The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-07-31
FLORIDA AS SEEN
BY THE STATE PRESS
Florida as seen tag
Nassau County omatoes.

II IOIlud dS seen Tag
Nassau County Tomatoes.
! That Nassau county can grow vege-
! tables and especially tomatoes was
| evinced by an exhibition at this of
| fee left here last week by Mr.. J. X.
| Hardee, of Crandall. The exhibition
was in the nature of a bunch of toma-
| toes, five in the cluster and the larg-
est measuring six and three-fourths
| inches in circumference and the
| smallest one over five. 1t was the
! greatest cluster of tomatoes ever
| seen here or in any other part of
/ the state. Mr.. Hardee only had a
| garden patch of tomatoes, but the
| yield was great.-Fernandina Record.
Money in Trucking.
| Maldo Martin, a leading trucker OF
the Martin section, was in Ocala a
day or two since, and in conversation
with a reporter of the Banner, stated
that he was quite successful in grow
ing vegetables this season, and that
| most of the growers came out with
very .creditable bank accounts. He
said that the trucking business is
like all Others-it requires the care
full watching of every detail, and af-
ter the crop is successfully grown
and gather it then requires good
Judgment and knowledge of the mar
kets to know the best shipping points.
For instance, Boston may be an ex-
cellent market for beans. but it is a
very poor market for cTcumbers, and
New York may be a good market for
cucumoers, but poor market for
beans and SO of the other markets.
by Studying the markets very closely
be was fortunate in shipping all his
produce ia the markets that brought
the best prices. He did not hit wrong
in single instance Hao he shin
ped unintelligently he might have lost
as much as he made.-Gainesville
Sun.
Trucking in Florida.
An item in the Ocala Star tells us
of man near there who has this
season cleared $1,000 off of fifteen
acres in beans and another who
cleared $4,000 off of twenty acres in
tomatoes; another is shipping water
melons and getting S175 per car on
the track News like this cant be
circulated too widely, for even in our
state there are many people who are
yet strangers to the great work that
has already been accomplished in de- |
veloping Florida as a trucking state |
and they still think of it as a land
OF corn and cotton and turpentine |
JC-NS' anu 81" AIlllS, anu uOI much /
else.-Live Oak Democrat.
Pioneer Celery Grower.
Mr. Charles Lord, a real estate /
man of Orlando, claims to be the |
pioneer celery raiser of Florida, and
the facts seem to justify his claims. |
Over thirty years ago Mr.. Lord had |
an orange grove about fifteen miles |
out of Jacksonville. A freeze came
and took mis- orange grove in one
night, and he put out an acre of
celery. The land was a black loan.
covering bed of mari. The celery
Welded abundantly. When it was
ready for the market, Mr. Lord took
few loads to Jacksonville. which was
then d town of about 10000 poDula-
ton. Only few of the Jacksonville
ans had ever heard of celery and |
ever. still cared for If. so he soon
had the market overstocked.
As there were no adequate shipping
ABILITIES, Mr.. Lord allowed the bal
'nce of his crop to lie on the ground
ina go to waste. AS he could not
sell his celery and he was too near
he north pole to successfully raise
ranges, Mr.. Lord sold his farm and
moved farther south. Now that |
elery raising promises to be such an |
important industry in the state, Mr. |
4ord's experience half a lifetime ago
S interesting history.