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Vol. XXVIII. No. 19. Jacksonville and DeLand, Fla., Wednesday, May 8, 1901. Whole No. 1423. Drills for Cow Peas. Editor Florida Agriculturist: Owing to the excessive dry weather last summer and fall, a light crop of peas was grown. Consequently seed peas will be scarce and high. Therefore it will be well to economize in the mat- ter of seed. It has been ascertained from actual tests that from ten to fifteen pounds of peas per acre, sown in drills and prop- erly cultivated, is ample. For bearing purposes they may be from three to six feet apart, according to the kind of pea grown. The larger quantity (fifteen pounds) is ample for forage or improvement purposes, and the smaller quantity (ten pounds) is plenty for bearing purposes. If "Wonderful" pens arte wanted the drills may be from.five to six feet apart, five pounds of seed per acre being plenty for bearing pur- poses. One party states that from two acres of "Wonderful" peas, where they had distance, he gathered 62 1-2 bu.sh- els. From other two acres, where the peas were thick, he gathered only three bushels. These peas require the full season for development, and in this climate should be planted about the first of May. For bearing purposes, they should have at least the distance usually given corn. The "Clay" and "Red Ripper" are rank growers and answer well for soil- ing purposes (to be cut and fed green) and for hay; also for turning down for improvement purposes. The "Whippoorwill" and "Black" are early peas and will mature when planted as late as the 10th of July. Preparation of the Soil.-The land should be well prepared. Then lay off into drills from three to six feet apart, according to the kind of pea to be grown and the purpose for which it was grown. Then run a coulter, or other narrow plow, several times in the bot- tom of the drills, thus forming loose beds from eight to twelve inches deep and about a foot broad. Care should be taken not to throw the subsoil out where it will be exposed to the sun, unless the plowing is done in the fall or winter. If the subsoil is not expos- ed to the sun, the land may be plowed deep any time of the year, but prefer- ably during the fall or winter. Actual tests have shown that subsoil plowing (the above trenches may be regarded as subsoiling) is a great ad- vantage to peas, causing them to stand drouth much better and conse- quently to yield better. If there is any one point that farmers ought to understand, it is that cow peas gather the needed nitrogen from the air, and consequently it is not nec- essary to apply nitrogen direct to the pea crop; this statement has often been made. It is apparent that the ranker the growth, the greater will be the quan- tity of nirogen caught. Hence it pays well to both fertilize and cultivate peas. Peas are. to too great an extent. considered a mere side crop, and are consequently broadcasted and left to take their chances with the grass and weeds. A heavy pea crop will easily gather from the air from one hundred to two hundred pounds of nitrogen per acre; the latter quantity is said to have been exceeded, but we will be moder- ate and put the amount at one hundred pounds. Nitrogen is worth in the mar- kets about fifteen cents per pound, (farmers usually pay for the nitrogen in read mixed fertilizer from twenty to twenty-eight cents a pound), or say a total of $15.00 worth per acre, to be turned under for the benefit of the next crop. Fifteen and a half pounds of nitro- gen are equivalent to about 100 pounds of nitrate of soda. Consequent- ly one hundred pounds of nitrogen are equivalent to about six hundred and forty-five pounds of nitrate of soda, virtually grown for a mere nominal sum. In order to ilnoduce :a rank growth of vines 1use lor acre from five hun- dred to one thousand pounds of a fer- tiliwer containing eight ier cent avail- able phosphoric acid, and eight ls'r cent potash. In lieu of the above, the following iiniredients may be com- pounded and used: two hundred and twenty-five to four hundred and fifty pounds 'acid phosphate and from two hundred and seventy-five to five hun- dred and fifty pounds of kainit. In lieu of the kainit. from seventy to one hun- dred and forty pounds of muriate of lmtash may Ie used. The ferll.azer should IHs scattered on the loose illso and mixed with the soil by plowing shallow. lien construct low ridges thereon, open with a narrow plow and drill the peas. Cow peas are excellent for human food, either as green shelled peas, or in the dry state. The two varieties of crowder peas, white and yellow, are excellent for table use. The plants make a ranK "--owth and are very pro- lific. bearing many long, well-filled pods. Carthage. N. C. Bryan Tyson. 0 The farmer and the Stars. Editor Florida Agriculturist: It is not wise for the farmer to listen too closely to the siren of St. Louis, and only sneers await the benighted cultivator who plants potatoes in the moon's "dark side." Yet he who has his ear close pressed to the ground hears other sounds than those of earth alone. While the sun in a general way supports man. animal and plant, this great work is not so well done that nothing is left for a million other suns to do, probably sown by an omnipotent hand pretty evenly through illimitable space. A hundred centuries ago-yes, per- haps a hundred times a hundred-the north wind would not have brought harm to Florida's orange groves. Our climate that developed a mastodon, whose bones are in Boston and whose body. trunk and tail were thirty-four feet in length has done much other similar work. Tile bare existence of a mammal with her calf. the mother weighing 20.tOi pounds and having a trunk sev- enteen feet in length, suggests means for the development of a magnificent animal life. A climate that could devel- op a mastodon on this continent is so changed by the sun's progress through the siderial orbit, or by progressive tel- luric evolution, that this huge Ameri- can elephant has long since become extinct. The historic period of a few centuries here in Florida is only a pin's point to the ages that went before. In the historic period there have been no changes in the aggregate; and it is idle to speculate on the immeasurably remote date when the orange will dis- appear from the peninsula. Yet there are influences emanating from the moon, the planets and the stars which are worthy of our consid- eration in a sensible way, divested of all the superstition which has brought ridicule upon "moon-farming." There are adequate causes for the very fitful and unequal distribution of rainfall in the United States which interferes sob materially with successful tillage anti husltandry. In some years .Tune affords the farmer over six inches of precipi- tation; in other years, with the same sun, atmosphere and ocean to supply water to irrigate all growing plants, there is no rainfall whatever. Winters like the last bear a steady hand all through the calendar from No- vember to April, and the orange wears the green until spring bedecks it with a fringe of lighter green all over it and tricks it out with blossoms. Other win- ters the stars or other forces seem to get hitched together tandem and they pull a two-horse load of cold weather out of some hole in the Rocky moun- tains and a lot of it spills off and washes down this way. There is nothing happens on this earth without a cause, which is a tru- ism. It is just as reasonable to believe that the moon creates a tide in the at- mosphere as in the ocean. Now, if sev- eral celestial bodies operating in line should heap up an unusually high at- nmospheric tide in winter and some oc- cult magnetic influence should detach it from its base, we should have rea- so5 to expect a cold wave. From all of which the practical les- son of overshadowing importance is- let no December sun overtake the or- ange grower in upper Florida without adequate preparation for protection. S. The Boy on the Farm. No one can place a proper estimate on the value of the boy to his parents, says a writer in Farm and Fireside. I am not now speaking of the amount of money he can earn. We all know that for a number of years the little fellow cannot do a very great amount of man- ual labor. I think many men expect too much in this way of their boys. When the lad grows up feeling that his im- portance is reduced to the mere ques- tion of what he can do in the way of paying for his keeping, life ceases to le very charming. He grows up with at dislike for the old farm, where he was reckoned in the same category with the young stock on the place, and as soon as he can he hies him away to town and is lost in the rush that grinds the life out of him. But think of the many ways in which the boy on the farm adds to your com- fort and happiness. How many, many steps he saves you when the days are long and weary. How ready he is to help you. It is the greatest joy of his life that he is looked upon as "father's helper." He will run his little legs off at play, but if he thinks he can do something to help he will go on awhile longer. I mean, of course, it he feels that his services are appreciated; if he is scolded at, and compelled to do his work whether he is tired or not, the joy all fades out and life becomes a drudgery. Then as the boy grows a little older, if he has become recognized as a part of the family, and not as a creature whose presence is simply tolerated, he is able to save the steps of the father and mother more and more. His very presence if he be a true and faithful boy, is of inestimable value. His limbs are strong and his mind active to plan and execute the work of the farm. I be- lieve every father should show the fact that his son is of value to him over and above the bare cost of his living very early by allowing him some part in the stock and by putting into his pocket now and then a bit of money. But right here is the danger point which we may well avoid. I have known of some Ioys that were ruined by the indulgence of their parents in this respect. The trouble began with the father or mother hiring the boy to do every little duty that is asked of him. It is not well for the boy to be- gin life thinking that he must have pay for all he does. I would not allow a son of mine to accept pay for the trif- ling things he does for a neighbor or friend. Selfishness naturally crops out in most of us very early; we cannot afford to foster it in our children. We can all recall instances where sons have grown up feeling that their fathers' only care was to get all out of them that they could, the end being that the son arose against the father and final- ly rooted him out of the home nest. I have in mind one such case now. The son had been educated in the school of seltishness at home. and at last turned his poor old father out to die in the poor house. Iet the boy have a little money now and then, however; not to reward him for his service, but to teach him its worth, and he will almost always use it to good advantage. The best way I know of to create an interest on the part of the boy is to give him a calf or a sheep, with the understanding that no matter what comes that it is to be his, with whatever of revenue it may produce. When the animal is sold let the boy have the proceeds; but let him know that you think it would be a fine thing for him to have some share in purchasing the suit of clothes he needs next fall. Help hlim to pick out that suit: pay for some part of it yourself, so that tile lad may have a little left for something else. Try to create a spirit in your son which shall recog- nize the value of money-not in a sor- did way but in the truest and best sense. The true worth of the boy cannot be estimated in gold. His value to the 1 I THE FLORIDA AGRICULTURIST. world is counted by what he does to surprise a great many beans came up make humanity better. Is he a good cit- in the oats, and, where not cut out by izen? Does he do his work well where- the reaper, produced a fine crop, grow- ever he is? Does his heart grow purer ing up above the weeds and grass. and better as the years roll by? Does This fact is due no doubt, to the exces- he love his father and mother more and sive amount of proteins and fats, more? Is he honest and earnest in all which make it not only the most hardy things? This is the reward you are to and productive legume known, but also seek in starting the boy out on the incomparable as a feeding stuff. These road of life. Dollars pass into eclipse beans may be most expeditiously when placed side by side with the true threshed by running them through an estimate of manhood, ordinary straw separator. To prevent * cracking the drum should be raised 8oja Beans. and half the teeth taken out. This leaves the fodder in the best possible If the object is to raise them for condition for feeding stock.-Florida stock, particularly hogs and beeves, Farmer and Fruit Grower. without any additional labor and ex- pense, plant with corn. This I have * done with the ordinary planter, mixing Meal Prom Cassava. tie beans in the hopper, two of orn In the West Indies farine, in South to one of beans, dropping them in the America farinha, Is made from cassava. same hill, with most satisfactory re- and is in appearance like bread crumbs suits. But tile better plan is, probably, and of a sweetish taste. to use a planter with a double hopper, strch the ur planting corn and beans in alternate In ts preparation from the crushed hills, the distance between the corn to or grated root over a slow but pretty be regulated by the land without re- hot tire much of the starch of its com- gard to the beans, position is changed to dextrine, just It is my honest conviction, from three as in toasting bread a portion of the years' experience with this system, starch of the flour undergoes that making the past year a careful test, change and is made more palatable, that the yield of corn is in no ways more nutritious and more easily di- affected by tile beans. The yield of gcsted anld healthful, so that toast is beans, however, is materially reduced, always made for the sick. In popping varying according to the size of the corn the same object is secured, and corn and time of its maturity. The corn parched corn becomes an article of being large and more vigorous, takes food for the wild Indian on the hunt possession of the land first, which indu- or warpath, and on this diet alone the ces a most straggling growth of beans most trying marches are made. with fewer pods on the stalks. Never- Farine, in like manner, is the only theless, the amount of beans is very food needed by the guide or hunter in considerable, and when we consider the wilds of South America. The boat- the fact that one bushel of beans is men on the great rivers may add fish, equal to two of corn for making while the cowman on the plains makes meat, the value of the crop is fully farine porridge or cakes or simply puts equal to that of corn. a little in water and drinks it as his My system is to have a highland field only supper, and this for weeks or planted with some early variety of months. corn and Ieans, into which the hogs go Farine is not alone the food of the from the harvest field, from this to the mall in the woods. but quite as much low grounds, about October 1, and in the homes of all classes, indeed, it from the low grounds to the slaughter- in the flour of those countries, as wheat ing-pen and smokehouse as soon as the flour is of ours. So true is this that weather will permit. corn though well known and commonly Cattle and h- s Ina:y' likewise i- grown is not used at all. and flour of -- turned in with impunity, as the wheat is quite unknown, its place being amount of stems, leaves and hulls eat- fully occupied by farine in various en with the beans prevents any injur- forms, so that families are brought up ions onsequences. on it. Professor Alfred Russell Wallace, By these means I have been enabled In his Travels on the Amazon, says: "I to double the meat and bread product was quite puzzled to find my hunters of every acre of land cultivated in corn, would eat. morning and evening, dry without the addition of one dollar ex- farinha or farinha and water. I could ended in either labor or fertilizers. It not imagine that they really had noth- has, moreover. been my uniform sys- ing else to eat. but at last was oblig- tem to sow brolceasit the ordinary d to come to the conclusion that var- field pea when the corn is liid .y, to Ious preparations of farinha and wa- plant them between the rows with a ter formed almost their only food. My corn planter, which saves seed. If the hunter never took anything with him land is strong, these three crops grow- but a bag of dry farinha, and after be- Ing on the land together do not at all ing away fourteen hours in his canoe interfere with each other In any in- would come home, sit in his hammock curious manner, but simply occupy the and .contenltedly drink a little farinha land to the entire exclusion of all grass and water and be ready to start off at and noxious weeds. Tile return from daylight." the labor and capital invested, how- ever is more than doubled. Paradoxical l'rhe diet of any people is mostly a as it may appear, I believe that land natter of inheritance and custom, and cultivated under this system must is not easily changed, but it would necessarily improve instead of being seem to be true that in Florida, where exhausted. This proposition will hardly wheat does not grow at all and cassava be disputed if the entire product is fed grows so well and produces five to fif- off by stock upon the land, which un- teen times as much food per acre and doubtedly is the rational system. If the per day's labor, great use might be corn alone is removed, which has been made of cassava flour, if not for daily my practice generally, the hogs eating bread, for the yet finer culinary work only the ears from the stalks which are of biscuits, cakes, puddings, etc. down, the return in manure, leaves, We import all our flour, and wheat stubble and roots far exceeds the ele- produces only about one-eighth as ments taken off by this means. How much flour per acre as does cassava. then. can the land be exhausted? We An average acreage of wheat, twelve have two improvers to counteract the bushels, yields less than five hundred effect of one exhauster. Besides, the pounds of flour. An average acre, five amount of corn. beans, peas and for- tons, of cassava yields over 3,000 age is so great that, having regards to pounds of a flour that is a favorite the demands of tobacco, wheat-seeding food of many millions of men. etc., it is practically impossible to re- The process of manufacture is ex- move or utilize the product in any tremely simple, consisting merely of other way. rasping the peeled root, subjecting It to One important fact has come to light some pressure, then drying and partial- i in my experience this winter, viz; the ly cooking on tnick iron plates, con- I capacity of these beans to resist decom- stantly stirring with wooden rakes. position when left standing out. Owing When the process is completed the to the large amount to be consumed, doughy mass falls apart and resembles a in one field from which the stock were bread crumbs, and is so dry as not to taken to prevent Injury to wheat seed- mold or spoil under the worst tropical s ed in a portion of it, the beans ar.- now conditions. t (llth February) perfectly sound and The juice drained or pressed from the i sweet. Moreover. last spring, a portion grated root is allowed to settle, and c of the corn land, planted in corn and from the starch so obtained tapioca Is t beans the year before, was seeded in made by heating and stirring until it t oats Although the hogs and wild geese aggrutinates in the regular lumps we c were upon this field all winter, and the see in the tapioca of the stores. In this u land was repeatedly overflowed, to my way tlere is no loss whatever-the en- tire root is utilized for human food.- D. R. Pillsbury in Farmer and Fruli Grower. * The Onward March of Butterine. Yesterday I overheard a groceryman I know well telling a friend something about his butterine trade. He prefers to sell butterine, because he can make twice the profit on it that he can on butter. The butterine costs him 14 cents a pound-he handles only the best- and he sells it for 22 cents, or more; hence his profit on a pound of butter is eight. cents at least, or more than 50 per cent. Creamery butter of a grade that would be required by the custom- ers to whom he sells butterine, would cost him at least 18 cents a pound. On it his minimum profit would be 4 cents a pound, or less than 25 per cent. His profit on the butterine is quite a little more tian twice what it would be on butter. Then butterine is better to handle for the reason that It does not get strong with age, as butter does. This is a point in favor of butterine in the opinion of many. A friend of mine bought some "fancy Iowa creamery butter." It so happened that some .' this butter was on hand an unusual length of time, yet it did not become strong. This lead her to see how long she could keep the "butter" without its getting strong. She kept it four weeks and yet it was not strong. She had had a suspicion before that the Iowa dairyman had discovered some means of keeping butter fresh! She lately learned that her butter was but- terine. My groceryman friend found one ob- jection to butterine, however-it melt- ed down easily; would not stand up to heat tle way butter did; he hoped they (the manufacturers of butterine) would find some way to correct this. He told of one old woman who bought ten pounds of butterine every day--as he has only ai retailer's license he can- not sell her more than ten pounds at a time. He dotes not know what she does with it and he does not try to lild out--does not want to know. She may ihave a. big Iwarding house, but lie las lis suspicions that she works the ten pounds of butterine into clumsy prints and sells them as country butter, guaranteed to be butter and pure. Any- how. he notices her around selling "country butter." He went onto tell, chuckling, the way in which he fooled some of his customers. If the butter were done up in nice prints, some of his customers would be suspicious, no matter if it were a perfect imitation of butter. But if he put it up in hand- made rolls and wrapped it In muslin he could fool his customers every time. They would be e sure they were buying butter from some farm-not so attractive as creamery butter, but some people were afraid to buy cream- ery butter-those creamery fellows knew too much and might not be hon- est. However, the grocer found that people wanted butterine, knowing what it was. The number of these were rapidly increasing and they would eat butterine no matter what its color. Undoubtedly he is correct as to this last, too. He knows what he is talking about. Some people now eat butterine knowing that It is butterine. Their lumber is Increasing fast. This Is some- thing we must reckon with. I cannot -ut admire the shrewdness, the far- seeing shrewdness, of the butterine manufacturers. They are working tire- essly to remove the prejudice against butterine, so that butterine can be sold for what It is. As a result, a consider- ible portion of the people of Chicago muy butterine knowing that they are getting butterine. They ask for it. For- nerly there was mystery about the manufacture of butterine. Now the manufacturers are anxious to have vis- tors, so they can show them how nice- y butterine Is made, and what a clean, good article It is. Last week a half dozen young girl Acquaintances were taken through Swift's butterine plant. They were ihown every operation In its manufac- nre. They came home butterine cou- yrts. They say that the manufacture If butterine is scrupulously clean and hat they would much rather eat but- erine than country butter made by *areless farmers who do not clean the bidders of the cows before milking and vho are probably far from being clean- takin firebot- t *s or *Faor-. ite Prescription' and three of Golden dical Dis covery' I am feeling as well as ever. It has been almost two years and I have had no return of the trouble. My friends tel me I don't look as though I ever was ick Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cure con- atipation and its causes. ly in all the operations of their butter- making. They have accepted without question all that the butterine people told them. and they are not only con- verts to butterine but are enthusiastic apostles, telling all their friends how nice and clean butterine is. The manu- facturers are trying to persuade peo- ple that butterine is cleaner and more wholesome than country butter. To a considerable extent, their efforts are successful. Already a good many peo- ple ask for .butterine. They do not be- long to the working classes only. Some decidedly well-to-do people buy butter- ine knowing that it is butterine. Will they, when it cannot be colored in imitation of butter? I believe that a good many will. Evidently the man- ufacturers of butterine have come to the conclusion that the Grout bill will soon become a law. Doubtless they will contest its enforcement and will make the best fight they can in the courts. But evidently they think that in time the law will be pronounced constitu- tional and valid, and will be enforced. And against that time they are work- ing to make people believe that butter- ine is better than butter-better, at least, than most butter. What can the dairyman and farmer do? What can the farm and dairy press do? Farmers and dairymen can make good butter. They can be cleanly and up-to-date in their methods. But- terine as butterine can never success- fully compete with good butter. The man who makes strictly good butter will find a ready demand and good prices for it, once the Grout bill is a law and the law is enforced. It will be only the poor butter that will suffer. And it ought to suffer. There is no ex- cuse for it. It is the product of Ignor- ance and laziness, and if butterine forces it to the wall, no one need mourn. It is the worst open foe of good butter-really more hurtful than butterine known as butterine. If uncol- ored butterine, sold for what it is, com- pels some that now make bad butter to make good butter, all the better. The farm and dairy press can show that butterine is not so wholesome and digestible as butter-that it is not equal to butter; Is not a good substi- tute for it. This can be shown scientifi- cally. Let the facts about the compos- ition of butterine be made known to Women are vastly more patient than t men. It is scarcely believable that a woman, suffering past all telling, can attend to business, and bend and stoop with a back whose ache is agony. And beyond all this she smiles as she bends and stoops about her customer. A man Might swallow down an oath or keep back a groan, but his face would he like a thundercloud, and his voice scarcely disguise his irritation. For women who suffer from backache, bearing-down pains, or other pains due to womanly diseases, there is no other med- icine equal to Dr. Pierce's Favorite Pre- scription. It regulates the womanly functions, dries weakening drains, heals inflammation and ulceration and cures female weakness. There is no alcohol in "Favorite Pre- scription" and it is entirely free from opium, cocaine and all other narcotics. A vegetable preparation, it cannot dis- agree with the weakest condition. with female weakness and doctor- ed w ithseveral different doe- l tors. They did not Iwem to help me; indeed I got worse- all the time. I had ul- cr- m action and displacement of A f the uterus. What I suf- d for suffered no wrI a had heavy, bearing-down A vImls. and THE FLORIDA AGRICULTURIST. 291 all people that can be reached by the farm and dairy press. But, you say, the farm and dairy papers cannot reach city people, who are the chief consum- ers of butterine. There you are mis- taken. There are few town and city people who have not country connec- tions. The large majority of the intel- ligent, forceful, successful city people, those that set the examples that the others follow, those that mold the opin- ions of the others, came from the farm, and their parents or brothers and sis- ters are yet on the farm. They and their country relatives visit back and forth, and when they sit down at the table one of the subjects of conversa- tion will almost surely be butterine. Let the country relatives be informed, let them have the facts, and you need not fear that the city relatives will not get the facts. Farm and dairy papers may request their subscribers to mail to city relatives copies of those papers containing facts about butterine. But I doubt if this would be necessary. The city people will get the truth. It is a fact and I think a remarkable one, that city people know more about the but- terine fight and the Grout bill than country people do. At least the people of Chicago are better informed about these things, and have a keener Interest in them than the farmers and dairy- men of Illniois! The farm and dairy papers need not fear that if they per- sistently present the facts about but- terine, those facts will not reach the people that eat butterine.-Country Gentleman. . IValue of Cottonseed to Farmers. The result of two years' feeding ex- periments with milch cows to deter- mine the value of cottonseed to farm- ers is reported to the Agricultural De- partment in a bulletin of the Mississip- pi station. The following is a sum- mary of the report by the editor of Farmers' Bulletin No. 124: The facts as demonstrated are: (1) A pound of cottonseed has a greater value for feeding cattle than a pound of corn; (2) a pound of cottonseed meal has a feeding value about equal to two pounds of corn; (3) that at least 85 per cent. of the fertilizing in- gredients in the feeds is excreted by the animals fed, and may be recov- ered in the manure; (4) that nearly half of the fertilizing ingredients ex- creted is found in the urine; '(5) that both cottonseed and cottonseed meal may constitute a very important part of the grain feed of cattle without in- jury to their health; (6) that cotton- seed and cottonseed meal, when fed to dairy cows in proper quantity and properly combined with other feeds, do not injure the quality of either milk or butter. With corn at 40c. per bushel (about the average price in this State), a ton of cottonseed is worth $16.70 as a feed for either beef cattle or dairy cattle. At present prices for commer- cial fertilizers nitrogen costs about 12c. per pound and phosphoric acid and potash each 5c. per pound. Al- lowing these prices for the same in- gredients in manure, we have $9.09 as the fertilizing value of the manure for each ton of seed fed, making for a farmer a total value per ton of $25.79. Farmers sell their seed for $4 to $6 per ton. Some of them sell for $2per ton. In a similar way we find the feed- ing value of a ton of cottonseed meal to be $28.56, and the manure to be worth $19.13 for every ton of meal consumed, making a total value of $47.69 that a farmer might derive per ton by first feeding the meal to cattle and applying the manure to his land. * * The cotton crop for the South (in 1897-98) was 11,200,000 bales and 5,600,000 tons of seed, hav- ing a combined feeding and fertiliz- ing value of $144,424,000. At $5 per ton the seed would have brought $28,- 000,000. * The farmers of the cotton belt lost $116,424,000 (on this one crop). The present disposition of the cot- tonseed crop secures to the farmer a very small part of its real value, and must of necessity give place to a prac- tice that will secure to the farmer the maximum benefit which he may de- rive from this product. The time will come when the Southern farmer will realize that the fertilizing value In cottonseed must stay on the farm to maintain its fertility and productive- ness. He will not always regard the mat. ter of hauling as of no consequence- as something which he can do with- out cost. If the best disposition of cottonseed is finally demonstrated to be to extract the oil for human food and other commercial purposes, and let the meal and hulls go back to the farms to serve both as feed and fer- tilizer, then, most likely, there will be a small oil mill at each ginnery and oil and lint will be the only products of the cotton crop sent to the market. The Southern farmer, however, need not wait for oil mills. He may get the full value of his cottonseed by a judicious system of feeding, accom- panied by the most careful saving and proper use of the manure. --+C~--- Baby Beef. The day of the three and four-year- old steer for fancy beef is passed, says Rural World. The beef which is most in demand is that of an animal that is so bred and fed that It will ma- ture and be ready for market when not more than two years old, and if this condition can be attained at an earlier age the choicer will be the beef and the more fancy will be the price obtained. When farmers were compelled be- cause of market demands to keep steers until two and three years old before they were considered fit for the- feed lot, there was not the same incen- tive to raise stock of the best grades as now. The scrub steer must be board- ed until he is of size and weight suffi- cient for the market. It is a question many times if he does not go to the slaughter pen leaving an unpaid board bill. Then if steers can be finished for market at from eighteen months to two years old, the farmer doesn't have to wait so long for returns. These are phases of stock raising that farmers should give intelligent consideration, for they do effect the profit and loss question. The high priced bull may, if many calves are being raised, in a much shorter time than is thought, pay his own price in baby-beef calves. Breeding is the basis of the baby- beef, but feeding is an equally impor- tant problem. Don't provide but one condition for baby beef and expect paying results. Calves which are selected for manu- facturing baby beef should have good constitutions. When they come most feeders advise letting them run with their dams for six or seven months. From weaning time until ready for market they are treated as steers, though when weaned they must know how to eat shelled corn, oats, bran, oil meal, and all foods that will make a good calf. This baby-beef calf must be fed all he will eat and he must be a good eater: yet he must be fed so that his appetite is never satiated, hence he must have a variety of foods. In corn regions, corn will be the principal food, but there are also many varieties of grass and clover hay, also grains; and the purchase of oil meal in moderation may pay in the making of baby beef. This, as all other farm problems, must be conducted in accord with environ- ment, but if rightly understood, the raising of baby beef should be a prof- itable branch of farming. 1 a Interest in San Jose Scale. Widespread interest in the Pernic- ious or San Jose scale is indicated by the number of twigs sent us, says the Rural New Yorker, for identification of diseased conditions. They have come in by the score lately, but in only two instances have the specimens received been infested with the true Pernicious scale, the others carrying ova of aphides, or being covered with the Oyster-shell and less dangerous scales. It is very encouraging to note the determination on the part of so many growers to find out just what ails their trees. In our humble opinion neither the spread of the Pernicious scale, nor of any other dangerous plant infection will be checked until the growers interest themselves suffi- ciently to identify and fight the pest without depending on official or legis- lative action. Radical laws, such as The Eminent Kidney are now in force in Maryland and por- an Bladder Specialist. tions of Canada, are decidedly offen- an ladder Specialist. sive to most people as they place the cultivator at the mercy of irresponsi- ble officials, with all the possibilities of discrimination and blackmail which such extraordinary powers of invasion a of private property for the purposes of inspection and destruction of infest- ed trees or plants may invite. The Per- nicious scale is very inconspicuous until the trees become encrusted, but it can easily be found where present if carefully searched for by one ac- quainted with it, and everyone who cares to grow fruit will soon have a chance, as it is spreading in a very persistent manner, and it looks as If every fruit tree, as well as many orna- mental species, will demand special at- tention if the owner wishes them to 7h1 11 smrer ef twas- t at Wrk ti thrive. With every fruit grower look- Mh labtry. ing after his own trees, and the devel- There is a disease prevailing in this opment of possible natural parasites, country most dangerous because so decep- this dangerous pest may be controlled. tive. Many sudden deaths are caused by In the light of present limited expert- it-heart disease, pneumonia, heart failure ence we can only advise the spraying or apopley are often the result of kidney of badly infested trees before growth disease. If kidney trouble is allowed to ad- commences with either fresh crudb vance the kidney-poisoned blood will attack petroleum alone, or a 25-per-cent emul- the vital organs, or the kidneys themselves sion of the same. For trees on which break down and waste away cell by cell. only a few Pernicious scales can be Then the richness of the blood-the albumen found or those affected with other -leaksout and the sufferer has Bright's scales or insects, a solution of whale- Disease, the worst form of kidney trouble. oil soap, two pounds to the gallon, can Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root the new dis- be recommended. Even in this cover is the true specific for kidney, bladder strength, the soap does not usually and urinary troubles. It has cured thousands kill all the Pernicious scales, but it is of apparently hopeless cases, after all other safe and tolerably effective in check- efforts have failed. At druggists in fifty-cent ing their spread. The petroleum is not and dollar sizes. A sample bottle sent free ins their spread. The petroleum is not y las b ti btw free from danger, and has killed many by mail, also a book telling about Swamp- free from daner, and has killed many Root and its wonderful cures. Address trees even when carefully applied, but Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y. Wad it destroys the scales effectually and met this p. the treated trees are protected by the greasy residue deposited on the bark for the remainder of the season at any HUGHES' CHILL TONIC. rate. HUGHES CHILL TONIC. (Plaltaldl..) Fruit Growers Mean Business. BETTER THAN CALOMEL AND QUININP. The Te county y Fruit Growers' As- (Coutails no Arsenic.) sociation met at the Court House last The Old Reliable. Thursday night, the leading fruit grow- ers of the county being present and taking i. active part in perfecting the organization. The ineeting was called to order by lDr. Washbulrn. who called for the report of the committee of three to select names for a board of direct- ors. The committee made their report naming as such board D. S. Borland and F. J. Wilson. of Orange River; Chas. Foster. of Caloosa: J. B. McKin- ley, of Alva; W. M. Hendry, Hugh Macdonald, Jr., and H. E. Heitman. of Ft. Myers. Mr. Hendry asked to with- draw his name, and the meeting select- ed Rev. G. T. Raymond, of Alva, and with this change the report of the com- mittee was adopted. The Board of Di- rectors retired to select officers and in a few minutes reported that they had selected Capt. J. B. McKinley, of Alva. president and Philip Isaacs, of Ft. My- ers, secretary and treasurer. The mat- ter of amount of membership fee was taken up, and it was finally decided to make the amount $2.50. a number pay- ing their fees at once. Thie men who have taken liold of tiis organization include many of the larg- est orange growers in the county. They have strong hopes that the legislature will pass a bill to authorize county commissioners to take steps to fight insect pests, but should such a bill fail to pass, the fruit growers of Lee coun- ty expect to take hold of the matter themselves. It is only through organi- zation that anything can ever be ac- complished on these lines, and there- fore every person interested in the growing of fruits in Lee County should become a member of this association. The Board of Directors held a meet, ing at the Court House yesterday, with Capt. J. B. McKinley in the chair, Messrs. G. T. Raymond, Hugh Mac- donald, Jr., C. B. Foster, D. S. Borland and Philip Isaacs also being present. Many important matters were discuss- ed. Messrs. Raymond. Foster and Mac- donald were appointed a committee on transportation, and Messrs. A. A. Gard- ner, Macdonald and Capt. McKinley were selected as a committee to make experiments to get rid of the white fly. -Ft. Myers Press. * To make cows pay, use Sharpies Cream Separators. Book "Business Dairying" and catalogue 208 free. W. Chester, Pa. EXCELLENT GENERAL TONIC AS WFLL AS A Sure Cure for Chills and Fevers, Malarial Fevers, Slwamp Fevers :nd Blilious Fevers. IT NEVER FAILS. Just what you need at this season. MLD LAXATIVE. NERVOUS SEDATIVE. SPLENDID TONIC. Guaranteed by your Druggist. Don't take any substitutes TRY IT. S0C. AND S.00 BOTTLES. Prepared by ROBINSON-PETTET CO., (In'ororattled), LOUISVILLE, - Well Digging Outfit For Sale. We have a steam well-digging outfit with tools complete for boring wells from four to twelve inches diameter, which we can sell at less than half the original cost. Any one interested in getting a well-digging outfit cheap. please correspond with us. E. O. PAINTER & CO., Jacksonville, Fla. BI-SULPHIDE OF CARBON 'or use in granaries to kill weevil. to de- stroy rats and gophers and to keep in sects from the seed. etc. 2o CENTS PER POUND, put up in ten and fifteen pound cans Fifteen cents extra for the cans. E 0. PAINTER & CO., Jacksooville TANGENT FRUIT BRUSHER For polishing, cleaning or washing oranges and lemons, without i injury and at slight ex- pense. WRIGHT BROS. Riverside. Cal. Phillips & Fuller Co., Tampa, agents for Florida.. - KY: -w THE FLORIDA AGRICULTURIST. Breeds of Bees. Writing on breeds of bees in "Glean- ings." Apiarist Doolittle presents the salient characteristics of some strains ;is follows: As a rule the Italillns are very quiet illnd gentle. while, so far ;.is my experi- elnce gioes, tile ('yprinlls are more given to stinging than any other va- riety known. The Syrians are about Ilalf way between the two as to their stinging qualities, about like our com- nmon grade of hybrids. Italians were first shipped to this country about 1860, while the other two were not brought to our shores till aimout 1880. So fart nearly all apiarists agree in placing the Italian lice at the head of aill others. Isotlh as to ease of manipu- lation, l Uintv and honey gathering. As counh builders they are not quite -is good as tlhe black or German bee, neither do they use as much wax in capping their surplus honey, which gives their comb honey product a little darker appearance or what is termed a "watery look." Italian beoes - very tenaciously to their combs, staying on them, when the comos are handled, very much in the same quiet way that they did when the combs were in the hive and the hive untouched, while the black and hybrid bees very often fall off or run about in a frightened way. This tendency makes the handling of frames and the finding of queens, or any other Inspection of the inside of the hive and combs, very unpleasant; but when we wish to get them off the combs for extracting the honey or for any other purpose, it is more of a job than with the black or hybrid bees. I incline to the opinion that it would pay to produce queens of this variety. However, the main point of superiority in the Italian bee is its honey gather- ing qualities. If there is any honey to be had. rney are away to the fields after it and will toil incessantly all day, for a very little, while the black bees will work very little unless honey can be gathered quite freely. To put it in other words. Italian lees will la- bor faithfully all day long for only pennies. while tile German iees must have dimes. halves or dollars if they do work to any amount. I find in my diary that in the spring of 1872 I had fifteen colonies of black bees and three of Italians. As an ex- periment a fourteen quart pail of maple sap was placed in shallow dishes after adding about two pounds of sugar, so as to make a very thin sweet of the whole. With honey, the bees were started at work near this sap, and as long as the honey lasted they came in about the proportion named above, fifteen of the black to three of the yellow. As soon as the honey was gone they took to the sap; but in a few minutes the black hees began to slow less in proportion and kept getting less. till at the end of an hour none but the Italian bIes were carrying the thin sweet. The Italian bees worked until they had carried all of the sap home and had it evaporated down to the consistency of honey. while the black bees thought it not worthy of their notice. 0 Florida Tarmers are Making Xoney. The following interesting article is from a Tampa correspondent to the Atlanta Journal. Since the freeze of several years ago, which will long be remembered in Florida history, many ask what the Floridians live on. It seems to be a matter of wonder to those out of the state as to what can be produced since the orange business went to smash. The answer is easy and plain. They are doing much better than they did Ibfore the freeze. For an illustration of this fact it is only necessary to men- tion a few things in connection with this. Hillsiboro county. For one thing, many are raising strawberries. It is carefully estimated that there are two hundred acres in cultivation which have yielded crops tie present season, just now drawing to a close. About two weeks more of the crop remains to be picked and ship- Ied. Reliable and careful business men are interested in the handling of this crop and they furnish the inform- ation that the present crop yielded at the rate of $r00 an acre for the whole season. This would make the straw- berry crop of the county $100,000, which is the yield for the fruit on the ground, and does not include transpor- tation charges. No berries have been sold this season for less than twenty cents al quart and they have gone as lhighl :s sixty cents. Celery fields in the neighborhood of this city are producing at the rate of from $SsN) to $124) an acre. it being acknowledged that it is the finest plac- ed on the market. Wh'at are the people of Florida doing since the freeze? The answer shows a line of products which are bringing in two or three times as much money as the orange crop ever did per acre, and at less than half the cost of pro- duction. A story of the products of the Man- atee country, in the way of vegetables, would make an even larger showing tlan that mentioned already from this county and would seem almost incred- ible. In addition to the products men- tioned for this county it is well to add that the orange crop of Hillsboro for the last season was over 500,000 boxes and it is a matter of record that not a box was sold for less than $1.50 on the trees, and many sold for more than $2. At the lowest price named it is easy to see what the orange crop amounted to In this county alone. The commissioner of agriculture, in his report for the year, just issued, shows that the sponge crop from the coast of this county had a commercial value of $70,000. As Hillsboro county is not the only one in the state, it would seem that the question which is so frequently asked is an easy one to answer. Now. is there any other state where land ca-n le found which will yield such re- turns ais these mentioned with such little cost? The question is. what are tlte Iueplil,, in other states doing while they are sympathizing with forlorn Floridians, who are ihppy and getting rich? * A Middle Florida Industry. One of the finest industries of mid- die Florida is the growing of grapes and tile niinufnature of the same into wine. This is done on rather an extensive scale at the San Luis vineyard. The vineyard is beautifully situated out from the capital albmt three miles on what was once a fine slave plan- tation. The house. garden and grounds show evidences of the refinement and splendor of that era. The perspective is as beautiful as may be seen in any of the older states and colder latitudes. Hills on hills arise, and on a clear day it is possible to see a distance of fifteen miles. The soil seems adm;,irably adapted for the cultivation of the vine. The bullaee. nmuscadine and other varie- ties are indigenous and grow luxuri- antly. The San Luis vineyard is under the management of Mr. Edward Dubois, a French expert, and he is demonstrat- ing that the cultivated grape will thrive as well in Middle Florida as those indigenous to the soil. Mr. Dubois is a gentleman of educa- tion and travel, and has an extensive store of information. As a host he is most agreeable and entertaining. Mr. Dubois was awarded a gold med- al and two silver medals at the Paris Exposition. Turning to us lie said naively: "First prize at the Paris Exlosition, second prize at the Ocala Exposition." 'rle catalogue of the San Luis vine- yard embraces all varieties of wines, but only the best qualities. We may mention claret, sauturnes, haut-sau- turnes, hock, port, sherry, orange, pineapple champagne, pineapple juice, scuppeniong, scuppernong champagne, clherry cordial, etc. The vine and tihe wine press are among the oldest industries known to mall. Both were well known to the early patriarchs and must have had their sanction. Old as they are they are new to Florida. and we are glad they were introduced by one so thoroughly fa- miliar with the process and who stands so high as a connoisseur. Mr. lulbois showed us over his vine- yard and cellar. He has wines ten years old and is applying to the busi- ness practical and scientific methods and is the pioneer of an industry that is destined to make Leon county as famous as the champagne districts of la Ielle France. So from the magic city of Miami to the old red hills of Tallalhassee there are new inulustries springing into life that are swiftly shipping Florida to a glorious future. All honor to the pio- neers!-Ocala Banner. The Broom Corn Buiness. Reply to Inquiry: My old friend Mr. Tom Harman, of The Stockman and Farmer, has sent me your letter of in- quiry regarding broom corn growing. As you will see from the date of our commencement of business (1867) in this line we belong to almost what you might call the "has beens," but we are still in it. To begin with, let me say to you that as a proposition, five or six or ten or twenty acres of broom corn will cut no figure of value or profit. I have seen the day when I have sold broom corn for $400 a ton, but that day is in the past, it is sunset for all such figures. We are now selling broom corn below $100 per ton and glad to get the price. Illinois, Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Texas. Arkansas have all got the idea that, like the story of Col. Sellers, "there is millions in it." It is an ignis-fatuus. How we all strive and run wild as soon as the story of money flashes upon our vision. A young man only ten miles from me last year thought he would get out of debt, so he bought seed and tools and hired a man from Illinois at $50 a month to raise a crop of thirty acres of broom corn to get out of debt. The crop was grown but now, with no price, and no market, he is worse off than ever and he may lose his farm. My friend. I don't know you, but if you can raise corn or grass or calves, or sheep, and do a legitimate farming business, let broomn corn alone. If you want to raise a small patch to get tied for your own use by some local broom maker, do it That it all right. But as a. conunercial proposition it Is "Dead sea lipples." I have been in the busi- ness sinte 1;67. From 18I17 to 1879 we had what you may call "pot pie," but not a bite since. Once in a while, with a scarcity, and a "corner," a few tons may get in on a good price, but this comes rarely, and the grower isn't in the mix. It is the speculator who has figured out the supply and gets most of it. You can get seed here, you can get machinery here (no longer used) if you want it. I would not mislead you. -0. E. Niles in National Stockman. * Cottonseed Xeal. As the use of cottonseed meal in dairy feeding is gradually increasing, its peculiarities as a feedstuff must IK' taken into consideration, and expe- rience as to any changes which are requisite in the treatment of the milk produced by the feed becomes valu- able. As is well known, it makes a harder, firmer butter, with a higher melting point, than other feeds to which dairymen are accustomed. Con- nected with this fact, as shown by recent experiments conducted at the Texas station, it is found that the churning should be done at a higher temperature when cottonseed meal forms any considerable portion of the ration. The report of the experiment says: The cottonseed meal had this pecu- liar effect on churning, the cream re- quiring to be raised from 66 to 67 de- grees, as compared with 56 58 degrees when other foods are used in con- junction with it. The cream may even be heated to 77 degrees and yet produce hard, granular butter. A good deal of difficulty in getting the butter to "come" has been experi- enced by those who have fed cotton- seed meal, and it has been the gener- ally accepted belief that ripened cream, where cottonseed meal formed the main portion of the ration, could not be churned at a temperature of 58 degrees. At a number of trials made at the Texas station, however, the fact was developed that if the churn were only filled one-third full, and when the cream swells and be- comes viscid and sticky it was then diluted sufficiently with water, so that it could strike freely, the churning HEALTHY WOME. Mary J. Kennedy, manager of Ap mour & Co.',, Exhthit at the Trans- Mississippi Exposition at Omaha, Neb. cure for that S common phase of summer ca- tarrh, known am indigestion. Miss Kennedy says: "I found the continual change of diet S /incidental to eight years' S traveling com- pletely upset Smydigestive system. In con- / sulting several physicians they decided I suffered with catarrh of the stomach. "Their pre- scriptions did not seem to help me any, so, reading of the remarkable cures effected by the use of Peruna I decided to try it and soon found myself well repaid. "1 have now used Peruna for about three months and feel completely re- juvenated. I believe I am permanently cured, and do not hesitate to give un- stinted praise to your great remedy, Peruna." The causes of summer catarrh are first, chronic catarrh; second, derange- ments of the stomach and liver; third, impure blood. Such being the case anyone who knows anything whatever about the operations of Peruna can understand why this remedy is a permanent cure for summer catarrh. It eradicates chronic catarrh from the system, invig- orates the stomach and liver, cleanses the blood of all impurities, and there- forepermanently cures by removing the cauae,-a host of maladies peculiar to hot weather. The cause being removed the symptoms disappear of themselves. "Summer Catarrh" sent free to any address by The Peruna Medicine 0o, Columbus, Ohio. could be done in from one to two hours: but where the churn was filled half full or a little more and the cream was not so diluted, the churning might be continued for four or five hours longer before butter could be obtained.-Exchange. The thought of stripping men, wo- men and children who are convicted of petty crimes and brutally beating them and leaving scars for months afterwards is too revolting to contem- plate. If there is no other way of stop- ping this inhuman treatment, the leg- islature now in session should be ap- pealed to, to save the good name of the state from such outrageous pro- ceedings. There is something radically wrong with the convict business in the state and it should be remedied.-Jack- sonville Metropolis. 0 UNITED CONFEDERATE VETER- AN'S REUNION: Memphis, Tenn., May, 28th-30th, 1901. The Plant System will sell round trip tickets at rates of one cent per mile distance traveled. Tickets on sal May 25,th, 26, and 27th, with return limit June 41. 1001. By depositing tickets with joint agent at Memphis. upon payment of 50 cents, extension of final limit to June 19th, will be accorded. Perfect Passenger Service. See Ticket Agents. B. W. Wrenn. Passenger Traffic Manager, tf. Savannah, Ga. THE FLORIDA AGRICULTURIST. Attention to Details. In a general way. our people know a great deal, says W. R. Ely, in Ohio Farmer, but when it comes to details, they generally know little or nothing. I have been urging for several years at institutes and other places, the im- portance of the law in vegetable growth by which a person can tell at once whether any given tree, or vine, or plant, requires a rich soil and high cultivation, or the opposite; provided he knows the habits, or manner of growth of the same. It is a law (not without exception perhaps) that trees and vines and plants with small leaves, few branches and sparse foli- age require rich soil and high culti- vation, while those with large leaves and dense foliage require thin soil and light cultivation. This is universally true among varieties that differ in habits of growth. The part of a tree or vine above ground which we call top, and the part underground which we call root, have striking similarities of development. When you see what is above ground you may know to a certainty the character of the part you cannot see. A profusion of branches above indicates a profusion of root- lets below. Too many rootlets furnish too much rich food and the tree be comes-like some men-a glutton an takes all wood and no fruit. Take thie Winesap among apples, with itt few small leaves and scattering branches and roots in proportion and it will starve to death on poor ground but give it rich soil, and high cultiva tion-'very high-and it will prove t< be the most profitable and best win ter apple we have. This law hold pre-eminent with tihe Lrape. I wil venture that not one in a iundreq persons who grows grapes ever think of the cause of failure or success, o0 account of soil. It is known that th Delaware, the Clinton and some othe vines have very small l'->ve.. and i is known by some that they do wel only in rich ground and under hig cultivation. It is known that under high culture, in rich soil, the Eaton Salem and others develop enormous leaves. and it is known by some tha when thus grown they will make lit tie or no fruit. In each case grove ers have failed to discover tile laI that governs these things. Take fo example the Peachblow potato, th used to yield abundantly here in whit clay soil that would not raise corn a high as your waist, and plant it in stable lot. as I have seenl. and th vines will grow ten or twelve fet long. with naryy a 'taler on." Plai any slnall-topped Iwtato there and will I"ar abundantly. Take any the large-leaved sweet liotatoes (tht vine at all) and plant them in vet rich ground. and you can grow vin forty feet long. and have nothing Ib vines for your trouble: but you ma plant the little Jerseys there, and ha' a crop, if other things are not fault. There is a certain and fix law to be guided by anll the soon pWiople exercise their brains to pro as well as their muscles to plow ai hoe. the better it will he for tho who grow and for those who consume Winter before last showed us whi are the ironclads, and which are t tender. among trees, vines and plan Here in Southern Ohio, of grapes t Concord, Eaton, Worden. Martha a Clinton were not injured in the lea Pocklingtons were damaged son what. Niagaras killed to the ground All the red grapes killed but Cata bas. unless well protected. Bright and Salem are the most tender of a we have here. They should be prun before cold weather, placed on t ground and covered with straw or ter. where they can remain until di ger of frosts in the spring is pa Almost every variety of grapes quires different treatment. If Salem not pruned closely, it will bear ni than it will color or mature. Eat if treated in the same way, will ha only a few small bunches of ve large grapes. It must have plenty fruiting wood. especially if it is v4 thrifty. The same is true of Moot Early. The closer you prune Nia ras the larger the bunches will You may have them to weigh th or four pounds and not many 01 thrifty vine, so as to get only four or monsoons and other periodical plagues live bunches of grapes from it, but prevail, might have not jeopardized such a course will soon kill the their lives if they knew the seasons whole vine. Brighton, Eaton, Wor- and other points necessary to be den and Elvira soon lose their flavor known. Some men conclude that the after maturity, and in the order 1 climate of their own country and that have placed them. Red grapes as a of another is exactly alike, because rule are the best flavored, and they they are both foggy at mornings. are the shyest bearers and most ten- Some accustomed to have rain when der; but there are exceptions. Here they see black clouds expect to see we have to sack all our grapes to the same wherever they go, which is save them from the bees. Grapes not always the case. I have seen with long stems are easily sacked and black clouds from the day of my land- fastened with strips of fine wire, ing in Ecuador, and yet up to the while those that fit up against the present there has not been a single vine like Elvira and Pocklington, are shower of rain equal to any October difficult to manage. The sacks must shower in Jamaica. Tie rainy sea- be slit a few inches on opposite sides son begins in Januaryy and usually and tied above, enclosing part of the continues for three or four months. vine, which if not neatly done will yet the country is scarcely ever dry, let the bees in at last. I think it im- so heavy is the dew which falls. The portant to know all these thiings be- land is always moist and everywhere fore selecting varieties to plant, for vegetation is rich and green, even in after having planted, you must do the the driest season of the year. In Bar- best you can with what you have. bados rain scarcely ever falls without 0 giving due notice, but in Jamaica I Picking and Shipping Cabbage. have experienced sudden downpours of rain. In either case there is al- Mr. F. Emmert, one of Corpus Cris ways a change which the thoughtful d's leading cabbage raisers, gives the traveler may note from the barometer s following pointers to new beginners il> of his own body. I.ike Jamaica, Ec- SCorpus Cristi Caller: uador, from its mountainous aspect, "The packing and shipping of cab- has the climate of all the zones. Huge Sbage is a most important subject just snow-white clouds are perpetually d at present-important, because cab- floating over the lofty mountain and e bage has become a very great prod- the wide valleys and chasms are never s uct in this section of the country, without thick fogs. It also appears g in the first place, there is no vegetable that but lite wind prevails down I so universally used as cabbage. You here. The careful observer must note , will find it from the borders of the some unique difference between celes- - Rio Grande to the borders of Cana- tial appearances in Jamaica and ce- o da, and from the Atlantic to the Pacif- lestial appearances in this country. - ic. It is shipped clear across this con- The moon seems not so bright here, s tinent and distributed in every town and there is scarcely what might be I and village, and there is no place of called a "starry night." d any size in the United States tnat you s will not find it the year round. It n grows to perfection right here in our Handling Oranges. e coast country, and it has become the I have received an exceedingly long r uyword when you meet a farmer. lie letter from a prominent orange sec- t will say, "How is your cabbage?" Now tion. containing valuable suggestions Il to get a reputation and hold it, for a on picking oranges and their treat- h first-class article, it is most important ent after they are placed in tie field r to get your cabbage into the market in Iexes. says a (alifornia exchange. I, oest possible shape, and with the facil The communinination is entirely too s cities at our command, we can do it, if voluminous for publication as per re- ,t we only use proper care and a lttle quest. As a rule farmers are not so t- intelligence. verbose. Their letters always contain - "Now, to begin with, you must have valuable suggestions, and I would be w first-class seed to produce first-class glad to receive many more than I do. >r medium size, solid heads. Next, when in this letter the writer says the It the heads are ready to cut, you must method of picking and handling or- te have expert hands who can tell a head anges is responsible for the 5. per Is of cabbage when it is ready to cut cent. decay reported so often this sea- n w-hen they look at it (same as a good son. This is a palpable error. There ie watermelon man can tell a ripe water- are two principal causes for the bad et nelon without thumping it) and in- condition of the fruit upon arrival at It strict them to cut nothing except what the markets. The oranges of thle it is good and solid. Use butcher knives. present crop are improperly matured "f I find the little curved, so-called skin- from some cause or causes, and thl at ning knives, the best. Cut the heads railroad companies aret consuming r off smooth from the stump, leaving about double the usual time in their es about two green leaves on the head. delivery. In ordinary years the or- ut Use a cart or single horse wagon and range crop reached* the market in al. iy lay the heads in by each man taking most perfect condition, and while it i: ve two rows, same as gathering corn. always in order to handle the fruit in at Never throw your cabbage on tile the tenderest manner possible, it is not ed ground in windows as I have seen correct to charge the condition of thi 'r done, just as though they were so oranges this season to tie "crude man lit much trash. When you get your cart ner in which the fruit is picked front nd or wagon full unload into your big the trees." There are other cause. se wagon and take to your station, which will be mentioned later. le. "If the cabbage is to be crated take ch an express packer along and let him he crate while your other men are cutting. CASH Ca ts. Always place the stump to tile outside guB he and pack as close as possible, but not OR I nd so as to mash or bruise the heads. st. Farmers living at a great distance CREDIT. FREE le- should use springs under their wagon nd. beds to keep the cabbage from jolting w- too much on the hard road. I can as- on sure you that cabbage handled in this ny w6ay will find a ready sale every timee" ed he lit- Some Climatic Contrasts. an- 'To know the political divisions of st. the earth and the many forms of ihu- re- man government is very good indeed, CENTURY MANUI is but who would question the impor- ore tance of a good knowledge of physi- on, cal geography, says a writer in the ive Jamaica Times. In the republic of SPECi ery Ecuador there are nearly 3,000( Jamai- of cans, who if spared to put through A ery the railway from Guayaquil to Quito, D are's must meet some of nature's great te by II pe ga- work. and will undoubtedly experi- Newi SI be. ence some of the physical conditions OPTICIANS nd F ree of the country. Many travelers going ami mtioa Blankd n a through countries where the simoon, CLOBE OPTI scow s Emulsion >f Cod Liver Oil is the means ,f life, and enjoyment of life to thousands: men women and children. When appetite fails, it re- stores it. When food is a burden, it lifts the burden. When youlose flesh,it brings the plumpncss of health. When work is hard and duty is heavy, it makes life bright. It is the thin edge of the wedge; the thick end is food. But what is the use of food, when you hate it, and can't di- gest it? Scott's Emul.:ion of Cod Liver Oil i:; thcfood that makes you forget vyot- :tomach. If you havo' ro' t.-ied it, send for ree sample. izt agreeabio taste will 3u'orise Vou. SCOTT & BOWVNE, Chemists. 1.09 cearl St:-o-. New York. 50c. a!d r'.OC : :-! druggists. W. E, FRENCH, VETERINARIAN, Will Treat all Diseases or uomestleat- ed Animals. SURGERY AND DENTISTRY A Specialty. DAYTONA. FLORIDA. 40 Acres for $40 or range and pine apple and vegetable land. Write now for terms. 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All communications or enquiries for this de- partment should be addressed to FLORIDA AGRICULTURIST, Fertilizer Dept Jacksonville, Fla. Phosphoric Acid and Lime. Editor Florida Agriculturist: Through your kind indulgence let me e'xpll;i i solethling of the points in question regarding what I wrote of the use of lime on pineapples. You brought me up so short, and as I am careful not to write anything that facts will not bear me out in, I will give some of my experience along that line. I know what the state chemist has told us our soil contains. I remember also, that I'rof. Norman Robinson, while e hwas our state chemist, told me that he had aitalyzeil soils about Tallahassee that contained an excess of phosphoric acid, and also tiat he had taken soils from several places on his own lands at Or- lailo, which wials well supplied with phosphoric acid in the form of phosphates: he remarked "but I don't know whether it lets up so plants can take it up or not." For myself. I know nothing of the chemistry of the laboratory, but I have tried to learn tie chemistry of the lield. I have tried to learn what is the fotd of plants and how they receive it. I find that in all the different coun- ties, beginning with Orange, there is more or less phosphate in the land; pick up a little pebble anywhere from the head of Pence river to its mouth at Cleveland, and it will be phosphate; so with the Kissimmee river; it does not show so much but it is there. Here in Dade county, its noted rock lands con- tain more or less phosphate; but does it let up, that is the question. I believe it does-slowly but enough for the use of plants. I believe that in nature's work there are certain organisms in the roots of plants by which they are sup- plied with acids through the spores in the bark, and also the spongioles, and as they come into contact with these food elements, though it may be In common sand or phosphate rock, they supply themselves with the food that nature intended they should get from that source. Not long after Prof. Robinson had given me his ideas of what he had found, and while it was fresh in my mind, I was visiting a friend on Peace river, who was then working a phosphate mine. I saw that in the low- er part of his orange grove there was a considerable number of small stones, and as they were all phosphate I saw the opportunity of making a test to see whether the roots of these trees were not getting more or less food from the stones. I told my friend of what I wished to do, and he took a shovel and we carefully took the soil away from one half the trees. Wherever we found a stone, front the size of a hen's egg to the size of a quart bowl, the little fiber roots of the tree were clinging around it. If they had not been getting food from the stones, those roots would have been turned away. I presume to say that the late Dud- ley W. Adams, In his time, was as suc- cessful an orange grower as we had in the state. Being a close friend, I was at his place often, and it was his pride to tell me of all his operations of cul- ture. I remember that as his grove was in the "sand hills," and there used to he lots of rusty oranges-on my last visit there a few days before the great cold, in our walk down through his grove of thirty or forty boxes to the tree. I remarked; "Dud, I don't see any black oranges." his answer was, "I don't believe there are any I have never found any." For the past ten years there had been no other fertilizer used than nitrate of soda and muriate of Iltash. Now if the roots of those trees were not supplying themselves with phosphoric acid from the soil. where did they get it from to make that im- mense crop of bright fruit? Of lime and the pineapples, I have never applied lime to pineapples, what I have seen the other planters do with lime has been satisfactory to me and I did not go over the same ground. One case is of a pinery at Orlando, in which there was a square spot of about ten by twelve feet, where the plants would not grow. I asked the planter why, and he said when the house was built the mortar bed was there and he supposed the lime made the trouble. Last season at Myers, Mr. Ballou used some waste lime on one bed of his pineapples. They all turned a bottle-green, spiked, and turned over on the ground, ruined. Let me say something in answer to the question of planting pineapples on shell hammocks. Shell land of any kind will not do, they just simply will not grow on what can be termed shell. There seems to be some acid in such lands that is poison to the pines. Miami, Fla. Jas. Mott. Are you not mistaken about Mr. Ad- ams using muriate potash? We have pretty fair evidence that he used lew grade sulphate potash. The Orlando trouble was an excess of lime.-Ed. Forms in Which Lime May be Used. Realizing the value of lime applica- tions to soils, the Florida Experiment Station has issued the following bulle- tin, which conveys the information that of fifteen plants, arranged in the order they are benefited by the use of lime. sugar cane is third on the list : Quick lime (Ca 0) is obtained by burning native limestone or shells. It comllines with water with avidity, crumbles down to fine powder and forms what is best known as slaked limte. During this process it increases about one-third in weight and about three times in volume. Air-slaked lime divers from fresh slaked lime in that it contains a large amount of calcium carbonate. In decid- ing the condition in which to purchase lilme, it is well to consider that 100 pounds of quick lime are equivalent to about 140 pounds of slaked lime, and 170 pounds of air-slaked lime. Floats is finely ground phosphate rock and may be used to advantage on lands rich in organic matter. Besides furnishing lime it also slow- ly furnishes phosphoric acid. If the soil is in need of lime other forms are bet- ter for supplying the want. Wood ashes contain from 30 to 50 per cent of lime and may be used with good effect. Cypress ashes may be had for lothitng iln any places in the state. They contain about 50 per cent cf line and one-half per cent of potash and may be used to advantage. Calcium sulphate or gypsum is found in deposits in many parts of the coun- try. Much of the lime in acid phos- phate is in this form. Marl is earthy matter which con- tains partly decomposed shells. Its use is limited to farms in close proximity to the deposits since the cost of its transportation is quite high. It is not uncommon for a marl to contain both potash and phosphoric acid in addition to lime. How Lime Acts.-Lime enters into the composition of all plants and is un- doubtedly as much a plant food as pot- ash, phosphoric acid or nitrogen. A plant will not grow in the absence of lime, but this substance is so widely distributed in nature that practically all lands contain sufficient lime to sup- ply the needs of the plants that may- be grown on it. The benefit derived from an applica- tion of lime is due more to its chemi- cal and physical action on the soil than merely an increase of lime available as plant food. Without going into detail the follow- ing are the chief chemical changes brought about through the agency of lime: Lime as sulphate has the power to break up certain compounds containing potashi in an unavailable condition. It also aids in tile formation of double sil- icates of potassium and aluminum in which form the potash, though avail- adle, is prevented from leaching out of the soil. It promotes a rapid decompo- sition of the organic matter in the soil and cnau.ses its nitrogen to be converted into nitrates. This is the form in which nitrogen is best assimilated by plants. If there is an excess of soluble phos- phoric acid in the soil, its tendency is to combine wiith compounds of iron and aluminmiltln and become unavailable. The presence of lime prevents this, and is even believed to be uhle to decompose any iron or aluminum phosphates which are in the soil, so that the thos- phoric acid may be utCl'zed as plant food. Thus it appears that lime, by its pe- culiar chemical properties, is capable of rendering available all three of the plant foods which may be in the soil in an inert form. Another important function of lime is to correct the acidity of soils which are rich in organic matter. Such soils are frequently so sour that certain plants will not grow on them, yet they produce abundant crops after an appli- cation of lime. A moderate amount of lime also greatly facilitates the growth of nitrifying organisms which exist on the roots of leguminous plants and causes the nitrogen which these little helpers secure from the air to be con- verted into nitrates and in this form stored up in the soil. Physical Action of Lime.-Aside from its chemical action, lime when applied to stiff clay soils renders them more friable, easier to cultivate and better able to supply moisture, heat and air to the plants. Its use improves the texture of sandy soils, making them more compact and more capable of retaining moisture and fertilizers. It may be stated here, how- ever, that sandy soils will not bear very heavy applications as will the heavy clay soils. Whlat Soils Need Lime.-From fore- going statements it would seem that most soils would respond favorably to an application of lime. If a soil is de- cidedly acid or sour, lime may be ap- plied with a great degree of assurance that benefit will follow. Its application to heavy clay soils will usually prove advantageous. The use of lime on poor sandy soils requires caution. When added to such soils it renders thie little plant food in them available and tends to their rapid exhaustion. It is best in such cases to add liberal supplies of potash and phosphoric acid, and rotate the crops, using cow peas or velvet beans to supply the nitrogen and or- ganic matter. When to Apply Lime.-In general it may be said that during the fall is the proper time for making application. If the land is sour, the application may be made just previous to planting. The same applies if only a small amount is to be used. How to Apply.-In case quick lime is to be used, it may be placed in small piles at convenient intervals and a gal- lon of water poured on each pile. These should then be covered with earth to protect the lime from the air. The fol- lowing day the lime should be spread as evenly as possible on the land and immediately incorporated in the soil with a harrow. If lumps of unslaked lime remain, the land should be har- rowed a second time after a few days. It is important that the lime be thor- oughly mixed with the soil and it should never be applied and turned un- der. After screening the slaked lime it may be applied to advantage with a grain drill or a lime spreader, if these implements are at hand. How Much to Apply.-This depends largely on the character of the soil and the crops to be grown. It is considered better practice to use small quantities and to apply annually than to make heavy applications. Many, however, ap- ply from two to five tons per acre at intervals of from five to ten years. Half a ton is a fair quantity for an acre of land possessing a moderate de- gree of fertility. Effect of Lime on Plants.-All plants are not affected alike by lime. Most of them are benefited to a greater or less extent, some are indifferent, and a few are injured when grown on recently limed soil. The following is a list of tle more common plants grown in Florida, arranged in the order in which they are benefited by the lime: Lettuce, beets, sugar cane, celery, onions, parsnips, cabbage, canteloupes, tobacco, egg-plants, pepper, pea, fruits, corn and cotton. About the only plant grown in the state which is injured by the lime is the watermelon. This applies only when a moderate quantity is used, as peas and other legumes, corn and cot- ton are injured by large quantities of lime. It may be said in this connection; that it is better to avoid the use of lime ol soils which are to be planted in potatoes, since its use would favor the development of the potato scab fungus. Two hundred bushels of po- tatoes remove eghity pounds Sof "actual" Potash from the soil. Unless this quantity C-^ is returned to the soil, "'N- the following crop will _..F,-. materially decrease. Does it Pay to Lime.-In most cases the answer is in the affirmative. A vast amount of experimentation has been conducted in order to answer this ques- tion; in fact, nearly every experiment station has done more or less work along this line, and it has been conclus- ively demonstrated that lime judicious- ly applied is an efficient means for pro during large crops at a good margin of profit. It costs about the same to plant, cultivate and harvest a given area, without regard to the size of the crop, and if this can be doubled by the ad- dition of a few barrels of lime to the acre, the relative profit becomes very much greater. Besides, the lime will manifest a good effect for a number of years. In closing I wish to repeat that the habit of liming may become perni- cious when practiced merely for the purpose of wresting from the soil Its locked up plant food, but when prac- ticed with a careful system of rotation and fertilizing, it yields a profitable re- turn. *4 The Pomelo a Stayer. All doubt as to the future demand for the pomelo may be solved by a careful review of the local field. It is not an exaggeration, perhaps, to say that one-half the residents of this part of the state have become permanent users of this fruit. At the packing- houses every cull is carried away by the townspeople. The fruit is on sale at every fruit stand and I observed at a meeting recently held that everyone ate heartily of the samples offered, and each seemed familiar with the characteristic merits of the fruit These facts are all the evidence one needs of the coming popularity of the fruit in the Eastern markets, for the tastes of the people are similar In all sections. No fruit has been improved to such an extent during the last two decades. This is the cause of its gen- eral adoption by the public, and the demand for the fruit may be banked upon. No one is now rash enough to state that the California pomeloes are not equal to the best qualities produc- ed in Florida, and our fruit now only awaits the general approval of the eastern trade generally, which is in- evitable. It has been suggested that the pomelo men grow smaller fruit, as well as larger, and prepare to put it on sale at popular prices. In this I see no objection. It is barely possible that a pomelo tree should produce good fruit if left to its natural tenden- cies of overbearing, but it is not the experience of growers that it does. If there are other means of growing small pomelos, save by allowing the tree to bear so heavily that it cannot mature the fruit to prime quality? I have seen orchards thinned to one-fourth the setting and yet so heavily laden that the crop was of very poor quality.- Los Angeles Daily Times. Us O P6 Taneeoo. UGoo& 2 4 THE FLORIDA AGRICULTURIST. 295 DEPAb2TXENT O ORNA3IENTAL HORTICULTURE. BY W. C. STEELE, SWITZERLAND. FLORIDA Curcuma ? There is a plant offered by Jessamine Gardens as "Queen Lily." They say in their catalogue that it is a Curcuma, but do not give the specific name. We got a plant or rather a dry tuber from them last spring. When it started it was easily divided into two plants, one was kept in a large pot, the other planted under a shelter in the ground. Tie one in the pot grew very slowly and in the fall the tuber was very little larger than in the spring. The other grew very well in- deed but did.not bloom. The root was taken up in the fall and wintered in a box of dry earth in the plant house. When the clump of tubers was separated this spring for planting, there were about twenty pieces as large as the one we started with, which shows a remarkably rapid increase. Last spring we received from a friend in Mississippi three small plants label- led "Ginger." These were set in the open ground, they grew thriftily but lid not bloom. In appearance, both of roots, leaves and manner of growth it seemed to be the same as "Queen Lily." Our own plants did not bloom, but we received from our friend later in the season a spike of blossoms. This showed that the plant was probably a Curcuma but which species we could not determine. Whether it was Identi- cal with the "Queen Lily" we could of course not decide as we had never seen the bloom of the plant. But we sent the spike of bloom to a friend who would know and he pronounced the flowers to be the same as "Queen Lily." As the roots of this plant have 'prov- ed hardy in Mississippi; we left our plants in the open ground all winter. The weather has been unusually wet and the soil was saturated most of the time yet the roots came through all right. Wishing to leave the old roots undisturbed and yet to get the extra bulbs away from them, we dug a trench on each side quite deep and then with a small force pump washed away all the soil over the tubers. We broke off about sixty good sized pieces and left the three old roots many times larger than when planted. We hope to be able to report more definitely about this plant during the season. From the spike of bloom sent to us last year and our own experi- ence of its growth we feel sure that it will prove a very desirable addition to the flower gardens of Florida. * Roses in the Orange 'Belt. Early in the 80's Florida received a new addition to her population, in the person of a man from a distant state who brought his family to the section lie preferred-bought the "relinquish- ment" of a homesteader, in the "Or- ange Belt," and prepared to build thereon a house. The site selected was in the uncleared low pinelands, border- ed on three sides by flatwoods and on the north by a rich hammock. In the following spring a friend in New York state sent him a large trial package of roses, of all known kinds, They were small plants on their own roots and perfectly healthy. A small plot of ground was cleared in the ham- mock and the plants set therein. The fertility and moisture of the soil kept the plants alive and growing. They were transplanted the following spring to the dooryard of the new residence. The land had been newly cleared and the ground plowed and enriched with wood's mold. The roses took hold and grew. Well rotted soil from the cow pen and stables were added at inter- vals. The plants began to bloom and in a few years they were the marvel of the settlers in that section. They began to bloom early in the spring, the teas continuing to bloom monthly, but sparsely during the summer's heat and profusely in the late autumn. The Perle des .ardines. Isabella Sprunt, Chrom- atella. Saffrano. Mad Margottin and Marie Van Houtte were especially sat- isfactory. The latter is one of the hardi- est and most beautiful of all the month- ly roses. The Hybrid Perpetuals were not so affluent of their blooms; but their size, richness of coloring and exquisite fra- grance more than atoned for their want of profusion. The Bourbons and Hybrid Teas were alike satisfactory. The Moss roses bloomed but seldom, and are not at all suited to that section. The Marechal Neil. which is almost worthless on its own roots makes a wonderful growth and carries a pro- fusion of magnificent buds and blooms when properly budded. A section of our homesteader's residence was covered with a finely grown budded Marechal Neil. Among the hybrid perpetuals, the Paul Neyron. Antoine Mouton and Sul- tan of Zanzibar were conspicuous for their size. beauty and fragrance. The latter was a shy bloomer on its own roots; but budded on a multiflora rose became a climber, almost as flori- ferous as the Marechal Neil. These two. growing in close proximity on the same wall make a splendid show as the latter has flowers of the darkest crim- son, almost black. Some two hundred yards from the residence there ran a brook through the hammock, and on its banks the owner planted climbing roses, teas and hybrid perpetuals. The richness of the well drained, deeply shaded soil, and the abundant moisture produced some of the finest of roses. The largest Indi- vidual Paul Neyron we have ever seen grew by that brookside. and the forest growth that overshadowed the water was wreathed with climbers almost perennially in bloom. Hundreds of rose cuttings were set in the rich soils ad- jacent, which grew and bloomed with no further attention than had been given when first placed in the soil. Numbers of them grew to large size showing more than forty roses In a cluster at one time. 'The overflow of the water in the "flat woods" during the "rainy season" often caused the roots of those plants set on the front lawn to be wet for weeks. In spite of this, few plants were affected with the mildew. Some of the Noisettes were, and their clusters of roses failed, from this cause, to open. Extensive ditching relieved the soil of superfluous moisture, and the "low pine land" with its clay subsoil proved to be an ideal spot for roses. J. Consecrated Gardens. The following from Success with Flowers, contains many valuable thoughts and suggestions. Of course in most cases our readers would be ob- liged to use different varieties of flow- ers from those named, though Pansies and Carnations may be grown here for many months by setting out in the fall. "Perhaps some will smile at the head- ing of this article, and yet why should it not be so? We speak in a general way of consecrating our talents, and surely a garden may he counted as such in more ways than one. "God gives us all some small, sweet way To set the world rejoicing." And to many of us our gardens may open up opportunities for service which may bring cheer and uplifting to tired hearts. comfort to sorrowing ones, and the blessed thoughts of home and mother to those far away from early associations. With most of us, I sup- pose, the hospital would be the first place to which our thoughts would fly as a suitable place for our floral mes- sengers, and truly it is worth all the time and trouble it may take to send Flowering Plants Geranim s, ossr. eFlowering Plants d, You Can Plant These Now. mixed colors; Asters. large, mixed colors; Dlanthus. mixed colors; Verbenas. assorted THRIFTY WELL-ROOTED PLANTS. colors; Cannis (dry bulbs, cho ce varieties. mixed colors); Salvias. Splendens Dwarfing eOc perdoz. by mall;.c per doz. by express. Spikes; Sweet Alyssum; Candy Tuft; Chrys- Five doz. for $2 by express. anthemums. masoted. Address Foliage Plants Coeu. assorted; Velvet Aaaress Ashyra us Plant; Royal Lurple; MILLS, The Florist, Jacksville, Fla. Ashyrathus; Acalypha. three varieties; at- tarnanthera. border plant (red and yellow A nice Boston Fern free with ev;ry dollar and green and yellow.) order. a little brightness into so many suffer- ing lives, but let us not stop there. Is there one of us that does not know some harassed, over burdened mother to whoml a few flowers once or twice a week would be an unmixed pleasure? Take her a bunch of Pansies and Mig- nonette and tell her you have brought her some heart's-ease. Run in on Sat- urday with a lovely rose, and tell her you want her to wear it to church to- morrow, and her heart will be lighter and the world will seem brighter be- cause the Father hath sent (through you) some of His beauty Into her home. Your children go to school and morn- ing is a busy time, but it is only the work of a moment or so to make up a tiny bouquet for the teacher to wear, and the act of thoughtfulness may soothe the nerves too often tried and irritated. And the old folks-don't for- get to take grandma (whether she is yours or another's) an old-fashioned posy of Pinks and Southernwood- Moss Roses and Sweet Peas, any of the old-fashioned flowers that never grow old and will take her thoughts Iack to the days when she was young. And the sick ones. Keep your sweet- est and most beautiful for them, and don't make the mistake of sending too many at once. A Rose one day, a few Sweet Peas the next; then a lovely Lily-anything-only keep in mind that to an invalid variety means a great deal, and stale flowers are not to be tolerated in a sick room. A friend or neighbor has been called away; don't send a stiff design. Tie a graceful spray of Lilies, Roses or Hon- eysuckle with a narrow white ribbon, or fill a low basket with moss and then arrange white or pale tinted Roses, Carnations, Inlox, whatever you may have, with dainty ferns to relieve them. I always prefer to use one kind of flower whenever possible. For winter the Roman Hyacinth is exquisite. But why have I written all this now? Simply that you may have time to plan for generous driving. Dahlias and Glad- loli make a fine show in the garden, but you must have very different flow- ers to these if you want to cut and come again the greater part of the year. Don't forget some white flowers; they are always in demand. For our saddest times and our gladdest times the pure white blossoms are most ap- propriate. The White Phlox (annual) is a great favorite of mine, and lasts until the frost has laid low many a less sturdy plant. Roses and Lilies, Sweet Peasmnd Mignonette, Dianthus, Phlox, both both white and colored, Pansies and Daisies--all these and many others will fill your gardens with beauty and fra- grance and give you flowers month after month, and when the days be- gin to grow shorter you will be laying in a stock of bulbs so that the winter months shall not rob you of the pleas- ure of giving." Will You Do ItP In the same number we also find the following which is practically on the same subject: "It will take you but a moment or two to sow a few extra seeds or to set out a few extra plants, so that in the weeks to come you may be able to re- spond to -.e call of the flower missions for flowers to be distributed among the sick. the poor and those less fortunate than yourself. It may be of interest to some of our readers to know what one such mission did last year. The mem- hers of the Boston Mutual Flower Helpers' Flower Work had fifteen dis- tributing stations in different parts of the city front which it distributed thousands and thousands of flowers that had been sent to the stations by generous and kindly disposed flower growers who remembered the sick and the dwellers in the tenements to whom a flower was a rare possession. A writ- er says with certain truth: "In many cases the entrance of a bouquet to one of these homes has paved the way for helpful souls to get in and minister to. wants that, without the presence of flowers, would have been thought an intrusion." There is no way of estimating the good done by the work of the flower missions of tile world. The most prac- tical no-' intelligent of philanthropists recognize the value of this work, and only those who have no intimate knowledge of it say that it is "mere sentiment" and without value. Many instances could be given of the actual good resulting from nothing more nor less than a single bouquet of flowers carried into a tenement house. It is not necessary to send your flowers to a flower mission. It may he that you live too far from any mission of this kind to send your flowers for distribution." State of Ohio, City of Toledo,) ss. Lucas County, ) Frank J. bheney makes oath that he is the senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney & Co., doing business in the City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid and that said firm will pay tile sum of One Hundred Dollars for each and every case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of Hall's Catarrh Cure. Frank J. Cheney. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence, this 6th day of December, A. D. 1886. A. W. Gleason, Notary Public. (Seal.) Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internal- ly and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. "Everything for Florida." Fruits, Flowers, Trees, Shrubs for Orchard and Lawn, IPalms, Bamboos, Conifers, Ferns Economic and o it-bearing trees. quatics, and all C sorts of Decorative tock, for Northern House Culture as S well as the South. Rare Tropical Plants, East and Wesl Indian and other Exotic Plants. Sen.' for splendid Illustrated catalogue, free. We make special efforts to keep down insect pests, and will not send out white flies" or other serious pests, or diseases. 17th year. Reasoner Broas Oneco, P,. Budded and Grafted Mulgoba Mangoes Imported from India; absolutely free from fiber. Pot grown $2.50 each. Largest assortment of Crotons in the United States. Also Citrus stock. Address, JOHN B. BEACH, West Palm Beach, Fla. H. C. HARE a CO., GENERAL AGENTS, 216 W. Forsyth St.. bet. Hogan and Julia. Jack- sonville, Fla. Manchester Fire insurance Co., Norwich Union Fire Insurance Society. Americanr Fire Insurance Co., of N. 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The man who buys an orange grove now in a frost-proof region knows on which side of the crust the oleo is spread. S* We do not hear one-half as much complaint as in former years of the depredations of scrub cattle and razor- backs, and the injustice of the law which compels the trucker to build a $500 fence to protect his crops against a Mo5. farmers generally learned how to pro- tect their crops? S* A block of eanblttge is Ietter than a Grange store and t c,-olpwrntive price, and string leans will clear the liver more effectually titan Mnllicine. The refuse vegetables will mnake the scrub cow give milk all the year round and raise a sow and pigs ill tie fence cor- ner. A farmer without a garden is only three parts civilized; the other part is apt to Ie half politi:-aln and half pat- ent medicine man. * The simplest and most effective plan to combat the peach-lorer is to remove the earth around the collar of the tree; clear away the gum. which will some- times he in a mass as large as a hand- ful, cut out the grub and destroy it. Or, if it is difficult to reach, I~ur boiling water into the gallery, which will reach and kill the borer and not injure the tree. Leave the collar exposed for a few days. then examine a second time to see if all the borers have been removed. * There can be no reasonable doubt of the deteriorating effect of the exces- sive propagation of plants as exhibited in the introduction of new varieties. The originators must resort to this means for obtaining a large stock- every bud must make a plant-in order to profit by their inv-entions or discov- eries before they become common prop- erty. If the discoverer's rights were protected for a time by patent, he would not be obliged to push propaga- tion to a point impairing the vitality of the plant. Maiden cane can be eradicated by confining poultry on it; a limited area at a time. Tle same result can be at- tained by penning goats, sheep or even cattle on a small field of it, not large enough to furnish them a support. Give the animals enough grain feed to maintain them in good heart, then they will browse the maiden cane down so close that they will kill it. The same can be done with wiregrass, and val- uable pasture grasses will come in to replace it. * Any enterprising and ingenious farm- er in Florida, except perhaps in the ex- tremte northern sections of it, could raise pineapples for home use without a prohibitory expense. A twentieth of an acre, that is a plot forty-five feet square, would contain five hundred plants two feet apart. It would not be a heavy undertaking to shed this place tight, and a single coke burner would maintain its temperature during the occasional cold spells up to the point of safety. Four hundred fine rich pine- apples per year would be a highly ap- preciated addition to the family re- sources. S* Two-thirds of the dogs in the world ought to be killed. This will never be, especially here in the south were we have always with us an inferior, pred- atory race; we shall continue to the end to have bull dogs, sneaking hounds and villainous mongrel curs to annoy their peaceful neighbors and repress so- ciability by making it a terror for neighbor to call on neighbor. But the brutes ought to pay a high tax, or their owners, rather, for the privilege of keeping the nuisances; and the money so collected should go into the public school fund. The dogs might be made to work their own diminution by edu- tilltng public sentiment. * iOne of the most desirable acquisi- tions for tilte orange grower or the gen- eral farmer either is an implement for -cultivating the surface which will not, like the Iplow or cultivator, under- run and tear up the roots. So important is it to have cultivationl done shallow that it hld to the remark by ati old fariner that if lie knew his iman was plowing tile trees deeper than x plus y lie would at once arise, even from a sick bed, and stop him. The Acme har- row has come into general use but does not entirely answer the purpose. When the ground is hard it slides over It without making an impression. A light running spading harrow is good. A noted celery grower uses simply a broad plank driven full of spikes pro- jecting about two inches. * All varieties of the Navel, of which there are twelve or fourteen, are only curiosities in this state on account of their habit of shy bearing. The Na- vel is a curiosity itself, the same as tile pineapple, each of them being the instance of the central axis prolonged through and beyond the fruit. In the Navel it produ.cs a second miniature orange, in the pineapple a second plant. A branch sometimes attempts to pro- ceed in this way from the apex of a pear, occasionally it does this on top of a pine cone. In a rose a branch from the center of the flower sometimes pro- duces a second rose; and again a weak branch will be terminated by another weak bud. A similar phenomenon is seen in a stalk of corn where kernels are found on the tassel. The high quality of the Navel is not due to the fact that two oranges were rolled into one; on the contrary, the freakishness which produces this miniature second orange is a result of that superior quanl- ity which has been developed to the point of seedlessness and Iarrenness. S* The Fire. All of our readers have read of the terrible disaster that swept over Jack- sonville last Friday, therefore it is needless for us to go into the details of the most disastrous conflagration that has ever visited a southern city, in fact we doubt if ever a fire visited a city where so many homes and diff- erent businesses were totally destroyed and thousands of people rendered homeless and destitute, many of them having only the clothes that they wore when they left the burning building. The fire-swept district now looks like one immense grave yard with the standing chimneys as monuments to the homes that were, and the branch- less trees as symbols of the desperate condition of the people. Help must and is being given and we hope our readers will respond lib- erally. You may not have money to give but you can send produce such as cab- bage, sweet potatoes, rice, or other farm products that will furnish food for the destitute and homeless.. When you thing of it, bear in mind that there are over ten thousand homeless, clothe- less and moneyless people depending on what aid the sympathy of our peo- ple will give them. A friend in need is a friend indeed. Fruit Pulp in Bricks. Bricks made of fruit pulps done up in oiled tissue paper, hard, compact and well-nigh imperishable will furnish material for the building of many an American fortune within the next few years. California people are experi- menting in their manufacture, the pro- blem is almost solved, and before long we shall be sending immense quanti- ties of them to Europe. "These fruit bricks retain their freshness for a sur- prising length of time," said Secretary of Agriculture Wilson recently. "They are all but proof against deteriora- tion, Ibing perfectly good and fit for use eighteen months or two years after Ieing anuumfactnred. Albout tile consist- ency of a soft gundlrol). they are decid- edly tsoothsome. and. the pulp being mixed with a hlrge lwrcentage of sugar they hold the flavor of the fruit ad- Imirably. Fruit pulps are already being prepared in this shape in France, and, though as yet we are not manufactur- ing them commercially, there is every reason to suppose that before long we shall make and sell them in great quan- tities to foreign buyers. Hitherto our pulps have been put up for market only in cans, being utilized in this shape for soda fountain beverages and in the composition of frozen creams and fruit ices. Even in this line we are surpassed by the Australians, who have beaten the world in the produc- tion of canned pulps, especially apri- cot and peach pulps, but the industry is yet in its infancy, and I am confident that we shall ourselves become the leaders in it. We are a great fruit-rais- ing country, and an immense market invites our fruit products abroad.. As yet we have not taken proper advan- tage of our opportunities in this direc- tion, but I have learned much lately on the subject, and I have urged suc- cessfully upon congress the advisabil- ity of increased appropriations for pushing our fruit trade in foreign coun- tries. One of our ablest scientific ex- perts. Pomologist Taylor, recently brought back front the Paris Exposi- tion a number of valuable suggestions in this line, and this department is going to make the most of them." Strawberry bricks, raspberry bricks, plnu bricks, currant bricks and goose- Ierry bricks will soon 1e on the mar- ket for domestic consumption as well as for export. Being almost like fresh fruit and readily utilized by the house- wife for pastry and other desserts, they are sure to earn quick popularity. Furthermore, their cost will be very moderate, manufactured as they will be in great quantities at the fruit- growing centers, and wrapped simply in oiled paper, so as to avoid the ex- pense of cans or other receptacles. Not long ago a London firm of wholesale dealers in American products submit- ted to the British war office a number of specimens of jam bricks for the use of the troops in South Africa. pointing out the saving that would be made in freight by substituting oiled paper for glass jars, crockery pots or tin cans. The proposition was rejected because it was declared, and admitted, that the solidified preserve was not yet in all respects perfect. That its slight re- maining imperfections will be over- come, however, there is not the slight- est doubt,-just as all difficulties have been surmounted in the case of mince- meat, which was long regarded as Im- possible of compression. Today the traveler, the soldier or the sportsman, far from all civilized comforts, chips off a fragment from a hard three-inch cubl, and, moistening it with brandy and water or milk, is provided with a palatable "portion" of the favorite Christmas delicacy.-American Cul- tivator. S Velvet Beans and Cassava. If a man doubts the circulation of Home and Farm let him write an ar- ticle for it on some topic of interest, and whether the article be of interest of not, he will pay the penalty for his rashness, and at the same time be convinced of the circulation by the number of letters he will be called on to answer, and not all by any means of his inquirers will be thoughtful enough to inclose a stamp for reply. I am speaking now from experience, for my article in the issue of January 15 on velvet beans and cassava and cattle has brought me a flood of let- ters, many of the writers evidently being under the impression that I had seed for sale of one or both velvet beans and cassava, while others thought I must have, a breed of "white faces" for sale, but I have neither. I raise both velvet beans and cassava on my town lots and little place. in the country, but other duties preclude the seed business. And as to cattle. Well, no observant man can travel over our Southland without realizing that we are falling far short of our privileges when it comes to this all important item of the farm economy. Hardly a county in the South but what sends more money to tlie smoke houses of the Northwest than it ex- Islnids for taxes. Not a railroad but what hauls the familiar yellow beef cars laden with fresh meats from the packing houses of the North to sup- ply the tales of our hotels, restau- rants and more well-to-do people in our cities and towns. What other see- tion could stand such a constant drain on its resources and progress as we have done? IWe have the means in the velvet bean and cassava to stop this drain if we provide the proper stock to utilize it; we can check it very ma- terially with the scrub. The first of these does well on any soil, and will make a crop where corn wouldn't tas- sel. Like all the legumes, it is a rank nitrogen filler of the soil through the nodules on the roots, and it some- times happens that the soil is so defi- cient in the bacilli that cover these nodules that the first crop is relatively light, but the second crop will prove all that is expected of it. If they have never been grown on a place it is advantageous to plant them on land where cowpeas have been grown. If they have been grown in one field and it is desired to plant them in an. other, it will pay to take a little of the top soil from the field in which they were grown last year and mix it with the seed as they are planted on account of the inoculation thus given the soil of the new field with the nitrogen bacilli. Prof. Corey, of the Alabama experiment station, says that this is also true both of vetch and burr clover. In planting, four feet is close enough to make the rows, and two beans in a hill two or three feet apart In the row, will be found close enough. As I said before, they will make a crop THE FLORIDA AGRICULTURIST. on poor land. They are also respon- sive to fertilization, but if this is done let it be with acid phosphate and pot- ash; never mind the nitrogen; they will get that from the air. Cultivate once if you have time or the ground is very foul, and if not, let them alone, and you will get a crop. If planted thicker than this and fer- tilized moderately heavy, two years cropping will kill out Bermuda or nut grass; so says our Florida station. Cassava, as some know and some do not, is propagated by planting the tops or canes cut into pieces four to five inches long. Four feet apart each way is close enough, and the sandier and looser the soil the better. Three hundred to three hundred and fifty pounds of fertilizer per acre will pay, and this should run 4 per cent. nitro- gen, 6 per cent. phosphoric acid and 8 per cent. potash, applied about half broadcast and the other half in the hills. Cultivation should be thorough enough to keep the grass down, but must be shallow. The product aver- ages eight to ten tons per acre, and there isn't anything on a farm, wheth- er wearing clothes, hair, wool or feathers, and whether whole or cloven hoofed, that will not eat and thrive upon It. Reports from members of our West Florida Agricultural Society at the last meeting place its feeding value on the farm as one acre equal- ing six to eight of corn. Again these two feeds, indigenous to our Southern clime, form an almost perfectly balanced ration when fed to- gether. The cassava, richest of all plants in carbohydrates; velvet beans, strong in protein, and with the vines for roughness, what more do we need' Only more and above all, better stock to utilize them. It is a mere waste of good material to give such feed to the scrub when the full-blooded animal, or even the grade, will make so much better use of it. And of this better stock, well, more of that next time.- R. W. Storrs, in Home andFarm. Peach Laf Curl and the Bemedies. The Agricultural Department at Washington has issued bulletin No. 20, giving experiments made with peach leaf curl. The bulletin is divided into eleven chapters under the following heads: Primary considerations relative to peach leaf curl; nature of peach leaf curl; history of the treatment of peach leaf curl; piani of preventive spray work conducted by the -department; influence of spray o- the vegetation of the trees; influence .of sprays on the fruiting of the trees; preventive spray work conducted ly orchardist; preparation, composition and general characters of the sprays used; the ap- plication of sprays; nature and source of the spraying material used; peach varieties and nursery stock in relation to curl. The conclusions reached are that peach leaf curl may be preieuted with an ease, certainty, and cei.apness rarely attained in the treatment of any serious disease of plants, and there is no longer a necessity for the losses annually sustained from it in the United States. The bulletin contains 30 plates and 10 text figures. An extra edition ol 17,500 copies has been ordered b3 Congress for distribution by Senators Representatives and delegates it Congress. 9 A gentleman was giving a boy somt peanuts the other day. The mother said, "Now, what are you going to sa] to the gentleman?" The little fellow looked up and replied, "More!" CHEAP COLUMN RATES-Twenty words, name and address one week, 5 cents; three weeks 50 cents. CITRUS TRIFOLIATA, one year old. (from seed bed). six y cents per hundred; five dollars per thousand. by mali. PA5lPA GROVB NURSBRIES, Greenland, Florida. 1 x25 DATIL PEPPER.-The finest flavored pepper In the world; freely used It save< doctor's bills. Last fall plants, pot grown, sixty cents per dozen. From seed bed. twenty cenOtper dosen. PAMrAS GROVE NUR- SERIU, Greenland, Fla. 17x25 FOR SALE. A Bargain. A nice home within three miles by water or land to Jackson- ville postofflce. Good location. An acre planted in different kinds of trees and shrubs. A shed, protected by Hollins Auto- matic Fruit Protector, for 4,0 0 pineapples; without the plants till May 2u; with them after that date; also irrigate d. No reason- able offer refused; owuer going abroad. Apply to H. TURNER, Matthews P. U., Du- val Co., Fla. 19-It WANTED.-An honest, energetic, intelligent, sober man to work In oranges and pine- apples, and care for cow, horse and pigs. I.00o per month, and free rent. Address in own hand-writing, giving full particulars and references. W. NEBI)EN, Jensen, Fla. ltf WANTED-- windmill, tower and tank. Also an upright boiler and steam pu"p, and some 23-inch black pipe. H. PRICE WILLIAMS, Miami, Fla. 16-18 BECAUSE they Exactly "1fil a long felt want" 1 have taken the agency of the Cut- away Harrows for Brevarad Dade and Voiu- sia Counties. W. S. Hart, Hawks Park. 'la. 14-19 CAS6AVA SEED for sale; prices low. BtMNJ. N. 3RADT, Huntington. Fla. to-ilu PALMS, FERNS, BAMBOOS, AMARY- LLI1. CLINU1 &i FANC'Y-L..AV D CALADIUMo. ORANGES, and a long list of flowering,fruitmig and foliage plants, shrubs, vines, etc., pot-grown, specially adapted to Florida planung. All interest should 'have a copy Uo our beautifully illustrated CATA- LOGU*; iktkhk,. J ieOA5la tAkL.- DENS. Jessamine, Fla. 1itL IRRIGATINU k'LAT---A large quanti- .y of 3-.nch blacK iron pipe for sale cheap. CLIFFr'OID ORANGE CO., CLt- ra. ia. WANTEDA-A chemist. One w*o ihas had experience in handling Ie. -tlluinz nu- terral', a state resident prefertfed. Js. 0. fA1N-lX'Jdk, JacksonvieIC. 'la. ittON PIPING, for irrigating purposes, in lUrt-class condition, for sale cheap. li.It'5u*tjU OfttANAiE CV., Lira, r'la. 7-l1 A.LT'I' IC. cured fur one dollar or money refunded. W. i. MANINI, iarI.u- viule, Fla. luxi-ul FOR SALE--iurbery-All Urape-lrult .oca, mostly budded to lrape-lruil and alladSg.is. sux irL ourlanuo, lia. Mt CASSAVA SEED FOR SALE--Purchas- er may bid on them standing in l1-acre nelo. C. ri. SktO vL, ulenwood, I'la. 43t sale. ,u-Il'r 6c WILLIAMS, at. rctrs.t-u, flonaa- i- tlorida. Sux" JAMAILA sURKKL plants, by mail postpaid iur a cents per do en. .uud siZCe pianIt ready nuw. ,v. b. l 'h.ibiu>, Auburnuaie, 1la,. ftr UK'Ot SALE CHEAP-3O000feet of 3-inch iron pipe in good condition for water- ing groves. CLIl''Fl'OkLI OURANUl CO., Citra, Fla. 7xUl HAT I SAW IN FLORKlA"-i-eautlul kodak album. Cloth and nlmroccu b:In:Irug, Lloth 5Uc, morocco lac postpaid. k- U. rAIN'l.K & C ., DeLand, ria. it WRITE to J. U. Bell, St. Petersburg, Fla., lur pineapple plants. Zti viLLA L.AK k NURS.R tb, I rutland rark, Lake county, ria., owners otr July planting ia varieti oi a and 3 year citrru udas. fur good stock and low pnces, ad- dress C. WV. ro rrop. l"i OR SALE--iS Cash. Light acres of high pine land near LeLand Junction. 6 acres cleared, the balance o the tract is In tunber. Address, P. M. H. care Agriculturist, e- Land. Mla. WATER YOUR GROVES, pineries and vegetable farms. Write the CLIFFORD UOANGE CO., Citra, Fla., for prices on iron pipe for irrigating plant. 7ix1 WANTEl-Customers for a million fruit trees and plants tor lorida planting. Ranges, Crape Ikruit. Peaches, Persimmons, Pluats, Pears, Granted and Budded Pccans, Lam- phor trees. Roses, Ornamentals, etc. Lata- logue tree. Address, THkl GKRIFFliNt ansuTHKES Company, Jacksonville, Ita. BUCKEYE NURSERIES, TAMPA. F.A.-Am prepared to co,.tract for fruit trees-any qua.ttty-next fall delivery. uid Woou, Pineapple. Walters' Grape Fruit, Jaffa, Tangerine, Tarditf. b. E. ILLtTT. Prop. 15-ti FOR SALE-Grape fruit and Orange trees. Largest and most complete stock in the state. Trees budded on either Citrus, Trifoliata, Rough lemon, sour or sweet orange stocks. Best quality, Low prices. Address THE tGRIFINNG BROTHERS Company, Jack. sonville, Fla. 4ltf PINEAPPLE PIANTS-Smooth Cayenne Abakka, Enville City and Golden Queen for sale by CL:F VORi OR- ANGE CO., Citra, Fla. 7x19 FOR SALE-Smooth Cayenne pineapple plants of finest quality, raised from im- ported Azore Island plants. Also Ab- baka plants. Correspondence or exam- inallon solicited. I. B. Thornton, Lake- side Pineries, Orlando, Fla. 17x19 SPRAY PUMPS. Myers' Knapsack. Pump, 5 gal. copper tank...............12 00 Myers' Knapsack Pump, 5 gal. galvanized iron tank.. 7 00 ,f Brass Bucket Spray Pump.. 3 50 Barrel Spray Pump, com plete with hose, etc........ 16 00 *Climax No. 3, complete with hose, etc................ 18 00 1 Climax No. 4, complete with hose, etc................ 20.70 Myers' California Favorite, complete 28.00 Insecticides: Lime,'Sulphate of Cop- Sper (Bluestone), Sulphur. etc. Pine and Bangor Orange Boxes Shaved Birch Hoops, Froea Green Mixed Hoops, vanilla and Colored Strange Wraps, Cement Coated Box alls, Pineapple, Bean, Cantaloupe. Cabbage and other Crates; Tomato SCarier,'Lettuce Baskets, Etc. Imperal Plow sand Cultivators, etc. Catalogue andprlce litsa on appli- cation. E. BEAN. Room Jacksonville, Fla. Room 18 Robinson Bldg. We have a full supply o all the best varieties of Or- anges, Pomelos, Kumquats, Orange re etc., and shall be glad to show them to prospective planters. @an show both trees and fruit; have twenty-one varieties fruiting in the nursery rows. Also a full line of other fruit trees, roses and ornamentals. CATALOGUE FREE. Correspondence Solicited. GLEN ST. MARY NURSERIES, G. L TABER, Proprietor, Glen St. Mary, S Florida. TREES AND PLANTS THAT WILL GROW IN FLORIDA AND THETROPICS. ORANGES and other CITRUS FRUITS grafted on CITRUS TRI- FOLIATA. Camphor, Vanilla, Palms, Fruit, Nut ant Shade Trees. Grapes, Small Fruits, Roses, Evergreen Shrubs, Crotons, Bedding Plants, Etc. ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE FREE. Address, FRUITLAND NURSERESS P. J. BERCKMANS CO, Auuta. Ga. 04,0IElstabllshed l856,l TREES.- Over 30 Varieties Fruiting in Grove and Nursery Rows. Trifoliata, Rough Lemon, Sweeet and Sour Stock Used. RUDDED AND GRAFTED PECANS Field Grown Rose Bushes, Evergreens, Ornamental Trees, Peaches, Persimmons, Fig, Grapes-in fact all fruits adapted to FLOR IDA AND THE GULF STATES. 20,000 TWO AND THREE YEAR OLD CAMPHOR TREES. HIGH GRADE HEALTHY TREES AT THE RIGHT PRICES TSd.aaI'aaA S THE RIFFING BROS. CO., The POMONA NURSERIES, JACKSONVILLEN BOS. ., B JACKSONVILLE, FLA. $4.00 for $2.00!! Seed yon must haev to make a garden, and the AGRICULTOUIST you should have to te a successful gardner. u can get them both at the price or one. Send us one new subnrriber and $2 and we will send you the followinglist of choice Garden Seed from the catalogue of GRIFFIN BROTHERS. Beans, Extra Early Red Valen- tine.. ........ ........ .10 New Stringless Green Pod.... .... ...... .... 10 Dwarf German Black Wax........ .. .... .10 Burpees Large Bush Li- ma.. ................ .10 Beets, Extra Early Eclipse .... ...5 Imperial Blood Red Tur- nip...... ............ 5 Cabbage, Select Early Jersey Wakefield ...... ...... .5 Early Summer.......... .5 Grifing's Succession .... .5 Cauliflower, Extra Early Paris .. 10 Celery, Golden Self Blanching... .10 Cucumbers, Improved White Spine. .5 S Long Green Turkish.... .5 Egg Plant, Griffing's Improved Thornless ........ .... Lettuce, Big Boston......... Onions, Red Bermuda.......... Grilfng's White Wax.... Peas, Alaska................ Champion of England.... Peppers, Long Cayenne......... S Ruby King.......... Radishes, Wonderful .......... Grllfng's Early Scar- let.. ....... .... ..... Earley Scarlet Erfurt.. .. Tomatoes, Beauty............ Money Maker.. ....... Turnips, Griffing's Golden Ball.. .. Pomeranian White Globe Ruta Bagas, Bloomsdale Swede.... Address FLORIDA AGRICULTURIST, Jacksonville, Fla. 297 I THE FLORIDA AGRICULTURIST. HOUSEHOLD DEPARTMENT. All communications or enquiries for this de- partment should be addressed to FLORIDA AGRICULTURIST, Household Dept. Jacksonville. Ironing. Ironing. at the best, is one of the most hack-breakin;. nerve-racking du- lies llhat thle average womalln hlias to perform. This part of the housework is usually lint out with the washing, but when it is done at home. it forms one of the most arduous duties of the housekeeper. And if the starch sticks, the irons are rough or smutty, and the clothes dry out too quickly, there is nothing that is so thoroughly exhaust- ing to the nervous system. A good way to prevent the iron sticking is to have a beeswax tablet, which comes espec- ially put up for that purpose, at hand and rub over the surfice of your iron 4iO:-h time you take it from the fire. Then rub well with a rough cloth, and you will find your work made much easier. The wax takes off all the par- ticles that adhere to thie surface of the iroln iand leaves a. sinlooth.lclean surface. If beeswax is not to be had, kerosene oil is a good substitute. Saturate a brown paper with it and rub your iron over it well, then rub it over a clean surface and apply to the garment. If the iron is very rough, sprinkle a little salt on tile paper with the oil. This will greatly lessen your troubles. * Beautifying the Hands. The following article from McCall's Magazine contains some valuable hints on the care of tile hands. Every woman should take care that her hands look as well as art and nature will allow. Even though their possessor must per- form duties ruinous to their beauty, she (can, by prolwr care. keep them li)king fairly well. A lady who has very beautiful hands s;ys that a few exercises will work wonders towards promoting grace in Si.. tlinger tips :and wrist. Stand; with tle arnis at right angles to the lH ly, the lan ills with the palns iiown. li(cld thi, hainIs from the wrist, ilrst as far upi as they will go, then dowin. Itelit until the wrists are a lit- tlie tired. but never lnlil they are strained. Now close the lanld tightly nlltil it ibecomles a formidable fist, then throw out the fingers sharply, spread- ing them as far as they will stretch. ''These two simple exercises will pro- duce great suppleness and ease of the linger joints ;ilnd tend to increase tle circulation. Tight sleeves are as injurious as light gloves. Wllen yotl see a woman who is wearing her sleeves so tight that they bind. look to her hands; they will be red and puffy, with the veins swelled. and the texture of the skin oalrse and dark. The hands respond readily to emol- lients. If they are chapped, or the skin is broken, rub in a little camphor cream with the tips of the lingers very gently. Rub in the cream at night, just be- fore retiring. and put on afterwards a pair of white chamois or ordinary kid gloves, from which the finger tips have heein cut. Never wash the hallds ill cold water, alwayss dry thllim thoroughly anlid never use inferior soap. A "Swap" Party. Why not the word "exchange" in- stead nobody knows. but at all events it has Ie.come very popular alike with old and young, says Table Talk. Every guest brings four or five neatly wrap- p ed and tied bundles. The more mis- leading in shape as to contents the bet- ter. Thle packages may contain any- thing from candy to soap, starch to tea, look. handkerchief, sun-bonnet, etc., the more absurd the funnier. Each recommends his own bundles, describ- ing the contents as wittily and in a way to deceive as much as possible. 'Tle bargaining becomes very shrewd and merry until all the parcels have been swapped, oftentimes more than once. Then they are opened, the best bargain winning first prize, the poorest compelling the holder to tell a story, suggest a glle. sing or recite for the entertainment of the company. The universal verdict-"no trouble and lots of fun!" A game, suggested by the same au- thority. is that of numbers. Each guest draws from the basket on the table a slip of paper bearing a Inunmer and a half minute is allowed to give some old proverb, adage, fact or rhyme contain- ing tile number. If the player falls to respond within the time, a forfeit is re- quired and afterwards redeemed in somin manner to entertain the com- pany. To make the game more clear the number drawn is ten, quickly fol- lows "ten cents makes one dime." If number nine-"Of the muses of old, there were nine we are told." If num- Ih'r two--"'Two is company, three is none." If number one-"One, two buckle my shoe." It seems easy but one must think quickly to give the requir- ed proverb, fact or whatever it may be in the time allowed. 0 0 A Suggestion. In little girls' guinpe dresses the prevailing style still continues to have a gathered straight skirt and baby waist, cut round in the neck as before, with a deep ruffle for finishing. In sev- eral smart little frocks noted, instead of a little sleeve puff, the arm-hole was finished with a four-inch frill, which would set out over the sleeve of the guillie. A child's fine white frock has a very stylish appearance when trim- mted with black ribbon velvet of baby width. One little frock for a girl of six or eight, made of white Persian lawn, had two rows of lace insertion at the head of the hem, with several rows of black ribbon velvet between them; the belt was formed of the rib- ion velvet, having in the back a puffy little rosette of white satin; a similar satin rosette was put on the bertha or frill around the yoke, a little at the left of the front.-Rural New Yorker. * Children and Nature. If we would truly educate the child we must answer the questions his chillish mind asks. We must direct his inquiries into what lie is most interest- ed in. Your normal, healthy boy or girl 'ares more for fields, says Farm and able room was In the attic. This room had only one window-a low, broad one, with diamond panes, that looked toward the west. The ceiling was sev- en feet high in the middle of the room, but at two sides it sloped about two feet to the side walls. Both ceiling and walls had a rough coat of brown plas- ter. Helen painted the walls and ceiling blue. very light on the ceiling and a shade or two darker at the sides. The sloping part of tie ceiling she covered as follows: She went to the different paper-hangers in the near-by town, and they gave her all the samples of old wall paper that they had. She had been making a collection of posters for a year or two. She cut the paper in lengths to cover the slope, and on each piece pasted a poster and covered the sloping space on both sides of the room with these posters on the wall-paper, using her taste to combine them well. The floor she covered with a cheap white matting, and also painted the woodwork white. There was an old bedstead, bureau and washstand in the room. The two latter she painted white with enamel- paint after first scrubbing them with lye. In the place of the bedstead she bought a low, broad cot with woven wire springs and a mattress, which she used for a tied, and during the day transformed it into a luxuriant couch with the aid of an old-fashioned blue and white coverlet woven by her grandmother in her girlhood and a goodly supply of cushions. From the skirt of an old dotted swiss dress she made ruffled curtains for the window. Her brother made her a three-fold frame for a screen, which she painted enamel-white and covered with blue denim. Her little oak writing desk she stood near the window, and for seats she had one chair painted white, one wicker rocking chair and a camp-stool with blue denim seat. Her brother has promised to make her some low book- shelves, which are to be painted white, and a window-box, to be putlon brack- ets outside the window, so she can have flowers and vines there. Helen is well pleased with her "nest under the eaves," as she calls it, and her friends all admire it. She is sewing rags now to be woven into a rug. They are all cotton, white and different shades of blue, which she colored with dyes, and will be woven in the "hit and miss" style with blue warp. So Dishes of Cream and Eggs. l- ireside. and brooks, trees and flowers, A fault with the average farmer's Iirdls and anlinals, than all the books table is lack of variety In preparing the ever written. See then chase that but- foods. Cream and eggs are at their best tertly. not to hurt, but to find what and plenty on the farm, yet we do not makes it go. And men in all ages would ofien find whipped cream or eggs serv- sacriltice many years of life to discover ed in dainty ways. the secret of the bird's graceful flight. Any preserved fruit or sweet canned children n will lie for hours watching fruit drained from the juice, and serv- a hill of busy ants or a school of min- ed with whipped cream makes a dellc- nows in a near-by brook, and we, in ious dessert, is more hygienic than pie, our ignorance, call them idlers, and or- less expensive and more easily prepar- iler them to leave their study of the ed than pudding. Strawberry conserve fascinating and wonderful creations is delicious smothered in whipped of an all-wise God and sit down and cream. pour over the books they detest. No Whipped Cream.-Cream may be wonder they hate them. They are near- whipped at least two hours before it er heaven than we. They hear and see is served if kept cold, and not interfere and know things you and I have long with the necessary dinner preparations. ago forgotten. Time enough to give It should be perfectly sweet and cold. books to the healthy, normal, well- I cool the cream in a well in the cellar born child when his inquiries lead him with a hinged cover, and when whip- to them. Keep books about them. Let ped it nearly doubles in bulk. Use a tlemi rollic in a book-filled home. Rest quart tin cup and a Dover egg beater. assured inquiries they cannot answer Turn slowly and continuously until a will arise, and they will turn to books, teaspoon will stand upright. With Jer- lovingly, longingly, because they con- sey cream care must be taken not to tain answers to the questions they beat too long, as it will turn to butter. would fain ask. \hllen done dip it off with a tablespoon, e leaving the thin cream in the bottom Helen's Room. of the 'cup, and keep cold until served. Hl It is very nice dressing for any dessert The following description of a girl's that is served cold, and Is especially de- room, copied from Farm and Fireside sirable for fresh sweet fruit, also to shows what can be accomplished with Ispread1 between and over the top of a two-layer cake. a small amount of money and the art- Broiled Eggs.-Toast to a light brown ides at hand, if one but try, and the on both sides bread cut in squares, ar- result is certainly pleasing enough to range on a platter, break an egg on inspire other girls to go and do like- "eac, sprinkle with salt and quickly pass a red hot shovel over them until Vise: they are well set. Squeeze over the lelen lhad just come home from a juice of an orange and a little grated visit to her cousin in a distant city, inutineg. If a rich dish is desired, dip whose pretty room she had much ad- the toasted bread into thick cream in mired. She had always shared her which las been melted a piece of but- older sister's room, but now she set ter the size of an egg. her heart on having one which should French Rolls.-Boil hard, drop Into lie her very own. Her mother was will- cold water, remove the shells, roll in ing to gratify her, but the only avail- bread or cracker crumbs and fry in If you have h, you know it. You know all about the heavy feeling in the stomach, the formation of gas, the nausea, sick headache, and general weakness of the whole body. You can't have it a week without your blood being impure and your nerves all exhausted. There's just one remedy for you- AY'r3 sanaParilla There's nothing new about it. Your grand- parents took it. 'Twas an old Sarsaparilla before other sarsaparillas were known. It made the word Sarsaparilla" famous over the whole world. S There's no other sarsa- parilla like It. In age and power to cure it's "The leader of them all." "a.mL a bIe. il agis. Ayer' Pills cure coastlpatin. '"After uffering terribly I wes fellow ereare to try this medicine. for it a stood the t of time Its cutiv power cannot be s-m celed." L D. Goon, S Jama. 1im. Browntowm, Va I 1te have y cmallamlt whatever aIr te b teet adilee you Siessbmy reeelve, write the Iet- ly. T wln reeelte a pV p e. ply. wIthot cot. Addree Da .. J. C. AYRR, LIwU. g. sweet lard. rolling them until browned. Take up and pour over a gravy made by putting into the frying pan a little butter and sweet cream. Eggs with Rice.-Melt a piece of better in a frying pan, add milk or thin cream, two tablespoonfuls to each egg; salt and pepper to taste. When the milk Is hot, drop in the eggs one at a time, and with a spoon gently stir and scrape them from the pan as they cook. Have a platter spread with boiled rice. and with a tablespoon. arrange on it the scrambled eggs, and put over two or three tablespoonfuls of cream, and set in the oven until the cream is heat- ed. Creamed Eggs.-IRemove the shells from hard-boiled eggs, cut them in halves lengthwise, arrange on a platter, yelk side uppermost and pour into the platter, not over the eggs, a sauce of cream and melted butter, season with white pepper. Eggs and Bacon-Cut bacon into inch squares or smaller, fry quickly until tender, break In fresh eggs, season and stir until cooked brown; turn Into a dish and garnish with small cucumber pickles. Minced Eggs.-Chop hard-boiled eggs and heat to boiling in milk seasoned with butter, pepper, catsup or any chopped herb; thicken with flour, and serve garnished with croutons.-Coun- try Gentleman. * TO THE DRAF. A rich lady, cured of her deaftness and noiAs I the bead by Dr. Nicholbon' Artiucial Bar Druam., ave $U1.* to hbi Inttitute. so that deaf people unable to procure the Bar Drama may have them free. Address 1Uo The Nlcleolam In- t!ttta, IN Mgb htl AveMue New r. 1.9.8 _______ ____~ THE FLORIDA AGRICULTURIST. 299 she cannot get all the lime from the grain for all the eggs she can make from it. She must either lay fewer eggs, or lay eggs without shells. At this place in the process of egg pro- duction she lacks material, and unless lime other than that in the grain is supplied, the hen is limited in her work and cannot lay her maximum number of eggs. It seems to be a dis- puted question whether the lime in sea-shells is available to the hen for making an egg shell, but we usually supply them, for the hens can make use of them in grinding their food. Again, I believe the grains do not contain sufficient protein for the larg- est number of eggs the hen can lay, and the protein in the grain is not as efficient for egg-production as that in animal food. I know that the hen will consume more protein when it is fur- nished in the form of meats and bones. Some experiments that were made at the New York Experiment station proved that the most economical ra- tion for growing chicks was the one where animal meal was fed with the grain. Two lots of chicks, each the same number and the same age, were fed for the same time. One lot was fed a ration in which two-fifths of the protein was obtained from animal food the other lot was fed a ration contain- ing about the same amount of protein, but it was in the form of vegetable foods. The results of two experiments of this kind, were that it cost from one to two cents less per pound to grow the chicks fed the animal food. When feeding laying hens very sim- ilar results have been obtained, all of which go to prove that when the hens are kept in the confinement of houses and small yards, the economical ra- tiqn is that which contains animal food to take the place of the worms and insects that the hens get when they are given the range of a large field. The cheapest form in which ani- mnal food can usually be supplied is green meat and bone. When this can be obtained for one cent per pound, a bone cutter is a good Investment. POULTRY AND RAR I DEPART- This furnishes the lime and protein IMgIT. needed to balance the grains. It has Been my practice to feed more meat All eomunious r endiries for this de- and bone during the laying season, lbut less during the hot weather. FLORIDA AGRICULTURIST. The cheapest source of lime and pro- Poultry Dept. Jacksonville. Fla. tein is cut clover, but in this form the liens will not consume as much as in animal food, for it is not so palatable The Economical Egg Ration. to them, but it pays to supply them While at all times the poultryman with all they can eat. It makes their needs to study the subject of combin- food more bulky, and the hens are less ing foods in a way to obtain an eco- apt to get too fat. In the winter it nomical and balanced ration, it is es- should be cut very line, steamed and peeially important that he should give mixed with the nmash of ground grains. his attention at this time of low prices. In the summer tile green clover can He may widen his margin of profit by be cut and put in boxes. where they feeding a ration that reduces the cost can get it at any time. For hens kept of producing the eggs, and by market- in yards or houses during the winter ing them in a way that he will get and early spring. I would feed in the above market quotations for them. If morning a niash coimpiosied of equal I can reduce the cost of production parts of bran. middlings. corn meal, three cents per dozen, and get two ground oats and a little linseed meal. cents above the market price for eggs, I would mix this with an equal bulk ny margin is increased five cents per of clover hay, cut and steamed, and dozen, which means several dollars feed the liens but little more than more per week for me. they would eat up at once. Several Even if I keep all pure breds, I am times during the day I would feed unable to sell all the eggs from several whole wheat or other grain for a va- hundred hens for hatching. Then the riety, covering it with litter to make hatching season lasts only two or three them scratch for it. I would feed cut months, and the greater part of my meat and bone two or three times a eggs must go on the market for con- week, and would provide shells and sumption. At times when my neighbors grit to grind the food, so the hens have sold their surplus eggs at the could make the best use of it. country store for two cents below mar- If we regard the lien as a machine ket quotations, I have sold eggs to re- for making eggs, we have now all the tail dealers in the cities for five cents material needed, a balanced ration in above the market. which the elements are the most The ration for laying hens should be cheaply obtained, and therefore the adapted to tile time of year; the ration most economical. But the machine that is the most desirable in the win- must be kept in working order, the ter may not be an economical ration hen must be kept healthy. She re- for the spring and summer. The differ- quires the different kinds of green ent kinds of grain are always the bases food that can be provided according of a ration, and we vary the ration by to the season. In the summer, green supplementing them with different cut clover or other grasses may be foods according to the season of the substituted for the clover hay. In the year. Grain alone is not a balanced winter cabbages can be better used ration; therefore It is never an eco- for furnishing the green food. In the nomnical one. Many people would profit summer the hens should be fed less by studying the physical process of meat, and the yards where they run making eggs. When the egg first be- should be occasionally plowed, so the gins to develop in the body of the hen, hens can get their animal food by the first part formed is the yelk; for picking up the worms and grubs. The making this the hen draws on the fats ration should be adapted to the sea- and carbo-hydrates in the food. She son of the year. so that less of the next makes the white, and draws on carbo-hydrates are fed in the summer, the protein. So far she can obtain all when they are not needed to furnish the elements from the grain ration; heat and make fat.-Country Gentle- but when she comes to make the shell, man. Wasting Eggs. Food for Young Chicks. The man who feeds three times a day, and gives the hens so much kind- Young chicks should not be fed un- ness that they will not scratch and til thirty-six hours old, the principal work, but sit down and wait for him object being to keep them warm until to come around at the regular hour, they have gained sufficient strength simply waste time, labor and food. to withstand the sudden change of What is more. he wastes eggs, for such temperature. When first taken from liens lay but few eggs because they nest, they, with the len, should be put are in a fat condition. Of course, hens in a box, in a dry, warm room, and should not be poor in flesh, but there kept quiet. is no need of feeding hens more than After they are about thirty-six hours they actually require. Eggs are costly old they should be given their first luxuries when the hens do not lay meal. which should consist of stale regularly, and nine-tenths of the fall- crackers or bread, crumbled fine. Feed ures are due to over feeding.-The lightly, but often, and after the first Poultry-Keeper. day include rolled oats and dry corn Last year the poultry earnings of the bread. Give then fine grit or sharp United States amounted to over $300,- sand, and pure fresh water or sweet 00),000, being a greater value by $52,- milk: but see that they are not per- 000.000 than our entire wheat crop, emitted to fall into the drinking ves- $105,000,000 greater than our swine sel. Patent fountains are now on sale, brought us, $30,000,000 more than our and they are excellent inventions. Still cotton crop and more than three times a fountain on the same principle may as great as all the interest paid on be made from an old fruit can, by mortgages during the year.-National punching a small hole near top in side, Stockman and Farmer. then fill it with water and invert in * small tin plate or saucer. The water A grain of sand in the eye can cause will rise in the plate as the chicks excruciating agony. A grain of pepper drink it, and at the same time the can in place of the grain of sand intensifies will prevent the chicks from getting the torment. The pain is not confined to wet.-Home and Farm. the organs affected. The whole body * feels the shock of that little irritating Facts About Hens. particle. It is so when there is any de- rangement or disorder of the delicate Our fifty pullets laid one hundred womanly organs. The disorder may and fifty dozen eggs during January seem trivial but the whole body feels and February of this year. They are it. The nervous system is disordered. "a mixed lot," as the Hope Farm man There are fretfulness, irritability, sull- would say, but there is a predomin- enness and depression of spirits. The ance of Barred Plymouth Rock blood, general health of women depends on with some White and Brown Leghorn the health of the organs peculiarly fem- and also a trace, I think, of Black inine. Remove the drains, ulcerations, Spanish, I have been introducing fresh bearing down pains, and other afflic- blood for two or three years, with a tions of women, and the whole body view to increasing their size. I have feels the benefit. Dr. Pierce's Favorite now two purebred Buff Plymouth Prescription is t specific for the dis- Rock rckkerels at the head of two eases that undermine the strength of small pens this season, and have two women. It is free from opium, cocaine other pens headed by White and and other narcotics, poisons which en- Brown cockerels of uncertain degrees ter into many other preparations for of purity. One of the latter is a pen of .woman's use. It makes weak women twenty-five yearlings which have been strong and sick women well. boarders in the fullest sense of the term. It takes a long time for us to learn some things, and we now feel humiliated to learn how stupid we have been all these years in keeping a lot of superannuated fowls on the strength of their good looks. Our suc- cess this winter in securing eggs has not been due to any one cause, and I fear we could not enumerate them all if we tried, but this we do know, that more time, care and study have been put into our care of our feathered ser- vants than we have ever given them before. The "Madame" contributed her full share to our success, having sole charge of them during their chicken- hood days, and through all the stages of their growth and development. Yes, and keeping their egg record, which showed us "where we were at.' Our conclusions are, that winter eggs may be profitably secured if the following conditions are faithfully observed: Vigorous pullets (fully developed), clean quarters, small flocks, nitrogen- ous food in great variety (mixed with brains), clean litter, constant scratch- ing and diligent, watchful care.-Ru- ral New Yorker. C Salt in Sott Feed. Most people in preparing the morn- ing soft feed for laying hens in winter throw in a spoonful of salt. Many do this no doubt simply because it has been suggested by someone else, them- selves not wholly convinced that the mixture is improved thereby. Perhaps it does some good, and at any rate it can do no harm. A poultryman of good reputation has recently declared that he has particularly noted the effects of salted food and finds that besides keeping the digestive system In good order it is a protection against colds, canker and roup. Indeed he positively alleges that fowls will be exempt from troubles of this character If regularly supplied with salted food. The gizzard worms, whose presence is often re- sponsible for the debilitated state of the flock, also will be expelled by the salt. He puts a large tablespoonful of salt in eight quarts of feed. It salt is attended with half the benefit that he says it is, we cannot afford to be neg- lectful in the use of it.-Farmer's Voice. C ME-IEUWHISKY U iLEe. .1cnaltly Bak cu WOOLLEY. M. D., Atle 'ito. C16 M TOBACCO DUST. If your fowls are troubled with lice or jiggers, send $1.25 and get 170 pounds of tobacco dust and si-tinkle it in your coops. The tobacco is guar- anteed to be unleashed. FSud 2 cent tamp for sample.-E. O. Painter & Go.. Jacksonville, Fla. HENS' TEETH ,RO. To properly digest its food the fowl must have grit. What teeth are to the human being grit is to the fowl. We can now furnish ground oyster shells, from freshly opened oysters, from which all the dust and dirt has been screened, to supply this grit which Is lacking In nearly all parts of Florida. Goods very inferior to ours and full of dust have been selling for $1.00 to $1.25 per sack of 100 pounds. We now offer it at 100 lb bag, 75c. f. o. b. Jacksonville. E. O. PAINTER & Co., Jacksonville, Fla. Manufacturers of High Grade Fer- tilizers and dealers in all kinds of Fer- tilizing Materials. Blood, Bone and Shells FOR POULTRY For $3.25 we will ship by freight pre- paid to any railroad station in Florida 100 lbs Crushed Oyster Shells.. .$ .75 50 lbs Coarse Raw Bone........ 1.00 50 lbs Pure Dried Blood......... 1.50 200 $3.25 The above are three essentials for profitable poultry raising. Address, E. 0. PAINTER & CO., JACKSONVILLE, FLA. Western Poultry Farm, MARSHALL, MO. 4 months on trial 10c. One yr. 25e. It tells how to make poultry rising profitable. It Is up to date. 24 pages. Send to day. We sell best liquid ice kill- er for 75 cts per gallon. Aluminum leg bands for poultry, 1 dox., 2 ots; 25 for a ets: 50 for 50 ets; 100 for S. THE FLORIDA AGRICULTURIST. THEIR HUNDRED DOLLAR BILL. "So, he's gone at last, has he?" said my wife, with a little elevation of her pretty eyebrows. "I began to think he was somewhat gifted with immortal- ity." "Dead at last." said I. "And what do you think, Jenny? lie has left us a hundred dollars. "A hundred dollars!" echoed my wife, clasping her hands together. "0, Charles-a hundred dollars!" Now all this may sound like a two- pence-half-penny sort of affair to some of my readers, as I am very well aware. But as I am only a clerk on a salary of $900 a year-a hundred dol- lars drifting as it were, out of the sky, seemed a very neat little sum to me. Jenny and I were both young people, just beginning the world, with no par- ticular riches, except one apple-cheek- ed baby. I walked to and from busi- ness every day to save the 20 cents fares. We did our best to make both ends meet-and a tight pull we found it. Old Uncle Moses Manson was mor- tally offended when his niece, Jenny Clifford, chose to marry me instead of a weazened, bespectacled old contem. porary of his own. He had never spok. en to her siilce. and we naturally en. tertained no very exalted hopes of any testamentary recollections on his part. And the $100 bill, therefore, possessed the charm of an agreeable surprise into the bargain. "Charles," said Jenny, under her breath, "what shall we do with it?" "That is the very question," said I. "Do you know, Jenny- " I hesitated a little here. "Yes?" she responded, interrogative ly. "Every fellow in the bank, except nme, has a gold watch. I've been ashamed of this old silver concern more than once. And Seymour has a very nice second-hand one for sale that he will let me have for $90 if-' "And turn the $100 into a mere use less ornament!" cried Jenny, with strong accent of disapprobation in her voice. "Charley, that isn't a bit like you." "Well, then, what do you suggest?' "I should so like to give a social par ty with it," said Jenny, coaxingly. "On ly think how often we've been invited out since we were married, and nevel have had a chance to return any oi the hospitalities of our friends. Tin musicians, the supper, and all, wouli oin to eat, and drink, and dance up a sun like that!" I cried. "No, no, Jennettc it is entirely out of the question." "A new velvet suit for the baby? suggested Jenny, pouting a little at th emphasis of Iny words. "How would it correspond with th rest of our surroundings?" I asked, no without an accent of bitterness. "Yoi had a great deal better suggest a net winter suit and overcoat for me. Yo never seem to observe how shabby am getting. "Nobody notices a gentleman' dress," said Jenny. "I can make you overcoat look very nice with fres binding and new buttons-but how should like a sealskin jacket!" "Jenny," said I, somewhat disgusted "I had no idea you could be so selfish. "Selfish, indeed!" cried she. "I woul like to know whether you have ye suggested anything which was not fo your own benefit and use!" We were both silent. I don't slu pose either one of us had felt so vii dictive before, since our marriage Clearly the $100 bill had worked n great benefit as yet. "I tell you what, Jennie," gaid "let's compromise. Let's buy a ne' sitting room and stair carpet. I sa' a beautiful pattern yesterday." "I don't care very much for new ca pets as long as we live on a second floor," said Jenny. "And you don seem to remember, Charles, that haven't had a silk dress since we wer married. Black silk is suitable for a occasions, from a wedding to a funer- al, and 1 really think-- " "I believe a woman's thoughts are al- ways running on dress," muttered I, somewhat contemptuously. "I'm sure that black alpaca of yours is beauti- ful." "That's all you know about the mat- ter." said Jenny, elevating her nose. "Well. I don't care, spend the money :as you choose. Only. Uncle Moses was my relative." "And the money was left to me, Mrs. Everts," said I. "O, Charles," said she, "how can you speak to me so?" "Because I'm a brute, Jenny," said I, fairly melted "Forgive me, and we'll fling the old hundred-dollar bill into the fire before we'll let it scatter the seeds of division between us." "No, Charley, don't do that," said Jenny, laughing through her tears. "Let's-put it in the savings bank." "Agreed." said I. "And apropos of savings banks, did I tell you about Greene?" "No. What about Greene?" "Why, he and his wife have just moved into the prettiest little gothic cottage you ever saw, just the other side of tile IIarleni bridge, with a lawn and garden, and space to keep a little Alderney cow." "Rented it?" "No, bought it." "Why, Charles, how can that be? Greene has only two or three hundred a year more than you, and it takes money to buy places in the country." "All savings banks, my dear," said I. "Greene tells me that he and his wife have been saving up for years, with special reference to this country home for their children. They commenced with a 50-cent piece." "We can do better than that!" said Jenny, with sparkling eyes. "And I'll do without the silk dress." "And I'll make the old overcoat last another season, at the very least," 1 Added. SThe next morning, bright and early, Sas soon as business hours would per- Smit, I went and deposited the hundred a dollars in the nearest savings bank. r A week afterward Mr. Manply e dropped in, in a friendly way. Mr. Manply is the lawyer who transacted " Uncle Moses Manson's financial at- - fairs-- plump, bald-headed, deep- - voiced old gentlemen. who always I dresses in spotless black and wears a r big seal ring on the little finger of his r left hand. e "So." said Mr. Manply. "you've in- I vestle that hundrle dollars,. Imve Vyou '? h "Ye~,"' said I, with the -,oilll.l'enilt n air of one who has an account in b, ank. "But how did you know it?" "0, I know a good many things," said Mr. Manply, oracularly. "But e what's the idea of it?" "Economy," struck in Jenny. proud- e ly. "We are saving now, Mr. Manaly. t We mean to have a home for our little u Charley-a garden full of roses ano * pinks and strawberries one of these u days." "And a very laudable ambition," said Mr. Manply in that smooth, oily s way of his. "How much would such a 1 place cost now?" S "Charley thinks if we waited for a bargain, we could secure it for about, $7,000," Jenny answered, promptly. "Buy it now, then," said Mr. Man ply. "Hlere's a check for eight thoun d sand." t "Eh," cried I, breathlessly. "A check." the old lawyer went on "signed by your Uncle Manson, pay able to the order of his niece, Jam -Anne Evarts. Ah! you may well lool e. astonished. Ile was an eccentric ohl o chap, this uncle of yours, Mrs. Evarti -and I have his written instructio.li I; to keep an eye on the manner in whiel w you invested that hundred-dollar be w quest of his. 'If it is squandered ii any foolish way,' he writes, 'there it r- an end of the matter. Put my monei d all in the hospital for hunchbacks. I 't they show any disposition to save hell I them along with this check for $8,000 re to be expended only in the ouirchase o 11 real estate.' I congratulate you." Church Lights and Social Leaders. Every community, however small, has its group of energetic women, who lead and light the way in every local enter- prise. If it is charity, a bazaar, a church fair, or any other benevolent undertak- ing, they work day and night to make it a success. They are not the women who neglect their homes to serve the public. They simply do double service. Many a husband knows what it is to bring his wife home from a fair or bazaar near the hour of midnight and see her drop, in sheer exhaustion, into the first chair she comes to. While the lights were bright and the talk and laughter were all about her, she didn't realize her own weari- ness. But once at home, exhaustion over- came her. If a woman were thoroughly robust, without ache or pain, she could not keep this work up without under- mining her health. What shall be said then of those women, who are not strong, who suffer from headache, backache, bearing-down pains, and other conse- quences of a diseased condition of the womanly organism? And these women are in the great majority. There are few women who are free from diseases peculiar to their sex. BURNING THE CANDLE AT DOTH lEDS. That expressive saying not only sug- gests the most rapid form of waste but also the most foolish. When a woman overtaxes her strength in any cause, whether in the enjoyment of social pleasures, or in the service of church or charity, she is rapidly hastening to the end of her public activity. The proof of this is found right at home. Young matrons who are not dancing any more, church workers who are no more active ; these have not step- ped aside because of loss of interest but case of lack of strength. There is not a weak woman who would not like to be made strong again. There is not a sick woman who would not like to be made well. And there is not the least reason, in ninety-eight cases out of every hundred, why women should con- tinue to be weak and sick. The first sp to the re-establishment of the gen- health is to establish the local womanly health. "I feel that it is only my duty to send you a statement of my case," writes Mrs. Mary E. Wilcox, of Emo (Rainy River), Algoma Co., Ont. suffered untold misery for many years with uterine trouble, until I commenced taking Dr. Pierce's good medicine and used the local treatment as advised. I took two bottles of 'Favorite Prescription' and two of 'Golden Medical Discovery.' I also sent for one box of your Antiseptic and Healing Suppositories.' I have only used two and that was two months ago. Have not had to use any since, but I shall keep them in the house. I would advise every woman who suffers from ulceration of the uters sad piles to ma Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. It is the best medicine in the world. Also write to Dr. Pierce for his advice. I have felt better in the pat seven months than I have for years. Every month I used to have to go to bed and have hot poultices and take landanum to ease the pain. I don't go to bed now, nor do I take laudanm. Every spring I used to be troubled with piles, but I did not have any trouble of that kind this I keep Dr. Pierce's Com- u Extract of Smart-Weed in the house. It is a wonderful medicine." TEE WAY O EaSCAPX from the diseases which afllct women is marked by the footsteps of hundreds of thousands of women who have been raised to strength from weakness and from sickness to health, by the use of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. It estab- lishes perfect regularity, Series the drains which S weaken women, heals in- S fammation and ulceration and cures female weakness. It cures backache, head- ache, and the other painful consequence of womanly disea. It tranquilizer the nerves, encourages the ap- j petite, and induces refresh- ,", ngl sleep. "I feel it my duty to send you this testimony," writes Mrs. Tillie Linney, of Gravel Switch, Marion Co., Ky. "I had been a suferer from uterine trouble for twelve years, having doctored with the most skillful physicians but find- ing only temporary relief from medicine prescribed by them I was advised by a friend to take Favor- ite Precription,' which I did, and after kig six bottles I find that has effected a complete cue." "My niece was troubled with femaleweakness for about four years before I asked for yeor advice," writes Mr. J. W. McGregor, of 6ad Street and Princeton Ave., Chicago, Il. "Yo advised her to take Dr. ieree's. avrit Prescription which she did faithfully fw nine months, and now we must acknowl- edge to you that she is a mrU nm ism We cannot thank you enough. YOU CAN ME CURD by "Favorite Prescription" if you d1. ease is curable by medicine; and the facts show that only two women in every hundred who havegivn "Favorite Pre- scription a fair and faithful trial have failed of a complete cure. Women who have suffered for years and have had the advantages of the mot skillful medical treatment, have at last tried Favorite Prescription"and been cured. Women who had been pronounced incurable, and given up to life-long suffering, have been perfectly and permantly cured by the use of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prcription. Sick and ailing women are united to consult Dr. Pierce, by letter, fre. All correspondence is held in sacred secrecy and the written onfidences of women are gurded by the same strict profed sional privacy observed by Dr. Pierce in verbal consultation with sick women at the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Instl- tute, Buffalo, N. Y. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. Accept no substitute for "Favorite Prescription" though the dealer says that itis "ut as goo" If he told thewhole truth he'd say the substitute was better- not better for you but beer for him, because of the little more profit aid by the sale of less meritorious medicines. AUE YOU 21 ? Then at the expense of one-cent foe each year of your life you can pay the expense of mailing a free copy of Dr. Pierce's Common Sense Medical Advser, in paper covers. This great medical work contains more than a thousand large pages and over 7o illustrations and is sent absolutely on receipt o stamps to pay expense of mailing onul Send x one cent stamps for the book it paper covers, or thirty-one stamps foi the cloth-bound volume. Address Dr R. V. Pierce. Buffalo N.Y. This is how we became Ioses.sed of And the hundred-dollar bill still lies our little country home, where Charley untouched in the savings bank. thrives like a growing flower and J .ai- "It shall be Charley's fortune." s..yi ny flirts about in a broad-brimmed gar- my wife. "It would be a shame t< denying hat, trimming roses. uruning touch it after It has wrought us ts gooseberries and planting lily uulfa. much good."-Philadelphia Item. I THE FLORIDA AGRICULTURIST. Trechala Education in the South. Since you have barely begun to de- velop Industrial and commercial com- munities, a word, if wisely backed by evidence, will not be out of place. You have at your disposal imperial riches. Your resources surpass those of any people in Asia, Africa, Australia, Eu- rope or South America. No part of our own people, unless possibly those on the Pacific slope, have anything like your resources. Even they lack your cotton. What are you going to do to develop and utilize your re- sources? In the first place, you will act wisely if you put away your pol- iticians and put statesmen in their places. This, by giving confidence, will coax capital to come inside your gates. As soon as you possibly can, put in industrial, industrial art, technical. commercial and commercial high schools, as you will need well trained help. Lacking It, you will be as heav- ily handicapped as was the North till a few men like the founders of the Philadelphia textile school took up the question of technical education and gave the country one of the very best schools in any country. You will never know how rich are your agri- cultural, horticultural and other kin- dred natural resources till teachers have taught your boys and girls the laws underlying the scientific side of every department of farm life. You will never know the value of your mines till technically trained engi- neers have investigated and enabled you to extract the ores. Your great- ness in manufacturing must remain at a minimum until, like other nations and the North, you have introduced the trained experts to guide your great possibilities to the highest point of attainment. Your harbors shall never reach half their trading capacity fill the merchant and manufacturer, o-operating. have helped, going hand in hand, to increase and perfect your shipping or transportation facilities. There should be industrial art, techni- cal, commercial and commercial high sc"-hools ai over the South. You have cheap help, cheap foods, comparative- ly cheap transportation even now; all you need is skilled labor. If you want to know what such schools are worth read Germany's, particularly Prussia's and Saxony's records in recent years. They had to import wool, cotton, coal, iron, copper, raw materials for chemi- cals, foods; they exported manufac- tured products to all parts of the Sworld-for millions and millions. You have wool, cotton, copper, coal, iron, corn, etc., in your hills and valleys. Get and give your people the best technical textile, mining, mechanical engineering, agricultural and commer- cial teachers you can find. Pay them well.-Philadelphia Manufacturer. 0 * anatee has Luck. The Seaboard Air Line dispatched to the north last night 4,300 crates of vegetables, mostly cabbage, and this morning sent out a special train of eleven cars. Both the Independent Line steamers are now making daily trips to the Manatee section and are always loaded to their capacity. The reason of the revival and un- usual activity is a rise in the markets of about 50 cents per crate in the price paid for cabbage. Heretofore cabbage has just about paid the cost of getting to market, and the shipments had stop, ped. It is estimated that one hundred ears of this vegetable has been aban downed to rot in the fields. But the ad vance is bringing it out all right. And there is evidence that besides the ac tivity induced by the transportation of the stuff not less than $15,000 net mon ey will go into the hands of the peo ple who raised the cabbage.-Tampa Herald. CANCER AND PILES. There is a Sanitarium in Bellevlew Fla., whose specialty Is the treatment of cancer, piles and all rectal disease without the use of the knife. Write them a description of your case and receive free books by return mall. Ad dress BELLEVIEW SANITARIUM, J. W. Thompson, M. D., Supt. Blenvlew, la. Varieties of Fomeloes. The fruit farmers are taking consid- erable interest in the work of the com- mittee which has had under consider- ation for several weeks tie nomen- clature of the lpoielo. The inspira- tion to simplify the list of varieties canle from tie growers of this fruit. It is not the nurseryman' s movement to draw attention to the propagators of this line of trees, but an effort to bring forth a simpler list. and, if pos- sible to put the fruit upon tile market under distinguishing names. The committee is an able one, and it has labored faithfully to properly classify the various types and varieties. Fruit from almost every section was collect- ed and brought before the committee for inspection. Each lot was carefully and impartially tested. The commit- tee discussed every variety, and list- ened to the statements of gentlemen familiar with the pomelo in other countries, and from all this made up its verdict of approval or disapproval of each lot. It is not clear just what this committee will accomplish to- wards bettering the status of the po- melo in the markets. It was the inten- tion of the movers to individualize the varieties and offer the fruits of each to the trade under fewer names. In this I fear they have failed, for the commit- tee found so many varieties of merit before it. and was compelled by the merits of each to indorse so many of them, that the trade will not be able to center on that of greatest merit. One thing that has been accomplished, however, is the weeding out of several varieties known to be of little merit. The discussion has done a great work in another line, namely, the advertise- ment of one ot the most important cit- rus fruit kinds produced in Southern California.-Los Angeles Daily Times. 0 THE HOME GOLD CURE. An Ingenious Treatment by Which Drunkards are Being Cnred Daily in Suite of Themselves. No Noxious loses. No \\ eaketnii of Nerves. A Pleasant and Positive Cure for tile Liquor Habit. It is now generally known and under- stood that Drunkenuness i :a disease and not weakness. A body filled with poison, and nerves completely shatter- er by periodical or constant use of in- toxicating liquors,requires an antidote capable of neutralizing and eradicat- ing this poison, and destroying the craving for intoxicants. Sufferers may now cure themselves at home without publicity or loss of time from business by this wonderful "Home Gold Cure" which has been perfected after many years of close study and treatment of inebriates. The faithful use according to directions of this wonderful discov- ery is positively guaranteed to cure the most obstinate case, no matter how hard a drinker. Our records show the marvelous transformation of thousands of Drunkards into sober, industrious anil ulright men. Wives cure your husbands:: childrenn cure your fathers! This remedy is in no sense a nostrum but is a specific for this disease only, and is so skillful- ly devised and prepared that it is thor- oughly soluble and pleasant to the taste, so that it can be given in a cupl of tea or coffee without the knowledge of the person taking it. Thousands of Drunkards have cured themselves with this priceless remedy, and as many more have been cured and made temperate men by having the "Cure" - administered by loving friends and rel- - atives without their knowledge in tea or coffee, and believe today that they Discontinued drinking of their own free will. Do not Wait. Do not be deluded - by apparent and misleading "improve- Sment." Drive out the disease at once and for all time. Tile "Home Gold Cure" is sold at the extremely low price of One Dollar. thus placing with- in reach of everybody a treatment more effectual than others costing $25 * to $ti). Full directions accompany each Package. Special advice by skilled phy- B sicians wlien requested without extra e charge. Sent prepaid to any part of the World on receipt of One Dollar. Ad- - dress Department E 257 Edwin B. Giles & Co., O233 and 2332 Market st, Philadelphia. All correspondence strictly confiden- tial. .dil ji~~ t ~ --- - --- - - - - -~ ~ - - -L W NII C"HE STEly W FACTORY LOADED SHOTGUN SHELLS | poRp, I Leaer ,P Repeater" Isist upon having them, take no others and you will get the best shells that money can buy. ALL DEALERS KEEP THEM. -v ..- --- - - - - - 6XXX ROGERS SILVER PLATED SPOONS Given as a Premium for One New Subscriber. Send us $2 and a new subscriber to the Agriculturist and we will send the above premium postpaid. Remember the spoons are first-class XXX plate, Address, FLORIDA AGRICULTURIST, Jacksonville ,Fla. MALLORY- STEAMSHIP LINE Florida New York Phila- delphia &ec Passenger Service. To make closet snnec- tions with steame -leave Jacksonville (Uni, de- pot) Thursdays10.20 m., (S. A. L. Ry.) or Fer. In- dina 1:30 p. m., via CL.a- berland steamer; (me. Is en route) or "all rail" v,% Pirant System at 7:4 p. m., Bosto0n ar. Brunswick 11:40 p.m.. iypssengers on arrival go- From Brunswick direct to lg directly aboard steam- New York. er PROPOSED SAILINGS FOR FEBRUARY AND MARCH, 1901. NORTH BOUND-BRUNSWIC. G., DIR ECT TO NEW YORK. LEAVING EVER FRIDAY & S FOLLOWS: S. S. COLORADO.... ...... .. .................. April 12 S. S. SAN MARCOS .......... .. ............... ..... April 19. S. S. COLORADO........ ............ ........ .. ........ April 26 S. S. SAN MARCOS. ........ .. ........- -. .. M.ay 3 S. S. COLORADO........ ....... .......... .. ...... .... May 10 For lowest rates. reservations and full information apply to A. W. PYE, Agent, 220 W. Bay street, Jacksonville, Florida. .T. S. Raymond, Agent Brunswick, Ga. C. H. MALLORY & CO.. General Agen ts. Pier 21. E. R.. New York. SFree WATCHES FREE SOffer 1 Any one sending us a new Subscriber Premium O er No 1. and $2.00 will receive an open-face, stem-wind and stem-set watch, guaran teed by the manufacturers forone year. Send your subscriptions at once to TH FLORIDA AGRICULTURIST, Jacksonville, Fla. 302 THE FLORIDA AGRICULTURIST. WITH THE JOKE5. Nell-I saved a man's life today. Belle-How so? Nell-He said he was dying to meet me, and I consent- ed to an introduction. Giggleton-I nearly died laughing last night. Parker-Which one of your jokes were you telling?-Tit-Bits. She-You say girls are always in a hurry to get married. He-Yes; that's precisely what I say. "And yet you claim they are always late when it comes to the wedding." Billson-Now, in India, Great Brit- ain maintains a corps of war elephants which are trained to march in single file. Bilkins-That would be a sort of a trunk line, wouldn't it? Reporter-I am told that your trust- ed cashier has left the bank? 'Bank President-Did he? Thank heavens, we have the building to start with again!-Ohio State Journal. "'Are your recollections of childhood vivid?" "Oh. yes; I distinctly remember all those persons in our neighborhood who used to give me things to eat.-Chica- go Record. "Say. I dropped a quarter here somewhere." said the customer. "Very well," replied the salesman, "I'll find it and keep it for you." "All right; and if you don't find it you can keep it for yourself." "Mrs. Ladd used to worry terribly when her husband was away on his trips, but she's got over it. "Con- quered her nervousness, I suppose?" "Oh. no. succeeded in making him have his life insured." "What kind of oil, Pat. do you sup- ipose they use to produce that color?" asked the citizen as a freight train went by showing a green lantern. "Shure. I should say some of the Im- imerald Isle, sir," was Pat's quick re- ply. Mamma-I wish I knew whether Ma- bel really cares for that young man down there. Papa-All right. I'll step out to the front door for a minute and peep into the parlor on my way. Mam- ma-Nonsense! What could you pos- sibly find out? Papa-The gas, if she cares for him. It was at a fashionable boarding house and they had calves' brains for lunch. She spoke to the gentleman next to her: "And do you like calves' brains, Mr. Domo?" "I always try to feel content with what I have madam." There is a time to laugh, even in a fashionable boarding house. Millions Saved by Spraying. The estimated average anii1ual loss to crops in the Uniteil States hy ttnceksr of injurious insects and fungi is the prodigious sum of O$300,00).000 to $500,- 000,000. and of this amount seventy- five per cent. or $225.000.N00 to $375,- 000.000 can 1)b sivedl by judlicious spraying. These figures are vorilield by statistics. Let us again impress on our readers tile necessity of spraying their crops and of beginning at the right time. Tihe Deming ('o.. of Salem, Ohio make more than a dozen varieties of sprayers, etc. They are the sole man- ufacturers of the wonderful Bordeaux nozzle and the Deming-Vermorel noz zle. The Century Sprayer is one of their popular orchard sprayers. This pump is liked wherever used. It is very durable in construction, has brass cylinders, brass ball valves. Deming Automatic Agitator, and everlasting fabric plunger packing, and the liabil ity to get out of order is reduced to a minimum. How to spray is learned from "Spraying for Profit," an illus- trated seventy-two page book of which the Deming Co.. has purchased an edl tion. and which readers of our papel can get from them at 10 cents pei copy. Their spraying pump catalogue will also be sent v'ith this book on ap plication, with an "X-ray" photo of th< Century Sprayer. showing working parts. Stranger-Whose place is that over there? Native-That's the new man- sion of one of, our sugar refiners. Stranger-Ah, another "house built upon the sand." Native-Say, rather, on the rocks that he made out of sand. She-The opera was a bore-posi- tively no one there of interest. He-How about the De Reszkes and Melba? She-How silly of you. I meant to say there were no prominent people there!-Life. "Little boy," said the kind-hearted old gentleman, "you must not cry. You know it is a waste of time to cry." And the little boy, who is from Boston, dried his tears long enough to remark: "And it is also a waste of time to tell any- body it is a waste of time to cry." De Cash-I see you have taken a partner. De Curb-Yes; I had to. A man can't keep a suburban residence sup- plied with servants and attend to bus- iness too.-New York Weekly. 'First Poet-I've read that it took Gray seven years to write his "Elegy." Second Poet-Yes; say, wouldn't it have been a shock to him if, when he had finally got it written, he had sold it to a magazine, and then found out that they paid on publication!-Brook- lyn Life. "Judy and I got into a terrible tangle shopping today." "How?" "I owed her ten cents and borrowed five cents and then fifty cents." "Well ?" I "Then I paid thirty cents for some- thing she bought-" "Yes?" "And she paid forty cents for some- thing T bought, and then we treated each other to ice cream soda." "Well?" "She says I still owe her a nickel." Detroit Free Press. 0 Big Money for Pears. Mr. A. A. Boggs. of Cocoanut Grove exhibited to the Metropolis editor this -week account sales for eight crates of Avocado pears, which would natur- ally tend to encourage growers to give more attention to this choice fruit, which can be grown so cheaply, quick- ly and easily. The eight crates contained of market- able pears about 250 which sold for 15 cents apiece, making $37.50, or near- ly $5 a crate. The crates were the reg- ular carrier, and the expense via all rail, was $1.30 per crate. Deducting ex- press, commissions, etc. the pears net- ted a little more than 9 cents each. Mr. Boggs has sold the balance of his crop to E. C. Lanier for M0 cents a dozen, cash at home. The Avocado, or alligator pear grows on our land here to perfection and re- quires very little attention. The tree is a handsome one, and it would seem that every person owning a lot or a farm would plant some of these treew. -Miami Metropolis. Tickled to Death Two-Step. For a copy of the famous Three Coon, rag time, two-step, entitled, "Tickled to Death." send 1o cents in postage or enrrenlly to B. W. Wrenn, 'Passenger Traffic Manager, PIlant System of Railways, Savannah, Ga. IFor I sautifully illustrated deck of playing cards, write B. W. Wrenn, Pas- senger Traffic Manager, Plant System, - Savannah, Ga.. sending 25 cents in postage, or cash. tf. "em said le.sh.r ts. gns et t amit -ak Wl.s? mat nt ,msa psi. y ibiad;LAe.5 I elie g r w eana.r. a n...s5. (s) as.p f, W. I. LDMlgham OS., Lako"-rlle,r'.- Mention this paper when you write. I I f ISN'T IT AWFUL how other companies' agents .'o on" about the PAGE. trying to shnow how their fences are Just as ood, or better They'l veot a hard Job. PAGR WOnvN WIRME FrtCK CO., ADRIAN, X ICU. OCEAN STEAMSHIP CO. SAVANNAH LINE" BY LAND AND SEA. FAST FREIGHT AND LUXURIOUS PASSENGER ROUTE. FROM FLORIDA TO NEW YORK BOSTON AND THE EAST. SHORT RAIL RIDE TO SAVANNAH, OEOROIA. Thence via Palatial Bxpress Steamships. sailing from Savannah.Thlee ships each week to New York and making close connection with New York-Boston ships or Sound Lines All ticket agents and hotels are supplied with monthly sailing schtdnls. 9 Write t( r general information. sailing schedules, stateroom reservations, or call on P. LdFVBRE, Manager. W. H. PLEBASANT8, Trame Manager. New Pier 35 North River. New York. N. Y. WALTER HAWKLINS, Gen. Ag., 224 W. Bay St.. Jacksonville. Fla. PLANT SYSTEM. The Great Through Car Line from Florida. CONNECTIONS. STHE ATLANTIC COAST LINE, via Charles'or To The Richmond and Washington. THE SOUTHERN RAILWAY, via Savannah. CA lumbia and Washington. via All Rail The Southern R'y via Jesup, Atlanta and Chattan'ga The Louisville & Nashville via Montgomery. To The The Southern R'y via Savannah, Columbia, Ashevil The Mobile & Ohio R. R via Montgomery. F ia Savannah and Ocean Steamship Co. for New To The York, Philadelphia and Boston. I Via Savannah and Merchants & Miners Transports tion Compan7 for Baltimore. via stemlsehip To KEY WES1 Via Peninsula, & Occidental A1ND HAVANA Steamship Company. NOVA SCOTIA, Via Boston and CANADA, ATLANTIC and PLANT CAPE BRETON & STEAMSHIP LINE for Halifax, Hawkesbury PRINCE EDWARDS and Charlottestown. ISLAND... Winter Tourist Tickets Will be on sale throughout the NORT HERN. EASTERN, WESTERN AND SOUTHERN STATES to all FLORIDA RESORTS Via the PLANT SYSTEM during the season 1900-1901 limited to return until May 31st, with liberal stop. over privileges in Florida. AI)DRESSS OF PARTIES IN THE NORTH sent to the undersigned will be liberally supplied with ALL INFORMATION AND HANDSOME AD- VERTISING MATTER. For information as to rates, sleeplng- ar services. reservations etc. write U F. M. JOLLY. Division Passenger Agent. M, West Bay Street, Aster Block. Jackaoiv'Ue. Forida. W. B. DiNHAM, B. W. WRENN, Gem. Bopt. Pm Trafie Mng'r. SAVANNAH. GOOGIA. s I r I r r THE FLORIDA AGRICULTURIST. 119 3s. Wl.OTUTfAUA The growing of cassava and velvet beans for fattening stock for market is on the increase, and It is a sign of the times that is encouraging. The neces- sity for shipping In western meats will cease when the practice becomes gen- eral, and the demand for Florida meats at largely advanced prices will increase greatly. Farmers who have tried the experiment of fattening their beef cat- tle on velvet beans and cassava before selling them never return to the wire grass method, which Is a money losing business.-Leesburg Commercial. Lake county farmers are going in for hog and hominy on a large scale and on an enduring basis. They propose to have it in plenty for home consumption with eime over to sell in the market that pays tle highest price. They will grow truck to ship, but they Intend to stick to farming as the sure thing. They feel that riches will come at last from their orange groves, but they will not neglect their farming interests be- cause they love the business and be- cause It pays. They will grow old- fashioned field crops, grow velvet beans and peanuts and cassava and corn and cane, and they will raise stock for market and furnish It stall-fed and get the highest price for the meat be- cause it is stall-fed beef. There is no doubt about it, every farmer should farm. It pays to farm in Florida. and Lake county farmers will work the business for all there is in it.-Lees- burg Commercial. We have heard a good deal about fancy milch cows, but Just for a pat- tern we wish to set up one that should be Kissimmee's pride. Mine host Graves of the Graves House, is the happy possessor of a young heifer, for which he has refused an offer of $250, spot cash. This heifer is just a plain cracker heifer with no pedigree or fam- ily connections, so far as known, and this s her first experience as a milk dispenser, but, Mr. Graves solemnly assures us, after her bouncing son has appropriated all his healthy capacity ill accommodate, she delivers to the otel fourteen quarts of rich milk which supplies the hotel table with ream and butter sufficient for all de- ands.-Kissimmee Valley Gazette. Our stockmen are complaining of ery heavy losses during the past two enters. It seems that some peculiar sease is among the cattle that kills hem at times by the wholesale. Some f the stockmen thinks the disease has ts origin in the water hyacinth which he cattle eat ravenously. Others attri- utee trouble to other causes. Be he cause what It may, certain it Is hat for the past eighteen months the death rate among the cattle In the east- rn part of Orange county has been ery great-Orlando Sentinel-Reporter Mr. M. E. Moody closed the sale yesterday of his beautiful orange rove one mile south of town to Dr. . C. Hathcock, of Inverness, Fla. The price we understand was about $4,000. The grove, which Is known as the W. IL Young place, is pronounced by all to be the prettiest and most promising to be found in the county, and Dr. Hatbeock Is to be congratulated on se- curing such a valuable piece of prop- erty. Mr. Moody retains the crop of fruit now on the grove, allowing the doctor a very fair price for same.- Plant City Courier. Mr. L. H. Cawthon, one of our lead- ing sheep men has a bunch of five very fine half blood Dorset lambs from ewes that he kept on rye pasture this win- ter. 80o encouraging has been his ex- periments along this line that he will have increased acreage next year, and try the plan of raising spring lambs for the Northern markeLt-DeFuniak Brseoe. A SUPERB GRIP CURB. JeoMnn's Tonic to a superb Gri& cum Drives out every trace of Grip Poka from the system. Does It quick. Wttht an hour It enters the blood and beI to neutralize the effects of the poiesn. Within a day It places a Grip vietai beyond the point of danger. Within a week, ruddy cheeks attest re- tmn of perfect health. Price, 50 cents If it cures. Ask for Johnson's Chill and Fever Tonic. Take nothing else. The financial condition of Sanford is improving. Three years ago the city's debt was $38,000, and its warrants and vouchers were at a discount of 10 to 20 per cent. April 1 the debt was re- duced to $26,00. All the outstanding vouchers have been paid with the ex- ception of $4,4NX), due the Waterworks Company, and this will be paid the coming year. The city now has a bond- ed debt of $22,000 besides the $4,000 above mentioned. All current expenses will be met by cash payments. The city has been run on a sound business bas- is, and much credit is due to the coun- cil and officials who have had the handling of the finances.-Orlando Sentinel Reporter. A WORTHY SUCCESSOR. "Something New Under the Sun." All doctors have tried to cure catarrh by the use of powders, acid gases, in- halers and drugs in paste form. Their powders dry up the mucuous mem- branes causing them to crack open and bleed. The powerful acids used in the inhalers have entirely eaten away the same mebranes that their makers have aimed to cure, while pastes and oint- ments cannot reach the disease. An old and experienced practitioner who has for many years made a close study and specialty of the treatment of catarrh, has at last perfected a treatment which when faithfully used, not only relieves at once, but permanently cures catarrh, by removing the cause, stopping the discharges, and curing all inflammation. It Is the only remedy known to science that actually reaches the afflicted parts. This wonderful remedy is known as "Snuffles the Guaranteed Catarrh Cure" and is sold at the extremely low price of One Dollar, each package con- taining internal and external medicine sufficient for a full month's treatment and everything necessary to its perfect use. "Snuffles is the only perfect catarrh Cure ever made and is now recognized as the only safe and positive cure for that annoying and disgusting disease. It cures all inflammation quickly and permanently and is also wonderfully quick to relieve Ilay Fever or Cold in the head. Catarrh when neglected often leads to consumption-"-nuffles" will save you if you use it at once. It is no or- dinary remedy, but a complete treat- ment which is positively guaranteed to cure Catarrh in any form or stage if used according to the directions which accompany each package. Don't delay but send for it at once, and write full particulars as to your condition, and you will receive special advice from the discoverer of this wonderful rem- edy regarding your case without cost to you beyond the regular price of "Snuffles" the "Guaranteed Catarrl. Cure." Sent prepaid to any address in the United States or Canada on receipt of One Dollar. Address department E 257 EDWIN B. GILES & COMPANY, 2330 and 2332 Market street, Philadelphia. 0 The fact of an irresponsible commis- sion merchant having his address the same as that of another firm, should not reflect upon the integrity and re- sponsibility of the latter. It frequently happens that a large firm rents an office to a small receiver, and sells all goods received by him. In such cases the sec- ond party is paid directly for the goods and he in turn settles with the shipper. For this reason shippers often condemn good firms without cause. As self pro- tection a responsible firm cannot afford to have a man in its store, receiving goods at the same address, If he is not thoroughly reliable and able to meet all business obligations.-Fruit Trade Journal. * "I see this magazine runs a column called 'Half-Minute Talks."' "Any- thing unusual?" "Yes; it is edited by a woman." Wanted: To buy a large tract of land in Florida or Southern Georgia. Prefer land in a solid body. Will consider any tract within thirty miles of a railroad. Give full particulars as to timber and character of soil; also, the best price for cash. M. S. BONN, Dayton, Ohio. Florida East Coast Ry. Time Table No. 31. In Effect April 16, 1901. SOUTH BOUND (Read Down.) ce se oola 400 d 'd ;2 1 M P 0 N -W (Bead Up) NOBTH BOUND. 0o.35 Daily STATIONS. 94a Lv........ Jacksonville......... Ar 10 u.a t ........ St. Augustine ........Lv 10 Lv ........ St. Augustine ......... Ar 11 27a .......... Hastings .......... Lv 11 43a .........East Palatka.......... " 12 "........ Neoga............. " 12 ........... Bunnells ......... " 12 .............Duposnt............ " 1 0 ........... Ormond............ " 17 ............D ton......... " 127 .........Port range ......... 147 "........New Smyrna ..... " 2 p ...........Oak Hill........... " 2 4 ........... Titusville........... " 8 1S ............ ustina ............. " S25p ............. Cocoa............. 2 ......Bockledge Junction .... " 85p ........... a afa e ...... ... " 404p .......... Melbourne..........." 4 40 ...........Roseland............ ** 4 4p ........... Sebatian .......... " S ...........St. Luci.......... " 6 ".. .......... Fort Pierce .......... 6 .p ** ........... TibtF s i............ " 6i p .. ........... Eden ............ " 6 14p .............Jensen............. " 623p .............Stuart.......... " 6 p ..........Hobe Sound ........... " 7 .........West Jupiter.......... . 75 .......Wet Palm Beach....... " * ...........Boynton........... " 8t ............Delray .............. " 8 a ". ...... Fort Lauderdale ........ 97p ..........Lemon City.......... " 9 4o5 Ar ............. Miami ........L..... No.78 Daily 7p 5 45p 5 Ip 3 40p 3 lip 2 'p 201 1 2 50p 41p 04p 1 Ila 1058 o329 on a o 07a 3194 9 88. 9 008 87 5& 6 58 6 On oI aa c-IP P C+ Cl' Y l' ti C+ co Buffe Parlor Cars on Iratin 35 and 78. No.7 No 5 No. o. SNo. 1 ORANGN OTo. 2 No. 4 Daily Daily MAYPORT BRANCH. DaWnDily DilDail Daly BRANCH. CYu S Lv Jacksonville...Ar 6a 5Sp113 SlOp 10 UaLv..New Symrna..Ar 1Sp Iop p e .So. Jacksonvlle.Lv 6 p 84 pl 1421a ...Lake Helen... v 1245p 40p TIrplO ..Pablo Beach.." 6 p 405p11 ..Orange ity... 128p 44 72p0100& "..Atlantic Beach.." 60 15plip 4 10P11 45aAr. Orange City Jc. l0p1425p T 4pW10a IAr.....Mayport..... I0 46pl I No .51No. 0No.48No.46 No.47No.4 iNlNo.53 No.ll No 12 Daity Dlyily SANPORD BRANCH Daily Il_ V IxSun BxZS Top Tap-51 9510 ifLT.I3. I ii ali 85p 4I ao 55p 7 U00a Lv...Titnsuaville...Ar 125p s;tpi 42pli12 10plOO1OaiA.astkslvT15'll2 Lip| 430p 525p 713a ......Mim ...... Lv 112p Dily Dail SAN MAIWO BBANOH. N '46No 8 0 ". .. terpri.. ** 11a T IfS ai.Lv .. ..as.tPalatkL..........Ar 9 6p 933a Ar.....Hanford.... 1100a e60p 95ajAr .........an Mate...........Lv 910a1 615p These Time Tables show the times at which trains may be exDeoted to arrive and depart from the several stations, but their arrival or departure at the times stated is not guaran- teed. nor does the Company hold itself responsible for any delay or any oonsequenoe arise ins therefrom. PENINSULAR AND OCCIDENTAL STEAMSHIP CONNECTIONS AT MIAXI. BETWEEN MIAMA, KEY WEST AND HAVANA. Leave Miami Mondays and Fridays....1100 pm Leave Havana Weds. and Saturdays.. 11 00 am Arrive Key West Tues. and Saturdays. 380 pm Arrive Key West Weds. and Sate...... 700 pm Leave Key WestTues. and Saturdays. 90 pm Leave Key West Thus and Suns...... IDpm Arrive Havana Weds. and Mondays.. 500am Arrive Miami Fridays and Mondays .... 600am For copy of local time card address any Agent. Z. -1 Z- A WyW.. k.n z a --. a-n. a... ArT lwre1-wItlffw A DAIY SEVI DOUBLE DAILY SERVICE SEABOARD AIR LINE RAILW'Y. Unexcelled Service trom Florida to all Points NORTH, EAST, WEST Richmond, Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New Nork. Two trains daily between TAM'PA, JACKSONVILLE, SAVANNAH and COLUMBIA, carrying Pullman Drawing Room Sleeping Cars through to New York. Florida and Metropolitan Limited. Florida and Atlantic Fast Mail. Two Through Trains Daily, including Sunday-Jacksonville to New York. Through Sleeping Car Service between Jacksonville and New Orleans, via River Junction and Pensacola. Full information on application to Agent of this Company. I. E. L. Bunch, Gen. Pass. Agt., A. 0. MacDonell, Asst. Gen. Pass. Agt. Portsmouth. Jacksonville, Fla. __ ___ 3W4 THE FLORIDA AGRICULTURIST. Simon Pure Fertilizers -ARE- 4 Time-Tried and Crop-Tested! 4 Manufactured especially to suit all the requirements of the GROVE, GARDEN AND FIELD. If you are raising Tomatoes, Egg-plants, Celery, Strawberries, Lettuce or Cabbage, we can supply you a fertilizer made especially for them, that has been thoroughly tested. Our Simon Pure No. 1 has the best fruit producing record of any fertilizer sold in the state. We have had 22 years practical experience and have spent more time and money in crop experimenting than all the manufacturers in the state. Besides special brands for special crops we carry in stock all kinds of FERTILIZING MATERIALS AND CHEMICALS. We were the first dealers to put the different fertilizing material! within the reach of growers, a fact they should bear in mind when ordering. We offer Ammoniates: SULPHATE AMMONIA, NITRATE SODA,. DRIED BLOOD, HIGH GRADE BLOOD AND BONE, BLOOD AND BONE, BONE, TANKAGE, BRIGHT COTTON SEED MEAL, DARK COTTON SEED MEAL, CASTOR POMACE, Potashes: MURIATE POTASH, HIGH GRADE POTASH, LOW GRADE POTASH, KAINIT, CANADA HARDWOOD ASHES, COTTON SEED HULL ASHES, Phosphoric Acids: DISSOLVED BONE, ACID PHOSPHATE, DISSOLVED BONE BLACK, Miscellaneous: SALT, LIME, GAS LIME. COPPERAS, BLUE STONE, CAUSTIC SODA, LAND PLASTER, WHALE OIL SOAP, GROUND COPPERAS. BI-SULPHIDE CARBON, OYSTER SHELLS FOR POULTRY, PARIS GREEN and insecticides gen rally. Tobacco Materials: CUT TOBACCO STEMS, NO. 1 GROUND TOBACCO. FINE GROUND TOBACCO. BALED TOBACCO STEMS. COARSE GROUND TOBACCO. All guaranteed unleashed and to con tain all their fertiliing and Insectleide properties. WRITE FOR PRICES AND DISCOUNTS TO E. O. PAINTER & CO., - Jacksonville, Fla Grew So Heavy. B. O. Painter A C(o., Jacksonville, Pe. Gentlemen:-I used the lawn fertill- zer bought from you about the first of June. We had some good showers about that time and the grass grew so heavy it was almost impossible to keep up with it with mowing machine. I used the 100 pounds on lawn about 30 feet by 120 at one application. I shall want some more a little later for same lawn, as I think they need some- thing of this kind in spring and fall. My lawn is St. Lucle grass and has cer- tainly done well with your fertilizer, best of any lawn in our town. Some others here speak of trying it this fall after seeing what it has done. A. B. Torrey. Crescent City, Fla., Sept. 22, 1900. Different Brands for Fifteen Years. E. O. Painter A Co., Jacksosville. Fla. Gentlemen:-I have been using dif- ferent brands of fertilizer on orange tres for the past fifteen years and I must say that your Simon Pare No. 1 brand has given the most satisfactory results and I would use no other. A. H. Brown. Manatee. Fla., Sept 21, 1900. Beyond My Expectation. E. O. Painter A Co.. Jacksonville, Pla. Gentlemen:-I used the Simon Pure fertilizer on the L. P. S. Pinery. the result was beyond my expectation. Be- fore using the fertilizer the plants did not grow much; after using the Simon Pure fertilizer they grew and many of them have fruit. Will order more fer- tilizer as soon as needed. Very respectfully, A. M. Spenger. Osteen, Fla.. Sept. 27. 1900. Gave Entire Satisfaction. Gentlemen:-I take pleasure in say- Ing that the fertilizer furnished b0 you for the orange groves in im charge has given entire satisfactia and you may confidently look for continuance of my patronage. Yours very truly, M. F. Robinson. Sanford. Fla., Oct. 5th, 1900. OJus, Fla. E. O. Painter A Co., Jacksonville, Fla. Gentlemen:-Please inclose me am other price list. This fertilizer has gli en satisfaction equal to any manur that has been landed here. Yours truly, H. R. SDeed. A High-Grade Fertilizer MUST HAVE QUALITY! REPUTATION! "'i'11 IDI ,A T." BR A NDS JAA- HAVE TH ESE. ~" Then why pay $35.00 and $40.00 per ton when you can get a strictly high grade, reliable fertilizer at the following pi ices: IDEAL FRUIT AND VINE ................ $3o.oo per ton IDEAL FERTILIZER (for all crops)......... $27.00 per ton IDEAL POTATO MANUREo r ton IDEAL PLOOD, BONE AND POTASH..... 28.oo per ton IDEAL POTATO MANURE................. $30.00 per ton SPECIAL MIXTURE No. I................. $28.00 per ton IDEAL VEGETABLE MANURE........... .$3o0oo per ton CORN FERTILIZER .......................$aoo per ton All fertilizer material at the lowest market prices. Ask for our book "Why we make the IDEAL FERTILIZERS" WILSON & TOOMER FERTIT .TZRR COMPANY, JACKSONVILLE, FLA. igos Wot rand Blood sad Bon, $ l00 per te. Denvalad Guano. The Ideal Tobacco Fertilier, 44.00 per to0 |