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 160 -THE FLORIDA DISPATCH.. fPEBRUARY 14, 188?.

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 journey, to make a scanty living, the timber on about ten acres, planted enlighten the public in general on suchan
 Pioneering, building air castles on.the road, how pptates, peas, Guinea grass and set outa important subject as this. I say
 and what to do when I was able to grove, all in the same time in whichI enlighten, and do not to be misunder-
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 fussed with fences
 have a fence. Again one day I came have to protectthe stood, as for the present system it act-
 THE, NO-PBNOE LAW. home, to see that sorrowful face of my same. As it is now in Florida, a ually needs enlightening of a good
 wife. What is up now ? She led me man generally builds a house, and many, for many are fearing by doing
 A Chapter of Pioneer Experience.Editor to a barrel in the yard, then she said : when he gets his fence up, and his away with the fence, the bottom will
 FLoRIDA DISPATCH: "I put our hen with the eggs you means exhausted,except he has plenty, fall out, while it will only be a god-
 In your last issue, of January 24th, bought, and day before yesterday that and the money that would have cleared send to us. FRANK VOIGT.
 I find an article in regard to the no- old sow that is so very annoying, has and planted the land is put to make a Interlachen,Putnam Co.,Fla.
 fence law movement. What I haveto eaten hen and eggs." lot of unsightly sticks ten feet long, to .
 say is simply what the present system Our only hen was gone. I believeI rot in about five years, to be replacedby A PIONEER'S COMPLAINT.
 has done for me, and I feel that looked }perplexed, if that is the right others.I -
 many have had a similar experience.I name for it. Yes, dear reader, a hen say again, if Florida would take Transportation Swallows Up
 hope these lines will help the good is only fifty cents at the highest, and care of the settler with small means, Everything.Editor .
 cause for Florida's welfare, and trust half a dozen eggs perhaps forty() cents, who is willing to carve a home out of FLORIDA DISPATCH:
 those who are not convinced will, I but I tell you, when a man has onlyone the wilderness, and would not throw It has been with a great deal of in-
 after a trial (for I hope it will be hen to start with and has to hunt obstacles in his way, the country would terest that I have read the remarksof
 tried), find that it is a God-send to around in the pine woods for half a soon fill up, for the rich man will follow your correspondents concerningfruit
 Florida to do away with our fences.I day to find somebody who can sell those who, as pioneers, go way and vegetable raising, express
 do not like to stop on theories, but him the eggs, it looks quite different, ahead to make a start, where the man and freight charges, and commission
 will tell you something from every- for it was already late in summer and with means would not try to go. merchants.
 day life in Florida on a homestead as we expected to have at least a start of Protect the worker, and make the I came here over two years ago,
. it is, and.as many have found it. chickens by spring following.We gift of the United States-the home- with others, to help develop the State,
 I moved to the State in 1879, in had no trouble so far in our stead-a blessing,not a curse, in Florida and to make a living out of the soil.
 February, began life on a homesteadwith three acre patch and as the law requires by obstacles like a fence. After giving gardening a good trial, I
 family in May the same year 'i.n a man to have a fence in Flor- When I read the proclamation of found that the railroads and commis-
 a high, dry sandhill, with a larg* lake ida, I laid the fault to myself and the Governor about Arbor Day, I sion men got all the proceeds and left
 front, there were about three acres un pocketbook and took it like a good could help thinking that he might as me nothing. Others around here
 der a neighbor's fence on two sides, citizen has to take such thingsforthe well proclaim that anybody was allowed have had the same experience. Some
 and one was protected by the lake.I majority rules. to plant sweet potatoes in the have returned to the North and others
 planted that field in peas and potatoes Now in October, it commenced to pine woods, without having done away have quit the business including. my-
 and as my capital was very limited look like we would) have sweet potatoes with the fence law, for who can planta self.Whatever
 I hurriedly built a house to move and peas, and I again made air tree? I mean any kind a man may I raise hereafter will be for
 my family into and went to work as castles when I walked to and from choose to plant outside, without pro- my own use, or for the home market,
 carpenter seven miles away, in a small home, how nice it would be, when at tection more costly than the tree, with until there is a different state of
 town. I had to walk that distance last the victory was won, and I could out losing through the cows. If I should hereafter ship
 every week, shouldering a large bag stay at home to cultivate that land We Americans think we are aheadof anything for the Northern market, I
 of provisions for family when going that Uncle Sam so generously had the Old Country, and Florida, I shall give the commission men a wide
 home, almost earning twice what I given me. But, alas! it was written suppose, thinks so, too. Let me prove berth, and patronize the Fruit Ex-
 had in the bag. I had no time and differently in the stars, for the cows the contrary. I,of course, only touchour change. I do not mean to say that all
 no money to put a fence around the had long ago wondered what it might fence law,and don't want anythingelse commission merchants are dishonest,
 house ; I simply left everything to the be that looked se nice and green over mixed up with it. but too many of them are and I do
 six in family and whatever they mightdo there, and as on a sudden impulse Before the year 1848 the peasant in not intend to run any more risks.I .
 ; my only thoughts were to support about two dozen had swam the laketo Germany had to fence his land, or hear that many who intended
 them, and whoever in Florida has see what it was, the peas were soon guard it against wild hogs and deer, coming to Florida to winter have
 "been there himself," on a high pine composted and made into a fertilizer as the nobleman was only allowed to gone to California because they can
 hill, without capital, know what it is. to fertilize a neighbor's cow pen. In shoot them. He (the peasant) could get cheaper rates. Unless the rril-
 When I came home the first time my the morning the man only came homeon only drive them kindly out of his field, road companies change their policy,
 wife had the news that at least two dozen a Saturday to l look over the re and many crops were lost, and many the goose that lays the golden egg will
 hogs annoyed her nights, and, as they mains, which indeed were very few. hearts ached. There, in 1848,the rev- soon be dead.A .
 sought shelter under the house,I should The hogs had found a few rotten rails, olution changed it ; the hogs and deer great many who came from the
 try to get a dog. The next news I pushed them through and proved thatit were put mostly behind fences, or the North would send for luxuries, and
 soon after heard was that she had was a great benefit for those who peasant could by a right to shoot them. also necessaries that they were used to
 planted some little things around the have hogs to be fattened in another And what do we, free born citizensof before they came here, but they are
 house and all were uprooted. Well, man's field. Yes, indeed, the cows the United States? We simply obliged to do without because of the
 we had to obey, for we had to have a and hogs looked sleek and fat, and I buy an old sow, raise our own curse,in high freights and express charges,
 fence to plant anything. So I ]lost a went all winter working hard: to get the shape of pigs, and substitute cows and those doing business here who
 few days and went to work to make a bread for the family. By December I for wild deer to aggravate each other, have to ship their supplies must do so
 garden fence on the edge of the lake.I had managed to save fifteen dollars and those which happen to be not at a loss, or charge more for their
 fenced three sides, letting two sides for a fence, and a couple of negroessoon able to buy hogs and cows to return goods than they ought to, and often
 run into the lake, and expected to be surrounded an ugly looking house the favor, have to act exactly as the their goods are roughly handled,
 safe. My wife's cabbages, beans, etc., with one of those unsightly ornaments German peasant before 1848, and thisis smashed up and ruined, and there
 looked well and she felt proud that called a rail fence, the dearest of all nearly forty years ago. Are we seems to be no redress. Florida is
 she was able to help lighten the bur- fences but the easiest to get at the start.I then behind or ahead ? lacking her opportunity, and if such a
 den on my shoulders- of supportingthe i have unrolled a picture of Dear Editor, I am very lengthy, I state of things i id continued much
 family, for anything we could homestead life, which I know ha not can see in your face you feel like lay- longer she will go backwards, and I
 raise was actually so much less to been exprienced by me alone; hun- ing this perhaps in the wastebasket, think it is the duty of all who are interested 
 carry home on my shoulders.But dreds of others have had to go throughthe but before so doing I ask you if this in her success, to remonstrate
 soon the tears in her eyes same heartrending trials, withoutthe fence question is not actually the first until a better policy is pursued.
 showed me that something must have : slightest feeling on the part of question of importance to Florida's What report can be given those who
 happened. She took me on coming their neighbors; for why don't he put welfare? You may take well written wish to know what inducements there
 home to the garden ; there was the up his fences right? Or why don't he articles on grapes, oranges, or general are for them to come here?
 spot, but where were the cabbages watch them in time? But that don't agriculture, and to what does it all C. J. BlLLINGHUEST.
 ? Two big oxen had managedto alter t! a matter. I had to work out amount? Orange Heights, Fla.,Jan.,18, 1887.
 walk around through the lake and for about four years before I got a I Are we really allowed to take advantage 4
 what they had no room for -in their start, and I mainly lay it to our present i of climate, soil, etc ? What A German inventor has :utilized
 stomach was t ampled into the Flor- fence law, which almost prohibits' jo I care if Florida can raise 300 cork in the manufacture of fancy arti-
 ida land. I felt like it was my fault, a man from making a living on a pieceof bushels of sweet potatoes per acre if cles by novel Powderedcork
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 but I cursed the oxen. I again spenta land in Florida, except he got cap- it costs as much as the profit comesto process.
 day and went down up to my neck ital to start right. Dear readers, to protect them from hogs and is mixed with starch and water,
 into the lake to run the fence, still think of it. 'Suppose I was allowed cows? I therefore hope you will per- and the mass kneaded while boiling
 further out. The garden was also to make use of all the land given to mit this article in your paper. May hot until thoroughly mixed ; it is then
 replanted with what was in season yet, me by the Government as it was, with- others who know better how to handlea poured into moulds and afterwards
 and good by again on a seven mile's out fencing, I could then have killed pen than I do,join, and let us try to dried at a very high temperature.

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