The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-04-17
The Lure of Florida.
Nellie NJ. Jerauld.

ready to show the paradise. 1t gives
full directions as to preparing for mar
ket of the finished product.
1t is needless to say that this Lure
of the Land" has lured many to Long
Island
Questions asked of this experiment
station are answered in full and cour-
teously by letter, or by a copy. of the
Long Island Agronomist, a Monthly
Record of Facts
So much for the Long Island rail-
road management.
1t has been said that 'the most
valuable of all arts will be the art OF
deriving comfortable subsistence
from the smallest area of soil,' and
Long Island is showing that it can be
done on a small area, and demon
strating, in detail, how to do 1t.
Florida has the advantage of Long
Island in many ways, the possibility
of living with the doors and windows
open the greater part of the year
being not the least.
Inhabitants of the colder climates
tire of the dead heat of their homes,
especialy when that heat costs SIS per
ton, and they are looking towards the
sunny southland.
Florida has all kinds of soil from
the black loan to the beach sand, and
it is all good for something, when 1t is
put in the right condition.
What are the experiment stations
of West Florida doing?
Are they any help to the newcomer?
| have seen booklets, pamphlets and
papers containing articles boosting
Florida, telling of the beauties of
, earth, air and sky, of the lovely water
and hospitable people, but if there is
practical book or pamphlet telling
how, in all its details, to grow the gar
den and orchard products, how to
make pasture, l have failed to find it,
and it is just that kind of a thing the
| home-seeker who expects to derive a
comfortable subsistence from the
smallest area of soil" needs and is
asking for.
| And it is that substantial citizen,
one who will work intelligently to
make a beautiful home for himself,
and so incidentally build up the repu-
tation of the state, that Florida needs.
| We need no more land spectators
who buy land at a low price and hold
It for an advance. We have too many
of them now. But the real home
builder, the bone and sinew of our
land, Is the one needed-and they
must have a practical lure, and such a
book as Long Island sends out. suited
to the needs Of Florida, would be of
great assistance.
Will not some one take up the
matter?
I receive many letters from people
who are looking southwark, asking
about the soil, the fertilizer needed,
the products of the state. ETC. all of
which is difficult to answer, because,
as before said, Florida has all kinds of
soil and almost any vegetable and
fruit can be grown in the state, pro-
vided one understands the conditions
of the soil in the different sections of
the state.
1t is useless to advertise largely of
the, possibilities of our state and then
when homeseekers come have nothing
or almost nothing, to show (outside of
the city or suburbs). They go back
calling us fakes and frauds-and they
are not far wrong
/ wrote an article for a Michigan
paper, telling what homes could be
made with not very much expense, but
a great deal of hard work;I told the
experiences Of some homesteaders and
what they had accomplished from raw
land in four years.
The editors returned the article say.
: ing that if he published it he would be
swamped with letters asking how it
could be done, and where land could
: be had, etc, and added: even ou1
! farmers here are beginning to long for
| warmer climate and an easier life
and l have no time to reply to the