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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-03-18
How to Obtain Hardy Pecan Trees.

1t is quite probable that some of our
from nuts procured in the North, and
these would be far preferable for plant
ing in the northern states to those raised
from southern stock. But if hardy
pecans cannot be purchased IN the nur-
series, then the next best way TO procure
them is to secure nuts from nywhere
along the northern rarge Of this tree,
in Indiana, illinois or Missouri, and
failing this, from Indian Territory, or
Arkansas When such nuts are procured
they should be planted i'm mediately OR
before the ground freezes in the fall, or
mixed with sand and buried in the
ground until spring and then planted in
nursery rows, covering them about
three inches deep. The nuts should be
dropped about six inches apart IN the
orills, and if sound and moderately fresh
when planted, almost every one will
grow, at least that has been my expert
ance with pecan nuts procured in the
western states and buried in a box Of
sand late in autumn. The seedlings
should, Of course, have clean culture
during the sum mer, or sufficient mulch
applied to smother the weeds aud keep
the soil moist. In the fall of the first
season dig up the seedlings and shorten
the taproots about one-half, and then
either plant again IN the nursery rows,
or delay the operation until the ensuing
spring. In planting such small seed
llngs the soil should be firmly packed
about their roots. If there are any side
or lateral branches on the main stems,
cut them away, being careful to preserve
the terminal bud. The seedlings may
now be kept in the nursery rows for two
years, then lifted again and if large
enough set out where they are to remain
permanently; If not, prune the taproots
again and rep!ant in the nursery rows,
allowing q little more room for growing
than when younger. Every transplant
ing tends to increase the quantity and
quality Of the fbrous, roots, making
later transplanting, or when the trees
are six to eight feet high, safe with very
slight check to the growth. Under
his system 1 have found that pecans
and all of the hickory tribe may be as
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-03-18
Irish Potatoes on Pine Land.


and Farm states that the Peerless and
Boston Peerless are the favorlte and only
varieties grown in his locality for early
market, and that potatoes grown in
New York are preferred for seed. The
popular method of culture he describes
as follows:
In the preparation of potato crop it
is better, if possible, to select piece Of
land on which cowpeas have been grown
the year before. 1t is by no means in
dispensable that it should be so. have
grown good crops on bare land. The
ground should be bedded up we'll in
rows, three feet apart. then open the
beds with shovel pillow, and apply at
least 1000 pounds Of fertilizer per acre,
consisting of 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.
I then take one-horse harrow and
drop the potatoes in the depression,
which by this time is very slight, and
cover by running around them with
pony plow. Ny 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 worked 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 disturbed while
the tUbers are setting. suppose every
one 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 two-horse pillow. By gauglng
it right you can turn out all the pota-
toes IN going once to the row.
All he marketable potatoes are picked
up, packed in bushel boxes or bushel
and half sacks, and sent right off to
Chicago. The little potatoes | generally
get the darkies to pick up afterwards on
shares. There is no great profit in a
potato crop, but [ 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 ferti-
lizing. About 100 bushels to the acre
is fair crop. Two years ago l netted
81 per bushel; last year about IS cents.
have tried several years to raise
second crop, and while l could always
raise few | cannot cali IL success,
aud after | found that the second crop
were not valuable for seed, only try
for enough for family use. In this
method of cultivation rememb Der tn at it
is for level, piny woods land, and in
section of country where single shower
will frequently let fall from three to
four inches of water.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-03-18

looks upon his farm as his Golconda;
started in life poor boy, working for
eight dollars per month, with no capital
but a brave heart, honost and most
uncommon kind of common sense, has
now in comparatively few years put
himself on the financial scale to about
the quarter million dollar mark. How
he has made this money can be under
stood when we give some statistics re-
garding his tobacco crop. In 1890 Mr..
Kicks may have been said to have COM
menced tobacco growing in earnest
That year he planted twenty five acres,
which he sold for twenty-five thousand,
five hun 1red dollars, and realized a net
profit of So, 900 dollars on his crop. Mr.
Kicks averages over two hundred dollars
per acre on his tobacco crop, year In
and year out.
S. B. Kicks, of Nashville, year or so
ago sold one thousand and four dollars
worth of tobacco from two acres.
Askew Bachelor, Of Nashville, sold
over $4,000 worth of tobacco from six
acres, and realizes 1925 per acre for his
tobacco, year in and year out.
William York, one of the best known
tobacco growers in Nash county, who
| lives near Hilliardston, sold on Novem-
Der Is, 1894, 5000 pounds of tobacco at
an average of 80 cents per pound.
G. A. Williams, one of Halifax coun-
| tvs best known and progressive men,
who is brilliant example Of the untir-
| ing energy and go-ahead a-tive-ness Of
this grand New South, is one Of the most
successful tobacco farmers of that Sec
tion. He has Melted, we think, about
$3.50 per acre on his tobacco for the last
several years.
In Wilson county we find Mr.. l.. f.
LUCAS, of Lucana, selling the product OF
one acre for $500. We find that the peo-
pie east of Us are equally as successful.
Mr.. A. A. Forbes, of Pitt county, sold
the product of seven acres, realizing
therefrom 49, 100.
In Edgecombe county three farmers
produced an average of l, 493 pounds to
the acre, which selling at an average of
19H cents pound brought them S29S.6O
per acre. In Wilson county eight far
mers received a combined average of
22A cents per pound, on an average of
902 pounds per acre.
In Nash county, Mr.. Jere Whitehead,
a tenant of J. P. Daughtery. planted in
| 1895 seven and one-half acres of tobacco
from which he sold 8,311 pounds, realiz-
ing therefrom 81, 645 So an average of
S19.9 per hundred.
Mr.. Whitehead pays Mr.. Daughtry
CHS landlord) one-third of the proceeds
for rent, this makes Mr.. Daughtry real
ize from the rent of the seven and one
half acres for one year $541.51 with no
expense at all except fertilizer till of
about $40.
Mr.. Joel Daughtry sold on January
I'd, 800 pounds at an average of S45 so
per hundred, and 7O6 pounds at an aver
age of $2447.
Mr.. T. V. Avent, of Aventville, on one
of his farms sold a crop this winter,
which averaged $16.50 per hundred, for
everything, including scraps. He raised
], $50 pounds per acre.
T. E. Haywood, who lives at the Gid
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Money in Tobacco.

who are engaging in the tobacco bust
ness the Barlow Courier Informa Mt pub
lished the following from recent
number of the Argonaut, published at
Rocky Hill, N. c., to show what profits
there are in the business. We repro
duce the article for the same purpose.
But few brief years ago and every
body said that the golden leaf could not
be grown east of Granville county. Now
how great has been change Nash is the
banner county with Halifax, Edge
combe, Greene, Pitt, Hartford. Wilson
and other eastern counties in close fol-
lowing.
1t was but few years ago when Nash
county was recorded as growing the
enormous amount Of twenty-seven acres
in tobacco-we are not prepared to say
the acres grown during the past year,
but know that Nash county has had
turned into her Golfers already this sea-
con over three quarters of million
dollars to the credit of the golden weed.
Farmers in many other portions of
the United States are satisfied in getting
ten to twenty dollars per annum per
acre, as the results Of the products of
the soil, but our tobacco farmers think
they have been very unfortunate if they
do not realize every year from one
hundred to five hundred dollars per
acre in the growing of bright tobacco.
Under these circumstances it is won7s
derful, and at the same time an exceed
ingly fortunate circumstance, that the
tobacco business has not been overdone.
We said 1t was wonderful, but we will
take that back. Under the axiom,
''there is always room at the top" we
find that it tlkes brains, perseverance,
energy and lots of common sense to
make good TOD 4cco, and unfortunately,
or fortunate Y, just as you please, the
word is hot over ourdened with people
so endowed, therefore there IS no i'm
me'iiA'e danger of a surplus of fine to-
BIC o.
10 this article we are not recording
the failures of so called tobacco raisers
who are utterly untitled to make sue
cess in anything, but we propose to pub
s lish to the word brief summary of
5 what our careful, conservative and pro-
gressive farmers realize from their CROPS
of tobacco.
81 Our staten ents may be doubted by
people who live at distance and know
nothing Of the wonderful results obtained
by the tobacco farmers of the Old North
State; but, every word we say can be
amply substantiated, and we invite the
fullest scrutiny of our statements. We
will now follow with few facts illustra-
ting what business ability, common
sense and reasonable push will do in
this business. Remember, as we have
said before, that men who think they
are doing wonders if they make twenty
five dollars an acre may reasonably
doubt the following statements, but we
assure them that every fact we state
here can be easily substantiated
We will now give few instances of
the money made in the business. Now
remember that we are not picking out a
few choice acres or the product of few
successful men, but are getting an
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-03-18
Science in Agriculture.

The following, from book recently
published entitled 1899 Queries With
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1896-04-25
OLD TIME JUL j EI7S, /!
EARLIER ACTRESSES IN SHAKE.
SPEARE,S IMMORTAL TRAGEDY 4,
Mrs. BettertOn the First Juliet-CoI-
" Cibber's Granddaughter-Mr
SiddOns, Fanny Ke1nbIe and Many
Z Others. *T@5...ss: sE e.

OF the performances OF 'sRomeo and
Juliet in sShakespeare's own day, no
tradition is preserved. The first Juliet
of whom we have any record-the first
woman Juliet, as opposed to boy Juli-
ct, who ever trod the: boards-Was Mrs.
THAT is, Miss Saunderson, afterward
4 known as Mrs. Betterton. OF her per-
4 forlnance-at Lincoln's Inn Fields, in
. 1862 nothing is recorded, though Do
ran does not fail to romance about it.
The Romeo. was Harris, Bettertons
| only rival among, the younger actors;
& Betterton himself played .Mercutio.
The Hon. James Howard, Dryden's
brother-in-law, provided the play with
a never-ending Romeo and Juliet re-
naming alive at the close, $50 that,
when the tragedy was revived again.
says Downs, "'twas played alternately,
s tragically one. day and tragi-comical
another, for several days together"
,7oH, 10 H1ols qua oAoMs GBAlO O89I W
meo and Juliet" into his Cails Marfus,
about half Of which was lifted bodily
from Shakespeare; and this t'history'
seems to have superseded Shake
speare's plays on the stage, for more
than half a century. Thus, neither
Mrs. Barry, Mrs. Bracegirdle nor Mrs.
Oldfeld ever appeared as Juliet, and
we have to leap from Mrs. Betterton
to Mrs. Jane Cibber, Colley's grand
daughter, who played the part at the
Haymarket in 1744, to the Romeo of
her father, Theophilus Cibber. Thus
resuscitated, the great love tragedy of
the world was never again suffered to
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1896-04-25

Fanny Kemble.
such an agony Of despair in which i'm
agination approaches the brink of fren-
Zy. = = Miss O'Neill seemed east
successful in the garden scene, ETC.
The expression. of tenderness bordered
Oh hoydening and affectation. The
character of Juliet is pure effusion of
nature. There is not the slightest ap-
pearance Of coquetry in it; no senti-
mental languor, no meretricious as
sumption of fondness to take her lover
by surprise. She ought not to laugh
when she says: 4 have forgot why T
did call thee back as if conscious Of
the artifce, nor hang in a fondling
posture over the balcony xa @ss
RetWeen Miss O'Neill and Miss Fan
ny Kemble, the most noteworthy Juliet
was Miss Phillips, who cannot, how
ever, be regarded as an actress Of the
first rank. On Oct. 5, 1929, when the
fortunes Of Covent Garden were at d
very low ebb, an attempt was made to
revive them by bringing out Charles
aKemble's daughter, Mrs. Siddons'
niece, in the part Of Juliet, her father
playing Mercutio and Abbott Romeo.
Fanny Kemble may or may not have
been a great actress, but a clever wo-
man she undo ubtedly was, and her ac-
count Of her first appearance Gree
ords Of a Girlhood, vol y is delight
Sful reading. She was successful in
arousing the keenest interest, if not in
entirely satisfying the critics. Leigh
Hunt was especially severe on her.
She played the part, he said, In tsthe
regular conventional tragic style, both
in voice and manner #TnainfaininD sit4
With little variation, the whole even
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1896-04-25
The Spray Boiler. !.

The. spray boiler, so-calIed, com
mends itself, especially for steam carr
riages on common roads, for it has the
least weight for a given efficiency of
any steam generator known. True, it.
has the disadvantage of wearing out
very rapidly, but this is not so serious
an evil as the words seem to imply.
When it is said that steam boiler
wears out rapidly, an idea is given of
an expensive generator, but the value
of the spray boiler lies in the fact that
it is not expensive to either construct
or maintain. The spray boiler is all
heating surface, and requires no costly
fire box, which is one of the first
places to give trouble; it carries no.
dead weight Of water, either, and has
distinct merits for the work mentioned.
It is not an original suggestion with uss
Ito use It for road carriages for the
Serpollet boiler Is constructed upon
this principle, and the road carriage
used by NJ. Serpollet has proven to be-
a practical machine in daily use. Per-
sons who are about to design steam
wagons for common roads should In,
yestigate the merits Of the spray type
OF boiler for the purpose. Engineer.
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was also a collection Of bones and
other medical appurtenances.
AS stepped up to this table Dick
remarked, ''Be careful, Arthur, not to
confound the claret with that red stuff
l brought home this afternoon. You
know Harding's dog died of hydro
phobia last night and I got bottle Of
his blood to analyze" y
Then coming up to where I stood,
ostenslbly to help me to distinguish
one from the other, he whispered:
Sorry, old man, it wouldn't hurt l
know, but we must begin at the be-
ginning, or else we shall have frag-
menlal turkey on our hands,
"Ah, yes" he said aloud, this is the
one all right. Allow me!''
Il don't care for any wine. thank
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the life Of me, how the matter was to
be brought to satisfactory conclu-

the life Of me, how the matter was to
be brought to satisfactory conclu-
sion. ..; .5
+ It had taken us a full hour to decor
ate that table to our satisfa ction, and
to undress it and hide the viands was,
Of course, out of the question. More
over, as ill luck would have it, there
was no spare room in the house to
which we might temporarily have
moved our quarters. ~-,-s.-s &. y
Presently the door bell rang, and a
minute later my buxom but unwel-
come relatives bounced into the room.
They looked as hungry as bears.
After the usual salutations I intro
duced my chum and we all sat down.
Dick was most artistic liar, and Il
was something in that line myself, but
must say that 1t taxed the full ex-
|. tent of our powers to maintain calm
demeanor as we proceeded to convince
our innocent victims that the feast be-
fore them was prepared for their es-
pecial benefit and that the preparation
thereof had been q labor of true de-
light: 3@ e1..
OF Benson's plan Of campaign han
not the faintest idea. The only thing
that suggested itself to me was delay,
for it was plain that the longer the
meal was postponed the less the dam
age done when the, time came for their
departure. . l., . -.-.- -- 81
But the poor creatures looked so
thirsty after their travels that I really
| felt pity for them. A glass or two of
wine from the decanter would not be
missed, anyway. "My dear aunt" I
ventured without looking at Dick, ''let
me give you glass Of claret. TRAY
cling is such dry work that you really
must be famished."
They said nothing, but there was a
look of pleasant expectancy in their
eyes which read assent. The. .decanter
stood on a side, able, and beside it
was a confused mass of bottles of all
shapes and sizes containing picked
lizards, frogs and such things. There
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1896-04-25
Miss Phillips,

I
her benefit night, May H., 1889, Mrs.
Siddons acted Juliet for the first time
in London to the Romeo of her broth
er, John Phillip Kemble. She was at
this time thirty-four (Mrs. Cibber, by
the way, first played the part at the
same age, and her physical proper
tons were not in her favor. 'But,"
says her biographer, Boaden, "the art
of the great actress made a powerful
struggle against her natural strength,
so that, at times, the ascendancy of
the mother and the nurse did not seem
preposterous and Incredible" The
part never held a place ip her roper
tory. Mrs. Jordan, too, played Juliet
once or twice, but did not shine in it
any more than Mrs. Siddons. One of
the best Juliets at the close Of the last
century was Mrs. Stephen Kemble.
whom a critic In Blackwood describes
as delicious" He adds that, though
she was not as lovely as Miss O'Neill,
''her eyes had far more Of that uncon-
sciously aluring expression of inno-
cence and voluptuousness." 1t was on
Oct. 6, 1914, that Eliza O'Neill made
her first appearance in London, at
Convent Garden, in the part of Juliet
Through my whole experience, -
Macready declares, ."hers was the only
representa- ton Of Juliet / have ever
seen. sShe is alone the Ara bian bird. /,
In another place, speaking Of her as a
remarkable instance of self-abandon-
ment in acting" he says: "She was
an entirely modest woman; yet in act
Ing with her, L have been snothered
with her Kisses Criticizing her first
performance, Hazlitt said:
'In the silent expression Of feeling
we have seldom witnessed anything
finer than her acting, where she is told
Of Romeo's death, her listening to the
Friar's story of the poison, and her
change of manner toward the Nurse,
when she advises her to marry Paris.
Her delivery of the speeches in the
scenes where she, laments Romeo's
banishment, and anticipates her wax
ing in the tomb, marked the fine play
and undulation of natural sensibility,
rising and falling with the gusts Of
passion, and at last worked up into
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lapse into disuse, and every generation
for the past century has had not only
its Juliets, but it's bevy of Juliets.
The first actress whose rendering of
the part we find described in any de-
tail is Mrs. Cibber, who played it at
Drury Lane in 1854, to the Romeo Of
Barry. When she and Barry, two
years later seeded to Covent Gar
den, they opened in these, their most
popular characters; while Garrick, at
Drury Lane, produced the same play
on the same evening, himself playing
Romeo to the Juliet Of George Anne
Bellamy. Except in one or two indi-
vidual passages, Garrick was probably
inferior to Barry, and there is little
throughout, inferior to Mrs. Cibber.
Gentleman, ''excelled in amorous rap
power Of distress and despair to her
aid" 'If we ask" says Hill, in the
Actor Q755), "why Mrs. Cibber is more
herself in Juliet than in any other
character, it is because Mrs. Cibber
has heart more formed for love than
for any other passion; and If we ap-
prove Miss Bellamy in her declara-
tions Of love in the same character
more than in any other it is because
she has a heart also more susceptible
Of tenderness than of any other pas
sion." The same critic declares that
he who has seen Mrs. Cibber in the po-
s1tion scene ''has seen all that is possi-
BILE to be conveyed this way of terror. :"
1t appears that s'the disproportion in
stature between Barry and Mrs Glib
. ber''' verged. upon the ludicrous, but
! that the genius Of the actors carried it
off. Between Garrick and Miss Bella
my the disproportion was, probably,
all the other way. Mrs. Gibber, falling
into ill-hcalth, Barry, bn 1853, found
another Juliet in new actress, Miss
Nossiter, scarcely older than the Juliet
y of Shakespeare. "She was possessed y
says Tate Wilkinson, "of a handsome
fortune and genteel education, and''
(what was, perhaps, Of more import
ance) "strong sensibility and feeling