The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1906-09-21

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Through the courtesy Of Hon. W4B.
Lamar we have h hand for distEibation
TO Leon county FARMERS who are inter
ested IN tobacco growing two hund
copies Of q splendid pamphlet and W.
liable maps on the Soil Survey Of Lean
County, FIorida, BY Hons. Henry J.
Wilder, J. A. Drake, Geo. B. Jones
and w. J. Geib. which has recently
been issued from tie United States De-
partment Of Agriculture, Hon. James
wilson, secretary, and Milton Whitney,
chief Of bureau. Hon. w. B. Lamar
took this matter up h behalf Of Leon
county, and the following letter sx-
plains all Get . pamphlet and read Il.
Il will interest you.
u. s. Department Of Agriculture,
Bureau Of Soils
Washington, D. c., April Is, 1905.
Sirs-In the early part Of 1904 Q pc
titiOn was transmitted 70 this Bureau
by the Hon. w. b. Lamar. ThiS poti-
ton was signed by s. citizens and land
owners Of Leon county, Florida, and in
II they state that-
We, the undersigned citizens Of Leon
county, Fla, do respectfully petition
that you use your efforts in securing
through the Agricultural Department
Of the United States q soil survey of
Leon county.
This petition was forwarded to Hon.
w. B. Lamar by DIR. S. r. RadfOrd, one
of the signers and land owner in the
county, who says:
have the honor, on behalf of the
citizens of Leon county, Fla, to pre-
sent to you the inclosed petition, ask
ing you as our Representative in Wash
ingtOn to call TO the notice of the Hon.
James Wilson, Secretary of Agricul-
ture, and Prof. Milton Whitney, Chief
of the Bureau of Soils, the necessity for
a soil survey of our county at an early
date. AS you are aware, the agricu1-
tural industries of our county are still
in their infancy, especially the growing
of tobabco. This industry is a large
source of income to our neighbOrs in
Gadsden county and last year the Ma
tional Government, through the Bureau
of Soils, helped and stimulated this and
other industries in that county by max
ing a soil survey and mapping out for
the benefit of the farmers of that VIC
unity their different types of soil. |, as
a land owner in Leon county, along
with the signers of the inclosed petit
ton, ask for you to intercede on our
behalf with the aforementioned gen.
tlemen and secure for US, your fellow
citizens in Leon county, this much
needed help.
Both the petition and Dr. Radford's
letter were submitted to the Bureau by
the Hon. w. B. Lamar, who took oc-
cason to say, in indorsing the request:
The lands in Leon county are mostly
of very fine agricultural character
The tobacco industry in the adjoining
county to the west, Gadsden county, is
one of great extent and highly profit
able For quite a time it has been
thought that the lands of Leon county
were not so we'll adapted to tobacco
growing as the lands of Gadsden county
Some successful tobacco growing is
now done in Leon county, Fla, and
with a view to finding out the adapta-
blity of the lands of Leon county for
tobacco culture and all other kinds of
culture in the way of plants, grass, and
other agricultural products, the citizens
Of Leon county have largely signed this
petition to have the soils of Leon
county surveyed
Respectfully,
MILTON WHITNEY,
Chief of Bureau.