The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1907-03-15
FROM FERTILE FLORIDA.
What Is Going on in the Land Of the
Grapefruit and Pine.

destroyed Srveral orange groves.
Se3ner growers are busy planting
melons and are praying for rain at
tho same time.
Al Lake Helen the early peaches
are as large as pecan nuts and they
T-rmise large and early cron.
John I.eOnardy. of Osteen, is sh;nn-
inS some Nery fine lettuce north and
receiving fancy prices.
Iae Pineallas Orange Growers As.
sociariOn net at ST. PETERSBURG Sat
urday and transacted considerable
business OF Importance
{. VI. Harris orange packing house
a. Fort Meade was totally DESTROYED
by FIRE last Friday night. The insrI-
ancr carried was very small
Zine Ga lie farmers are pers.stan.
aDd mean 10 raise a crop of Water
melons despite the drouth. Seye:a.
are drawing water from the late 10
So them started.
Toynton growers have about fn,sh
"a the setting of their plants and
railing ready TO handle an Immense
crop Quite a number of crates OF
Desns are going north daily.
James MrCOmb. jr.. and several
other growers at POmpano viii pack
together this season and expect to
be a, - TO turn out a car o. 80 of
tomatoes every day.
There are some splendid strawber-
ries at Starke and a great quantity
of them. l.ut the drouth is becoming
very serious. Very little rain has fall
len in that section in FIVE months.
W. II. Webb. of St. Petersburg, has
raised three crops of potatoes this
year. receiving 81 per bushel for the
potatoes. total of S36l for the three
crops.
Small quantities of oranges and
grapefruit are being shipped from
Winter Garden. J. l. billiard, of that
place. has 500 boxes of grapefruit
which he Is holding for fancy prices
About Ecu bushels of strawberries
are being shipped daily from Lasty-
This will be- greatly increased by the
first of next week. Prices are good
and the growers expect big yield.
Chase 4 Co. of Jacksonville. are
making their final shipment OF grape
fruit and their initial shipment of
celery. About March 10. they will be-
en- moving East Coast tomatoes in
rcsr lots.
Farmers in the Lemon City section
s'e rejoicing because it is almost as
sared there will be no more frOstS-
All crops are looking well and the sea
s,n promises To be a very profitable
Tatum Ridge orange trees are put
ing on a fair amount of bloom. not
uirhstandinS the dry weather Could
grt wers get good wetting rain
soon the orange trees would put on
a good crop of fruit,
Jordan Brothers. at Miami, are
shiTp.ng large quantities OF fruit
from that section. Recently they
shioped one car of grapefruit from
Cocoanut Grove. one from Miami and
one from Little River.
Many of the peach trees from Nolu-
81 county are showing up in bad
shepe. either from the effects Of the
December freeze or caused from ~
insect. The growers cannot tell
what the trouble is. Ii will effect the
coming crop considerably
Vegetable shipping from Cutler.
rocoanut Grove and other poin :
s,rlth OF Miami is now at its height,
AID every night several car loads OF
tomatoes. beans. peppers and orhe'
track produce go out Among n"
largest shippers are f. IL kirkm"n.
r. 4. Tousey and John Douglas.
:. r SmoaL. NJ. NJ Smoak AMI J.
A Saxon have purchased the wrecked
hacking house ~ the ConSolldat /
Packing company al Pompano and
will rebuild IT, The building Will b.
much stronger ana IueN VIII ''''H
a stock of fertilizers and crate mat 'r-
,al. as we'll As doing all their ON
paCking.
asst week Hudson and Sims Sh.pg
g from Winter Garden the first sold
,arIoad cf celery that ever went
from thar place Mr.. Hudson be.ieF-
ed that c-irry could be grown from
that point al r profit. although this be
lief was not shown By Others. he
has demonstrated fully the cor &c =
ncSs of his idea.
There are commission men galore
al Pomnano. Last week. Theodore
hnoch. of ]. Fl. Schneider & Co ot
New York: Samuel Townsend o