The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1912-09-11
SIGHTS IN TEN STATES
Much of Interest and Some of Profit I'm
View of the Car Windows Between
Florida and New Jersey

| Capt May Point. y. J., Sept 9.-In a
"trip from Ocala to New Jersey one has
to pass through some ten states, and a
man with good eyes can find enough to
Keep him awake every hour of daylight
during the whole trip An observation
| of the first half OF the trip, say from
Ocala to Richmond, Va, would i'm
press stranger with the idea that the
| south would be splendid place to in
vest in paint factory, unless the peo-
pie or that region have an unconquer-
orable aversion to the use of that arti-
| Gle, which the appearance of many of
the buildings would lead one to infer,
but in the last half of the journey the
people go to the other extreme and
buildings of every description from the
humblest of cabins to the most up-to-
date bungalow are decorated with ev-
cry color to be found in the summer
rainbow, while some attempt to com
bine every color on the one building
Passing through many of the small
towns of Florida and Georgia we no
ticed that an effort was being put
forth to safeguard the health of the
community by thoroughly cleaning up
the streets, but whether the work be-
ing done was according to scientific or
sanitary principles was somewhat
doubtful, when one noticed that it was
all done by a bunch of cows, at least
all that wasn't being attended to by a
drove of hogs or goats.
In some of the low lands (this being
the rainy season) we noticed hundreds
of cattle up to their knees in water
browsing on the heads of plants which
had got above the water line Now if
Of nj al halo
race that dispenses the lacteal fluid it
would certainly be an article of water
ed milk that the Ocala board of health
would not stand for.
While passing through Alachua
county in the neighborhood of Gaines
vile We noticed that for miles along
the roadside, and in some places as far
back as the eye could reach was a
dense growth of what at first sight we
took to be young cypress forest with
trees ranging from six to ten feet high,
but which we finally discovered was
nothing more or less than the celebrat-
ed coffee bean, and how they are to
finally dispose of it without burning up
the whole country is a profound mys-
terry.
If one of those wonderful genii we
used to read about in our youthful days
should pick up-say- the editor of the
Star, and without waking him should
remove him from his virtuous couch
and deposit him in this part of South
Jersey, he would awake with the idea
that he had been having a good time
the night before and that some of the
boys had deposited him in a corner of
Marion county which which he was not
familiar; If he found himself in an un-
cultivated neighborhood he would like
ly find himself in a pine woods with
dense growth of that most fragrant
tree all around him, not the splendid
specimen to be found around Ocala-I
or were to be found before the advent
of the turpentine men-but still they
would be pine trees, or he would find
himself in a scrub oak woods with
heavy tangle of underground, that
would lead him to think he was in
one of Marion county's hammocks.
But If the aforementioned geni had
him among the cultivated
fields he would have noted something
different for they certainly believe
here in the intense farming cult 4
few days since 1 watched a gang of
men getting a 20-acre field in shape for
some crop. There were six double
teams working in the field. besides
some odd men. They were plowing,
rolling, etc, till the por-
tion they had finished was as smooth
and level as a billiard table. The Ger
mans who were cultivating that ground
expected to do better than they had
done in the old country, where they are
compelled to raise 200 bushels of po-
tatoes to the acre to get an interest on
their investment
A great deal of fruit and vegetables
are raised here for the Philadelphia
market, but like other communities L
know of there is always a howl going
up over railroad rates, and just now
there are tons of peaches rotting on
the ground because 1t does not pay to
ship them. Its the same with tomatoes
which are retailing in the Philadel-
phia markets for so to 20 cents per
bushel. but even at that price it would
pay better. If it were not for high
freight rates, than at the canning fac
tory for SO and s11 per ton, and it takes
good deal more than 1000 pounds to
make a ton in Jersey.
In the cornfields 1 notice that some
are cultivatng as they do in Florida.
viz: planting and cultivating one way
only, but they allow no grass between
stalks and though there is large area
in corn l have seen none quite up 10
that grown on the Chambliss or Ed
wards farms in Marion county.
The weather is delightfully."- cool here
and the sea bathing is simply grand.
We are all quite well. and in my next
will have a few W. Wilson items, and
what the people here in his home state
think of him. Will also have story
to tell of a sea gull II. c. p.