The Savannah morning news., 1900-07-30

again at noon, and once more at night.
and batten the cracks in the stable, and
feed them cracked ice. especially after
they are in the refrigerator; while the
other breed will feed themselves wire
grass and Spanish moss while the owner
sits in the shade.
Another invader OF the sacred soil of
Florida is the universal Yankee consump-
tive, but this breed, fortunately, we do
not raise in Florida; hence we DO not
plant" him-well hardly ever-but we
cultivate him; We do him. we harvest
and we cure him and send him on his way
rejoicing. Said a noted dealer in orange
nursery stock: Before the war l sold
slaves; after the war l sold Yankees"
Wen. is ii quite so certain as to who was
sold? The sick Yankee" comes down
here. erects his hotel. and conducts it
with his hired help. and when the Flor
ida farmer calls to visit him he invites
him in and feasts him on Northern eel
ery-an article which the Florida farmer
wanted TO sell him, but could not because
he had not enough TO make dinner.
He sells the Northern invalid orange
trees and fertilizers perhaps no oranges
result and the Northerner feels that ne
has been sold. Presently the Florida farm
err ships some produce to the North. and
when it arrives the startling discovery Is
made that the railroad companies and
commission men raised it and 1t belongs
to them. 1t was not the right variety of
produce. The right kind of stuff is raised
in gilt-edged crates and the leaves are
made of greenbacks. The railroad compa-
MES do not raise that kind of produce it
has to be MANFRED with brains not with
fishplates. When the Northerner ships 20
tatoes and ca hba ses down here, they are
or the right variety. We have to pay
good money for them before we get them
AS remarked above, Florida does not
raise consumptives there is only one
variety, the Northern. But we do raise
tourists, and the variety is different from
that of the North. The Northern variety
migrate in the winter and they purchase
chiefly climate; the Florida variety mi
CRATE in the summer, and they purchase
a little climate, but a vast deal of fash
ion, besides wardrobes, carpets, furniture
etc.
Florida grows hickory as we'll as Indi-
ana, but ii does not seem to be of the
right variety for the manufacture of wag-
on spokes. If the trees are cut and shipped
up North, however and the lumber is rasp-
ed with silver and sandpapered with
greenbacks, they make excellent wagon
wheels, which Florida farmers greatly ad-
mlre and purchase. The trouble is with
Florida hickories cut to be manufactured
here, they are not felled in the right
sisll Oh the moon. And the sign is never
right. because in the summer it is too not,
and in the winter the people have a crop
of F'lorida's money-bringers to look after
Among the latest Northern invaders of
Florida and the most unwelcome of all
are the rot and the curculio in our pea ches
ana the blight in our pears Where once
these fruits grew in primitive purity and
without blemish, they are now polluted
with these vile intruders, so that only the
utmost vigilance on the part of the grow
ers. with spray and insecticide, can save
our crops in decent condition.
In the face of the apparent heavy bal
ance of trade against Florida-everything
invading the state in quest of our ready
money-it is some consolation to reflect
that Florida must have the money, or
these invaders would not be so persistenty
coming after it. AS the farmer said
after he had been swindled out of his
years crop of cotton by the bunko men, II
made my money before 1 lost it, l can do
it again"