The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1906-05-11
!. GENERAL INFORMATION
Gathered from the Ends of the Earth
for the Benefit of the Trade.

for the Benefit of the Trade.
Van Buren,, Ark, viii begin shipping
Strawberries this week.
Cennecticuts annual hay crop
reaches a value of about $1000O000
and the potato crop about 100000
Dispatches from the vicinity of New
| Castle, Ind, say the peach crop is
killed, but that a big apple crop is
promised.
! Alabama berry growers are facing a
famine of pickers. The crop is very
large and many pickers will be needed.
The strawberry crop around Padu-
cab. KY, promises to be one of the
finest raised for years. 1t, however,
will be ten days later than last year.
George F. Brunson, we'll known
fruit grower, of BerTien county. Mich,
declares that the strawberry crop OF
that county will soon be killed off en-
tirely by what is known as the green
strawberry worm.
Potsdam, ~. Y, berry growers COM
plain that the open winter has been
bad for their plants, many of the young
fields being winter killed. On this ac-
count they say the strawberry crop
will be very short.
There is some difference between the
apple prices of 1900 and 1906. In the
former year they were retailing at 81
per barrel and at the present time the
WHOLESALE quotations are $3.50@6 ,with
a meager supply.
Modern machinery has done much to
Tighten the work and lower the cost of
farming, but 1.-The invention of machin-
cry for the use of fruit growers does
not compare with the devices for the
use of the general farmers.
Henry ]. Lamar has established at
Summerfield, Ga, one of the finest
chicken farms in America. The stocks
of chickens are of the finest breeds
that money can buy. and the plant is
nearly perfect in equipment.
| The Nashville Strawberry Associa
ton, of Nashville Tenn. held a meet
ing recently on Paradise Ridge and
perfected all arrangements to handle
the coming crop, which promises 10
be the banner crop for many years.
| trip over southwest Arkansas at
this time carries the impression that
i19O6 promises to be a banner fruit
lyear. Pears, plunns and peaches are
coming into full bloom and the prom
Use of peach crop is surprising.
! Americus, Ga. peach growers fear
they will not be able to secure labor
Ienough to properly gather their
peaches This is the first yea" peaches
have been shipped from there in any
Quantity, and the crop Promises ia be-
large.
The Crown Brand Milk Company. 10
manufacture butter. milk and cheese,
has been incorporated at Denmark. y.
~, with a capital of $4,000. The incOr-
porators are Herbert f. Cook, Richard
c. Otis and John T. Martin. all of
Denmark.
| The Union Pacific railway company
last week confiscated 10 cars of pota-
toes at Greeley and sent them out as
a special train at express speed 70 San
Francisco \ check was later sent To
lthe owner of the shipment by the rail
way company.
| The Cape Cod Cranberry Growers
Association has been assured Of an al
Iotlnent Of 5000 from the state agricul-
tural experiment station for studying
worms and insects injurious To the
cranberry and the devising of some
means for their determination.
| Orleans county. y. Y, fruit growers
are making strenuous efforts IL drive
| is going over each young orchard and
carefully examining each tree with q
microscope. If the least trace Of the
scale is discovered the tree is pulled
up and burned.
! According to w w. Ogilvie. com
missioner of agriculture of Tennessee,
little damage has been done 10 fruit
or growing crops by the freeze. He has
made an investigation of the peaches
and he is of the opinion that reports
that the crop had been badly damaged
were much exaggerated.
The farmers of New Jersey use over
81 900. 600 worth of chemical fertilizers
a year These consist of nitrate of
soda sulphate of ammonia. dried
blood tankage, fish scrap. acid phos-
Iphates. bone, bone black dissolved,
Peruvian guano. suplphate of potash.
lkainit and nitrate of potash.
1t has been nineteen years On the
north fork of the Gunnison in Colorado
since there was a failure of an apple
icrop. In the last eighteen years in the
isame country there has been only one
failure in the peach crop Lands on
which producing fruit trees are 10
.cated in that part of the country are
lsold for from $1,000 To $1,000 per acre
land ready purchasers are To he found.
The outlook for the present year is
1.-The best in the history Of Data coun-
'Ity.
Even the Blind May See
The proposition to admit free Of
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