The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-07-04

nom eight 10 ten tons 10 me acre.
Besides being stock food. cassaya
also yields. when grated. great per-
cent Of starch and also makes good pies.
pudding. and battercakes.
Farming about Chipley is about as
cheap as anywhere in the United States
and far more profitable than most places.
One farmer reported that from thirty
acres Of land he had realized four bales
Of cotton. FIVE hundred bushels Of corn.
three barrels Of molasses. $4,000
pounds Of pork. all the rice he could
consume. ten gallons of honey. realized
5000 on shipment Of tomatoes, and
raised all the garden truck he could
eat and made enough profit on the gar
den truck he sold. to clothe his family
for a year. and cultivated the whole
place with one mule. and the only help
he had. was given by his two little
daughters. one eleven years old and the
other fourteen.
Western Florida a Great
Melon and Truck District
The farm land in the vicinity of Chip
ley is most adaptable to the growing
Of melons as well as truck. Cantaloupes
are ripe by the middle Of May and
watermelons are ready to be shipped
by thefrst Of June. This melon indus
try is rapidly growing in Western Flor
ida and promises to be one OF the largest
farming industries Of the section of the
state before many years.
Fruit Culture Has Been
Tried Very Successfully
The culture of fruit has been one of
Chipley's stand-bys for many years and
each season sees many carloads of fruit
shipped away. berries also. being in
Guided in the fruit class, for the ship
ments of berries from Chipley. some
seasons, are unusually large. Within
a quarter of mile from Chipley is one
of the largest fruit farms in Western
Florida. planted chiefly in Lacont pears.
but there are also many pecan trees
about the place. which in this climate
do exceedingly well. Strawberries are
also extensively cultivated and many
shipments are made each season.
Many Interesting Points of
Natural Beauty Near Chipley
Farming and stock raising are not
the only attractions about the place. for
there are many places of interest about
Chipley that are more than attractive.
In one place there is a great cave Of
limestone. miles long. and in it is big
lake, the fish of which are blind like
those Of the Mammoth Cave in Ken
lucky, but the great limestone arches of
the caves, which glitter with stalactites
in the glare of the torch Of the explorer
are the greatest attractions of these caves.
Falling Water. small cataract near
Chipley, is another attractive spot. 1t
is on one of the highest points in the
state, being many hundred feet above
sea level. the water coming from per-
petual springs and falling nearly hun
dred feet to the river. -
One of the chief charms of the TIM
Der land about Chipley is the openness
of the woods. In the great hardwood
and pine timber tracts except for the
big trees themselves. the land is all open
and is practically devoid of bush-like
underground. But the ground is car
peted in wire grass, and other grasses
making the great tracts seem like part
of the grounds of some immense well
kept estate. From the top Of the higher
points one can see many miles into the
surrounding country. as it stretches of
in rolling hills for miles and miles. dotted
with farm and timber tracts.
Although the roads about ChipIey
are very good, in some places they are
unnecessary for the traveller can drive
his buggy for miles through the woods
over the ground. not encountering any
washouts or erosions Of the earth's sur
face.
Waterpower Available In
Several Adjacent Places
Within eighteen miles of Chipley
there is waterpower available for cleo
trical drive on two streams. the Econ
6na River being especially adaptable to
electrical development. Just how much
horse power can be obtained from this
stream is not yet estimated. but at one