The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-06-10
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a way that they will not be jolted or
Jared.
Florida produces 100000 boxes of
oranges and grapefruit in year. In
five years more it will double this
output. Yet prices of oranges are at
record figures and still rising. The
shortage in sugar is said to be af-
fecting the sale of grapefruit some
what. When grove will yield 400
boxes of oranges to the acre it is easy
to see what it will produce at Sc a
box, or even if prices decline to 81 a
box, an abnormally low price in any
year.
But Florida is no longer only cit
rus fruit and truck farm State.
have spoken of its enormous fish in
dustry. 1t has also its phosphate,
lumber and turpentine industries, and
not far from Tampa motored
through new town. Oldsmar, where
motor-truck mandatory is being
erected on an enormous tract of wild
land rapidly being converted into
fruit and garden culture. With wages
lower than in the North and the cost
Of living proportionately lower in a
warm climate requiring less fuel and
clothing the entire South is having
an industrial awakening. Florida is
proving too, that it can raise live
stock on a profitable basis. | read
with no little interest in the Manufac-
turers' Record that in fourteen
months after the opening of the meat
packing plant of Armour & Company
In Jacksonville, more than $4,000 900
worth of livestock was cleared
through the Florida Livestock Elk.
change, including nearly 10000 head
OF cattle, $4,000 hogs, 300 sheep
and III horses and mules, and it is
estimated that these figures will be
doubled during the next twelve
months. The Armours are helping to
make Jacksonville a livestock ship.
ping center for all the territory in it's
vicinity, reaching out into the ad-
joining States. The future of Jack
sonville is secure It's growth has
been phenomenal but has only begun.
Go South young man!
Don't let anybody fool himself with
the idea that he can grow oranges
anywhere in Florida. The orange
needs a soil adapted to it. It thrives
best not in the white sand you see
under the pines, but in yellow loan.
me pines are cut or burned and
the palmetto cleared away. Then the
land is ploughed and narrowed at a
cost of about $25 per acre for clearing
with colored labor at IS cents an
hours Then fve-yearold budded
stock is planted. 1t comes from the
nurseries carefully boxed and packed
and looks like sawed-off Young tree
about two or three inches in diameter
The acreage is first carefully plotted
out IN regular rows, with stakes TWEEN.
ty-hve feet apart A hole is dug and
'he orange tree is carefully laid in at
depth of two or three feet. A basin
Is left about the tree into which a
quantity of water is poured and then
the soil is heaped up to the level or
higher as circumstances may require.
Ihese young orange trees cost from
70 cents to 81 each at the nursery and
Will begin to bear in four or five
years, If they survive the frost insects
and gopher or land turtles that bur.
row around the roots.
An acre of mature bearing orange
or grapefruit trees is expected TO
yield from $1,000 to $4,000 net to the
owner in such high-priced times as
these | saw grove of nine and a
half acres near Lakeland for which
an offer of $4,000 had been refused
The owner, it was said received over
$4,000 for his crops this year AT the
Lakeland Highlands Country Club,
Mr. Hallam told me he planted his
Grange groves in twenty-five rows of
twenty-five trees, or four hundred and
elghty-four to ten-acre plot, using
two-year-old budded trees that cost
20 cents each. He calculated that
clearing the land and setting trees
cost from $25 to $95 an acre, care
and cultivation 50 per acre per month
FERTILIZER for ten-acrc plot $50 the
first year, $50 the second, s11O the
thlrd and $40 the fourth. He ex.
pected that the fourth year the grow