Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1921-08-26
7 curing Polk County. Florida.
BY JAMES FAULK.

driver explains to us that there are !
len of these phosphate mining plants |
within sight of one another. The
ground looks rather bare. few cat
tie browsing abuut but no fruit
groves in this particular locality as
ITS wealth lies under ground in the
way of the mineral deposits so valu-
able for fertilizer purposes.
There were about 1875 cars and
round 500 people IN the days party
for 10 addition to the estimated num-
Der of 375 editors there we're nearly
100 county men and women scatter
ed in the cars as drivers and steering
hosts. From Pierce we made the
run on schedule time to Mulberry
from where the start was made to
Blrtow. We passed some flat lands
AMI turpentine orchards on this lap
of the days journey. Getting into
Barlow each section. and wife and
the writer were riding in Section b
ha / its arriving and leaving TINT
an was supposed to be checked 10
and out by the marshals of the days
program. We made a side ride
from the main part OF Barlow out to
the cabbage. tomato and eggplant
fields. where they use the pipe sys-
tenn OF irrigating 10 cases of droutb
during the growing season of tbeil
truck. That is the fields are piped
with iron piping of inch and sucl
like sizes and these pipes are erected
at end of the rows to extend high
overhead over the rows to prevent
any Interference with cultivation.
When they lack RAIN they merely
turn the water from the mains into
these pipes which are perforated
with lines of holes on each side aud
to the top sending the water sizzling
in clouds of spray up into the hot
heavens and falling like gentle
showers ON the ground below cover
ling it all neatly but slowly like a
lgood refreshing shower. The cab
bage season was over when we were
there and we saw where thousands
of them had been cut from the stalks
for packing and shipping while there
were piles of culls in the fields aud
uncut cul's left from the pick.
| From Barlow the motorcade moved
| fusion that had grown out OF amixeuli
| in line of cars at Barlow was straight
lened out and while we sat in the cars
in the blazing sun in front of their
school lawn the school children lined
up and stretched out along side ou'
parade line and sang for US Justify
the national airs waving frantically
their little flags and marching back
and forth IN their pretty drills and
lthey were quite large body and
seem to enjoy the fun greatly.
There was then about Is mile
run to Frost-proof which is so called
account of its high elevation and
was but short time ago thought
lunsuited to the culture of the citrus
fruits but some game real estate men,
with one of whom we were riding to-
day, had the courage to 90 in there
and get groves started despite the
poor sandy character of the soil and
they made fortunes quickly and
grove after grove is being put out
rapidly and numbers of groves of
both high grade oranges and grape
fruits bearing at full capacity and
some of the choicest fruit in Florida
and how our eyes do feast as we ride
by these heavy laden trees many
of which especially the grape fruit
have such burdens of fruit clusters
that the limbs are hanging about the
ground with their beautiful fruits
following like golden as they ripen
Lake Moody, Crooked Lake are pass
ed and we roll pass Highland park
which is beautiful development,
into the town of Lake Wales where
the party is dined by groups, each
section going to the hotel or club
house to which they have been as
signed and allowed an hour and three
quarters to eat and then ride again
on schedule time. We move as does
a train and have to be setting in our
autos on the dot or we lose our place