The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-30
WESTERN FARMERS
 THICK IN FLORIDA
By HOLLAND

each one who visits Florida in the winter
 menths, and whose arrival there is her
 aided by reports from the fashionarfe resorts. there arc probably not less than those who also migrate from the north to
 Florida, returning in the early spring,
 of whose visits no chronicle is made.
 This overflow into Florida of people from the north Is of comparatively re-
 cent growth, but 1t is a fact that farhn-
 CTS and their families, who as a whole represent almost every agricultural state
 east of the Rocky Mountains and north
 of the Ohio river, now gather in great
 numbers in Florida for a winter so-
 journ.
 This morning business man of New
 York, who has under cultivation large
 plot of ground at New Smyrna within
 easy reach of the winter home of John
 D. Rockefeller, spoke of his return from
 a brief visit to Florida. saying that the
 greater number of passengers on the
 train were farmers ahd their families, al-
 though few of them came as far as New
 York, because nearly all were from west
 ern homes. The spring blowing is about
 to begin. and in fact, has already begun
 III SOltc SLdtcSs lHtTclOTd lH6 ldTIlSTS arc
 needing the call to return. Their migra-
 tion is like that of the birds, excepting
 that they go to Florida late in the fall after the harvests are all gathered. Their return. however, is certainly harbinser of spring, as is the flight of the birds New Smyrna may be taken as an exam pie of this winter life in Florida, in which 1 so many farmers of the north have been participating. In that little town and | vicinity a houf i'm ri inc fa !! flies, have been sojourning all winter, | So also in other communities in Florida | large groups of farmers have been spend- | ing the winter. and now departing for the north. The farmers who have spent tho winter at New Smyrna have organ l ized a club. They have already begun an agitation in favor of the building of 8 clubhouse for women. They take as | keen interest in local affairs as do the ! Florida eCitizens themselves. They have | ben so active as to secure the promise l of the speedy erection of new post office building at New Smyrna. Where | 800 farmers and their families are gath cred in a single community for a stay I of three or four months there is sure to | be heavy increase in the mails.
 l THEY MEET FOR DISCUSSION | The farmers of New smyrna as we'll as in other places in Florida, meet reg ularly for discussing various matters that are of interest to farmers, and also ques- | tions which command attention at Wash | ington. They are observant of agriculture | in Florida. and are disposed to make experiments with seeds and roots. so that | they may learn whether these can be planted upon their own farms and come | to maturity.
 | These visits are of special advantage l !, the women of the farmers families ! For they find in the rest and recreation | relief from the arduous farm life that | lasts from eight to nine months and l they are ready to return to their homes | because they have gained renewed vigor and are in no danger of going stale or being overcome by that form of ner- yous prostration with which in the past l the humdrum of farm and country life I used to effect the women They are very l thrifty Almost all of them bring the | greater part of the food which they nee1 1 for their tables with them from their farms. They lodge in rented rooms The men spend much time in catchisg fish, | and the fish are salted, well packed, and I sent to the farms.
 | All of the citizens of Florida welcome these farmers, and expect the number lof those who make yearly vigitations to | be increased. Nevertheless, they do feel | that 1t would be of some advantage to the citizens If the farmers were more ] liberal in their expenditures. However. lthey do bring a good deal of money into
 the state, and the aggregate of railroad
 fares paid by them must amount to very large sum.
 There came to New York day or two ago a citizen of Ohio skilled as a pollti- elan, who was sent here by some of those who have hope that the republican na- tional convention will nominate Senator Harding of Ohio for President. From
 tos. 1aa rnn al oh
 the pre-convention politics which are now under way. He brought with him a list of fifteen citizens of New York, men of influence whom he is to call upon so | that he may persuade them to look with favor upon the nomination of Senator Harding.
 1 This man has already visited other states and his observations justified him lin saying that the friends of Governor Iowden are working with great skill in some of the southern states. They ex- I pect to secure many delegates from thS southern states who will have the nom- | ination of the governor. If their hopes are fulfilled, then Governor Lowden, with
 the solid support of Illinois. will be found when the first ballot IS cast to stand high on the list.
 l He spoke also of the campaign which | is now under way for securing the nomi. nation of General Wood. As a politician he spoke of that campaign with admira- | tion. It has been very skllfully con- ducted The association of former Post | naster General Hitchcock with the Wood
 campaign. now openly admitted. is be- | lieyed to be not recent association. The CUT THIS OUT-IT IS WORTH NONE, person often does more good than | he realizes when he tells sufferins friend how to get well. J. N. Tohill l clerk Lottie Hotel. Evansville. Ind