The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1920-10-29

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In bellum and ante-bellum days Ma
rion county planted more sugar cane
and manufactured more syrup and
sugar than any three or four or more
counties in the State and hundreds CT
acres of its soil is adopted for grow
ing sugar cane and no doubt it will
follow other counties in making Flor
ida sugar State.
October is the month in which to
watch the peach trees for the borer
worms. The most successful way TO
fight these is to dig the dirt away
from the trunk of the tree at the top
of the ground and cut them out with
sharp pocket knife. Usually there
is a jelly expuding from the bark I'M
der which the borers are at work and
by prying into these places with a
knife the worm will be found or the
channel in which he has been working.
Sometimes they dig channels for sew
eral inches below the surface of the
ground and it will be necessary to cut
the bark over the channel all the way
dcwn until the worm is overtaken.
Care should be used, tho, not to cut
the bark except where the borer has
gone. A second search for these in
3ects should be made about February.
Also, October is good time to give
the first limesulphur spray to the
peach trees. 1t is true that the leaves
may be injured some now and caused
TO drop, but the tree needs them no
longer for this season and no damage
will be done.
IN planting oats broadcast it will
be found very profitable to drag the
field with heavy board drag or run
over it with heavy roller. Even
smoothiny harrow or disc harrow
will be beneficial. Just why such an
operation is so helpful to the crop is
something that we have never fully |
understood, but we have often seen it |
tried and know that oats so put in
will outgrow those where the soil has |
not been firmed down. 1t is natural |
to suppose that the air spaces are all |
mashed out, allowing the moisture to
settle close around the seed and then |
the roots, but even where heavy rains
have come Immediately after the seed |
were planted and packed the earth
down the OTIS did not grow as we'll |
as where the dragging was done
VIM. A. SESSIONS, County Agent.
$3.50
In letter to the editor of the Ban
her from the chief division of stats
tics of the Department of Commerce
the director says:
During the fiscal year of 1920 the
imports of peanuts amounted to 1872
100000 pounds. The imports of pea
nut oil were 22,000000 gallons, which /
reduced to pounds at the rate of seven
and a half pounds to the gallon gives
2 weight of 165 900 900 punds, making
a total for both 297,000.0OO pounds. In
the fiscal year 1916 Imports of peanuts
we're 28,000,0O0 pounds, of peanut oil
1,475,000 gallons or about 11.0OO, 900
pounds, making a total of nearly 40.
100000 pounds. The imports in 1920
are, therefore, roughly seven and
half times the amount of four years
ago
The total area planted to peanuts in
the Bombery district, India. is 271.-
o12 acres. The total yield is 271. 1926
tons.
The current local prices are about
28O rupees per ton, or S9O.S4 at nor.
NAL rate of exchange, the local variety
being slightly more expensive. A
Bombay exporting firm has quoted
TWO varieties c. i. f. New York at 81
los and 81 per ton, respectively.
IN regard to freight rates. the rate
TO New York is 154s. per long ton. TO
Marseille, France, lbs. per ton. and
TO London. loss. per ton, respectively
me peanuts are exported generally to
Germany, Belgium, France. Austria |
ana Hungary. But since the war there
nave been but few, if any, shipments
TO enemy countries. There is no ex-
port duty on nuts shipped from India
$3.50
speaking of peanuts and peanut oil |
hon, L. S. Light of Reddick, has made
the following report through Mr.. H. l.
Shearer tn tho E,arr,c,,