The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-06-18
EN- THUSIASM
F Or CAT TIE
TRIP is BIG
Officials and Experts Up
North Evince Keen
Interest.
INVITATIONS TO
FLORIDA FARMERS
Across County in Autos to
Study, While Train
Follows.

'In my opinion scientific agricul-
ture is the great hope of the south,
part of which of course, is Ken
lucky, and / think that meeting to-
gether of men of various sections of
the South and exchanging ideas and
methods, viii do much to build up,
in the aggregate, the agricultural
wealth of the whole section"
Benefit of Cattle Trip.
Describing in these words the bene-
fits that viii result to the Florida
farmers from The Journals cattle
trip, the president of the University
of Kentucky has extended special
invitation to President Albert A.
Murphree, of the University Of Flor
ida, to visit the Blue Grass country,
on the Journal Cattle Trip.
President Barker, of the University
of Kentucky, speaks Enthusiastically
Of the reception being plsllned Tor
the Florida cattlemen
The More the Merrier.
The journal has also received
letter in which the Commissioner Of
Agriculture of Kentucky extends "to
the farmers of Florida, through the
columns of your valuable Journal,
most sincere invitation to visit us
and to further assure you that the
greater the number the greater will
be our pleasure"
"In this connection" he adds, 'I
might add ! have personally extend
ed an invitation to your honorable
commissioner of agriculture and /
hope through his cooperation with
you in this laudable and most conse-
quential cause, the farmers of Ken
lucky may have the pleasure of meet
ing all Of your Florida farmers who
can possibly avail themselves of the
trip"
The Itinerary.
The itinerary as arranged now will
not be materially changed. It is as
follows:
Leave Pensacola July Is, arrive
ANcA6AlNAAACB AEAtAAsF July 10.
Bowling Green, KY, Monday, July
IL.
Shelbyville, KY, Tuesday, July IS.
Versailles, KY, Wednesday, July 10.
Richmond, KY, Thursday, July 20
Louisville, KY, Friday, July q.
Columbia, Tenn, Athens, Ala, Sat
urday, July p.
Pensacola July %.
From each of these points automo-
bile tours viii be made to different
sections of the county and in many
places the train win follow empty
while the party goes across country
in machines.
Not only viii cattle, silos, field
crops, clover, be studied; but there Will
! be many lessons Of trucking and gem
eral farming to learn. The Henry
Deibel place at Buechel, KY, for in
ST. nee, viii be a liberal education in
| itself. Everything raised by Deibel
with the possible exception of rhu-
barb and alfalfa will grow in West
Florida, and the following statistics
/ show what can be done with 95 acres
when gardened to the limit. What
Kentucky has done West Florida can
at least do equally we'll Following
| is description of how Henry Deibel
| operates a first-class truck garden
| Expenses per day $3.50
Average number Of slaborers .....15
Number Of mules and horses 10
Manure used per year-5O0 loads
worth ......... ..........S 81 600
Commercial fertilizers used each
1 year ...-...... $3.50
Hot beds-400 sash.
Overhead irrigation 21-2 acres at a
cost of 1912 per acre.
| Total number Of acres under cult.
walton, 95-divided as follows:
/ Potatoes, IS acres; sweet potatoes
| 9 acres; onions (big), 3 acres; onion.
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