The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-03-16
RAIN DAMAGES
TRUCK FARMS
SMALL GROWING PLANTS UP
ROOTED AND FRESHLY FLOWED
FIELDS CONVERTED INTO STOP
PY MASSES.
SPECIAL TO THE JOURNAL.

SPECIAL TO THE JOURNAL.
Afulat, March 1.-THE tremendous
downpour OF last Sunday nights and
Mondays rainstorm caused much dam
age to the truck farmers here and in
this vicinity. Small growing plants
we're overlooked and uprooted, and
freshly plowed fields were converted
into a sloppy mass popularity denorn-
mated a "loblolly." How much dam
q ge has been done by this late deluge
will be ascertained some time in the
future.
This abnormal precipitation must
be the meteorological herald of the YER
nal equinox, or it may be the eQui-
noctiai tempest itself occurring few
days before the scheduled time.
These late excessive rains have
caused the advent of myriads of frogs.
Whether they have been driven from
their holes in the ground by the floods,
or whether they have been rained down
is a. mere matter of conjecture, but
however this may be, every little pool
around Mulat Is alive with taads Of
all sizes. AS you pass along the road
you find toads TO the right, to the left,
in front. and behind, like the cannon
at Balaklaya. When the vesper bell
tolls from yonder tower-by the way,
however, there is no vesper bell here,
nor any OLueF KIM OF a pelf--DbL W1leD
twilight comes. and the plowman
homeward plods his weary way QilSe
he does in Gray's elegy) the toads
open up their nightly concert and
make the welkin ring. and everything
else ring, with their sonatas in bull
frog major, and nocturnes in toad
minor. There is no musical director,
but every frog pipes out his peculiar
note, regardless of time or harmony.
tt is wonderful what din they make,
the different sizes, from the light
weights on up to the heavyweights, all
croaking at once. The featherweignt
toads. in their shril tones, Shrek out
on the evening air: Knee deep, knee
t1eepi'' Then comes in the baritones
OF the welters. billy be- dam. billy
be dam!'' while dominating all. the
.'heavies'' croak in deep bass very
base1, jug O. -runl jug -rum!" It
is not known how long this toad con-
cert will last at Mulat, so Pensacola
lovers of barbaric music Git beats
Chinese) had better come out soon and
hear one concert as the chorus may
take a. notion TO migrate to the bayou
for the summer. However, Pensa-
colians may possibly hear such toad
concert as this by going up~ to Long
Hollow. some nice evening, If they can
get there through the mud.
Yes. indeed the frogs are as numer-
Gus here as the rats in Hanelin Town,
vet the poor. despised toad has his
uses and should be encouraged. He
catches flies. and in the stagnart pools
he devours the Wiggletails which pro-
duce mosquitoes. So bearing in mind
these facts. Journal reader, when you
meet a toad. do not kick him from
Your path or rail out at him, like the
batter at the umpire when three
strikes are called on him without his
ever swinging at it. but cheer him like
you would the batter who knocks the
ball over the fence with the bases full
and YOU have four dollars bet on the
game Yes. protect the humble toad
he is Fly swatter" from the forks
Of the creek. He may not have a
voice like Caruso. but 1t is a safe bet
he "swats more flies than the noted
tenor