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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-07-24
OVERESTIMA TING.

Some of our esteemed contemporaries
have adopted the plan of talking very
opefully-which is all right just as long
as they cOnfne themselves TO the truth
and do not paint the hope in such bright
colors that 1T will deceive and do injury.
Although many of our orange growers
positively decline to see it, we still have
something for which to be thankful.
Many of our groves, it is true, are dead
past recall, and nearly all, if not all, are
sadly injured. Still we can strain a
point, perhaps, and be thankful that
they are not all dead and we can also be
thankful that we have responsive soil
and genial climate-a soil that will
yield us living and climate in which
we Can enjoy health and be comfortable
But we are not writing a Thanks
giving day sermon-few Florida editors,
we opine, are in humor for this, even if
they admit that we have many things
to be thankful for. What we started
out to say was that our brother Journal
lists make mistake in talking about the
magnitude of next seasons crop. Some
of them have been so unwise as to say
that the crop of the coming winter will
exceed one million boxes. We wish il
was so, but it is not, as any one who
knows anything at all about the con
dition of the groves will admit. A few
of the State will produce oranges this
| year, and that is all. In these counties
the orange industry has not been largel,
developed and bearing groves are few
and far between. What has Away
been known as the great orange belt o
the State will produce no oranges thi
year, and very few, if any, next year
and even for several succeeding year
the crop will be light.
1t is bad policy to bear your owl
market. This mistake has been mad
year after year in Florida. By the tim
the blossoms drop from the trees AM
the young fruit begins to form the news
papers, or rather some of them, com
mcnce to tell of the immense crop OF
prospect. They keep up this talk unit
the public mind is thoroughly convinced
that the crop will far exceed the demand
The buyers come down thinking that a
there is so much fruit the growers vii
be willing to sell at very low figure, an,
these fellows actually feel injured whe
the growers decline to do it. The com
mission man makes up his mind (whe
he is deciding how much of the none
he has received from fruit to return t
the shipper) that the grower is fully e1
, pecting chronic glut and will be sati:
fed with anything he can get-and q
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-07-24

The last legislature passed a law
amending somewhat the existing fertilize
law. The amending act is as follows.
Section 500. Fertilizers to be label
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GRAPES INTO WINE AT A PROFIT.

still complain that there is no profit in
shipments, or at the very best only a
very small profit. Many of them are
discouraged and some talk Of abandon
ing their vineyards. We confess that
this is mystery to us. The Florida
grown Niagara is the only grape in the
market at the time they are shipped;
they have no competition, and as the
amount grown is small there can be no
excuses of gluts and the overproduc-
ton ry will not hold good in this case.
The growers admit that the grapes sell
for fairly good price but say that the
expense of getting them to market and
sold is so great that t1ey have nothing
left for their share. This is really too
bad. We laid great store by the Mag
ara for South Florida; it is delicious
fruit, easily produces in immense guam
tween seasons, as it were, and would
have been a great help to the orange
growers even in their season of prosper
lty and God send in the seasons of
adversely. We are loath to believe that
the conditions will not in time be
changed and the growers be able to sell
their fruit at profit. In the mean
time it would perhaps be we'll to learn
a lesson from the vitlculturists of West
and Middle Florida. In these regions
the growers have stopped botherine
a bout market for their fresh fruit
and convert it into wine, where it keeps
until wanted, and the longer 1t keeps
the better it is. The Ocala correspondent
of the Times Union in recent letter
of an interview with the manager oil the
Hostetter and Lehman vineyard, neal
Ocala. During the course of this in
| terview the manager is reported as say
ing that the crop of this year was very
fine and that they would make 2,5O(
gallons of wine. They find this is the
most protita BILE way to dispose of thei
yield. Every season leading commits
ion men solicit consignments, but thei
experience is there is no money in thes
shipments for the grower.
| They had an order, last week, from
Philadelphia house. On inquiry the
found the express on a crate was 81 &c
By converting the grapes into wine the
steer clear of the commission shark an,
dishonest middle man. If they do no
sell their wine, it will keep and improv
with age. They have ten acres OF oil,
vines and ten more acres coming In
They have thlrty-two varieties. Thei
experience is that the Rogers No. 2 l
the best and most profitable grape. !
will grow and produce on poor land
without fertilizers. The Black Primo
is another fine variety.
During the past eight years they hav
always disposed of their vintage at home
Messrs. Hostetter and Lehman say tina
winemaking beats orange growing on
of sight for money, and they, in conse
quence, have permitted their orang
grove to take care of itself.
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IT is a good idea to save the waste
products. Yes. make syrup out OF your surplus
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-05-01

A fire, supposed to have been started
by spark from locomotive, broke out
in the upper end of Daytona recently,
and for time matters looked threaten
ing. The west wind brought it up to
within few feet of the barn IN the
rear of the house occupied by R. II.
Bishop. At this point the neighbors
fortunately succeeded in checking it.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-05-01

i'm portant meteorological elements, and
the range within which such variations
may be expected to keep for the coming
month of May for % years.
TEMPERATURE.
Mean or normal temperature, IS de-
grees.
The warmest month was that of 1872
with an average of rs degrees.
The coolest month was that of 1891,
with an average of 70 degrees.
The highest temperature was 90 de-
grees on May 25, 1878.
The lowest tenn perature was 46 degrees
on May 90, 1894.
Average date on which first "killing"
frost occurred in autumn December 4.
Averag e date on which last killing"
frost occurred in spring February II.
PRECIPITATION.
Average for the month, 4.07 inches.
Average number of days with .01 of
an inch or more, 10.
The greatest monthly precipitation
was $50 inches in 1890.
The latest monthly precipitation was
81 inches IN 1889.
The greatest amount of precipitation
recorded in any "a consecutive hours
was 3.71 inches on May % and 20,
1890.
CLOUDS AND WEATHER.
Average number of clear days, II;
partly cloudy days, IA; cloudy days, 8.
WIND.
The prevailing winds have been from
the northeast
The highest velocity of the wind was
SO miles from the southwest on May 3,
1898. E. R. DEMAIN,
Observer, Weather Bureau
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-05-01

10 be week or two old we lost very few
and now have 118 of the largest, health
lest and purest young turkeys in the
country. In an ordinary season we could
probably have rai>ed larger percentage
of birds Matched, but we regard the
present result as very kood, and attrib
ute our success largely to the introduce
ton of hardy wild blood into the flock.
The young for the first two or three
weeks were fed three times day with
scraps from the house, corn bread and
curdled milk, and the latter part of the
time on corn meal and animal meal"
(meat and bones grOund). In June the
old birds were let out of the cOOps and
allowed to wander in the fields. For
week or two they came home at night
to be fed, but they ate very little. Alter
the first of July they were not fed at all,
but lived entirely upon grasshoppers and
other bugs and what they picked up in
the fields. They did very little damage
to A crop. About the first Of October
they began coming home for little
grain at night, when they were fed
whole corn and some wheat, but they
preferred the corn and have been fed
princi pally On that during the fall. A
little before Thanksgiving some of our
young gobblers weighed over twenty
pounds each.
The introduction of wild blood does
not s,em to reduce the size of the birds
10 any extent In fact our turkeys are
larger than ever before, and pair of
them took the first prize for young
Bronze turkeys at the western New York
fair this fall Using wild stock on Bronze
turkeys is really not cross breeding as
the Bronze are directly descended from
the wild turkey and TO cross with this Or
iginal stock is just introd ucing new, Wig
orous blood into the domesticated breed.
All our young turkeys show the perfect
markings and iridescent bronze tinge to
the plumage.- M Harris in American
Agriculturist.
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larged plant at Monmouth, ILL.,, wheJ e
they are able to promptly fill the rapidly
increasing number Of orders.
Milne Bros, have also removed their
immense Shetland Pony business, whic
includes a large number OF the finest OF
these little animals, to The latter city.
We recommend that our readers write
Messrs. Milne e Son for their interesting
catalogue which fully describes their
grub and stump machines.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-05-01
A Worthy Firm.

Ingenuity, coupled with enterprise has
made the firm of Jas. Milne & Son, pa
tentees and manufacturers Of grub and
stump machines, now at Monmouth, Ill.,
the largest establishment of the kind in
the world.
They have N 4de it possible for farmers
to clear their land rapidly and with trivial
expense.
Messrs. Milne & Son have just removed
from Scotch Grove, Iowa, into an en-
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-05-01
May Weather.

The following data, complied from the
weather bureau records at Jacksonville,
Fla, cover the period given for the
month named, and should prove of value
and interest in anticipating the more
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-05-01
Secrets of Successful Turkey Raising.

Secrets OF Successful Turkey Raising.
Believing that turkeys were more
profitable than other classes of poultry,
we procured, three years ago, some
thoroughbred mammoth Bronze stock
and started to raise turkeys. The first
year we had moderate success. In the
spring of 1892 we had eighteen breeding
hens which Matched about $50 young
turkeys. Then the trouble commenced.
They had "swellt heads and various
other ailments and died, and until by
the first of November we had only
twenty-six Young turkeys left. This was
rather discouraging but we determined
to do better next year.
About this time the Rhode Island
experiment station issued bulletin on
turkey raising, giving their experience
in introducing wild turkey blood into
their flock of Bronze turkeys. 1t was
found that by using gobbler having
Bronze hens, the young turkeys from
this cross were much harder. more Wig
orous and free from disease than any
other breed or cross. This seemed SEN
sibe and we determined to try this cross
on our flock.
After some trouble we succeeded in
obtaining a gobbler with one quarter
wild blood and three-quarters Bronze.
He was raised in Pennsylvania where
wild turkeys are still in existance, and a
cross with the domesticated Bronze had
been obtained. We got him in the fall
and by spring he had developed into a
fine bird with lots of life in him. We
had sixteen fine, pure-booded hens, all
but three of which set and Matched out
a brood Of young turkeys. The weather
could hardly have been more unfavor-
able as we had twenty-five consecutive
rainy days. Many of the eggs failed to
hatch on account of the excessive moist
ure, but we managed to get about 145
Young ones. The weather was so very
bad that good many died from expos
ure when very young, but after they got
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-05-01

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W.N. HALDEMAN President of the great Louis
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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-05-01
POULTRY DEPARTMENT,
ORMOND,

EDITED BY +. w. AMSDEN,
okAoND, FLORIDA
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Wintersmith's?
80 years. sue
cess. Tried and
true. Sells on
its merits, and
never fails to
cure. Take no
substitute.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1895-02-09
LINE TO CHINA.
The Great Northern In y Pacific
Steamship Deal.

The Great Northern in y Pacific
Steamship Deal
Portland, Or, Feb. Receiver Nc
Neill, of the Oregon Navigation, has
made final arrangements for a line Of
steamers to China and Japan. The
Great Northern is a party to the deal.
The contracting parties are Mcneil &
Davidge. the British Columbian agent
of Samuels, Samuels & Co. Of Yoko-
hama. Davidge will be here Wednes-
day to formally sign the contract. Ar
engagements have been made not only
with the Great Northern, but also with
lines east Of st. Paul, establishing a
through all-rail route, as well as by
way of the Great Northern's lake line.
The Great Northern at first tried to
build up a line from the sound country,
but competition from the Northern Pa
cific and Canadian Pacific lines was
too great, hence the officials of that
road readily Joined with Receiver Nc
Neil. The service for the present will
be monthly and will be inaugurated as
soon as the contract is signed.
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BITTEN BY A DOG.
Two Railroad Men In st. Paul DIE
of HydrOphobia.

Two Railroad Men in st. Paul DIE
Of Hydrophobia.
st. Paul, Feb. SIT has just been dis
covered that r. L. Gibbs, auditor OF
freight receipts of the Great Northern
railroad, and Frank Hoshaw, a clerk
in the Great Northern general offices,
died Of hydrophobia. Mr.. Gibbs died
Dec. % and Mr.. Hoshaw Jan "a. When
Mr.. Gibbs died the physicians were
suspicious of rabies, but were not IN
a position to announce it as such
There is only one sure test of rabies,
and that is to make a post mortem
and insert portions Of the diseased
brain and spinal cord into some ami
NAL. usually a rabbit, and await the
result. The physicians were not able
to make the post mortem and subse-
quent experiments, so it was given u
that Mr.. Gibbs died Of cerebo spinal
meningitis.
In the case Of Mr.. Hoshcw, however,
the symptoms Of rabies were very pro-
nounced. He was wildly delirious and
died in awful agony. A post norton
showed that Hoshaw died Of rabies.
An investigation was then made. and
it was found that one day in Novem-
Der Gibbs and Hoshaw were bitten on
the hands by a stray dog in the Great
Northern office. The wounds, however,
were merely scratches. and as no blood
was drawn, the men did not give the
matter a second thought. 1t also de-
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1895-02-09
Warming Milk in Winter.

The success in making winter butter
with Il Junt butter flavor by means of
Il bacillus is very suggestive. 1t is pos
sible that such bacillus always exists
in milk made from wholesome feed,
though it may be more abundant when
COWS arc fed on fresh grass in sum-
mcr. The breath Of a COW at pasture
at that season is pleasantly fragrant,
and this fact has been recognized by
those close observers, the poets.
Warming the milk in winter to a tenn
perature Of 12O degrees to 100 degrees
makes the cream rise more quickly,
churn more easily, and improves the
quality Of the butter. If the milk is
heated too much the butter will he soft
as it is in summer, and the quality will
also be impaired.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1895-02-09
A DOUBLE DAcK-soMERsAuLr.
Al Baking Powder Company Was Toe
Husty in ItsClniInn.

Al Baking Powder Company Was Toe
Husty in ItsClnilns.
A Chicago baking powder concern.
advertising far and near that its
product received the highest award for
strength, purity and excellence at the
Chicago Worlds Fair, has been obliged
to take Il do bic somersault backward.
Mr.. John Boyd Thatcher, chairman of
the Agricultural Awards, has written
a letter to the said Chicago concern
showing it that it's advertising state
ments, speaking mildly, are incorrect,
while the Judge of Awards ON Baking
Powders sends another in which he
brands the claim Of the %prctenders as
false IN the most unm1stakablc Ian
guage. Since. comes the second ex-
posure to the effect that this baking
powder, for which these spurious
claims have been made, was actually
found by the Exposition chemists who
analysed it. to contain ammonia! Is
this h reason that the commissioners
declined to give it an award for purity
and wholesomeness?
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FROZEN TO DEATH
PROSECUTORS IN THE RAINY LAKE
LAKE REGION PERISH.
A Duluth Man. Receives n Letter
From a PrOspcctOr, Stating Thai
of n Party Of Nine Prospect
Ors He II the Only One Now
Alive.
THE COLD SOMETHING FR1GnrFuL.
The Thermemoter in the Rainy Lake
Region II. giatereu AZ Degrees
BeA0W Zero.

Duluth, Mimi, Feb. 5.-Several re-
ports have been received in Duluth
during the winter OF prospectors i'll the
Rainy Lake and Seine river gold coun-
try being frozen to death. A man by
the name OF McLain was picked up
within two miles OF Rainy Lake City
on New Years day, frozen stiff, after
he had walked only II mile. Inc
thermometer was AZ degrees below
zero.
To-day D. A. Melrose, who owns a
great deal of valuable gold property in
the Rainy Lake and Seine rive dis
trict, received a letter from James
Cummings stating that Of a party of
nine p%rospectors who were near Wild
Potato creek, about 100 miles from
Rainy Lake City, and about fifty
miles from Fort Francis, OH New
Years day, he was the only survivor,
Cummings states that it fell to 4S de-
grees below zero on that day, and that
all Of the party sank from exhaustion
from the effects of the cold. He nan
aged to reach Il camp a.ar Wild Potato
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FATAL PLUNGE.
Trolley Car Through an Open Draw
Bridge Into the River.

Trolley Gar Through an Open Draw
Bridge Into the River.
Milwaukee, Feb. Ga trolley car of
the Russell avenue and Holton street
line ran through the open draw of
K~innickinic bridge. The car struck
endwise on the ice, through which it
plunged into the water. The motor
man was drowned and two passengers
lost their lives. The car was bound
toward Bayview, and was pretty well
filled with passengers when the acct
dent occurred, but part Of them We're
rescued without serious injury. The
ice broke the windows of the car,
which stood on end, and only partial
ly filled with water. Those rescued
were w. P. Severy. 7O5 Walnut street,
hand GU; A. Oertel, 766 Island street;
G. w. Chase, 727 Fourth street; H.
Kuehn, 3O7 Reed street; R. Brand, $40
Grove street; Ella Wachholz, 1118
Eleventh street, hurt about the shoul-
der.
The dead are Miss Ehlmann, a kin
%dergarten teacher in the Fourteenth
district primary school, and a daugh-
ter Of Prof. Ehlmann, director Of
music in the public schools. John Ken
nedy, motorinan of car 145. Miss
Schmidtkuntz, employed at National
Knitting works.
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BONDS ARE N. G.
DECISION IN TIL LYONS COUNTY,
IOWA. BOND CASE.
The Supreme Court of the United
States Decides In Favor IT the
County, Wipjnx Out a Debt of
$3GO,OOO Represented by
Bonds.
The CASE GROWS OUT OF STEALS.
When the County Was First Organ
ICED There We're Some Pccu.
liar TrnnsnctiOns.

Sioux City, Feb. 6. = The famous.
Lyon county bond case vas decided
by the United States supreme court
to-day affirming the decision Of the
lower court. The decision is in favor
of the county, and disposes of a a
long in litigation, wiping out a debt
Of about $3GO,O OO, principal and inter-
est, represented by bonds. The case
is said to have grown out of steals in
the early history Of the county. When
the county was organized the organ
izcrs wanted to get some swamp
lands. 1t vas the custom to give these
lands to a company for educational
purposes. Lyon county had no
swamps, and the plan was to get some
Of the land declared swamp land any
how. Accordingly the company board
authorized the expenditure of immense
amounts for lawyers and in other
ways to establish that there were
swamp lands in the county. In this
way bonds were. issued from time to
time and the debt became immense.
l 1885 refunding bonds were issued to
take up these to the amount of $$2O3,-
600. and it is OH these refundins bonds
that the fight has been made. The case
went throughg the state and then fed
eral courts. In the state court it
was held that the bonds were invalid.
This was in an old case founded on an
injunction which the citizens of the
county secured to restrain the pay
ment Of interest on the bodns. After
the case was settled one Of the own
ers Of bonds sued on them and got
into the federal court. This is the
case settled to-day. The bonds are
held as follows: Aetna Life Insurance
company, $780, 900; Orient Fire Insur-
ance company, $4,000; Hartford
Steam Boiler Inspection and Fire In
surance company, $4,000; United
States National Bank OF Hartford,
$4,000; Connecticut Mutual Fire In
surance company, $4,000; Keene IN.
- Five-Cent Savings bank, $50, 900;
Eliza Faulkner. Kecne, N. H., $4,000;
Society for Savings. Cleveland. $780,
900; G. +. Provost, Dubuque, $50, 900;
e. Il. Drake, st. Paul, $4,000; j. e.
Judd, $4,000.
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c, eek, an thinks his com::'an!ons were
frozen. here is a variance of opinion
in Duluth, but the men who have bcen
In the gold region say the cold there IS
terrible and that many of the pros.
pectors carry so much whisky ina
they are often nearly strpified.
Melrose left to-day for st. Paul, Dut
said he knows only what Cummings
tells him in his letter, although ne
thinks it Is true.