QUESTIONS AND


ANSWERS.


year bearing as vigorously as when first planted; pears
growing on vines; peas growing on trees; and plants
growing on nothing at all-the latter being the common
air-plants. Of live-stock, I have seen as large, fine, fat


swine, and as nea
York, or Illinois;
good condition at
Northern-raised st
 The climate of
delightful, and the
most other portion
gA -* rt'xt\/ 1 '


of I-U w
and the w
affirm front
were both
It seems a
any living
from either
is asserted


t -cattle and sheep, as in Vermont, New
and they can be raised and kept in
so small a cost that comparison with
ock is absurd.
Florida in the winter months is simply
Summers are about as endurable as in
is of the United States. The summer


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as said Dy all to De the nottest ior many years,
inter of 1880-'81 to be the coldest; yet I can
i the sure basis of personal experience thai they
healthy and agreeable, even to a new-comer.
absolutely impossible that any human being, or
creature able to move about, should really suffer
r cold or heat, or from hunger, in Florida. It
(and meets with no dispute) that no case of


starvation, of freezing, of
was ever known in the Sta
never been heard of.
 Consider the terribly co
winter season throughout
causes; the many deaths
want of a little friendly wa


of sunstroke,
indirectly by
summer; and
vation for lac
cities. Then
clime, where


sunstroke, or of hydrophobia,
ite; and local epidemics have

Id weather of the long, dreary
the North; the suffering it
among the poor, perishing for
irmth. Consider also the cases


the suffering and deaths caused directly or
the heat, in those same regions during the
the still more sorrowful cases of actual star-
k of the plainest food in many of the large
contemplate the advantages of this favored
food-even such articles as are regarded as


luxuries in other localities-may be had in abundance,
for very little cost or labor, and where a genial tempera-
ture prevails at all seasons!


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