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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-09-09
TABLE OF CONTENTS.

FARM GROVE AND GARDEN-Foul Brood
or Bee Pest; Florida Fish. ..............., $50
Soil Ferments in Agriculture, No 5...... 500
The Half Hours Count; Plant Some To-
Pine Culture in Florida; Fine Sorghum. 592
Condition OF Crops; Rice Threshing; Gar
den Guide for the South; Home Made
Preventing and Lessening Frost Injury;
onions. ...... 594
FLORAL Observation-Disclosures An
nuals in Florida: New Star PhlOx; For
and to Lovers of Flowers.......... .... 595
CONGRATULATIONS Chat; The Changes
of Times; Florida's Position...".. .......... 500
Answers to Correspondents. ............. 597
HOUSEHOLD DEPARTMENT-That days
Washing; Maple Leaf Pillow; Fancy
Work Case; Family Peace; Helpful
Flashes From Other Pens; Origin and
Plans of Picncs; Dainty Hats; A Guest
POULTRY Crossing Breeds;
Feeding in Hot Weather; The Rhode
Island Red; Setting at the Right Time;
Business Which Remains. .................. sos
LITERATURE-AM Medical Mystery .......... 6O(
PUZZLER.. .................. ................ 601
FLORIDIANA.. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 6Oz
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-09-09

Thus far the use of the wheel by sound
or fairly sound persons has chiefly been
considered. Future papers from the
same pen will deal with the uses OF the
wheel for invalids, as adjuvative to the
surgeons and the physicians care. These
will, no doubt, be of at least equal inter
est, though inevitably they will trench
upon more contentious ground.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-09-09
Crimson Glover Hair Balls.

The u. S. Department of Agriculture
has issued circular giving the result of
investigation in three cases OF hair
balls taken from the stomach and in
testines of horses on post-mortem ex
animation. The investigation revealed
the fact that the balls were composed of
hairs found on mature plants of crimson
clover. If overripe crimson clover IS
fed to horses the bristly hairs will &C
cumulate in the stomach or intestines
in spherical balls which are increased
in size by repeated additions of the same
matter. When a ball has reached
sufficient size it acts as plug in the in
testines.s interfering with the vital
functions and finally, after few hours
of intense suffering, the horse dies of
peritonitis or some related difficulty.
In the center of the ball is frequently
found nail or some other hard object
around which the first hairs had wrap
ped themselves when the form alton of
the ball was begun. Hair balls have
been found made up Of plant hairs other
than those from the crimson clover, but
always from hairs which are barbed,
like those in question. The bulletin
from which the above information is OBJ
tanned closes with the following sug-
gestions:
"Though crimson clover has long been
in use in Europe as a forage plant, moth
ing appears to have been published
there regarding its liability to form hair
balls, and nothing, therefore, regarding
treatment of cases. When the balls
have once developed to such size that
they cannot pass through the intestines
no practical remedy can be suggested.
But the prevention of the difficulty is in
most cases easy. The hairs of crimson
clover do not become stiff until the plant
has passed the Towering stage and be-
gun to ripen. 1t should be made rule,
therefore, never to feed crimson clover
after the crop has ceased Towering, and
especially never to follow the pernicious
practice of feeding stock with the straw
of crimson clover raised and threshed as
seed crop. By guarding against i'm
proper methods of feeding there is no
reason why crimson clover should not
continue to maintain it's well merited
reputation and increase in use as for
age plant and green manure.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-09-09

DR. W. D. GRIFFIN. of Macclenny, has
transferred his large nursery business to the
Griffin Brothers Co., which is Incorporated under
the laws of Florida, with a capital stock OF
$4,000. w. d. Griffin is president; w. G. Griffin,
vice.president and general manager; G. NJ Griffin.
secretary and treasurer, and A, NJ. Griffin. Super
intendent OF propagation
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-09-09
FLORIDA'S POSITION.

The Southern States Magazine for Au-
Just says:
. Here are some products of the South
taat cannot be grown anywhere except in
]he South: Cotton, sugar cane, rice or
rnges lemons, pineapples, bananas, figs,
,uavas, cocoanuts, and a great variety of
,ther tropical fruits and plants. Here are
pine of the products of the South in COM
ION with the rest of the country. Every
hing here enumerated may be produced in
me part of the South at less cost than at
e North, and Of equal quality and yield:
.orn, wheat, oats, rye, millet buckwheat,
loom corn barley, hay, tobacco, peanuts,
fish potatoes, sweet potatoes watermel-
as, cantaloupes, field peas and beans,
lrnips, tomatoes, onions, radishes, beets,
flery, eggplant, lettuce, pumpkins,
huashes. cabbage. peas, string beans. lima
cans, cucumbers caulifower, carrots,
ale, parsnips, rhubarb, sweet corn,
'inach, okra. asparagus, peppers. apples,
caches, apricots. pears. plums, grapes
ferries, all small fruits and berries, nuts
'rk, beef. mutton, lambs, poultry, eggs,
ilk. butter and cheese. That is, farmer
h the South can grow practically every
hing that is produced on farms at the
Worth. and great many other things be-
ides. And as to most of the crops grown
10Th North and South, the much earlier
maturity South gives the southern grower
n immense advantage in price, where the
Expense of producing is less.
Commenting on this the Florida Times
Union remarks:
There is not word in the above that
S not true, and the statement embodies
'nly just exposition of the wonderful var
atility of the southern section. 1t will be
noticed, however, that of the eleven arti-
lies mentioned as only to be produced in
he South, with the exception of cotton,
sugar cane and rice, they are Florida pro-
lucts almost exclusively, California being
doubtless inadvertently omitted as an
'range growing section. In cotton Florida
;annot hope to compete with other South.
I'm states in point of quantity. but in quail
ty her product leads the world. The
sugar cane and rice industries are in their
infancy, but the time is approaching when
hey will form one of the most important
sources of revenue to the state. The other
products mentioned belong to Florida
alone, so far as this country is concerned,
ogether with many others not mentioned.
I'm the near future this state must sup
ply the entire country with its subtropical
and the development of the
millions of acres of magnificent Florida
land now lying idle will constitute a source
of supply for all kinds of fruits and vegeta-
bles for which the great markets are now
partly dependent upon the adjacent
Islands"
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| were wrapped up III the business Oh growing
orange trees. aad we're willing to wait for
their profit until the trees bore.
The old settlers viewed the innovation
with establishment, but for few years he
kept on in the even tenor of his way
herded his cattle, COW penned his land and
cultivated his potatoes, corn. sugar cane
and vegetable garden. These. with the
assistance of his trusty rifle had always
supplied his more modest demands.
Among these people could occasionally be
found a man Of more enterprise or ambi-
ton. He cultivated large fields of cotton.
owned a sugar mill of considerable proper
ton and was a prosperous, we'll. to-do
farmer. He lived in good style and his
family had every advantage that could be
secured. The children were sent to
Charleston or other Southern cities to
school, and during the summer months the
family would spend few weeks near the
old home in the mountains of Georgia or
the Carolinas. We recite these facts to
show that, while this section was not an
agricultural one in the true sense of the
word. the soil yielded its cultivators the
necessities of life, and in some cases many
of the luxuries.>
When the orange craze came, and with
it the men who could afford to wait de-
cade for the results of labor, the old timer
gradually ceased his operations. In many
cases he sold part of his homestead at
good price to the new conner. and lived in
royal idleness as long as the money lasted.
When the pocket book was empty another
slice of the homestead was sold, and so on
until no more could be spared. He had
forgotten how to farm by this time, but as
work was plentiful in the numerous orange
groves he did not suffer.
But the art of soil tilling as applied to
general crops was almost forgotten. The
farmer" so called, could make more
working for the orange grower at 81. so per
day.
During the past year there has been a
revival of farming. The orange grower
was forced to produce something to tide
him over the period that the orange groves
swere recovering from the effects of the
freeze He had pretty we'll exhausted his
capital in the first ten or twelve years of
waiting. 1t was not matter of choice
with him but of necessity. In like manner
the one time farmer" was compelled to
return to old methods. Work in the
orange groves was curtailed; his home
stead had been sold down to a narrow
strip, his cattle had been sold to the large
herders and it was case of root hog or die
with him.
| Thus it is we see the revival of an old
industry. Of course we will not follow the
methods of the soil tillers of this section of
quarter of a century ago, but we must
bear in mind that from these old fellows
we must learn the fundamental principles
of Florida agriculture. These methods
were based on the experiences of genera.
tion-a school that cannot be duplicated
even with our modern implements. When
we get the fundamental ideas we can i'm
prove on them, and certainly if in general
farming in South Florida in the long ago
yielded living and supplied the modest
wants of the old timer, we should make it
sunnlv our more nretentious demands with
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-09-09
EDITORIAL CHAT.

WITH the single exception of cotton,
the field and fruit crops of Florida are reported
in good condition by the State Department OF
Agriculture. The cotton crop is considerably
under the average prospective yield.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-09-09

WE wish that our correspondents
would avoid personalities, either offensive or
otherwise. They add nothing to the value of
the ideas expressed, and do more harm than
good.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-09-09

WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 8, 1896
The Opelousas courier., 1896-07-18
An Artists Practical Joke.

Phil May, of Punch, seldom let's
slip q chance to play ii practical joke.
Not long ago he needed n policeman
for a model. He went out into the
street and accosted the first one he
met, saying who he was and what he
wanted. "Come to my house at noon
tomorrow" said Phil May, and he
gave the man his address. Then he
walked on Il couple Of blocks further
until he met another bobby. This
one was also willing to pose, and he
was likewise told to apply at noon OF
the following day. The artist wandered
about London for several hours max
ing appointments with policemen.
The next day at noon there was an en-
tire platoon of police in front OF Phil
Nays residence. A crowd collected,
and the reason for such au array was
freely discussed. Some asserted that
a den OF anarchists hat been ulSCOV-
cred and was about to be railed; 9TH
ers insisted that n swell gambling
place was about to be seized; others
limited at a murder or at some other
mystery. A few minutes after twelve
o'clock Phil May came to the door and
invited all the policemen into his
garden. There he lined them up and
inspected them. He picked out the
man most suitable for his purposes,
then handed to each of the others an
envelope containing the regulation fee
for q sitting, and dismissed them
Ha.per's Round Table.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-07-18

Regarding the population of great
capitals M. Bertillon, the FRENCH sta
tistician, has made known some inter
esting facts. London has the highest
percentage of native population, it be-
ing sixty-five percent. In Vienna the
native population is forty-fve per-
cent: in Berlin, forty-one; in st.
Petersburg, thirty-two, and in Paris
thirty. The greatest number of for
eigners is in Paris, over 181, 600, in
Guiding &c, 1858 Germans, while in
Berlin there are but 397 French. The
greatest number of foreigners from
any one nation in Paris is Belgians,
As. 600. OF other nationalities there
are Is, 900 English, 26, 1858 Germans,
s, 200 Russians, Is, 900 Luxembourg
ians, &c, 900 Swiss and 81, 900 Italians.
OF the present population IN Paris
only thirty-six percent we're born
there. For the past thirty years this
percentage has remained practically
the same. Berlin contains 18, 900 for
eigners, st. Petersburg %, 1000, Lon
don 81, 900, Vienna, 35, OOO.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-07-18

Few Old notions have been battered
so badly in recent years, asserts the
Atlanta Journal, as hat early rising
is essential to health. Common sense
ought to teach people that in some
localities it is not only" disrespectful
to get up before the sum-" as Josh
Billings said, but that the air is not so
healthful before it has been warmed
and cleared by the sun, as it is after
wards. The early rising philosophy
has received many hard knocks in re-
cent years, but DR.. S. H. TaIcott, of
the New York state insane asylum. is
particularly sevEre upon it. He main,
taius that fewalings conduce so much
to insanity as too early rising. In
proof of this notion he points out the
relative frequency with which farmers,
their wives, son and daughters be-
come insane, stati4tics showing that
this class are more subject to mental
disorder than any other. Naturally,
the farmer ought to be the health
lest and sanest of men; his life
is tranquil, his food wholesome. he
enjoys the continual benefit of the
fresh air and has plenty to do. He in.
dnlges in none of the dissipation of
city life, and therefore, above all other
men, should possess the means sana in
corpora sano. But be doesn't; and
as DIR. Taicott thinks, the reason is
becanse he rises too early. From his
most youthful years he begins the
habit of turning out of bed before
dawn, and, in the opinion of this
physician, nothing could be worse
for children than,to depriyg,the Of
the morning sleep, which Je considers
above all, the sleep ob health and
beauty. During the year 1894, $40
farmers were committed in New York
state as lunatics, q larger. ratio than
in any other class except laborers, who
a'so rise early. On the other hand.
the clergy, the artists, and persons
following other professions furnish a
small percentage of the patients in
the New York asylum.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-07-18
RHYME OF THE PRESIDENTS.


First stands General George Washington
FEATHER benign"
Selected the leader in seventeen ei5hty
To John Adams name ''prc5idalt' thel
aflix
By his election in seventeen ninef"-slx.
And Thomas Jefferson by feelings kln1rca
Promoted from vice-prcsident N eighteen
hundred.
AS fourth, james Madison, the secretary
of state,
Carried to the front in eighteen hundre~
and eight.
In compliment for service to his country,
keen,
Monroe, so honor'd in eight hundred
sixteen.
"Like father like son. as W.. one seven
terms before.
John Quincy Adams the choice OF eighteen
t~wenty-four.
The seventh was Andrew Jackson, OF len
nesSce state,
Made president in fall of eighteen twenty
eight. n
Martin Van Buren,, eighth on the line we
fix
By the peoples voice in eighteen thirty
six.
William Henry Htrrison number nine ia
BY the electoral Of eighteen forty-one.
John Tyler by the death OF Harrison did
become
AS president number ten, in eli 5h'can forty
one.
James X. Polk (Jacksor's a'm:rer VIII
his been b.forc)
Electe to the o ii x inc ghtecn torty-.olr.
For Mexican victories the peoo'e elevate
Gel'rll Zachary Ilylor in eighteen forty
eight.
At death of Tailor, in 1850, the nation
Promotes Willard Fillmore to this exalted
Then comes Franklin Pierce, the fifteenth,
into view
In the fall lection o. eighteen ffty-two.
The year eighteen tifty-six brings James
buchanan.
The Demo candidate, a Pennsylvania.
"Abram" Lincoln to the Datiou's help did
come
For eight years, beginning eighteen sixty
one,
And by an assassiu's crimes remained but
four,
When johnson succeeds in eighteen sixty
four.
Next, General Grant assumes the honor
great,
Called from the army in eighteen sixty
eight.
The centennial year, that second seventy
six,
Selects r. Birchard Hayes in eighteen
s~eventy-six.
Garfield, in eighteen eighty, gains .ascen-
dancv,
''From the tow-path to the presidency"
Again the assassin felis her corntry's son,
And Arthur advanced in eighteen eighty.
enc.
The t%wenty-ifth administration bore
Cleve and to the front in 1884.
After four years interim the Republican
candidate,
Benjamin Harrison, elected in eighty
eight.
Then CLEVELAND comes again in view,
For a second term in eighteen ninety-two.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-07-18
4 Ten-Dollar Street-Car Ticket,

a Baltimore lawyer came hear pay
ing SO for a ride in a street car a few
days ago. With his wife lie got on
one of the City and Suburban cars.
Before the conductors called for the
fares the lawyers wife handed to her
husband a coupon clipped from a Vir-
ginia Midland railroad bond and
valued GR10. This was printed in
red ink, and looked like the car
tickets ,sed on the City and Suburban
road, except that it was somewhat
large. The lawyer slipped the
coupe IN his pocket and forgot all
about it.
When the conductor called on the
lawyer for fares he took two tickets
from his Esocket and gave them up.
Just before he reached the corner
where he was to leave the car, he no.
ticed that the conductor was counting
his tickets preparatory to punching
them. One ticket appeared to be a
little longer than the others, and the
lawyer idly watched the conductor I'M
til that particular ticket was reached.
AS the conductor was about to punch
a hole in it the lawyer realized that it
was his wife's coupon, and with a yell
that startled the other
jumped from his seat and grabbed the
hand of the conductor before the little
punch could get i'll it's work.
Explanations we're made, and the
coupon was exchanged for a car ticket,
with its value unimpalred. Baltimore
Sun,
The Opelousas courier., 1896-07-18

Greater New York consists of forty
five islands and the New York Dis
patch thinks it might be called the
Island city. Read the names of some
of the larger: Manhattan, Long ISL
and, Staten Island, Harris Island, City
Island, Riker's Island, North Brothers
Island, South Island, Blackwell's Isl
and, Randall's Island. Wards Island,
Berriau's Island, Governors Island,
Barren Island, Coney Island. Many
small mes in Jamaica bay have as
large James One inland island,
Marble Hill, near Kingsbridge, has
lately been made by the government
channel cut through on the Harlem
river improvements.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-07-18
Agates.

Agates are usually formed by the de-
post Of silica with more or less color
ing oxides, in the cavities of igneous
rocks. When the rock disintegrates,
they fall nj as hard nodules and are
then found on the surface or freauent-
~ strewn along shores, beaches and
the beds of streams. These agate peb-
bles are abundant on the shore of
Lake Superior, and on the beach ct
Pescardo, Cal, and are gathered as
souvenirs, and to some extent cut for
local jewelry. Externally they are
rough and of little beauty; their
yeined~ structure and colors only APP
pearing on breaking them, and still
more upon polishing. It is mad. into
s1sls, rings pencils, handles for swords,
knives and forks, mortars for grinding
chemicals. bearings for the balances.
beads, studs, earrings, trinkets, match
boxes. and many other objects.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-07-18
Asleep OH Their Beats.

"Police officers frequently go tc
sleep while patrolling their beats, y
was the information volunteered by a
well-known member of the police
force. Especially during the couple
Of hours that precede daylight. They
have no idea of hoodling, either.
Only q short time ago / knew of an
officer whose beat did not extend
south of Pennsylvania avenue on
Fourteenth street, who, while asleeD.
walked all the way down along that
street to the Loug bridge. When be
awoke he was within ten feet of q
locomotive coming across the bridge.
and was SO frightened that he did not
find his way back for nearly an hour.
L know Of another case, and heard the
story from the officer himself, who
wandered all the way along E. street
from Fifth street northeast to ,Judi
ciary square. He got all mixed up in
the square, and actually had to ask
someone where he was before he could
find his way back to his beat. OF
scourse, there are officers occasionally
who settle down for a quiet snooze.
but the cases [ speak of are those
who actually and without any inten-
ton or desire go asleep while they are
walking about. Washington Star.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-07-18

up, and father was IN time to help her
upstairs, for Madge needed carrying
as much as the baby. And, by and
by, mother came into her room, and
Madge, ashamed and weeping, told
her ''all about it,"
Late that night, Madge heard father
laughing in the next room. He said:
$50, she sat by that deserted old
car-track-to save q train-dld she!
And she met a tramp, you say? And q
ghost? Poor child! Well, she needn't
be punished for running away. She's
been punished enough"
Certainly she did not wish to be
punished; bat as shivcriVg Mndge
listened to him, she did think father
was not very sympathetic. After all,
she had been in time to save the
baby!-.New York Independent.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-07-18

The nicely of the plans for the fire.
quent travels of the Queen of Eng
land is shown in the chalk mark drawn
across the platforms of stations where
the royal traveller will alight for any
purpose. This broad white mark is
readily seen by the engine driver, and
he rigidly toes the line, thus bringing
the door Of his sovereign's carriage
directly opposite the carpet spread for
her royal aud rheumatic feet.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-07-18

Wolf Won Sutherland writes from
Berlin to the Chicago Record: The
nationality question plays a most i'm
portant part, not alone in America,
but in Prussia as well. The 2,OO0,-
600 Polish speaking subjects of the
crown, the several hundreds of thou
sands of French and Danish speak
/. ing people in Lorraine, Alsace and
Schleswig, respectively, give the gov
eminent an immense deal of trouble.
All those people of foreign race.
tongue and thought, though annexed
to Prussia, refuse to be swallowed up
and amalgamated. In the Polish
provinces the resistance is most siren
hous and bitter, and every recurring
iession of the Prussian diet this aues-
lion is heatedly discussed by the dele
gates from these provinces. But more
than that the Poles refuse to German
lie even when they have gone away
from home and reside in the very
midst of a wholly German population.
Here in Berlin, for instance, there
are 40, 900 souls in the Polish colony
and they persist in educating tha'4
children as Poles, not rs Germans.
All the measures of the Prussian gov
eminent to make them Germans are
skillfully frustrated by the leaders Of
this large Polish colony.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-07-18

The appearance Of a dock-tailed
horse on the street, of lewiston,
Idaho, a week or 50 ago created quite
a wave of excitement through the
town, alleges the New York Sun. 1t
was the first time such n curious thing
had been seen there, and the new
tangled Eastern innovation was sub
ject for comment in several news
papers in that region.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-07-18
The Government Likes Red

Somehow Or other the United Statea
government seems to go in a great
deal for red which some people always
supposed was a British color. They
buy mostly red blankets for the
Indians. It is much used in the navy
The postofice department paints its
letter boxes a hideous vermillion, and
makes It's two cent postage stamps
which go into almost everybody's
mouth OF almost the same glazing
coler.-Philadelphia Times.