The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1906-05-18
FROM FERTILE FLORIDA.
What They Are Doing in the Land of
the Grapefruit and Pine.

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Potato prices at Hastings are hold
ing up well.
Last season Orlando shipped out ISL
carloads OF oranges.
The average yield of potatoes at
Hastings is 40 barrels per acre.
Florida wants compulsory methods
for stamping out the white fly.
West Jupiter, has about closed out
its tomato crop for this season.
About 5000 crates of tomatoes go
north through Jacksonville daily.
w. G. Clyatt of Terra Celia, refused
$500 for an acre OF tomatoes recently
One shipment of 10 carloads of cell
cry was made from Sanford last Sun
day.
r. r. Beville. ST. has shipped SOC
crates of tomatoes from Terra Celia
island
Tomatoes are the most talked of
thing in Boynton. They are moving in
lcarlots daily.
conservative estimate of the pine
crop to come from the Keys is about
$4,000 crates.
The orange groves on Shingle creek.
Of which there are quite a number. are
AN looking fine.
j. r. Davis shipped from Barlow on
May the first car Of tomatoes from
the west coast To Boston.
The last orange crop of the state
was about 100000 boxes. but next
seasons will probably be nearer 4.0no.
goo
There must he gold in Florida
sands. as it produces the finest citrus
fruits in the world. says a Florida
exchange.
The first shipment of Red Spanish
pineapples, consisting of 275 crates
lcame 70 Miami from Elliott Key last
week.
The first shipment Of pineappleS
from Delray for this season netted the
grower, j. s. Sundy $3.50 crate in
Jacksonville.
Chase Il Co. will open shipping
quarters at Jensen and Delray. and ex-
ipect to handle the bulk of the crop
from these points.
Ii is only a question of time when
the east coast will grow peaches eX-
itensively. as the land is especially
adapted to the peach.
All the pineapples, both from the
keys and on the mainland. is said to
be of very high grade in size and
quality and will carry well.
The Dommerick orange grove. near
Orlando Melted its owner $4,000 on the
5000 boxes shipped.
Minis claims IL have the best or
ange and vegetable Land in the state.
as can readily be seen by inspecting
the orange groves and gardens.
Beans, Squash and tomatoes are be
ing shipped in large quantities every
day from Minis. and peaches Will soon
be ready for the market.
Florida will send to the northern
markets this spring the greatest guam
tity of early vegetables that it has
ever sent in the history of the state
The height of the vegetable shipping
season of Florida is now on, and an
average of some 80 to 4O'cars are
The outlook for the coming orange
crop is unusually favorable in this
state There has been no frost and
the trees are in unusually good condi-
ton
Starke strawberry growers complain
that the strawberry shipping season
closes before the weather becomes
warm enough to really sweeten the
fruit.
One-groWer near Orlando picked $50
boxes of grapefruit from 250 trees last
season and sold them for $4,000. This
grove covers only three-fourths of an
acre.
shipments of pineappIes, wilt be
made from the east coast this week
and June and July viii be busy times
with the growers and dealers. Tonser-
Vative estimates place the yield a; 250
IA 500 crates per acre.
Reports from the esst coast and
from the south central and west coast
ARE 10 The effect that the pineapple
crop is an extremely large one, and
that the indications are that it viii
exceed by at least $50 per cent the
crop Of last year.
4 premium for the first crate Of
standard packed Florida cantaloupes
and the first crate Of fine peaches has
been offered TO the farmers and citi-
zens of the state by the Consolidated
Fruit Company of Jacksonville. Walter
Hawkins. manager the fruit 10 he
Iauctloned for the benefit OF the Frisco
sufferers.-New York Produce News
Death From Appedicitis.