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The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-08-19
WHEAT OPENED LOWER.
Market Sensitive. With Indications
of an Advance

New York, Aug To- Wheat failed IT,
mold Yesterdays full advance at he
opening this morning and opened cent
lower, but II had a subsequent nervous re-
eoyery from SO Ia TO 95 for September
The feeling is extremely sensitive, but tho
sentiment is strongly buiIish.
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EARTHQUAKE AT BUFFALO.

Seismic Tremblings Along the Shore
of Lake Erie.
Buffalo, n. Y, Aug IA severe shock
OF earthquake was felt in this city ut $50
o'clock this morning, lasting for thirty
seconds. People We're awakened by the
shock There was a distinct shock at
Cold Springs and the trembling was felt all
along the river front.
Aloisg the shore of Lake Erie and in the
southern part of the county reports of
the same character came in ali morning.
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Price Fifty Cents One Dollar per Bette.
The 7ty Cent Botuec ontsin Ous Huudrd Doe
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Chicago GEa and PROVISION Market.
Corrected daily By W b. Hibbs & Co,
Bankers and Brokers. Members OF the
n. Y. stock Exchange, 1927 + street.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-11-10
DeLand, Fla. Wednesday, November 10, 1897.

bring them together and bind them
so they would grow into one solid
body. | tried about twenty and made
signal failure in getting any of
them to grow that way, but [ have
made a success of budding sprouts
into the bodies of buds, thereby brac
ing the buds and making them grow
stronger. All buds that have been put
in since the freeze have been inserted
close to the ground so that if the tops
are killed back at any time the bud
will be saved. Before the freeze [
used to put in the buds up high so
as to save that much stock to start
on. Last year all my buds were
topped about three feet high and
they are now stocky and strong. 1t
would have been better if all the
seedlings had been topped about six
feet high to have made them spread
and not be..so much exposed to the
force of the wind. S. p. Sheppard.
Palm Springs, Fla.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-11-10

er Eighteen months after setting
the plant the first crop can be cut;
thereafter it will yield two crops an
nually. If sanseveira proves to be as
valuable as those who have investi-
gated it claim it to be, there will be
no need to go to Klondike for gold;
however, the future of the industry
depends largely upon the report after
the manufacturers have experimental
with it's spinning qualities. If this
report is favorable, in less than
twelve months there will be a field of
10000 acres in this southern country
l will inform your readers in regard
to the report as soon as it is made.
e. V. Blackman.
Miami, Fla.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-11-10
Editor Florida Agriculturist:
Miami Fibre Industry.

l enclose you a sample of fibre
made from Sanseveira zeylanica or
Sansevira roxburghians. This is a
plant that has been introduced into
this country as foliage plant and is
known by many as the trout plant.
The leaves resemble the lily some
what, with the exception of the spots
of a dark reddish hue. 1t is also
thicker leaf than the lily and darker
green. Col. Howe, of New York city,
secured the leaves from which this
fibre was made from DR.. Harris, of
Key West. The Colonel brought a
machine here and cleaned the leaves.
The fibre secured will go to a large
manufacturing concern in Brooklyn
where it will be spun into carpet
warp. The fibre, you notice, is of a
fine silky texture. 1t is said that it is
the finest and strongest fibre yet dis
covered. Last year there was
38,OOO,OO0 pounds of fibre imported
into this country. The last congress
imposed a duty on this product of
500 per ton. Col. Howe is very san
guine in regard to- the final outcome
of this industry. DR.. Harris, of Key
West, and Mr.. Dodge, of the Agricul
tural Department at Washington es-
innate that one acre of sanseverira
will yield five tons of cleaned fibre.
The plant is tenacious to life. After
a plantation is set it takes care of it.
self, needing no cultivation except
the first few months. In fact it is a
very independant plant and fourishes
regardless of unfavorable conditions,
and like Bermuda grass it takes the
ground. The machine for cleaning
the fibre is small and simple in con-
struction. The plant is a rapid grow
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-11-10
The Camphor Business.
Miami, Fla.

Editor Florida Agriculturist:
I have read with much interest an
article in your issue of September
18th, quoting letter to the Chicago
Tribune from DR.. E. M. Hale on the
subject of "Camphor Growing in Flor
ida With your permission [ should
like to use a little of your valuable
space in reviewing briefly some of the
statements contained in it in order
that [ may the more clearly bring out
the precise nature of certain Informal
tion | seek, which [ hope DR.. Hale or
some other of your we'll informed
readers may be able to give me.
The picture set forth in the article
referred to is very alluring. [ quote
some of the most attractive state
ments.
''The gum is entirely the product of
the atmosphere. An old camphor
plantation, after it has covered the
ground will need no fertilization My
trees are growing on the very poorest
white sand, but they grow as if they
were highly fertilized."
''The crop of leaves and twigs....
can be gathered from the trees after
they are three years old, with actual
benefit to the trees"
ga plantation in the fourth season
should return $500 to $4OO per acre
with camphor gum at 40 cents a
pound. The fifth season ought to
double the return"
every owner Of a camphor planta
ton should have distilling plant of
his own, as the cost is slight"
"Camphor is often rs cents
pound.
Truly such a picture is enough to
turn into camphor producer every
man in Florida who owns an acre of
"the very poorest white sand,'' and
to send to Florida every man in Chica-
go who can read print, and who can
raise the money to pay his fare. 5000
to $500 per acre every year after the
fourth, and, when gum touched rs
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-11-10
Vol. XIV No 45 Whole No SOL.
Editor Florida Agriculturist:
Grove Notes.

Grove Notes.
To one who saw the orange trees
cut to the ground less than three
years ago, their recovery has been
simply wonderful. We have groves
here that show but little trace of the
freeze when viewed from the outside
OF the grove. A stranger passing
through the country can not realize
that our beautiful groves met with
such a disaster only short time ago.
IN some groves a good many oranges
are to be seen which are changing
from green to yellow. Our county
will. ship good many thousand
boxes. the settlement of Oveido es
Inmates it's crop at 5000 boxes. All
other sections report fair crop of
fruit. ;
Our trees where well taken care of
are more than double as large as they
were this time last year. This in
creased size with more age to the
sprouts will give us a crop next year
that will bring a good many thou
sands of dollars into our county.
The storms of this fall have not
done us much damage though our
trees cannot stand a very high wind
on account of the junction of the
sprouts and old wood not being
perfect yet. To save the sprouts from
blowing off some of our growers have
wired their trees using from No. 6 to
No. wire, encircling the sprouts
about ten feet from the ground. This
will take from ten to twenty feet Of
wire per tree. The larger the wire the
less it will cut into the wood
Some growers are cutting out all
the dead wood with mallets and
chisels and covering the exposed sur
face with coal tar. This will give the
green bark better chance to heal
over the dead part and to throw out
roots across the old stumps and prac-
tically make new trees.
Some of our old trees that had in
dications of foot rot before the
freeze have transmitted the same
trouble to the sprouts, which have
died off one by one until the whole
tree is threatened. I think when they
are thus troubled it will be a good
plan to take out all the diseased
sprouts, all the old rotten wood re-
move the dirt from the large roots,
wash off with a solution of carbolic
acid and then fill up with fresh earth
from the middle of the rows or from
the woods.
Trees that were budded last year
will begin to bear next spring. I read
in your paper last year that the best
way to manage the buds was to put
in four or more and then when they
got to be about four feet long to
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-11-10
81 per Annunl, il Advance

cents, $1,125 to $1,000 per acre seems
almost too good to be true. Isn't it
altogether too good to be true and
wouldn't it be truer if it were not so
good?
1t is very far from my intention to
controvert any one of the statements
made by DR.. Hale on either his own or
Mr. Hubbard's authority The infor-
nation | desire is upon the subject OF
the cost of gathering the crop of
leaves and twigs, transporting it to
the oAstillery and converting it into
crude gum. This is a matter of the
utmost Importance, since, as will be
seen by a reference to Mr.. Hubbard's
speech to the Horticultural Society
the $500 to $4OO per acre is his esti-
mate of the gross value of the crude
gum as it exists in the leaves and
twigs on the living trees. Every or
| ange grower knows the difference be-
| tween the value Of his crop on the
trees, and that of the same crop pick
ed, sorted, washed, wrapped, packed
boxed and stamped with consignee's
address. 1t is to be remembered that
seventy-seven pounds of leaves and
twigs, or nearly the weight of a box
of oranges, must be gathered and
hauled to the ulstillery for the pro-
duction of one pound of crude gum
With the Japanese, about three
pounds of cured gum are distilled
in twenty-four hours; this, with
wages, as in Florida, at $1.O0 and up
wards per day, and allowing the at
tendant to regulate his fires so he
could attend to his still twenty-four
hours day every day, would make
the operati of distilling alone cost
33 1-3 per pound without reckoning
the cost of the fuel, if the Florida
producer used the same kind of still
as the Japanese, which [ presume DR..
Hale implies when he says the cost
of a distillery plant is slight.
There is no doubt that great i'm
Japanese methods of distilling which
will vastly reduce the cost of the oper-
alton, but so far as I know, none
have been made yet nor can l see how
such a plant could be built at slight
cost And what is to prevent the Jap
anese from doing the same thing them
selves, now that they are awakening
to the value of western arts and west
ern business methods?
But the crude gum as it comes from
the still must undergo another and
somewhat similar process, called sub
limation, which is done by chemists,
and in the course of which it looses
from II to 25 per cent of it's weight
so that producer sends 1000 pounds
of crude gum to the refinery would re-
ceive only 75O to $50 pounds of the re-
fined article and would in addition
The Newtown bee., 1897-02-05
EVEN McINTYRF
 & CO.

measured when the storm ended. It was badly drifted in some localities, but from every district egress was made with little diff :ulty.
 Miss Anna Butler, who has been visiting in Hartford through nesrIy all of last month. returned home, Saturday, and stayed over Sunday. c. H. Butler, who has been hOme but once since the Legis- Iature commenced, was also home over Sunday, returning to his duties at the Ctpitol, Monday morning.
 Mrs E ". Chartield, accompanied by her son, WIli Chaifi-ld, went to New Haven. Friday last. to attend a family gathering If the sisters of her hu. band At the residence of Mrs Lucius P. Sp.rry. She intends to make a visit of a week or so there.
 Messrs E. B. Harper. B. 4. Treat and another whose name at this writing we could not learn, were summoned, Sstur- urday, to appear in New Haven on Tuesday this week at the Common Pleas court, criminal side, to serve as jurors.
 A few of the local sportsmen recently oeceived a consignment of live quail from K .nsss which they inGsud to re- lease in the spring to see if they cannot sock our forests with this merry whist ling game bird.
 John Govin and son have taken quite an extensive job of hauling timber for E. L.. Hoadley of Seymour from s piece recently purchased by him on Rock House Hill.
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BETHLEHEM.

TOWN AND PERSONAL JOTTINGS.
 The ice harvest is nearly completed and ice, though less in thickness than at some times, is of fine quality.
 Isaac, the fourth son of James Griffi went to the New York hospital, Wednes- day, accompanied by Dt Variell, for the purpose of having removed false growth back of one eye.
 Miss Nellie L. Berce is at Carr Wat sons for brief visit.
 MT and Mrs Charles Hunt welcomed son to their home on Thursday, January 2s.
 A few of our patrons attended the Po- mona meeting at Middlebury on We'd nesday.
 William Blakeman has had an i'll turn.
 Mrs E M. Mallory and William T. Kasson took their departure for Wood bury on Saturday.
 Abner P. Hayes was one of the ushers at the Yale junior promenade on Tues day. MT Hayes, having reached his ma jority on January 25, several of his stu dent friends surprised him by visiting him at s5 South MieIle college, in body, furnishing supper. A pleasant eyen- ing was enjoyed by all.
 Mrs D. Cowles has recently attended the funeral of her aunt, Miss Angie Snow, of Ellington. ;:
 Miss Anna B. Lake has returned home from her visit.
 E. B. Camp of Newtown was in town, over Sunday, the guest of R. B. and A. C. Lake.
 William s. Blakeman, our local butch CT, is sick with ty Jhoid fever. Dc VArieii of Watertown attends him.
 The dance at the Town hall on Friday evening was attended by If couples. Music was furnished by Cams orchestra of Wondbury. Miss Dora A Bioss has returned to Springfield, Mass. Jarvis E. Thompson has been appoint ed administrator, with the will annexed on the estate of the late Clement Hnrd
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OXFORD.
THAT SPECIAL TOWN MEETING.

THAT SPECIAL TOWN MEETING.
 At the special town meetfg, Monday forenoon, It was voted to% postpone action on the consolidating of tn. Quaker Farms aud Five Mile Hill dist. ricts. The town agent and selectmen were instructed to appear before the proper committee in the Legislature ts- look to the interests of the town in re- gard to bridges and railings which vii be necessary, should the dam on tn Hou satonic river be built and thus mak, the changing of the road an imperatiy. necessity. In regard to the outside move TO dispense with Oxford as probate district the meeting was unanimou- against the proposition. The following we're chosen. as committee to sppea, before the Legislative committee on ne W probate districts in earnest remonstrancs against the scheme: Dr. Lewis Barnes, Charles H. Butler. and R. 6. Robinson Each member of the committee were given the power Of substitation.
 Monday seems to be the regular cold mornings as on that morning this week the temperature was reported at from zero to six and eight below. The day proved to be : fine one.
 The snow storm of Wednesday nigb, and Thursday was by far the mosl severe we have had aimee the 1888 bhz zard. About 22 inches in debEb ws,
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sleighing. Where it was not drifted it was bare ground.
NEW MILFORD.
THE VILLAGE ANT VICINITY.

THE VILLAGE ANT VICINITY.
 Mrs Thompson I. Marsh gave very interesting account of her experlence in her travels in South America at the M. 0. A., rooms on Monday evening If this week. The entertainment was we'll attended and those present speak highly of it.
 The funeral of Mrs Lois Fairchild was we'll attended by the relatives and friends of the deceased at the home of W. c. Lsthrop on Thursday last. She was the widow of the late Henry Faircbild and at her death was in her 81s5 year of age.
 Miss Martha c. McMahon packed up her trunk and skipped for Middletown. Tuesday morning, where she has gone to visit relatives and friends for few weeks.
 The entertainments for the week have been the Rock concert company for We'd nesdaY evening and the Grand Army ball, Thursday evening, at the Town hall.
 The auction sales of Charles H. Booth are being continued this week and appear to interest quite crowd daily.
 New Milford for the past few days has attempted to take sleigh ride. But the roads look now, and have since the last snow storm, as though the snow was about three quarters dirt; consequently the sieighing is not first class. THE MERRYALL DISTRICT. Garwood M. Merwin has been helping g4ther the years supply of ice. Miss E za Main is in New Milford visiting relatives.
 MT Beach is to occupy the farm c. B. Marsh, recently purchased of Stephen Beecher.
 Miss Auna Hawley and little sister have been visiting at Duane Stone'S. Mrs Henry Bolles Peck was buried or Monday in the West cemetery.
 Relatives here have received word os the serious sickness of Francis French, ' native of this place, but now resideni Of Litcht1 id.
 Miss Sarah Hendricks has been cor : fiaed to the house, this week. with th. measles. Willie Beecher has come homt 10 his grandmother to enjoy the same
 Ebert Rowland has nearly anished moving to his new house near the village
 Mra Israel Hendricks died, Satur,
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THE VITAL STATISTICS FOR THE YEAR,
 The vital statistics for the year ending December 31, 1896, shows the following
 Births, 5S, by months as follows: Males, January 3, March 2, April 3, June 2,July
 3, August 3, September 3, October 3, No vember ?, December 4; total 25: females, January ?, February l, March 4, April l,
 May 5, June 2, July 5, August 2, Sep tembet l October 4, November f, De- cember 4; total 33. Marriages, 16
 Deaths 39, q flllows: Males, January 3
 February }, Mnch ,, April l, May l
 August l, September } Oct Der l, Mo- vember ? D cember total l5; females,
 February ?. March 2 January I, July l.
 August l, Septemb.r l, October ?. NJ yember l, December l \; total 15. Of ,h. deaths two were colored, both females. one in March and one in June. Of those who died 22 were born in the state, two in other states, one in England, two in Ireland, one in Canada, one unknown four were under one year old, five be. tween one and five, one between 10 and l 20. two between 20 and 30, one between 30 and 40. two between 40 and 50, three between 50 and 60, five between 60 and 70, four between 70 and 80 two betNeen so and 90 The causes of death were as
 follows: Typhoid fever two, cholera in. fantum one, septicaemia one, cancer ot stomach one, apoplexy two. convulsion.
 one, heart disease one, angina pectori- one, pulmonary troubles three, pneu
 monia six, s'rangulation of the intes
 tines one, hernia two. Brignt's disease one, accident md other causes two. Dur
 ing the year 1896 there were three mors
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The Masonic brethren have secured the service of the Rev Frederick Hatch of Danbury to lecture at their hall op February 9, at o'lock in the evening Subject, "Queer People," Mir Hatch is highly recommended by the press and all who attend expect 8 treat. Proceeds for charity. Admission % cents. Eighty minutes of solid instruction and enjoyment.
 The Ladies' Aid society of the Metho- dist church, met with Mrs Frank Kill with Mrs William Watts, this Friday afternoon.
 Some parties while falling tree in Romfofd struck the telegraph and tele- phone wires, and caused break in the communication with Litchfield. Ex-Senator Heman o. Averill was in in MiGdletown aLd Hartford, last week. Robert Squires and wife are in York state for few days visit. Arthur Titus and Charles Ford are shipping apples to Waterbury.
 Mir and Mrs William Watts spent Sum- day in New Milford.
 The popular Monday club met at the rectory on Monday evening. Mrs John 0. Brinsmade recited piece, and Dr Arthur Colton then read his paper upon "Coldridge" Refreshments were served and most delightful time it was pro- nounced by all. Between 50 and 60 were present.
 MT and Mrs Fred Cook are in New York. Mrs Cooks sister Is at the point of death.
 The snow storm of Thursday, last week, blocked the roads somewhat, but they were soon dug out.
 Miss Emma Jennings has been quite i'll for week, with throat trouble.
 Misse. Edith and May Smith expect to spend month vita their uncle in Wash ington, D. c.
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In New Haven County.
SoUTHBURY.

CONGREGATIONAL CHU RCH ITEMS.
 During the two years Rev Mr Barrows has ministered to the Congregational church, there have been nine deaths, the average age being 75 years.
 Several persons have recently joined the choir. There is more interst also in the Sunday school, several having re- gently joined.
 The Ladies' Aid society meeting which was to have been held at Miss Augustua Stiles on Thursday was postpo oned until Friday on account of the storm when c. K Osborn kindly hitched up his team and took those who wished to go. The sleigh ride seemed to be enjoyed by all.
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HULL's HILL AND VICINITY.

Mr ard Mrs c. Christianson have the sympathy of all in the loss of their only child. She was buried Sunday at 2. at Soutbford. Rev J. D. Smiley attended the funeral.
 Granville Warner has been very sick Dr Shepard was called. Mr and Mrs c. D. Johnson welcomed little son on January 29.
 The Pinkerton children have had severe colds and sore throats. Miss Florence Harvey is unable to at tend her school on account of a severe cold.
 Mrs Edmond Levensworth is indis- posed.
 The Ladies' Social Union will give F .ocial aud warm 10 cent supper, Friday .vening, February 5. in the parlors of she Methodist church.. John Wentch has accepted a position l .s clerk in H. H. Browns store. The social hop gwen in the Town hal vas called grand success. Severn couple were prssent from Woodbury, Roxbury and South Britian. Several young people gave Miss Clar, tray g surprise party, last Tueadas
 vening. They all had very pleasan sime.
 John Morris has entertained his sister lfrom Waterbury and Bridgeport. Tho many friends of Mrs Samuel War
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ne- are glad to know that she is able to be around.
AN OLD VETERAN REMOVED.

AN OLD VETERAN REMOVED.
 Henry Russell has cut down one of the large elms, near his house, which wss built by Amos Ricock, Son of Dea Berj = min HicocK, who was born in 173S Later the place passed into possession nt his nephew, Amos Hicock, who plante d these elms about the beginning of the century. But he afterw wards exprssse d regret that they were set so near the house. It is well to remember when planting tress around house to leave abunda nt room for future growth or plant smaller varieties.
 Miss Mae Levens worth entertained her cousin, Robert Buckingham, from OK. ford, Sunday evening.
 Mrs Burr Futile is recovering from her recent illness under the excellent care of her friend, Miss May Mosher.
 We are sorry to learn Gidney Stiles is very sick. Dr Rodger attends him.