The Florida agriculturist., 1909-03-01
business is assuming tremendous proper
Agriculture.

the development of which has only been
fairly started, one can realize how Jack
sonville, the metropolis of such mag
nifcent State, is growing so rapidly, and
yet it is probable that FlOrida's greatest
source of future wealth and prosperity
is in agriculture The State is blessed
with climate and soil especially adapted
to the raising of citrus fruits, and many
farm products and garden truck, at a time
of the year when they can be produced no
where else. The lands in and about Jack
sonville, as we'll as over the entire State,
are reasonable in price and are suscep-
tible of both intensified and diversified
farming. Here there is no long season
of cold and ice to stop the work upon the
soil, and crop after crop can be raised In
quick succession each one yielding a
handsome return. Less shelter and no
more care is needed for live stock, such
as horses, hogs, sheep, cattle, poultry,
etc., than in the Northern States. 1t is
an almost regular thing for an energetic
and intelligent farmer to make from
$4,000 to 81 900 an acre from close at
tention to his crops, in a single season,
of from four to five months. Florida is
the winter garden for about 65,OOO,OO0
people of the United Saskatchewan
Kansas City, Omaha and st. Paul on
the west, and Montreal, Boston and New
York on the east. There is but one other
section of the United States (that is the
lower portion of California; that offers
even the possibility of raising similar
crops at the same time of the year as
Florida, and when one remembers that
California is three times as far from
Chicago, and four times as far from BOs
ton and New York as Florida is, it is
easy to see that all the advantages are
with Florida, both in the economy of
time and expense and in the freshness
and fitness Of all her products for being
set upon the table for use.
One of the most important movements
just inaugurated in Florida is the Duval
Farm and Land Company. This company
is capitalized for $4,000 and will put
under cultivation this year considera
BILE tract of land near Jacksonville in a
variety of staple crops, showing the
method of intensive and up-to-date farm
ing in this section. 1t will be an object
lesson of just how to handle and prepare
the lands for truck farming and crops
in the most advanced and profitable man
ner and how to cultivate and manage the
tilling of the soil. The work and results
of this undertaking will be open to the
inspection and help of others who engage
in farming and trucking in Duval county
and Florida, and will demonstrate the
splendid opportunities here upon the soil.
Advantage and opportunity meet for
those who secure lands and homes in
Florida and engage in business in this
State. It is rapidly growing in every
way, and it will be only few years un
til those settling here at this time will
have both their land values and business
opportunities greatly increased by the
growth of the State. Jacksonville is the
county seat of Duval county, and Duval
county has a large amount of vacant
land that can be now bough at low
prices, upon which splendid returns can
be made. The rapidly increasing popula
tion of Jacksonville makes a large and