The National tribune., 1910-03-10

seat of great sugar industry. 1t Is on
the great Plant Railroad system from
Tampa to Washington, Baltimore, Phil
adelphia and New York and ether
Northern cities-Cincinnati, Columbus,
Cleveland, Chicago, etc.-a line now
known as the Atlantic Coast Line Rail
road. These great advantages are per-
manent and everlasting. Tie business
industries of st. Cloud and the farming
around there can never lie overdone.
The teeming millions in the North and
East stand with open arms to receive all
the fruits, vegetables, etc, from Novem-
Der to June, and are ready to pay the
price.
1T was our good fortune to first see
the town in November, 1909, a couple
rived. Think of It! In less than so
days we counted over 200 homes COM
pleted or under construction and as
many tents scattered over the townsite
Everybody was cheerful and at work.
Many had prepared their lots ready for
planting their garden truck and were
sinking driven wells. They secured va
ter at a depth of from 10 to 20 feet,
which came within two to three feet of
the surface BY means of an hydraulice
ram or a motor pump it will be no trou-
bic to Subirrigate every foot of land.
They can then compete with the other
localities and be free from all malaria
and damps, flies, mosketos, etc. The
only objection We heard of was because
they did not get flowing wells, but with
the hydraulic ram or gasoline motor
they can do as well as with flowing
wells, and then be free from all the
other troubles.
Here they can live out of doors all
the time, and they can work the soil all
the year The soil is hammock and
muck and pine land. The townsite is
laid out in perfect order. The avenues
run north and south and are named
after the States-Ohio, New York, Flor
ida and Pennsylvania being the main
avenues. The streets run east and west
and parallel the railroad On PennsyI-
Vanta avenue they have built a large
bank building and a fine hotel, store
rooms, etc. They have given choice To-
cations for churches to the Methodist
Episcopal, the Presbyterian, Baptist and
Catholic, and all are preparing to build.
Il am confident that all are interested
to know what can be raised in this To-
catlty. How many crops and can semi
tropical fruit be raised here? For Is
years the Shaker Colony and others
have successfully raised bananas pine
apples, Sugarcane, oranges, grapefruit,
tangerines, etc. The pineapple here, as
in other semi-tropical regions requires
fence protection from winds and lath
covering as protection from the sun.
Then, they use artificial heat while q
'Norther" is on for a night or two
The same is done for bananas. Other
fruits they give no extra care, and are
not given as much care as are some of
the Northern orchards. The Shaker Col
Ony raises all kinds of truck, and as
successfully as we do in the North. and
raises it all the year. The chicken in
dustry is easily carried on and is eX-
ceedingiy profitable. One gentleman at
Sanford, close TO St Cloud has from
$500 to 1000 chickens, and was gath
ering 1,S0O eggs daily and selling them
for 30 cents per dozen. He had them in
pens of about 100 each. He contracts
the eggs at 30 cents the year thru, and
the chickens sold for eating at IS cents
each. He raises lettuce, cabbage and
rape for the green food, and gives them
broken shell gathered from the mounds.
The droppings bring ST per ton. The
coops are inexpensive. They are COW
cred with felt roofing and have heavy
canvass for the sides. The nests are
underneath the tight floor His net in
come last year was 5000. One man,
wife and daughter gave their
attention to the ranch. They were
Matching out 1000 little chicks with the
incubator. He raised the white Wyap-
dots.
Cattle have large range, and iaIry-
ing is exceedingly profitable. There is
much te study and learn to be able to
conduct a successful farm or ranch or
garden or grove in Florida. If one at
tempts to trust entirely to nature he
Will meet with the same failures that
are met with in Ohio. While nature has
done much in climate, soil, etc, one will
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its and much mental activity to be
successful ranchman. In the region of
st. Cloud it takes but little work to put
the land in fine productive state The
land requires intensive farming to he
profitable, but 1t is easily worked and
fs exceedingly responsive. Every month
one can be out of doors in his shirt
sleeves working. He can enjoy nearly
every day in the beautiful sunshine. A
great industry open to the newcomer in
st. Cloud Colony is the raising of Ber-
muda onions. They are planted in Oc-
tober and November and are ready to
be shipped in early Spring. One often
hears the inquiry: Where do the people
find a market?' The large hotels, board
ing houses, etc, filed with thousands
flocking to the State for the climate.
health and rest; the sportsmen for
sport, etc, take the output, so that very
little is shipped away. We could see an
opening for large canning, preserving
or picking establishment in or near St
Cloud.
''One thing we wish to call attention
to is the healthfulness there. The Shak-
crS are known to be a truthful people
Their honesty is never questioned and
their habits of industry proverbial They
take great delight in telling of their
success and the effects of the climate
upon their health and the health of
those coming TO this locality for climatic
benefits. Mosketos have no abiding
place in this high, dry locality, and.
there being no sWamps, they have no
home to feed from the 1naIarial dis
trict. Acute infectious diseases are un-
known, and by proper hysienic enforce
ment OF health laws they will always
escape them. OF what is called grip or
severe colds they have comparaIiyelv
none The air passages and lungs of
those afflicted with diseases of the
breathing apparatus improve soon after
those afflicted locate there Those suf-
fering with asthma get well and have
no further trouble. / shall hereafter
advise those suffering from this afflic-
ton to go to st. Cloud. The same NAV
be said of rheumatism. All are bene-
flied and cured after locating and living
here.
''To tell of all the possibilities for the
health, comfort and benefits in st. Cloud
or in that part OF Florida would take
TOO much of your time. \ word about
the results of the cold spell or the fruit
and truck will interest you The tender
garden truck was frosted or nipped a
little. The orange trees were not in
jured except the leaves, which showed
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