The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1913-02-14
ANTHONY
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The farmers around Anthony are
ali buslly engaged in getting the
ground ready for tomatoes, canta-
loupes and other truck. for which this
section is so Justly noted. The gar
dens ali around the town are objects
Of surprise TO the northern people.
Not a single hard rain and very few
showers for the past two months, and
yet the cabbage. collards, turnips.
beets. lettuce. onions, ETC., are all
making a most wonderful growth.
The lettuce fields everywhere one
looks are simply beautiful now, and
We hope the prices will be good for
the later crop.
Mr.. J. ID. Baskin is growing about
IS acres OF Irish potatoes under irri-
CATION, having planted As barrels of
seed
Mr.. Ellison will plant 80 acres in
tomatoes.
Mr.. z. Mullen has been paying
Wait TO his sister, Mrs NJ. B. Mead
ows. He left Monday for a trip to
Key West.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Cecil of Mum
Gle. Ind, accompanied by their daugh-
ter. Mrs Moore. came to pay their
friends. Mr.. and Mrs. E. H. Swain,
visit. and have decided to remain I'M
al spring at Anthony. instead OF at
Tampa. where they had been for some
weeks.
Mrs. Yonce and Mrs. Berger of Nun
Gle. Ind. have been here since No
Yember. and will remain until spring.
Mrs. Burgess, Mrs. Dunn and Mr..
Chester Brown of CASTOR, Ind, have
also taken a home here for the win
ter.
There are not many towns in the
state that can come as near produc-
Ing its own food as Anthony. Almost
every home has its smoke-house full
OF meat. with potatoes, chickens and
eggs and a cow for its own milk and
butter, and lard enough to last till
next fall, and many other things TO
be utilized in the home.
- r~@oN Houston is setting out
an orange grove on his place, on
Spring Hill. Mr. Houston recently
came from Ohio and purchased the
ehealey place and the adjoining
ground Of E. II. Swain, and expect to
make a nice home.
Few people know of the extensive
dairy work going on at Anthony
Farms. The farms are now milking
so cows and making shipments OF
both separated cream and whole milk
TO Jacksonville by each train. They
send 30 gallons of pure cream, ana
feed the milk TO the drove of fine Hol-
stein calves they have at the farm
The milk and cream are reduced to a
temperature OF As degrees and then
enclosed in an asbestos covering, the
milk remaining at the same tempera-
ture during the entire trip. How
many people knew that Marion county
was furnishing Jacksonville with such
a quantity Of milk each day?
Anthony is also supplying Ocala
with vegetables, etc, Mr.. Crandall TAX
ing a motor truck full every Wednes-
day. and sometimes twice week.
Mr. r. H Swain has been improv-
ing his place by putting in a gasoline
engine TO supply his place with water.
The Kitchen, both room, yard, stables,
garden, are all provided with stand
pipes. which are connected with the
new tank erected. The engine also
runs a wOOd-saw.
The Methodist church. with its new
roof. new carpet and new pulpit win
dows. makes a pleasing Improvement.
We are glad to see Earle Bishop i'm
proving in health since his return
from Georgia.
Rev. Pace has been giving the peo-
PIE some excellent sermons recently.
The first and third Sundays are his
Anthony days