The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1905-01-14

Correspondence ofthe democratic Advocate

Correspondence OF the Dsrnocrhtic Advocate
MoISrosH. FLORIDA. Jan 8, 1905.
MEssRs. EDITORS According to a prom
Use. of uncertain age, | viii drop you a line
from our Florida 6reside. Fireside in truth,
for now the Goals are glowing and We are en-,
loving their cheer after rainy day, yes and
we can nov sit around this same luxury, an
open fire. and enjoy Maryland apples, alter
mating with Florida oranges. aud think Of all
the Maryland folks possibly snow bound IN
their furnace heated houses, grand or th,
Fireplace heater, or possibly just an old fash
Toned template stove, Of the same pattern
on which / once, when boy, buck wheat
cakes baking. tell son my mouth waters
nov when | think Of the color and general
appearance of those cakeS, and often wish for
some of the same kind TO eat with our Florida
syrup. But you folks can get buckwheat
-four, but TO enjoy life you should have the
Florida syrup TO go with the cakes. Then life
would be worth living. If you did not sill your
foo selves by eating too long and regularly.
Blu, say, I'm away from my text. | could not
write anything of interest about Maryland,
thai is, to your raiders
We still live and move and seem 10 prosper
and The county and State are today in better
financial condition than before the freeze Of
1694-5. Weare again in the orange business,
and the past season this part of Marion county
shipped about $4,000 boxes, ana we still lead
in producing an orange that will carry to any
market, and of such quality that when man
eats one he wants more In tact we try to
grow all stuff Of the ''waut more" flavor. In
the auction sales in New York city this season
our fruit led the sale each day that we were
in the sale. We this year have quite crop
of what we know as June Bloom oranges,
the regular blooming season being February.
This late stuff viii not be fit 70 put in the
market before late in February or March. al
though it now shows good color.
Truck Well the boys are still at il. The
early pea and bean crop has been marketed, and
lettuce is now moving and selling at good
prices for fancy stock; beets and cabbage will
be the next to be ready for market, and next
week we will begin planting our potato crop.
then beans. melons and cantaloupes, finishing
about February 18th. There is money IN it,
but-but you We got to watch-yes aud work
too. This is no lazy mans country, unless he
wants TO sit down and drift with the tide, bat
there are good returns here for one who has
learned how to ''git up and git in old Car
roll, and brings the ''git" down with him and
keeps it.
Stock is coming to the front. Hogs make
quick returns, as they increase rapidly, and
we do not have to feed against six months
cold Abou. week ago | went out to the lot
and found Jezzebel and her family of eight
pure bred Berkshire babies under a plain
shelter, and l thought OF conditions in Mary
land at this time of year. If the pigs did not
freeze it would take four quarts of bran and
shorts for this family per day. Then you
would have to throw in two quarts extra and
eight ears of corn TO keep up the fire. Have
Shorthorn aud Herefords, one herd of Pole
Angus cattle. and they do well, and am well
pleased with my mule colts. They are still
running on the pasture; come to the barn at
night and we give them little grain. | now
think raising mules will be more profitable
than beef cattle, and say, don't you tell any
of my folks, but l now own mule Pap, and
be calls every morning in time for breakfast.
Quite lot of winter visitors at our burgh |
enjoying the shooting and fishing. Yours,
BILLIE. |