The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-06-29
CROPS ARE FINE
IN ESCAMB|A
HARVEST PROSPECTS ARE VERY
NG-WooDMEN OF THE
WORLD TO GIVE FOURTH OF
JULY PICNIC AT BLUFF SPRINGS
Special to The Journal.

Bluff Springs, June 2S.-The harvest
prospect compared with this time last
year is very promising.
The dry weather for the past few
weeks gave ample time to get the crops
clean of grass, and now that rain has
come in the nick of time, corn will no
doubt make good it's promise of a
bountiful yield.
Cotton, taken on the whole, looks
we'll and is further advanced than it
has been for several years at this time.
Everywhere the sweet potatoes and
peas are receiving attention and to
summarize, the farming outlook in this
section is fine.
Slowly the farmers are learning the
great necessity of planting cover crops
and the velvet bean makes its impress
sion so deep after one trial that every
field now has a few planted, but yet
the beans, both velvet and sofa, have
not received the attention due them as
forage or hog feed or as land enrichers.
With the legume crops, deep sub
soil blowing, cover crops in winter,
together with the opportunity of grow
ing something all the year, gives us the
claim to the favored garden spot Of
Uncle Sans plantation.
We are in hopes of seeing an Inter
State Fair this fall that will show up
well, and at the same time prove
financially successful, and from Joseph
Henry Jenkins view, we should let
the high divers, gas bag and ball walk
ers have space and pay for it and get
what fish they can to bite at their bait;
also the side show gang and the peanut
vendors with their pink lemonade.
They should be a source of revenue
to the fair and take what it would
cost for the attractive features to pay
the premiums and give complimentary
tickets to the farmers and their
families who exhibit their products
Then put the syndicate farm exhibits
of all kinds in a class to themselves
and not up against the individual
farmer.
The great public benefactor, the rail-
road. should furnish a car in charge of
a good man free of cost to receive the
exhibits and properly care for them.
There is no monopoly that is bene-
flied by the improvement of a country
equal to the railroad and the car would
not cost the railroad one cent, as it
would increase interest to people who
would not exhibit or attend otherwise,
but this would cause them to do so.
The railroad in most cases always
has room for one more in its coaches,
even if it is full to standing and re-
served Seat-arm accommodations.
Often we have ridden in the acked
coach when the springs had done their
full duty with half their load. yet moth
ing extra was charged for the accom-
mediation, only the one and one-third
rate plus the twenty five cents. which
should be enough for the regular fare
at all times.
All manufacturers Of agricultural i'm
PIGMENTS should receive free ground to
demonstrate their machinery with the
understanding that a demonstration
should give a practical operation Of the
machine exhibited.
1t is not the idea of the county fair
to make money to pay fat salaries to
a few, but to bring the resources. ad-
vantages and capabilities OF a county
into prominence and to show the
products Of same to the public.
This causes people to stop and think
and this is all that is necessary in the
whole human family; then we are
brought to a sense Of realization 10
know ourselves and our capabilities
and to appreciate our condition, posi-
bilities and surroundings.
w o. w. Picnic.
The Woodmen of the World will have
a basket picnic on our natal day. July
the Fourth, at this place. and we ex-
pect to have the Inter-St Fair dis
cussed before the people, besides the
following program.
This will be the best opportunity
that all will have to thoroughly under
stand the fair propositions, besides
being entertained with pleasure, and
to any that are interested we will
endeavor to show them a little Of the
farmers prospect in the way Of fine
crops and we guarantee that a sight of
the acres OF corn, cotton and cane will
cause the most skeptical to see in the
future more in store for EsCambia
county than ever she had u bar timber