The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1917-03-23
FARM OPERATIONS or ExTEN.
sIvE ScATE.
Resident OF This Section Writes OF
Some Interesting Observations
In Florida.
Green Cove Springs, Fla.


My dear Journal
In viewing the present with the
past nine years of my acquaintance
of this as we'll as other sections OF
Florida, words fail my command to
reveal to the readers of the Journal
what has, and is, at this time tran
what has, and is, at this time trans
piring. 1t was my pleasure and
beyond the town limits, to witness
the doings of Company, The Wall
kin Land and improvement Associa-
ton. In this tract they have twelve
thousand acres fenced. Last October
they began the falling Of timber,
taking up stumps, clearing in gener-
al. The fat stumps, after a little
digging round burn out in from +
to ~ hours, others have to be cut
and dug. Hundreds Of men are en-
gagged in this work, taking out the
old and new stumps, the fat ones
going to the turpentine retort for
distillation, while the sappy ones
are piled and burned. I am told by
one of the turpentine men cord OF
pine stumps make from IL to rs gal
Ions turpentine. Returning to the
farm operations, since October they
have cleared over two thousand
acres, which. was in pine timber. L
saw ten Caterpillar engines blowing,
with 4-36 in. disk plows. The strip
A0I in
long, about 500 yards wide, cutting
roots 8 in. in diameter, turning from
s to acres in ten hours. These
plows run night and day, using coal
oil burners.
This fallow ground cut by cutaway
"a in. and each "a disc. The smooth
cut front, two discings being suffi-
Gent. They have over 500 acres
planted to white dent corn, applica-,
ton half ton ground lime per acre.
Beside the corn they hope to put in
1000 acres, corn and velvet beans,
drilled same as corn, to be tramped
over by 1000 HEREFORD cattle from
Ohio, and these together with no
limit to the number of hogs they can
get.
This is the second enterprise of
the kind in this section, and baby
compared to the Southern Cattle
Feeding Company, which / have not
seen, distance being prohlbitive.
This tract embraces over $4,000
acres, all of which in time will be
cleared for diversified farming, in
Guiding corn, velvet beans, cane,
cotton and sweet potatoes. They
are running over twenty tractors,
four disc plows, to break ground.
I am told the DuPonts, Of Will
mington, have recently bought a
larger tract than either of the
others, are now actively clearing
the land in the Compton tree belt
of Florida, the product of which
enters largely in the manufacture of
powder: How little I know of the
vast workings going on. This is one
place above all others, an automobile
would be so great an accession. To
hire one, gasoline 80 cents a gallon,
would be an expensive luxury,
but it would be the haven on earth
to me, to see much that is being
done. Oranges are a thing of the
past. The possibilities of this state
are certainly great. Drouths are
handicapped by putting a pipe only
a few feet down to get flowing water.
No bad roads. In the summer they
work at night, laying by during the
heat of the day. With vegetables
of some kind the whole year, this
being the exception. The peas and
potatoes that were in blossom, and
the cabbage that was beginning to
head was cut by the freeze, the End
planting looking fine.
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