The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1909-12-25
THROUGHOUT THE STATE.

statred a movement for the construc
ton OF a hard rock road from Tampa
TO S. Petersburg.
ssThat Key Westers are alive 90 the
Importance OF Improvement is shown
| by the fact that the assessment com
mittee OF the Key West Progressive
association secured subscriptions 20
the amount OF S7,700 the first after
noon they started out, and that In a
few blocks of the principal street.
The development OF the Island City
is becoming something like passion
among the citizens, and they have,
besides the organization named. also
a Commercial club and a chamber OF
commerce. Key West has walked up
for good and is stretching It's arms
forth like an aroused young giant
tsThe recent fairs held in this state
have been conducive OF much good.
''Among other things that will re-
turn good money to any farmer with.
in marketing distance OF Tampa is Al
herd of goats. They cost little to-
keep, and neatly butchered kid is al
ways good money in the markets OF
this city.
s"Chicken ranching pays better in
Florida than elsewhere on account OF
the mild climate and the small ex
penges I'm the way OF building and
food for poultry. The demand for
eggs in Florida cities and towns is
always many times in excess OF the
supply.
t+Most any intelligent Florida farmer
and gardener can knock the stuffine
out OF the $50,00O,000 fertilizer trust
by getting a few COWS and carefully |
and skillfully applying
the manure they produce. 1t may be
necessary for certain crops to apply |
a little potash, but the barnyard stub |
can't be beaten at the price 1t costs /
'"No place can equal the opportuni
les, and no country will yield such /
profits per acre as our state. Mr.. q |
w. Kunkle OF St Petersburg sold last
year from one-third of an acre, over
5000 worth OF strawberries and claim.
I'd that better results could be pro /
luced. ANY family can make money
lbove a good living on two acres OF
and IL they irrigate.
'"The new settlers who are throng-
ng to Florida, brought here by the
IL
,est advertisers of Florida the state
Gould have, If they find that all
hings are as represented They will
Irge their friends to come and these
viii bring others. Our cities will fill
ID simultaneously. Each new settler
vill bring some capital with him and
his will grow rapidly, so that the
tate will increase in wealth as well
s population. The state is great
nough in possibilities to make all
Apply who come, but the promoter
rho paints the advantages Of any
articular place or section in bright
r colors than the truth warrants is
ding the whole state an injury. The
ruth about Florida is good enough,
ut the truth may be exaggerated as
D some particular localities.
'That the chinaberry tree be used
5 a tree for the white fly, instead
I being exterminated, is suggested. .
he idea is that IL the tree were lib I
rally sprayed with a wash that q
as full OF them, the result might be 4
decided thinning out of their mum.
err and the salvation of nearby e
roves from the ravages of the tiny 4
lsect.-
The first strawberries that went
om a Florida farm to a northern
aTket brought 81 a quart in Philadel
MA. II our strawberry men could y
et that price the whole season
rough oranges and other Florida
by which the state is chiefly d
lown abroad would soon rot at C
lme q