The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-05-03
FLORIDIANA.

GU saturday night, the WINDOWS were
nailed up and the employees discharg.
ed. Three day and four night watch
men were hired to look after the
property while it is not in operation
Palatka Advertiser.
Saturday nights freight carried the
first solid car of Florida pineapples
shipped from lower Dade this season.
The car was appropriately decorated,
and ON either side was the announce
ment, "FAncy Florida Pines-First
Car Season of 1899" Tropical Sun.
The experiment of putting crude
heavy oil on roads to preserve them,
having been successfully tried in a
number of places, the county commits
sioners have ordered a few barrels of
1t to put on some of our clay roads, to
thoroughly test it's value in that direc-
tiOn.-Orlando Reporter.
Venancio Sanchez one of the oldest,
wealthiest and most prominent natives
of st. Augustine, died at his home
there last week. He had been confined
to his room for several weeks, and for
many days prior to his death he had
been lingering between life and death.
Mr. Sanchez was 90 years old, and had
spent his entire life in that city.
Mr.. w. G. Middleton of this city has
grove of orange trees at Moultrie
numbering 200 in all, now in full
bloom, and promising finely. Those
trees are of the Satsuma variety, bud
ded on to Tmfoliate stock. They came
out of the freeze unscathed. This sue,
cessful use of the Trifoliata sock may
,ic1, IL It, b. \
TOMS neighbors.-St. Augustine Her
aid.
From all reports there is more de-
mand for laborers in Florida than
there has been for q number of years.
There is little excuse for those who
are physically able to- work and who
desire employment, to remain idle. Lo-
borers are wanted on the turpentine
farms, in the phosphate mines, to cut
crOSStieS and to work ON railroad con-
structon. The outlook is encouraging
Where labor finds employment pros
perity is certain to fOlloW.-Gaines-
vile Sun.
Little Joe Robinson who lives about
a mile and a half northwest of town,
accidently shot himself while hunting
his gun upon the railroad track, he
pushed it up by the end of the barrel
and the hammer struck the railroad
iron, discharging the gun, the load en-
tered his arm above the wrist, infict-
ing a painful wound. At last accounts
he was improving. DR.. Oglesby is at
tending his wound.-BartOw Courier
Informant.
Lloyd Spiers, truck farmer near
Moncrief Springs, Duval county, HAS
made a wonderful success with his
"Brandywine Strawberries" which are
a very choice variety and quite large,
thirty three of the luscious fruit ON
the average making a quart. Mr..
Spiers has only half acre of this va
riety, and it will yield him 1000
quarts, at ain average of 10 cents. This
cannot be excelled in any State in the
Union.
The large saw mill at Paradise, in
Alachua county, has been forced to
shut down on account of the scarcity
of water. Several attempts have been
made to bore wells, but to no avail.
In each instance hard rock has been
encountered at a depth Of about eighty
feet. An effort was made to break
through the rock with dynamite, but
instead of resulting in any good, the
explosion broke many feet of pipe.
While Capt. J. p. Johnston was dig
cling up tree on his place a few miles
southeast of town he found an old
musket which was buried three feet
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