The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-31

I see that - A. NJ" of Searboro, Ga,
wants some paper shell pecans for seed.
Let me give him hint in regard to pecan
culture that may be of profit to him.
After waiting nearly ten years on my
pecan seedlings to bear, without success,
last spring had them grated. At the
same time 1 procured q number of young
healthy hickory trees and set them out
in my grounds A week later had them
grated with pecan cuttings and despite
the fact that we had the hottest and dry
est summer in years, nearly every graft
took" and is now thriving and prom
Using an early yield of nuts.
1 am satisfied, both from observation
and experience, that the grating process
is the best and surest as il is the quick
est way to secure pecan nuts. My neigh
bors have fine crops from three year ed
gratis which is better than 10 walt some
times in vain, ten or a dozen years for
seedlings to bear. L will admit that my
grating on the hickories so soon after
transplanting was a risky experiment and
one that 1 was the sole advocate of at
the time. But the result has fully JUS
titled my hope of success, still l think 1t
safer and perhaps wiser, to give the hick-
cries a years growth, when reset, before
grating the pecan cuttings into them.
However, for myself, 1 prefer my own
earlier grating.
1t may be well to warn your Thomas
vile. Ca, readers that their experiment
with pine straw for a good road bed is a
dangerous one, and likely to be a costly
thing. One of your wealthiest winter res
idents, a New York millionaire, tried pine
straw on the road near his 100000 orange
grove and palaual residence, but with de-
structive results. Somebody in riding
along threw down a lighted cigar stump,
which ignited the pine straw, and in a
few hours the road had vanished in smoke
Not only this, but the fire spread to fences,
fields and outbuildings, and only the pres
ence of large force of fire fighters
prevented great. loss. Pine straw, uncov-
cred, is not a safe, road material.
The early cold snap has given consider
able alarm to the poor orange and pine
apple growers in Florida. 1 mean by poor
men who cannot afford to burn wood or
tar in their groves or pineries to keep off
a freeze Nor can they. like Millionaire
Stetson, at DeLand, build sheds over and
around their orange groves; nor. like
wealthy Mr. Hopper, near Winter Park
cover their pineapples with painted Stats
on top of a handsome fence, the whole
surmounted with q canvas cover to unroll
when a cold snap is expected. OF course,
there are cheaper sheds and simpler means
of protecting groves and pineries, but we
kind of protection, and these suffer more
or less loss every winter since the great
freeze.
Our tobacco growers are also a little
blue on account Of sthe low price and linn
tied demand for Florida tobacco. AS is
the case with all other crops, men rush
into a new thing without regard to their
own fitness or the adaptability of their
soil for the proposed crop. The grape
FAD" and the tobacco and the pineap-
Pile, and the cassava and the strawberry
and the celery-au these "fads," as they
might be called, catch a great many I'M
settled, dissatisfied men-the class that is
always on the lookout for new things and
money-making crops. Low priced cotton
in Georgia is offset here in Florida by low
priced tobacco and all your farmers ills
are in some way duplicated here. And yet
Florida is grand state for invalids, and
a place where living is cheap and homes
for quiet comfort easily established and
maintained.
OF late years cattle raising has become
profitable outside OF the great ranges in
the Everglade region. Prices since the
war rule high, and the demand is con-
stantly growing. Since the great freeze
grass culture has had a wonderful and
successful boom, aud nearly every farm
err and fruit grower Is also a haymaker.
Horse rakes and moving machines are
now to be seen on every hand, and West
ern baled hay is almost q drug on the