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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-05-08
VACCINATING LAND.

Everything said or written by Thomas
A. Edison, the Wizard of Mento Park,
attracts attention. Ideas credited to his
fertile brain are given consideration,
while if eminating from other sources
would be derided. So much for repu-
tation-and well-earned one too
In an interview with newspaper re-
porter Mr.. Edison gave express
sion to some very advanced ideas in
reference to increasing and maintaining
soil fertility. The foundation for Mr..
Edison's idea may be the rotation svs-
tenn, and if the baccali or parasites can
be cultivated and propagated and the
soil innoculated with them land it is
within the bounds of science) the scheme
may not be visionary one after all.
The Wizard said:
"It appears to me that the people gem
orally are not keeping pace with scien-
titic progress. What do you think OF
the idea of vaccinating land? That ex-
pertinent, l see, has actually been made
with success. The object of this pro-
cess is to improve the quality of the
soil. The law of diminishing returns.
so long an important factor in political
economy, is thus overcome. To explain
the method so as to be comprehensive
to the popular mind is not easy. You
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-05-08
PEAR BLIGHT IN ESCAMBIA.

The pear growers of West Florida
have been troubled for some time with
pear blight. but the trouble until re-
Gently did not attain proportions at all
alarming. Recently, however it has ap-
peared to be spreading and considerable
uneasiness is felt.
Mr.. S. S. Harvey, large grower of
Escambia county sent few of the
blighted twigs to Prof. M. B. Wait,
special agent of the Department of Agri-
culture. Mr.. Wait in his reply said:
~ made culture from some OF the material
yesterday, and find the germs growing typically
this morning. 1t is the true pear blight. The
characteristic microbes present in great
abundance. If practicable. would suggest that
all this blight be cut out now. By next year we
hope to be able to handle it successfully"
Mr.. Harvey urges that the following
plan be adopted, towards the extermin-
alton of the trouble. He says:
81 most earnestly urge all those in the vicinity
to follow his advice to cut out now. Cut all
lin several inches below the diseased part, and
a very great protection to all trees whether they
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-05-08
FERTILIZER INSPECTOR Is NEEDED

1.-THE oil inspector must go. Now make way
with the fertilizer man. case in point: deal
er i'm ported carload of Canada ashes, and the
inspector ?) sent lot of labels to afix the bar
reIs. Users of fertilizers can buy of reputable
houses and get what they pay for."-Volusia
County Record.
Just what fertilizer man the Editor of
the Record refers to must be guessed at.
He might mean the manufacturer, and
the manufacturer might very we'll go
just now, but what will he do to bring
back his orange stumps to bearing with
out the assistance Of the fertilizer manu-
facturer? 1t is possible that he may
mean the inspector of Fertilizers. If so
he is not talking for the good of the
user of fertilizers. It is utterly i'm
possible for one inspector to inspect every
ton of the "a, 900 sold in the State, but
his presence has good effect on those
who would ship worthless material into
the State for fear that he might ''hit"
some of it and they be liable to fine
besides the unfavorable notoriety they
would get. We believe the inspection
tax should be done away with and deal
ers and manufacturers made to pay q
lice ase to keep up the expenses of the
State chemist and inspector and not to
have surplus equal to third of the
total expense of running that depart
ment.
The reputable fertilizer manu-
facturers prefer to have a good fertilizer
law as it is not only protection to the
people but also to the manufacturer.
The law has it's weak points but let it
be corrected in the light of experience
and made so that it will fulfill comple
it's purpose, viz the protection of the
citizens of Florida against fraud in ferti-
lizers and fertilizing materials
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-05-08

see, certain roots of plants which flour.
ish in inferior soils have been ascertained
to nourlsh parasite. These parasites
afford the plant, through their organic
functions, strength and vitality. In re-
turn, the parasites are fed and sustained
by certain properties of the root. One
supports the other, and the two together
have decided effect upon the soil in
which they grow. Now, this process of
nature has been successfully applied by
science. What we may term an agricul-
tural miss is obtained, and the impover-
ished soil into which it is introduced is
almost at once bettered. The process is
permanently fertllizing and cannot fail
to effectin time revolution in farming"
Before the photograph was perfected
people smiled with incredulity when
Mr.. Edison spoke of his talking m machine,
so they did in reference to the kineto-
scope, the grasshopper telegraph, the
lncandescent light, the GORDON phone
transmitter and many other of his now
wellknown inventions. So it may be
possible that soil tillers Of future gener-
ations will be able to- purchase a few
'points" of soil-fertillzing virus instead
of few tons of commercial fertilizers
and by judiciously vaccinating their
land obtain the desired results,
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-05-08

show the disease or not is to cut all spurs, or
short twigs, on the body or large limbs of trees.
Cut at once, and you will largely save your own
trees and prevent The rapid spread of the disease.
From all can learn the disease is confined to
trees in the city, but in natural course the dis
ease spreads rapidly, and next-very likely this
season-will find it in the country. If those cit
liens who have pear trees in the city will go to
work at once they will save their own trees, and
by preventing it's spread save the whole COM
munity thousands of dollars. Suppose it takes
man half day, or even a day, with ladder and
shears to trim a tree, the expense is nothing to
the value of the tree.
LET me again urge you to cut, and do it at
once"
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-05-08
GARDEN AND FIELD CROPS.

A subscriber and an orange grower,
who like everyone else was pinched by
the freeze wants to know the good of all
this talk about Investigation. He
claims that when the vegetable crops are
grown there is no market for the pro-
duce after a certain time-in the early
spring, and that the same is to certain
extent true of the so. called general field
crops. Everyone" says he "is growing
vegetables in my section, and the mar
ket is already glutted and liable to re-
m ain So"
By ''the market" it IS evident that
our friend refers to the little market of
the town near which he is located, and
in view of the fact that everyone" in
that section is raising vegeta bles it is
not surprising that the market is gluted.
Of course when vegetables are raised
as a money crop it is necessary that they
should be placed in the market early;
this is generally understood but it must
another important mission to FILL If the
grower is so situated that he cannot
produce vegetables for the early market
he can at least grow them for his family
and they will go long way toward
bridging the hungry gap. Besides the
truck grown for immediate use he can
grow and lay by for future occasions
good supply of sweet and Irish potatoes,
onions and many similar crops.
AS to the general farm crops in our
opinion thew offer greater measure of
relief than the garden. We do not
claim that on the average land of the
orange belt man can employ ''help''at
the fancy prices heretofore prevalent
and make success, financially, of the
undertaking. But as his occupation of
orange culture will not be very pressing
in it's demands on his time for few
tention to his field crops. The COM
plant that there is no market for these
crops, may be true to a certain extent.
still there are many things that can be
grown that will bring the grower in
some cash. We opine that good corn
can always be sold at good price and
in localities where there are rice mills to
prepare the paddy for market we are
certain the grain will find ready sale.
Farmers of Virginia, Tennessee and
Georgia have no difficulty in disposing
all tie peanuts they produce, al
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-05-08
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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-05-08
WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1895.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.

FARM. GROVE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
OF Oranges-No. 9; Fumigating With
Cyanide of Potash; The White Bug on
New Sprouts; Arundo in Florida; How to
Make a Living. Observation-Disclosures. 2S9
GROWING ArtlchOkes Observation-Disclosures. 29O
The Cocoa Bean; Pruning the Scupper-
nong Grape Vine; Diseases of Peach
Irees..... ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 291
Parsnips, Chufas and Peanuts; Pineap-
Piles in Lee County .......................2 92
Value of the Sunfower; Jerusalem Corn;
Diversifying EveryW here; Potatoes Pay
Well; Orange Blossoms in Polk; Sweet
FoCaGoes. ....'........ .'.................. Z93
Good Farming; Apple Orchards ........... 294
FLORAL DEPARTMENT-Flor al Notes
No. 4, How Shall Build My Conserva-
tory; Ponciana; A Portable Greenhouse 295
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT. Editorial
Chat; One of the Effects of the Freeze;
Pear Blight in Escambia; Fertilizer In
spectOr is Needed; Vaccinating Land;
Garden and Field Crops ............... 296
HOUSEHOLD DEPART ENT - April
poetry; Worth While Poetry; How to
Be Happy; The Woman Question Again. 298
POULTRY DEF Selecting Lay
ers; Talk Mating Crude Petroleum
for Lce Corn in Summer ................. 299
LITERATURE-Man in the Moon; Greeley
as Boy ........................... 300
FLORIDlANA ................ ............ 3OS
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-05-08
EDITORIAL CHAT.

The chief aim of the bill introduced
in the legislature to abolish the Office of State
chemist appears to be to transfer the duties of
that officer to the staff OF the experiment station.
Economy is all right in the proper place, but
anything that limits the protection given the
farmer is very poor economy.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-05-08

DURING tie last few weeks we have
had admirable farming weather-an abundance
of rain and piping hot weather. If we could be
guaranteed the same amount of precipitation
and heat every spring even South Florida in the
course Of time would become great farming
country.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-05-08

The State Horticultural Society is in
session in Jacksonville today. OF course the
subject of rebuilding the orange grove will be
discussed in extenso. but other matters, we hope,
and believe Will not be overlooked. How to
make the soil yield immediate sustenance while
the grower is rebuilding his grove is subject
everyone is just now anxious about.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-05-08
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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-05-08

IT is hard matter to get an appropri
alton from our legislature to assist in any work
that is of benefit to the fruit growing section 1t
is an easy matter to protect hogs, COWS and dogs,
but when it comes to the Legislature trying to
protect the fruit industry it seems to be off,
Massachusetts, has just appropriated $3.50 600 for
this years work on one kind of worm. If Florida
had $4,000 spent on insects that affect our fruit
business it would be great help. and would save
the State many times that amount.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-05-08
The following item which we clip

The following item which we clip
from the Tampa Times is fair sample, as it
were, OF many others and shows how the veget-
able tide is flowing Rorthward. The Times SAYS:
The steamer Margaret brought over 600 crates
OF vegetables from the Manatee river section Tues
day evening. and as this is only the beginning,
we can imagine what that section will yield in
short time. Florida was, in reality never as
prosperous as it will be this year. for our people
going to raise most Of the food needed for
home use and make orange growing secondary
consideration. The State has heretofore been
famous only for it's tropical and semi-tropical
fruits but it may be considered the best
vegetable growing ground in the Union. and by
far the m Ost profitable. The experience of this
year proves that we have the best farming coun-
try in the South, and that we have thou
sand farmers where we had only one before the
freeze.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-05-08

FERTILIZER reported as inspected
in the different districts of the State for
1894 is as follows: Jacksonville District 12,4S6
tons; Leesburg District 2.712; Welborn District,
1895; Tallahassee District, 1917, and by the Com
missioner of Agriculture atlarge, 1912. A total
of 1882 tons. If the value Of this fertilizer aver
aged $50 per ton, this would mean an expend iture
by the people of Florida of nearly one and a
quarter million dollars;
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-05-08
TERMS.

One year. single subscription. 90
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The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1895-04-18
DR.. Prices Cream Baking Powder
Worlds Fair Highest Medal and Diploma.

The railroad edition of the Bakersfield
Californian. copy of which is on our desk,
is an excellent and interesting number of
that enterprsing paper.
40 mining camp will be opened at
Chicago on May LIST. The camp will be
conducted on much larger scale than it was
at the Midwinter Fair
Mr.. vIipedunks What's the object OF
the club you women are getting up? Mrs.
Wipedunks-T To learn the art of converse.
ton. Mr., Wipedunk-To learn it? Gosh!
Chicago Tribune.
The greatest of American hand.organ
makers passed away in the person Of Henry
s. Taylor, who recently committed suicide
in New York. 1t is said that nearly all of
the organs and street pianos wheeled or
lugged about in the United States for the
past forty years came from Taylor's factory.
The new Mauser repeating rifle was ex.
hibited at Fort McHenry, Maryland, on
April l, by Captain Marksclaeger, of the
steamship La Campine. The new gun is one
of the first made for the German govern.
ment. 1t is something like the Krag. Jor.
gensen military rifle which is now being
adopted in the United States Army. It is
of 80 caliber and the construction is on the
same principle as the Krupp gun, the barrel
being of three tubes, one inside the other.
The inner tube is made of hard tempered
steel and is rihed. The bullet is propelled
by smokeless powder. Fired at the height
of the shoulder, the bullet, it is said, will 20
nearly two miles before becoming spent, and
at 1000 yards it will pierce the bodies of
seven men placed one behind the other.
Scientific American.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1895-04-18
DR.. Prices Cream Baking Powder
Most Perfect Made.

An editor died and wendell his way to
where he supposed warm reception await
ed him. The devil met him at the entrance
and said: "For many years thou hast borne
the blame for the errors the printers made
in their papers. The paper has gone, alas,
for two dollars. Alas, the two dollars have
often failed to come in. The printers have
bedevled thee for their wages Saturday
night, when thou hadst not cent. Men
have taken thy paper without paying for it
and cursed thee for not getting up better
paper. Thou hast been called all manner of
disagreeable epithets. All these things, yea,
and even more, thou hast borne in silence.
Thou canst not come here As his Satanic
majesty motioned him away he pointed up
ward and murmured to himself: "Heaven's
his home, and besides, if we had let him
come in here he would be continually dunn.
ing his delinquent subscribers and there is
all the disorder here now that we can com.
fortably attend to-"
There is great doubt concerning the cause
of the advance in the market value OF silver
some persons attributing it to speculation,
and others to the prospect that China will
have to pay heavy indemnity to Japan in
silver. Still, Others think that the rise is
due in part at least to the prospect of a re-
turn to bimetallism, which has been opened
up by the action of the German Reichstag
in adopting resolution advising the
German Government to call an international
monetary conference, together with the fact
that the British Parliament adopted reso.
luton declaring that it sympathized with
the effort to do something for silver. Which
OF these causes is the most potent it would
be hard for anyone to say. Probably all
have had their effect. 1t would seem, how.
ever, that the most potent is the prospect
that China will be called upon to pay an in.
demnity to Japan. But in any case the rise
shows how quickly the silver market
responds to influences favorable to an ad.
vance. II this feature of the situation were
more fully recognized by fnanciers they
would see how easy it would be to restore
the market value of silver if only the minis
of this country were thrown open to its free
and unlimited coinage. Virginia Enter.
prise.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1895-04-18

Cast thy bread upon the waters; for thou
shalt find it after many days" This cannot
be said of everything that is put sin soak. 1"
Edison has received an epistle from a
Western damsel asking him if he could not
invent an electrical contrivance that would
enable her to see the face of her future
husband
Hon. H. F. Bartine the brains of the Re-
publican party in Nevada, left for Salt Lake
City to reside there permanently. Some Of
the bowels of the party will go in another
direction if the Mint steal is pushed to a
finish. Reno Journal
Nevada has few of the old time pros
pectors left. Those who used to tramp over
the hills with their burros in front of them,
haye like the antelope and buffalo, vanish.
ed and gone from sight. The prospector Of
to-day rides bicycle forty miles and back;
sleeps between sheets, and takes bath be
fore going to bed.
Where an old timer would have spent six
weeks digging and picking from hill to hill
now half hours gaze toward the horizon
will convince the average prospector that
some fellow has taken up the whole country
and he returns home, puts on his dressing
gown and lighting his havana, tells his wife
that he has been prospecting, and that there
is nothing in the new district which has moi
been taken up" The next day some more
energetic person comes in with some rich
rock, and the stampede is repeated owe
again.
What Nevada most needs at the presen
time is indefatigable prospectors who do no
go crazy over speck of gold, and who d,
not prospect with field glasses.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1895-04-18
LEGAL NOTICE.
In the District Court Of the Fourth Judicial Dis
trict, County of Lincoln, State Of Nevada.
In the Matter of the Estate of Richard
German, Deceased.
Order to Show Cause Why Order Of Sale Of Real
Estate Should not be Made.

It appearing to the Judge Of said Court, by the
petition this day presented and filed by j. o. Celia
bert Che Administrator Of the Estate of Richard
dorman. deceased, praying for an order of sale Of
real estate. to pay the charges of Administration
1t Is therefore ordered by the Judge of said
court that all persons interested In the estate of
said deceased, appear before the said District Court
OF the Fourth Judicial District, on Monday the
18th day Of April A. D. 1895, ut 10 O'Clock in the
forenoon OF said day or 80 thereafter as petit
TONER can be heard, at the court room of said
District Court of the Fourth Judicial District, at
the town OF Phoebe In said County OF Lincoln, to
show cause why an order should not be granted to
the said Administrator to sell SO much Of the real
estate OF the said deceased as shall be necessary:
And that copy OF this order be published at
least four successive weeks In the Phoebe Weekly
RECORD, newspaper printed and published in
said County.
G.F TALBOT, District Judge.
Dated March. 40, 1895.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1895-04-18

Lew Engler of Carson has won his suit
against the telegraph company, and was
awarded $4,000 damages. He sued for
$4,000.
An eastern editor says the earth is so dry
and powdery in western Nebraska that it
has blown away from the gopher holes, leav-
ing them sticking out three feet in the air.
The Mineral Wealth shack is decorated
all over with signs. A caliope and tin
whistle is all that is lacking to make the
circular compendiums in the editors head
revolve with dynamo velocity. --Kingman
Miner
Postmaster Bell of Carson has received
word from Washinton releasing his old
bondsmen and requesting him to file new
bond, at the same time reducing the bond
from Sl2, 900 to $1,000.
President Cleveland is to be invited to
participate in Sound money" conference,
to be held in Chicago. As this means
goldbug conference, it is safe to say that if
not with them in the flesh, Mr.. Cleveland
will be with them in spirit.
W. E. Lindsay, at his marble works in
Antelope Valley, has just cut out by
machinery block of marble six feet square
and eleven feet long. The block contains
1856 cubic feet and weighs $4,000 pounds.
1t is the largest solid block of marble ever
cut out by machinery on this coast Carson
News.
The San Francisco Chronicle says: The
new silver party will not cut much of a
figure in the coming campaign, for the
simple reason that the political managers of
the two national parties are beginning to
perceive the hand writing on the wall, and
are aware that the free coinage issue cannot
be set aside. Both parties will declare for
free coinage, thus rendering third party
unnecessary.
An exchange says: Whenever you heal
a man finding fault with local paper, oper
it up, and ten to one he hasn't an advertise
ment in it; five to one be never gives it
job of work to do; three to one that he doe
not take the paper; two to one that if he il
a subscriber he is delinquent; even odd
he never does anything in any way tina
will assist the publisher to run goci paper
and fortr to one that if the paper is a goo,
one and full of life he is the most eager ma,
to see the paper when it comes out
A Portland expert on carrier pigeons say.
that if homing pigeon has covered tn
distance between that city and San Frar
cisco, some 700 miles, in nine hours, tn
worlds record has been not only beaten bu
completely mashed. The best record here
tofore has been 6l0 miles in eighteen hour
and twenty-five minutes, which is not wort
mentioning along side of 700 miles in min
hours. California and Nevada have raise
world-beating trotters, runners an
bicyclers, and why not carrier pigeons?-Ex