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 $2.OO; PER YBAB1 JACKSONVILLE,-OCTOBER 13, 1892. f$2.OO PER YEAR .,.

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 fruit in England, providing no advances = heavy expense for freight has been I in general, for last year, or any ,

 )7arI l\et! Il g. are made by us, can ship on; incurred. In other words, the slaught- number of years? :'

 the basis of 70 cents freight, primageand ering would be done at home, before Not for last year, which was disas- :
 THE SAILING DATE. 4The' insurance. large freight bills were incurred be- trous, owing to frost. All other years ,

 The oranges will be sold at auction tween Jacksonville and the markets of have been prosperous, prices general -1
 First Orange Steamer for in London, Hull or Liverpool the the North. And what would be of ly ranging from $1.00 to $2.00netor ..

 England November 15. market at the time of the steamer's more importance still, this would insure seedlings, $1.50 to $2.50 for medium V

 Editor Farmer and Pruit-G rower: arrival indicates will pay the best re- the customer real Florida oranges., sweet class, and $2.00 to $3.25 for .1'
 It is with pleasure that I announce sults. Every shipper will be furnished< I doubt if more than a very small per- Navels and Bloods in Riverside, other 1
 that November has been decided
 15 with a printed catalogue, showing the centage of the Florida growers are places in San Bernardino county ditto, ...;.]
 as the date which the first steamer: ;
 upon prices realized at public sale, which aware of the excellence the Jamaica and the coast counties generally, 50
 to carry a.cargo of Florida oranges to will be conducted by the most repu- fruit It crowds our Floridas hard. cents to $1.00 per box less than above K
 of
 England will be dispatched. One
 table and long established auction Heretofor *- it has come here packedin figures.
 .
 the fastest English steamers possible .
 barrels and in coarse straw
 in wrapped
 houses Europe.
 to obtain has been chartered, and as; More unsolicited testimonials were re-
 the same has been engaged in the We request that the shippers who< paper. But now they are beginningto ceived commenting on the great 'savingof
 trade and has help to make up this cargo will elect pack in the regulation Florida box. money from the use of Paine's Ground I
 Spanish orange shipping : one of their number to accompanythis The fruit is as fine appearing as Indian Stock Food and its superiority over corn, '
 been tried and proved to possess the oats, bran and cooked food. Every one J
 Rivers and the flavor is
 steamer, we to furnish free trans- next up to the
 necessary qualities to 'land oranges in should get a trial lot and be convinced.See J
 portation England and return ticketto run of the Florida orange, and there-
 good condition, it.'is expected that the ad. on page 816.
 :
 list fore well calculated to deceive j
 first will reach England in sound Florida. As soon as possible a espe-
 cargo will be made up of shippers with the< cially when put on the market, as is
 shaft in which event the most satis-
 Croce and
 Times-Union being done the Flor- Orchard,
 factory prices will unquestionably be names printed in the now as genuine .
 realized for shippers. The loading and FLORIDA DISPATCH, the one get- ida-grown article, deceiving alike the -
 from the dealer and in instanceshis Foot Rot. :
 ting the majority of votes < country most
 point will be Fernandina, and by an
 Editor Farmer and Fruit Grower:
 selected.As customer.
 shippers to be the one .
 with the F. G. & P. R.
 arrangement regards the financial responsi- Mr. Livingston's plan is the only Can you tell me any remedy forMal ,
 R. all fruit on the line of that road
 Fernandina bility of those engaged in the project,, feasible one to checkmate this formdi-- di goma or shin disease on the
 will be hauled
 to at Jacksonville -
 Fruit other Messrs. B. and J. Shaw, of Hull, able competition, and if adopted orange tree? Mr. L. W. Lipsey, of _
 rates. shipped by
 England, refer you to the London and unanimonsly will accomplish that most Citra, referred me to you, and I should \
 routes will a special low rate of
 pay Yorkshire Bank, Hull; Messrs. Cam- desirable result. feel greatly obliged if you would giveme
 4C per box from Jacksonville to Fer- pion, Goodsell & Co., 15 Philpot AN EX-COMMISSION MERCHANT.New a remedy. I have a grove at Biloxi,
 nandina. I
 York City. Miss., in bearing, and some of the
 I Lane, London, England; to Lloyds .
 HOW TO EXPORT. r trees have exuding at the
 i Bank, 72 Lombard Street, London;; gum
 Pack fruit carefully, sending the while I refer you to Messrs. Lazard Orange; Marketing in California. collar and just above. A few are

 best possible quality. Consign the Freres, 10 Wall street, New York; the Some weeks ago we sent to Mr. J. : completely girdled. I have writtenthe

 same. to me to Fernandina and ship Broadway National Bank; Southern E. Cutter, of Riverside, who is one of I department at Washington, D. C.,

 not later than ,October 3oth. Ship National Bank of New York, and the the best informed orange growers of and am told there is no known ,

 oranges not fully colored, if the fruit is Commercial Agencies. For further California, a few questions, which are remedy, but they are experimentingto
 matured, as the same will'color up on particulars and pledges of shipments given below with his replies annexed : find the cause and a remedy. I

 the voyage.: On receipt of shipmentsat address, I. Do your citrus fruit growers have been tolerably successful when

 Fernandina, an advance of 75c a E. L. GOODSELL, generally have a system of central not too far gone by cutting away the 7
 box will be made to all shippers requesting packing hO\lses-1 mean all over diseased back until I came to the per-
 Park Place N. Y.
 the same. As our steamer 103 Southern California ? fectly healthy back but that does seem t
 editorial
 will come direct from England to Fer- For comments see page. Yes; that is, in all districts producing too heroic. I then paint with metallic

 nandina without cargo, a prompt dispatch sufficient fruit to call for such. paint or oxide of iron.
 on November 15 can be looked AN ORANGE MART. 2. Abouf what percentage of the E. BELL. '

 for. '- citrus fruits of Southern California is Box 40.New Orleans, La.
 EXPENSES. Growing Competition of the Jamaica sold at home--(on the trees or f. o.b?) There is no ,infallible remedy for

 The freight charge from shipping Fruit. Probably 80 per cent in ordinary foot rot. Your treatmentexcisionof

 points in Florida to Fernandina will Bditor Farmer and Fruit Grower: seasons. the bark back to sound tissue and

 be paid by me for growers' account.A I take the liberty to express to you 3. About what percentage is shipped painting of the wound-is very good
 total charge of 95c a box will be my hearty approval of the plan for out on commission? :I but- it would he still better if you

 made in addition to cover all the expenses marketing the Florida orange crop About 20 per cent. washed the surface with a strong solution -

 of freight from Fernandina to suggested by Mr. B. F. Livingston,of 4. Are your central packing houses, : of potash and then painted with

 England, and charges of very nature, St. Petersburg, in your issue of the so far as they exist, generally owned coal tar. Remove all the earth from

 including insurance, commission, selling 29th ult. I hope it will reach the by growers or by companies of buyersand the tap root and laterals a foot deep

 expenses, etc. If,,' therefore, a attention of every orange grower in packers ? and eighteen inches in radius all
 shippers invoice sells for $3.00 per the; State. I feel as if my opinion in By companies. There are a few around, and wash all the roots with

 box, there will be deducted freight this: matter is worth somethihg to my co-operative packing establishments. the potash water. Sometimes a simple

 from, say Sanford to Fernandina> say brother orange growers, having been 5. Have you any general bureau of exposure: of the roots checks the dis-

 loc a box, and all other charges 95c a engaged in the produce business in ; information, for the whole of Southern ease.: Do not allow the excavation to .

 box, ,or $1.05 in all, and leaving 1.95 this city from 1856 until 1890 and in California, corresponding to our fill up with earth or to collect and

 per box as net in the grove. AlL net no small way either.Jacksonville .I ?lorida.Fruit Exchange ? hold a quantity of water. Use nitrogenous :';
 results of sales of shipments of any is the natural distrib t No. The Los Angeles Chamber of ; manures very sparingly and

 one owner, of and exceeding 100 uting point for nearly all the oranges Commerce is probably possessed of none at all within three feet of the tree.

 boxes, will be cabled to me, and in and vegetables grown in the State, the most information of any organiza- Dissolve seven pounds of bi-sulphate .
 three weeks from date of steamer's and if the crop is concentrated there, tion. of soda in fifty gallons of boiling water, ;

- departure the moneys due will be in as Mr. Livingston states, it will cutoff 6. Can you give me anything liken and when it is cold spray the tree

 the hands of the shipper. all middle or commission men, tend approximation of the net average thoroughly, throwing the liquid upward -

 Those.desirous of having their own Jo mitigate gluts and slaughtering in i price per box, on the trees, receivedby on the inside of the tree, until

 friendto, take charge of their own the great Northern markets after a > the growers of Southem California the leaves are wet and the trunk is



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