The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-05-11

MS Oedutitul pnotograNureS OF CROP
production. But hold They do pro-
duce marvellous results in vegetation
and the photo reproductions are true
to the camera. But they are taken
from the rich mans land. Look for
black or gray soil composed of de-
posts of decayed vegetable matter.
That is the famous hammock mot
hummock) land. 1t will cost you
$50 to $500 per acre, still covered
with its immense live oak and pop
ash trees, the bigger the better the
land. 1t invariably has also the cab
bage palmetto to distinguish it from
the prairie land where the palmetto
grows to 90 inches and oak to the
size of the thumb. When you have
your first celery or lettuce crop from
your hammock it has cost you about
$1,000 per acre, for you must have
water and in plenty. An artesan
well sunk to from $50 to 600 feet is
an absolute necessity. You tile the
ground and turn in the water or you
pump it through pipes letting it spray
the Skinner system. Hence your
rich man, He lives in town because
he dare not live on or near this land.
Bilious or malaria fever is in it big
and they say it is hard to eradicate.
1t is said that the profit from this
land will average $1,000 per acre.
The fertilizer. which they are COM
PEELED to use on all truck lands, is a
big item and it is required for every
crop every year. At Sanford the
celery land is sandy loan, requir-
ing much larger quantity of fer
tilizer, from 500 to $50 to the
acre. I"
But, Mr.. Wall, the orange and
grape fruit groves are said to be very
valuable and produce immense
profts:"
In 1895 the frost cut down all
the fruit groves north of Tampa Bay,
bankrupting thousands and causing
many bank failures. BY t way
the poor man in Florida pays from
s to Is per cent for his money. A
New York banker just before our ar
rival placed one loan of SOS, 900 in
Tampa, prosperous city, at 10 per
cent. The state tax is per cent,
municipalities of modest ambition
average l! per cent. But to com
pensate, suburban property is on the
duplicate at SI.e5 per acre, city
property at about 90 per cent of its
true value. You drive through +
inches of sand, but prosperous COM
munities are bonding themselves for
mari or lime rock roads. But the
fruit groves. Don't give me one, |
don't want it, unless can live on it
and fight the white flies, mites and
scales. Maybe if my northern or
ange market does not glut on me |
can get enough ahead to live and pay
my fertilizer man. He calls every
year. But the grape fruit. Yes,
IN take good one in Manatee
county, below the live tree dead line
and III keep piles of fat pine wood
in my orchard and watch the ther-
mometer. We saw Atwood's so
rows of young grape fruit trees, each
a mile long. He has Incorporated at
4 million dollars. He burned in one
night this winter, wood to the value
of 81, 500. Protecting the fruit and
not the tree. But the growers are
afraid of the permanence OF the
northern taste for this really grand
fruit.
81 hope our Gallia county farmers
are not inoculated with the Florida
feyer;"
You would be surprised to what
extent the southland baccilli has beer
inoculated in our city and over the
county. We had winter just past
that in connection with the fine lit.
erature circulated in almost every