The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-07-24
FLCRAHOME'S FEED
FEST FOR FARMERS
Proved Most Instructive and
Enjoyable-A Big Gath
erinS.
Addresses by Farm Experts and Pic
mic Dinner in Park.

The go-ahead farming spirit is
contagious out at Florahome, and as
the drainage dream of few years
ago is beginning to show signs of re.
alization the spirit is becomming ever
more tense.
The Fred Hubner's and Hardy's
and the Revels and others who dote
on soil cultivation and dollars are
waking things up. They are doing
some farming that is opening the eyes
Of old time settlers and the old timers
are getting in line. The muck lands
are becoming more and more availa-
BILE for cultivation as Ed. Watkins and
his dredge progresses down the
ditch. Flora home is coming into it's
own.
Last week this progressive commu-
nifty, always with its weather eye open
for instruction and a chance to pro-
gress more rapidly, had big picnic
and CAB fest with experts on the ros-
trum. 1t was day of opportunity
in which everybody came together 10
feed their faces at community din
ner and listen to the lectures of the
experts. 1t proved a glorious day
for pleasure and profit. Between
300 and 400 people were present,
coming from all the section round.
A number went out from Palatka,
including Howell A. Davis, R. R.
Brakeman, H. L. Chase (who by the
way is something of farm expert
.himself), and Moses Folsom, sec@e-
tary of the board of trade.
The principal addresses were de-
livered by R. E. Grabel, manager of
farm development work for the
Southern Railway, T. E. Waldrup,
farm agent for the G. S. & F. Rail
way, Miss Halle Deaton Of the char
of Home Economics of the Florida
State Woman's College. and Miss Jes-
sic Harrison Burton, Putnam County
agent for the Girls Canning ana
Gardening Club, with the Department.
of Agriculture. These made fine a.
dresses which were listened to with
absorbing interest. The address of
Miss Deaton was especially fine, filed
with interest to the ladies
present. Miss Burton conducted a
canning demonstration, talking enter
tainingIy as she worked.
Howell A. Davis is tank man, SO
he was we'll thanked up" for a gooi
talk. Davis isn't much of a farmer,
but he is filled with sympathy for the
men who do farm and is so thorough
ly impressed with the Importance of
the Florahome section that he would
go miles at his own expense to tell
the story, or to speak word of en-
to the men already
there. He made good talk and one
that was thoroughly appreciated by
his big audience
Moses Folsom is an intense plugger
for his pet propaganda, that in build
ing up the rural sections of the coun-
ty he is more than earning his salary
as paid plugger for Palatka. he
has seen enough in the products OF
the Florahome soil to make him the
friend of that section and
he never loses an opportunity to put
in a word for the farm possibilities OF
that section. He made a good talk,
so good that the Railway Farm Dem
onstrators present wanted him to give
It to them for publication
There was great feed on the park
avn and the menu indicated that the
farmers of Florahome live we'll while
hey toll. The ladies were there to
i5pea2e the FOO AID urge people to
at more. AS if the reo"la needed
lrging.
II the afternoon there was bali
same.
Sometimes the Flora horne people
re at opposites as to methc Is of pro- {
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