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appear before the new leaves. 20 the experts say.
=, How 70 dispose OF the remains IL a question.
are nye packing houses IN sight from his piazza,
and about the middle Of the afternoon men came
out from each Of them with shoyels and 6cgan
10 dig five great graves In the sand. soon other
men on the inside opened the nearest windows
and shovelled out hundreds of bushels uf oranges
posing. OF fruit that showed signs of decay.
When the graves were filled the oranges were
more graves will be dug opposite 1--WE other win
DOVE and more hundreds OF bushels Of oranges
vi VIII be buried Grove owners are BEGINNING TO
do the same thing. They bury them about the
trees, TO get back In manure what they lose in
orange Juice. Every possible thing is utilized
from the house, old shoes. tin cans, drcnying
wood. muck from the spoiled oranges only
How this freeze is going TO affect next years
crop Is question that is discussed nightly In
PSSe IN sr hsre srs Ss
the ground. Pessimists say that the fruit grows
only upon young wood that is, upon the little
as these young branches have all been killed,
there will DO no crop next year. Equally good
ONE en"i ThSfo to NO doubt
that tho bearing trees all over the State arc un-
sG or Dot o .Gn snn o
the tropical plants and flowers are undoubtedly
Elisd Bananas 81 COURSE ars nttepy rninsS: tS
In a less elastic community the total loss OF
North. Instead Sf saying, Ny and shii:
going to be scarce this year" That Is the worst
s cS Msrs ners Tn
to the V" Weight q @
Thousand fortunes would have been made here
within the, next three months. A single cold
night wiped IL all out, and yetthe people are not
cast down. They regard it IA one Of the fortunes
OF wHr.a loss g be ,rec2uped with the the
be little cramped for money, but not
worse than, that. With the very poor
was so good that few people are badly in debt,
and many have money laid by. Amy owner Of q
Eo9d ETCye Ssn m. ma o crsp .noogh o
pnratively small capital OF tho country mer-
chants is one OF tho blessings in this crisis. The
carry the big sugar planters and cotton planters
I'm other parts Of the South. So no one is largely
in debt for supplies. People pay they go. u
large proportion OF them, and have nothing to
81 tell you that was q tough night, that Friday
night Of the freeze" said one man: Il could
have saved few hundred dollars with two or
no idea how cold 1t was going to be till 1t was
too late. didn't go to bed that nuht no, sir;
oranges on the trees. You know how our houses
are built here, thin and light. with only an open
evening and az still couldn't rks keep w warm @ About
o'clock went outside and looked at the ther-
to ass Without % much nc hurt and il WASH % my crop
l was thinking about so much as myself; I
piled on more wood. and about 10 o'clock
went out again. and the Thermometer said 29'.
There was n cold wind blowing from the north
west. and might have known what was going
to happ,n II, but didn't II had gone to work
then and got the boys we could have picked
several hundred dollars worth and got them
into the house before any harm was done.
thought the wind would shift in an hour or so,
and there where made a mistake.
by IL o'clock the thermometer was down to
25o, and then knew were in for 1t; but even
then did not think IT. would be as bad as IT was;
/ went ont and picked some oranges and found
them all frozen. Well. sir. I went in and piled
Oh more wood, and about an hour later the ther.
mometer went down to 100. There was a lard
pail full OF water standing on the well curb. and
1t was frozen solid. so got some old bagging
and tied up the pump. The lowest was about
O'Clock in the morning. when the Thermometer
said 17o Some thermometers went down as
low rs 120. but 10 was the lowest by mine.
Some of my chickens froze stiff sitting on the
perch. and by daylight every orange was frozen
solid. But wasn't thinking much about the
oranges then; was trying to keep warm"
No marketable oranges left but plenty OF
pluck and good spirits. and uninjured trees to
bear we'll in the future-that is The situation all
over Florida.