Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, May 8, 1913, Page 4

PAGE FOUR e e e ey 6 [he Evening Ieleuram' ——— e Published every =’ arnoon from the | by Lee Latrobe Bateman.) Sniered in the postofiice at Lake-| 85 ik g8, wand, Florida, as mail matter of ml It is a great yiy tbat hitherto se:ond class. the hig has received so little atten. o« F HETHERINGTON, IDI'I'OI-i tion in klorida. The climate is ideal ———————————————{ for its cuiture, while there is not a HENRY BACON, Manager. county in the State in which figs could not bLe successfully raised. There is a continued increased de- mand for the fresh fruit in northera markets, which could be easily | rcached from Florida, and there is, ior at least could be, a rcady sale for the fruit when in season at all SUBSCRIPTION RATES: On@ JOAT ... coon-ve0e.$6.00 Sixmonths .. .. .....o00 3,60 Three months .......... 138 Delivered anywhere within tbe Hmits of the City of Lakeland tor 10 cents a week. ———————————————— " | _guch as Jacksonville, Tampa, etc. From the same offce s lesued Then, again, the fig-canning, or, THE LAKELAND NEWS aote & weekly newspaper giving & re- preserving industry is rapidly ex-| SMALL FRUITS IN FLORIDA Keu:ucky Bulld; <Y, Lakeland. P18 | e tion is one of intcuse and absorb- iug iutercst. In selecting varieties adaptable to be expressed to distant markets, where, if not mcre than two or ai most threc doys distant, they wils arrive in good condition. Apart from its .eliciousness, whether fresh or preserved, the fi:, is the healthiest fruit known to man. It acts as a laxative, yet nourishe. Florida it is preterable to be guided| the system at the same time, and ali by those who have for many years| made it their business. Our lealing nurserymen are well equipped with leading varictics proven to be best guited to our climatic conditions and soils,and are ready and willing at 2!l times to proffer their advice, and the leading brands of laxative med- icines uce figs as a basis, For thic _reason alone, if not for many others there can never be an overproduc- tion, and it must also be remembere: tiat the suitable preductive area i so stimulate the iudnstry of fig cul-j turein the State. The Brumswick, Black and Greea prolific The desirable varieties, hardy, aud come into bearing early. gcrt. But the rcal business fig for oame of local matters, crop eomdl, ... iy (e south, with the do-| Florida is the Coleste. Of excellent tions, county affairs, etc. Bemt @@Y- ..., ., tne product still greater|quality, it is one of the hardicst, aid where (or §1.00 per year. | than the supply. The Pullman Com-| i3 equally desirable in a fresh statc o pany alone now takes the entire out|or for preserving and canning, The put of the Texas preserving plants,; truit is somewhat small, but very The suggestion lately appearing small, whether in this hemispherc or in the eastern. 1 am convincel that if seriously undertaken fig culture in Florid. the large towns or cities in Florida [schia and Brown Turkey are alll yi1) prove an immensely lucrative lenterprise to the small farmer a: well as to the owner of large or- correctly speaking, fresh flg| Green Ischia is a particularly choice| cnanis SALE OF BONDS. Notice is hereoy given tnat seale’ {bids for the bonds hereinafter de ‘geribed of special road and brids The best dressed woman hag j her corset, like her gowns fitted to her measure, are fitted to your measure in your own home by a trained corsetiere, You can never know all the beauty of your figure until you wear one. My services are at your call. Appoi{:ment at your convenience with no obligation to purchase. Telephone or send postal, [ is these columns that Lakeland must and some preserving companies Will| yich and sweet,and is borne in pro- buve a strect railway system and trolley lincs connecting us with sur- rounding towns has caught the tfav- oralle uttention of the State press and weets with warm approval from 5y old, and there are up-| el uughb:rs.' “l? L1npa wards of 20,400,000 pounds of dried Wi iurns ilu'this niclligent Sue fizs annually imperted into the Unii-| '\l):“\““‘l '\ / ll))l n:(m some time ex Liiet 4 » nave e ' S 1 1 " . S po(-li\n(;;ls"?\kux:l nol' our) live young the “" Is Fiscus ‘C‘”‘f““: “’lhe ?“' Florida citics to commence agitating f““ "“l‘““"_mf'-‘fl (F, eldhhtlfi-.l). \V{-.‘xll the building of street railway sys. ”s‘ LB LU the L“:;":‘ u:“'." tems, and, sure enough, here comss! B H_e""'l“‘]"_"“”' of W "; } O8] Lokeland, always in front, and 183 tine specimen at Key West, are moke five-year contracts with grow-j ccntinuous supply. The ¢ried fig industry is cm]turies; fusion. A new fig, the. Leon, in- ers in order to assurc a certain and | ¢roduced in the trade by tiae Glen| ! st. Mary nurecries, has great possi-! Lilities, and hes been successfully srown for a consilerable time in Western Florida. This is a purely Floridian fig,as it originated at Tal- luhassee os a seedling from the sced! ol a Smyrna. Propaguuon ot the fig is very read- i.y made from cuttings.using weil r:pened wood of the scason’'s growti. Ahout 16 fect apart each way is the district No. 1, Polk county, Florid. will be received by J. A. Johnson | clerk of the board of county com missioners of said county, at his ot fice in Bartow, Florida, for a perit: of thirty (30) days from the dau hereof. No bid for less than the ne: | par value of said bonds will be cor gidered; the county to bear mno ex {pense except that of lithographin. | the same. The bonds offered will be date April 1, 1913, aggregating sixty two thousand, flve hundred dollar< through a correspondent in the Tele-| Loth of the same family. gram gives good reasons Why she should have this one of the greatest of municipal improvements. There sre two conditions that must exist in a city in owler to make a street rail- .way necessary and profitable; name-, dy. sufficiently extensive territory to .pender means of transportation a mne. ceesity and people enough to make At profitable. Lakeland possesscs both of these requisites and we arg confident that it won’t be long be- fore the clang of the gong will be. feard in her streets.” | ——————— We note that T. Sambola Jones of : e of th igsioners | . i B 'l and on the important role the plant of the San Francisco exposition, I at Tallahassee to make a speech in behalf of an appropriation to have A native ¢t Asia, it gradually spread withl civilization along the littoral of the Mediterranean sca, finding its prin- cipal home beyond its native shoresl | | ip Italy and Spain. In these coun- tries, where it thrives to pdrfec- tion, the fig has been for centuries and still is one of their most impor- tant articles of food, while on the Aslatic side of the Mediterranean tko industry of drying and export- ing the product nas been in exist- ence for thousands of years. { Pages upon pages ani interesting | ones, too, could be written on the fig, on the prominence given it in | biblical, clessical and other histories, played even in mythology; yet all this time here we are in Florida { with barely emough trees to furnish Lest Jlistance to plant, though some] varieties can be planted as close as! 12 feet, but this latter distance andi'il:::‘) 000)‘ :l::ufl;und;:d locl(l)‘])l:rr sometimes cven with the tormer,' s 5 4 tivinning out may have to be resort-‘Twen"'flve hundred dollars ('2.' 5 4 A §00.00) maturing April 1, 1932 cd to eventunlly, when the trees a ty-f hundred dellar: commence to covercrowd, Cultivation .:2 500'004;‘ 2 v: 1 b r:h 18t da is necessary in the early ctages of | (t A’ ll' t) mahur nge;nl 9,48 n srowth immediately around t-ho|:" ':l d° l:::u dl'::cthe n}i:r“;‘\?‘ tree, and a leguminous cover crap,| Sl L ki u {five thousand dollars ($5,000.00) heggarweed or cowpeas, shoull be| annually sown. Like the peach, thoi"““fl'ls April 1st, 1939, and five fig tree should not be allowed to run Loc much to wood or leaves and fer- tilizers should ccnsequently he mea- ($62,600.00) being of denomina turing on the 1st day of April ¢ oach succeeding year until and in- MIS3 KERTIE GR .07, CORSETIERE 401 Suuth Tenncesze Ave. | [ J JMid. 1 i Still Going On! (. Now is your only chance to get Phone 13 Black Suits that were $25 now gre in ammonia or nitrogen, but rich in phosphoric acid and potash. The fig likes moisture, but: not :iu cxcess. The land shoull consequent: ly be well drained, and if, during.u drought, irrigation is necessary, |eluding the year 1947; ali bearin- | interest at five per cent (5 pet.) per ilnnum, payable annually, principa! and interest payable at the office ¢ H. W. Snell & Company, bankers, oi their successors, at Winter Haven. Florida. this State represented in that big affair. T. Sambola is a live wire IS leaves even for the population, and he is very likely to capture tlmtl le.t alone thefruit, while markets appropriation, and we hope he wlll,l ciose at hand are demanding the Some years ago he edited a little’ produce, and we are doing little or .dally at Baton Rouge {n his State,|POthIng to supply them. -¢hat was a typographical and me- Florida has the climate, almost chanical freak, offense, monstrosity! identical with that of the native snd anachronism—an archaic night- home of the fig in the Holy Land; mare—but through the murk amd it has been proven that our soil s gloom and black despair of its ty. cuitable for its growth, and our pography glittered like evening horticulturists and nurserymen slars the paragraphs of T. Sambola, have, after years of patient experi- aud they almost gave dignity to menting, determined the right va- 4Leir cheap and primitive setting, Tricties adaptable for Florila, so the #le hit heads and things wherever fleld is open and the path is clear 8o saw them, and if he's as good for a really serious consideration of @ow as he was then the Legislature' commercial fig growing in Florida. great care must be taken not to over- do it, else “fruit sour” might set in,| Each bidder shall accompany hie which 18 the fermentation of the|bld With a certified check on som: fruit on the trecs, with the co: reliable bank in the sum of on¢ quent loss of the crop. , | thousand dollars ($1,000.00) pay Upon the-type of - soll depends+ ®PI® to the chairman, board of coun- largely the variety of - fig to el 'y commissioners, Polk county. The grown, but. no figs will prosper on i check of the successful bidder to b. poor soil. It may be light and por-|Fetained as a guaranty of his com. ous, but it-must be rich in plagy|Piiance with said bid. Those o tood. A good “mulch” recommend- #pch unsuccessful bidder to be re cd by one of ‘our leading authorities|t9rned immediately. in Florida is one composed of brick-{« BY order of the board. bats and old tin cans, This sounds] - ! J. A. JOHNSON, like a joke, but it g not, being giv-| C1rX, Board County Commissione- 2 in all serlousncess as a prevens| POk County Florida. 684Thur tive against nematodes, the worm CALL causing the root.knot trouble, What _F_Ol_ml. 22.50 now 20 18 16 I5 14 I2 o « o (3 “ “ Q. Pants also cut down 26 per cent off. (L Fine Silk Hats, all colors at aill hear a fine talk. S The St. Petersburg Times comes 4o the front with a novel suggestion ar to the proper way out of the county fee system muddle. The Tiumes says this plan has been in successful operation in North Da-’ kato for twenty years and is sim.' North America was confined solely It {s' to the Pacitic coast, where its com- plicity and effectiveness itself. this way: “Counties fix, each for itself, upon & compensation for each office that is dcemed reasonable for that county —they vary, of course. The usual official and legal fees remain as be- fcre; aid the official retains the feos urtil his stipulated compensation is rcached—and alk afterwards goes frto the conmtry treasury. Sworn and auvlited statements of the busi- pess protect the people for their share.” FOEEE R Sir William Treloar, a great En-! glish philanthropist, agsreces with the Teleeram that if those suffra- gette criminals in English jails de- eline to cat when food is provided for them the nose-feeding nonsence shoulsd be abolished and y should De permitted to starve. A total ab-' stinence from good old beef and, bredd for seven or eight cruel but| |nsfl.ructi\'e days, or a pair of weeks, would bring the heroines to terms. every time, and instead of "votes! for women” their heartfelt slogan! would be “Grub for women and quick at that!” If exemption of every Florida homestead from taxation would be Justified by the Inducement it would effer to immigration, why not ex-| vhich produces the fiz wasp neces empt the remainder of a citizen's| prorerty and thus increase the in—%t‘li:‘.o the Smyrra, By experimentine :\l(‘n‘;} dncement? this line we might ultimately be able to abolish taxation altogether. Diosiacaias Not satisfled with getting a eounty, with fitself for the ¢ geat, Sanford i’ now orcan eapture the eapital of ¥ the eweet dream of State i Rer been realized. Ineatiate Holly, would not one sufflice? |A beginning, at least, can be made by every home having a couple or more trees in its yard, and, if space permits, a small plantation of a dozen trees or so, Thus can the in- Austry be built up—*From small; acorns thus oaks do grow.” For a iong time fig-growlng in | wmercial cultivation has made great strides. Kig culture in the Caro- linas was tried, and at one time, there was great promise and much! enthusiasm, but it proved in LhcI end very <lisappointing, due to two or three severe winter spells. Buu the extent to which the culli\'uliuu" of the tig and tie accompanying in- dustry of preserving the fresh fruit have grown during the last [c\\'i years in the gulf coast region ot} Texas is almost phenomenal. The Magnolia fig is the favorite \'uricu'! grown there and the renowned px'c-“ served fresh fig of the Pullman din-| ing car is the product of the Mag-! nolia. The Texas Gulf coast seems, lowever, to be its particular home,| for on the higher soils of Florila and | clsewhere it has not given the same satisfactory results attained in the fig belt of Texas, The so-called Smyrna fig of Asia Minor is the great fig of commerce. This includes many varieties, but! which are all classified as Smyrna! from the fact that they are shipped| from that port to the markets of the world. The peculiarity of this f'g is that “caprification” is neces- sary to make it fertile and so pro- duce ripe fruit. This word is Jde- rived from Capri, the *‘wild v to et the pollen and so fer otherwise the before be ero fruit would drop The C necelion 'wasp can now bhe the exact theory of the brick-bats, Notice §s hereby given that sealed ty.| stantly increasing demand far great- otc.,, may be I do not know, but per- bids for the construction of a macad. sonaily 1 would advocate, in the amized road and highway from a case of root-knot appearing or being point beginning at Eagle Lake in suspected, an injection in the 80il' po1x county, Florida, and running of bisulphide of carbon at the rate thence in l.northeu'terly dlrectlo; ot about 1 ounce to every 4.89 yards ¢q the Osceols county line by way the injection to be made about two of Winter Haven, Florence Villa. feet from the tree. As a rule, how b -~ Lucerne Park, ever, fig trees are fairly free fror. £ ESTHTD VLS Lotih disease or pests. The trees come into bearing very carly, generally the second year, and keep ripening over 2 long period. With a proper selection of varicties fruit can be secured from June to Ncvember. The tig of commerce is the dried fig, but I Adoubt v hether this branch ol the inductry is practic:l for Flor- ida. cre too moist. The fig must be sun- dried, spread out in the sun and al-' lowed to remain for two or three days, if the atmosplere is dry; should the night dews be heavy thi: period would have to be extended to from five to seven days, while a shower of rain (a certainty during office in Bartow, Florida, until th 22nd day of May, 1913. AMENDE! | profile, survey of route, plans and | specifications of which are on fite | with said clerk, where the same ma: be inspected. { All materials for hard-surfacin sald road will be furnished Ly th. county at cost of loading same o | cars. | The successful bidder will be re | quired to enter into contract with the board to complete the same with- in a reasonable stipulated time an‘ | In the tist place, our summer for the same in a penal sum of twen- | tke summer months in Florida) tY-IVe Der cent (25 pct.) of the would ruin the fruit just at the most amount of his bid. Fach bidder critical moment. Atmospheric con. | ®t8ll accompany his bid with a cer- ditions are the prime factors in suc- t!fled check on some reliable bank cessful fig drying. Secondly, labor | for the sum of one thousand dollars conditions as they cxist over here| ($1,000.00) drawn payable to th- render it practically impossible to|Chairman of the board of county even consider fig-drying as an at- COmmissioners; the check of the suc teinable industry. | cesstul bidder to be held by the boar: i But fresh-fig preserving is an fu- 88 & guaranty that such bidder wil'| dustry open and possible to all. In|®8 8 guaranty that such bidder wi' the absence of preserving factory in' Within a reasonable time enter into | er mear the community, at a very|®ich contract and give such bond, small cost a preserving outfit can be, failing in which eaig check will be vurchased for doing the preserving ' come forfeited to the i home, or a few families might ¢o.' checks of unsuccessfy! ° cperate and handle a larzer cutfit.: promptly returned, the ° The market is open, there is a con- Ing the right to reje | bids. y of p_u.§ Dated this the 17th cay of April, are very | A, D, 1913, i By order of the board. p J. A. JOHNSON, Polk County, Florida, 383Thur Clerk Board Connty Cemmissioners tv s to be rd resorv- * and ail . W They Won't Beliave It, Plumtbin 50c each. I The Hume of Hait Sehatfner & Marx Clothes I | man, will be received by J. A. John- { son, clerk of the board of count; | commissioners of sald county at his | JOSEPH LeVAY e —— ] W ————— i A A g e — e —— g For a House Con plete Only $115.00 Consisting of a complete bath r oom, containing one enamelvd furnish bond with approved sureties | tub, one enameled lavatory complete, one closet complete with ca ' and seat, one 18x30 sink in kitchen and 130 gallon range boiler v iil | nocvsfury pipes to complete job and pay nspection fees for $115, Call and talk it over, Hot and cold water to all fixtures. * MANN PLUMBING C( “ - “ 4 “w I7a i | : thousand dollars ($5,900.000) mu l ‘hat 25 per cent Off “"e dOMar' ¢« ({3 € « «“ (13 (7] “ (14 ({3 €« € ({3 ({3} «“ €« L {3 ({2 Bowyer Bldg, 203 N. Ky., Ave. Phcne 257. FRPOFOPO P OOOOOO Powell & McCorquodale Staple and Fan:y Groceries Grain and Feed. b Q 3 % Q Q LT A Nice Fresh Stock to Select from, Courteous Treatment and Falr Deal for All, Your Patronage Solicited and Appreciated. RN PHONE 290 RE .. $18.75 17.00 15.00 13.50 12.00 B % 9.00 7.50 TLhe whole history Many people who do not deserve ' 4%, ¢ thewm have good ne