The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1920-01-30
FLORIDA'S CITRUS CROP


which comes from Florida to the eff
feet that the 1920 citrus fruit crop
OF that state will be he larges it has
ever produced and will carry more
money into Florida than for any prev.
ious crop.
Beyond any question the Florida
orange is the finest in every respect
on the market, and the grape fruit
which that state produces is magnifi
cent.
Florida has many important indus.
tries-its industries are more varied
than those of the average state-and
he growing of citrus fruit is one of
the most important of them.-Colum.
bus, (Ga.) Index.
The~U. S. Market Reporter says the
Florida truck shipments for the sea.
son, Dec. 1, 1918 to July l, 1919, total
ed 1880 cars, divided as follows:
Cabbage, 1889; celery, 2.O56: cucum
bers, 1915; lettuce, 1855; string
beans, 421; peppers, 769; tomatoes,
4,46S; potatoes, 2.270; watermelons,
1858; mixed vegetables, 313; straw
berries, p. This did not include less
than car lots, express and shipments
| by steamships.
Next to the rowing cat the most
ruthless destroyer of wild bird life
is the small boy, with air gun or any
device capable of hitting a mark.
While his cruelty is thoughtless rath
er than vicious the result is the same.
To make targets to living things
seems to be the desire Of most hun
tiers.
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Have you figured out the high cost
of rat board. That has gone up in
price with everything else. Each rat
costs not less than five dollars per
year nowadays for his board alone
Besides what the dirty pest otherwise
damages and destroys. Each farm
should clean out the rats, especially
at this time when food and foodstuffs
are no high. They do mischief TO
town buildings besides using up food
No farm home is complete without
its local newspaper, its farm paper,
and its daily paper.
1t is estimated that it takes. an
nually 100000 bales of cotton to make
fabrics for automobile tires This is
where the world is without stocks of
cotton goods. LINT is now at the
highest prices ever known
Many Sanford growrs are boarding
their celery and the-c will be an ac-
tive movement by car let's about Feb
Yuary 1st. The first car was shipped
last week, selling at 81 per crate f. o.
b., A. G. Purvis being the shipper.
"Wauchula," says George NJ. Gools-
ty, the editor of the Advocate, might
well be called the Little City with
the Big School" 1t doubtless the
only city with $500 population in the
state that also boasts a school enroll
II ent of 900 pupils.
Rev. A. ]. Futch of Live Oak is ex-
hibiting sweet potato weighing 1872
pounds and its measurements being
26x2S inches. 1t was a volunteer and
grown without cultivation If left in
the ground for number of years the
sweet potato would grow on until it
would rival the pumpkin IN size
1855
The earth's requirements for cot,
ton lint can mot be supplied under
two possibly three favorable cropping
seasons. High prices for cotton lint
is, therefore, practically assured-and
, the cotton grower should respond
with as large an acreage as labor
conditions will permit him to grow
and under normal conditions in 1920
Good seed is necessary to a good crop.
Reports from Argentina show that
the number of cattle has decreased
three million head and sheep by thirty
million head, or over 40 per cent. The
United States has purchased over so
per cent. of the wool of that country
since 1914. Where will we go with
the supply running short. America
must raise more sheep and cattle and
other forms of live stock.
Shipments of citrus fruits from
Florida RI Ton 4 fofolnd IN 077s no~c