The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-04-26
FLORIDIANA.


uary 1st.
Capitalists are in the State seeking
large bodies of timber land for lumber
purposes. Only few years more and
the pine and cypress forests will all be
gOne.-Metropolis
The rich deposit of whiting has been
discovered in Nassau county. 1t an
alyzes 95 per cent and is said to be the
richest find in America. It was also
found that carbolic acid in paying
quantities was incorporated with the
whiting. A syndicat tie will at once pro-
coed to develop it, and force of fifty
hands will be put to work.
The fact that nearly 600 crates of
beans were shipped from this place
Tuesday should be sufficient to show
that the recent heavy rains and winds
have not done much damage to the
bean crop.-Cocoa and Rockledge
News.
"A new business firm was organized
in Tampa recently under the name Of
the Tampa Canning and Packing COM
pany, with a capitalization of $25,OOO
This firm is successor to the Gulf City
Canning company, and is composed of
Captain Ben Moody and w. H. Kend-
rick. About two years ago Mr.. Moody
started his factory at Gulf City and
has met with gratifying success. The
business reached such proportions that
a partner was necessary, and the Cap
tain could not have secured a better
man than Mr.. Kendrick. The present
plant will be very much enlarged and
all modern improvements added
Tampa Times.
Frank Wright, the manager of /. S.
GiddenS d Co.'S. branch house at Port
Tampa City, brought to town a curious
freak Of nature in the form OF a duck
ling with two heads, four feet, and
complete equipments for dual exist
ence. Frank is out looking for sew
eral other freaks of nature that he
knows to be running loose in Tampa,
and when he has them all penneu, will
put them on hibition.-Tampa
Times.
The UP country farmers and grow
ers had another blow last week, which
while hard on them, will prove bene-
fetal to South Florida people. The GU
cumber and cantaloupe crops in the vi
cinity Of Savannah were badly injured
in fact most Of them were killed out
right by the frOstS, and naturally all
other tender vegetation went the same
: road. This means that it will be a
long time yet before there will be any
thing to compete with South Florida s
vegetable crop, and those who needed
our advice and planted after our
snowy weather will doubtless get well
paid for their time and labOr.-BartOw
Courier Informant
The shipment of beans will begin
from this section by Monday. 1t is
thought that many thousand baskets
will be shipped during next week. The
indications are that the price will start
in good and that it will take some time
to supply the demand and effect the
market. The farmers and commission
men seem to look at it in the Same
light and both fully agree that there is
good chance for the growers Of beans
to make big money this spring
Gainesville Sun.
That roses will grow here luxuriant-
ly without clay or muck is demon
strated at Altena Plantation where
Miss Armstrong has twenty-six varie-
ties of roses growing finely and almost
every variety in full bloom. Mulch,
and blood and bone fertilizer compost
ed in hole dug two feet deep, is the
secret Of their success, joined, of
course, with proper care and attention
erwards.-Tropical Sun.
Mayor w. J. Sears, Jr., and Prof. A.
A. Simpson surprised the community
by buying the old Robt Bass home
Stna6 north, Of TOWN tthic, wool This