The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1907-08-28


readily put together afterward. Why
not? 1t is only a wonder that such a
knock down" article has not been
patented before.
Here is a nut for the people of the
country to crack; but cracked, of what
benefit will it be? Says dispatch from
Washington:
when Judge Lands, of the United
States court in Chicago, fined the STAN
dard Oil Company $29 100000, he i'm
posed upon the people of this country
an additional BURDEN" said S. j. Nc
Concille, an oil producer of Terre Haute,
Ind, who is in Washington. Il mean
to say that the consumers, eventually,
will have to pay the fine. It will be
the easiest thing in the world for the
Standard Oil Company to recover the
comparatively trifing amount of the fine
imposed by Judge Lands by simply in
creasing the price of oil cent or two
per gallon"
Up in New York, it is said, there are
twelve thousand abandoned farms, that
many towns and villages in agricultural
districts have lost half their population,
and that in the last quarter of CEN
fury the valuation of farm lands has
fallen off one hundred and seventy
millions. Some say that all this is due
to exhaustion of the soil; others de-
clare chemical analysis shows the soil
to be as good as ever. So there is to
be a convention this fall to find out
what the real cause is.
When Ben amin Franklin with his kite
made electricity the servant as well as
the scourge of the people he little dream
ed of the uses to which it would even
tually be put. But now there comes
from Copenhagen thing as wonderful,
seemingly almost miracle. Nitrate
of Soda is now being made out of the
atmosphere by the use of electricity"
No particulars are given, but these, no
doubt, will come in due time to the
ultimate benefit of farmer, fruit grower
and trucker who find the natural nj
trate of the soda beds of Central and
South America somewhat expensive.
There is variety of radish grown in
Japan that makes twenty pound edible
roots. 1t is called Sacruratina and can
be had of Northern seedsmen. It has
a crisp and sweet, rather than peppery
taste and, while the abnormal size men
toned is not likely to be common, yet
one or two pound radish would suffice
for an ordinary family. AS the fruits
of Japan succeed we'll in Florida, why
should not her vegetables?
garden is worth 500, as it destroys in
sects it would cost that amount to kill
by ordinary methods. Besides, do they
not catch flies?
GLOW can [ get rid of ants ON the
lawn" asks a correspondent. For that
matter in the house as we'll. An ex-
change says the answer is as plain as
A, B, G. Go to druggist, get dimes
worth of carbon sulphide, pour table
spoonful in the ant hole, cover the hole
over with sacking or bit of oil cloth
so the poisonous fumes will go down
to the recess where the ants are holding
jubilee over pure food prospects, and
the wicked ant will rest from it's labors
and trouble the lawn no more.
There are over fifty species of orchids
native in this country. What is an or
child, anyway? A family by themselves,
they are most unique and novel growths
in the natural world. These are some of
the names of the groups: The Lady
Slipper, blooming in June; the Ladies
MISSES in September: the rare Eninac-