Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-05-04
\ Trip Through the South
GContinued From Last Week. I

On January 9th we left Palm Beach
and came north 1S9 miles to Daytina.
the land being practically level for
forty-two miles to Jensen, some of it
was low and swampy, but the most of
it covered with small pine timber, and
but very little of it was under culti-
walton, these were small fields of pine
applesand orange groves. From Jen-
son to Fort Pierce distance of fifteen
miles, the land was slightly rolling,
this part of Florida is known as the
pineapple belt, and about one halt of
the land was planted to this fruit, and
more than half these fields were
covered with lath to protect the plants
from the hot sun. This may be a
profitable crop to raise but we were
not delighted with this kind of farm
ing. The majority of people that make
a success of farming or any other kind
of business are not the persons that
have money given them when starting
for themselves, but are the persons
who are required to face hardships for
several years in order to learn the
value or worth of dollar.
From Fort Pierce to Timbersville a
distance of lightweight miles, the
most of the land was level and covered
with. scattering small pine timber,
brush, weeds, sand palms from two to
four feet in height. None of this land
was under cultivation except few
small orange groves near the town of
Rockledge. From Palm Beach to
Titusville the soil is nice and clean,
withEsufficient grit in it to make the
roads much more delightful after a
shower for automobile driving than
we find in most parts of South Dakota.
On leaving Titusville we came north
over low and wet country for eigh-
teen miles to Oak Hill. About two
thirds of this land was covered with a
thick growth of palm trees, while the
balance was swamp land, the most of
it covered with water and tall grass,
looking as IL it might be a delightful
place for alligator hunting. Continuing
on north over alevel country for twenty
six miles passing through forest of
small pines, palms and brush we
arrived at the pleasant little village of
Davtina about four o'clock in the after
noon. The business section in this
little village is very small having few
small stores, these front to the east
overlooking the river, quarter of a
mile or more in width, this separates
Daytina from a residence section
bordering on the ocean and is called
Seabreeze. The resident sections are
not places of imaginary beauty but are
with their many nice residences and
grassy lawns dotted with rose bushes
and shaded by palm trees and the wide
spread branches of the lofty Iive.oaks
many of their branches meeting over
the center of the street ard from these
clusters of silver colored Spanish moss
are growing.
The ocean beach at Dagtina affords
one of the most delightful auto drives
found in any part of the United States.
This is beautiful sand beach being a
little sloping from the land ten to
twenty rods out to the waters edge,
the tide raises every three hours COW
ering the most of this beach, this
leaves the sand nearly as smooth and
solid as any inland race course, one can
scarcely see where an auto has been
driven over this perfect beach. This
wide drive extends south from the
village thirteen miles, and six miles tc
the north. While there we made ar
auto drive with friends north along the
waters edge for six miles, there cross
ing a strip of land about a half mile in
width we returned along the river tc
the city.
On January 18th we left Daytina an6
came north seventy-three miles to st
Augustine. AS we came from Daytime
the land was level, low and wet fo
twelve miles to Harwood, part of j
covered with water, ard the most of j
covered with thick growth of pain