The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-03-13
STATE OF FLORIDA is
THE GRASS STATE.
OF All the States In the Union, II Has
Shown Most Remarkable Growth
In Fruits and Tobacco.

Tallahassee-Wh all know that
Florida, of all states in the Union, has
shown the most remarkable growth OF
fruits, vegetable and tobacco culture,
it is not so well known that she is
far ahead of other states in her great
wealth of forage and grass plants.
Time was when 1t was not thought
possible to grow gras sin the state.
That seems a great while ago. Ger
tain it is that Florida is the richest
grass and forage state in the Union.
So many of these grasses and forage
plants are, too, perennials-once plant
ed, always planted, and so many are
legumes and soil enriching
Here is a partial list: The velvet
bean Qegume) has its best habitat in
Florida; speckle velvets, whites, Lyons
early Yokahoma and New Chinese.
And since the Yokahoma ripen in Sep
TENDER and mature as far north as
North Carolina, Florida should build
up a good industry in growing these
beans for the ATTITUDES farther northt
where other velvet beans will not do
well. The speckle velvet, as is well
known, produces more vine and stores
more nitrogen in the soil than any
other known plant. For winter graz
ing and for humus making and land
upbuilding it has no equal. The White
Chinese, a month earlier, and more pro-
life in beans and equally prolific in
vines may supplant in time the
sueckle
Equally important and valuable in
Florida is beggar weed, legume Com
| ing up in June in all cultivated fields,
re-seeding itself each year and prac-
tically perennial, good for hay, or
pasture, or green manuring, growing
eight feet high and making more
than 10000 pounds of green stuff per
acre, and rich in feeding nutrients,
Florida could not and does not want
any better crop than beggar weed.
In COW peas the wilt-resistant va.
rieties, the Iron and the early two
crop Brabhams do well and serve best.
In Florida the peanut Qegume) which
is as much forage as a nut plant, is
Just as much at home as in North
Carolina or Virginia. johnson grass
does wei lin Florida. So does the le-
gume, kudZu.
A wonderful product whose best
habitat is Florida, TOO, is Japanese
sugar cane, perennial with ten or
fifteen stools or suckers from each
joint of the stalk as planted, making
ten or twelve tons of cane per acre,
good for forage or making fifteen gal
Ions of finest syrup per ton.
The African hob goober is also
splendid adapted to the state, as also
are chufas. Teosinte, fifteen feet
high, stooling thirty to fifty stools per
seed twenty tons or more green stuff
per acre, making, as have seen, 225
pounds of green stuff from one seed. |
Florida is the home of this wonderful
plant.
The new sensational sweet hay |
plant Sudan grass does we'll in the |
state, and it will soon have a large
following in Florida. 1t stools twenty |
to forty stools per seed, grows six to
ten feet high, three or four cuttings
of hay which cattle, through its sweet
nip, eat ravenously, makes four and
one-half to six and onehalf tons of hay
per acre and requires only five pounds
nt seed nlo ir cnrinV
in eighteen to thirty-inch rows.
Bermuda, the perennial, does Well
too in the state, as do also the re-
markable perennial and green-ali-'he-
year grasses, st. Augustine, 81. Lucie
and Carpet grass.
The two latest arrivals, but firmly
established hay plants in FLORIDA are
Rhodes grass and natal grass-Doth
from Africa. Rhodes Is q perennial,
the seeds are fine - five pounds per
acre In the sewing, has yield often siv
tons per acre and three cuttings. Hhe
Florida literature of this grass reads
like fiction. Natal grass Is called in
correctly in Florida red top. 1t re-
seeds itself, stools Notwithstanding
100 to the seed, comes early and stays
late and blooms all the time, good
for hay or pasture and the hay is as
'-""' -" -'"'"th" requires five pounds
Of seed per acre.
A-.so go o.4.J few Of the high |
points in Florida grasses 1t is "a
showing, however, that no other state
in the Union can make.
Take HERBINIE for indigestion.
1t relieves the pain in few minutes
and forces the fermented matter
which causes the misery into the bow
els where it is expelled. Price SOC.
Sold h1r a oil nnrnnnnn G. Dime.