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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-01-23
TWO ACRES OF SUGAR CANE,

| The ST. Augustine correspondent of
the Citizen furnishes that paper with
the following:
James Masters, one of the county COM
miSSioners who has farm at MOccaSin
Branch, recently took twenty barrels
of sugar and six barrels of syrup from
sugar cane raised on two acres of land.
Mr.. Masters sold the sugar at 5 cents a
pound and the syrup at IS cents a gallon.
MIR. Masters is believer in diversity
farming. Recently he sent to Mr.. Ingra
ham land commissioner of the Jackson
VILE, st. Augustine and Indian River
Railroad, the following letter:
I'm reply to your request for my ex-
periences in Florida farming, ETC., | will
State that | was born and raised here in
St. Johns county, am now about 46
years old, and having been interested IN
and connected with its developments in
various ways | am in d position to give
you some reliable facts about the re-
sources of this part of Florida
Il live on what is known as low pine
land The surface soil is a gray mucky
soil about two feet deep, underneath is
sandy clay about three feet deep, and
below that we strike loose white sand,
sometimes called quicksand. In sinking
well we have only to strike down to
this quicksand, and we have the purest
and sofest water ever saw or tasted. 1t
is soft as rain water and can be used for
all household purposes
"Of course like many others | started
in with little or nothing. have invested
$500 IN cattle in the last twenty years,
and during the same period have sold
over ST., 500 worth, and have to-day 200
head of cattle. | own considerable land
but have only twelve acres under Guilt
walton. l have raised forty bushels of
corn to the acre, an average crop, how
ever, is fifteen bushels. | raise from
200 to 400 bushels Of sweet potatoes to
the acre, two crops year, the average
yield being the smaller figure | haye
raised twenty bushels of white Bermuda
onions from one Onnce of seed. Two
years ago had three acres planted to
corn and planted watt rmelons between
the rows. sold 5000 worth of melons
from the three acres, besides taking off
a good crop of corn. plant about two
acres yearly in sugar cane. This yields
me twenty barrels of sugar to the acre
200 pounds of sugar to the barrel. The
drips from the sugar yields from ten to
eighteen gallons of syrup to each barrel
of sugar. There is ready sale for the
syrup at % cents per gallon.
"Of course besides this we raise lot
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-01-23

The Hill country of Florida, other
wise known the Tallahassee section is reach
ing out for immigration. We have just received
handsome book published and circulated by the
county commissioners of Leon county. The
many advantages of the section are described by
Mr.. j. G. Long, and there many fine illustra-
tiOns.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-01-23
Effects of the Freeze on P1neapples


done the pineapple fields in the Fort
Pierce, Ankona and Eden neighbor-
hoods. We believe the figures are as
definite as Can be made at this time.
They are prepared by an experienced
and successful grower:
cater the llpse of IL days since the
we thought it would be. They have
been the subject of careful study and
observation by us from d W to day with
the following conclusions. Time may
yet m dify some of these conclusions
slightly, but not to any great extent. Of
the young plants set in the summer and
fall of 1894 land which we estimate al IS
per cent of the total number of plants),
80 per cent Of the hearts or buds are
untouched, aud while the leaves are
whitened, that will disappear in few
months. Of the Other 20 per cent most
of the hearts are soft and decayng, but
they will 'rattoon' from below the sur
face of the ground. and in year from
now will have overti,ken the others. 1t
follows that to this class of plants there
is little permanent injury. The class of
plants that were set in 1893 and would
have borne fruit this season for the first
time, is estimated at about IS per cent
of the entire number of plants. These
have an i'm mediate connection with the
ground. They are dense and cover the
ground we'll, and protect their own lower
foliage. This class of plants would have
produced rs to 80 per cent OF fruit this
season, and were looking unusually we'll.
At the best they will give 80 to so per
cent of fruit, and it's size, quality, ETC.,
remains for the future to tell. They
may and may not have good crowns and
and 'rattoon' well. This is the history
and habit of such plants similarly
effected.
1.-The remaining SO per cent of all the
plants is composed of old fields that nave
fruited |, 2, 3, or more times. Their
suckers are removed from the ground
connection by that number of removes.
They are well elevated in the air, and
caught the cold below as we'll as above.
Moreover, they have very slight re-
Cooperative power, far removed DIS they
are from mother earth.
"From this class there will be 10 to Is
per cent Of the plants saved. What they
will do in the way of fruit this season is,
at this writing, an absolutely unknown
quantity. We have dissected many of
them, and the fruit bud and stem in the
extreme lower heart is in a very doubt
full condition.
1.-The respect for d crop of fruit this
year is therefore reduced to a low figure,
while the ultimate outcome as TO the
plants themselves is as already outlined.
1t is too early yet for congratulations,
but careful data is being prepared which
will be of value for future guidance.
$50 far as present appeara' ces go,
the red spider is annihilated. This is
no small item of compensation. -
Indian River Advocate,
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-01-23
THE BROOD SOW.
She Needs Special Conditions to Keen HeR
Thrifty.


Will admit, the sows, after they are
ored, should have place to themselves
where they can be fed and managed in
the manner best calculated to secure
the best results. They ought not to
De Kept with the stock hogs, and GER
talnly not with the fattening ones; and
the best plan of managementis to give q
pasture to themselves and feed them in
way that will keep them healthy and
thrifty. While it Is of no advantage
TO Keep fat, vigorous, thrifty pigs can
hardly be secured unless such treat
inent is given the SOW during gesta-
ton that will keep her vigorous. One
advantage in allowing her to run of
the pasture is that a better oppor-
tunlty is afforded of furnishing exer-
else, while at the same time she will
secure better variety of food more
readily than If she Is closely confined.
Both OF these are essential to her
best growth and development, as well
as that of her pigs. But no matter
now good the pasturage. some feed
ing is necessary If she is kept in the
most desirable condition. A ration
that will secure good development of
bone and muscle is what is needed for
the brood sow. When a SOW is sucL-
ling a litter of pigs, sloppy food is
nearly always best, as it enables her to
supply milk to a better advantages: but
oats and middlings, with little milk.
makes good feed for the sow during
CESSATION. One of the very best feeds
that can be given, when it can be Sc
cured, is oats and barley in equal parts. /
the quantity to be determined bv the
conditions OF the animals. When thew
have the run of the orchard, where
there is plenty of pasturage, with more
or less fallen fruit, a much less ouanti-
ty will be needed than where there 10
ess that they can secure. Provide
vlenty OF water where they can help
TO Measure an Acre; Casssv5a+ the: T." 80
Banana Culture; Transplanting Nut
Trees; Active Exercise ....... ............ 81
Melon Growing in Georgia
The Melon Pawpaw; Lessons o the
Freeze ............. So
The Brood Sow; Mutton Sheep; Cultiva-
ting Corn; Here and NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 81
Effect of the Freeze on Pneapples. ... see. SIS
Drying and Packing Fgs."................ 81
FLORAL DEPARIMENI-lt Might Have
Been Worse; Florida Wild Flowers.-N0.
2;Curosities of Plant Life;W hite Flowers;
The Petunia =. ..... 55
POULTRY Experimentation Eggs Are
Hatched; The Value of Grit; Lime for
Fowls; Observation of the FlOcks; Pure
Breeds and Scrubs ...... ..................... SO
EDlTOR Chat; Orange In
surance; Storage the Desderatum; Di-
versifed Farming; Two Acres of Sugar
HOUSEH OLD DEP ARTMENT-Ma Sugar
PARTIES Books Our Breads; Fish, Flesh
and Fowl; Little Picture Frames. ........ 81
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Daughter &C.. COL |
PUZZLER. Observation-Disclosures. 81 |
FLORIDI ANA go. ...... ............ GO
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-01-23

w. w. HAWKINS & Sons, of George
town. in another column conveys to our readers
the cheerful Information that they had 1000
choice Harris Late and SOC grape fruit saved
from the freeze. These trees are budded ON sour
stock and are still in good condition,
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-01-23
EDITORIAL CHAT.

SOME sections of the State report that
the orange trees, at least the old ones, are
budding out and showing signs of life. Young
trees almost everywhere killed or seriously
injured.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-01-23

GOVERNOR MITCHELL has appointed
Mr.. j. E. Ingraham, OF Florida commissioner
to the Atlanta Exposition Col. w. ID. Chlpley
and Mr.. S. Paul Brown have been appointed as
sistants These gentlemen will meet i'll a short
time and plan for State exhibit.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-01-23

ORANGE growers in some sections of
the State still keep at it, and sending off
frozen fruit We trust there is money i'll it for
them, but Judging from market quotations of
frozen fruit doubt it,
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-14
A GUILD OF LETTERS.
How Auth Orship on the Pacific Coast Is
to Be Encouraged-A Strong
Organization.

Struggling and impecunious genius will
no longer have to cool its heels at the doors
of the publishers and turn away disheart-
ened and disguised; for, one day this week,
the California Guild of Letters organized,
whose aim and purpose it will be to render
financial assistance to meritorious Pacific
Coast authors. Poets, novelists, essayists,
historians, ETC., who have done good work,
will apply to the guild and if, in the esti-
nation of that association of cultured and
critical people, the manuscript be deemed
good copy" they will bear the burden of
the expense of publication, promote its
sale. and take all the risk of being remun-
Grated from its sale. And when the out
lay is returned to the guild the authors
profits begin.
Furthermore, as writers are not usually
mentally equipped to deal with these keen
individuals who grow rich on the fruits of
the litterateur, the guild will render its
business advice and bring the publishers
pound of flesh down to ounces The mem
berS of the guild up to date are: Mrs.
Shafter Howard, Mrs. Eva Paulson, Mrs.
A. Gerberding, General Lucius III. Foote,
Albert Gerberding and William Greer Har-
rison. This, of course, is but the nucleus
OF the guild, which, 1t is confidently ex-
pected, will in few months mount up into
the hundreds. There are no initiation fees
and no dues. But when a case for the
guild is reported an assessment is levied
on each member.
The first proceeding of the guild, and an
example of its thorough earnestness, is the
arranging for the publication of Ina Cool
BIRTHS poems, which will be placed with
the big house OF Houghton, Miffiin & Co.
Years ago, when the Atlantic Monthly won
Bret Harte from the Overland, Miss Cool
BIRTH entrusted him with the MS of her
lected the task, which was at his own So
hcitation, and the poetess never saw her
verses more, nor could she learn the reason
of Harte's Indifference, for he never an
swared ber Iettars
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-14
Literature for Children.


"Give me the training of child until his
sixth year." says a French philosopher,
who has studied children as men follow
science, g and care not who teaches him
thereafter"
The books written for men and women
are weighed, measured and endlessly dis
coursed upon by the critics. He is indeed
a wise man, and a great one, who can say
whether a book is really good or bad
whether it teaches a good lesson, whether
it is Literature And yet a child, an
intelligent child, can tell full soon whether
"story" is well told can tell, too, whether
a book of knowledge is clear and concise.
Children, impressionable as they are, vora-
cious for good reading, are crying aloud
to-day for better books, even as their par
ents should be crying for censoTs of litera-
ture who can be trusted with the grave re-
sponsibility of choosing books fit for the
young.
1t is useless for Du Maurier to express
regret at the death of that fond hope of his
that sit might one day be said OF me that
whatever my other literary shortcomings
might be |, at least, had never penned a
line which a pure-minded young British
mother might not read aloud to her little
bIue-eyed babe as it is sucking its
little pottIe IN IT'S little baSSlnet
Neither is the question settled by the
school of novelists who claim the right to
send books abroad in the land which are
confessedly unfit for the use Of the young.
The fact remains that the children, al
most the very babes, are demanding
"stories" which shall teach them some
thing of life-shall enable them to profit
by the experiences of others.
a little girl of II, healthy and normal,
and not in advance in her studies OF the
average child OF her years, was reproved
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-14
VARLEY MEETINGS.
The English Evangelist Engaged to
Conduct Revival Services in
This City.

A meeting was held yesterday of min
listers to consider the advisability of invit-
ing Mr.. Varley to begin work in this city
such as he has inaugurated in Oakland.
The following were present: Congrega-
tional-Dr. G. 0. Brown, Rev. w. d. Will
liams, Rev. H. H. Cole.
Methodist-Dr. E. r. Ollie, Rev. w. w.
Case, Rev. E. McClish, Rev. f. H. Barker.
Presbyterian-Rev. J. Cumming Smith b,
Rev. H, N. Bevier Rev. H., H. Rice, DR..
Mathena.
Baptist-Rev. NJ. P. Boynton, Rev. s. M.
Russell, Rev. J. G. Gibson, Rev. E. Dun
can.
Christian Church-Rev. w. A. Gardiner.
English Lutheran Church-Rev. G. A.
Rabing.
The meeting was called to order by
Henry Marley, the evangelist. After
prayer and an informal discussion DIR. E.
Mathena was elected secretary pro tem., Mr.
Marley acting as chairman.
1t was decided to begin the meetings
Tuesday, April g. with a bible reading al
3 o'clock in Calvary Presbyterian Church
Preaching 80 of the same day at the FRS
Congregational Church. Meeting to be
held for not less than one week, afternoon.
at Calvary Presbyterian Church; evening
at First Congregational Church, afterward
meetings to be held in Howard Presby.
terrain and Western Addition. Mission and
throughout the entire city.
Committee on arrangements: Rev.
Messrs. Ollie, Smith, M. M. Gibson, Briggs,
Gardiner, Dickinson, Simon. Advertising
committee: Rev. Messrs. Cole, Barker and
G. Gibson.
A permanent organization was effected
by electing DR.. G. o. Brown president and
DR.. Eben G. Mathena secretary.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-14
Early Training.

Criticisms, however unjust and unkind
they may be as whole, are not without
value by way of suggestion. 1t has been
sarcastically asserted that in this country
1.-The mornings were too busy and the even
ings too weary for the indulgence of
family courtesy" This neglect of respect
full ceremony in daily intercourse between
members of the same household is fire.
quent and uncomplimentary comment
upon American manners. Inpleasing con-
trast are the little amenities and civilities
that distinguish and give such grace and
sweetness to foreign home life. However
many times the members of French
family meet during the day it is always
with tender salutation and words of inter
est in each others plans and pursuits.
Breakfast in America is necessarily a
hurried meal, from the early hour of
school and business, but in many homes
its character is greatly influenced by the
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-14
The Mountains of California.

Agassiz called John Muir the only man
in the world who knew all about glaciers.
Whether Mr.. Muir knows all about them
or not, he certainly has a fascinating way
of telling what he does know. The title of
the present book is something of mis-
homer. 1T is rather unfortunate choice
that gives such title to a collection of
papers dealing with certain features of the
Sierra Nevada Mountains. 1t is fortunate
choice, however, that has given us the
papers themselves. There is really very lit
tie known of the Sierras. Five hundred
miles of rugged peaks, seventy miles wide,
and varying in height from seven to fiji
teen thousand feet make rather a longer
range than most of us can accomplish and
the State owes much to John Muir for the
knowledge which his enthusiastic re-
searches have brought within reach.
If John Muir had not been a scientist he
would have been poet. Perhaps, after
all, he is both. Certainly no man, since
Thoreau ever had keener sympathy with
nature, a quicker vision for her mysteries
or a surer speech for their interpreta-
ton than he. But there is q certain big
business about the man of the California
mountains that one misses in the New
England seer beside his lake Perhaps it
belongs to the mountains; perhaps it is an
attribute of the man-it is hard to olsen
tangle the two. Something of whatever
Mr.. Muir has seen and heard and felt in
the high Sierras he makes his readers see
and hear and feel. The very breath of the
pines seems to be in the air as he takes us
over his printed pages among the forests
OF the peaks, the spruces and the pines.
The chapters on the forests are particu-
larly interesting and instructive. They
give clear and beautiful glimpse into
California's wooded wealth and recall the
amazing statement made in print by an
Eastern tourist some years ago that the
only tree in California is the scrub oak.
1t is one. of the delightful surprises of
Mr.. Muir's book to find the man who has
traced the Black Mountain Glacier to its
head and tracked the "Bloody Canyon"
through, stopping on the top of peak of
the high Sierras to play with Douglass
squirrel to note the little fellows pranks
and to whistle him tunes by the hour
And the scientist notes in passing
that that good ancient standby of
the hymnal, "Old Hundred" has the
effect OF putting to instantaneous flight
squirrels, birds, chipmunks and every sort
OF wild thing that listens with delight to
every other tune, He describes the effect
OF mob of small creatures suddenly dis
persed by this tune as 'uuite profane."
He devotes chapter, too, to that charm
ing little feathered chap the ouzel or water
thrush, that frequents the waterfalls of the
Slerras, and another to the natural bee
pastures of the mountains, with word of
admonition to Californians who have not
yet taken the hint here afforded that here
is great industry for this State The
book, besides being a distinct and valuable
addition to the literature of our mountains,
is written i'll such fashion as to delight
even the most careless reader and to fas-
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-14

awhile but when his arms an legs dts
breaked off you tan have hint
Freddy (day before Christmas Santa
Claus is going to have some trouble coming
down our chimney.
Johnny-How do you know?
Freddy went up to the roof day
before yesterday an put cat in, and she
hasn't come down yet.-Harper's Young
People.
Teacher (wishing to drive home the
stand on the burning deck?
Tommy Thicknuts-Because it was too
hot to sit down on, guess.-Bazar.
Mr.. Youngman-Do you think your
sister will be down soon, Willie?
Willie-Yep. She said she was comm
as soon as she could, SOS to have it over
with.
Tommy, 1 wish you'd try to be gen.
tleman."
81 do try, mamma"
"Well, you don't succeed very we'll"
mo, mamma, 1 guess it amt in the
blood. "-Exchange
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-14

in my hearing for having made raid on
"Trilby." The degradation was dlscov-
cred, by the way, by the child ingenuously
requesting to be taught French.
The child was highly indignant at being
warned off the literary preserves of her
elders and appealed to me for Justice.
''They want me to go on forever reading
his mothers hand, walks downtown and
looks in at shop-window and sees little
woolly dog and thinks it is beautiful, and
then turns around and walks home again
without letting go of his mothers hand.
"What do | like to read? Well,
it is pretty hard to find good things.
Rudyard Kipling knows well enough
how to write interesting
stories for children, only he hardly ever
will do it. Then there's Hawthorne.
Hawthorne will do" Every slowly, "but
J. NJ. Barrie is all rightp' And the small
PERSONS eyes flashed with pleasant recol-
Iections.
Worse than this, children of five years
old and under will often beg for "poetry
stories, the rhythm of which always seems
to delight childish ears. One little FIVE
year-old who had been regaled habituaily
with the usual atrocious rhymes for the
nursery fell completely in love with
''Gray's Elegy" at the first hearing. She
knew no more of what it meant than the
rest of US do, but its sonorous phrases and
smooth rhymes delighted her.
And yet the sensitive childish ear and
the active childish imagination are in
variably trained for many long day with
the endless repetition of such fascinating
tales as This is cat. Do you see the
catP Yes, / see the cat. The cat can
walk"
Not many years ago the teacher of a
large private school in New Y ork inquired
of her pupils how many were reading a
series of books then being published es-
pecially for the young. Nearly every hand
in the room went up, and a proportionate
number of parents were promptly informed
by this intelligent and watchful teacher
that their children were reading books OF
the most dangerous and pernicious sort.
Relying. quite safely, it seems, upon the
carelessness of parents regarding the inside
pages of their children's books. a writer
had sent out about twenty-five volumes,
all with pretty and innocent titles and all
Favored with a strong pretense of religious
sentiment. Beyond that the stories were
of the intrigues of school children and
taught sufficient lessons in deceit and pas
sion to shock any grown person.
The praise and love of children does not
bring fame; but. even so, there are many
noble writers who are doing good work foI
the children. We need Government, OF
a greater public sentiment, which shall
demand more-a volume of good literature
great enough to supply the children, out
numbering their elders three to one.
The poems OF Eugene Field are music to