The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1909-10-30
FLORIDA NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

roads. The prosperity Of the farm
or and the educational interests o
his children are alike served by On.
Improvement of the highways.
stThe damage and loss 20 the citrus
crop along the southeast coast, II Il
ascertained, will not be more than
per cent Nor has Miami suffered 81
badly as was reported in the frs
dispatches.
'*The educational campaign in Flor
ida is attracting the attention Of tbs
entire country.
ssHillsborough county is likely to gel
her share OF settlers. Besides the
fourishing colony at Keystone Park
another one is about to be started
this time at Largo. A tract of TWEEN
ty thousand acres lying south, east
and west of Largo has been sold Il
Chicago parties, who will colonize II
The land extends from the gulf Ia
Tampa Bay and comes within seven
miles of st. Petersburg.
go. G.. Darling of Jacksonville is OF
the opinion that peaches can be
fully and profitabIy as in the famous
Grand valley in Colorado or else.
where in the North.
ga gentleman who lives in a con
crete house at Pablo Beach describes
the feeling OF security his family en-.
joyed during the recent storm as
amounting almost to luxury. No mat
ter how hard the wind blew, there
was not a tremor noticeable in the
house. He has found the house cool
err than any OF other construction dur
ing the warm weather, and warmer
since it has turned cool
**The attention of every section of
the country is turned to the rapid de-
velopment of Florida and the great
opportunities still presented here to
the settler as we'll as to the seeker
after health and recreation.
**Fours pounds of camphor leave
were recently sent from DeFuniak
Springs to Washington by B. f.
Noyes and DR.. McKimmon, and he has
received from Samuel G.. Hood, scien-
tific assistant of the bureau of plant
industry, the results of an analysis,
as follows: Weight of samples, as
received, 1.540 grains; per cent crude
camphor in sample 1856 per cent; pur-
ity of crude camphor, 70; per cent
oil in sample, 051 per cent; per cent
pure camphor in sample, 1876 per
cent.
s*There will be no white fly scale or
smut to contend with this season.
This fact alone will go a long way
toward making the present crop of
oranges the finest ever grown
""This country is actually importing
for medicinal purposes plants that
are growing wild in Florida, which
no one seems to think it worth while
TO geather. This fact is pointed out
by the department Of agriculture in
bulletin called Weeds Used as Med
icine, which 1t would be worth while
for the boy who reads this to write
for If he wants to make a little mon
ey out of the vacant ground all
around him. The bulletin will ex-
plain how to prepare the weeds for
the market and will give some idea
OF the price that the industrious boy
can expect to obtain for marketable
weeds. Belgium and other European
countries ship to this part of the
world every year about fifty thousand
pounds of burdock root. The root
sells for from to cents a pound
and the seeds for from to 10 cents.
'"With the price of lint at ~ to 13
cents per pound, seed selling at up
wards of $21 per ton, and the pros
poets good for $25 per ton, one be-
gins to feel like raising cotton is not
a bad industry after all, and if con.
ditions remain the same, the proba-
bilities are that many who had given
Up cotton growing will return to II
next season.