The Daytona gazette=news. (Daytona, Fla.) 1901-1922, 1904-04-30
nl1IoI's Dig ORANGE CROP.
- o.ooO. 900 Boxss- Oeaags Groves
hieves cssvlsl Sssch . Heavy
D1oo0 - TA1O Year.

TIE New York Packer contains
IL following that will prove pleas
II 10 Floridians:
: Opinions regarding the enormity
a the coming Florida orange crop,
IA rule, seems to be along the
sams channel-that there will be, at
II lowest estimate, 100000 boxes,
With . probability of reaching
itOOOOO. This of course is bar
mag uniavorsble climatic conditions
~ . serious nature.
Tho above statement is prompted
after the Packer man had consulted
the mail advices OF six OF New York =
heaviest receivers and also inter
viewed several big operators who,
during the past ten days, have re-
: tsrned from extended trips through
The State. Crop statements, when
made by growers who have fruit to
ell, - buyers say, are somewhat
h;sssd with the intention Of keeping
psicss up, and the broker or dealer
vho wants to buy, on the other
hand, 10 inclined to exaggerate to
soms degree, 20 the sellers say.
The truest and only sure way
ios . newspaper to give = reliable es-
innate OF the conditions is to draw
the best conclusions possible from
- statements OF all, and at the
same time gather as much infor-
nation M possible from its own
correspondents who are in the
State and know whereof they speak.
The orange groves OF Florida
nsver carried such a heavy bloom as
they have to-day. Not even before
ths freeze were the trees 80 heavily
laden. In all parts of the State
whsrs the Packer is in q position to
obtain information, there il an AIR OF
prosperity such IS Florida has not
known in years. Heretofore grow
on have been afraid to work with
confidence; many Of them went at
their work in the early part of prev
ious seasons with sort 81 How
much money will lose this year!
cir. They were afraid t" strike out.
This year it has been different
They realize that the growing oi
oranges is pretty good investment,
and they have adopted the mos,
modern methods. 1t is safe to say
that more fertilizer is rsed IN the
State this year than has been used
any two previous years together
The consequence is that new groves
are coming in all over the orang,
growing section, hurried along by
the scientific methods of cultivation
The trees are blooming full, and
their owners are taking care of thu
blossoms The spray pump IL more
popular than it has ever been before
The growers started n year ago to us'
it without reserve, and As result
they have the enormous crops 1"
earlier truck and fruit to show foI
it.
A Western man who has beer
in the State for couple OF month";
WAS in New York on his way hom'
this week. 1t is needless to stai'
that the West played an importan
part in consumption of Florid'
oranges. This Chicago man wa
asked what he thought of 3,5D,U'
box crop. Don, mention my name
he said, because some of my frlnd
might get mad, but you can be
your last dollar on not less thai
1900, OO and from that up to 1000
40. | never saw anything hk
the denseness of the orange tire
bloom this year.
"Why,if the same percentage hold
Is last year some of these Norther
houses who own groves will nc
have to 60 out side to buy a DO,
j. H. Preston X Co, of Providence
can't help having 1900 boxes {
grapefruit and oranges And ther
are number OF other firms VIII
viii be a. well supplied from thel
own groves"
The grapefruit crop will /