The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1921-07-29
WHAT MAY BE PLANTED IN FLOR
IDA IN JULY AND AUGUST

{ NAL temperature and conditions. Veg
} etables and field crops which may
|, be planted or sown during July
7 and August in the various sections
| of fh estate as follows:
North and West Florida
July Cowpeas, elephants, parsley,
peppers, pumpkins, rutabagas, squash,
sweet potatoes. tomato plants and
seed, watermelons, sorgum.
August Beans, beets, cabbage,
cauliffower seed, carrots. coWpeas,
cucunlbers. collards. elephants, Irish
potatoes, kale, kohlrabi, okra, onions,
rape, rutabagas. satisfy, spinach,
squash, tomatoes, turnips, celery
seed.
Central Florida
| July Cabbage seed, caulifower,
caulifower seed. celery seed, cow
peas. elephants, parsley, peppers,
pumpkin, rutabaags, squash. sweet
watermelons.
August Beans, beets, cabbage,
i caulifioWer seed, carrots, cowpeas,.
cress, cucumbers, collards, egg
plants, Irish. potatoes, kale, kohlrabi,
sify, spinach, squash. tomatoes. turn
Ups, Windsor beans. celery seed.
Orlando, Titusville and Southwark.
July Cabbage seed, cantaloupes,
celery seed, cowpeas. elephants and
seed, watermelons.
August Beans (snap), cabbage
seed, cantaIoupes, carrots, caulif1ower
seed, collards, cowpeas, cucumbers,
eggplants. English peas, Irish pota-
toes, kale, kohlrabi, lettuce, mustard,
onions, peppers, pumpkins, radishes,
rape. rutabagas, spinach. squash.
Swiss chard, tomatoes, turnips, Wind
sor btans.
FIorida's Great Opportunity.
Those who are careful readers of the
current news, as published from day
to day in the Times Union and other
enterprising newspapers, will have
noted recent dispatches telling of the
situation in the United States with
particular reference to the cattle and
hog raising industry and the alarm
ing shortage of meat and milk sup
plies. This is no sensation; it is not
even scare. 1t is fact, as all who
observe may know For months past
cattle and hog breeders and raisers
have been sending to market great
numbers of animals, many of which,
under ordinary conditions, would
j have been retained for breeding pur-
poses. They have, however, been
sacrificed for various reasons, principal
among them, high cost of feed and
labor to maintain them. Now the
result is beginning to be seen alarm
ing shortage" along the lines above
specified.
An Associated Press dispatch, pub
lished under date of June 10, told
that sthe number of cattle for each
one hundred persons in the United
States is today one-third less than
in 1900, the sheep supply is reduced
nearly tWo-thirds. while the number
of hogs is fully II per cent less than
then, according to figures complied
from the federal census reports by
} Herbert Myrick, farm expert for a
farm publication
The dispatch above quoted then
went on t2leclare that this alarming
shortage Id live stock is such as to
furnish a meat supply only about half
as great for each person in the country
! as formerly" Additional figures were
presented to show that twenty per
cent fewer pounds of meat were ex-
ported during the present fiscal year
than during the previous year while
imports totalled one hundred and
/ seventy-fve million pounds fresh
meats, or nearly four times as much
las two or three years ago.
That portion OF the dispatch Just
quoted shows that there is a meat
demand in the country that is not
met with supplies produced in this
country, else would there not be such
enormous quantities imported. Then
il follows that our own breeders of
cattle. hogs and sheep are letting out
siders get away with the home
market. This is all wrong, particu-
larry as it applies to Florida.
We have just said particularly as
Il applies to Florida and repeat the
words because We want them to Ego
home" It has been established be-
yond the scope of argument that
Florida is eminently adapted for cat