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be elevated few inches. This is nee
essary ON "a railroad and race track,
but not SO on common road; yet it
is desirable, for the road should be
constructed for fast as we'll ais slow
travel. If in "a curve the road surface
is fiat, a rapidly running horses feet
strike the ground with the edges of
one side only, and he is liable to slip.
If he draws a vehicle, it's weight will
come more or less ON the inside
wheels Cor wheeD only, while the
outside ones sometimes do not touch
the ground at all. This is hard ON
road, horse and vehicle, and for that
reason the outside should he raised
more or less, depending ON the sharp
ness of the curve, to give a solid
track for every wheel and hoof. And
articles i'm wagon that is driven fast
around the curve will then remain in
place instead of trying to ''f1y off at
tangent H. E. LagergTen.
Starke, Fla.
Go be Continued).
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Tobacco Growing.

The people of Florida are walking
up to the Importance of tobacco cul-
tlrre. There its mo question of the
fact that better tobacco can be grown
in Florida than in any other state in
the Union and those who ought to
know say that leaf equal to the Ha-
vana wrapper can be produced in the
state.
Tobacco culture has for several
years received a considerable amount
of attention in Florida, but it has not
been general. lit has been mostly con-
fined to Gadsden county and it has
made that county one of the most
prosperous in the state, giving new
life to trade as we'll as affording the
farmers a profitable indus&W. The
Carban war and the scarcity of wrap
per tobacco of high grade resulting
from it is the cause of the widespread
attention that is now being given to
the industry. The farmers of Florida
can supply a product that will take
the place of the Havana leaf that has
been SO largely imported heretofore,
and the prospect now is that they will
supply it to considerable extent.
The war in Cuba drags along and
no ONE can tell when lit will end.
Those who plant tobacco in Florida
will have at least one year of freedom
from Cuban competition and may
have more. At any rate American
tobacco is protected and this will give
our grower am advantage, whether
just or unjust even after the Cuban
war ends. If as experts say our state
can produce as good tobacco as that
grown i'm Cuba the growers will al
ways find a ready market and good
prices.
I'm the past the agricultural classes
of Florida have paid too much atten-
'tion to a very few crops. This mis-
take is now being rectified. The freeze
taught our people diversified agricul-
ture and Though lit cost the state a
vast amount at the time there is
every prospect that it will ultimately
prove a blessing. The farmers of Flor
ida have not given to tobacco culture
the attention it deserved. They seem
to be at last waking UP to the oppor-
tunity they might have grasped long
ago, and through hate the interest in
the subject like all other beneficial
movements is better coming late than
coming never
The diversity that agriculture in
Florida is capable of is remarkable.
Nowhere else in the Union cam it be
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TOR SALE cheap. woodland and my second
Il grove, A. acres, set in 1881, sprouts in
fine condition, No. pine land. No healthier
location in Florida; came in 1880, doctors
gave me one year to live. JOHN WRTHERBEE,
Frnit1and.
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HOMESTEAD LANDS.-Why buy land any
III where at any price when I can locote
you on 16O acres of the best early vegetable
full sum of $25 for location and surveying
For further information address with stamp,
GRO. w. LAND, Cutler, Dade Co Fla 3mo
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TOR SAI.E.-25 acres good, high, pine land
IL on lake IN fine lake region and beautiful
rolling country. Five acres in grove; bearing
ing before the freeze; carefully cultivated since
the freeze. Part budded. Sprouts doing
well. Pineapples on place stood the freeze of
'S6 Near Auburndale, Polk county. Price
81, 900. Address Box 26, Lake Mary, Fla.
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EOR SALE "A farm of IS acres, one-ha1f
good hammock, balance good pine land
it before the freeze was q 5 acre orange
grove. one-hal' in bearing Price $500. Ad-
dress, J B. LAW, DeLand, Fla.
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FOR SALE Pleasant home, house large,
Il we'll built, with plenty windows, closets,
verandas One of ground set to orange
trees, rebudded since the freeze, other fruits.
c L EYLEs, DeLand.
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lower than the wheel tracks, as is too
often the case. If higher horse was
substituted, the traces would no
longer be horizontal, but sloping to-
ward the buggy, and this meant that
the animal lifted the vehicle slightly
out of the sand, and thus had less
resistance to overcome. Or if we
made the horse track a few inches
higher than the wheel tracks, the
small horse would have the same ad-
vantage:
But a convex cross section of the
road bed is necessary Also for another
reason. When the middle is the high
est part of the road and the sides
slope away from it evenly, the rain
water will run off Materially into the
bitches as soon AIS it comes down, and
in many TINY streams, each too small
to wash away earth, and the road is
kept dry and firm. Where the middle
is the lowest part, as it usually lis,
WiS "otCI WIN tiiSiC cllu L I'LL
down hill in concentrated, damag-
il.g stream, washing the Old gullies
deeper and chanmeling out new ones.
The high, unworn places are left in
tact, but the hol.ows increased in size
and depth. The more the road slopes,
the greater the damage done.
c.hC l><, do 70
possible at all times. If it is properly
rounded and the track kept in the
center, there is no danger of running
into the bitches on dark nights, for
as soon as the vehicle leaves it's prop
er track the driver will feel it, and
by it's inclination he knows how to
guide it back. And when two drivers,
bearing this in mind, meet in a pitch
dark might, they will not collide; for
the horses come straight toward each
other and will slack up in time to
warn the drivers.
Yet another point should not be
omitted. In dry weather and high
winds many wagon loads of soil are
carried off each mile of road daily
On fiat road this waste is greater
because the surface is exposed to the
wind all the time; is it uneven, the
soil in the hollows is the loosest and
first blown AWAY, making the track
rougher than before. But if the road
is properly graded UP and even, sell
ON more than one-half of it is eX-
posed to the full fury of the wind at
a time, and there being no obstruc-
tons TO resist the wind, comparative
ly little soil is lost.
The best theoretical cross section
for amy road is that of parenthesis
[O convex side UP, the curve begin
ming in the bottom of the ditch or
gutter on one side and ending in that
on the other side. This shape lis nee
make them more roomy and safe. But
a disadvantage is, that the sterile sub
soil exposed along the sides has little
cohesion and lis incapable to- soon
cover itself with grass to bind it to-
gether, and is thus easily c1'umlbled
by wheels and washed by rains. For
country roads, where the travel is re-
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-01-06

Il OR SALE Pineapple plantation on east
4 side OF Indian river containing acres.
Orange or Polk counties. Write e. S.
BAILEY, II Charleston st Boston, Mass.
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LIME HEALTHY HOME, good water,
100 Japan plum, SO peach, 80 pear, 80 grape,
guavas, mu1berries. all first class Will sell
low or trade if suited. Address o. p. BLAIS-
DELL, Oakda1e, Citrus Co.. Fla
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T WIZ l. GIVE HALF interest in property
L worth S25 900 to a partner who will fur
nish capital t" develop it on joint account
Apply 1901 Kay st. Tampa, Fla.
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TOR SALE CHEAP-Ten acres cleared and
IL fenced five acres in orange grove, Iour
room cottage, stable and packing house.
shell road. Also five acres unimproved, one
mile from Orange City. Appv to a. CoSNER,
Agent, DeLand, Fla
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HrOR SALE so acres or less. Good land,
clay subsoil. easily irrigated by flowing
mo
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DIGEST BARGAIN on record-From five
ID to one hundred acres of the prettiest high
bluff Indian river front land at Hobe Sound,
for pineapples, winter residence or resort
hotel Box 294, Orlando, Fla.
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LOR SALE GOOD two story store build
II ing one acre of land and good stock 70
general merchandise. Stock can be purchased
separately and building rented. Situated at
Lowell Fla. Write to GEO. w. LEONARD,
HASTINGS Fla,
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DOR SALE-Forty acres near Barlow
Il Junction and fine fresh water lakes South
Florida Railroad Suitable COR orange and
vegetable culture. Price So per acre. Address
Box 26, Lake Mary. Fla
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II IST YOUR PROPERTY for Exchange with
~ JE NKINS EXCH ANGE AGETCY, Harri-
m m, Tenn.
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FOR SA' E.-Near Auburnda'e, about one
mile from station South Florida TAIL
road. 80 acres Good tobacco or vegetable
land. Price $500. Address Box &c, Lake
Mary, Fla
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I HAVE tract of good pine land for sale at
low figures Near fresh water lakes and
GOOD vegetable section ]. J WILSON, Haines
CITY, Fla
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"a ANTED-Al, kinds of Florida nropertv for
exchange JENKINS EXCHANGE, Har-
riman, Tenn.
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LNFTEEN acres pineapple and vegetable
Il land between Indian river and ocean near
Melbourne. Fla Also OF in Melbourne.
Terms to suit buyer. Address owner, J. F.
POWELL, Waukegan, III.
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DINEAPPLE LANDS-Fifteen to twenty
five dollars per acre in lovely lake region
free from malaria. Bargains in pineapple
plantations to fruit next year.-WILLIAM e.
PABOR, Pabor Lake, Fla.
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LNOR SALE-A desirable place of ~ acres
4 enclosed. 35 acres in grove, sprouts grow
$500 for the next sixty days. Address
wv, Micanopy, Fla.
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"A fine lake front; citrus and tropical fruits,
grape vines, etc T. DEHOFF, Pabor Lake.
Fla.
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&~ POPULAR WORK on it's
- - diseases and treato emf, by
IN G. HENRY LEONARD M. d.
Cloth. 321 PIP l16 cuts post
paid. 81 SO; paler, 81 o. Circular free Gives
treatment for all hair and bear Diseases: how to
bleach, rmOv ,dNeit 0, rescrip' ions ILLUS
I'D MEDICAL JnURN Al. CO. PUB'RS, Detroit
Mich
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I HAVE some OF he finest Orange 1rovas and
l Wild Land, Large or Small properties-Scme
in the Indian River section Send for circular
G. p. WILL ANS, OviedO, Fla
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FOR SALES acres best hammock in Belle
u view, Marion county, Fla. on r. c. & p
railroad Easy terms if desired.-R. S.
COUCH, Greenfield, Mass. mo
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EOR SATE-Good orange and vegetable
ands. 40 acres Haines City and
Lake Haines. South florida Railroad. Good
location Frice S. per acre Address Box
&c Lake Mary Fla
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EOHN L. NUCKOLS, dealer in Improved and
- Unimproved Real Estate. Del land, Fla.
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nESOTO COUN rY.-24O acres of selected
- land for sale near the model town of
Avon Park. Will sell AS a whole or will
divide GEO. FROST. Box 1904. Boston,
Ma 8 mo
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NY paid up subscriber of the AGRICULTURE
IA IsT can insert a thirty word advertise
n ent under this head one m onth. for s cents.
Additional words at cents each.
FOR SALE.-Lot on beach, ear Ormond
Also choice corner lots in Sanford Ad-
dress Box 20, Lake Mary F a.
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I'M TCHIGAN LANDS w rite for price list and
MI terms. EUGENE FO TER. Gladwin, Mich.
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O0ACRE GROVE-Buidings grounds and
~ grove in good condition Location un-
surpassed. High, dry and healthy City
water. Near churches. schools, railroads,
stores, etc. Will sell much below actual value.
%. B. CHILD, DeLand, Fla. mo-
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TOR SALE.-Fine bearing orange grove.
Will pay net IS per cent. on price. inc
body of orange land 1O7 acres, part cleared
and set to young grove. lay thu ee-fourths
of a mile of the finest rivers in + a..
daily line of steamers so fine business
building (good opening). Town lots and
improved iands in town OF LAKE Helen. Fla.
Address J. p. MACE. Lake He'en Fa
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TOR SALE-3O acres pine land with orange
Il trees, pineapp1es and other fruits, flow
ing well, fine house with veranda on Indian
river front. Price 81 900. Address DIR. FISH.
Georgiana. Fla.
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Real Estate DIRECTORY.

- EST h sRGAIN ever given In orange groves
ID houses city lots, improved and urin'I proved
lands Cali on address n. A DeLand De-
Land Fla.
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DOR SALE-On very easy terms and at
Il low price 4O-acre farm, located in the Gel
ebrated lake region of Winter Haven. Fla.
New dwelling cost 81 600. Large barn pack
ing house, etc. Fine lake front, near school,
churches, etc and venient to transporta-
ton. One-third cash, balance in one, two
and three years. Address Box 80, Winter
Haven, Fla.
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CHOICE RGAINS-Two-roome cottage,
~ three lots, two-acre tract on town site
close to cottage with 1900 pineapples to
fruit next year. Address COTTAGE HOME,
PaDor Lake, Fla.
The record-union., 1897-08-17
Women as Piano-Tuners

A new profession for women seems
to be open in piano tuning. This bus
mess pays we'll and offers many induce
ments to women in preference to 9TH
ers. There is a very much more pro-
nounced demand for piano tuners in
the country districts than in the cities,
particularly in this country. Tuning
is an art easy to acquire, ard the learn
ing Of this profession requires neither
time or great expense. Any piano
maker of a woman's acquaintance will
be glad to explain to her the intrica-
cies of the piano and make her familiar
with it's construction, particularly when
he thinks she might in return be able
to sell some of her customers a piano,
for which, by the way, she would get
a commission. Small repairs are also
easily taught: the stringing of the pi-
ano and the leathering Of the hammers
can be done by anybody clever with
tools, and, after a short course of prac-
tice on some old piano standing in the
back of a store, a piano tuner can start
out on her career. What is absolutely
necessary is a good ear. That cannot
be purchased nor can it be acquired by
instruction. The tools necessary will
not go into money very much. A key
a tuning fork, few pieces Of hard felt
covered with leather to place between
the strings, and a few ordinary tools
like hammer. tongs, pliers, screw driver
etc, are all that are necessary, and can
be carried in a small satchel Plane
tuning does not demand great strength
and without doubt it can be made to
pay well, since. according to the con-
dition of the piano, from ST to 50 are
paid for putting the piano in order, and
three hours on the outside is all the
time necessary to put the piano in per-
feet condition. Philadelphia Record.
The record-union., 1897-08-17
ONE ON WHITHERBY.
The New Cook Was Coming and
His Wife Didn't Want Company.

Whittier Iby-I'ye invited fellow mere
to dinner tomorrow night.
| Mrs. Whitherby-Oh, my dear, what
did you do that for? Why, the new
cook is coming tomorrow, and you
know it will be just awful.
! Whitherby-I don't see anything aw-
full about it. Give him what we've got.
guess it's good enough.
Mrs. Whitherby-That's just like u
man. You don't seem to care for ap-
pearances at all. Can't you put him
/ off?
Witherby-No; l can't. The idea. /
invite a friend to dinner and my wife
protests. But, madam, he comes just
the same. AS long as l am running
this house l propose to do as | please.
Mrs. Witherby-Who is it?
Witherby-Wigson. You know him,
don't you?
| Mrs. Witherby (seized by an inspira-
tion)-Know him! should say l did.
Why, he's an old sweetheart of mine.
Witherby-I guess not.
Mrs. Witherby-But he is. Have him
to dinner by all means. Oh, I should
just love to see him. How he did make
love to NE!
Witherby-He did, Ell?
Mrs. Witherby-Yes indeed. 1t was
only by the merest chance that 1 didn't
become his wife: This is indeed a pleas
ure. Dear boy! Let's see; L haven't
seen Charlie Wigson for four years.
Witherby (dryly)-You haven't, eh?
Well, 1 wouldn't be surprised if you
didn't see him for four more.
Mrs. Witherby feigning great disap-
pointment-Oh, you haven't changed
your mind, have you? Aren't you go
ing to bring him to dinner?
Witherby-No. madam, I'm not
And Mrs. Witherby having gained
her point glided blandly from the room.
Bits
The record-union., 1897-08-17

The nomination of Coxey for Governor
Of Ohio by the Populist Convention
comes very near TO the ludicrous. It
testifies to the total incapacity of the
Ohio Populists to rise to proper appreci-
alton of what is required in the conduct
of such commonwealth as Ohio. 1t is
evidence of the fact that the Ohio Popu-
lists are, likewise, incapable of grasp
ing even faint idea of the possibilities
OF a political party, started out with re-
form, political and social, as its one pur-
pose and aim The bitterest opponents
OF Populism could wish it to pursue no
other course than that it has taken in
Ohio Coxey now the leader of the
party, is a man of some ability
but crippled by SO many dips,
spurs and angles, that a clear tracing of
a vein of sensibility and reason cannot
be had in his mental or intellectual
character. Having a good deal of cour-
age. and the something of fearlessness
essential TO leader, Coxey is so lack
ing in organizing capacity and in mental
balance. so ready, even greedy to take
up with fads and cranky specifics for
the ills of the body polite; so prone TO
originate ludicrous and sap-witted
schemes for accomplishing gigantic Ia
bors. that he really incapacitates him
self for the accomplishment of any
thing. Withal Coxey is a shreWd busl-
ness man and a money maker. This IS
not uncommon capacity among cranks,
however. Coxey can run his own busl-
ness in a way TO make it profitable, but
the instant he lays his hand to the task
of managing or suggesting management
of public affairs, he becomes merely a
nerveless crank. That his personal con-
duct and living has been stainless, so far
as is known, will stand his candidacy
in good stead. Nevertheless there are
not wanting those who charge that MS
leadership of the army of the unemploy-
ed that he led TO Washington, or rather
that he attempted TO lead, but could not
was so miserable a failure, so dismal
and DltltUi a minor lIdSSdSs % ~ -
good grounds for the belief that Coxey
was more solicitous for his own welfare
and to advertise his own business, than
to accomplish the purposes or the IN
dustriaI Army" The very idea TO sum
If all I'D. of any body of men claiming
fair recognition as a political organlza-
t;o,, ,,or,inatine for the Chief Magts-
tracy of a principal State Of the Union
a man who chose Carl Brown OF Cailtor-
MIA as his chief of staff in his celebrated
raid upon the National Capital is SUM
cient to justify Californians VINO know
Carl. and the intellectual quallty 10
which he attaches himself, in roaring
with laughter. Nevertheless let II De
now forecast that Coxey will receive IN
Ohio a very much larger vote than the
comedv of his nomination would seem 10
warrant.
The record-union., 1897-08-17
A Jubilee.

Ten years ago, when every one was
talking Of the Queens jubilee, a gen
tleman friend of ours heard the follow
ing conversation between two Scotch
women:
Can We tell me. wumman, what is it
they ca a jubilee?"
"Weel, it's this said her neighbor.
when folk has been mairred twenty
five year, that's silver waddn'. And
when they have been mairred fifty
year, that's a gowden waddin'; but if
the mans deid, than it's a jubilee. -
Correspondence London Spectator.
The record-union., 1897-08-17
Need of Caution.

Mrs. McInty-An phat did tn doc
ther soy was tn mater wild y'r eye,
Patsy?"
Small Son-he say-ed thur was some
foreign substance in it.
Mrs. McInty with an Il told you so'
air)-Now, maybe yen kape away from
thin Oitalians.-New York Weekly.
The record-union., 1897-08-17
SPECIAL AGENCIES.

This paper is for sale at the following
places: L. 2. Fishers, room p, Mer-
chants Exchange, California street, and
the principal news stands and hotels, San
Francisco.
Los MISUNDERSTANDING Book Store
SAN DIEGO-News stand, $50 Fifth
street.
CORONADO-Coronad Hotel News De-
pot.
SANTA BARBARA-Hassing News
Depot.
FRESNO-1113 street.
SANTA CRUZ-Cooper Brothers News
Depot
Also for sale on all trains leaving and
coming into Sacramento.
The record-union., 1897-08-17
When Others Fail.

When you ,ask her to marry. use eyes if
you VIII
To tell her the tale, as with love they Ger
fill
While your lips softly whisper, but do not
be meek
You may find the best part of your face
is your cheek.
-RrOoklvn Life
The record-union., 1897-08-17

The pocket gold discoveries in Trinity,
the placers and gravel opened in E.
Dorado. the quartz veins gold bearing
recently proved in Shasta, discoveries
in Sierra, Amador Tuolumne. Calav-
eras. and the increasing yield from old
mines prove that California mining is
by no means at an end. but on the con-
trary is still developing. We have abid-
ing faith in the forecast that mining
for the precious metals in our own State
is TO be resumed upon a larger scale
than ever, and that the mineral wealth
Of the future California is to rival that
OF the old. The Yukon excitement has
been a positive benefit to California in
the stimulation it has given to home
prospecting and renewal of investment
and work in old mining properties
worthy of re-examination.
The record-union., 1897-08-17
Weather Forecast.

For Northern California-Fair Tuesday;
light fog in the morning along the coast;
continued warm weather; fresh westerly
winds.
The record-union., 1897-08-17

The Western Bryanite press contin-
ues to harp upon the fall of silver, as
the result of the Vaccinations of gold
barons who have, say these disconso-
lates. depressed silver out of pure cuss-
edness by cornering gold. The response
to this wall of lost cause has been
that silver is simply obeying the law
of supply and demand. But this answer
will not be accepted by the sixteen TO
one press because it comes from oppo-
nents. But there may now be quot
ed the same response from the lips of
d stalwart and original free silver man.
United States Senator John P. Jones,
who in an interview in the New York
Times on the 18th inst. said: "Sil-
yer is falling in the common price, be-
cause of a falling off of the demand
for it as money" That ought to be
authority for our inconsolable free sill
Yer. friends