The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-07-22
FARM HINTS FROM.
MARKETING BUREAU.

Zero weather is one thing unknown
in Florida. The thermometer never
goes to zero. There is frosty weather
nearly every winter and slight killing
frosts are liable to injure tender
plants in gardens. Once in about every
fifty years there is real freeze. The
last Severe one was in the winter Of
1S94-5 when the orange trees were
riculture thereafter took on a more
diversified form. 1t sometimes takes
a hard knock to force people to not
put ali their eggs in one basket. Tho
orange business has been revived, but
attention is being given to all
branches of farm life.
A home orchard or grove will go a
long way toward reducing living ex-
penses and making the farm more
desirable place to live. Prof. w. L..
Floyd. of the Florida Collee of Agri-
culture, gives the following list of
fruits that should be contained in the
home orchard: Figs, persimmons, or
anges and other citrus fruits adapted
TO given sections, grapes, peaches,
plums, pecans, pears and berries.
Farmers should buy their stock from
Florida nurserymen because they
know the varieties best adapted to the
different parts of the state and their
stock is more or less acclaimed. Re-
liable nurserymen can help farmers
select varieties suited to their needs.
The st. Andrews Bay News of re-
cent issue printed a list of prices of
food products from the Weekly Bouy
nf ya1o "a
date in 1885. thirty-th years ago:
Best flour, $3.50 a berrel; Irish pota-
toes, $3.50 a bushel; sweet potatoes.
so cents: mess pork, IL cents per
pound; bacon, II cents: ham, can
vassed, II cents; sugar, to Z cents;
oysters. Is cents per quart, $50 per
1000 in shell; mu1let, 25 cents per
dozen; pompano, 6 cents per pound;
oranges, 20 cents per dozen; apples, 20
cents per dozen; gasoline, 20 cents
per gallon and kerosene, Is cents; wild
turkeys. IS cents to 81 each and veni-
son, to 10 cents per pound.
After the water IL drained off OF
some Of our swamp lands, it will be
discovered that the reclaimed acres
are just as liable to suffer from
droughts as any others. Then 1t will
occur to some Of the owners as they
see their crops burning up in the hot
sun that while they were arranging
to get the water off the land it would
have been just as we'll to have made
some provision for getting it on again.
Irrigation works are most easily pro-
vided in connection with drainage than
later on.
War conditions have made It neces-
sary for the United States to produce
at home seed supplies that formerly
We're imported from Europe. Tenn
porary seed shortages have developed
under new economic conditions. and
they may continue" says the United
States department of agriculture in
THE Seed Supply Of the Nation" just
issued as Yearbook Separate 757. It
is sent free.
The advantage of the tractor. like
most other improved farm machinery.
lies not so much in the reduction of
the cost of performing a unit of work
as in the fact that 1t permits one man
to do much more work in a given
time, according to Farmers Bulletin
s63 Of the United States department
of agriculture, free on application.
giving experiences of over 600 farm
tractor owners on corn belt farms in
Illinois collected during 1917 and 1918.
This has been true of practically all
improved farm machines, the bulletin
explains.