The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-10-27
WIDE-AWAkE HAY CHOPPERS

| While Hastings viii be on time with
the potatoes next spring to keep the
markets from running bare, and will
keep the supply regulated for the
time, the Anthony section will surely
do its full part in regulating the hay
supply and making up for the short.
| age on account of the failure of the
| 1911 hay crops in. the northern states
AS soon as it was known that there
would be a short crop in the north
and west, farmers here began TO fig.
ure on making extra efforts to save
hay, and the result is really astonish-
ing to see how much hay can be cut
and cured and baled when the right
effort is made.
For quite a number of years this
community has been making nay
enough, and some to sell, at times
but for fear of injury to the land
much that could have been made
into hay has been allowed to remain
on the ground. This year, however
the plan has been changed, and one
hundred ton hay crops are not at all
uncommon. And this hay is indeed
very good. The weather has been
ideal for curing and quite a considera.
bic part OF it is peavine hay, the farm.
ers having planted nearly all their
oats land (after the oats were cut off
in peas for the purpose.
The largest output will be by the
Anthony Farms Company. J. c. How.
ell, general manager, estimates the
hay crop at over two hundred tons
as over one thousand stacks have
been put up. This company will fat.
ten four hundred hogs this year for
meat, and Mr.. Howell is just now hav.
ing set up a 20-horsepower traction
engine that will soon be pulling a
gang of eight plows, each cutting
fourteen inches, and will plow twenty
| acres a day. It's first use will be to
pillow in six hundred acres of oats.
There seems to be no dissatisfac
ton whatever among the many new
corners who have settled here recent
ly. On the contrary, all seem to be
well pleased. Among these could be
mentioned many who have been very
successful in their efforts at farming
here.
Some of the Satisfied
Mr.. S. J. Odell same here from
Missouri with his family and bought
tract of land on. which there was
plenty to do, and he went to work to
do it; cleared, fenced, plowed, plant
ed crops of various kinds-both gen
eral farm and truck crops. The
weather was dry and very unfavora
bic, but Mr.. Odell came out way
ahead, and is in far better health
and financially better off than when
he came here. He and his family are
all satisfied, and this, too, from man
who never worked on a farm before
he having quit job as electrical en-
gineer at good salary to come Ia
Florida.
Mr.. H. P. Crandall, with his fam
lily, who came here from Kentucky
and has also lived in Idaho and Mich
1gan, being a nativer of the latte
state, is we'll pleased. He is adding
improvements to his place and in,
tends making his home here perma.
nently. Mr.. Crandall tackled a tract
OF land infested with Bermuda grass
and was at first kindly smiled at by
his ympathetic neighbors, but he
made money in the game, and the
smiles have been supplanted by an.
proving mods Mr.. Crandall left a
business paying regular net profit
OF 5000 per month to come to Florida,
and is we'll satisfied with the move.
Mr.. Gilbert Hoffman came here
with his family from Jefferson, Wis.
Mr.. Hoffman bought a place near An
thony and has made one general farm
crop, but has not, 50 far, planted any
truck crop. He has quite an assert
ment of farm apparatus and is well
pleased with the results so far. Mr..
Hoffman is a man of literary ability,
and is connected with the Germania,
German paper published in Wiscon-
sin, from which he receives a COM
potency, but Florida is his choice for
place to live in.
This list of satisfeds could be ex-
| tended almost indefinitely. r. W..
in Times Union.
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