The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-11-20
THE HIGH COST OF
POOR LIVING.

L
POOR LIVING. It
Lets make our land feed beast
and man." is the motto adopted by
Profitable Farming Society out in T
Arkansas. We hope they are doing t
it out in Arkansas. c
We are not feeding ourselves and [
beasts in Florida, but could if we {
tried. Hay is brought in from the t
northwest and sold for from $50 to I
$50 a ton to feed beasts.
If you don't believe grass grows
here Just watch that lot bounded by
the G. S. & F. depot, the Presbyte-
rian church, the Board of Trade
rooms and the Palatka Development
Companys office. 1t belongs to the
railroad company and Agent Austin
has had force of colored men busy
three or four different times this
year, a couple of days at a time,-to
keep the lot from becoming jungle |
and impossible.
We recently cited the fact that Far
mer Wilmington out near Hollister
cut four tons of hay from one acre
of land Mr.. Wilmington says there
are thousands upon thousands of
acres of land in Putnam county on
which his cutting can be duplicated.
1t can be duplicated by intelligent men
on millions of acres in Florida.
There is no doubt about this being
a favored live stock country, that
milk and butter can be produced, and
yet drop into any of the railroad or
steamer freight houses and we miss
our guess if you cannot see shipment
of---canned milk or cream. Name
of the brand excluded by the censor).
If the citizens of any city in Mime
sofa or Wisconsin can get better milk
than the citizens of Palatka get from
Il diaries of Messrs. Parks, RAIDER
and Evile our columns are open to
verify it.
Sugar cane does not grow in the
NORTH yet look over the display of
canned stuff from every continent to
be seen in our groceries, and syrups
from northern factories can be seen in
splendid array. Northern concerns
send south for cane syrup and mix it
in proportion of 80 per cent syrup
to 70 per cent glucose-a sticky, neg.
ative and non-nutritive compound
made from corn-and in prettily la,
beled bottles and cans our people
buy it. E. D. Mann, out at Mann
Vile, and j. H. Cannon, out at Spring
side, make 100 per cent syrup, a!
good as anybody ever spread on {
pancake, and they could make enough
to supply every table in Florida i
our people would use the real STUFF
made at home instead of off at tn
end of the rainbow.
We eat corn grits made in Indi
ana, and canned corn put up in Main
where they have three months o
growing weather as compared t
twelve down here-and corn flake
and grape nuts from Battle Greek
and what's grape nuts? A pre-
hardened composition of corn mea
j. and cane syrup. Investigation by tn
or U. S. Department of Agricultur
n shows that these prepared forms G
corn products at Is cents a poun
n contain no more nutriment than cor
n meal at 1-2 cents, or grits at 2 an
Mt 8 cents a pound.
he Crackers, or biscuits, come to OF
Ill state by the carload. Two of thes
,ir fancy cartons of crackers, costing
cents each, have less food value tina
loaf of bread made at home at
cost of 8 or cents. We wonder 4;
the high cost of living.
With a little personal labor or e
as fort, home owners in every Florit
to town can save many dollars ever
we year by cultivating a garden Ho
many Palatkans are doing it?
las Every family should have a coup
oil. of fig trees and pecan trees. A:
7u- r. R. Brakeman Clarence Kenner
to and Lewis A. Smith, their opinion
;ed the value of the pecan. H. E. Wa
ties can tell you about the scruppe
ish nong grape His vine persists in ru
as ming over into DR.. E. W. Warner
ell yard. Henry Hutchinson can tell y
it, a good many things worth KNOWN
She about plants, vines and trees and t
tile ease with which they can be cultivs
her ed and made to add to your income
Tho IMPORTANCE