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can increase the productiveness of
my little farm. Besides, it being
new kind of farming to me l prefer
to go slow and not increase my bust
ness ahead of my experience"
Mr.. Smith does not believe in rush
ing into the dairy business, but work
ing into it as fast as he can do so to
advantage. To grow his own herd is
wise as his determination to increase
the productiveness of his farm so it
will keep his increased herd. His
head is evidently level and he will
doubtless make a success of dairying.
My correspondence, which is main
ly with farmers, comes from every
state and territory in the Union and
like that quoted from above a great
deal of it is interesting and instruc-
tive. One correspondent in Miami
county, Kansas writes:
1--WE keep four COWS and three hun
hired chickens and make all our living
expense from COWS and chickens. We
sell from Is to 20 pounds of butter
per week and get from three to five
cents over market price
Cows and chickens are a good COM
bination. f. w. Moseley.
Clinton, Iowa.
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HOMESTEAD LANDS. Why buy land any
Ill where at any price when I can ocote
you on 100 acres of the best ear y vegt table
jul sum Of $25 tor location and surN eying.
For further Information address with stamp,
GRO. w. LAND, Gutter. Dade Co i la. 3mO
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WILL SELL 20 acres of land in good Guilt
Il walton, 10 acres of it in nice orange trees.
A six room house, barn and a cemented
brick we'll of excellent water. Near churches,
school houses and railroad station. Price
and terms to suit. Other property equally low.
D. M EAD BakerSburg, Fla BIT
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EOR SALE-Good orange and vegetable
lands. 40 Haines City and
Lake HaineS, South "lOrida Railroad Good
location Price SIS per acre. Address~Box
90, Lake Mary Fla
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NEAR TAMPA.-Sixty acres best hammock
~ for vegetables, celery and tobacco; on two
railroads and navigable stream: spring for
rrie atom natural drainage; first class local
market. Address, F. LAPENOTIERE, Tampa.
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Z OR SALE cheap, woodland and my second
L grove r. acres, set in 1881 sprouts in
fine condition, No. pine land. No healthier
location in Florida; came in 1880, doctors
gave me one year to live. JOHN WETHERBEE,
Fruit1and.
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600 pounds of cotton seed meal, 200
pounds of acid phosphate and 200
pounds of kainit. The fertilizer is
scattered in the furrow and on the
sides of it.
| then take one-horse harrow and
mix the fertilizer with the soil, then
drop the potatoes in the depression
and cover by running around them
with pony pillow. My seed is now at
least four inches above the bottom of
the water furrow and above any
standing water that may come from
heavy spring rains. This is important,
as half an hour with water over them
may cause the crop to rot.
Now as the potatoes are all formed
along the stem and above the seed,
the earth must be continually work.
ed to the vine and never from it. If
the weeds commence to come, scrape
out lightly and throw the earth we'll
up around the vines. Two, or at most
three, workings, and your crop is
made. The ground must not be dis
turbed while the tubers are setting.
| suppose everyone knows that. By
the time your crop is laid by you
have a considerable ride, so when the
tops begin to turn yellow | dig with
d two-horse plow. BY gauging it right
J GU can turn out all the potatoes in
going once to the row.
All the marketable potatoes are
picked up, packed in bushel boxes or
uushel and a half sacks, and sent
right off to Chicago. The little pota-
toes L generally get the darkies to
pick up afterwards Oh shares. There
is no great profit in a potato crop,
out L have always made something
out of them, and as they are out of
the way by May you are ready for
another crop on the same ground,
and that without any additional fer
tilizing. About 100 bushels to the
acre is a fair crop. Two years ago [
netted 81 per bushel; last year about
IS cents.
L have tried several years to raise
a second crop, and while could always
raise a few l can not call it success,
and afterI found that the second crop
were not available for seed, l only
try for enough for family use. In
this method of cultivation remember
that it is for level, piney woods land,
and in section of country where
single shower will frequently let fall
from three to four inches of water.
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EOR SALE &c cd two story store build
Il ing, acre of land and good stock TO
general merchandise. Stock can be purchased
separately and building rented. Situated at
Lowell, Fla. Write to GEO. w. LEONARD,
Hastings, Fla.
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FOR SALE Pleasant home, house large,
well built, with plenty windows, closets,
verandas One acre of ground set to orange
trees, rebudded since the freeze, other fruits
L EYLES, DeLand.
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l. me HEALTHY HOME, good water,
L good buildings, 200 good orange trees
100 Japan plum, so peach, 80 pear, 80 grape,
guavas, mulberries, all first class. Will sell
low or trade if suited. Address o. P. BLAIS-
DELL, Oakda1e, Citrus Co., Fla
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FOR SALE "A farm of IS acres one-half
good hammock, balance good pine land;
on it before the freeze 5 acre orange
grove, One-hall in bearing Price 5000. Ad-
dress, ] B. LAW, DeLand, Fla.
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To make the hair grow a natural
color, prevent badness, and keep the
scalp healthy, Halls Hair Remover
was invented, and has proved itself
successful.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-10-14

LNFTE EN- acres pineapple and vegetable
i land between Indian river and ocean near
Melbourne. Fla Also OF in Melbourne.
Term to suit buyer. Address owner, J. f.
POWELL, Waukegan, III.
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FOR SAL E Near Auburnda'e, about one
mile from station on South Florida Rail
land. Price $500 Address Box 90, Lake
Mary, Fla.
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I HAVE tract of good pine land for sale at
low figures Near fresh water lakes and
good vegetable section. J. J. WILSON, Hanes
city, Fla.
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Irish Potatoes on Pine Land.

ALouisiana correspondent of Home
and Farm states that the Peerless
and Boston Peerless are the favOrite
and only varieties grown in this local
ity for early market, and that pota-
toes grown in New York are preferred
for seed. The popular method of cul-
ture he describes as follows:
In the preparation of a potato crop
it is better, if possible, to select a
piece of land on which cowpeas have
been grown the year before. It is by
no means indispensable that it should
be so. I have grown good crops on
bare land. The ground should be bed
ed up we'll in rows, three feet apart.
I then open the beds with a shovel
pillow, and apply at least 1000 pounds
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hESOTO COUNrY.-24O acres OF selected
~ land for sale near the model town of
Avon Park. Will sell a whole will
divide. GEO. FROST. Box 1904, Boston,
Mass. 3
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FOR SAl>E-25 acres good, high, pine land
IL lake IN fine lake region and beautiful
rolling country. Five acres in grove; bearing
ing before the freeze; carefully cultivated since
the freeze. Part budded. Sprouts doing
well. Pineapples on place stood the freeze of
SO Near Auburndae, Polk county Price
81 900 Address Box &c, Lake Mary, Fla.
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For the Florida Agriculturist
Some Forage Plants.

In several of your recent issues L
have had the pleasure of reading ar
ticles from the pen of Mir. G. X. Nc
Quarrie, of DeFuniak Springs, Fla,
on the subject of the Hay Crop in
Florida"
This has been to us yankees
rather embarrassing questions, but
since reading the above article and
observing the crab grass and beggar
weed are grown on some of the farms
near town, we do not think it such
serious question after all.
| yesterday called on Rev. Pillsbury
Cove Springs, and he showed me some
crab grass hay which had been cut
from his strawberry bed, this having
been the third crop, and was cured
in excellent condition, being equal, l
should think to the best timothy sold
in our market. All his little farm Of
run with this excellent hay. Mr.. Nc
Quarrie's advice regarding the saving
of this crop is we'll worth needing.
We tried some kaffir corn this sea-
son and found that it does remark
ably we'll. This is one Of the staple
forage crops for the western states,
and will also make splendid grain
and forage crop here. Sorghum cane
also does we'll here and by sowing in
drills the plants do not attain such
fodder makes a variety of fodder and
hay crops that will be relished by
our four footed friends.
D. D. Swartley.
Green Cove Springs, Fla.
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nnlk NIT (Cola acuminata). 20 in. high,
UULH WUI in. pots 81. Praz nut .}er-
(Persea gratissima) early bearir variety, 16 in,
in pots 35c. Outdoor grown, free by mail, cash
with order. General desert tive catalogue MALE
free on app lea ton. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
ACCLIMATIZJNG ASSO., Santa Barbara, Cal
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ID EST 4 ARGAINS ever given in orange groves
- houses city lots, improved and unimproved
lands Call on or address Fl. A. DeLand De-
Land, Fla.
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Real Estate Directory.

Any one contemplating tie purchase Of rea'
estate in Flo,ida shomld 7Orite to the parties
6eloaV in 7Ohate0er section they IRISH to Acatea
It's Mee6o'7 Of the As'irwlt~'tst to haze non
but first class firms represented in this coIatmnt
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L low price 4O-acre farm, located in the Gel
ebrated lake region of Winter Haven, Fla.
New dwelling cost 81 600, Large barn pack
ing house, etc. Fine lake front, near school,
churt hes, ETC. and cor venent to transporta-
ton. One-third cash, balance in one, two
and three years. Address Box 80, Winter
Haven. Fla.
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FOB SALE.mFine bearing orange grove
body of orange land 1O7 acres partly cleared
and set to young grove. lay thu -fourths
of a mile on one of the finest rivers in + a.,
daily line of steamers. Also fine business
building (good opening). Town lots and un-
improved lands in town OF Lake Helen, Fla.
Address J. P. MACE, Lake Helen, Fla.
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Hair II
Cloth, 800 PIP l16 CUTS post
paid, 81 so; paper, ST. 90. Circular free. Gives
treatment for all hair and beard diseases; how to
bleach. remove, dye it. Representations. ILLUS
It'd MEDICAL JOURNAL co. PUB'RS, Detroit,
Mich
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HAVE some OF the finest Orange Groves and
l Wild Land, Large Or Small properties-Some
in the Indian River section Send for circular.
G. P. WILLIAMS, Oviedo Fla.
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EOR SALE.-5O acres or less. Good land,
clay subsoil, easily irrigated by flowing
500 an ere. c. G. WHITE, Hastings, Fla.
EMO
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M ICHIGAN LANDS.-Write for price list and
U1 terms EUGENE FO>TER. Gladwin, Mich
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EOHN L. NUCKOLS, dealer in Improved and
- Unimproved Real Estate, DeLand, Fla.
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DOR SALE.-Forty Barlow
II Junction and fine fresh water axes, South
Florida Railroad Suitable or orange and
vegetable culture. Price So per acre. Address
Box &c. Lake Mary. Fla.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-09
10 URGE REVENUE LEGISLATION

10 URGE REVENUE LEGISLATION
The caucus Of republican senators
instructed the steering committee to
investigate as TO the likelihood of get.
ting the Dinglcy bill through the sen.
ate and to devise a means to that end
IL possible. This action will be alp.
proved by all republicans who believe
it to be the duty Of the party repre-.
scntativcs in congress to make every
effort to secure legislation at this ses.
sion for incrcasing the revenues of the
government 1t may not be possible TO
pass the Dingley bill in the senate or
any revenue measure based on It, but
that consideration should not deter the
republicans from making an earnest
cndcavor for such legislation. When
they have done this their responsibility
is at an end, but failure to do 1t would
certainly be regarded by the country
rs an incXcusablc dercliction of duty.
Undoubtedly the chances are
largely against any revenue legislation.
The silver men who bolted the st.
Louis convention and refused to enter
the caucus may safely he counted upon
TO vote against revenue bill, al
though they are profcssrdly still in
sympathy with republican tariff policy.
1t is possible that some of the sound
money democrats will support reve-
nuc measure on the lines of the Dingley
bill, but the probability is that all of
them will be found to concur in the
view of President Cleveland that the
present tariff law will ultimately sup
ply sufficient revenue if given fair
opportunity. If this should be the case
of course there would be no hope of
revenue legislation and indeed it seems
very likely that in any event the oppu-
sition will be strong enough to prevent
it, a dozen senators determined to do
this would be sufficient.
None the less the republican senator's
have adopted the proper course and
it is to be hoped they will exhaust
every means at their command TO Sc
cure the consideration and passage
Of Il measure that will give more
money to the treasury and better pro
lection to our industries. The country
expects this of them and such legisla-
ton would not necessarily nterferr
with a thorough revision of the tariff
by the next congress. TO be undertaken
at an extra session if deemed advisable
by the incoming administration.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-09
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IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

Burlington Hawkeye: Mr. Boies is, OF
course, quite right in intimating that the
silver question is dead. But he is quite
wrong when he believes that national
currency" under which ttle he evidently
understands the greenback currency, is the
issue of the future. That also is a thing
of the past. and it is a proof of Mr.. Boes'
failing political eyesight that he is not able
to Sse IL.
Davenport Republican: Iowa needs a
manufacturing law, but it is by no means
certain that the same legislature which
refused to pass such a law last winter
should be asked to do so during the extra
session. Governor Drake is opposed to any
legislation coming up except the code revi-
sion, which is certainly vOluminous enough
Of Itself, and 1t is not infrequently the best
part Of wisdom to make haste slowly. To
wait for the election of another legislature,
elected upon that very issue among others,
would be a much better plan than TO at
tempt to bulldoze the men who voted against
ii into changing their minds. If, however.
wher the legislature meets so many of the
formerly hide-bound prohbitOnists have
changed their views as to make the passage
Of such a law desirable to n large majority,
then of course, the bill will be brought up
in spite of all opposition.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-09
THE FOUL PUGs.

Chicago Chronicle: Mr.. Fitzsimmons is a
prize fighter by injunction.
Washington Pest: Sailor Sharkey Is still
in bed explaining how he licked Fitzsim-
mons
ST. Louis Republic: Sharkey got every
thing in his fight with the Kangaroo-the
licking and the purse, too.
Chicago Tribune: The use of the Aus
traiian system did not save LcXicOEraDher
Fit2simmons from being accounted out.
Chicago Post: 1t took six San Francisco
physicians to decide what was the matter
with Sharkey, when every one else in the
country knew that it was merely that Fltz-
simmons hit him. Now and then there
seem to be drawbacks to being a physician.
New York Sun: We believe that, in days
gone by. James Corbett could have whipped
Robert FitZSlmmonS. But, since the subse-
quent advance of time and the Sharkey COM
bat in San Francisco, in which, speaking
colloquially. Mr.. Sharkey was not we are
equally confident that Mr.. Corbett will never
venture professionally into Mr., Fltzsmmons'
company.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-09
Recruiting for the Navy.

It is estimated that about 1000 men will
have to be added to the navy in the next two
years in order to furnish crews for the new
vessels that will be ready for service in that
time. These must be provided by congress
IS the limited number allowed by law has
been almost filled and the manning of the
Puritan will exhaust the available forces.
The hest plan to provide men for the navy
would be by an elastic provision of law
whereby men could be recruited as needed
without requiring fresh legislation every
time a new ship is launched or the force
from any cause becomes too small. 1t takes
time to drill even able seamen for the work
of the navy, and eXigencies sometimes arise
in which time is not to be had. II we are to
become a naval nation we must be prepared
for all contingencies. and ability to equip
fleet at short notice is one OF these. The
sudden assembling OF England's famous fly
ing squadron last winter was an object lesson
which our nation should take to heart.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-09
Personal AND OTHERWISE.

Vermont proudly claims that there was
much less drunkenness IN her legislature
during the session just ended than usual
NJ. De Gcrlachc, the leader OF the pro.
joctcd Rclgian south pole expedition, is now
in Copenhagen taking advice OF the scicn-
tifc authorities there.
Henry II. Abbey Is quoted as having
said shortly before his death that people
who went to Europe in search OF ruined
abbeys could find one In America that was
as utterly ruined as the worst wreck In Eu
rope"
The New York board OF aldermen has
voted to give a franchise to fuel gas COM
pany to lay GOO miles OF mains In that city.
The company guarantees to supply fuel gas
to households at 80 cents per 1000 cubic
feet, and to manufacturers at only 20 cents.
quite in contrast with the materlalstio
temper OF the age was that remark once
made by Prof Agass2 when offered a
higher salary IL he would remove to another
position than the one he was so laboriously
and faithfully filling: IL cannot afford to
waste my time making money!
John p Fccncy, mayor-elect OF Woburn.
Mass and probably the youngest mayor ID
the nation. for he Is only a. gained his
education after he had learned to support
himself as a leather fnisher. He was
graduated from the Boston University Law
school, and was admitted to the bar when
only two weeks past his majority.
The late General Riva Palacio, the MeXi.
can minister to Spain, had more than the
usual versatility of the Castilian states
men. He was not only lawyer and editor
well a soldier, for every distinguished
Mexican has followed those three profess
slons but he was also poet and the
official historian of the war of the inter-
ycnton.
Elhu Burritt's name has been revived In
Connecticut by a paper read before the
State Historical society. Burritt has been
dead seventeen years and is practically for
gotten. \ quarter of century ago there
was hardly an issue of a periodical that did
not contain some reference to "thc Learned
Blacksmith" When Burritt was 30 years
old it was said that he could read fifty
languages.
curious and novel experiment has been
tried in Berlin. number OF prominent
artists were requested to send to an exhibit
tion n picture cmbodying their idea OF the
personality of Christ. Among them were
Brutt. Kampf, Marx, Gabriel, Max, Skar-
bina, Stuck, Thoma, Uhde and Zimmerman.
The Savior was represented at half lengths,
detached from the surroundings ordinarily
in such pictures, with merely landscape
or cloud effect for background. Each
painter also sent explanatory notes with
his work stating why he had represented
the sacred figure in that particular way
Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-09

n mere village. nor will the wiping out
Of these positions make any very
marked decrease of our taxes. The
cancer that has been eating out the
vitals of the city is boodleriSm and job
berry. We have paid hundreds of thou
sands of dollars in tribute to contract
ors and we have exempted millions of
property from taxation by favortism.
This Is where the shoe pinchcs the
hardest, and the charter reviscrs do
not appear to be anxious to grapple
with those defects in the law that have
been the prime cause of excessive tax
buyI,us
Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-09
GOLD ron GREHNR1CKS,

If those who urge the retirement
of the greenbacks would give more con
sidcration 10 what has taken place
since the presidential election in the
exchange of gold for the legal tender
notes they might find n reason for
changing their opinion. According to
Il Late treasury statement there has
been II steady gain in the gold reserve,
while the amount of the United States
notes held in the treasury has steadily
declined, This shows that grcenbacks
have been going out of the treasury
in exchange for gold, reversing the
process that prevailed before the cleo
tiOn, and the banks have had an eX-
perience similar to the treasury.
Tho simple explanation of this is
chat the people perfer the paper money
for general use, when they know it
is absolutely sound, to coin. This Is
not n new experience. 1t is familiar
fact in currency history and ii is not
peculiar TO this country. AS to the
grcenbacks, the people know that they
are based on god ana so long as that
basis is secure they will hold on to
The paper money which represents gold
The maintenance of the existing
monetary standard IS safe for years
to come. The next thing to be done is
to provide the government with suf-
iicent revenue to meet expenditures
With this accomplished all possible
danger of any trouble from the green
backs will be removed and we shall
hear no more Of them than we did dur
ing the thirteen or fourteen years after
resumption when their average annual
redemption amounted to less than
SiOOOO00.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-09
WHY NOT AMERICAN SUGAR.
The United states Capable of supply
ing Its own Demands.
IrdIouanolis Journal

Present conditions are very favorable for
the development Of the beet sugar industry
in the United States If congress could he
induced to take hold Of the subject in non
partisan and statesmanike spirit. We are
the greatest surar~eatng people in the world
and the United States ought to be one of the
greatest sugar Predicting countries. Statistics
show that the consumption OF sugar in this
country increased from twenty-four pounds
per capita in 1867 to siXty-fve pounds in 1895
This great Increase yin consumption Is doubt
less due in large measure to the wide use of
canned goods and The freer use of sugar for
domestic purposes Some of 1t goes into cof-
Zee, the annual Consumption of which in the
United States jncreased from FIVE pounds
per capita in 1867 to eight pounds in 1896
Perhaps. also mo increased consumption OF
sugar Is partly hue to the growing Use Of
candy, which is 1pt particularly encourag-
ing sign. Whateser the causes, we are the
greatest sugarzeatpg people In the world,