THE SANFORD


GRANT.


facts as demonstrate the possibilities of cheap, comfortable,
and profitable living.
 "On entering the grounds, the first thing that attract-
ed attention was the line of coops containing poultry in
their glossy and peculiar costumes. They were all unex-
ceptionable specimens of their respective species, atd their
handsome and healthful appearance gives evidence of cli-
matic adaptation. Considering the domestic convenience
and the aggregate value of this department, it deserves a
large share of the public attention. The geese were worthy
of notice for their size and fine development. Their feath-
ers were evidently finer, although, perhaps, not affording so
large a yield as in a northern climate. The turkeys, being
in their native latitude, were enabled to entertain their ad-
mirers with unsurpassed domestic accomplishments, while
the Muscovy ducks were equal to the best of their kind.
The fantail pigeons were beautifully attractive, and showed
that South Florida might become quite as noted and finan-
cially valuable in her dove-cotes as old Spain herself.
 The sugar-cane and its products, as exhibited by Mr. G.
W. Crawford, of his own growth and manufacture, were of a
superior quality, and develops a very interesting and impor-
tant department of industry. Mr. Crawford, who lives a few
miles south of Orlando, is one of the most enterprising and
successful farmers in Orange County, and besides the pre-
ceding he exhibited green peas, turnips, tropical yams, sweet-
potatoes, corn, cabbages, etc., all of mammoth growth. This
tropical yam produces enormous tubers of a black color,
and equal to the Irish potato in every respect, but of finer
flavor. It grows rapidly from any small section of the root,
and continues to grow as long as it is in the ground.
 "There were turnips measuring three feet in circumfer-
ence; cabbages weighing from twelve to fifteen pounds,
and radishes as much as nine pounds, solid and brittle. The
Rean luxurians, or Te-o-sin-te -grass of the gods-exhibit-
ed by Dr. Kenworthy, is eight or nine feet long, and re-
sembles corn-fodder, and is said to be very prolific, yield-
ing from fifty to one hundred tons per acre. Heads of let-
tuce that would cover a dinner-plate looked fresh and crisp ;
while onions, leeks, kale, parsnips, etc., lay around in rich
profusion. Potatoes planted on Christmas-day were of fine
size for table use, and altogether it would be difficult to im-