Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, August 26, 1914, Page 2

PAGE TWO © How Pineapples Are Grown On . if a grower had the facilities and The East Coast Of Florida =il & s horvees ccn TR While hitherto been grown commercial- ly in Folk county to any extent, we are informed that a consider- able area is about to be planted in this excellent fruit in the vi- cinity of Davenport. For the in- ‘formation of these prospective growers the following article irom the Florida Grower is pub- lished : The varictiecs mostly are Red Spanish and Abbaka, with a few Smooth Cayennes and Porto Ricos and Queens. The Red Spanish are the most popular variety on the market. The Abbakas and Smooth Ca- vennes will grow on soils unsuit- ed for Red Spanish. The largest acrcage of pines will be found at Osla, Viking, St. Lucie, Fort Pierce, Eldred, Wal- ton, Eden, Jensen, Ankond, Rio, Stuart, Delray, Boynton, Deer- field, Pompano, Little River and Miami, and at these points may be grown without frost protec- tion, though none of these fields have escaped frost damage at times. A few fields are protected from frost damage by slatted sheds, which cost about $350 or $400 per acte, but it is generally con- sidered more profitable to grow them in the open. The pineapple plant delights in a well-drained soi! and abhors a wet soil, thus the high sand ridge along the Indian River is particular adapted for growing this fruit. The best land for pineapples in our section is covered with Hickory scrub. The next best is covered with scrub oak or spruce pine, or both. Uucleared land of this kind sells for about $100 per acre and very little available. All of the above varieties may grown SEPEBEEDBED0 .| ripes are thrown away every sea- “ison, and it may seem that a can- *lnery would pay. No doubt that | et : ison he could can or some of this fruit to profitable Figure on advantage, but we have a can- tons to the ning factory on the East Coast acre of a mixture analyzing 3 fore cool weather. giving abont two ammonia, 0 profitable pineapple proposi- per cent per cent|d K20 and 2 per cent phu.phorlc‘simml i Bidieg i [ e 9 section they apparently cannot Or, as some cee the profits ahead to make growers advocate, smaller appli- | invest. cations frequently. In conclusion, T want to say {that T am ready and willing at all acid per acre a year, applying m two applications, In applying fertilizer it is a ) vood plan to put on the heaviest times to give any e application right after the crop Il.mt 1 may possess rcqardm:\: i< off, and later applications !nflc:l]»plc* in my section, and i Ivhen rain is in sight. in this ])Il[)CI'.T ]]n\'e failed to As a source of ammonia use Cover any point fully T expect {Blood and bone, tankage, dried l]}"” you ,“'fl.l ask questions, [blood, castor, pomace, cotton- ¢ither at this time, thr.nuu'h the lsced meal or tobacco dust.|uestion box or by mail. "\void sulphate of ammonia, ni-! R C(’OD\\ l.\.. [trates of soda, or use with the| Fort Pierce, Fla. | ureatest care, ! As a source of potash use sul- [phate of potash, preferably the [low grade, as it contains mag- {nesia that is thought to help| make the plants hardy and frost [ resistant. The high-grade pot-1, ash, however, gives splendid re- sults. Avoid muriate of potash and kainit. i‘or nearly a quarter of a cen- Iard-wood ashes give good re-{tury only one member of this sults, but must not be added to, family was known to Florida, or any mixture containing ammon-| What is usually spoken of as vel- fates, as it sets free the ammonia ! vet bean, or more properly Flor- to escape as gas. ida velvet bean. Origmally it For phosphoric acid ‘“use was used as an arbor plun.t, but [steamed bone or raw bone'was found to grow luxuriantly, ground and avoid acid 1111(»<b11ate‘1“"| finally a few people had the or bone black. courage to try it on their stock. In my experience T find that 2 It was found to make a good [per cent of phosphoric acid is stock feed and came into general tolenty, and that T get in my cas- use. It now stands seventh in tor pomace, blood and bone or value of our farm crops. About tankage. jl\\‘vnty years ago ‘thc cxl)crimcm The standard pincapple ferti-|station began testing this crop. lizers sold by the reliable ferti-|.\ vast amount of work has had lizer dealers may be relied upon |to be done on it, since not even as being well mixed and true to the chemical analysis was known CLIPPINGS FROM LEC- URE DELIVERED BY PROF. P. H. ROLFS, DIRECTOR OF EX- PERIMENT STA- TION. Velvet Bean Family. preserve that T understand has never been tion, and though many profes-| information ¢ - MODEL HARDWARE analysis, and as cheap as one can mix them at home, Many growers use a mixture be grown on flatwoods soil, which may be bought at $25 per acre, but on these lands care| ¢ s U must be used in selecting a loca- ]”.‘4:‘ 1 “1‘1,":“”"“'11\“;5']1! «';fit‘r ttllle . i : lcrop is off to make plant growth, o it o M nd high in potash in the fall Rith T At oo ks mavibe selests balance up‘tu' make the plants ed for the fancy Abbaka or,h“rfly and fruit to carry well. Smooth Cavenne varieties. Some years ago [ reasoned There are fields near Fort!that the plants would do better Piorce that have borne 2t cmps‘“_"h a balanced ration at all without replanting, the average 1”_”“‘ "'”fl _"}jf““«*‘ with me huv? life of a field is about 15 years, proven satislactory in using a 5 when the old plants are removed ],rcr' cent f“m“_"’"{“' 6 per CC‘}t‘ and new ones planted. potash, 2 per cent phosphoric To clear the land, cut off the acid formula from the budding of small growth level with the the young plants to old age, and Ql'llllllll. e the fact that [ have some .w!tl\‘ machette; then grub the land to l.]?(ll _h:f\':' 'I)f)ltl‘lc CH]lSC(‘lltl\:C a depth of about 10 inches with ‘]“vlp\ tt" 21 years tends to prove a orub hoe, throwing the roots to!! ",‘IE] [ ‘}‘“,”Shti el the top of the ground, where all| 1% Bt '{‘fl‘f"nd | trash that would interfgre with atter part - of May, June an e uly, the Abbaka and Smooth cultivation mav he raked up :m‘l;'. - b 1 4 3 Cavenne varieties coming last hurned. e To clear land and put in pine- 'l."ll :'1: “l”: Yt i Bt apple shape will cost from §70 to| . e ”“;““’ ANCHOE ““.” 150 per acre, according to the tico and Queen have .ll_mu.\"(,l\— heaviness of the growth on it. "I’I'\.'ill'«‘tl from tflh«- Indian Ruver Flatwoods pine land, or pr:liri(‘.\]\.w“{'”',:ls the {Wh]: :_ml. shorter may be cleared at much lesg ex-| <" than the Red Spanish. I\n*lise. Some Truit 1\‘h:n'\'c~Ilwl during \fter raking, mark off the 1hfidl S RenyetLs nth, with a_light crop with a marker that marks four " the fall during October and or five rows at a time, 2Ix21 \x"\"vn)hc‘r. : 4 inches, which will take about 12,-| Fhe fruit is sold mostly 000 plants to an acre, leaving two through br vk\‘rs':lml commission rows out hetween beds of 15|Mem but some is sold at the rows, for an alley to facilitate|track from day to day at varying picking during harvest time. prices, and some is sold as a The price of slips in July or,TOP 1':\‘ sizes as well as a flat August, which mature during|Price for the }\'hulc season’s out- and after harvest, is about $6 per' Ut tor the field run. At t § . Ipresent time there is no selling thousand delivered to the station reanization among the growers The slips should be at| oy the East Coast, but there is a least 8 inches in length, with alstrong possibility of organizing good, .stocky .butt. Trim .the w future as a branch of the Flor- slips by cutting off half an inch!'ida Citrus Exchange. Speed the from the hard butt, and tear off day! three rows of the basil leaves.! ‘Three hundred to 350 crates of Drop a plant at the intersection & pounds weight, containing 16, of each row, and plant two rows 18, 20, 24 Abbakas or 18, 24, 30, at a time, using a garden trowel 36, 42 and 48 Red Spanish apples to liit up the sand while the slip to the acre is considered a good is inserted about two inches and|output for the first two years, af- leit upright. | ter that an average of 250 crates Drop in the heart of the pl;mt_'\-\a acre per vear for a period of about a heaping tablespoonful of the next 12 or 14 vears in consid- fertilizer that will not burn, to :red good crops. prevent sand from entering 1'11.01 It costs about 83 cents per heart during a beating rain. Af- crate to grow the fruit, pack it ter four to six weeks, when the and get it on the cars ready to voung plants have rooted, hoe|move, with a scuffle hoe to break any, In 1913 crops netted about Sr.- crust that has formed and to kill '™o average. leaving a net profit of weeds. Frequent hoeing 1s of ixbout 75 cents per crate. Of benefit, but be careful to use on- | courseé it may be guessed that 18 in sacks. Iv a scuffle hoe, as the pineapple:some growers made more and plant is shallow rooted. [some less Fertilize before cool weather{ This vear the crop will be October, emall, « |1y starts in September or wing to frost and hoe it in well, with about 1, ns, together with the ef- younds to the acre. fect of a long drought, and net ilize again, when the returns for desirable fruit will be s are about a year old, with!much larger than last year. 1st 1,000 pounds to the acre,| [Large quantities of cull pi gain with 2,000 pounds be- haldheads, illshaped and in the| the; "at the time it was being consid- cred as a crop. Experiments on its effect on the soil, its effect on various animals, cattle, horses, mules and hogs have been tried. Its digestibility has been worked out, and we now have a fairly comprehensive knowledge of the velvet bean. ida, it has been this Florida that has had to work out this partic- ular problem, and the scientific end of it has had to be worked out by the experiment station. A good crop of velvet beans should be worth from $30 to $40 per acre to the farmer. The heans themselves would sell as seed for $30. The aver- age production of a good crop would not run below twenty hushels per acre. In addition to this the amount of nitrogen that i« left in the soil is about equal to the amount taken off by the heans. This will vary according to the vigor of the beans. A cood crop of velvet beans when foraged from the field has as cood effect on the plant growth ‘that follows as would occur from the application of 1,000 pounds of cottonseed meal. Yokohama Velvet Bean. This variety of the velvet bean was distributed by the experi- ment station two vears ago and tested by a great many different farmers in the state. Tt suc- ceeded unusually well and gives promise of filling an important niche in our agriculture. The plants ripen seed in about f tour monthz from the time of plant- ing, provided the weather is suf-| ficiently warm to cause rapid corowth. Tt is a good crop to plant after the spring grain crop or after the truck crops have heen harvested. It is a much smaller and weaker growing I'plant than the Florida velvet hean The rows should be made about thirty inches apart ind the beans placed from six inches to a foot apart in the TOWNS, Cninese Velvet Bean. ['his is one of our latest intro- ductions from the Orient. One seed was received by the experi- ment station . the spring ot 1910. As only one seed was re- ceved it 1 greatest care, being planted in the green- and oQrowmy to a was given the he i eight s in pot was to » open ground the seed m this plant was saved and 12 [ 19II. | severe rav- Qes .a bushel of seed 18 rvested In the SPring « something over acres of this bean were It takes the bean Since there is only one Flor-| readily | | DB EOEOENE GEOERERROET Ruckeye Field Fence meets all the tests. It is cypy 2 galvanized, has a joint that is strong and will not slip, y, 2 gauge wires used. You can make no mistake when yq, s “Buckeye” Fence. 4 s & i Phone No. 340 about six months to mature, dii- from the Lyon fering in this respect I'lorida velvet bean and velvet bean; the two last bloom only in late fall, regardless of the | time of planting. The \'hinwc; velvet bean, on the other hand, | blooms early in the year and ma- | tures its pods during October, | putting it at least a month and possible six weeks ahead of the | Florida velvet bean. In pro-| ductiveness it seems equal or su-| perior to the other kinds. In vigor of growth it is the best of any that we have tested. Lyon Velvet Bean. This was introduced from the Phillippines in the spring of 1907, and is thought by many to be quite superior to the Florida velvet bean. Its behavior, how- ever, is so similar to the Hnri(]'Ll velvet bean that for ordinary purposes I see no very great rea- son for planting it in preference to the Florida velvet bean. | The open air girl s not content merely to have a colored creps de chine handkerchief tucked into the breast pocket of her knitted or fleecy golf coat, but she must have a bow at | her throat to match it exactly in col- | or. These sets are made in the pret- tiest shades of blue, mauve and canary. i Ordinary plaid dish toweling makes durable and cool looking covers for plazza pillows. Take, for instance, a | fair sized check in red and white and embroider all the white checks with red lazy-daisies In silk or the red squares with white silk. A ruffie of the toweling bordered with red tape | completes a good looking cover | Stencil designs are eminently fim‘d% for summer draperies and cushion | covers. Sultable hot weather patterns | are sought by the worker who has an| eve for the fitness of things. Sea | shells with trailing seaweed s(’rolls; | and conventional fish with ornamental talls are among the clever ideas BUuCk | cessfully worked out by one young | artist. ! THANKFUL FOR THE BLOUSE Women Would Find It Hard to Get Along Without This Very Serv- | Iceable Garment. What did unfortunate woman do be- fore the blouse, pure and simple, ex- | isted? i One forgets—if we ever knew. Life | seems always to have been full of | blouses, and though we may scoff at | them occaslonally, and insist on the | one-piece gown, all women know we ! “'“,‘"‘ them in our wardrobe Tbe‘lr; price is above rubies—sotetimes ‘ The success of the Paristan fashion of blouses of vivid colors to be worn with white ploue and duck or putty and maize-colored linen skirt is in doubt. A pretty muslin blouse has a fichy i edged with the frills we love 8o dear- ly this season—those of the picot edged variety—and the turn-over cuffs | of the elbow sleeves show the same dainty frillinge | You can get a cool frock in black and white for summer wear and know f:(‘\l are absolutely in the approved fon. The magpie blouse can be in black and white handkerchief linens ‘ or.in the chiffons. One is of snowy ;chl.'ron. with & pinafore bodice (-flpc.! of black moire charmeuse tied at the waist with a large bow, New Mesh Bags. The rage for divided effects in bags I8 now evident in the mesh bags, for a pe\x fringed one extends :mo'lwo points at the bottom and th fringe from the bottom of one of these points i d almost to the frame of the .hnz Tango effects and a watch set in the frame and also a tiny coin pu\;fle fitted to the exterior of the frame ‘u}- i nish novelties in other mesh bags. 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