FLORIDA.


equals the best imported. Before the war it was extensive-
ly and profitably cultivated, and mostly sold to Germany,
agents visiting the State to purchase. It requires careful
attention, will yield from five to seven hundred pounds to
the acre, and sells for from twenty to thirty cents a pound.
Latterly there is an increasing home and State demand by
cigar-manufacturers, and the area of cultivation is extend-
ing.


 PEANUTS.-The
best in quantity of
are largely used on
remarkably fattenin
crop, the cultivation
yield is liberal.
 MELONS.-" The


" Burea
the priz
lar kind
no rare
weighing
pounds,
hundred
the least
thirty ti
termeloi
known
and the


peanuts grown in Florida rank with the
production and also in quality. They
the farm as food for swine and are
g. Almost any soil is suitabe for te
n is simple and inexpensive, and the

Northern man," says the writer of the


u of Immigration" pamphlet, "who has only seen
e melon, pumpkin, squash, and other fruits of simi-
, is astounded at the size of Florida growth. It is
thing to see watermelons as large as a nail-keg,
g seventy pounds, muskmelons twenty to thirty
and pumpkins and squashes will often weigh one


L


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3

v


raising of them is not a mat


pounds.


A watermelon which does not weigh, at


s considered
bout the ave
Those raised
flavor seems
solid, than e
ter of much


hardly salable;
rage of the wa-
are of the best-
more pleasant,
elsewhere. The
care; they are


mostly found in the corn-patch, where they grow unseen
and uncared for. Except where raised for shipment North,
in recent years, they are grown by truckmen, who ship by
the car-load North and West, the season for sending gen-
erally commencing the last of May and continuing until
August. Muskmelons also are of large size, and delicious
cantaloupes are raised easily; indeed, vines of all kinds


twenty-five pounds, i
thirty-five pounds is a
Brought to market.
varieties, and here the
flesh more crisp and


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