The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1903-04-24

cent OIL. Ii 4o per cent sugar. 4.O3
per cent fiber: 71.s5 per cent starch, ]
and 3.47 per cent nitrogen. The very '
high per cent of sugar and starch
shows the value of this plant as food
for man and beast. All stock, in
poultry, are exceedingly fond
of the roots. They also make de-
licious puddings for the table, and
are much relished when cooked like
potatoes. Several starch factories
have recently been put into opera
tion for utilizing the roots, which is
said to be superior to corn starch.
The yield of Cassava is to l2 tons
per acre, about the same labor to |
grow as corn. The roots keep, in the |
ground where grown, almost iudefi- |
nitely if not disturbed, but must be |
used soon after taken from the earth; |
owing to so large per cent of sugar
and starch it spoils quickly If bruised
or broken.
| GROWING HOGS IN FLORIDA.
the State Experiment Station re-
Gently gave out the following sum
mary of results in feeding several
lots of pigs:
| 'The total cost of the amount of
food consumed during the seventy
five-day period was IS 50 for the Cas-
sava pigs and slS.07 for the corn-fed
lot.
This amount divided by the gain
in weight for each lot shows that the
actual cost to one hundred pounds of
meat made from the food consumed
was:
One dollar and four cents Isl. .04)
for the Cassava and s3.06 for the
corn-fed pigs.
Brother Pennock remarked, while
here, that "the best hogs he had seen
were on Lake Polk Ridge" But
there ought not to be any trouble to
make good pork anywhere in the
State where Cassava and velve,
beans can be grown.
Grow hogs at a cent poundl Car
the readers of the REPUBLICAN d.
that in Ohio?
Last year the orange and crap,
fruit put into the State one ant
three-fourth million dollars. 1t look
now as though it might be doubled
this year. The strawberry has al
ready brought in over eight hundre'
Thousand dollars for beginner.
1t seems to be the impression anon,
the people of the North that Florid;
: is only fit to grow oranges and as
kind of a Winter resort. You wi
see from what 1 have stated tha
= Florida is really good for somethin
else.
:. The mining of phosphate alon
amounts to more than all the orange
grown in the State; this phosphate
nearly all exported to foreign port
The first car load of reapers an
" mowers ever received in Barton wa
= unloaded this week, which indicate
= that we are just beginning to appr,
ciate ourselves, and the possibilitis
> for real farming. We are cuttin
as nice oats as grow in Ohio, no,
corn is one to three feet high; ga
= den corn is in silk.
Our cherries are ripe now, del
cious; blackberries going to marke
10 cents per quart; huckleberri'
:. = will follow suit; peaches, waterme
" ons, cantaloupes, etc: guavas (
many varieties: plums, some of the
are busters; persimmons, seedles
and measuse three inches in diamet,
!" - delicious, melting); pears that weie
a pound each: orange trees loaded {
=, the tip with the new crop; some
the old crop yet on the trees.
FLORIDA CLIMATE
Is the most delightful in the worl
- Tourists get the impression that it
awfully hot in the Summer. May
the hottest month; September is
close second. June. July and Augu
= are delightful. / have never see
the mercury above a hundred maj
in Florida; l have seen it higher
Ohio. But l have noted sever
g months at stretch here that Il
- mercury did not go below 70 degree
:. F., and one rarely needs a fan.
The temperature is so uniform tn;
one gets accustomed to it. and it
:. really delightful. A temperature
so degrees, F., would chill US to IL
bone. A little frost in January hur
us as much as a frost in July won
you in Ohio. The high places al
immune from frost, while the 10
places catch the frost, just as Il
low places do in the North.
A gentleman named Miller h;
- just called on me; says his home is
Indiana; left that State only fe
days ago. and that it was froze L
when he left there. He expresss
= great surprise to see ripe cherrie
and morning glories climbing all ov,
the verandas and solid mass
bloom. 1t must be great contras
~ indeed, and 1 am sure that you wi
pardon me for the mention.
We are all in excellent healt
family joins me in kindest regards
~ all our Buckeye friends. Yours trul
DAVID G. GREEN