The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-03
Some Things New
Settlers Should Know

4
We are receiving quite asnumber
of letters from persons in other
states asking about this county. We
! want to answer some of the ques-
| lions asked and will do so to the
best of our ability. We cannot an
swer all of them, for some are I'M
| answerable, for instance: What do
you think of my prospects of success
in your county,"
/ First. We believe that no man
should buy land without seeing 1t,
that is if he intends to make home
on it.
Second 1t requires money to
| farm A man who is competent to
! manage a farm can easily estimate
what it will cost him to reduce a
tract of SIS cut-over pine land to
cultivation, when we tell him that
it will cost as much as it would cost
him to put a tract of prairie land
in the same state of cultivation and
Improvement, 1t costs more to
clear the land and less to fence it
and build houses here than where
he is The cost will not be appre-
ciable different He will have to pay
more here for his work stock, for his
hattie and for his feed than there.
The well will cost about S75. Know
ing these facts it should be asy for
any one to make a pretty correct es-
innate. All our land needs humus.
1t should have crop of humus each
year, and most of it requires ferti-
lizer. Our local markets are small
We have to raise enough to ship in
car load lots to make farming pay,
and the farmers in some parts of the
state are organizing for that pur-
pose The stock farmer will have
no trouble in disposing of anything
he has for sale, and he will have no
difficulty in raising all the feed he
needs Farming here and in the
northern states is so different that
advise is needed this can be had at
the farm bureau maintained in this
city, and any successful farmer will
be glad to give advice to the man
who has recently come to make his
home here.
1t is we'll, however, to warn the
settlers that an assumption OF super
iority and great knowledge usually
meets with cool reception which
often leads the stranger to doubt
the good will and hospitality of the
natives" 1t may be well to sug-
gest that almost everyone in TINS
county has taken several trips to for
eign lands, even as far away as dis
tant New York, where they do not
cook like we do, where buildings are
higher, where there are great white
lights, fine restaurants, gun men,
bad men and ladies' men. We know,
' in a hazy, indistinct way of these
things and get just the least bit
weary of hearing of them from every
one who has been in New York OF
Kalamazoo. There is one other thin&
our friends ought to know before
they come here to live; that is, VIZ
are all desperately poor and ignor
ant, the banks in this city rarel!
have more than a million dollars OF
deposit, and rarely less, and the,
will not lend it to us unless we Civ
, security and make noise like W
{ intend to pay the interest and prin
{ cipal when due. If we were not s
r poor we would not be here; W
v would be in Omaha or Alberquerqu'
q and if we were not frightfuly isnol
d ant we would be at Harvard c
: Smith, instead of in Suwannee cour
: ty farming on this poor, WORTHLESS
e land, SO as to put money in tt
o banks.
d We will offer another suggestion
g Don't come here looking for wor
d Still another, don't come here witt
It out money to carry on your bushes
J whether it be farming or merchan
dising. and still another. don't cor
here expecting more of the people
Florida than you can get from 20
3. own people at home.-Live o;
Democrat.