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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-06-30

ing the pole dried goods, and know
ing these gentlemen connected with
this company, we feel justified in
saying that we are quite sure that
they will pay every cent that they
can afford to pay for the tobacco.
They have gone into this business as
a permanent thing and it will be to
their interest to encourage the plant
ing of larger crop, and nothing will
so greatly encourage this as to pay
good price for what is now on hand.
That there will be other buyers on
the ground, there need be no doubt,
and taking everything into consider
alton we see nothing in the way of
our growers so long as they will stand
together urier-Informant.
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Florida Apples.

Mr.. A. A. Marsh, who resides in the
Conway section, brought some apples
to this office today. They were grown
from Seeding of his own planting,
and the fifty or sixty apples now on it,
are we'll formed, good sized, and when
ripe will doubtless have good flavor.
Some years ago it was thought that
Irish potatoes could not be successful
ly grown here, and fifteen years ago if
any person expressed the opinion that
good peaches could be grown here he
would have been laughed to scorn.
Now Florida potatoes and peaches are
the earliest in the market and thew
compare favorably with the product
of other states.
Now Mr.. Marsh is demonstrating
that good apples can be grown in Or
ange county.
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The Growers Organization.

Elsewhere will be found notice Of
the organization of Tobacco Grow
ers' association. This is a good move
and if there is a hearty and lasting
response on the part of all the grow
ers much good should be accomplish
ed. All the growers in the vicinity
should become members, and lend
their influence toward lettering in
every way possible their condition
as well as that of their friends and
neighbors.
An association will naturally have
advantages in buying fertilizers,
seeds, employing help and in obtain
ing the top of the market for their
product Of course it is not the in
tention of the gentlemen going into
this movement to interfere in any
way with the business of the buyers
and handlers, but on the contrary,
to encourage all the buyers they can
to come here and bid on the crops
after they are pole dried.
If the growers can get what their
tobacco is worth, without having to
wait until it can be betuned, they
will of course be glad to do So but e
on the other hand they are not offer
ed fair price they will then be in
position to negotiate to good advan-
tage for the curing, storing, hand
ling and baling of their entire croI
The La Companit Vuelta Abajo has
been formed for the purpose Of buy
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Operations at Ft. Meade.

Arriving here the goth ult., we at
once began the pleasant 'howdy do
with old friends, after a years alb
sence, and was surprised at the indus
trial strides made in the past year.
For fact Fort Meade and it's sur,
roundings are in fourishiny condi-
ton, new houses, new cleafings, fenc>
ing, etc., are all in marked contrast to
one year ago. The spring crop of to-
bacco is mostly in the fields yet, but
will soon be cut; huge stacks of dry
ing poles are visible in and around
every drying house preparatory to
drying. The producers, however, are
counting more largely on the fall
crops, as the drouths of the spring
hinder the successful growing in
spring.
Two miles above Fort Meade where
in 1853 l assisted Capt. Hendry to
erect the first residence within i've
miles of Fort Meade, are so or 100
acres solid in tobacco with an addi-
ton Of 80 or 40 acres more evenly
cleared. [ counted seven large dry
houses here and there on the farm,
and on the spot where the old house
and lot we're, are ten or dozen cot |
tages, occupied by the laborers and
their families where [ saw chickens,
turkeys, pigs, mules and horses, with |
any number of jabbering Cuban chill
dren. Aside from all this the original
settlers in and around Fort Meade
have fine crops of corn and other field
crops, and "water millions" by the mil
lion, as fine as | ever saw on earth,
with peaches, plums, mulberries, etc.
Everything shows signs of thrift and
is marked by industry The orange
crop is light, however if no disaster
befalls the groves, in a few years
there will be thousands of boxes
shipped from here as the groves are
recovering their original size and Wig
or.-Times.
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The Curing Process.

This is by far the most important
part of the whole business. 1t is easy
for an unskillful man to lose $50 or
$75 worth of tobacco by smothering it
in a tight barn in damp, muggy
weather. When the weather is damp
and close there is danger of "stem-
rot" that is, the midrib and the
nerves, being the thickest and most
sappy part of the leaf, are the slow
est in drying out, and fungoid dis
ease sometimes attacks them, causing
the laminae of the leaf to split off and
become rifted into little narrow
strips. This makes a leaf useless for
anything except the cheapest filler.
Mold, which is also a fungoid
growth, may at the same time set in
all over the surface of the leaf. This,
however, is not considered SO serious,
except for the appearance, as the
leaves may be dried by opening the
barn and the mold can then be brush
ed off.
Ignorant or INSCRIPTIONS growers
are tempted to resist these two dis
eases with smoke, which they erro-
neously consider to be drying and an
tiseptic. Heat is drying but practical
tobacco men insist that smoke is not
But the worst of the matter is that
smoke scents up the tobacco and rem
ders it worthless. Though itself one
of the rankest smelling weeds, tobac-
co is very sens1 i've to the influence of
other odors especially to that Of
smoke.
Tn long spell of rainy weather the
growers who have tight barns are
greatly tempted to kindle fire under
the curing tobacco; but they do SO
wi the almost certainty that the
odor of smoke will be detected in their
crop by the buyer and rejected.
A Smokeless Heat-A brazier of
charcoal or a small box stove, with
pipe enough to conduct the smoke
out and several feet away from the
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out challenge to any other county
in the state, that she can produce a
better quality of cigar tobacco than
can be grown elsewhere. Experiments
already made prove that our tobacco
is par excellence.
1t has been well demonstrated that
the very finest of the Cuban cigar to-
bacco can be grown in this county
and that it will command a good price
in the market. Now those who are in
search of something to do might we'll
begin to make arrangements to plant
fall crop.
Tobacco, only few months ago
product little talked of as a money
crop, is now king in Polk county.
Everything else is growing nicely and
promises a splendid harvest, but the
once despised weed is now the theme
of conversation at morning, noon and
night.
From present talk and indications
the fall crop of tobacco will be very
large: All who have grown a spring
crop are satisfied with results so far.
and will enlarge the acreage as much
as possible for the next crop, as it lis
quite certain that the fall is the best
season for tobacco.
The Vuelta Abajo Tobacco Company
are having their warehouse put in
readiness, and as soon as the tobacco
crops are we'll pole dried this COM
pany will be ready to buy. They will
pay the top of the market, as near as
they can ascertain it for all they buy.
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Tobacco Notes.

AS an indication of the deep interest
the people and press of Polk county
are taking in tobacco culture and the
profits to be derived therefrom, we
excerpt the following scattering notes
from the last issue of the Barlow
ourier-Informant:
Polk county will continuously hold
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barn is recommended for tight barn.
But all growers are earnestly advised
to provide thorough facilities for ven
tilation and not to resort to this ar
tifcial heat except in the last extrem>
ity. There is hardly ever a day in
the height of the rainy season when
the forenoon is not bright and clear,
and shaft of pure air blowing
through the ventilators helps matters
wonderfully.
Mr.. Cory told us that one year in
the rainy season, one of his best fore
men almost begged him to be allowed
to build fires in his barn to arrest the
incipient stem-rot and mold. Mr.. Cor
ny temporized with him from day to
day, and still it rained. Finally he
told him that on the following day
he might put in some stoves; but
when the next day came it was one of
the loveliest days that Florida can
PAONtuSC, C1IC VCl1CI1d CO1S WCIC UuIOWu
wide open; the dry air sifted through
the gables all day, and the tobacco
was saved without the stoves.
The wettest weather of the Florida
midsummer rainy season is severe
test Oh fine Cuban cigar tobacco, but
experience has shown that good barns
and a vigilant watch will bring it
through all right.
Preparing for the Dealers.-When
the leaves are dried out, which re-
quires on an average about three
weeks, they are taken off the string
and bound into "hands'' of about
thirty leaves. The hand is deftly
bound at the butt with single leaf,
making a kind of switch, with all
leaves free and open for inspection.
These hands should be packed neatly
in boxes and pressed down tight to
keep the leaves straight and smooth
in the hauling to market. Careless
growers tumble their tobacco into
bags, baskets, anything, and when it
reaches the buyers it is tossed and
crumbled. Such treatment insures
low price.-Farmer & Fruit Grower.
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The Florida Agrculturist was adopted as the
official organ of the Florida State Tobacco
Growers Association at the Quincy conven-
ton, March TO- 1897
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TOBACCO DEPARTMENT.

Address all communications to Tobacco
Department. Agriculturist, DeLand, Fla
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1897-09-29
Kamehameha,s War Cloak.

The great war cloak of Kane
hameha / was the work of years.
During the reigns of eight preced-
ing monarchs it grew beneath the
hands of cunning craftsmen, until
in all it's fair proportions it became
the property of Kamehameha the
Powerful, the outward badge of the
sovereignty which claimed sway
over all the surrounding islands.
This cloak, made entirely of vel
low feathers, is 4 feet inIength and
nearly IL around the bottom about
the same size as the one in the Ma
t1onal museum, although this last
is a trifle more than half composed
of red feathers from more plebeian
bird which science has aptly named
Vestiaria coccinea, or clothed in
scarlet. = The cloak was once the
property of the powerful chief Ke-
kuaskalami, who forfeited it, to-
gether with his life, in a rebellion
having for its purpose the restora-
ton of the ancient religion of Ha-
wall. It next came into the hands
OF Kamehameha III, by whom it
was presented to Commodore J. Ell.
Aulick, and finally it was deposited
in the National museum by the
commodore's grandson, Mr.. r. o.
Aulick. Frederic A. Lucas in st.
Nicholas.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1897-09-29
First publication August 1s, 1871
Notice Of Mortgage
Sale.

Whereas, default has been made i'm
the conditions of certain mortgage made,
executed and delivered by Andrew As llr
ors, to Sarah Z, Johnson, morris dated
on the twentieth GOTH day Of February,
Register Of Deeds Of the County Of stevens
eth day of March, 1893, at 10 O'Clock
page $50 thereof, conveying and mort
gaging the following described land and
premises situated in the County of Stew.
H The anp north a half M Of the H@ northwest
quarter (nwLD of section eighteen Q8, in
township one hundred and. twenty-six
fault consists in the failure to pay the
semirannual installments of interest due
on January LIST, 1896, July LIST, 1885, January
IT. iss5 and July lst l8s resPecsiiGTeiy op
gage; and by reason of said default the
said, mortgage, under the terms OF said
mortgage, has elected to, and does hereby
declare the whole debt secured by said
mortgage to be now due and payable;
And Whereas, by reason of SAID default
the power of sale in said mortgage con-
tanned has become operative, and there is
now claimed to be due, and is due, at the
date hereof on said mortgage and the debt
and ninety-three and 50-1O0 dollars (S693.5Ol,
and no action or proceeding has been in
stituted at law or otherwise to recover said
mSSrtgage debt, or any part thereof, -.
en-, that by virtue of the power of sale in
said mortgage contained and herewith
such case made and provided, said mort
gage will be foreclosed by sale of the above
described mortgaged land and premises
public auction at the front door of the court
house in the village of Morris, in the coun-
ty of Stevens and state of Minnesota, on
1897, at ten [10l O'clock in the forenoon, to
satisfy the amount which will then be due
on said mortgage and the debt secured
charges of said foreclosure including the
sum of twenty-five dollars $500 attor-
ney's fees
Dated Minneapolis, Mimi, August 18th,
1897.
SARAH F. JOHNSON,
Mortgage.
KTTCHEL, COHEN & SHAW.
Attorneys for Mortgage,
313 Nicollet Avenue,
Minneapolis, MINI.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1897-09-29
First Aug. Is.
MORTGAGE Sale.

Default having been made in the pay
ment of eleven hundred twenty-five and
76-100 dollars ($1,125.16) which is due at
the date hereof upon a certain mortgage,
duly executed and delivered by ASaheI
T. De Witt to Ann Eliza kathan, bearing
date the twentieth day of July, A. ID. 1885,
and duly recorded in the Office of the reg
Minnesota, on the 9th day of August, A. ID.
1883, at o'clock A. NJ, in book NJ of Mort
cages, on page 1913, and no action or pro-
ceeding at law or otherwise having been
instituted to recover the debt secured by
said mortgage, or any part thereof;
Now therefore, notice is hereby given,
that by virtue of a power of sale contained
in said mortgage, and pursuant to the
statute. the said mortgage will be fore
closed, and the premises described in and
covered by said mortgage, viz: The
northwest quarter OF. section twelve
90 township one hundred twenty
three q23) range fortyzone al, situ-
ate in Stevens county, and state of Mime
sofa, will be sold at public auction, to pay
said debt and interest, and fifty dollars
attorneys fee as stipulated in said mort
gage to be paid in case of foreclosure, and
the disbursements allowed by law; which
sale will be made by the sheriff of said
Stevens county, at the front door of the
court house, in the village of Morris, in
said county and state, on Saturday, the
End day Of October, A. D. 1897, at 10 O'clock
A. NJ, of that day, subject to redemption
as provided by law.
Dated August 10th A. d. 1897.
ANN ELIZA KATHAN,
Mortgagee.
Attorney for Mortgages,
Norris, MINI.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1897-09-29
FOREIGN NEWS.

A treaty between Japan and Chile
has been signed in Washington.
At a mass meeting at Athens Greeks
demanded that the war with Turkey be
renewed.
The Central American republics are
believed to be on the eve of q general
political upheaval.
The state department is informed that
formal proclamation of peace has been
made in Uruguay.
An armistice of two days has been
arranged by General Jeffries with the
Eibesmen of India.
Spaniards hear that the United States
instead of declaring war, will suspend
diplomatic relations with Spain.
The Spanish minister of marine an
nounces that three cruisers will shortly
be finished and ready for service.
The plague is increasing in Bombay
presidency. At Poonah several Euro
peans have been attacked by the disease.
The New York Herald's correspond
ent at Tegucigalpa says that Nicara-
raguan troops captured General Paez,
military leader of the rebellion in Mica
ragua, and that he suicided few hours
later.
1t is said that over 1000 well drilled
japanese soldiers have already been
landed at Honolulu, and about 400 vet
Grams of the Japan-China war are ex-
pected on the next steamer. They come
in the guise of laborers.
The Westminster Gazette says efforts
are being made to build railroad from
Eltor to the summit of Mount Sinai.
The line passes the cave in which
Elijah remained hiding while fleeing
from the priests of Baal.
The growth of London is astounding.
The latest returns on the subject show
that over 1900 houses are erected
in the metropolis Between
the months of August, 1896, and Au-
gust, 1897, 1871 houses were built.
Serious riots have occurred at Sjer-
nicak, near Agram, capital of Croatia
and Slavonia. The rioting is attributed
to the fact that the Hungarian author
tiles have been showing an inclination
to deprive the Croatians of their ancient
privileges.
NY1y rruD A rNxr
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1897-09-29
CUBAN WAR NEWS.

Captain General Weyler has cabled a
request to the government to send 11s
additional administrative officials to
Cuba.
Insurgents dynamited another train.
They tore mp the rails, and when the
Train slowed up they exploded the dy-
mantle with terrible effect.
Austria is said to be the only Euro
Bean country that would object to
american Intervention in Cuban affairs,
End it is added that her objection would
BE merely perfunctory.
Colonel Baldomero Acosta, one of the
most active Cuban leaders operating
NEAR Havana, was arrested by the
SFaniards just as he was about to sail
1ur Mexico to recruit his health.
The declaration is being generally
circulated at Madrid that the Spanish
sEoops in Cuba have recaptured Victoria
de las Tunas, which was taken by the
insurgents under Calixto Garcia and
.axssIs Rabi on Sept. 5.
A dispatch to the Frankfurter Zeit-
sGzlg from Madrid asserts that power
99al Spanish squadron will Immediately
proceed to Cuba on the pretext of at
sanding the installation of the new
aaGsstang dock at Havana, but really as
sazza answer to the dispatch of the Amer
lGan aotilla to Florida waters.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1897-09-29
First Sept. %.
Probate Notice.
STATE OF MINNESOTA,
GnnnHr Of StnH-nnS -.

STATE OF MINNESOTA,
County of Stevens,
In Probate Court.
In the matter of the estate of Mary A.
Whipp1e, deceased.
On reading and filing the petition OF
john w. Whipple, of Morris, Mimi, repre-
senting, among other things, that Mary
A Whipp1e, late of the village of Morris,
on the 4th day of September, A. D. 1897, at
Morris, Mimi. died inteState, and being
resident of this county at the time of her
death, leaving goods, chattels and estate
within this county, and that the said pc
titioned is the brother of said deceased,
and praying that administration of said
estate be to him granted:
1t is Ordered, That said petition be heard
before the Judge of this Court on Monday,
the 1st day of November, a. ID. 1897, at 10
O'Clock a. m. at the office of the Probate
Judge, in said county.
Ordered Further, That notice thereof be
given to the heirs of said deceased and to
all persons interested by publishing a
copy of this order for three successive
weeks, prior to said day of hearing, in the
Norris Tribune, a weekly newspaper
printed and published at Morris, in said
Dated at Morris, Minnesota, the Goth day
of September, A. ID. 1897.
BY the Court:
GEO, e. DARLING,
ISeall Judge of Probate.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1897-09-29
First publication Sept. 20.
Mortgage Foreclosure
Sale.

Default having been made in the pay
ment of the sum of two hundred and thir-
ty-one and 90-100 dollars, which became
which default has continued to the date
of this notice, upon certain mortgage,
duly executed and delivered by Seymour
Rustad (wid2wer), Mortgaeor, to Frank
A Dwinell, Mortgage, bearing date the
18th day of December, 1887, and, with
power of sale therein contained, duly re-
corded in the office of the Register of
Deeds in and for the County of Stevens
and State of Minnesota, on the 26th day of
December, 1887, at 2 o'clock D. M, in Book
. of Mortgages, on page go.
And Whereas. There is actually due and
claimed to be due and pay able at the date
of this notice the sum of two hundred and
thirty one and 90-lOO dollars.
Now therefore, notice is hereby given,
That by virtue of the power of sale con-
tanned in said mortgage and pursuant to
the statute in such case made and pro-
vided, the said mortgage will be foreclosed
by sale of the premises described in and
conveyed by said mortgage, viz: The
south half of southwest quarter (s12 of
(neH of sw1l of section twenty-eight (28,
township No. one hundred and TWEEN
ty-six d26), range. forty-three 49,, in
Stevens county and state of Minnesota,
with the Embellishments and appurte-
nances; which sale will be made by the
sheriff of said Stevens county, at the front
door of the Court House, in the village of
Morrison said county and state,on the 18th
day of November, 1897, at 10 o'clock a. M, of
that day, at public vendue, to the highest
bidder for cash, to pay the amount
mortgage and twenty-five dollars, attor-
ney's fees, as stipulated in and by said
mortgage in case of foreclosure, and the
disbursements allowed by law; subject to
redemption at any time within one year
from the day of sale. as provided by law.
Dated September 10th, A. d. 1897.
FRANK A. DWINELL.
Mortgage.
J. 3. QUINN,
Attorney for Mortgage,
Bird Island, Mimi.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1897-09-29
First Sep. 20.
Probate Notice.
STATE OF MINNESOTA / :
County of Stevens ?
Tn pr0ho4o Torr+

STATE OF MINNESOTA &C
County of Stevens
In Probate Court
In the matter of the estate of John
p. Backius. deceased, letters testamentary
on the estate of said deceased being this
day granted unto Betsy Backius, execu-
trix of said county.
1t is ordered that all claims and demands
of all persons against said estate be pre-
scented to this court for examination and
hearing at the probate office at my of
flee in the village of Morris on Monday,
the End day of May 1898, at 10 O'Clock a. M.
of said day.
1t is ordered that six months from the
date hereof be allowed to creditors to pre-
sent their claims against said estate, at
the expiration of which time all claims
not presented to said court, or not proven
to it's satisfaction shall be forever barred,
unless for cause shown further time be
allowed.
Ordered further that said Betsy Backius,
executrix as aforesaid, shall cause notice
of the time and place of the hearing and
examination of said claims and demands
by publishing notice thereof for four
weeks successfully in the Morris Tribune
a newspaper printed and published at
Morris, in said county
Dated at Morris, Minnesota, on the 9th
day of September, 1897.
By the Courts;
[Sea1l GEORGE e. DARLING
Judge of Probate.
SPOONER & SHELLEY,
Attorneys for Executrix
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1897-09-29
Live Stock Prices at Chicago.

HOGS-Market slow, Sc lower than
Saturday.
Sales ranged at So. 9O04.30 for light;
8.80@425 for mixed; $3.55@4.2O for
heavy; $3.6003.7O for rough,
CATTLE-Market for best steady;
others 5@10c lower.
Sales ranged at $4.00@5.5O for beeves;
$2.00@4.60 for COWS and heifers; So S0@
400 for Texas steers; $3.20@440 for vest
ems; So. 2O@4 so for stockers and feeders
SHEEP Market generally 1Oc lower
Sales ranged at $25O@3.1O for native
sheep; $3.00@4.O0 for Westerns; $4,000
$50 for lambs.
Receipts: Hogs, $4,000; cattle, 10000;
sheep $4,000.
Grain and Provision Prices at Chicago.
WHEAT = September Gle De-
cember, 9IAc; old, $3.50; May, 90Ac.
September, 28c; October, 1890;
December, 1890 ,0o; May, 1870.
OATS - September, 1910; Ocso-
Der, 1920; December, 20Lc; May, 25c
PORK-September, 1921; October,
1922; December, $3.50; January, $3.50