DeLand news. [volume] (DeLand, Volusia County, Fla.) 190?-1921, 1909-10-29


has been $4,000 bushels per week, begin
ming in July and continuing until
September 10, and scores Of other
stations in this sandy district Of the
State ship about as many. Prices were
$500 per bushcl for the earliest and
closed at IS cts. The small ones are
disposed of at the starch factories at
IS cts per bushel,
The array of machinery for raising
potatoes costs about as much as for
raising wheat and the potato bug
must be destroyed often in the growing
season with showers of paris green
an expensive necessity that Florida
potato growers do not require, yet
Minnesota potato farmers make money
at above prices and outlay.
A South Dakota town has received
,oo, 900 bushels Of wheat since August
Ist. Many trainloads OF it pull out of
the station daily for Eastern markets,
and the great Touring mill prepares
from it cereal foods and choicest flour
that are sent across both great oceans
and all over our own country.
| was facinated with watching the
steam threshing outfit convert the
stacks of grain into heaps Of straw and
loads of clustering wheat. y bundle is
pitched onto table of the thrcsher
which shakes it toward the steel fingers
that clutch it Ga knife falls upon the
cord that binds it) and carry it through
a cylinder, passing the straw out on a
long elevated revolving shaft on which a
blower plays a powerful breath which
rapidly shapes mountain of straw by
fitting and turning the shaft to keep the
mountain of symmetrical shape, thus
protecting it from decay by rain and
snow.
The grain Sits into pockets on a
revolving belt. is famed Of chaf on it's
passage to the top Of the machine where
it is automatically measured in half
bushel measure and emptied into a
metal tube which carries it to waiting
wagons with top boxes that hold 50 to
Is bushels; these are hauled to the
grain elevators and unloadcd auto
matically. Surely the Jump from the
fail to the steamer is a mighty one
These machines cost So 900 and never
paw for themselves, it is said, yet they
charm poor men to buy them by their
mechanism that operates with seeming
human intelligence.
Protecting Wild Game.
The legislature of South Dakota has
fixed fine of twenty-five dollars for
shooting a prairie chicken for the next
two years. Would it not be profitable
for Florida to protect its quail and
pigeons for a few years, before they be-
come extinct?
A Woman Superintendent.
In the southwest corner of Iowa is
county whose school superintendent is
woman. She has filled the position for
series Of years, and given special effort
to modelling the rural schools toward
perfection, realizing the fact that large
per cent of the country pupils will never
attend any other than rural schools.
Yesterday twenty southern State
superintendent and professors were
here to inspect the rural schools OF this
county, as they have gained the reputa-
ton of surprising all Others in the
United States.
Among the State superintendent
were Holloway, of Florida, Pound, OF
Georgia, Girnnels, of Alabama, Powers, OF
Mississippi, Harris, OF Louisiana. The
party was met at the station and con-
veyed in autos to the district schools
in this part of the county; today they
are all at the schools in another side OF
the county. But while Iowa is setting
an example in educating its rural pupils,
the north is borrowing talent and elo-
quence from the South. Ex-Governor
Glenn, of North Carolina, and Mary
Harris Armour, president of Georgia
w. c. T. ". are to give addresses at the
national W. c. T. L. convention at
Omaha next week.
Automobile Carnival.
County Automobile Carnivals are the
latest mode of attracting crowds to a
central county town. Yesterday /
witnessed the carnival in which 1870