Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, August 9, 1913, Page 2

WMJ_-_—-_L We make children’s hair cutting a specialty. We are familiar with all the latest styles. Bring us your boys and girls. Lakelandhasone of of the largest barber shops in the State “THE PHOENIX” L. E. PEACOCK Proprietor BUPL OO BIGNLO RSO .The Protessions- —— 3R, GAMUEL ¥ SMIZZX SPECIALIST, Bgo, Bus, Nose sud Thres. Olues Scientifically Presarivr. Fheme: Ofico, 141; Residensy ' Bryant Bldg., Lekelend, Fis. s oo e s AN 32. W. K GROOVER, FHYBICIAN AND SURGRO%, Loows § and ¢ Kestuoky Zidy Lakcland, Fierids. e DR X, I ERYAN, DENTISY. Bxigper Bullding, Over PesteSa Phone 339, ResiGence Phone 900 Red LAKELAND, FLA. PR. W. 5. IRVIR DRATIER antabiiched im July, 183 [ ploagh 10 fantucky Bettel Pinacu: Ofes 1R0; Rosldomer * DR. C. 0, WILEOY— PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Special Attentlon Gven to Disease of Women and Cbhildron. Ofer Deen-Bryant Bldg., Suite 9. Phone 867. e AR TEIAEY BLANYGE ¢ LAWYER ¥ 6. Eidg. Phene 010, Lakniend, B e R Tt e AR S W BR. MARAE A WIEERRED CMYROPATE PEYSCIAR Seoma §, ¢ aad 7, Brynns Buldlin. § Lakelend, ¥ CSee Phone 2¥0 Blus. Sieuss Phong 570 Dlagh, R aal.'“ D. NENDRNRARS Rooms 110-315 Drass nes, WHY SUFFER With that old sore that’s never easy day nor night, when it can be cured for atrifle. Makes no dif- ference how old the sore may be, it can be cured. For particulars, write to P.0.Box 440 Lakeland, Fla [EXACTLY CORRECT !. If you figure on getting full val- ue for your money insist on having CEMENT CONSTRUCTION You’ll figure right then_it will mean a better looking result, the cheapest elso in the long run. Get our flures on the SIDEWALKS, CELLAR, PIERS, CURBS, FO'JNDATION, FENCES. Lakeland Artificial 1Stone Works H. B. Zimmerman, Prop. G s o FOR DRUGS Surgical Goods, Household and Sick Room Sup- plles go to Lake Pharmacy Bryan's Drug Store We wil send them up to you and will try to treat you right, PHONE 42 { LAKELAND, FLA, Feosphats land emaminotien, TRE EVMNING YELEGRAM, LAK ELAND, FLA, AUG. 9, 1913. The Story of a Man Who Was Frozen Out and Who Came Back (By Harry Snowden Stabler., When you go into a country that | is new and strange to you and the natives realize the fact they are apt to “put one across”’ on you if they can. Sometimes it is just for fun and then again it isn’t. Either way a small leaven of skepticism in your mental make-up will do you no par- ticular harm. overheard one man remark casually to another in the lebby of the hotel at Gainesville, “He makes $8,000 | clear on one single acre of land,” I | merely shifted to a little more com- | fortable posilon in my big arm-| chair and fell to dreaming again. ! Later on I made laughing men-' tion of it to the hotel proprietor and he said: ‘“That’s so’. No, I've not seen him, but it's fact all the same.” Whereupon I went out to see a man who knows all about Florida and to my astonishment he said: “Yes, I reckon that’s true.” | The next morning I hopped off the | train at Waldo, in Alachua county, and asked the station agent where I could find Mr, Godbey. “If you mean T. K. keep right still,” he re- plied, glancing up the single villaze street, down which was coming the only vehicle in sight—a small gaso- line wagon with wheels like those of a buggy. I went to the end of the| platform as the little wagon chugged alongside and watched the owner toss out five or six small crates of some green stuff and step up after them. He was a rather small, full_beard- | ed man, about sixty years of age, but | beyond a pair of remarkably clear eyes there was nothing to distin-| guish him from the average farmer | in his working clothes until he re- | moved an old slouch hat, displaying | a head that might have belonged to Cuvier himself. | Some of the reasons why I have | been told that Mr. Godbey was i Therefore when I a crank instantly occurred to me, but unapproachable he certainly was not. “Come right alongz,” he said, cordially. “You may have to spend the day out there with me, for I am | not coming in again until evening.” | Beyond the cordiality of the in. vitation the prospects did not seem very alluring. Flat pine-woods land that has first been turpentined and then cut over does not make the prettiest landscape imaginable, es- pecially in February. And I won- dered, as wr bumped and twisted along over a grass.grown road that | was merely two narrow ruts partly filled with water and as black as your hat, how such land could grow anything at all. But I was yet to realize that, even to the reasonably close observer, Florida is a land of the most violent A FLORIDA PLANT FACTORY | purpoge. i snpported vier. “In an average year I do not lose one bushel in a thousand.” “To what do you attribute such wonderful success?” I next asked, for such a record is wonderful, ani 1 inferred it was because of some de- finite thing of vital importance. “Seed selection. I have been studying that science for many years with all kinds of plants, and I have long since come to the con- clusion that it is a waste of money i to use inferior seed or plants for any This is particularly true of seed Lotatoes. Those that are sound and healthy, full of stored-up energy, will produce twice as many plants as those that are devitalized Not only that, both the and weak p.l.'mts and the potatoes themselves when sound are much more able to resist dicease. In other words plants are just like humans: when the tis- sues of either break down disease is sure to follow. Some years ago a barrel of potatoes I shipped to a man in the North was lost for more than three months, but when it arrived there was only one bad one in the ot. “What have you done with those stored here—shipped them?” “A few this year. Some are be- ing bedded for plants inside that fence.” A description of this inclosure is worth while, because so far as I know it is unique in the simplicity of the equipment and the results ob- tained. The fence inclosing two acres, the second having been re- cently added to the original plat, is eight feet high. It is built of ey- press boards eet close together and lined throughout on the inside with roofing paper to keep out what lit-| tle cold air might sift through the cracks. Th entire lot ca nbe cov- ered with canvas—ten thousand yards of it—vhich slides on. wires at intervals by poles. These curtaing are arranzed so sim- ply that one man can shade the whole area at an hour’s notice, m ing it wind, frost and sun The soil, a light sandy loam, is un- derdrained by tiles and frrigated by | an overhead system, the water being | forced through pipes by a gasoline engine, 6,000,000 Slips to the Acre. When I saw this plant factory— that’s exactly what it is—trenches ten or twelve inches deep and four feet wide had just been dug, ex. tending the full width of the inclo- gure. On the bottom of these sev. | eral inches of horse manure had been laid and upon this an inch or two of goil, which was tramped smooth and hard and allowed to remain in this condition a day or two to allow the sun to warm the soil thoroughly. The sweet potatoes were dumped indiscriminately on the beds; then each one wcs taken separately and ak. | proof. | - 2 You wish to achieve it of course— ' Remember though that it's oaly one case in a thousand where it is achieved without CASH CAPITAL. If you start banking your surplus earnings :nstead of spending them ou will not alor.e safeguard your fu- ture but also place yourself in the front rank of those ready to seize opportunity when it comes your way. Three per cent, interest paid. LAKELAND PEGPLE The ICE I am handling is made fr § well water and double distilled. It is not a question of quantity, i@ The ;?M Store voye, emaminatien, NROEM. . |EBEThe Jewelry we handle is the kind that ses ues to give satisfaction me mse: hew long it is wern. If yom de: ""f 1o give sometihng of permanent vs. . our ease will supply it. H. C. Stevens L.W. YARNELL Yuoosmser tp W. K. Molaa TRANSFER LINES Draying and Hauling of All Kisds Prompt and Reasenably Service Guarantesd. Phone §7 Green Lakejand, Fia “PRONPT MAIL ORDER SERVICE-! [+ R L —— - —— - eton frame; a second set, placed four or five inches distant, was held in place by stakes, the space in be. tween being filled with earth. The whole tentlike structure had been covered over with an inch or two of sandy loam, which the warm winter ! sun had bleached as white as linen. 1 opened one of these banks by pulling planks upright, while the sand ran off like so much water.f The interior, some eight feet in| fength by four feet in width at the | bottom was as dry as a bome and contained probably sixty or eighty | bushels of sweet potatoes that had been there for months, to all in. tents and purposes hermetically | sealed. So far as could be seen: every potato was in perfect condl. | tion, not a speck or sign of decay upon a single one. There appeared to be more than half an acre of, these banks set only a few feet apart each way; and the natural question was, “How many bushels?” “A little over twelve thousand,” the owner replied. “Yes, all grown i by myself on elghty acres of land.” | “That’s a hundred and Afifty. bushels to the acre.. How many of them have you lost by disease or rot?” T asked, digging into a pile’ again in th effort to find one in bad condition. | “Rot is merely a form of disease.” sald this man with a head like Cu. e contrasts. A sudden bend in the | packed in a single layer as close as || ' . E Blusgrintiag - road disclosed what appeared in thelmrdlneg in a box. The bottom of QUALlTY. " _the people wish lb i A, uoewe L gl bR g el Lo ol S ot iRt : rifts, which on e | them. This done, a thin covering of E Sesm ¢ Desn & Bren) By took the more definite shape of small strar was placed upon them and kind of ice they must stand by me. Pty army tents. i over this a thin layer of rofl. &-hlmh-n “What are they?” 1 asked, for After this, as the “draws” or slips Labsland, there seemed enough of them to! come through, a little more earth — quarter a regiment. | 18 added every few days until they . f BONTONY, ELLIOTR “Swaoet_potato banks.” have reached the proper lensth. By A MENDENEALL As we circled round and drew up | covering them shallowly each time, L g g Arehitach, between them and a high board igo that the sun’s heat can penetrate Room 319 Dvane Beliding fence, all but three or four of the | easily, and by sprinkling t hem at . . e Laheland, Tha, banks proved to be empty, so that it | the right time, the earth is kept : : was easy to see how they were con- | hoth warm and molist, which makes ¢ ae structed: simply inverted V.shaped i their growth in the beds very rapid. skeletons with planks laild in a ‘““How many bushels do you bed Reem 1, Bryant Buaimiay Our Dlsploy slanting position against what would to an acre?” T asked, trying to ac- Pheone 548 be the ridre pole of a tent. Over count for the twelve thousand that w K Ja(:kson'““cm“'w K M(u Porit of watehes, Jockets, ehains, ri» . |the cracks between each two planks had been stored in the banks. » o agee enn... |Vroeehes, etc. ia motlesable for iy nl:f:d :::;h:: :;ek:ir;kt:wwg:i g ‘;Ab:»:t four thousand. There are|] Owner and,Manufac- Rea 4 X o wice thut many here; th i 5‘.' n':i‘g :::“:-:.n.:; 48 Woll 86 saltevie | ibonrdod up double”—that &, one bedded In another fleld"t s vorers’ Agent Estsg Y. set of boards was nailed to the skel “How many slips do you get from a bushel of potatoes?" “About fifteen hundred. Not all at once, of conrse. They keep on coming as fast as they are pulled. It takes some care and skill to draw l them without breaking or bruising, Brokerage--Real Estate Tell|Us What You Have to Sell, We Will Try to Find a Buyer but the trick !s easily learnel One man can pull over twenty thousand a day. They are tled with rafia in bundles of fifty and shipped In crates o f different sizes. The ship. ping season is from April first to August, and they go all over the United Staies.” “And the price per thousand?” “A dollar and seventy-five cents, cash with the order; consignee pay. ing the freight.” It didn’t take long.to figure the results, which have got any out- door acre which I have ever heard of beaten b y a long country mile: four thousand bushels to the acre and fif. teen hundred slips to the bushel makes six million slips. At a dollar and seventy-five cents a thcusand this acre produces an iIncome of $10,500 gross; the three acres re. turning a total of $31,500. As to the net profit Mr. Godbey would not say, except half jokingly: “Let's call it fifty per cent and let it go at that” I did not press the point further than to learn that the twelve thous- and bushels to sweets cost twenty (Continued on Page 8.) Tell Us What You Wantto Buy; . 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