The Ocala banner., 1906-11-02
FROM FERTILE FLORIDA.
what They are Doing in the Land of
the Grapefruit and Pine.

Inc strawberry crop around La
<Vilia looks very promising.
~ The movement of oranges from Pal
metto is very heavy now.
Oranges and grapefruit are ripening
quite rapidly at Malabar. The crop
is a good one.
A. M. Terwillinger, of Minis, a
carload orange shipper, is sending out
some nice fruit now
Conductor Bugbee says he has
bought $500 barrels and his brother,
5000 for their potato crop at Hastings
this year.
Fall shipping of pineapples from
Stuart has begun with good fruit and
good prices. There will not be much
gardening as pineapples will pay so
much better.
M. Richardson, of Brooksville, re-
ports good orange and grapefruit in
his section. He says Frank Sampson
estimates his crop at $1,000 boxes.
There will be considerable garden
truck raised in White City this win
ter and number of growers are max
ing preparations to raise strawber-
ries.
w. Scott shipped the first solid car
of oranges this season from Bowling
Green last week. The movement from
that point is now on in full force.
The packing and shipping of or
anges is the chief industry at Home
land at present. The oranges are col
oring nicely since the weather has
turned cool.
A. l.. Hobkirk. of Citra, says the
orange groves in his section are look
ing particularly well. He has
small grove and will ship 600 or 700
boxes this season.
DR.. e. Neve, of Tampa, says the or
ange crop in his section is but little
larger than last season He thinks
the buyers should all hold out for 81
box on the trees.
There will be large acreage of
Fall vegetables planted at Cocoanut
grove this year, mostly peppers and
egg plants. Jackson Peacock is put
ting in 100 acres of peppers and egg
plant.
Up to last Saturday 34,611 boxes of
oranges had been shipped from Fort
Myers this season. For same date
last year the shipments were 1896
boxes and two years ago 25,25S.
The land department of the F. E..
c. railway is going to reclaim and
place on the market several thousand
acres of valuable pineapple and truck
growing lands near West Palm Beach.
The first car of oranges was shipp-
ed from Fort Ogden last week by |.
HI. Trabue and c. c. Morgan. 1t con-
sisted of 256 boxes of fine fruit, bright
and we'll ripened, and went to New
York house.
The famous Ingleside orange grove
at st. Petersburg has been purchased
this week from w. l.. Ainslee by T..
w. Graham and w. B. Hare. This
grove is one Of the largest and most
valuable on the Pineallis Peninsula.
w. II. Harrison, of Palmetto has
fiourishing orange grove from which
he expects to get 1000 boxes. From
one four-year old grapefruit tree last
year he gathered 10 boxes, which he
sold for $40 per box
Money was wired to Tampa last
week fiom Albuquerque, N. NJ, with
an order for a car load of Florida or
anges and grapefruit. This will be
the first car ever shipped to New Mex
leo from Tampa. 1t is probably the
first ever sent to that territory from
any Florida point.
1t can hardly be said that the cit
rus fruit crop has begun to move
from oyeido yet, only about four or
five cars of oranges and grapefruit
thus far having been shipped. About
the first OF next month shipping
will begin in earnest. The crop there
is probably about as large as last
year.
The work of planting pineapples Is
still going on and White City is go
ing to rank as one of the great pro-
ducing centers. The growers have
found that the land is greatly improy-
ed by underdraining.-New York
Produce News. IL.