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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-08-18
Big Profits in the Weed.

Big Profits in the Weed.
Barlow steps right to the front on
sales of tobacco.
Messrs. Abalo and Photo of the Gu
ban company of Fort Meade, were
here last Saturday and purchase two
crops for which they paid the bes'
prices of any we have yet heard of.
For small crop grown on less than
half an acre by Doe Lightsey and
Lampkin at a cash outlay of $21 the
purchaser paid 1925, taking it as Il
Jumping trade Uncle Nose made this
crop at odd times, keeping up all his
other work as usual, so that he figures
his $62.5O as so much money picked
up.
Mr.. Sam M. Wilson who resigned
his position as deputy postmaster last
spring to engage in the tobacco bust
ness, sold his crop of 1000 poles for
81 900 which as he figures it is so
cents per pound, the buyers taking it
down and removing it at their own
expense.
1t is but fair to draw the deduction
that the quality of Barlow grown to-
bacco is exceptionally fine as these
buyers are experts and know their
business thoroughly 1t has been
conceded all along that the soil and
favorable to the production of a fine
grade of tobacco and these splendid
sales are the best possible evidences
that these conclusions were correct.
Mr. Wilson harvested these thou
sand poles from about four acres of
tobacco and really got only one cut
ting when if the weather had beel
favorable he ought to have had two
cuttings at least. The entire expense
of putting this crop into the barn was
about $40, Mr.. Wilson hay ing hired
all work done. Thus it will be seen
that the net profits were over $125 per
acre, and this from one cutting and
everything hired-to the man who is
figuring on the business these points
must all be considered.
Mr.. Wilson says that one time he
figured on reducing his acreage for
the fall crop owing to the probable
lack of storage room but now that a
satisfactory sale has been made he
will plant considerably more than be-
fore.
There are few other fine crops
here which could be bought although
many of our growers are preparing
to put their stock through the final
curing and betuning processes and
thus obtain the greater prices.
ier-InfOrmant.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-08-18

the greatest stimulus to the enter
prise was given by the f. c. & p,
which, through President Duval, gave
away hundreds of pounds of fine SUI
matra, Cuban and first year Florida
seed to all those who would under
take to make the experiment. In adj
dition to giving away seed the road
employed a special agent and expert,
Prof. Curtiss, who gave minute in
structions to all as to how the seed
should be planted and the crop cult
waited.
Just now the fields are full of har-
vesters cutting the crop. All the avail
able labor has been employed and
more is needed. Some labor was inn
ported few days ago from Alabama
and another force of men has been or
dered from Beaufort. Prof. Curtiss
has been trave.ing all summer in
speeding the crops and is now busy
showing the farmers how to cure the
leaf-really the most important part
of tobacco culture. He has been as
sisted by the agent of Stratton q
Storm, to which firm large quantities
of the raw tobacco will be shipped for
curing in their packing houses at
Quincy.
1t is now confidently predicted that
the Florida tobacco crop of next year
will \ worth more than the Florida
orange crop ever was. Considering
the fact that the orange crop was in
the neigh borhood of five million box
es, some idea may be obtained of
what such prediction means.
On fine Florida land as high as
2 1000 pounds of tobacco may be raised
to the acre, and properly cured it
should be worth from 25 to rs cents
per pound. Of course these figures
are for exceptional circumstances.
Those who have become interested
in the culture of tobacco are anxious
for the secret of successful curing to
become generally known among the
farmers and are advocating the en-
ployment of special agents by the
government of Florida to study local
enemies and diseases, and
to disseminate among the people the
knowledge of the art of proper cur
ing.
The government some years ago
employed two special agents to study
the diseases of the orange. They are
now at Eustis, and their work has
been of incalculable benefit to the
growers. On the item of spray alone
they reduced the price per barrel
from $27 to 81.
In the private curing houses in
Ocala and other parts of Florida Gu
bans are employed, but the Cuban
curers guard their secret well and
when at work insist upon having the
doors closed behind them.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-08-18

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the cord and needle to string on, the
lath serving only as support. The
length of lath given will hold about
80 leaves, distance of less than an
inch apart between the stems; put
the leaves back to back. During the
early stage of curing, and until the
toabcco begins to yellow, keep the
barn ventilators closed during the
day, and opened at night, during clear
weather. After the yellowing process
has fully set in reverse this order,
open in the day and close at night.
When tobacco is sufficiently cured to
take down and bulk it may be again
necessary to close during thu day
and open at night, so as to keep it
soft and pliable for handling.
When the stem is fully cured the
tobacco should be taken down and
put into hands or bundles, for CUBA
tobacco, from fifteen to twenty leaves,
and 'Sumatra" twenty-five to thirty
leaves to the bundle being careful not
to mix the two varieties in the bun
die. Of course, for cut tobacco,
where leaves have been cured on the
stalk they must be stripped off be-
fore they can be put in the bundle.
AS soon as tied into hands bulk it
down. Do this by tapping the leaves
leaving the stem ends outward; keep
the bulk covered with blankets or
burlap to prevent drying out. While
making the bundles partial selec-
ton of two or three grades may be
made. Should there be long rainy
season during the curing period, the
barn must be kept closed; if signs of
mold appear on the leaf near them,
open the space between laths on the
tier poles. A little fire may be nee
cessary at this time for drying out
the humidity. Charcoal heaters made
of sheet iron are the best to use for
this purpose, but small fires made
from dry sap pine or some other
wood that will not impart it's odor to
the toabcco will do
All that can be said in connection
with barn handling must be taken
as general advice, subject to change
under certain circumstances or condi-
ton. So use your best Judgment,
coupled with good common sense,
bearing in mind these facts. The early
or yellowing process must not be too
rapid. In more advanced curing give
ventilation in good weather. When
cured give humidity sufficient to
soften.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-08-18
The Tobacco Output.

Few people realize the enormous
output of the cigar manufacturing
business of Florida, but a review of
the figures furnished by the collector
of internal revenue for the district of
Florida of the business for the past
three years will show what is being
done in this line. The report for the
year ending December 81, 1894 and
the two subsequent years is as fol-
lows:
1894.
Tobacco manufactured into cigars:
Pounds
Stemmed. :. >. 80. :. :. 513,O61
Unstemmed. :. 49, . 2,211,7O9
Total :. :. :. :. :. go. 2,724,77O
Cigars manufactured dur
ing the year ............ 147,802,909
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-08-18

The Florida Agriculturist was adopted as the
official organ of the Florida State Tobacco
Growers Association at the Quincy conven-
ton, March 10, 1897
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-08-18
TOBACCO DEPARTMENT..

Address all communications to Tobacco
Department. Agriculturist, DeLand, Fla.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-08-18

This shows that during the three
years ending December 81, 1896, there
were manufactured in Florida from
S,46O,729 12 pounds of tobacco a total
of 455, 74S,596 cigars and 5,3O1,855
cigarettes.
The revenue from tobacco, cigars
and cigarettes manufactured in Flor
ida is now SO large that this state
ranks fifth in the union The collec-
ton for the year ending June 80, 1896,
amounted to $51O,OOO- Citizen.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-26
The American PInrne

From the Boston Journal.
In increasing the stringency of its reglI-
lations in regard to reporting all cases of
pulmonary tuberculosis, the New York
board of health has simply made an effort
to fight the greatest foe of health which
has ever invaded the United States,
Its statement that consumption is "an
infectious and communicable disease, dam
gerous to public health" is merely a for
NAL expression of a well known fact, and
In CHASING consumption with the milder
contagious diseases the board hopes to Sc
cure some isolation. 1t Is an uphill fight,
and the odds against the authorities are
tremendous
The bubonic plague in India has Mortified
the civilized world. yet consumption kills
100000 people in the United States each
year and the country has grown used to it.
So many persons are afflicted with this
dread disease that to suggest isolation
arouses the opposition of thousands who
will die with those they love rather than
obey any quarantine regulations.
Notwithstanding the magnitude of the
problem, health boards have their duties
10 perform. In fact, those duties become
more important because of the magnitude
of the problem. Stringent regulations aim
ing at the checking OF Iubercular affec-
tions in cattle. at the proper inspection of
foods and drinks. and at the cleanliness of
public vehicles and public places cannot be
too carefully enforced
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-26
legal Ethics.-

From the New York World
At the Medico-Legal Society dinner, Re-
corder GOff discharged a broadside at the
medical experts. When these experts,
said he, give false testimony they fortify
their attitude and testimony by saying:
We are only following the same course
that criminal lawyers take Now, they
have no regard for legal ethics. The law
yer is necessarily only the instrument, the
mouthpiece of his client. The medical ex-
pert, however, is expected to stick to the
truth"
But if there is legal ethics that
licenses lawyer to lie. to pervert the law.
to seek to defeat justice. and to violate his
oath as an officer of court of justice. why
should there not be a medical ethics TO
give a physician leave to perjure himself
for money? Why should there not be a
commercial ethics to make swindling,
forging, stealing, honorable and proper il
done for money?
The learned recorder merely states a fact
when he says that many lawyers have the
habit of regarding the moral law and the
obligations of oaths suspended for them
when some one has paid. them a large fee
to find way to eyade the law or to escape
punishment due to his crime. But ia IL a
satisfactory explanation of these extraor-
dinary privileges to say that thoy are Il
part of legal ethics?"
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-26
The Cycle show.

From the Chicago Inter Ocean.
The cycle show is open. and again Chi
cago is at the front. New Nork's cycle
show will not open till the week after next;
then the effete East can pattern after the
gorgeous and ever blooming West Chi
cago has the greatest number of registered
voters. the greatest number of athletic
wheelmen, and by long odds the greatest
number of pretty wheelgirIs of any city on
the continent of America.
We shall not make invidious comparisons
between the attractions of a horse show
and a bicycle show. Cycles cannot he
classed into Percherons Sunolks, Clydes-
dales. hackneys, hunters, Shetlands. road
sters and Arabians, as horses can. The in
finite variety of grace and strength that is
exhibited by horses cannot be displayed by
inert machines. But each rider of a wheel
at the show will be- as the late Mr.. Milton
said, "the cynosure of neighborinG eyes"
ard from the seats of the Coliseum will
beam several thousand pairs of neigh
boring eyes" At a horse show the human
Is accessory to the equine attraction: at Il
cycle show the wheel is accessory to the
human.
Yet still the newest styles of wheels will
be centers of attraction. Wheels for speed,
wheels for comfort and long use, wheels
Tor girls and wheels for matrons, wheels
Tor boys, and wheels for him who goes
In the full strength of youth are at the
Coliseum. And the champions OF the wheel
are there-sprinters and long distance men.
And around all and surprising all is the
charm of youth. the glow of beauty and
the laughter of the happy
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-26
GRIEF IN BosToN.

There is weeping and wailing in the aris-
tocratic precincts of Beacon street, Bos-
ton, and many there are who mourn and
will not be comforted. The somber folds of
Grape have recently decorated the stately
residence of one of the 400 of that cultured
city, and a number of the mourners still
20 about the streets red-eyed and forlorn.
The following notice in Boston paper of
late date viii explain this exacerbation of
aristocratic woe: THE many friends of
Little Puck, the beautiful pug dog belong
ing TO Mr.. and Mrs. n. V. Titus. of Beacon
street, will regret 10 hear Of his death on
Monday. This remarkably beautiful dog
possessed an intelligence almost human.
His death, which was caused by his anx-
iety over his masters illness, brings regret
10 all who knew him" II is sad indeed to
think that the places that knew Little
Puck shall know him no more forever. He
is gone! Gone to the eternal bow-wows.
perhaps, and his vacant kennel speaks TO
the stricken hearts of all his friends with
an eloauence as resistIess as It is pathetic.
in his almost human intelligence Puck
gave promise OF a brilliant future had his
life been spared, and all the abstruse and
recondite branches OF knowledge cultivated
by the Boston folk might have been as an
open book 10 him. Nay. he might even
have arrived at the fundamental test OF
culture in Bostouian. which is to know
beans, had not his bright and beautiful
life been blighted by deaths untimely
frost lie died OF broken heart and is
now at rest. No haunting fears of the dog
catcher now; the hateful music of the tin
can as u caudal appondagc will never more
disturb his finely strung nerves, and no
thoughts OF bologna can give him unrest.
All IS quiet with him now. and after life's
fitful fever he sleeps well Peace TO his
ashes. But those stricken hearts he has
left behind must bear their burdens as best
they may, for they are beyond human con-
ISOLATION
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-26
WHY SPAIN WILL FAIL.

The Spanish stin keep up the pretense
that the Cuban uprising has not reached
the dignity of Il war Viewed from the as
pect of riot however. it has been the larg-
est and most enduring of any of which his
tory has any account. and the taxpayers
of Spain may well stand aghast at the
prospect OF war if the Cuban affair cannot
be placed in that category.
There are no means of discovering just
what the present rebellion has cost Spain
from the beginning to the present time, but
it cannot be far from $SOO,OOOOOO. For six
months Of last year the expenses were Of
ficially reported as S6S, 900. and for the
entire year they were at least double that
sum. When Martinez Campos said it would
require $500 900 600 and 100000 men to conquer
the rebellion the Spaniards rallied at him
Weyler. has had this number of men and
probably has spent more than this amount
of money, with the end of the rebellion no
nearer in sight than when he took COM
mand
In view Of these figures it is not difficult
to understand why Spain has expressed
Willingness 10 grant concessions to the Gu
bans and sue for peace. Her home treas
ury is bankrupt and she is practically at
the end of money raising. A glance at her
tax laws will give some idea of the bur
dens under which her people are struggling
and most ominously protesting against.
They must pay import duties upon most of
the things which are received from abroad
and export duties upon those which go out
Internal revenue is charged against almost
everything sold in the shops, and upon ev-
cry receipt check, deed. contract or other
valuable instrument a stamp must be af-
fixed which costs from cent to 81. A tar
if is charged on commerce between cities
and an occupation tax upon nearly every
business. The government holds monop-
oily of the trade in tobacco, matches and
other articles. Taxes are levied upon
births deaths. baptisms. marriages and
eurials. and yet with all this the crown has
been forced to borrow money to pay in
terest on the running national debt and
keep the military forces alive in Cuba and
the Philippines.
1t is obvious that the longer the Cubans
hold out, the greater the concessions will
become which Spain is willing to offer. In
fact the offer of any concessions at all is
a confession of what the world has be-
lieved all along, that Spain is in no condi-
tion TO sustain n war, and that she must
eventually fail to subdue the Cabans
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-26
WHY NOT COMPROMISE.

1t is very probable that the present Kan
sas legislature will do something toward
establishing state uniformity in text books
and state or district ownership. though so
many and varied are the plans proposed
that all may so down in an inextricable
tangle
The legislative committee appointed by
the State Teachers Association met in To-
peka a few days since and decided. after
long consultation. TO recommend against
public ownership of school books. Some of
the opinions advanced by the different
members are worthy of consideration, for
they show pretty plainly that public own
ership is not the unmlxed benefit which its
advocates portray it to be. Professor GUY
Benton, Of Baker university, opposed 1t on
the ground that many men. such as rail-
road operatives, clerks and others under
salary, but with no reachable property,
were better able to buy school books than
very many of the taxpayers who were al
ready burdened to death. He cited in Illus
tration the case of a poor widow who paid
taxes upon a little home. as contraposed to
the migratory railroad man who drew a
salary OF 500 a month but paid no taxes.
President Taylor. of the state normal
opposed the project on sanitary grounds.
He feared that books passing from one
family TO another would transmit the
germs of disease, and he vas quite sure, he
said, that vermin could thus be distributed
Another of the committeeman advanced
reason which was built upon some easily
recognized traits of childhood. He said
that the one great trouble where district
or state ownership had been tried was the
unconquerable distaste OF a child to study
from an old and worn book, while its seat
mates or classmates had bright. new ones.
In the nature of things the old books must
be used by some OF the scholars. and the
unfortunate ones took care, he said, that
they became very rapidly so old and ragged
that no one could use them at all. In other
words. the life of n district-owned book
was not half that OF privately-owned one.
It seems 10 us that there is compromise
between the extremes in this matter which
viii do justice to all concerned. Let law
be enacted which viii compel the school
district TO furnish text books TO all pupils
whose parents are unable to buy them. The
public will thus have performed its duty TO
the poor and those who are wen-to-do will
not receive benefits to which they are not
entitled.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-26

twenty to twenty-five tramps every night.
but fires them beyond the limits under pen
atty of the rockpile the next morning.
within thirty yards of the principals in the
great scene.
The railroads in Linn county contribute
more than $1,000 year toward the support
of the public schools Brookfield being ben
Gifted to the extent OF $3.50 and Marceline
about $500.
Professor ]. r. Stetson. director of the
Arkansas agricultural experiment station
Is enrolled as Il student in horticulture at
the Missouri agricultural college.
specimen of mineral believed to be zinc
quartz was found in Galloway county re-
Gently by Rev. S. H. Pollard, who believes
therc Is much valuable ore in that locality.
That Missouri farms have not yet become
altogether valueless was evidenced inst
Weeh in the sale of one of $40 acres in
Boone county for ST 500, and one of 1.5O6
acres in Pike and Lincoln counties for $40
CO. cash transactions in both instances
The value of the lead and zinc product of
the interstate mineral district last week
aggregated Sn,5i3. of which the Missouri
side contributed about $4,000.
Chillcothe has been officially thanked by
the officers of the Cuban junta for dona-
ton of 5000 recently contributed
Fox hunting is among the popular sports
OIL the season in Mcdonald county.
brave Missouri woman down in the
Ozark country hunted up a revolver the
other night, in the absence of her husband.
having been warned by the barking of the
watchdog that there was trouble in the
back yard, and personally conducted a sue
cessful search for chicken thief
Among Barry county's unique possessions
is transportation line that Assistant
Clerk Thompson. of the house of represent
atives, declares is the greatest railroad on
earth. 1t extends from Exeter, on the
Frisco line, to Cassville, distance of five
miles. and IS steam one way and gravity
the other. Every morning the one locomo-
tive on the line hauls all the cars, passen-
ger and freight up to Exeter from Cass-
vile. During the day, as trains arrive on
the Frisco. the cars are sent down TO Cass-
vile one at time, loaded with passengers.
baggage and freight. They are simply given
4 push to start them at Exeter. and they
run to the terminus of the line in Cassyille
without stopping. 1t is down grade all the
way to Cassville. Fuel is a small item on
that road
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-26
Decrease in Railroad Rates.

From the Chicago Post
From one end of the Union to the other
demasogues and their dupes unite in wild
clanor for the regulation and reduction OF
railroad rates. No attention whatever is
paid TO the fact that no other industry in
the country has suffered as severely
through the hard times as that of railroad
transportation. The anti-railway agitator
takes no account of the losses and disasters
that have Defallen the railway companies
IN common with the rest of the country. He
closes his eyes to the fact that half of the
railways of the United States, which are
the arteries and veins of its industrial life,
are paying no returns whatever on the in
Vestment the grand total of which is S12,-
0OO,WO,OOO. or nearly as great as that in all
the farms of the republic.
This failure to pay interest on investment
is not due to mismanagement eXtrava-
Sance, unnecessary extension or overcap-
ualization. This too. in spite of the Sc
Verest economy in management How Sc
we're this economy is can be testified to by
the 100000 employees directly dependent on
railroads for work. These know of their
reduced employment They are painfully
aware of the number of men discharged
and of the others working on half time.
And yet the cry goes up from every agi-
tator's lips Give us cheaper railway rates.
why the railway rates were never cheaper
IN this country than they are now. They
have been gradually reduced below the
paying point. The following table shows
now they have decreased during the last
six years: