The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1921-09-16
Growers soliloauy


I Whether It's nobIer in this state, to
nurture
The bugs and fungi that take half our
fortune.
or to take oil against a sea OF insects,
And, by emulsion end them ITO
spray -to lose
No more: and. by spray, to say we
The white ly. and the billion mites and
germs
our trees fall heir tots an assassi-
Devoutedly to be wished. To spray
to lose.
TO lose; perhaps them all;ay, there's
a scheme;
For in that loss of bugs what We
would gain.
When we have mi@sl up little oil,
Within some soap; there's the spray
dope,
That makes white flies despair Of long
er life.
Why would we stand at all for rusty
fruit.
Dead twigs on our trees, because of
withertip.
The grade of much spotted fruit, from
melanose.
The sooty-mold of white flies, and the
marks
That scab and scale leave, weakening
all our trees
When we might rid our groves of all
these pests
With small effort? Who will against
this speak,
Or ask you to excuse the low grade
fruit;
Unless he has some motive of his own,
Some selfish interest to push, from
which source
No one for long can gain, it beats the
Dutch.
And makes us wonder what has come
to man.
That he will seek to undermine the
good,
Which has been done to benefit US
all?
But with the inner force of resolution,
We can yet conquer all these pests
we have;
And enterprise with an eternal effort,
In this regard. will troubles take away.
And give you fruit worth selling lis
ten nowi
You men of Florida Heed, and I'm the
future
Let all your fruit be brighter.
IS. M. r.
Purebred Calf Sale Feature Livestock
Roundup.
A sale of purebred Jersey, Guernsey.
Holstein and Ayrshire calves, from
four to eight months of age and con-
signed by leading breeders of the
South, will feature the sixth annual
Livestock Roundup to be held at the
University of Florida. October CT.
Professor John M. Scott, who has
direct charge of the roundup, states
that these calves can be taken to any
part of the state Immediately with but
little danger from tick fever, and he
also states that no Florida dairyman
should fail to attend this sale and
that no stockman should fail to attend
the roundup. The program, which
will be announced soon, is as good. if
not better, than it was last year.
Great Saving in Phosphate Possible
by New Process
The United States OWNS the richest
and most extensive phosphate fields
in the world. Heretofore. heavy annual
wastes of valuable phosphate mater
ial have occurred during the mining
processes. A new method of control
ling these losses devised by the United
States Department of Agriculture con-
SfSts in mixing the 4run-of- mine
phosphate with sand and coke and
smelling the mass in am electric or
fuel-fed furnace. In this process, the
phosphoric acid is driven off as
fume and may be readily collected in
concentrated form. Millions of tons
of phosphates previously wasted will
be saved potentially as a result of the
perfection of this new reclamation
system.
No country in the world has ever
become real stock country without
grasses as the fonndation says DR..
Blackburn. This being true we should
bend our efforts to- set grazing grass
for Florida.
10 PAIR FOUR XEAR OLD MULES