The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-12-18
CHURCHES Of THE CITY
TO APPROPRIATELY
OBSERVE CHRISTMAS

continuously lOT I'VE ulUHtHS
and such beautiful berries. was GER
tainly new to us. This year we did |
not pillow them up until the middle |
of June and they were still bearing |
very nice berries. This year | plant |
ed corn between every other row of |
berries and plowed out only every |
other row, picked the blossoms and |
berries off those left and now have |
a nice lot of plants coming on for
another crop. The corn is now
shooting and bids fair to make good
corn, and the half shade makes our
berry plants grow Ill the better.
We were also greatly surprised
in December to find that we had such
nice Irish potatoes from those plant
ed in September.
Have farmed here enough to know
that the possibilities of this soil and
climate are very large if one makes
an intelligent study of the same as
well as the proper time to plant the
different crops Three crops year
on the same land is the common
practice, one of which is the legu
minous for forage as well as the re-
newal of the lands. We have three
legumcs that arc particularly
adapted to this rotation the COW
pea. leggar weed and the velvet
bean all of which grow rapidly
during the rainy season and make
fine hay. rich in protein that is
equal to alfalfa.
Yours respectfully,
w. II. CONIBEAR, NJ. ID.
Mas nolia Farm, lakeland, Fla.
June 20, 1914.
There is no finer section in the
State for the growing of citrus
fruits than Polk county and Lake
land is the metropolis of this sec
ton. Both soil and conditions make
this part of the country to be known
far and widf for its magnip icent
groves and high class fruit. 4 he
hundreds of sparkling lakes in every
part of the county are natures
storehouses for heat and cold, tenn
perins the warmth of summer and
warming the wntry air until seas
ons are blended into an ideal har-
mony. One year with another there
| is no more profitable business in
which to engage .han the growing
of citrus fruits, but it should be
understood that the business, as a
business, is not poor mans game :.
If one would plant an orange or
grapefruit grove he should first sit
down and count the cost of waitin G
for four or five years before the ma
turity of his trees bring in the gold
en- fruit which means golden dol
lars every year thereafter, with
proper cars and intelligent Guilt
eation. On much of this citrus sol
crops can be successfully grown be-
tween the trees while young, which
will more than pay for the grove by
the time it has reached the bearing
age. The illustration shows youni
grove which was planted to water
melons last spring, which crop more
than paid for clearing, fencing
planting and fertilizing, including
the cost of the trees.
Lakeland is also the center of thu
famous strawberry section of Poll
county and the large platform of thu
Southern Express company is an in
teresting sight on winter after
noon when the berries are brough
in from the fields for packing ant
shipment on the night express
trains. Berries leaving here on Sat
urday night at ten O'Clock are serve'
for breakfast in New York on Mon
day morning Thanksgiving berrie
bring as high as seventy-five cent
and $3.50 per quart, the averag
for the season beginning in Noven
Der and running until May brinl
about twenty cents per quart. On thu
right kind of land, with the RICH
kind OF plants, given the right kint
of care. man can make more none
on five acres of Strawberries in on,
season than he could make in tn,
north in five years on five times a
much land. One of the well-knowI
growers of this section, Mr. C. w
Reynolds, tells of a fine record h
made last year from SIX acres. From
three days picking Mr.. Reynold
obtained $500 quarts. whicl
brought him Tin the month o
MARCH, $3.50, or thirty cents pc
quart.
Polk county is fast becoming
; stock and cattle country. Some o
our progressive men, seeing the for
: tunes to be made in breeding bloode,
beef and dairy cattle, have importe
! high-graded bulls and carloads afte
! carloads of fine fat cattle are nov
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