The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1905-10-27
The Avocado.

A writer in the American Cultivator
has considerable to say of the avo-
cado a fruit which has it's highest
development in Dade county, and
which is fast assuming large proper
portions in the shipments to northern
markets. He says:
''The alligator pear, or the 'agua-
cate of the Spaniard in central and
South America, is a tropical fruit
now relatively little known, but with
every prospect of a gradually in
creasing popularity.
cit is a pear only in shape. 1t
might be called vegetable fruit,
and is to my mind one of the most
delicious products of the tropics.
1.-THE time, 1 believe, is not far
distant when it will be almost
as generelly liked and used as the
banana is today.
'lt is absolutely different from any
other fruit and IS an acquired taste
with most people. The flesh has a
delicate buttery consistency, and is
eaten with vinegar, salt and other
condiments or is used as an ingre-
dent of other salad compounds.
''The promise of agriculture and
commercial Importance for this fruit
lies in the fact that it already has a
distinct, if limited, place in the mar
kets of our larger cities at from 80
to 60 cents apiece, prices that might
be halved or quartered and still leave
good profits for both grower and
dealer.
Moreover, even at these large
prices the supply of first class fruit
seem to be unequal to the demand.
"The 'aguacate' is perhaps the one
fruit which Porto Pico is ready to
xsend to market in considerable guam
tity and of prime quality.
1.-The tree is easily propogated
from seed, is vigorous grower and
free bearer, and there is no apparent
reason why the alligator pear may
not come within the reach of ALL"
90 vyo11 ~ C0IH
old Irishman, ''but the moon is worth
ten of it," "Why?" asked his friend.
Because the moon affords us light
in the night when we want it, where
as the sun is with us in the day time,
when we have no occasion for it,"
was Pats explanation.
1t is reported that Editor W. F.
Stovall. of the Tampa Tribune. will
issue invitations next week to all the
= Florida newspaper men and their
families to be his guests at the Tam
pa Bay Hotel during the state fair.
This will be very nice of Col. Stovall
and we regret that we haven't a
larger family.-De Soto Advertiser.
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Printers are more and more in de-
mand; understanding the almost uni
versal use of the machines there seems
to be a growing demand for hand
printing. Why do not more girls take
up this branch of trade? The work is
light and the pay better than in some
other occupations now almost mo-
nOpolized by women.
Spe aking of Mr.. Geo. G. Marsin, of
Brooksville, the Dade City Democrat
lays he is an ideal lawyer, faithful
and tireless, and his speeches forceful,
logical and analytical. Mr.. martin
is frequent visitor to Ocala and it
gives us pleasure to reproduce the
compliment here given him.
The editor of this paper as policy
holder wrote a modest letter to Pres
ident Mccall about using the policy
holders money with which to swat
free silver'' as being to many of
them the unkindest cat of all. He
writes back that the New Y Ork Life
is doing for the policy holders all it
agreed to do We did not know before
that killing ''free silver''was one of its
performances and was so nominated