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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-09-11
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Mr. G. E. MACY, the promoter of the
rice industry in South Florida. informs us that
he will clean rice this year for toll in order to
further encourage The industry. The toll will be
one-sixth for putting the grain in marketable
condition.
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them and the proprietor informed us
that he had always gotten cent piece
for his fruit, but this year he would
have two cents. This place will give
about % boxes OF oranges toward the
crop of one million boxes.
Close to Aliens place is the govern
ment reservation or Indian Agency.
This consists of the governments house
and barn, saw mill and few houses
around them.
We failed to see what good the saw
mill was doing the Indians as they live
in palmetto shacks and long way from
the agency.
Soon after passing the agency we came
to great stretch of prairie country and
one could look for miles and miles and
see only occasionally a cabbage:palmetto
or clump of cypress in place
little lower than the rest.
About the middle of the afternoon we
came to a small hammock of about an
acre in extent and here we found lime
trees and lemon trees in good condition
and from which we gathered fruit.
When the sun was about an hour high
we noticed in the east change in the
green appearance of an ''island" as far
as we could see ahead. This was our
prospective camping place and when w {
got there we found that at one time it
had been the home OF the red man and
that the bright green we saw waving
were the leaves of large clusters of bana-
mas. This was small knoll of an acre
in extent, around the center was wild
orange trees, one sweet tree, guavas and
bananas. The sweet tree had possibly
box Zone more added for orr million) on
it.
A little to the back of this was ham
mock in which the wild turkeys could be
heard flying to roost. and occasionally a
glimpse could be had of them as they
left the prairie for the heavy timber.
The next morning We passed another
deserted lodge around which the banana
and wild orange were growing.
The character of the land changed
considerably and large hammocks could
be seen in all directions, Fording a
rather Doggy slough and going through
one of those dense hammocks out into
some strong pine land we stopped at the
edge of very large body Of hammock.
Here we found another deserted camp.
The surprise was yet to come. After
hitching our horses and taking a long
stick in our hand, upon instructions
from Mr.. Hinson, we entered the dense
woods. The Indians had built "path''
through by telling trees and cutting
flat surface on top. Many of the trees
were still good and some had entirely
rotted away. About 500 feet of this kind
of bridging and we came to an opening
which had been recently cleared out.
This was formerly the Indians field.
Here we saw evidences of an old sugar
cane patch. The cane had grown up
and died down from year to year.
Mr.. Hinson had cleared part of this
and had vegetables of different kinds
growing. Here was the wild orange
grove but just how much area it covered
we were unable to ascertain. The trees
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been through the country did not be-
lieve it. This might easily happen as
the county is sixty miles square. Others
said it was impossible for wild groves to
remain hidden so long, for someone
would have found them and made use
of them.
The groves were known to a mum Der
of people but prior to the freeze wild
orange trees thirty or forty miles from
transportation had no particular attrac-
ton and consequently hunter or cow
boy might even eat the wild oranges
and have no further thought of their
where abouts.
While on our way to Fit. Myers we
met Mr.. F. J. Hinson who has brought
these groves into notice and we asked
for full particulars. He replied by say
Ing, II am on my way to the groves now,
if you will come with me | will show
you the groves" Knowing that many
of our readers would like to hear the
facts regarding these groves, and not
having had the pleasure of camping
trip for dozen years, we concluded to
accept the invitation and thus it was
that on Thursday morning August 22nd
in company with Mr.. Hinson, Mr..
Knight of Tampa and Mr.. Langford a
citizen of Lee county, we started for
the heart of the Big Cypress.
AS the land on which the groves were
found is unsurveYed Mr.. Hinson was
taking with him corps of surveyors
who were to follow us with provision in
a wagon. For two weeks previous, 1T
had been raining aim ost every day,so We
knew there was plenty of water ahead.
We were soon out of the corporate
limits of Myers and for the next 90 miles
did not pass house, the horses in the
meantime scarcely ever walking on land
entirely out of water.
1t was our intention to reach Aliens
Place before camping but owing to delay
in getting started and bad roads we
stopped at the first house we came to
and proceeded to camp for the night.
AS we took only enough provisions for
dinner supposlng the wagon would
catch up with us, 1t left us with rather
slim ratlons and nothing to cook 1t in.
Having little bacon, light bread and
coffee left we prepared the former by
broiling it on the end of a palmetto leaf
stalk and boiling the coffee in empty tin
cans. In this way we succeeded in ap
peasing hunger and spent the even
ing listening to camp fire stories.
When the time for retiring came, our
led was soon made up by simply cutting
a few palmetto leaves spreading and them
on the ground. On top of these an oil
cloth was spread, blanket next and over
it stretched a mosquito bar This is
the way our beds were made up for five
nights and we doubt if men ever slept
sounder or got up feeling better than
did that party. Separated from mother
earth only by an oil cloth and blanket
and nothing between US and the twink
ling stars above but mosquito bar, we
had no cause to complain for lack of
ventilation and mad the benefit of any
breeze from whatever quarter it blew
and no onewas the worse for the change
We were agreeably SURPRISED on arts.
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BELOW THE FROST REGION (?) No. 3

When one starts out for trip through
South Florida they should not calculate
time too closely, for they are apt to gel
left somewhere. With one train pei
day and one boat every other day, quick
transit is not to be thought of. 1t is
best to go with limit of time of two or
more days. When we left DeLand we
expected to be back within week or ten
days bnt thirteen days were taken, hence
nothing In last weeks issue about our
trip
From DeLand to Lakeland little time
was lost, but at the latter place wait of
three hours gave us quite rest.
The train from Lakeland to Punta
Gorda being mixed" did not arrive
at the latter place until 2:30 in the
morning. AS the boat for Myers left at
seven o'clock, it did not give us much
time at the hotel and consequently not
much rest. The Steamer Clara had I'M
dergone repairs since our last trip and
made much better time, and in
stead of reaching Myers at six, it was
only three o'clock. Captain Roam, how
ever, was the same genial and pleasant
gentleman and a general favorite on the
route.
What change few months had
made The tropical fruit trees that last
March were bare and to all appearances
dead were now covered with rich dark
green growth ard the guava bushes were
growing as luxuriantly as ever. There
was very little dead wood of any kind to
be seen. Everything seemed to be do
Ing it's utmost to regain it's former dimen-
sions and fruitfulness.
1t was the orange trees that held us
spellbound. 1t was almost like going
into another country and it brought
wildly to mind what used to be in our
own.
We visited the Locker grove on
Twelve Mile creek which was purchased
last spring by Mr.. E. N. Blake. Our re-
lation to this grove is the same as that
of physician to patient, and as we
prescribed" for it last spring we were
more than pleased to see that it had
greatly improved. So much so that it
was conceded by everyone to be the
best looking grove in that county.
The trees had beautiful color and
were carrying crop of fine fruit. The
success of this grove mas led many to in
quire the kind of medicine given and
has exploded the idea, in that sec ton,
that cowpenning is the best fertilizer for
orange trees.
We had the pleasure of meeting
Messrs. Frank J. Wilson and Taylor Frier-
son, two of Lee CounGy's progressive
citizens who are ready to profit by others
experience and are now looking more
closely to the best interest of their
groves.
AS we walked among the trees of the
Locker grove, now called Crock Grove"
and saw the glossy green leaves waving
in the sunlight and beheld the loaded
branches swaying back and forth by the
gentle breezes, it brought spell of ''fond
recollections" OF the time when we
could look on our own trees and see
them in all their beauty of full vigor and
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-09-11
FROM many places in South Florid;

FROM many places in South Florida
comes the news of the erection of grist mills for
converting OF the fine corn crop of that section
into meal. This will seem strange to people who
a few years ago contended that nothing but Or
anges could be raised in South Florida. While
South Florida has not raised sufficient corn this
season to supply it's needs for a year it has made
a grand effort in that direction and another
year with good season very little corn will be
i'm ported in this region
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In reference to the meeting of the
Fruit and Vegetable growers at Orlando. the
Sentirel Of that place SAYS The convention was
poo ~ Atten ed Not one e The come ttee call
ing the meeting was pre- sent. The convention
met at p. III. yesterday. Mr. Dudley W. Adams
was elected charm ami MIR. Hy Crutcher, sec.
rotary, After some discussion committee was
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Neighbor Maynard found it too hard
work lifting the heavy "forms" Of an
eight column paper every week and this
week the Index comes ont in new shape
same size as of old, but turned around
and folded the other way, and making
a five column quarto. 1t looks very tasty
aud neat and by newspaper men, at
least, is generally considered preferable
to the folio form. The GRAPHIC, it will
be remembered. printed one issue in the
quarto form-an flopppd back to its
present shape the mex week. Never
theless the new press we are now using
was purchased with the idea in view of
sooner or later printing! qnarto-and
of the largest size.
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The Chamberlain Register, whose ed
itor is stuck on Pickler for personal
reasons, would have it appear that if it
had not been for Picker the Crow Creek
sufferers would still be suffering, and it
winds up by stating that 1--WE have
known of his getting a pension for
soldier way off in New York state" The
GRAPHIC has it from prominent con-
gresham, who is familiar with the
legislation in the interest of the Grow
Creek settlers from beginning TO end,
that Pickler's work In this direction did
not amount to hill of beans and that
those who recovered are under obligation
almost wholly to HOLMAN Of Indiana,
who took personal interest in the mat
ter, and without whose valuable assist
ance the appropriation could not have
gotten through. Other congressman
and Washingtonians are free in stating
that Pickler is the worst factor those
seeking pensions legislation have to
contend, In that the moment the sub
ject Of pension is brought up he sets his
mouth going and goes off and leaves it,
resulting in such thorough disgust with
tho wholepension business that the house
usually adjourns without anything in
the line being accomplished. 1t is this
kind of work that prompted Tom Reed to
dub Picker the "Wild ass of the prai-
ries." Pickler NAV be smart enough
and all that, but he is crank through
and through, and with the single ex-
ception Of pension he is not in line with
the Republican party on the principal
Issues, and when in the halls Of congress
iscorpared with Jerry Simpson and men
of that class, rather than with the broad
and brainy men who represent the most
intelligent commonwealths of this coun-
try. Pickler retards immigration. He
should be kept at home.
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Marvellous Results.

From letter written by Rev. j. Gun
derman, of Diamondale. Mich, we are
permitted to make this extract: II have
no hesitation in recommending DR..
Kings New Discovery, as the results
were almost marvellous in the case of
my wife. While | was pastor of the
Baptist church at Rives junction she
was brought down with pneumonia sue
ceeding La Grippe. Terrible paroxysms
of coughing would last hours with little
interruption and it seemed as If she
could not survive them. A friend recom-
mended DR.. Kings New Discovery; it
was quick i'll its work and highly salts
factory in results" Trial bottles at f..
r. Miller's drug store, free. Regular
size 50c and $l00. ID
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II. w. Meserve came in from Chamber
lain Saturday morning and went to
Mellet!e in the afternoon. At Cha mber-
lain he located reservoir with which
j. NJ. Greene intends to irrigate four
quarter sections OF land. Mr.. Greene
was among the first mon Of the state to
advance the irrigation idea and now ex-
poets to make a practical illustration of
it.-Mitchell Republican.
Joe was good so far as he went and
Joe is 0. K. so far as he goes. But let it
not be forgotten that the very first man
to take hold Of the matter in earnest was
the late w. II. Curtiss, whose articles in
the GRAPHIC, supplemented by this
papers editorials, set the ball in motion
toward a general system Of artesian
wells, and. subsequently, the irrigation
idoo
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THE KIMBALL GRAPHIC
cLATE r. TINAN.
Official Paper Of the City OF kimbalI

Qispite all that has been written Of
the wonderful success Of irrigation in
California, Utah and Colorado, and the
further fact that no farmer or horticul-
turist IN those states could be induced
to till the soil or raise fruit where the
natural rainfall was the sole depend
ence, the average farmer who has never
visited the far vest has but little idea of
irrigation and is naturally prejudiced.
1t is difficult to the farmer east of the
Missouri to understand how very simple
the work is, with plenty OF water at
hand, and how uniform the results. It
IL only by ocular proof that he can be
made to see what wonderful results the
rich black soil and the hot sun of the
Tar west will accomplish with plenty Of
moisture in the ground. Even our own
Brule county farmers have given only
passing notice OF the extraordinary re-
suits Of market gardening by towns
people where artesian water was at
hand and doubted the practicability of
artesian irrigation on large scale. All
this ia changed now since the county
wells have demonstrated what even a
little water and no effort will do, and if
money was at hand there would not be
enough machines in the United States
to put down artesian wells that would
be sunk in Brule county another year.
1t is going to take time, however, to
bring this matter to eastern people look
ing for homes in the west-men who
have money to improve these South
Dakota farms and tap the ocean that
lies underneath. For time we must
demonstrate ourselves what can be
done in Brule county with irrigation. 1t
will not require many years-very few
a small number Of irrigated farms only
will tell the story-then the whole
United states army couldn't keep out
the capital, investors and homeseekers
who will rush for these lands.
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When the public schools of New York
City were open ed the other day, 2a1,OGO
pupils appeared in the 14O school houses
where they were met by 1000 teachers.
There are only thirteen cities IN the
country, exclusive OF New York. that
have each q larger population than the
number of the public school children OF
the metropolis, which goes to .show not
only what great city New York is but
also how important it IS that she should
give close attention to the matter Ct
popular education.
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Referring to the artesian wells
throughout the state, II. w. Meserye,
expert irrigator in charge of the cele-
brated Hunter farm, states that Dawson
county ranks first in the number of wells
and Brule second. 1t should be borne in
mind, however, that there are wells and
wells. Tho Dawson county wells, like
those so numerous around Parkston, are
shullow wells OF small bore and flowing
the minimum amount Of Water with no
pressure. Any one ofthe big gushers In
Brule county flows more water than a
dozen such wells, and the big we'll at
Chamberlain probably sends out more
water per diem than all the wells in
Dawson county combined. Some OF tl.o
wells In this county feed from 70 to 16
miles OF ditches-three and four good
creeks running away from each we'll for
miles.
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We are in receipt OF the 1895 proceed
ing Of the South Dakota Press associa-
tion and the minutes of the annual and
semi-annual sessions at Pierre and Hot
Springs respectively, compiled OF course
by Secretary Halliday. and published at
his office, and it is good piece Of work.
Nothing appears to have been omitted
and aperusal Of the proceedings-the
work and pleasures Of the association
by any newspaper man in the state not
a member will have a tendency to make
him see how much he misses. At least
it should.
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There isn't a newspaper in the United
States worthy Of the name that doesn't
tread on some ones toes every week in
the year. An editor can please all the
people a part of the time, but when he
attempts to please all the people all the
time his name becomes Mud. 1t is
something that no man has ever vet sue
ceeded in doing, and we knew enough
not to try it in the FIRST place. For this
reason, theman who swears at the editor
is liable to attract about as much atten-
tion as though he wasn't Oh earth at all. !.
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Electric Rittcrs.

Electric Bitters is a medicine suited
for any season, but perhaps more gener-
ally needed i'll the spring, when the
lanGuid exhausted feeling prevails,
when the liver is topid and sluggish and
the need Of tonic and Alternative II felt.
A prompt use Of this medicine has often
ayerted long and perhaps fatal bilious
feyers. No medicine will act more sure
ly In c0unteracting and freeing the sys-
tenn from the malsrial poison. Headache,
Indigestion, Constipation, Dizziness,
yield to Electric Bitters. Only so cents
q bottle at +. Z. Millers drug store. ~
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sick ofthe south.

EDITOR OF THE GRAPHIC
The eastern and central part of Ten
nessee is pretty fai-, but western Ten
nesseee is no good. In the first place
they have too many "niggers." Here in
Fayette county out Of the total popula-
tion of $4,000 there are only 5000 whites.
Nine-tenths of the whites are too lazy to
work and the "niggers" don't know how.
II white man shows disposition to
work Its dollars to doughnuts that he
cannot get 1t, for the average southerner
would rather lire niger, which they
can dc at 25 cents day-and the nigger
boards himself. They think more of a
niger, too, than Of white man from
the North. As long as northern man
has money he is all right, otherwise he
finds himself Oh the same level as the
niggers. Iadvise any northern man to
steer clear Of Tennessee--or from any
portion of the South for that matter.
The climate Of western Tennessee is
ANYTHING but healthy it must be even
worse farther south. Nearly all the
northern men who came into this section
last spring have had chills and fever the
greater part of the time. l have only
been here four months and have had 'em
twice. wouldn't stay here a year il
they would give me the best farm in the
state.
A large number of men from the north
lave been here this season, but only a
very few have bought land. The real
estate sharks tell you it isn't any
warmer here than in South Dakota.
During July and Augnst-and SO far in
Septembcr-it has heen too hot to live.
The temperature has been from 95 to 9S
constantly, with not breath OF air stir
ring. Give me 100 and ITO in South
Dakota in preference to any weather l
have seen in the South yet.
THoS. w. WEISS.
SOmpryillp Tenn
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A Waltham, Mass, kid learning to
smoke cigarettes, stole behind grocery
to practice a little. Hearing approach
ing footsteps he dropped his cigarette
into the bung hole Of the barrel on which
he sat. The barrel once contained nap
tina. When the kid came down he
alighted in the same township, but an
other time he will drop his nose into an
empty barrel before he drops his cigar
nffa in
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THE GRAPHIC.

Job Work of every description executed in the
best style and at lowest prices. The most COM
plcte steam power plant in the county.
Advertisements not accompanied By instruct
ions will be inserted until ordered ont ard will
be charged for accordingly
Display advertisements SO cents an inch per
month. single column wide. Locals 5and 10 cts
. limo. according TO position.
Correspondence wanted from all pert6 OF the
comfy and from anywhere else. Short commu-
nicatinns of general interes.. always Welcome
personal quarrels respectfully :eclined.
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We've skinned 'em again. In the
atheletic contests in New York city last
Saturday between representatives of the
Lobdon Athletic Club and representa-
tives OF the New York Athletic Club the
Americans won in the entire eleven
events and broke five worlds records.
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THE GRAPHIC.

Established by its present proprietor and ons
OF the Oldest newspapers in this section.
Not excelled as an advertising medium by any
Weekly newspaper in South Dakota.
Read by 5000 people every week in the year,
and constantly increasing circulation,
Pcblishes the otficiul proceedings Of the City
Council and of tho County Commissioners and
is n perfect mirror of local events.
Is lively, spicy and independent ard acknovl-
by it's contemporaries to be one of the most
widely read and best edited newspapers in this
state,