CHAPTER XVII.

 FIELD AND FARM PRODUCTS.

 ALL the crops of all portions of America can be grown
in Florida. 'Some produce better here than anywhere else,
others no better, a few not so well, but they will all grow


and produce fair yields. And in all
care or labor than elsewhere; there
this assertion known of in the lon:
Besides, in many cases the same soil
the same or some other product with
 Of the various field-crops cotton
as the staple product in this State ; h


least productive, although it
other State or country where
the "king" field-product of


cases they require less
is not an exception to
g list of productions.
can be replanted with
in the same year.
has by custom ranked
however. it is one of the


pays as well here as in any
it can be grown. Sugar is
Florida, and it can hardly be


doubted that ere many years have elapsed a considerable
portion of the sugar and molasses that are. now imported at
the cost of millions of dollars from Cuba and elsewhere will
be drawn from the soil of the Peninsular State.
 SuGAR-CANE.-In both climate and soil, Florida is pe-
culiarly well adapted for the growth of sugar-cane, the
long period of warm weather and the absence of cold af-
fording a longer period for the cane to mature. In Louisi-
ana, owing to the frosts, the cane never tassels, and has to
be ground as soon as mature; in South Florida it always
tassels, and can be worked at leisure through a period cov-
ering several months. What is known in Louisiana as
"fair land will produce from fifteen hundred to two thou-