..- .,., ,- "'- ", -" .:;. "' ,', ': "' < , . ,.. ,, ' # . F . . _. '' 384 I ," r' 'J: ;' ," THE FLORIDA DISPATCH, FAQ AND FRUTT-GROWEB s ,' [1I.A.T 14, 18ft w .. -- - -(; h . . -. p "'" absolutely safe from ''such'a cold spell It contains the particular kinds of to arrive at full maturity before cut- XXFX98V3 Taro Use: ) -' as 'that of January,> 1886, ,when, the plant food the pineapple requires. It ting the Ijetter'it is in every respect. 1 acre pin roots average, stumps, pine, etc.land,,everything cleared of ''t. thermometer fell below! the freezing will! ''mot,dissolve,or;waste',through the New pineapples which have to be burned and ashes Mattered plowed : point'of water, even ''m..the Island of sand,: -but decomposes gradually shipped'by sailing vessels must be cut planted twice, harrowed with 12000 twice pineapple rolled once slips, :. Cuba; but' such a',frost as this, whileit through the rainy season, and sets"free green, whereas ,the mainland fruit fenced with set three strands rod or barbed and will unquestionably destroy the pineapple for use of the plant its food during its will in the future be shipped by rail ditch wire post outalde three one feet apart wide, com a 4 of the in which it period of most active growth., It in plete. ..... % ....... $30.00 crop year .. : refrigerator cars, and will reach Two tons cotton seed meal "'.. .... 00.00 f ,happens, recurs. according to experience costs. 1$30 per ton delivered on the the: large:distributing centers, of ,the Distributing two tons fertiliser 1 M . at such long: intervals that the' banks -of the Caloosahatchie, and North and West in some fifty or sixty Six weeding In the two years at15 00.. 90 00 : pineapple 'planter: can'aflbrd' to disre should be applied at the rate of one hours. ,This fact will enable the Total at end of two years .. '..... 1360.00 Thlrdyear Two tons of fertilizer and : Bard:it Three. ti es'iD' fifty-one years, ton J>er acre per annum for the first fruit to be left on the parent stalk spreading: '. .. ..-...... :.. 8000 .. viz.: In 1835, in 1868 and in iS86,' two years, and after that in double the until it is'very nearly ripe. Again on Two Three thousand weeding*two-year-old at 110 this year plant... 'at" 30.00 t would the bearing pineapples, 'south quantity.The the Florida keys, in the Antilles and CoaL cents .... .. 3OOO t tl} i,7 ; of latitude 27, :have been cut down to pineapple is one of the few i the Bahamas (our present main source i cents of per gathering thousand 190,000: ... slips. .....at. .2ft.. 32.50 , .". '" 'the ground, had"there( been any'planted plants which can be raised: successfullyin of supply) the pineapples begin to Total expenditure at end of three ,and there would have been, no fruit J419 without. irrigation' Doubt ripen ,in :April and are shipped for years *,;. . .......... 134150I1YCOX =-. gathered in the seasons following these less there are exceptionally dry years, three mprjths, until about the end of *. . <.... frosts. This gives an;ave 'age loss of when even itwould, be greatly assistedby June, when they commence to be- At'end pine of second at 5 cents year on: the Eight ground thousand 40000 -i :' ', one crop: in seventeen\ which hindsight' irrigation, but this, in the case of come scarce, and the markets beingno Two thousand plants (will not bear .,{ warrants one assuming as representingthe the pineapple, is not a sine qua non longer fully supplied, and indeed Forty till third thousand:year)sUps at 2Hents at 111 per Ifltv....ht.... 400.CXT 50,00 L). risk 'which the pineapple planterin often glutted with the fruit- very - DRAINAGE. Total value of produce at end of second ,,.. Florida cannot: avoid and ,must be perishable one, be it remembered- year .. ... '. .. .. I8 t..OO. . '. Water standing on the surface of.the At end of third year: 18,100 pine at 6. . face. rise. With this ! prepared to, the'pric begins to is often cents on the graund. '... 900.00 .';' The young pine plants set out in the ground always very injurious, as with other fruits, the early and the Ninety thousand slips at$10 per 1010.. 100 00 k;" 'fall of 1885 were not seriously dam- fatal .to this plant; care must, there- late oneS;bring the best prices. Now Value second and third year's crop.t2,650,00-- "'; ". t.. -aged 'by the frosts ,of January, ,1886, fore, be taken to plant it on high, dry the winters on the mainland of of the land.where it ,will be safe in the rainy Two thousand original 12,000 '. are : Florida ; :pn the south banks;of the Caloosa- decidedly colder than have been allowed for failure.In . ; slips hatchie and in the, season, and to'supplement the natural those of further : following April points south, or even such assistance in the actual experience'ten cent or ; : were'growing' vigorously and looking drainage by of the Bahamas, and the effect of this per of and ditches the will be found to be an ample shape as 1,200 gutters ; well. But while,the planter:may take is to retard the fruiting time of thepineapple under this head. of the and its :levels allowance Againby w nature ground :; :. the risk of ,such' a killing frost as that indicate. who visit here some three months.It such cultivation and fertilization as just referred to, he .certainly cannot : may Strangers is precisely at the time when the this in the we-have provided for the proportionof State ,only dry season'can . ; afford, to expose his:pineapple to the the importation of foreign pines begins to plants which will not fruit for three form I' -, .slightest degree,'of, Gold ,barely or at no conception as to wetness drop off that ours in this part of reduced one-half of' much of the land in the be or to sea- years may ; ., .- most amounting,to frost, to.which rainy Florida commence to ripen, and our instead of There is : ',the greater part of the State of Florida blunders son, and are'in apt to make grievous If season lasts; through June, July and brisk 1,000 demand for 2,000.pine slips in a ,. is subject almost,every winter. consequence. they August., This fact insures a good this demand is Florida and to likely take the , ;c.. If he does, he rest assured that 'Youl.d'employ a surveyor to, price to tHe home producer, and is a , may '..'. levelS for them they would avoid this hold.good for at least ten years to :his pineapples will not ,be,a success second point of advantage which is in that time it' is source of error. Even in this low, come. By probablethat : commercially, and that hewill sooner his favor : this country will be stocked with the surface is : r,' or later,, will be and the pines slips no longer 'constitute actual hills and 4 '' ; rolling to , ; This curious under such is shoots plant- which The plant propagated by salable but on the other hand the ,. If' conditions of temperature,.is apt to run valleys, although not very called slips, which are produced justat planter's; will be reduced ''t'r"_ from.' to year 'without attempting clearly perceptible to the eye, are very the base of the fruit on the stalk expenses .. year and his increased of fruit will discerned the in "-'rt to fruit, or,if it.should,do:so the apple plainly by water the which carries it. There are usuallyfive for loss crop of'sale of slips. .' rainyseason. For instance, there, is compensate '+ is usually a miserable 'undersized, one in number; sometimes and more estimate of five for The : cents pine. .", land,',at Fort Myers in which: the rise r and unsalable. sometimes less but they will r in half mile is feet but ; average apples on the ground is ,too low. a to : On the Gulf side ,of Florida, at all twenty five. They are left growing on the will that the the it seems,almost a dead level. They net twice sum to . ,: events, we cannot too strongly caution eye stalk when the fruit is out, and after planter when shipped in June, July "our'readers,against embarking in the MARKETS. about three months, when they have and August. From the foregoing it 'tal' cultivation of the pineapple on a,com Finally,; until such 'time as railroads attained good size, they are broken will 'be seen that the estimated profitsof ':( mercial scale,north latitude 27, ,and .I shall be extended on south into the off and sold or planted. They bear pineapple culture at $700 per acre l .,even then he must be careful ',to secure true'pin'eapple belt-which, we con- fruit oathe mainland during the sec is well within the mark, and we com- ..' a water,protection of not less than one tend, is south of latitude 27-it is in. ond summer following, each plant mend this industry to our readers as .- '. I mile'in width on the north side of '.his, cumbent upon the pineapple planterto which bears an apple also sends out affording a solution of the problem as plantation.It ; establish himself within easy reach from'its'roots close above the ground, to how to'"keep the pot' boiling," : 7: i is not essential 'to' locate actually of)a navigable river, or harbor. When as a rule, two large sprouts called while orange or lemon trees; are grow : on'the bank of such water where land I railroad transportation is at his command suckers. Each of these, if left un. ing. There: is nothing to prevent the . *, is usually much higher priced than it is,manifest that it will alwaysbe disturbed; will produce a pineapplewith planting out of these trees among the ' that at the, back; indeed, the '.experience an ,advantage to him to have the its slips and suckers the following pineapples, withdrawing some'of the r of orange growers and,others'has choice of forwarding his goods to i yeari i e., in twelve months' latter as the trees get large-Fort \'; :"" taught them the! ;lesson' that.the .market by either land or sea. A rail- time,, and it is by alternately gathering Myers, Press. '. , '1 'clean sweep which' winds from! the rad( 'strike during the pineapple seasonis the crop from slip plants and . 'cold 'quarter have over'.a wide expanse by no means an impossibility, and sucker ,plants that the harvest becomes A Nozzle.Holder Wanted. I ", .of water is detrimental to't tender vcgetation -. such:a thing would be disastrous_''to annual after the first one, 'at It, has been proved by experiencein .:;' ''1.:. and that an,orange grove, and the plante who had 'no alternativemeans the end'of-two years-and, moreover, this''part of Florida ,that steam- ". :fortiori, a plantation' will'' ,thrive bet- of shipment. the planter is thus enabled to extendhis pumped water can be used successfully .,} ter at a' distance "of from one-half to The whole of these conditions, essential plantation at will. It is the 'custom and.profitably for irrigating,orange .; one mile back from the water"than it to success' in pineapple culture in Florida to plant 12,000 pine- groves 'and truck farms. ''The soil is '... I will: actually the edge of- it. This are,to be'met 'with here on the apples on a single acre, and without so loose that water will not runon: the' .. r. ?1' proposition,. as amatter of course, South bank of the lower Caloosahatchie discussing the question as to whether surface at all, and the only 'practical : ,. assumes that ,there'' are' trees in'' between -, river in the vicinity of the rising It would not be better to cut this num- mode of applying the water in most J c;,;' to act as ;a'wind'break. town of Fort Meyers. ber down'Very considerably, and so' plates where it has been tried; 'is to *- 'which obtain in smaller number it by'pressureand',let it"fall l "n. SOIL. There 'are two advantages larger pines spray : as m If : .;.'' Next, as to soil I' The: pineapple:is a pineapple grown on the mainland ,a point on which doctors differ, and ordinary lawn irrigation. What W -ti!t. dear lover of sand, 'and'' 'thrives'better 'o( Florida possesses over the. foreign which can' be only settled by 'the test known as the "Holly system" is used; ',,:4* '*- '' in 'the 'sandy soil of the pine'woods producer, or even the planter on the: experience'' we will proceed to give; that'is to< say, an 'ordinary pumping \\to "' "than it' does, 'in'any'other! It ought Florida keys: Firstly, that he can the figures (derived from actual trial). station is.erected, at.the .water, pipes .w. to be'r-ertilized'everyyt r shbrtly before market, a better article, and secondly, showing be cost of planting one acre are laid over the ground to ,be irriga, " : -..,: the rainy season:sets' in* 'and 'at' thafhe can sell it.a time when pricesare with 12,000; slips, and then will ted, "a regulator or governor is'so adjusted ., all times kept scrupulously free from' better.. The pineapple which, show the income which they that the back pressure' will cut 1.1 ..' weeds'andgrass.a: **" 1 ripens'on the plant is' vastly superior' may be* expected to :yield at off the steam from 'the pump when the I' ', : t. Experience'hastaught! that: ., cottonseed to that which is cut green and al- the end of two and three years. pressure in the pipes reaches the de- 1 t.. meal is an,excelie&t.fertilizer' ford lowed to'ripen.subsequently,"" 'and 'the. 'The figures do not include the sired limit. By, this:'raeaas- a 'practically ; r. 'this. pk&fin' saady'.soft. *3:* i. '* *. :, n'ote': : nearly this fruit'can 'be suffered, 'cost of the land: uniform pressure'caa be' saaiar5 - r -J ;, -' ; : If ;" '.)11 j,. ,:.;. ,.. .' '.' '; ,. .. :J . :fol' .1-, '..... '_" : ,: '' .f' : ; bt"" i tt. 1 I ;" r . ' 7 ....... -_.- 4 -