The Nevada County picayune., 1918-08-08
LETTER FROM !. l.. HODNETT

come dSain. Tor Iney are through gathering and marketing their produce and have nothing to do but await the Jose of the rainy season and the time 10 plant their fall crops.
 And now the lover of the piscatorial
 art
 Win take his hook and line and to the
 lake will start,
 And there hell sit form morn till
 night
 And never get golblamed, gosh
 darned bite-except sketers. This is not true in regard to fish. for they do catch immense quantities of the very largest kinds. and before closing this communication l shall tell you the biggest fish story you ever heard. and every word that l snail ,ay about that fish will he the truth I had started, ! believe. 10 tell yoa of the sponge fishery at Tarpon Springs There MT, Editor. is loeat- ed colony of some 1900 or 20Oo Gre IanS who age engaged in the catching and curing 0f spongeS. Using Iarpon springs as their hase of operations. they g0 several hundred miles out into the gulf. lead their beats with Sponges and bring them back to Tarpeh Springs to Gp cured and dried. This is -aid to ue T very profitable ent"s 7.iSe SO#s 3t these spaISe~ are 95 ,Hlrnws ~Ize. SaU one tcirclaf ..4 zaraa1 measured that @aS fraction J=sF fauee feet H diameter.
 Another novel eHtelfri~e=is the gat5= u. ing 8t the lou@ flowing moss that t~ -a il fa4ad everywhere in Florida and sfs#. it "a Che mattress factories 10 !e converted into mattresses Tn affords employment to many hoys anu gals. and they mafse good lyts ar ff. Some 8t tanm >lNe money. He growing of celery k tte me1 another novel enterprise Like every thug rl-s.. .t~ success depends more on tlr man than it does 0u the and. 9is taac=cr at Palmetsa T eda supply hs pa1ne ]. desired saIa ~iN mndtr5 boxes =at one dollar and a quarter ! H8x. realizing therefor seven hundfta 344I fstr dollars. lHat NdS TFe&H H4 oge-faHrth ot all acre af taHd. ii'a ..-t l# seed. fertilizer. culture, hoXe~ aEftEariug. pte.. was cue hundred aH4 fhjrty ~even dollars. hat there al" mare failures than successes with thiN plal.f. Potatoes. neither Irish hAf su,et. Go ole Nhit better hete ta4E thev ao a Arkansas Neither veg t4hleS or melons. The only alits .44s is-t4. r4rliuess ut their maturity ~..a#5fard cotton does well here Gen eral farmae k just now beginning to be pvarticed on the peninsula. Hitl edo trucking and the growing et cit ,ats fraft has occupied tine farmer. }. whole time and ensroNsed his whole attputiou tut thu Mar iS causing llleia f= tse general farming. \ line dfd&h across tte 8pain>u.u from Cedar heNs on taf# .aaif tu St Augustine oi the stHfitfc may be >aid 10 be ii" hhe ,t ,IaI,.al..e5f.uA Le1.Yaeu tae citrus ahd nan-sir,ls helts of Florida. North oi fi{iS liae yea NH iud the farmers ea- ..,.rrd in general farming inst a> they are in Southwestern Arnahsas. -N Q.cQ kent. fully grown orange SfoNH VIII ~.eia itS eVacf q net Pfoht ei fra.u i've t0 seven hundred dollars per .,t.re .EnuaHy. but HiH not an At... #ftg.tS e.e4h grove or peach or dp!5e ,.#.t...-,f do The Samet Then. iap- f#te.,= vel 0a Hot have 10 contend @ah 4i.5= ta5~t5 Ht.f+t.s taSeet> a4 SHHtiaef .t0 ,..f 1ln lere. ! am tald tAai 9h thr .s..a= =e.54.t s4 The aeai3 ulaf lire mos ..5...F.- .4fpgt~ a3d sa@gtdtS att bad s1Ht seopir have to E.e~f Ihelf 1 .=#,.z=5 5#..:## #a-r #tHea .r t0Hg 9HHe'7, 't -farT07f5 md afI51 nm .7'go st e5-li-aE AtGc Az9.1-> f'e a'-.l #a= nz E a #s#gz8 4 Nr79af..t x ##9## fH1f tae# 7f ' .=. Hfa. s-9 =.sG ..ns~.
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