The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1906-01-05
IN BUSY FIELD AND GARDEN.
Florida People Gathering and Shipping
Fruit and vegetables-Prices Re-
numerative.

Wofford Bros, of Hallendale, are
shipping e. ri ytonatoes to northern
markets.
Orange shippers can draw long
breath now that the rush Of the holi-
day shipping is over.
The crop of an acre grove of tam
gerines, near Orlando, was sold this
season on the tree for S1,750.
More than two solid trainloads of
oranges are leaving the Charlotte
Harbor division of the Atlantic Coast
Line daily.
exceptionally favorable for citrus trees
and many young orchards are bearing
very heavily now.
The Miami Evening Record is auth
GRITTY for the statement that there is a
banana plantation, which is produc-
ing heavy crops, near Hallendale.
Orange Glade is a new settlement in
Dade county that is coming forward
rapidly. There are a great many small
fruit and vegetable farms in that vi
cinity.
1t is estimated that nearly 100000
boxes of oranges will leave Barlow,
Homeland and Fort Meade ere the
season is over.
]. S. Frederick of Orange Ridge, has
a young grapefruit grove that attracts
much attention.
A Titusville grove produced oranges
last year which sold r $1,000. The
grove consisted Of less than eighteen
acres. 1t is owned by T. L. Brady.
In Dade county, particularly the
southern portion, there will be a very
large crop of early tomatoes. Some
shipments are already going forward.
Early eggplant is also extensively rails
ed there.
1t is said that a man, name not CIV
en-, is TO visit the orange growing sec
tions Of Florida, where the white fly
is located and completely destroy them
with a diabolical solution he has in
vented.
Pineapple growers are very much
encouraged not only because of the
high prices that their products are
bringing, but the condition of their
fields gives promise of a most excellent
crop of fruit.
The losses by the truckers last sum-
mer have not discouraged the farmers
to the extent of abandoning trucking,
but there will be a greater diversifi-
cation next season.
The acreage of pines will not be di-
minished. although some old fields
which have Outlived their usefulness
have been abandoned. The acreage of
the new fields planted this summer
will more than overbalance those that
have been abandoned.
The large crops Of oranges and
grapefruit about Altamonte is moving
very slowly on account of the scarcity
Of pickers and packers. The fruit is
nov in fine condition, and when it
reaches the northern markets it will
be a credit to the growers.
St. Paul business men have organ
lied the Minnesota COOPERATIVE
Plantation Co, which owns $40 acres
near Viking. They are already at
work setting out trees and eventually
expect to have a pineapple grove of
more than a hundred acres. They will
devote twenty to thirty acres TO or
shipping early tomatoes to northern
anges.
Sixty acres will be planted to po-
tatoes at Hastings, by DR.. Durkee. The
Hastings potato acreage will be fully
as large as last season and some peO-
pie claim it will be increased consid-
erably. There will be a great increase
in the cabbage crop at that point this
season. Hastings land is said to be
unusually we'll adapted for this crop.
Alex Hallstrom, at one time garden
er for James J. HILL the Minneapolis
railroad magnate, has a hundred acres
at Viking, in Saint Lucie county,
which he is setting out in pineapples
and oranges. Other northern people
who have recently settled here are Ma
jor Daniels, who has a large field of
bearing pineapples. also oranges. A.
Erickson Chas. Gibbons. Joseph Ed
wards and j. Helseth all have orange
groves.
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