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

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NEE Valley Gazette.
The Gainesville Sun says that Ala
chua county is shipping large quaint
ties of lettuce for which the planters
are receiving SIS per crate. At that rate
it won't take them long to recover
from the losses of the big February
freeze.
The freight and express business to
and from the Manatee country, has
grown to such dimensions that the
steamer Manatee is inadequate to han
die the trade. The steamer Terra Celia
has been brought into use. She left
the Phillips & Fuller wharf with full
cargo Of crate material for vegetables
for an immense vegetable business in
that section was never brighter The
crop is the largest of any former year.
the quality very fine and the demand
at good prices is far beyond the, supply
Tampa Tribune.
Augustin Fernandez, a Cuban, about
thirty years of age, was struck by the
southbound mail train on the Jackson
vile, Tampa & Key West Railroad re-
Gently, about nine miles north Of San
ford, and mortally injured. He was
brought to the city and DR.. n. d. How
ard summoned. He was moved to the
Plant System Hospital Immediately,
and died soon after. Fernandez retain
ed consciousness until the last. He has
mother living at Key West. His last
statement was that he was exhausted
from travelling looking for work, and
tainted beside the track.-SanfOrd cor
Times Union and Citizen.
The KiSsimmee paper tells of a man
who has been making good money re-
Gently shipping blackberries, getting as
much as S. net for one case of 80
quarts. Here is another thing for our
farmers to think about
Messrs. Lightsey and F. 3. Swear
ingen began shipping beans and
squash this week. They have eight
acres Of fine beans and will be ship,
ping continuously from this time on
Beans are bringing 43 to 81 per crate
in the markets now and at anything
like such prices there is big money to
the rowers.-Bartow Courier-InfOr
mant.
Mr.. e. \. Douglass is going to try
the experiment of fattening cattle an(
hogs on velvet beans. He has secured
two hundred acres of land and will
plant it all in velvet beans, and viii
feed the vine and bean to his stock
The bean has been used the past yeal
by many ais feed and has been such 6
success that he thinks he can produce
first class beef at a reasonable outlay
Orlando Reporter.
G. T. Kennard has a pet pig which
is quite an oddly. His plgship recent
ly observed a calf receiving milk from
it's mother and evidently thought thai
he had as much right there as any
other animal around the yard. The
cow offered no resistance, and now Mr.
Mr.. Kennard has to lock his pig up in
order to- get any milk from the cow
Gainesville Sun.
At the annual convention of the
Florida State Association Of Railway
Surgeons held in Jacksonville on the
18th, officers were elected as follows
President, w. L. Hughlett, Cocoa; frs
vice-president, r. L. Harris; second
e-president, G. H. Altree; secretary
and treasurer, B. It. Walker. S. c.
Morley, w. H. Cyrus and Frank Cald
we'll were named as members of the
executive committee.
The managers of the Polk County
Fair Association at Lakeland have al
ready had an eight foot broad bicycle
track completed around the entire cir
Gle, and before the ''meet'' they will
have it made sixteen feet wide al
around, thus making it one of the mos