The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1897-09-03
on TEE a.az7 TRACE

oriental Msils. ciira Ria -The Only Dne o.
it. Kind in the state Manufactures ard Pre-
tarss Hl,ea Meal and Csriis. Cora B;an. Ground
Feed Meal. Also Crouud Cotton seed f5F Fer
tliize4. We also Sin cotton. usisg The best MA
chinery that modern mechanism can invent.
We want 10 flsfy yoas co,tou cotton seed corn n
the ear and peanuts. All correspondence
promptly answered. Address, oriental Mills,
cit1a. Fla.--Ad. IN Ocaia Banner
To the Ediior II tie Banner
That's the talk. That's the talk.
That's talk with the bark on. That's
what like. That's what we want,
for there's something in it.
There's pith ia it; also meat for the
body and food for reflection. Il is the
first streak of the dawn proceeding he
brilliant rays Of coming prosperity
Prosperity likes compliments OF that
kinda little more gallantry, and she
will come tripping along your streets
like a beyy ~ young bellies with their
spring clothes on. Now, brother
farmer, help this thing along. and
give it both your moral and material
support. Don't buy any more shipped
meal. Thanks to kind Providence,
We have had the best corn growing
season | have ever seen in Florida,
and all who have taken advantage of
it have corn for their own bread and
to spare. Take it to Citra aud have il
ground and bolted and you can have
better meal than you can buy, and you
viii know what you are eating.
That's what am going to do and
keep doing, til Mr. Taylor or some
one else puts IN a bolting cloth.
hear some one say. why it j.
twenty miles from your home to Cit
ra." What Of it? | have known
farmers ia Kansas and Nebraska to
haul corn and wheat 100 miles to mill,
be gone a week and camp out every
night, and in weather 30 cold that but
few people in Florida have any con-
ception Of X, When they could not
do this they made samp. Do you
know what -amp is? Why it il
cracked wheat or corn boiled in milk,
with other condiments. and when
made right q sEeeteF or more palata
bic dish was never eaten.
But / wont have to haul my corn
any further than Ocala, two miles,
ship it 10 Citra by rail and have it re-
turned to me next day.
don't know who is at the head Of
this enterprise, but want to bid them
Cod speed, and beg them not to stop
at ginning cotton, out look into the
matter and satisfy themselves in re-
gard to the pr0fitabl euess of spinning
the cotton. Il has 10 he spun-spin-
dies will make just a. many reyolu-
There is money in spinning cotton;
why not save that money that goes to
the foreign spinner and give u more
for our cotton? Another thing-add
a rice hulIer: encourage the farmer to
raise rice by offering to buy all they
will raise. Still another-put in wool
cardiug and spinning machinery;
talk to your people about railing
sheep; you have splendid country
around Citra for raising sheep. There
Is big money in wooden yarn. We
need but little Of it here in Florida,
but there are millions upon millions
of people outside of Florida who not
only need H. but must have it. The
product of one season is generally
used up the following winter and has
to be re-supplied the next, and 50 on
to the next. Florida's chief product
ought to be wool, for there's more
money in It, with less labor and ex-
peuse, than anything else.
Nov, Mr.. Editor prosperity for
Cita may not be prosperity for Ocala,
for if Citra goes into all these things
she will encroach on what Ocala has
always considered her trade. Trade
once diverted IS never regaineG.
Ocala must be up aud stirring or she
may regret it.
Prosperity wont come y waiting
for it. You must 60 after it.
CHAs. W. CAMPBELL.
NJ