i ,-...> 28, 1892] THE FLORIDA DISPATCH, FARMER AND FRUIT GROWER. 75 - tobacco would be sold green in the to know if Clopton Brothers water Japan Plums. Mate '!eels. field, neither would crops be hauled their cornfield night and morning and No fruit lately introduced is more -- oJ twenty miles and sold for less than tied the hills up to stakes like a vine- worthy of attention by progressive Mr. Cyrus Butler shipped some fine full value. Give us the method.- yard; they want to know if Brother looking Tangerine kid glove oranges Floridian. Williams bored an artesian well in the horticulturists than the Japan plum. this week from trees that have been Burning of the woods has already centre of his rice patch and built lev- The trees bear as young and more ! set out just three 'ears.-South Flor caused great loss of property and in ees all around it; they want to knowif regularly and heavily than the peach, ida Home. some places life has been lost. Dr. J. Brother Adams used a dilution of, and they are not subject to mildew, ! Ed. Hodges and C. W. Stevens, of L. Gaskins killed a fatted hog Tues- maple syrup to induce his half acre of curl leaf 0:' the yellows. The fruit of Newnansville, have put in a crop of day, from which he obtained fourteen sugarcane to weigh 17,000 pounds; varieties is than of : larger some 225 acres of oats. They intend to gallons of good clean lard, which is they want to know if Brothers Rich- any quit growing cotton and grow oats, equal to about 120 pounds. L. C. ards and Rafferty dug 3,676 poundsof the American or European plums, hogs, and other things.GainesvilieSun. Futch has raised the master cabbagethis hay out of the ground as Bermuda and some are superior to the best of year. It measured four feet grass roots,or whether they took several them in quality. No other plums Florida nurserymen are reaping a across the head. Bradforp! soil beats clips (from the annual growth of the equal them in beauty of coloring. harvest from the sale of orange trees the world for big growth.-Starke Spanish clover; they want to know if Some are so firm that they could be Telegraph.The Brother Van Pelt planted his sweet half around the world in to Californians. Every car of the Southern shipped good Pacific which enters the State is agricultural editor of the Flo- potatoes in 1890, and covered them condition. Most Japan plums are ordered to the nurseries to be loaded ridiaji visited the farm of G. G Gibbs, with glass during the past winter to clingstones. Some ripen in June and get 191 bushels out of an acre of others late in the fall. Their chief with orange trees for California.Milton near Tallahassee, and found him busy parched sand, which had no rain for commercial value is for shipping. Clarion. with his lambs and pecan planting.He . " There will be a number of Satsuma also has plenty of well-fed cattle, months previous to. .digging.. There is yet much to learn about these orange trees planted in this county because he (like every good farmer Rockledge the Beautiful: plums. New varieties are constantly . this season. It is a hardy tree and should) puts up hay for them. He appearing. The first Japanese plum its cultivation should be encouraged. raises turnips and ruta bagas for his When we reached Rockledge, I am known in California-the Kelseywas - Nurserymen should give it special at- sheep. His burr clover looks very constrained to confess, that, "having a fertile tree found mixed with a tention as the supply is not near equalto fine, and the more we see of it the heard its praises sung," the place wasa package of persimmon trees, and the demand.-Milton Clarion. nwre we are inclined to believe that great and trying disappointment to though the fruit is large, the tree is I every Middle Florida farmer should me. But after passing through the the slowest grower and poorest bearer James O'Beny has sold the oranges : have a field, at least, of the same. grounds of the Hotel Indian River, I and about the most useless for any of his large grove near Chipco for 60 The Pensacola News gives detailsof experienced entire revolution of purpose of any of them; yet it was the cents a box upon the tree. His crop feeling. It is a perfect paradise; andI advance guard of an army of fruits half-inch is about boxes. Do knowof a snowfall, a most unusual 2,500 you then wondered that so little had which promise to be among the most other occurrence, and the rollicking from any ten.acre crop in this been said in its favor. The little valuable introduced during the cen which the inhabitants world that will $1,400 clear old and young, profitin pay jutting, moss covered rocks, the over- tury. The names by which some of its had from snowballing. It : "Some Antonio says worst 'ear.-San Her- humorous incidents of childish im. hanging tropical foliage the soft, the most popular varieties are knownare ald.Capt.. A. J. Phares of Yalaha was pression with the character of the velvety carpet of grass, the landscape the Botan (renamed Abundance), in teesburg snowy visitor are related. One gardening, so tastefully arranged, Satsuma, Kelsey, Burbank, Late on Monday and made us papa his little with gorgeous, as well as delicately- Blood, Chabot, Ogon, Green Fruited, call. He left with caught three-year old on the a us two Hart'sTardiff picking the with tinted fragrant flowers bordering the Masu, Simoni, Red Nagate, Engre steps up 'sugar' a sweet that had remained - oranges shaded and Yosobe. The writer has numerous paths and avenues, many little Another one who saw on the trees two years.Vhile spoon. the flakes with the fine orange grove as a rich promising seedlings from which he informed his descending not as good as the first fruit these and crop mamma that it was raining 'feathers.' background, presents to the eye at hopes to obtain fruit superior even to oranges were sweet juicy - once a pictute most rapturously any of the.delicious plums now Commercial.Mr. Still another wanted to go out and The half hath been known.-American Garden. charming. not catch the cobwebs. Bless their W. D. Woodrow has been little hearts'pretty said of it. The other walks also, both .. .- they had seen snow for sending some of his friends in Glas- the first time. It was not at all strange north and south, are very picturesque, Oranges vs. Apples. gow, Scotland, oranges to remind that should it what it and could be rendered far more so An eastern exchange takes the fol. them of the happy holidays. He has peared they most like regard to their childish ima-ap with slight expense combined with lowing view of the orange situation : heard from them. They reached their nation." taste. Indeed, no pecuniary consideration "There is only one way in which to destination in splendid order, and Mr. should induce the wealthy account for: the present low price of T. L. Ward & Co. have W.'s friends write him they never ate this week river front owners to delay taking at Florida oranges, and that is in cheap such fruit before, and order more or. purchased about 8,000 pounds of to- once immediate action to secure so apples. The supply of oranges is by anges like them, no matter what they bacco, and we understand the highest much-needed and beautifying an no means heavy in this market, yet it cost.-Ocala Banner., price paid was about thirty-five cents improvement. Mr. Merwin and one is impossible to advance the price, There is The Tropical Sun, while friendly to, per pound. considerable tobacco or two others have done so, and auction sales being made at a dis in this for 4 the 'World's Fair project, says that firm also have county number yet of sale. This arranged their grounds tastefully. We couraging low figure the past few Dade county cannot possibly contrib. a hands at were indebted to the courtesy of Mr. weeks. It will probably be but a few ute anything toward it because she is work stripping and packing tobacco. and Mrs. Merwin and Mrs. Gillettefor years more, however, when oranges j opening a county road 105 miles long Hon. L. B. Wombwell, Commissionerof : much pleasure during our visit. will have little more value than apples. down the coast, with many bridges; the Agriculture information, requests of those us to state for Their fine house is a great addition to There is no crop more certain, and also building a county jail; also has interestedthat the place. Florida and California have a sufficientarea this date after , to devote a large part of her small in no more tobacco Nature has been lavish in perform. of productive territory to producea seed will be distributed come to the development of schools. the supply'having ing her full share towards the adorn- crop of fifty times the present size, been exhausted. The commissioner of The river has if A fault ment Rockledge. not even greater. great The first snow of the season fell he has distributed says seedto washed the rocky formation into so with the orange is that it,cannot enter ;, Thursday evening. It was so light about twelve hundred persons many pretty points and coves that culinary purposes to the extent of that it did not cover the ground but throughout the State, who have as- the entire river front for miles couldbe apples, and this fact alone will serveto the light rain that followed sleeted serted their intention of entering into transformed into a scene of prevent it retaining its value in and probably cut off the early blooming the cultivation of tobacco either in " and with other fruit. constantly increasing beauty, competition peach crop. Friday morning was place of cotton or as an independentcrop. with the hotel grounds, a veritable -- -. - one of the coldest of the season, and .-Tallahasseean. sent themercury down to 28 above The Escambia County Alliance offered fairy-Iand.-Indian--4 .*River Advocate. 17t:1 FENCINC zero, 4 below freezing.-St. Andrews premiums for the best crops, and He loved his horse, even as an Arab would and Messenger. grieved see him suffer and die even as if he was f.: WIRE ROPE SELVASE. these have been awarded. lately Someof , human so he listened when one told of SalvationOil o' V Badly needed-something else be. the crops reported were so large as ,and to-day his horse is well and he is happy. sides natural means to properly cure to move the incredulity of those who the Vuelta Abajo leaf. As each sea- were not so fortunate as to carry off I CURE I son rolls around in this portion of any of the prizes. A, farmer writing gJTJ Middle Florida we will be more and in the Pensacola News, asks some trou- When I say cure I do for a time and then have them return again. I mean a more subject to climatic change. A blesome questions: "The past season radical cure. I hare made the disease of FITS EPI- method .that will do the curing work has been so dry in West Florida that LEPSY or FALLING SICKNESS a life-long study. I RABBIT l'k POULTRY FENC . warrant my remedy to cure the worst cases. Because Pr.Wt! Pal4. Ktamn irona mm met co..cwUJel, , up quickly and well is surely needed the outside world will compare the others have failed is no reason for not now receiving a -- ---- ---- ---- among the growers. If they were in weather record and crop report with cure. Send at once for a treatise and a Free Bottle of you need stationery of any kindpaperpens Poet Office. Give and DO my infallible remedy. Express . and ink? If so,send to DaCosta Fri ting - possession of such a method, no more astounding amazement. They want II. G. BOOT, M. C., 183 Pearl St., N. Y. and Publishing:House,Jacksonville, F1a'JANUAI'.Y ..