The Ocala evening star., 1922-12-21
GREAT EXTENT Of MARION
COUNTYS CITRUS GROVES
Over Six thousand Acres Planted 10 Finest Varieties Oh
Grapefruit and Oranges

A survey of the citrus fruit groves
in Marion county, just completed by |
the Marion County Chamber of Com
merce, gives an estimated total of
5l55 acres in bearing and young trees,
not including scattering trees on
farms and around homes and not in
cluding groves in several sections not
reported 1t is believed that the total
viii easily exceed 5000 acres. In ad-
dition TO this it is known that the
groves being planted and to be plant
ed will exceed 1920 acres. The survey
as far as completed shows that there
are 1892 groves In the county totaling
4084 acres in bearing trees and 1071
acres in young trees. There is some
discrepancy in these last figures,
however, as the Chamber of Com
merce points out, because the reports
in some instances do not give the
bearing and young trees separately.
The grove projects being planted and
to be planted number thirty. The
groves vary in size from one-fourth
acre to $50 acres, the largest bearing
grove being 200 acres and the largest
young grove, $50 acres. The reports
show 1902 acres in groves in the Lake
Weir section iH southern Marion and
: l677 acres in the Orange Lake section
I'm the northern partNof the county.
The groves are by nd means limited
10 these two famous sections but are
found in every part Of the county in
Increasing numbers and extent. In
announcing the ree;llts of the survey
the Chamber of Commerce calls at
tentipn to the fact that in Marion
county the value of livestock, and
livestock products, grains, hay and
forage, vegetables and citrus fruits,
runs into six figures and more in each
instance and thta this is true in only
one other county, the value of whose
citrus fruits does not begin to equal
Marion,s.
The number of groves and the
acreage as reported for the various
communities and sections is as fol,
lows: \
Arden: Two groves, "a acres bear
ing, rs acres in young trees. =
Anthony: Forty-fouf acres to b
set out.
Boardman: Nine groves, l83 acre:
of bearing, trees.
Belleview: Four groves, Is acres
bearing trees.
Blitchton: Four groves, nine acre
bearing trees.
Gambler: Twenty groves, 16
acres bearing, 20 acres young.
Gitra: Thirty-tWo groves, 952 ACRE
bearing.
Conner and Grahamviile: Si
groves, 80 acres bearing trees fiv
Cottage Hill: Seven groves 49,
acres bearing trees.
Dunnellon: Four groves, 16 acre
bearing trees, three groves of 16
acres to be set out.
Eastlake: Twelve groves, la acre
bearing trees, 420 acres to be set out
Emathla: Two groves, six acres i
bearing.
Fairfield and Irvine: Four grove
235 acres bearing, eight young.
Heather Island: One grove, As acre
bearing trees, twenty young.
Leroy: One acre bearing teres.
Linadale section: Twenty tH
goyes, 385 acres bearing trees.
Lake Kerr: Five groves, 10 acre
bearing trees, 10 acres to be set out
Lacota: Three groves, S1A acre
bearing trees.
Lynne: Fwenty-ene groves, i:
acres bearing trees, rs acres youn
1s 0acres to be set cut.
Lowell: One grove, 90 acres bea
ing, ten young,
Moss Bluff and Electra: Twenty-s
groves, 110h acres bearing, "a youn
Mcintosh: Fourteen groves, 5.
acres bearing.
North Side Lake Weir: Nlnete'
groves, 346 acres bearing, SO aer
young, 81 acres to be set out.
Orange Springs: Three groves,
acres of bearing trees.
Qcala: Eighteen groves, four acr
bearing, 265 acres young, 557 acr
to be set out.
Romeo: Two and one-haH acres
scattering trees,
Eummerfeld: Seven groves, 10 acr
bearing trees, "A young.
Sparr: Eleven groves, 122h acr
bearing trees, 90 acres young and s
acres to be set out.
Southern shores of Lake Weir a
east of river: Seventy-one groves,
acres bearing, 43F acres young.
4 Farmers Citrus Club: Fifty acl
being set out and to be set out.
The Chamber of Commerce will
preeiate having it's attention called
any errers in the number Of grow
fhe acreage and Age of trees.