ORANGE COUNTY.


while envious portions of tthe State and the South
claiming that old Orange County was as severely inju
by the late cold weather as any other region, our plan
are now, three weeks after the cold wave, engage
grinding cane and making sugar, and the quality is
affected.
 Winter gardening will pay a larger per cent. on
capital and labor invested than the most successful a
cultural operations in the North. It is not claimed th
larger yield per acre can be secured in Florida than in
fertile valleys of the Mississippi and Missouri. But a
sonably good crop can be grown here at a season of
year when the farmers of the North are ice-bound and
raise nothing. A bushel of tomatoes grown in the N
will net the producer one dollar. The crop comes


market just at a time
has produce to sell. Th
price gets so low that it
keting. One dollar per
good average price. A
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February, will frequently
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when every farmer and gardener
te market is soon overdone, and the
will not pay for picking and mar-
bushel for the season would be a
bushel of tomatoes grown in Flor-
w York market from December to
y net the grower ten dollars. Five
depended upon, and thus the Flor-
advantage over his Northern corn-


petitor in being able to get his products into market at a
season of the year when he can find a ready sale at fancy
prices, instead- of seeing them go begging in an overstocked
market at a starvation price. The fruit-growing industry
will always be the chief attraction of this region. But,
while the fruit-grower is waiting for his trees to come into
bearing, he must manage to live. To do this he can engage
in market-gardening, sugar-growing, or raising cassava for
the starch-mills, and thus secure a fair income and a good
living from the start. Any of these he can do without in
any way interfering with the culture of his grove; and,
indeed, while the trees are small v
among them to advantage. e cost of living is light.
Fuel costs nothing, and the family clothing will not exceed
one half what is necessary in the North. .
 "Orange County is to-day attracting more attention and
increasing faster in population than any other county in the
State. Its rolling, high pine-lands, lying along the heights


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