The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-06-05

ton $50 acres of tomatoes, 80 acres
of cantaloupes, 200 acres of beans
and 200 acres of cabbage. Strangely
enough, everyone quit raising water
melons the same season, although
last season this was the heaviest
crop. Following are the figures for
last season.
Watermelons, carloads. $500. .125
Tomatoes, carloads. -. =. ~
Cantaloupes, carloads. ....... 3
Beans, carloads. -. -.
Beans, (express), crates. $500. 5000
Cucumbers, crates. ....... 1000
Lettuce, baskets. ........... 500
Lake Weir Section
Lying about Lake Weir is one of the
prettiest sections of Marion county
and one of the most productive. Here
IS the great grove of the Carney In
vestment Company, which ships
through Summerfield, and other splen-
did groves shipping through the sew
eral stations on both the Coast Line
and Seaboard The Symmetrical ship
ments, including the Carney grove
fruit, were:
Carload
--::tcccs fruit. go. -. -. a.. ...l29
Cabbage. 49,. ..... Il
In addition there were several hun
dred crates of vegetables sent cut by
express.
At Dallas, only few miles from
Summerfield, watermelonS and toma-
.oes form practically the entire ship
ments The figures at Dallas were
given by H. c. Croft, former agent
at that point, but now located at
Summerfield. The watermelon sea-
son was light for Dallas last season,
but there were 125 carloads sent out,
with 40 carloads Of tomatoes, and
about 5000 crates of tomatoes, canta-
loupes and other vegetables by ex-
press.
Belleview, lying between Lake
of watermelons and nearly 1000 crates
of vegetables.
At Lowell there are two great pro-
ducing establishments, one the We
tumpka grove, the other the Meffert
plantation, which consists of approx
imately 600 acres in cultivation. Not
all of this, however, is in vegetables, |
much being in oats, corn and hay.
There are other farms also which
bring up the total. The acreage in
vegetables this season is given as
follows: so acres watermelons, lis
acres cantaloupes, 220 acres toma-
toes, los acres beans, lis acres cab
bage and 35 acres cucumbers. Last
seasons shipments were:
Citrus fruit, carloads. -. .... so
Tomatoes, carloads. -. ..... 20
Tomatoes (express), crates. 500
Beans ,express), crates. ...... 5000 |
Beans. (erpress), crates. ...... 5000
Watermelons, carloads .... 40I
carloads. -. :. $50
Cantaloupes (express), crates. 5000 /
Cattle and hogs, carloads. ~ b
Other Acreage
Along this same line of railroad are
several other good shipping points
upon which last seasons figures were
not obtained. There is Boardman, in
the extreme northern edge of the
county, With 80 acres of vegetables; |
Orange Lake, with lis acres of vege- |
tables and 2S5 acres of watermelons;
Martin, lying between Lowell and
Kendrick, with no acres of vegeta-
bles, 55 acres of watermelons and
ITO acres cantaloupes; Ocala itself
with 430 acres of vegetables, 355
acres watermelons and 255 acres can
taloupes; Cornell, with 60 acres veg
etables and 40 acres watermelons
Gambler, with 40 acres vegetables and
40 acres watermelons, and Oklawaha,
on Lake Weir, where the Oklawaha
River Farms Company has in 295
acres vegetables, and other growers
have in 80 acres watermelons.-Tam |
pa Tribune.