The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1901-03-01
Florida Times-Union and Citizen.
Money Crops Crown With Brains.

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There is laconism of Miles OF
\ humor and bucOlic philosophy com
bined in the saying that 1.-THE pig Il
the gintleman that pays the rlnt.'
The orange was the yelIow-hued chi
r nese fairy that paid the mortgage
i The tragedy of the situation consisted
4 in the fact that there should be mort
gage, for mortgage is cancer ana a
: cancer seizes upon system only when
the blood is fevered and distempered
with riotous living. The orange paid
for the barrel of Pillsbury's best, for
J the Chicago porterhOIse steak, and
for the mortgage; but what did the
mortgage pay for? 1t paid for the
land, to carry another mortgage, to pay
for more land.
Then came the Last Days OF the
Florida mortgage IA In Bulwer). As
the rich and luxurious lOwland prov
inces of the orange belt lay wrapt IN
the peaceful slumber which descends
| upon the FlOridian, whether mort
gagOr or mortgage, the volcanic ashes
of Dakota rained all night upon the
earth, and in the morning the mort
| gage took the stumps. The cycle of
! the orange, for the time being, had
! terminated, and the cycle of the pig
was introduced.
We have been at considerable pains
to cOllate authentic Instances of some
| things which can be done as well as
other things, and which have been
done, but always.without mortgage
some of them before the orange indus !
try was disturbed, when prices were |
high but transportation facilities no. |
where near equal to those of the pres
ent times.
An Orange County farmer shipped
part of his surplus sweet potatoes to
Worcester, Mass, sold them at $3.50
barrel. They were not such as
FlOridians prefer, however.
Some Bradford County farmers club
bed together and sent bushel crate of
Strawberries to Boston, where it sold
for S6O.G3.
y Brevard County farmer sold fruit
and plants from two acres Of pineap-
pies, amounting to 81 400 in one sea-
son. Orange County farmers sold not
a few pines at = cents to 81 each at
home.
I'm Orange County farmer shipped
oranges to New York which sold at
D IL cents each wholesale
An Alachua county grower sold So
BOO worth Of cabbage from forty acres.
4 Putnam County farmers wife,
with some assistance from her nus
band, sold 500 to 81 600 worth of
Jersey butter aud bronze turkeys per
year with some grain feed, but only
ia-Woode pasture. This was since they S
ast their orange trees E
An Orange County farmer, raised s
With wood ashes alone. on poor pine s.
and, onions at the rate Of 1000 bush. Z
Is per acre. r
An Orange County farmer sent 70 !
>eW York three crates of Japan ner- |
mmons. and received q check for
--.39. A widow in Polk County. in
er slender possessions, had about o
Oxen per9immon trees, the fruit from
mich melted her about ssh. This was
nee the freeze.
An Orange County farmer thresbed
part Of his peavine hay, and got
Fenty bushels Of couch peas
Aich ho sold at $3.50 per busbel.
rom several acres otcowpeas he sold
lie peas at Sl.s0per bushel.
a Hiilsboro County farmer uIanto6
'elye peach trees ia January, and in
Ateen months had All the fruit his D.
tniiy wanted, while it lasted and
Id $40 worth.
An Orange County farmer Skinned ra,
aches TO New York that sold nj sao L
+ bushel. Pu
a 6adsden County company raised
'efaI acres Of covered tobacco, which
q a cash value IN New York Citv Of
200 to 81 400 per acre, and the cost om,
IS not over $3.50 per acre. This was
It year. CF
An Orange County lady sent 1926
hes OF tuberOse bloom to one North
city, and they sold for $1,000. She l
II good many to other cities. pop
St Johns County farmer. every day
H. raises from sixty to eighty barrels a n
per acre, and nets aboDt He
a barrel for the entire crop. and
en- ne raises about thirty and
reIs per acre as fall crop. worth ~ The
st s. barrel. -,
-0out April lo'and Orange County Tas
her bought eleven hens ami one w.,