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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-04-28
Grape Fruit Varieties.

The California Citrograph says:
The pomelo war is still on. One
man claims to know all about it by
actual experience, and says the only
variety is the Triumph. Another,
who also knows all about it, says the
Seedless is the only one. Another
but it is useless to continue. We
don't any of us know so much about
any variety as to be really able to
claim to be experts. We old fellows
remember the orange fight of twenty
five years ago, and we all have had
to change our ideas from time to
time, as experience came to our aid.
Out of over forty varieties of twenty
years ago but half a dozen remain,
and out of that half dozen but one is
left to take the top price in the mar
ket. So will it be with the pomelo.
Ithas been grown, here and there, sin
gle specimen trees, for more than a
quarter of a century. But it has re-
manned for the past few years to de-
velop the grape fruit fad. If the fad
holds out, we are likely to have many
varieties tried and all discarded except
one or two. In the meantime we do
not think much of mistake will be
Seedless.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-04-28
TABLE OF CONTENTS

FARM, GROVE AND GARDEN - The Fam
lily Garden; The Kicking Cow; The Horti-
cultural Society ........ ............ .... 25
Posi- Jilities of Sugar Culture ............. 20
The Sou his Advantage; A Huge Memon
Grove; Demand for Orange Groves; Sweet
LOCdOo Cuiuure....... 20
The Tomato in Italy; Accidental Varieties
in Plants 5000. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. &c
grapes In FlOrl0a. ............. "a
TOBACCO DEPARTM ENT - Tobacco I'm.
pOrtatiOns into iorida; Time for Growth
OF Florida Tobacco. .......... ......... 2f
FLORAL DEPARTMENT. Growing Gladi-
oil from Seed Few Good Cannas; Util
izing the Sweet Pea: National FIowers..... q
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT. Agricultural
Literature; Corn for Ensilage ............ II
HOUSEHOLD observation-disclosures
FOur-in-H and Neckties; Pin Money ~ 2.
POULTRY DEPARTMENT-Probu pro.
lfc Layers; A Big POu try Farm Prevent
ing Egg Eating: The Sitting Hen....... &c
LITERARY-Robert the Devil ..... &c
FLORIDIANA. Observation-Disclosures. q
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-04-28
Force-Feeding of Trees.

Before one of the recent meetings
of the Western New York Horticultu-
raj Society, DR.. G. c. Caldwell, of Cor
nell University, Chairman of the Com
mittee on Chemistry, in a report gave
the number of pounds of plant food
required to supply the wants of a
tree covering thirty feet square.
If barn yard manure were applied,
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-04-28

farming is becoming more a subject
of study and science, and the appli
cation of the knowledge gained, re-
duced to practice is of untold worth
to the farmers. If thoroughly under
stood there need be no guess-work
Reasoning and close calculation are
better. They tighten the labor and
increase the products.
ut must be borne in mind, that, as
scientific investigation has advanced
in modern times, it has brought its
contributions to agriculture from a
great variety of sources, each of
which brings something peculiar to
ITSELF
Chemistry has explained the COM
position Of soils and manures. Botany
has solved the mysteries of plant
growth. Vegetable and animal physi-
ology have lent invulnerable aid;
geology, mineralogy, and indeed, all
the sciences, have done their share,
and the farmer has only to use the
knowledge so lavishly thrown out be-
fore him.
There is no better way to keep our
boys on the farm and make them love
their work than to keep the home
well supplied with agricultural liter
allure. They will begin to read and
get interested, and soon you will see
them OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES theories
and experiences of others, and soon
from being interested they become
and success crowns their
efforts. 1t is sure to give them a love
for their work, love for the farm
and a love for their home.
Then let us see to it that we have
a generous supply of agricultural lit
for it will infuse into every
of the family q deeper love
for rural pursuits, and a pride and
in the knowledge that it
has elevated the farmer in the social
scale, given his occupation the char
acter and dignity of an intellectual
pursuit, and introduced him to a COM
mon brotherhood with men of cul-
ture, science and social position. And
so it should be, agriculture is the
mother of us all. Agriculture feeds,
to great extent it clothes us; with
out it we should not have manufac-
turers, we should not have commerce.
They all stand together like pillars in
a cluster, the largest in the center,
and that largest is Agriculture
Gro,oo T,11;+
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-04-28
What is FertilitYp

liable paper read at Farmers lnsCl
tute, in Rushville, Illinois, by M. w
| Greer. In answer to the proposition
How shall we maintain the fertility
of the farm? he said in part: 'In re-
gard to maintaining the fertility Of
presupposes the idea that such 6
thing is possible, and just here 1 re-
mark experience has demonstrated
that it is not only possible to main
tain, but even increase, the fertility
of our farms, and by a judicious ano
proper course of treatment and man.
agement hand them down to future
generations in at least as good condi
ton as when we received them, and
thus demonstrate that in this respect
at least, we have been faithful stew
ards of the trust committed to our
keeping.
"The first question which presents
itself is what do we mean by the
term fertility of SOIL to which I an
swer, possession of and power to fur
nish plant food, because it is suf-
ficient of itself that the soil shall sim
ply be in possession of the different
elements, chemicals and substances
upon which plants feed, but it is es-
sentially necessary that these shall
I'll bo ~, c,,ob condition, DC m bo rood
lily taken up and made available by
the growing plant.
'To illustrate: Experience has
demonstrated that bone meal is a
very valuable fertilizer and great
stimulator of plant growth, especially
beneficial to the wheat plant, and yet
we might scatter tons of dry bones
over the surface of an acre of ground
and still the growing crop receive not
one particle of benefit therefrom.
"Now it is a principle well under
stood in the business of farming that
exhaustion of the soil, or reduced fer
tility, simply means that these differ
ent elments upon which plants de-
pend for their growth have been re-
moved from the soil by the contin-
ued cropping of the same.
81 have an old German friend who
says some very sensible things in
rather an awkward way, and upon
one occasion, in speaking of field of
corn that had not come up to his ex-
pectations, explained it all by saying
he guessed the corn juice was all out
of the ground
"Now it makes no differnce by
what name we call it; we may speak
of it as the richness of the SOIL or we
may apply the names which science
and chemistry have given to these diff
ferent elements and speak of them as
the nitrogen, the ammonia, and the
phosphoric acids, the potash and al
kalies, or adopt the more homely eX-
preston of my friend, and refer to it
as the Juice; yet the fact remains
that if these have been removed from
the soil the fertility has been reduced
to that extent, and in order to main
tain the former condition system Of
restitution must be adopted; and if
we succeed in restoring as much as
has been removed we maintain the
fertility, and more than that tends to
tho
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WEDNESDAY,, APRIL %, 1897
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-04-28
FLORIDA AGRICULTURIST

Pub ished every Wednesday and devoted to the
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her people.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-04-28
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Entered at the postof1ce at DeLand, Florida
as Second Class matter,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-10-31

I back until bell rings AS you do this
! the iron cover closes and locks over
! the writing tablet. Now you draw for
ward the big lever until a, bell rings
AS YOU do this. a duplicate of your
writing. on separate slip of paper. is
slipped out of the machine at the left
hand side and upon this paper is i'm
printed also the postofiee date marks,
the serial number of the letter and the
signature of the postmaster. This is
your receipt. Your original writing re-
mains in the box until the letters are
removed. and then it goes with them.
At the same time that your receipt is
printed the letter is dated.
The next thing is to get the letter
to the postoffice without giving the let
ter carrier a chance to tamper with
either the letters or the originals of
the receipts. The box has a hopper
bottom SO constructed that it can be
opened only when the mail bag is at
tached to it. The mail bag can't be
opened, either, except in conjunction
with the hopper or at the postofhce.
names and addresses drops into the
bag with the letters.
The dimes fall into a brass cylinder
in the order in which they are dropped
into the machine. and the postman. if
he finds q bad one, can tell at once. by
running them over in order, which let
ter it belongs to. Such a letter will be
held and its sender notified to pay the
postage in good coin and get his bad
coin back
Aside from this, the machine is con-
structed to throw out bad coins if they
are under weight. When the coin first
drops into the slot it goes into a deli
cate balance, where it is weighed. If
it is too much worn to be current the
scale rejects it, and instead of passing
into the machine and starting the post
ing operations, the coin drops out of a
hole in front of the machine and falls
on the floor.
The inventor says he has spent three
years in perfecting the machine
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-10-31
A BISON DRIVE IN KANSAS.
How the Fifteenth Kansas Cavalry Surrounded Ten
Thousand Buffalo.

Topeka Correspondence Kansas City
Star: On the 10th Of June, 1865. there
appeared as paid advertisement in the
Leayenworth Daily conservative, and
-MoIS vi uldoJ Sulll7S p7lnGldl5Ip sBM
l9elqns qua no aIu2BIs9H eIqBIep!suoo
4usuas!4IsApR sEq4 OF Uon!ppe VI
'peueo
2IIemdod seM Al Sc ..'IEeduoo 9Illeo
ue9ld7u0 1G0IS eQl.. 10 snl05dsoId PUG
eu1eQas qua 'suI!l suoI 2 IoJ Sununuoo
ing colors the advantages, peepniary
and otherwise. to be had by becoming.
an early and liberal investor in the
stock OF the company
This happened at time when a large
number cf volunteer soldiers were
being mustered out of the service and
undoubtedly WAS intended to draw the
attention of such adventurous spirits
as were not yet ready to settle down TO
the ordinary pursuits Of civil life.
Following W2s the advertisement:
Hoi FOR A BUFFALO DRIVE!
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-10-31
WORTH AN EXPERIMENT.

There was a diversity Of opinion
among the officers as TO the practical
bHity of the enterprise, but all agreed
that il was worth trying, as it would
furnish plenty Of excitement and break
the monotony Of the march-that at
any rate it would be something to talk
about. At that time there were not so
many subjects of conversation as at
present. The all absorbing and vital
question of gold standard. dollar wheat
government by injunction, prosperity
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-10-31

New York Sun: The latest develop
ment of the slot machine is an inyen-
ton designed to make every person his
own registered letter clerk and to
/ facilitate the forwarding of registered
/ mail. Three of the machines we're
/ placed IN position yesterday, one in
| the registry division of the general
! postoffice, one in an alcove of the lobby
of the Equitable building and one in
the branch postoftice at Forty-second
/ street and Park avenue. The use of
these three machines has been san
ctioned by the postmaster general, and
under his orders they are to have a
six weeks trial. What may happen
after that is conjecture merely. but the
assumption of the inventor of the ma
chine is that if it's work is satisfactory,
1t Will be adopted as a regular adjunct
to the poStoffice system.
While the machines are being put to
their official test an agent of the post
office is to be in constant attendance at
each. He will explain the working of
the machine to the public and see that
no one hampers with the mail.
The charge for registering a letter is
5 cents in addition to the regular let
ter postage. The machine makes the
same charge, assuming that a single
2-cent stamp is sufficient for the
regular postage. Under the law a let
ter prepaid by one 2-cent stamp must
be forwarded and any extra postage
collected at the other end.
To work the machine, you drop sill
YER United States dime into spout at
the upper right hand side. a square
iron cover flies I'D automatically and
reveals a roll of white paper. opposite
certain lines you write the name and
address of the person to whom your
letter is to be sent and your own name
and address. At the right hand upper
end of the machine is a small lever.
You press this back and the letter slot
in front opens and into this you drop
your letter. Then you seize the handle
of big crank at the right and force it
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-10-31
SALTLAKE & OGDEN RAILWAY c,

Daily time table IN effect Sept. 20.
Leave Arrive Leave Arrive
Salt Lake. Farming Farming Salt Lake.
ton q La tol & La
coon. COON.
200 a. N. 7.40 a. m 500 a. m. $40 a. m
900 a. m. $40 j. m. 1000 a. m. 1O:4O a. m.
600 p. m. $40 p. m. 100 p. IN. 40 D. M m.
Additional Sunday trains:
Leave Salt Lake II a. m. and / d. m
Leave Lagoon. 1900 m and p. m.
Keep your eye on Lagoon Watch for
the new and startling features. Visit the
menagerie.
SIMON BAMBRRGER, H. w. EARLY.
Gen Manager. Passenger Agent.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-10-31

You buy the best when you pur-
chase Hewlett Bros Three Crown
triple havoring extracts.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-08-11
MARINE NEWS.

PORT GAMBLE. Avs ia--Arrfye9; Schr
Mary e Russ. Capt Rasmussen. eighty
days from Guatemala.
H0QTIAN. Aug. a.-~Safied for san
Francisco. schr ruby A. Cousins. from
Hoquiam. and schr Fanny Adele, from
Aberdeen.
Special Dispatch to the observation-disclosures
PORT TOWNSEND. Aug, la.-~Arrsved;
Chilean bark Elisa. frcm West Coast. 20
load lumber ~ Chesnaaflus Cor Valparaiso.
schr Glendale. TO load lumber AZ What
CON for San Francisco. schr Sea[ios, TO
load lumber at Port Gamble for Hila,
II. Il sChr Mary =. Russ. to load luniber
at Port Gamble for San Francisco. Sailed !.
Schr Salvador. with humber from Ballard
fer San Pedro. German biz Arthur f1tges,
lanl@r from Port Blaksley fer United
Kingdom. Tug Pioneer with the barges
AJAX and BiaS fl taw for bysa and
Skasuay, will be gone about twenty days.
and this tug Holyoks. which leaves Seai;ss
today with the W. X. Aerwtn and W. J.
Bryant in tow for Sc. Michaels. viii not
be back inside OF forty days.
SOUTH BEND. Aug. io-SArrlved Asg.
?. Schr Falcon, hence July y.
PORT BLAKELEY. Aug. ie,-Sailsd
Aug. =: Schr q. W. Watson. for Newport.
HUENEMEi. Aug. fA-Arrivet Aug. 9.
Schr Fanny Dusars. from Port nlske'ey.
SHANGHAI. Aug. 10. - Satlsd July IS:
Br ok Belmont. for Port Townsend.
SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. !A-Arr1vsd.
Str City OF puebla Victoria and Sound.
Departed; Str washtaIaw, Tacoma, str
ATcasa. Coos bay.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-08-11


LONDON. Aug m-Conscss. - ISIS
Silxsr. Per ounce. nd
new YORK Aug A-The Evening
There ~As general setback on tn. uasr-
kess On the prcSrsrt % 3ea-er mercy TO
yolaow Withdrawals % bar go56 from the
Bank Of England. Tsaay's Withdrawals
came as = Surprise II being tire frs. sale
q bars al the bark here far months A
considerable amount CT gold viii 20 10
Austria There Il no actual arrangement
Tor gold shipments to the United States.
but Inquiries in tha, direction have been
ux<ze- 4 feature Of note IS the rise or con-
urensa exchange ~ Isoysicr. Americans
E2Ct9sted widely today. In ADDITION ts
the esocfa Of shares actually shipped TO
New York, dealers are carrying enormous
lines here Contau gces On Milwaukee and
ST. Paul were cniy r~r cent After =
period OK duliness Americans are good
and are the most promising market
Canadian Pacific ana the leading spe-
cialties were bought from Berlin ksf-
frs were quiet. 4 sharp advance Ia con-
tinensai sterling rates attends the rise IN
London discounts. Large offers OF for
ward business on American bits arc made
but there e a tendency 70 choke OF this
business by quoting kath< rates IN LoE-
DOR
TEE Paris and Berlin markets were fsrm.
1readssuaa.
LIVERPOOL Aug .a-whaaf. firm.
carroes OF coast. firm. carxoes On passa ge,
rather firmsr, English country markets.
quiet: French country markets. firm /.
wheat m Paris firm; -four in Paris. cyTa.
Weather In England overcast
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-08-11
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
Transactions Since january I and
for Yesterday.


for Yesterday.
Real estate transactions since January I.
1896. are 81. s5s.si. There were n,ea for
record yesterday deeds. axgsegating
S,ssssa Following Is a lis: furnished by
the Seattle abstract Company. room AID
New York block.
County Of King 10 United States. ppty in
cluded IN Military post site. july IS. 81:
VIM. u. simpson ct TX 10 -. O. Esh-
ad.. July -. H.sS3.
ShT to seawaeaeher Bros.. lets 10 II.
blk Y. Barkes md Al. Angus, :, $3.50.
81, shs Z s;,; John 5 sur, s;;s ST. o,s e IL
Mondays Transfers.
shY 10 Eliza y. Dodge. e !. ne sec 4 70
. rk - acres. June 2. E.5sa.
Shn 10 Frank Hagsrman. James l..
Lombard and Sanford r. fAxdd. trustees.
lots II 10 10 and 80 Sc sec ., ~ Fl. 5. lots
SIM 10 5o... Neisea. sw - and lots /
and :. seq Is. ~ :. r I. 7s.fs a, August 2.
Albert NJ. Steele TO George n. stewart.
lots to s. blk IS y. :. Maynar1s plat.
August 5. q. C.. $4,000.
Mathew Koran 10 ". NJ. Desmond.
lot and Sc ne SEQ 5. IL Is. :. 7a.so acres
May Is. x2ssl
chas. s. Tilton to Hegry Langenhaeher.
lot 2. blk I, Gilman Park. July - $50
SNn 70 herman sszStHES am Loan so
cie,y. lot I, blk u. Borsn 4 Denny pi1s.
August e. 334.sflia
Shit 10 same. tract on " side Of From.
st. on which is situated the Seattle SAFE
s ssgs''' ana rla'' CO BIOS August : S.,
Watson H. Brown 10 Peter Heszer lot
l. blk A. Hamhiets Acre Gardens July
g t2st
Emily Inez Denny 10 8 r. Paddock.
lots and T. Blk IS. repla, blks /. !. 81. ID.
"a aud %. y. Seattle. July e ss6.
Geo r Assss "a TX TO Michael Noon. lots
s. g. q and II. blk II. Renioa fflii al. Aa-
gus. :, SO
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-08-11

sae market which was given In The morn
20 TIE reelgeratien MAS sEsss-sd IN tbs
rssss1 p &c ssslsng ssr l.esadSn ascsgns u
was fne sarss&xhfly settlement sr delivery
9AE On the I<onGnn sxchangg- The bElset
nA1 frssatlest IN sar,se minds that the re-
.or Short account. ard that Ire settlement
Eo1s1 disclose IRE fact II an increased
cena-a 20 cover shortx.
ecntrsry to the expectation % his
eAss, Lor'so2 scsd all tie International
Secs rerg fressy. with the exception %
eoIlrM the impression tina. foreign cAps-
1855 have really been fsqus.atsrx Their
holdings % American securities on q <ery
arse scale TIE only sy-rfcm Of the ex-
tsss.ce Of any short interest u Londcn
vas some demand 20 hcr-ow stocks here
g TIE Prsssn, representatives Of Lscsaaon
interests Tie d.srsxara ot she stock
MARKET ELECTS az IonGon's attitude by
&c rally here vas all the more marked
ay further decline IN sssrsiax exchange
on posted rates 30 ssSfs and s. 81 fer
isss-x AMI snort respectively, and 81 actual
rates % A-At and ASs fer icrg and
periods hardened p~rreptihly. and this in
vste1 sen,e selling % sterling bills FOR
future Use. the proceeds being put into
aAns Discount hardened in London. AID
tners was active bidding there for gold.
Crop prospects,. reports Of foreign crop
shortages and the accompanying rise IN
sne wheat market ali continued faycra Eis
70 tha advance in the price Of stocks rs
cid further reports Of current railroad
earnings
The sosa. decline was more than rreov-
cred in all stocks. but the net gains ex-
tend 20 point for only . few shares The
Use from the lowest exceeded q point IN
All % tia Changers. 4 recovery Of over
q point also occurred In very many az
sae Western and Southwestern railways.
as we'll as IN soYns cf the leading South
ern railroads. a large number of in
dussriais and s.>-ciAlsies. Including a large
number OF the anthracite coal reads, are
IN the same category.
The bond market gave decided evidence
OF strength On liberal purchases, which
advanced SONS Of the prona,nen. issues
notably business was ia considerable vol
oEne. but the aggregate showed cnrst3-
srahse shrinkage from yesterdays total
The total transactions were s. 4Ea
trading In government bonds was feat
nred by the sale OF q block of $50 90 at
the new coupon A. the market ruled
heavy. With sight shading In quotations
at the close.
Money ana Exchange
Money on call easy at l<fii. per cent ::
prime mercantile paper. per cent. Ster-
bankers hills a. s4Sss ~ 81. for demand
rates, A.GnA Ssk Commercial bills 81 81
Silver certificates-No quotation. Bar sill
yer, 5sAxc- Mexican dollars, i2src Govern
uent bonds weak. State bends dull. Rail-
road bonds strong.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-08-11

bz< the wa-.et halls n strcrg -sossssoSs
3-S there Is 10 difficulty II making sales.
y-a~stss~s TrseeS are rot held too hsEA-
Fleece seois are quoted GE-re- AL aiurx
the line. ard ksz- few Sases are recorded
Territory waoss ara selling az Sc fcx rs1e
ard Eiesssarz. SECURED Australian woc1z
aas3 firm ard prices aye gradually being
wwrsssx higher
ard @ra. s@8f4rs secured asessss. staple.
SC &c. Utah, Wyoming. etc. tire medium
au1 sres ti@iSc. secured. exc staple. -
sysS.-
Australian. sc7xsred basis, Gambling
s1pern1s, Ez-e. eenshsag. A95scs comb
t7g, &$51r, Queensland cg-ahzng. SO &C.