The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1912-07-01
FARMING N FLORIDA
Continued from First Pago

zoe acres in sorghum cane.
After the crops which We viii har-
vest in May and June. we expect to
plant the same land as follows:
200 acres in eowpea hay.
1900 acres in soy beans.
200 acres in sweet potatoes.
"The prevailing idea is that Florida
/ is a trucking and citrus fruit prOpo-
sitIon. We are proving this to be a
false idea. We expect to get IS to 50
cents per bushel for all of our oats.
which is our first crop, and is followed
by our various hay crops, which aver
| age one to two tons per acre, and for
which We received s27 per ton f. o. b.
cars on our farm for all we sold last
year. Catalogues and waterntelons
are the only trucking crops we raise.
| "Our corn runs from 80 TO so
bushels per acre, owing to the kind of
attention we give to it's cultivation,
and our general manager, Mr.. J. c.
Howell. is producing a corn practically
weevil-proof. We sold some of this
corn for seed this year as high as 81
per bushel.
| 81 predict that in a very few years
Florida will prove to be one of the
best stock growing states in the Union
for the simple reason that we can
produce the most bountiful forage
crops known. Take, for instance. the
Japanese cane, which produces from
20 to 30 tons per acre and is a peren-
NAL and carries 81 per cent carbon n.y.
drates: also the velvet bean, which is
planted any time up to July as a Sec
ond crop and natures late in the fall
when the stock is turned in to har-
l. IL h
vines, as well as the beans, and the
lSouthern people - regard the velve
beans superior to corn for feeding
cattle.
you can find in Marion county a.
fine cattle and hogs as in the northern
states, but not in large quantities
These are what have been bred up b!
the up-to-date farmers. The qualit!
. of the stock is only a question o
+. breeding up.
There is nothing Florida need
more than an upto-date packing house
to which the farmers can ship thei
, stock when ready for the market A
: it is now, the growers are at tn
mercy of the local butchers, whose ia
cilities are very limited. Ocala is tn
logical point for the establishment o
a packing house; it is located RICH
Y and in the stock-feeding section. .
. large amount of capital can be secure
7 here for the establishment of packing
house, ice and cold storage plant If tn
right man can bring to the town
fair proposition.
Last year the Anthony farm fed 40
;, head of cattle and some 800 head c
t hogs. 800 head of sheep and 200 goat!
/. when we first began to plant on
e crops on a large scale we figured
t would be no trouble to sell all the ha
: we could produce by simply offerin
g our native cowpea hay for sale to til
: large feeders, but the people in thi
: section, who are large users of ha.
: buy alfalfa and timothy, at flighe
a price, although the United States gov
: eminent analysis shows the cowpe
Ii hay to be superior to either alfalfa c
d timothy hay.
y 1.-TWO of the large mill owners, how
ever. fed our cowpea hay, and they sa
that their stock never came through j
such fine shape. The matter of feed
Y ing Florida native hay is one of edit
cation, and the people of this stat
# need to give attention to it. Tt
II wholesale feed dealers of Jacksonvil
; handle several thousand carloads
-
:. Canada annually. while better ha
"a from cowpeas and soy beans is no
II becoming available throughout tt
g state Once the Floridian begins
# realize that he is sending his none
II north to pay for imported feedstuf
q not the equal of his own native crop
j. he will awake to the realization
G. how foolish he has been. He has bee
paying a premium for feed inferior
his own native feeds"
1t has seemed worth while to 6
thus fully into what this one farr
d doubtless. as claimed, the largest of i
10 kind in the state of Florida, is dom
to prove that diversified farmin
n grain growing and live stock raisir
can be made to yield in the South f;
# larger profits than in the West.
;, Cooperative Farming by Local MeI
The Anthony Farm and the~ big r
clamation operations of Kyle & Your
are matched in interest by the oper;
= tions of the Palmetto Park Farm, owl
20 ed by u. G. Chambliss and T. T. Mul
roe and by the Howell & Chambli
farm, also in the Ocala district. NJ
q rah1 iS ho yub =