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

lists, and must make their essays
comprehensive if they wish to benefit
the soil Tiers.
A man not versed in medicine who
applies to practitioner for advise
would derive but little benefit if the
"saw bones' would unburden himself
of his entire vocabulary of technical
phrases. To one who understands
what he is talking about his instruc-
tions would no doubt be of value, but
to one who does not they would be ut
terly valueless. 1t is the case exactly
with those who write about science
in agriculture and do not place them
selves on a level with their readers.
The farmer is still in the primary
school of science; he must be taken
into the higher branches by degrees.
If he is crammed the results will be
obvious-he will either get disguised
with his efforts to acquire education
in scientific agriculture, or he will
learn a little of everything and not
enough of anything to do him any
good.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-11-24
FERTILIZERS IN FLORIDA.

A recent issue of our valued con-
temporary, the Tallahassee Floridian
contained the following in reference
to State Chemist and his work:
This being the season for the distri-
button of fertilizers to the extreme
South Florida points, to be applied
to the early vegetab BILE and other crops
the State Chemist intends to be as
thorough as possible in the inspection
of fertilizers, and for this purpose will
make a trip to Jacksonville and other
distributing points during the next
week, and later will make another
trip to the southern part Of the State
Cases of evasion of the law, with re-
gard to paying the tonnage tax OF
twenty-five cents per ton, are now be-
lieved to be very rare, and manufac-
turers of complete fertilizers are now
complying fully with our laws. This
however, is no longer considered a
hardship, not only for the reason that
similar laws have been enacted in
nearly every agricultural state, be-
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-11-24
FLORIDA THANKSGIVING.

Governor Bloxham has issued the
following Thanksgiving proclama-
ton:
Once more the hand of Providence
has crowned the closing year with
many blessings, and the people of this
commonwealth have abundant cause
to be thankful to the Divinity that
controls and guides the destiny Of
men.
Throughout the borders of our
State there is evidence of an increase
in it's material wealth. The capabil-
tiles of our soil and climate for other
developments are being recognized.
Industries are being multiplied. Edu>
cational and Benevolent Institutions
are increasing.
In recognition of these and other
blessings, and in accordance with
time honored custom, and in conform
ity with the Proclamation of the Pres
ident of the United States, [, William
d. Bloxham, Governor of the State of
Florida, do hereby issue this my Proc
lamation appointing Thursday the
twenty fifth day of November, A. D.,
1897, as a day of Thanksgiving
and praise to an All-Wise Provi-
dence. And [ request the peo-
pie of the State to lay aside their
usual business vocations and unite in
giving thanks to a wise and merciful
God by suitable religious devotions
and in ministra tons of charity and
kindness to those who are in poverty
or affection.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-11-24

cause all honest manufacturers realize
how fully the operation of the law
protects them against dishonest COM
petitors, who formerly flooded Florida
with worthless fertilizers. The best
evidence of this is found in the fact
that some manufacturers of high
grade goods who were disposed to
fl light our fertilizer laws are now num-
bered among their strongest support
ers, and all concede that the Florida
fertilizer laws are probably the fairest
to both manufacturers and consumer
of any state in the Union.
In some localities it has been found
that cotton seed meal is being offered
for sale without analysis" the seller
stating that it is to be used for feed
ing purposes, and not as a fertilizer,
thereby endeavoring to create the i'm
preston that the buyer will save
twenty-five cents per ton, the amount
of the inspection tax; such a subter-
contrary should put every one on no
tice that the goods so offered are
fraudulent, and as rule have been
found to be not worth much more
than one half the price demanded for
them, either as a fertilizer, or for
feeding purposes. And the purchaser
instead of saving twenty-five cents per
ton, really pays eight or ten dollars
per ton more than the goods are really
worth.
The State Chemist is now correcting
series of elaborate experiments with
a view of determining the various
authorizations in samples sent on from
various localities.
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ing, and packing, with recommends
tions for such changes in these meth
DDS as will insure an increased price
for the products.
60 The Marketing of Tobacco
This should be treated from the COM
mercial side. Cigar leaf; b Manu-
featuring smoking, plug, cigarettes,
C Export. This should include partlc-
ularly the grading and packing of the
different types, with suggestions as to
improvements in existing methods.
The first subject will deal with the
practical methods of cultivation. 1t
must include the methods in use in all
the practical tobacco districts and
show the differences, if any exist, be-
tween the methods in use in different
places. Having provided for this, the
second subject should give only pass
walton. It should deal exclusively
with the types and grades adapted to
domestic or foreign markets, to meth
DDS of curing, sorting, fermenting,
and packing. The third subject should
give only the commercial side of the
transaction from the point of view
of the warehouse man or the dealer in
or shipper of tobacco.
It is believed that paper Number
can be most satisfactorily prepared by
some one having had practical expert
ence in tobacco growing, and that pa
pers and could best be prepared
by persons having had practical expe-
rience as dealers in tobacco.
The papers submitted should be ad-
Agriculture, Washington, D. c.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-11-24
SCIENTIFIC AGRICULTURE.

The southern farmer is blessed with
oceans of literature about scientific
methods in agriculture. There is no
especial objections to this, perhaps,
except that the space might be more
proftably devoted to something the
farmer can understand and apply. The
fact is that this literature is often too
scientific and technical for the farmer
to underestimate in fact for any one
not a scientist. The advice is not
practical.
No one questions the desirability OF
APPLYING scientific methods to farm
ing, but writer's must bear in nina
that farmers, as a rule, are not scien-
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-11-24
WEDNESDAY, NOV. "A, 1897.
Table of Contents.

FARM GROVE AND GARDEN
Make Haste Slowly; Diversfying
Crops; Celery Culture. ............... 737
How to Conduct Field Experiments
with Fertilizers.... ............ 738
Moisture in Soils; The Magoon
Strawberry; Progressive Farming. 10y
The Horses Hoof; Figs. ............. 74O
The Value of a Chemical Analysis;
HedTS...... '.......''.. ''''''''' '''''' I'll
Winter Park Horticultural Society;
Cotton Seed and Sheep. 74S
The Pineapple Industry at Eden.... 749
TORACCO-South Florida Tobacco;
Tobacco at Zellwood; Sumatra To-
bacco; State Tobacco Association. TAP
FLORAL The Trumpet Creeper;
:. Roses and Rose Culture in Florida;
The japanese Morning Glory....... 74s
EDITORIAL - Scientific Agriculture;
Florida's Thanksgiving; Fertilizers
in Florida; Tobacco Literature. 744
HOUSEHOLD-Care of the Complex
ion; Housekeeping for Beginners;
Canning Sweet Corn Things Good
to Eat ........... ....... TAG
POULTRY - What the Eggs Cost;
Poultry Notes; Egg Farming in
Warm Climate; Douglass Mixture;
Consumption and Roup; When is a
Hen Fat? Separating Chicks......... TAI
LITERARY - Maude's Thanksgiving 74S
With the Jokers...... ........ 75t
FlOfld1and. 80. .'.......'''.' 80. 'ol
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TRUCKING NOTES.

There have been, within the last six
months, dozens of people attracted to
Orlando by, and embarking in, the
pineapple industry. AS an immigra-
ton drawer the pineapple business
vies with the gold craze in the Klon-
dixie region, and the results here will
be more satisfactory, as whole, than
they are likely to prove with the gold
hunters in the frozen wilds of Alaska.
Orlando Reporter.
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TOBACCO LITERATURE.

The Secretary of Agriculture pro-
poses to issue series Of Farmers
Bulletins on tobacco, covering the diff
ferent types and phases of the indus
try. In the prepare ton of the materi-
al for a number of the subjects the
Secretary desires to secure full compe-
tition. He therefore authorizes the
announcement that for the best arti-
Gle upon each of the subjects hereaf-
ter named, to be selected in the man
ner described below, he will pay at the
rate of SIS per 1000 words.
The papers are not to exceed 10000
words in length. They should be type
written if possible. They are to be
submitted to the Secretary of Agricul-
ture not later than March 81, 1898.
They will then be placed in the hands
of board of examiners appointed by
the Secretary. Those that are accept
ed, if any, will be paid for as above
and will become the absolute property
of the Department and be published
under the name of the author. If in
the opinion of this board none of the
papers submitted on any subject is
worthy of publication by the Depart
ment, they will all be rejected. The
papers not accepted will be returned
to the writer's without publicity.
Three subjects are given here. If
the plan is successful other subjects
may be announced from time to time.
CD Methods of Cultivation.-Thi
should treat of practical work as done
in the different districts, as follows:
Selecting the seed; the seed bed and
how prepared in the different tobacco
districts; the time and manner of SOW
ing the seed; the time and manner of
settingo out the plants; the cultivation,
fertilization, topping, and cutting;
protection from insects and diseases.
(2) Export Tobaccos of Kentucky
and Tennessee.-This should treat
particularly of the types and charac-
teristics of tobaccos adapted to each
of the different foreign markets; the
methods of curing, sorting, ferment-
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The Record feels particularly pleas
ed to see so many fine gardens coming
on, a result of it's efforts TO get the
people to plant the fall and winter
garden. Now if they will keep an &C
count of what is sold from their gar
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AS far as we can learn every grower
of pineapples this past season is in
creasing his acreage if he has the
room to do so, while several entirely
new plantations are being opened up
and set out to this fruit by parties
who never have raised any heretofore.
These facts speak louder than any
thing we can say as to what is
thought of the pineapple as money
making crop by those who have al
ready tried them, and those who have
personally looked into the cost and
manner of raising them and the prof
it's therefrom.-Tropical Sun.
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The truckers around Sumterville are
much pleased with the prices receiv-
ed for their vegetables this year.
There were about 1000 crates OF GU
cumbers shipped from that point this
season, averaging $3.50 per crate to
the growers.-Sumtervil Times.
j. L. kirkpatrick has purchased 400
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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-18
MRS. FITZ IN A FURY.
Her Conduct at the Ringside Most
Dramatic Feature of the Contest.

One of the most dramatic features Of
the battle was the part Mrs. Fitzsim-
mons played in the victory Of her hus-
band. Never before in the history Of
the prize ring has woman witnessed
the struggle of her husband for pugif-
istic honors, and the new champions
wife to day established a precedent
which will hardly ever be equaled.
Up to the night before the fight Mrs.
FItzsimmons declared she would not be
present at the ringside but at the last
moment, despite the advice Of her
friends, she insisted on accompanying
her husband. She was vigorously
cheered when she entered the arena,
and appeared entirely self-contained
and unconcerned as she took her seat
almost under a chair near Bob's cor
ner. AS he came down the slope from
his dressing room, F'itzsimmons stopped
for a moment at his wife's side and
STOPPING. kissed her as she said cheer
lily: Good luck to you, Bob
For the first few rounds she sat quiz
city, but, as the rounds became hotter,
her excitment mastered her, and for the
remainder of the battle, she stood upon
the floor or chair. excitedly encourag-.
ing her husband, or hurting reproaches.
and Instructions at his seconds. AS the
battle went on she became more and
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-18

more demonstrative, some times break
ing out with ordinations which Dor
dered on the profane
AT every blow which her lankv
spouse received from his antagonist her
eyes bulged out and, with her hsts
clenched, she cried: 1.-The hound" "the
puppy" punch him, Bob" kill him."
The plan of battle, after the first
round, was highly displeasing to Mrs.
t1tzs1mmons and in no gentle terms
she chided the seconds for not adyis-
ing different tactics. MAKE him keen
punching Corbett's wind and he will
win" she screamed. '"You idiots. don't
you know how to second man? You
have lost your senses. Do you want to
defeat my husband. Do as I tell you
now, or III make you wish you had
Not once during the entire scene
did shade Of pallor cross the wo1nan's
face. On the contrary, her chicks were
fiery red and, as she leaned over the
railing in front of her seat, her eyes
blazing and her gloved fingers crushed
into the palms of her hands, she looked
a FeftitabIe fury.
At the lend Of every round, as the
New Zealander stretched himself back
in his chair, she shouted to him words
of encouragement and advice, con-
tinually insisting that he aim his blows
on Corbett's body and let the face
alone. TITS the only way TO whip the
hound. Bob" she cried over and over,
land if you do as j tell you he cant last
the round. The whelp is going now,
hit him in the body, punch him in the
wind"
When the end came and Corbett
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-18
Seventh Round.

Fitzsimnons came up to the mark
promptly and seemed refreshed. Cor
bett made the play, and began with
hook on the jaw and then put in
right uppercut. He tapped Fitzsim-
mons nose again. Fitzsimmons made
a right and left swing on the jaw and
Jim planted a straight left jab on the
nose again. FitZsirnmonS made a right
and left swing for the jaw and Jim
planted a straight left jab on the nose,
FitZsimmons led for the body and Cor
bett clinched, Fitzsimmons getting iii
a good right on the jaw on the break
away. COrbett sent in a light left on
the body and Fitzsirnmons clinched.
FitzsimmOns put in a stiff left on the
body, but received a hard jab in re-
turn and then clinched to avoid a saw
age left hook which would have done
the business for him had it landed.
Corbett's thigh was daubed with blood
from his own glove which was cOlOred
by a contact with the nose and mouth
of Fitzsimmons. Corbett came in again
with two hard lefts on the jaw, F'itZ-
simmons apparently being unable to
stop the blows.
He seemed to be waiting for his
chance and willing to take blows if
he only had a chance for a return
Fitzsimmons swung his right and left
for the jaw but Corbett ducked very
neatly and gave a straight left jab that
smeared the blood all over Fitzsim-
mons face. FitZSimmonS put in a left
on the body and ducked a vicious left
swing and clinched. After the break
away Fitzsimmons assumed the aggreS-
sive, and put a stiff right on the body.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-18
CORBETT WEEPS.
His Dressing Room Dismal After the
Battle Was Over.

AS Corbett staggered to his dressing
room, after the contest, his brothers
Harry and Joe supporting him, one on
each side, the scene was a pitiful one
What, to him. was honor, fame and
fortune had been irrivocably lost, in
the brief space of time since he left
the room, confident of keeping the
championship of the world A short
hour he had been absolutely certain OF
victory, without a Shade Of doubt that
his record wouldsrehafn unmarried and
the crushing defeat was almost beyond
belief to him. His trainers crowded
into the dark little room after him and
gathered about him as he sank ex-
hausted in chair II can't realize it.
boys" the defeated champion said, Il
don't know how it happened. 1 had
him almost whipped out and could have
whipped him if l had followed it uu
but / wanted to show how thoroughly
l could do him. Oh, if [ can only get
at him again. He must. he absolutely
must give me another chance. 1 can
whip him next time"
There was a moments silence, when
suddenly Jim leaned forward against
his brother Harry and burst into tears.
Il can't believe it," he sobbed. 81 can't
believe it, Harry. How can it be, old
man, that / am defeated?"
The scene was too much for the little
crowd Of heart-broken friends Billy
Woods shrank into a dark corner and.
with his cap over his face, endeaYored
to stife his sobs. White and McVey
Chokingiy attempted to sooth their ex-
chief, and Billy Delaney, with wet eyes,
vigorously famed the almost fainting
man in a vain attempt to conceal his
emotion. Harry Corbett gruff1y ordered
everybody to brace up" and Joe sank
to his knees.
Anybody can see that Jim is the
cleverer man." said Charley White.
"He simply lost on one Of those chance
blows which are always a possibility
He can whip FitZsimmons, l know it."
81 advised him to fight a generalship
fight, keeping away from Fitzsimmons,
but he was so confident he could whip
FitZsimmons that he would mix up.
Even up to the round he went down he
was confident. He is much the better
man. The chance blow did it,
Delaney and the other trainers ex-
pressed similar opinions. Meantime
the work over Corbett was having its
effect, and, within half an hour he was
strong enough to dress and leave the
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-18
FITS LAST BATTLE,
Proudest rlan Alive But Will Never
Enter the Ring Again.

After the battle Fitzsimmons walked
to his dressing room, accompanied by
his wife and followed by his trainers.
Many shouted congratulations to him
on the way and his trainers, of course,
shook hands with him, and his wife
hung on his neck and kissed him.
Il am the proudest man alive" said
Fitzsimmons. 81 have established be-
yond dispute my right to the title of
the heavyweight championship of the
World-a title disputed by one man
alone. James J. Corbett. I was a bit
fearful at the outset, because the first
right hand lead 1 made at him landed
on the back Of his head, wrenching my
thumb. Thereafter 1 was at a disad-
vantage, and you may have noticed
that my right swings were short, but
they were delivered with the purpose
of driving Corbett into the belief that
the thumb was not injured. That ac-
counts for my missing so many right
hand swings. I discovered at the out
set that his punishment did not affect
me. If his jabs had landed any other
place than on my lips. which are sus-
ceptible to bleeding. 1 would have
escaped without a scratch.
"Corbett talks about a return fight
and says he will follow me from town
to town until I give him a return bat
tie. / am now thirty-six years of age,
nave IOuSnC more championship battles
than any two men. in ancient or mod
ern ring annals, and shall retire.
will never fight again. Julian will
now take possession of the mich which
we have forced Corbett to vacate.
II feel more than pleased at the work
of Referee Siler and am satisfied that
his Interpretation Of the rules was
along fair lines. 1 have been confident
all along of my ability to whip Corbett.
My roasting him was prompted solely
by my desire to get him into the ring.
[ did not think could ever get him to
face me unless 1 made him believe that
l was a bit chary of meeting him. He
gave me a hard fight and got consid-
cradle punishment. I waited for the
time and finally, as I could not get at
his head, played for his body and fin
ished him. 1 ended Corbett with the
same blow that used on Sharkey, by a
left swing on the body under the
heart"
Fitzsimmons is in good condition,
barring the sprain Of the thumb which
is badly swollen. He drove into town
this afternoon with is wife and left on
tonight's train for San Francisco, taxi
ing with him the purse and $4,000 In
drafts, which were turned over to him
by Al Smith, the stakeholder.
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his guard down In careless fashion
Fitz following HIM up and pushing him
to the ropes. No harm was done, both
men taking it easily. Corbett landed a
light left on the face and another on
the body. but missed a right uppercut
He then landed a hard, Straight left on
Fits nose. following him to the ropes
and missing a left hand swing, receIv.
ceiving only a light tap on the ear IN
return and the men clinched.
Fits bleeding nose seemed to be
troubling him, bptff@ assumed the ag-
gressive and a& Corbett dance
around the ring Ssgs&oid him, receiving
a hard left on the body before he de-
sisted. Fitz landed a hard left on the
body, staggering Corbett and then
landed on the body Both men laugh
ed. Jim put in, a straight left on the
nose and a right uppercut on the Jaw
in the. clinch that followed i, Corbet,
landed his left On the face twice and
missed a lead faF the head While fol-
lowing Jim. F'itzngnts light left on the
face Both merEMete in the center Of
the ring as the rSsinA closed, Fits. face
being again coEsEe0 with blood from
his nose NIL .4t .tl.aa'