The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1912-11-21
MARTIN
Ones Keeping the Farmers Busy
In This Community

Martin. Nov. 21-Farmers are now
digging one of the largest potato
crops produced in many years. The
yield per acre is large and some will
dig as many as two hundred bushels
to the acre. Notwithstanding the
large yield the price is good and the
market is strong. Lettuce shippers
are now busy sending to market and
are getting good prices. Fall beans
have yielded well and brought good
prices. The acreage was not SO large
as usual and for that reason those
who did not plant have their regrets.
+. p. Townsend has the finest herd
Of swine he has raised in many years.
His large field of pindars is making
them take on flesh very rapidly and as
soon as the weather will permit, he
Will be filling orders from market men
from Jacksonville to Key West. Mr..
Townsend is one of the most energetic
farmers of the section.
The Martin Crate Mill Co. is doing
a good business in orange boxes, cab
bage crates and other vegetable crates.
Situated as the mill is and owning
some of the finest timber in the state,
it has successful career ahead of it.
Mr. w w. Martin of the Martin
Farms is busy getting things in shape
for the next large crop of vegetabl bles.
In the interim he will kill several hun
dred head of hogs and put on the mar
ket many velvet bean fattened beeves.
Mr.. Newton KnOblock, one of the
most successful farmers of the coun-
ty, has harvested his usual successful
general crops. Mr.. Knoblock is very
proud of his sons who are all success
fr,l fa nd h
built good houses and live in the vicin-
ity
Mr. n. J. Townsend has joined the
automobile fraternity, recently having
purchased a Regal car.
DR.. Lindner, Sr., wife and promising
son have returned from an extended
trip to Kansas and other western
states. The good citizens of the sec
tiOn hope he will remain at Martin as
headquarters.
Mr.. F. NJ. Townsend, who owns one
of the finest country estates in Flor
ida. has the most beautiful yard of
White Leghorn chickens in the United
states. 1t is worth going a long dis
tance to see. Mr.. Townsend has ceas-
ed to put in such large crops as for
merly but his intensive farming on a
small scale is a revelation as to what
brains and patience coupled with at
tention to business may do. His farm
is stocked with chickens, cows, tur-
keys, goats and other things found on
a first class farm
The j. " Tiller Co, naval stores op-
orators, are sending off large quanti-
ties of naval stores products. This
firm has never shut down or cut wages
though the price of rosin and turpen-
tine has been and is not up to the cost
of production. Mr.. Tiller keeps all his
plants running not only for the sake
of keeping up the organization but
also for the sake of the faithful men
he has in his employ. Recently he
placed his large farm under the direc-
| tion of Mr.. Turner, who is preparing
TO put in a large general and vegeta-
! bic crop early in the spring.
Oat planters are busy sowing for
early cutting and grazing.
| Cabbage are being planted by num-
Der Of our truckers.
Mr.. l. Brock is planning on going to
! Tampa to enter the contracting busi-
ness.
| Mr.. Berry Carter, who is the man
ager of Carter & Raiff, truckers and
general farmers, is busy sowing a
| large oat crop and caring for several
| hundred hogs which he will later put
on the market.
The forests of a few years ago which
| were so abundant about Martin have
all been cleared away and now the
| land is ready for farmers who know of
| the vine, the fruit tree and the crops
| which guarantee a living.