The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-06-05
FLORIDA NEWS NOTES.

An epidemic of rabies among cats,
which promises to eclipse the danger
from the dog disease in Jacksonville,
has started, according to DR.. c. E.
Terry. of the city board of health OF
jacksonville, who is investigating the
latest case, that of Ruby Ward, IA
years old, of 229 Woodlawn avenue.
First watermelons of the season
we're brought into st. Petersburg by
L. L. Baird of Lealman, and went like
hot cakes at Is cents each. The mel
ons were unusually fine for the first
of the season weighing about 40
pounds each. Mr.. Baird disposed of
them readily at fancy prices. He has
about three acres under watermelons
on his farm near Lealman.
During the seven years that the de-
partment of agriculture at Washing
ton, D. c., has been campaigning
against the tick fever which annually
kills more cattle in the South than
all other diseases combined, an area
of 19S,SO2 square miles has been freed
from the tick. Details of this work
against a disease that is estimated to
cost American farmers $40,000,0O0 a
year are printed in a new circular of
Tick Eradication on the Cattle Indus
try of the South
Another crop is to be added to the
many produced on large commercial
scale in the county of st. Johns. w.
B. administer of Elkton of st. Angus
tine, stated that an acreage of at least
five hundred will be planted about
Elkton in highest grade peanuts. The
seed will be imported direct from
Spain by the growers, and will be OF
a variety especially valuable in candy
making and for the manufacture of
peanut butter.
One of the engines running the
Graves Lumber company's mill at Hos.
ford was wrecked, caused by the driy-
ing belt breaking and the engine run
ming away. At the time of the wreck,
Engineer Smith who was in charge,
was oiling parts Of the engine and
even though the wreckage was flying
in almost every direction, he remain
ed at his post until he had the steam
cut off from both engines, no doubt
saving the lives Of several men who
were working directly overhead and
preventing further damage.
After making Dan Shea of Tampa
president of the organization and elect
ing other officers and attending to
routine business, the delegates of the
State Association of Master Plumbers
left Tampa. Officers elected besides
President Shea were Charles Belote of
Jacksonville, vice president; w. E.
McAndrews of Tampa, secretary; Jo-
seph Fowler of Jacksonville ,treasu-
rer. l.. M. Roberts of Jacksonville, re-
firing president, was elected national
state president. Orlando was select
ed as the convention city for 1915.
Delegates to the national convention,
which will be held in Atlantic City in
June were named. The men chosen
are Dan Shea, C. NJ Chapman of Jack
sonville and A. ]. Wal of Orlando
Farmers who contemplate the rails
ing of sheep on their farms are urged
by the United States department Of
agriculture at Washington, D. c., to
give considerable thought to the Sc
lection of a breed In all there are
thirty breeds of improper sheep that
have been brought to fixed types OF
these twelve are already well estab-
lished in the United States and others
are gaining in popularity. Each has
its own points of superiority and the
farmer must be guided in his choice
by the individual conditions, bearing
in mind, however, the fact that any
breed is superior to no breed.