The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-12-09
FINE CROPS OF ALL
VARIETY IN COUNTY
Captain Patterson Tells Of Different
Products and Live Stock That Are
Raised in Escambia.
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tBy y u "a EHSON.I
Knowing you are always ready to
publish anything that might be for the
i good of Escambia county, wish you
would publish the following communi-
cation:
A place which none of us hold as a
desirable destination is said to be paved
with good intentions, meaning, of
course, that few people make It a
point to do as they know they shouldn't
and do not do it. The human brain IS
supposed to be constituted Of three
parts, the knowledge section, the senses
section, and the motive section. In the
first we store away what we have read,
heard or seen for future references
the second section constitutes our
plans, ideas and ina ginations, but the
third is the driving power that utilizes
the experience and knowledge, as Wen
| as the ingenuity Of those other portions
! of our minds.
The object of this is to give relia-
BILE and fruitful information for the
benefit Of strangers, some who are al
ready here in our city, and for others
who are coming here. was told by 2
reliable party, which had only been
mere d LiU4Es 9lAAl WIZ N<a4@1SNA -
locate here, that he was told by citi-
zen of Pensacola that you could not
grow corn in Escambia county; that
you could raise large stock, but the
ears had very few grains. It happened
that the party to whom he told this
knew better from indisputable facts,
but such false and untruthful state
ments are productive Of much harm
when strangers hear such reports, and
have not been here long enough to
know, would be possibly inclined to
believe such statements, supposing that
any good citizen would not be guilty
of such falsehoods.
Unfortunately there is no official
government report of the products or
monetary value of Escambia count like
there is of other counties of the state,
every year, either by the government or
the state department The last report
was made in 1919. and then only a
partial report of only a, few of the pro-
ducts, such as corn, sweet potatoes,
Irish potatoes, peanuts, cabbage, ruta-
bagas, turnips, lettuce. velvet BEANS
COW peas, but no mention made of
either eggplant, celery, onions, toma-
toes, and nothing said about the value
of berry crops, wild and cultivated, |
blackberry, burberry and dewberry, |
nor any Of the fruits, peaches, pears, |
the sand pear, Bartlett, Keifer and La
cont pears, or figs; nor of satsuma or
anges. the different plums, persimmons,
grape fruit and pomegranates.
Nor was a report made of the for
age crops of legume hay from velvet
axzd hal
king of all the forage crops the kudzu
cutting from nine to ten tons per
acre-and the napier grass, is to 10
tons of green feed to the acre. making
Escambfa county the finest in the
state for stock Of all kinds, for cows,
hogs, sheep and goats. We have also
the nathaI and lepsidsic and Escambia
county is entirely immune from cattle
diseases, such as blackleg or hoof sores.
There is no better county in the state
for cattle industry. You have ten
months of continual growth of all for
age and the finest water county in the
state, from streams all through the
woods.
In cultivation of the soil you have
to use but very little fertilizer in ou1-
tivating the different legumes. After
the first year in the kudzu you have no
and it is a parental and
soil builder, absorbing the nitrogen
from its leaves in the air and takes up
the sulphuric acid and potash from
the subsoil by its long roots and inoc-
ulates the soil with the bacteria on its
roots, by it's long roots, and roots!
You have no cultivation after the first
year, and no replanting. The hay IS
valued by the agriculture department
ut $500 per ton, and you have no ex-
pensive barn to erect.
The cattle have ample shelter from
natural hedges, and underground, and
from the forest. Then you also grind
he kudzu into meal, and with the 4
zudzu meal your cows require only
Of wheat, bran and cotton
seed meal; that, with one-third kudzu
neal will give more and richer milk
am writing from personal experience. 4
The wonderful blessings given to Es-
Gambia county by the heavenly Father
ire too numerous to mention The
yreatest is the climate, unsurpassed !,
~ any in the world, both from human
BEINGS and animals: pure air constant
y comes from the Gulf of Mexico;
Ugh rolling country, from 100 to 165 /
eet above the tidewater; purest of |
drinking water; the atmosphere inn
,regnated with the balsam from the !
,ine, and the sweet magnolia bloom
md the fragrance from the floral king
lom.
There are no swamps or low1ands or
Malaria infected districts, the land is | /
heap, and the soil win produce 100
Ter cent in anything you plant. Let
rour mind take in these solemn and
truthful facts. You can live here longer
nd better, surrounded by all these
comforts. with less capital investment
nd less hard work and larger remu-
leration from your labor than IN any j
ther part. north, south, west or east.
you must remember that Florida, as
state, by the II. S. government re-
,ort, in 1920 produced larger income
n grain, vegetables of all kinds than
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