The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-03-11


laure and the people will no doubt
unite in putting liquor completely out
of business at home, and the Webb
Kenyon law will prevent it being
shipped into the state from the wet
points in the Union.
The Fort Meade Leader asks this
pertinent question, applicable to most
communities: "Are you preparing to
put out roses, palms and other things
to make our city more beautiful? Any
flower that grows as we'll as roses do
here should be put in every yard and
then our town will become known for
its beauty"
If it were not for flies now, in
warm houses and other protected
places, there would be no flies next
summer. Swat every fly you can see,
right now. One fly now means a
hundred next summer. Attention too
should be directed at fly food and fly
breeding places.
A pretty new booklet by Florida
author, bears the title of "Heart
Poems of Silver Springs and Indian
Legends of Florida" 1t is by Nancy
of Arden" the same being Mrs. S. T.
Sistrunk, whose home is "Arden
Farm" on Silver river in Marion
county.
Astor, on the st. Johns river in
Lake county, has been selected by
the U. S. Department of Agriculture
to try out new method of making
cane syrup that won't crystalize. The
work is in charge of DIR. c.. S. Hud
son, department chemist. Florida
should be making millions of gallons
of syrup for export.
Florida is one of four states in
which the federal government has ex-
/ pertinent stations to test plants from
foreign lands, of which he U. S. de-
partment of agriculture explorers
have already introduced 10000 diff
ferent kinds. There are four such
stations in Florida.
c. A. Hedge. of Ruskin, Fla. has a
flock of 150 milk goats, of Swiss an
cestry. In Switzerland goats are
known to give as high as three quarts
of milk day. Parties interested in
goats can get information in a Farm
foreign lands, Of which the q. S. de-
partment of Agriculture, Washing
ton. D. C. H.
The new Shaver canning factory
at Plant City will employ about 40
| persons. 1t will open with sauer
lraut, and have facilities for handling
about fifteen tons of cabbage a day,
put up in so gallon casks. The fac
tory will also can Strawberries, beans
and tomatoes. That's the kind of in
dustry we need in all parts of the
state.
81 like to lend money to man who
feeds CATTLE" says the president of
the Ocala National bank. eff he is
a good moral risk and has a fairly
good farm, l consider his cattle the
best security in the world. Cattle
paper is discounted at the federal re-
serve bank at Atlanta just as fast as
! can turn it in there But the most
pleasant nart of handling this cattle
paper is that when settlement times
come, the cattle feeder who borrows
the money is ahead of the game and
everybody is happy"
In the garden the expense and la
Dor of supplying poles for climbing
beans, can be done away with by
planting seeds of the Mammoth Rus
sian Sunfower in each hill. When
the beans are up the surplus stalks
can be cut down leaving good
strong one for the beans. The sun
flower is attractive, and the seeds
make a good addition to the poultry
ration.
Pensacola is the largest mahogany
port in the Union. During the last
five years importations through Flor
ida's deep water port on the gulf OF
this valuable wood amounted tc
about 5000, 900 feet, valued at ovel
50, 500,000 A cabinet factory would
be a good industry for Pensacola in,
stead of sending this important raw
product to northern concerns.
Blountstown, in Calhoun county
puts forth the claim of raising the
largest hog ever known in Florida Of
the South. 1t weighed 1926 pounds
The lard rendered from it filled L
fifty pound pals. The Florida Flor
ida Department of Agriculture has {
picture of it reproduced with de
scription in the biennial report TO,
| 1867.
A bill has been introduced in the
North Dakota legislature providing
for the compulsory rotation O
crops. Foreign governments in wa
have taken possession of farms ant
industries and enforce rotation ant
economies of all kinds. When tn,
] war ends cooperation will be univer
sal, and this country, unless coopera
: ton becomes the rule, will have
struggle to maintain itself in face O
, foreign organizations in all forms.
Mayor Overholser, of Oklahom:
City, Okla, last season announced h
would give an automobile to the DO,
or girl who raised the most from