleary showed that
the strict constructionistS VINO form
ed the confederate constitution went
further in this direction than congress
ever attempted to go. They placed
in their constitution the provision
that no person could vote at any state
election unless he was a citizen of the
confederacy. This clincher was a
surprise to some of the Southern
Democrats, who little expected to be
shot with their own ammunition. NC
Cleary's maiden speech was, IN It's
way, fully as remarkable as that of Mr..
TaWney's and this pair Of Minnesota
congressman may we'll be ranked as
speakers with the best men OF either
party in the house.