The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1915-02-04
J. M. PULLEN WRITES OF
EXPERIENCES IN FLORIDA.

| j NJ Pullen, former photo
lgrapher of this city, who left
short time ago for Crystal Springs
Fla, writes as follows which
must be frank confession on his
experience. including several dis
appointments
80 We are happy in Florida. On,
thing | have got that stays with
me Is large appetite. We work
all day aud never wake at night.
Grub the roofs stir aud plant the
land but the soil is light We die
onr bitches wide aud deep hut the
water never runs right. Laying
all Jokes a~ide Florida is simply
grand as a place 10 live, hut to
make a living IS another thing: go
my thinking its easy if You know
how About nmiy nine out of a
hundred have failed. simply by
barking the wrong tree. Ii seems
people have been misled hy the
graiters who have land 10 SELL
You know oranges look and taste
so good where they are not raised.
the raising of which has been
held up allurinely as bait. The
raising of garden truck IN the
winter looks good too but after
man has prepared his soil and
used 5000 for seed aud fertilizer
ehases bugs. worms birds. and
beetles, for % days. is tough 10
turn the products of your labor
over to the tender mereies of the
commission man who leaves YOU
with the bag 10 hold with both
ends open First there was the
cattlemen lcnllcd a cracker from
cracking his whip, 81 all natives
are called Crackers Then we
have the lumbermcn. who got the
lumber he was followed by the
lurprnine man. who took the
Juice from the remaining trees
Then the land sharks began g.
get IN their work Ten acres. a
palace and a trip 10 Europe which
Won can easily do it YOU get II Oft
the other fellow
But after all IT looks 10 be the
best thing OF my life, with the
finest climate in the world. no
dust, no mud no high winds. SIX
months Of rs Tine spring weather a
man ever saw. not over fifteen
wholly cloudy days in a year: IT,
SIMPLY paradise Winter rains
are warm as June ram here
STOCK Craze the year round with
out shelter iou can have crops
growing all the year az once
decided II was stock country
There arr several varieties OF
tame grasses that grow luxurani
" COW peas, velvet beans. sweet
potatoes, peanuts. dasheens aud
several other food and forage
plants grow without fertilizer
Also corn makes q very lair crop
Farmers are poor lot the
poorest ! ever saw. financially
and otherwise 9s per cent who
come here know nothing about
farming. 10 start with. while I'll
takes more brains 10 arm sue
resSiully here than any State / !
ever was IN. just Ia think of the |
poultry You can raise la clma,e |
Ike this. where YOU can raise |
your own feed aud have green |
stun growing the year round Yodl
bet ! am right "a II Ia a small |
way 10 start Hens sell at 800
each. eggs never less than 35cis |
q dozen with a ready market. Ms |
advice IS after carefully ohserva
ton, don I buy land of these land |
companies. You can get any kinrl
oi land You want of the owner an
gel II cheap as - out of every
100 wants 10 sell out Then
there IS as much difference in a
lew rods here rs a hundred miles
mere After seeing quite a large
part of the country find moth
M better than the COOPERATIVE
Homestead plan az Crystal
Springs, which IN few years.
VII without doubt. be- the happicstl
and most prosperous community
ia south Florida Today am
The happiest man IN the world. IS
own my own home and do not
have Ia pay the rent. light and
water bills