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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-11-24

No. 1.-Twenty acres of fine land just
inside the city limits Of Ft. Meade, the
great tobacco section of South Florida.
Price $50 per acre: Address No. l. Agri-
No 2.-Partner wanted with 1,5OO cash:
Will sell half interest in 220 acres of
land suitable for tobacco growing,
orange raising or vegetable raising. Will
spend the entire $1,000 on the place, put
ting in tobacco and caring for the grove.
No. 3.-For Sale-Thirty acres of good
pine land joining the town of Umatilla,
on the St. J. & L. e. r. R., in Lake Co.
Price $780,
na Lake Co. eeared a and cuti HeS
Altoona is on the ST. J. & L. e. r. r.
t'fice $780,
NO 5.-For Sale-Thirty- acres of
valuable land with about 1000 orange
trees, the greater part OF which have
per acre. This is a bargain. Arrange
ments can be made to have the property
cared for and cultivated at reasonable
price. Transportation facilities are good
"a dock may be built on the premises if
desired.
No 6-For Sale-Two hundred and
ninety acres of land near Oak Hill sta
ton, on the Florida East Coast Railroad.
There is an extensive grove of wild
orange trees on this land, and a small
outlay for budding and transplanting
will largely enhance the value of the
property. Price $50 per acre
No. For Sale-Three acres Of land
on public road one mile from store and
pOstoffice on st. Johns river. A good
three room house on the lot. Will sell
cheap
For further information regarding
Florida Agriculturist Exchange.
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No. 8.-For Sale-Hawkinsville on the
st. Johns river, 10 acres of orange grove,
Cbuds and seedlings), 10 acre garden
cleared, five room plastered house, store
warehouse and packing house. .Artesian
, we'll 1870 feet, deep. AS much wild land as
No 9-For Sale-16O acres pine and
scrub land, public road runs through it;
two miles from store, postoffice, and
river landing. Price s. 81 per acre.
scrub and fiatwoods good stock range.
No. 11.-For Sale-7,OOO acres Of land,
ten dwellings,, hotel. store building, office
building, barns, saw mill, bearing and
non-bearing orange groves, farming
lands now in crops, pine and cypress
TIMBER NIB Just STU the = place for 6 c9lony
Let's swap: A quarter section of the
finest farming land in Kansas. 100 acres
of as rich soil as ever laughed at the
tickling of the farmers pillow. It is To-
Gated as follows: The southeast one
quarter of section nineteen, township 81
south and range 80 west Seward county
in the state of Kansas. This handsome
quarter section is in the richest portion
of the southwest corner of Kansas. It
is perfectly clear of all incumbrance. No
improvements. Will trade for Florida
farm land or groves or will sell for cash
on easy terms. For full particulars ap-
ply to JOHN PEABODY, Ozona, Hills
NO A-Pineapple plantation on east
side of Indian River, for $780, on easy
terms. Contains 8 acres with river
rights, and runs to within 500 feet of the
ocean,. One of the most healthy Call the
year, locations on the river.
above described properties address
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-11-24

to be most deficient and what kind CT
fertilizer is it likely to require first?
(4) To what kind of crops does it
seem best adapted?
While chemical analysis cannot
definitely answer everything in con-
nection with the above queries, still it
can aid very much in solving all such
problems, and, together with a physl-
cal analysis, can contribute much val
liable information along all such lines.
Bulletin 43 Florida Experiment Sta
ton.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-11-24
The Value of a Chemical Analysis

There is probably no one subject in
connection with their profession, that
is so little understood by farmers gen.
orally, as that of the real value to be
attached to a chemical ANALYSIS of a
soil. Indeed, I may say, that there is
scarcely question that is the subject
of so much discussion and disagree
ment, even among the agricultural
chemists of the country, as that of the
real Importance to be attached to such
an analysis.
One line of authorities, headed by
DR.. Hilgard, the Director of the CAL
ifornia Experiment Station, relies
most strongly upon such an analysis,
while others, of perhaps equal prom
inence, at least in other lines, do not
place so much reliance upon it. All
agree, however, that something is to
be gained by a careful chemical study
of soil. Even those who do not
agree wholly with Hilgard, concede
that, whilst chemical analysis fails
to indicate the exact degree of avail
ability of soil constituents, it will at
least reveal the approximate total
quantity of the several constituents
present therein, and in thus indicat-
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-11-24
Pears.

Floridians have found out in very
recent years that pears should be
placed in the list of profitable fruit
crops for this section. Their produc>
tiveness upon the sandy pine-wood
lands of Florida proves the fallacy of
the claim that clay sub-soil is essen
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-11-24

"up" to it, at your afternoon teas. put
a sweet picked or branded fig on a
delicate dish beside a dish of ice
cream, and your friends will all come
again.
w. A. Emmons: In West Florida it
is the most profitable fruit we have,
We have difficulty in the young trees
being blown down; after they come
up and after they get through one
winter, they are all right. I believe
l am safe in saying there are trees in
my neighborhood that yield five bush
els of figs, very delicious.
DR.. Kerr: T believe figs to be a
fruit very beneficial but I rise to cor,
rect an error made by my friend. He
spoke of the different ways of prepar-
ing them, but must make little OBJ
lection to his manner of preparing the
cordial preparation. He says that it is
branded, and then he goes on as a
layman to tell the members of the So
ciety its benefits looking around
[ find good many troubled with their
liver, and they will all imagine ri ght
away they will need some of this cor
dial. Now he has impressed many
people with the benefits of this "cor-
dial" Remember it is not the fig that
is going to do any good, it is the "cor-
diaP' without the fig There are Ii
quors that when taken into the stom-
ach destroy the pepsin, the active
principle of the gastric juices in the
stomach, and produce Indigestion. I
don't want him to get this cordial in,
troduced into the Horticultural Socie-
ty.
Mr.. Hart: AS evidence of the vital
tenacity of the fig, these trees Mr.. Ba,
con speaks of as having seen on top
of the shell mounds at New Smyrna,
one was brought here in the year 1865
or about that time by DR.. TurnbulPs
wife, who was native of Old SMYRNA
in Asia Minor, and it has been grow
ing there ever since until last wear
when a part of the mound was dug
down. I have known that tree for
twenty-five years, and 7 never vet
have known it fail to give a crop. We
have other trees, some very much larg.
er than that, on other mounds, some
of immense proportions for fig trees,
all healthy. They seem to take espec.
tally to the high shell mounds near
the salt water. They grow as rapidly
on some lower ground where there is
no shell-From Annual Report State
Horticultural Society.
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ing either the sufficiency or deficiency
of the several soil essentials, it proves
itself very helpful to the agriculturist
even though it does fail to show the
exact degree of availability of a single
soil constituent. 1t must be conceded
that, if it does this only, chemical
analysis is of sufficient importance to
warrant it's being undertaken, for, ii
it can tell farmer that his soil con-
tains sufficient quantity of one ele-
ment, and is probably entirely lacking
in another, it at least affords him a ra-
tional basis for in ugurating a series
of practical soil-test experiments with
fertilizers that will enable him to an
swer the question definitely and thus
save himself the risk of purchasing
and applying certain fertilizers ON a
particular soil that are not needed by
it and that would prove useless ex-
penditure if applied.
| 1t will be seen that the weak point
in an analysis is that, while it reveals
what a soil actually contains and in
what proportions the several constit-
uents are present, it does not state
with absolute accuracy just how much
of that plant food is in an available
form, /. e., in form suited for plant
assimila ton. This is an important
matter, for, other things being equal
the actual productiveness of any sol,
will depend, not so much upon the to-
tai amount of plant food it contains
as upon the proportion of that food
which is in an available form. And
until it is possible for an analysis to
reveal, with much accuracy, the de-
gree of availability of any plant food
essential, it cannot be said that chem
zeal methods are entirely perfected
and capable of furnishing information
in all respects satisfactory. 1t is en-
courag ing to note that many chemists
are, at the present time, engaged In
in view, and encouragement that they
are meeting with is all that could be
desired. There is strong reason for
hoping that, in the very near future.
methods will be devised that will place
chemical soil analysis beyond the
pointwhere it's practical utility can be
questioned, even by the most preju-
diced. 1t frequently happens that
when soils are barren their failure tC
produce is due to the presence of GER
tain poisonous substances, such as sui
phate or sulphide of iron. When such
is the case, a chemical analysis will
reveal the fact and chemistry will
provide remedy.
Sometimes a soil contains an eXces-
sive amount of certain soluble salts
such as sodium chloride Common salt)
and where they occur in excessive
amounts it is known that they seri-
ously interfere with it's productive
capacity. A chemical analysis will
readily detect this defect and it can
be quickly remedied by drainage and
irri cation. And if a soil is deficient
in any important element of plant
food, a chemical analysis, as has been
said, will reveal the fact, and chem
istry will prescribe the form of fer
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ASriCulturiSt Exchange.

This department to assist subscribers dispose of
they
furnish such information about the State
sending list making
stamps be of
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1897-07-24

During the maneuvers Of the
troops at Aldershot and elsewhere II
good deal Of superstition has of ne
cessity "come in." Sometimes, for
the purpose Of instruction, bodies of
stationary troops have been merely
indicated, and amusing incidents
have now and again resulted. On
one occasion a young officer charged
down upon an apparently isolated
man on the opposite force. The
man made no attempt to escape, but
stood quietly holding long staff
with a board nailed thereon,
"You're my prisoner" said the
officer with the body Of cavalry.
beg pardon, SIR" returned tbs
isolated enc, I'm brigadeI"
Fortunately there was no umpirs
looking just then, so the body OF
cavalry rapidly headed for a less
dangerous part OF the country, while
the ''brigade" was left grinnin8
acknowledgements Weekly.
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side of the miners, but that is a
very small factor in the result.
"God," said Napoleon once, lis
always on the side of the strong
est battalions,' which some
modern philosopher has para
phrased by saying, he is usually
ION the side of the largest
purse We doubt if either
Napoleon the Great, or our
modern Napoleons of finance are
sufficiently acquainted with the
deity to know anything about
his whereabouts but there
seems to be no doubt that he
sometimes permits the people on
the right side to get dreadful
drubbing for the purpose of
sprouting a little common sense
in their brain boxes. The moral of
this is that when men learn the
utter inability of industrial war
fare their minds will be in a
better condition to appreciate
the beauties of cooperation.
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hard, and we sincerely ..hope that
that will be the disposition of every
union where they exist and try to
make their influence felt.
Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly

A special fiction number is
Frank Leslie's Popular Month
ly for August. There are Z COM
plete stories all illustrated and
all are bright and clever, the
one by Margret F. Sangster
being particularly noticeable
for it's sweet simplicity. But
the number is not given up en-
tirely to fiction. There is an
attractively illustrated paper
entitled "A Grandee of the
Fields" in which Martha Nc
Culloch- Williams chats enter
tainingly of tobacco, it's history
and cultivation. The univer-
sity of Virginia is the subject
of an article by Richard Heath
Dabney, forming the tenth
paper in this magazines popu-
lar series on American Univer-
sites and Colleges ; it is illus
trated with good portraits and
views. Harvey Rowell de-
scribes "Summer Logging in
Wisconsin" there is a most in
teresting account of a visit to
Japan, under the title I'm the
Land of the Mikado," by DR.. J.
Simms, with capital half-tone
cuts; Colonel Alexander E.
Sweet tells of an exciting Ger
man student duel of which he
was witness "Beasts of
Burden" is the subject of an
article by the well-known trav-
eler-author, Frederick A. ODER;
the department for young peo-
pie contains story, paper on
stam-pcollecting, and the con-
tinuation of Horatio Alger's
serial. Then there are illus
trated poems, talks about
books, comments on pictures,
and the Leslie Portfolio Frank
Leslie's Publishing House,
New York. ...
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1897-07-24
A Few um n er Excursions.
Via the North Western Line.

Via the North Western Line.
San Francisco, Cal, meeting of Y.
P.S. C. E. One way tickets on sale
June 20 to July 3rd, $1,000. :..
Nashville, Tenn. Tennessee Cen
tennial. Round trip tickets on sale
daily, $43.30.
Minneapolis-St. Paul. Annual
meeting Grand Lodge B. p. ..
Elks. Round trip tickets on sale
July and 6, $3.50.
Milwaukee, Wis.,, N. E. A. Round
trip tickets on sale July 3, 4, 5, $3.50.
Buffalo, N. Y. G. A. r. August
81 and %. Rates to be announced
later 80
Besides the above mentioned ex-
cursions, summer tourist tickets to
Colorado, and to the summer resorts
in general are on sale daily until
Oct. 18th, at greatly reduced rates.
For tickets and information call on
your local agent or address. B. w.
Summers, Agent, 4O5 West Superior
Street. Duluth. tt
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1897-07-24
Victims of the Bosporus.

V1CC1mo on tho 0OopO10ss
Richard Davey, in his book, 1.-THE
Sultan and His Subjects, says:
1.-THE stories which have become
20 widespread in Europe of the
Wholesale drowning of ladies of the
seraglio in the Bosporus are not
very greatly exaggerated. We have
no less than three well authenticated
cases in which as many as between
200 and 800 have been sent to the
bottom Of the sea, tied up in the
traditional sack. These terrible ex~
eoutions usually occurred after some
conspiracy to depose or murder one
or the other of the sultans. Sultan
Mahmud II caused all the women
Of his brother Mustapha's harem to
be drowned in a similar manner.
Even in these days it is easy enough
in Turkey to get rid of troublesome
wives and slaves without fear Of de-
lection, tor no man, not even an in
spector Of police. may enter any
harem on any pretext nor inquire
as to what has taken place within it,
unless he is actually called in by
the master of the house."
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1897-07-24

Agent Fullerton, of the state
game and fish commission, says
no attempt has been made for a
year to enforce the game laws in
Itasca county. The mayor of
Grand Rapids and the member
of the legislature from that
county-both hotel keepers are
in league with the violators OF
the law and regularly supplied
their guests with the contra
band goods, says Mr.. Fullerton.
"And, ofcourse," he might have
added, "the state of Minnesota
doesn't make laws to be enforced
against such prominent citi-
zens."
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1897-07-24

Some trusts are worse than
Others, but there can be no
trust worse than one which
seeks to mislead the young mind
in it's earliest searches after know
ledge. The misery occasioned by
wrong views of life and it's re-
lations are not confined to the
immediate time and place where
acquired, nor to the persons
misled. They unconsciously
mould the whole future life and
make the influence of the one
thus cnfeited a perpetual source
of poisonous IDEAS
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1897-07-24

DR.. George A. Gates, presi-
dent of Iowa College in a
pamphlet entitled "a Foe to
American Schools" makes a
powerful attack on the school
book trust that is showing it's
hand in 80 many of our public
schools. He declares that it's
methods are made up of "brib-
cry, cajolery, threats, promises
and political intrigue;;' and
depending on these influences
rather than merit, it is palning
off on the victimized public in
ferior publications, prepared by
venal and prejudiced agents of
corrupt influences, for the pur-
poses of poisoning the springs
of intelligence at their primal
source. And the worst of it is
it's methods are succeeding,
for out of the 100000 worth
of school books annually pur-
chased in this country, the
trust sells at least 100000
worth. Is it any wonder that
the fundamental principles of
representative government are
breaking down, and that ignor-
ance, prejudice and corruption
have undisputed sway in al
most every department of mod
ern life?
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1897-07-24
Scientific CuttlnE.

Mem of science sometimes make
extraordinary demands upon the
skill of instrument makers. An in
te1esting illustration is furnished
by the instrument called the micro
tome, the purpose Of which is to cut
excessively thin slices or sections
of various substances, such as ami
NAL or vegetable tissues, for micro
scopic examination. Microtomes
have recently been invented which,
it is claimed. can cut successive Sec
lions each only one twelve-thou-
sandth of an inch thick. The edge
of the knife which makes such outs
appears perfectly smooth and
straight when magnifed 10 times
youths Companion.
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We have heard a good deal ir

we HdVc ucdIu d SOOu uCd1 LII
years about calamity
vlers" and the term is sup
.sed to describe industrial re-
rmers of all conditions and
grades from the free silver re-
publican to the PHILOSOPHERS!
anarchist. But ifyou want to
hear a real, genuine calamity
howl-a howl that is a howl and
one that would shame a dozen
coyotes-just say something
about equitable taxation to a
millionaire mine owner. One
lid think, from the protests
raise1 when the commissioners
proposed to put up the assess
ments of the iron mines in St.
Louis county to where they
would be on a like footing with
the rest of the property in the
county, that some of those fel-
lows in whose names the deeds
are recorded, were living on thin
air and fricassed water, and got
only one meal a day at that.
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$25-Round Trip-$25.

Via D. S. S. & A. and Cana
dian Pacific R'ys, leaving Du-
luth at $50 P. M, July DIST.
Annual Pilgrimage to St. Anne
de Beaupre. Round trip fare
from Duluth, $25. Tickets good
to stop over at any point in
Canada. Return limit, August
31st. Tourist sleeping cars will
be run through from Duluth.
Rate from Duluth, SO.
For further particulars apply
to T. H. LARKE,
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Gangs in Unions.

The following, clipped from
the Coopers' Journal, is con-
cisely and plainly put, and
which might easily be applied
to local organizations:
"a source of perpetual turmoil
and disturbance in a union is the
existence of a gang which seeks to
run it's affairs, and dictate it's policy
upon every question, by any means
available, and wherever such
gang exists and honest men are in
the majority, they should lose no
time in sitting squarely down upon
them and their intolerable methods
Almost every union has few
chronic kickers, and some are bur-
dened by a certain crowd that hang
together and occasionally raise un-
necessary disturbance, but when
ever union is captured and run
outright by gang, or any other
undetermined aggregation, it is bet
ter off out of existence, for then
they have no chance of committing
their deeds in the name of union
of workingmen. A gang is never
on the right side of any question,
because if maintaining right was
their motive, there would be no
need of their existence, for every
man can distinguish right from
wrong, and all honest men will
work for what they believe to be
right; but it is when something is
to be done that does not SAVIOR of
uprightness or justice, that "de
gang" grows eloquent without Of
fering any satisfactory or plausible
explanation, and the surest indica-
ton of being right upon any ques-
ton or proposition that is not plain
is to be in opposition to the gang.
They betray themselves by their
inconsistency, for it is against their
principles to treat all men alike or
to support anything that WILL not
work to their advantage alone, and
whenever they propose anything
you can begin searching for the
motive, if, indeed, it is not plain
enough to be seen Immediately.
They are dangerous factor in any
labor organization, from the fact
that they never have the benefit of
the organization in view, nor will
they make their fight on open or
honorable grounds, but resort to
the lowest chicanery. Wherever
their presence is discovered fight
should be begun upon them, and
continued until they are totally
wiped out. It is of no use to try
arguments with them, for the only
available remedy is to sit squarely
down upon them, and sit down
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1897-07-24
Thew Voted For rlckinley.

In writing of the conditions of
The striking miners correspond
ent in the New York Journal
says:
[ have seen the worst of the
Chinese quarters in San Francisco,
1 have stood in the dens in Null
berry Bend, but for horrible filth
and nameless iniquity 7 never saw
the equal of these sites at Banning.
These are the mines in which Pres
ident Mckinley has an interest.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1897-07-24

The gold discoveries on the
Yokun is reviving the old con-
troversy about the eastern boun-
Diary of Alaska. This, on the
one hand, will give the lingo
gang another chance to pull the
lions tail, and on the other, will
enable the gold gamblers to
fleece a few more lambs.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1897-07-24

The coal miners strike is still
unsettled and the press reports
as conflicting as the most mis-
cellaneous batch of prevaricators
on earth know how to concoct.
No fair-1ninded man doubts for a
moment that justice is on the
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1897-07-24
Brothers In Adversity.

II discovered a gold mine," said
the forty. Inner.
II invented torpedo boat" re-
piled the genius.
Then they shook hands like BROTH
ers and pooled their capital to buy
q cheap diuner.-Detroit Free Press.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1897-07-24

And now it is said that the
senate will not confirm Powder
ly's appointment as commits
sioner of immigration. That
isn't fair. Judas got his thirty
pieces of silver and Powdcrly GER
tainly deserves equally honest
treatment.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1897-07-24
Her Choice.

''What! You cannot mean to tell
me you found the professor stupid3
Why, he knows everything"
II know he does" said the sweet
young thing, "but I'd rather talk
with some one who knows every
body. "-1udianapolls Journal
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eWespazk

my w5fs IL very peculiar wom>
an," sa{d 6omerly.
Most wives ars," replied Henry
Peek, With 8 lhuddag.-Ph11adi|
p1ie Moth Annne3c0n