Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, August 26, 1914, Page 8

e ——— f i I | ! CAITNE, S cIches PAGE EIGHT ENGLISH WOOL THE EVENING TELEGKAM uLAK “WORLD’S LARGEST 1/ Futch and Gentry Building IWATCH THIS SPACE TOMORRO FUW 0N 1O | GllGGESS IN A | FLORIDIAN GIVES SET- TLERS SOME GOOD ADVICE. 1 writer inter- viewed a native citizen of Ilor- ida with this purpose held up- permost in mind: Find out from Recently, the | home | CTOPS, give is this: Tell your readers llxu Florida is a good place to live, winter, spring and summer md fall. Tell them if they will work, if they will use judgment in getting du]ll.llntul with our condition ; if they will first raise necessities, before trying to feed New York City; if they wiil raise diversified crops in- stead of staking all their money on one; if, in addition to raising chickens, they will raise keep a cow for milk and a few hogs for meat, they can make a somebody who knows some gen- success here easier than any- cral principles by which the where 1 know about in the Northerner can safely be gmdcd world. In a natshell, my advice when he comes to Florina to en-! gage in farming. 1 sought a pructi.cul I'lorida farmer of forty years' experience in raising crops—a man who has “made ;4mnl, and whose judg- ment is mature. The following paragraphs contain his ideas and suggeestions just as they devel- oped 1nour conversation, “Tell your people,” he said, “that farming in Ilorida has its share of work, as elsewhere. That's the first thing. Some’ Northerners have an idea that you don't have to work here to' Ilhllxc a success. There has bCLH too much of this “tickle the soil | and it will laugh with harvest” advertising spread through the North. But this is true,” (cele| emphasized the “1s” strongly) “there is less back-breaking lab- or on a farm here are lighter, our land is more level and iree fiom rocks.” “Do Northerners, as a rule, make a success farming in Flor- ida s | asked, i “Yes, after they get started right,” he replied. Evidently he noticed my unspoken inquiry, 1 o nd continued: “Some home- them know I'd rather seekers come down here with|live here than any place on earth, ! lean purses and “swelled ‘and T honestly helieve Florida is heads,” They assume to know e place for thousands of North- wvervthing about farming, from rn people who are struggling their Northern experience, They jalong up there with little hope try to farm just as they did up making more than a living.” North, They scorn our advice, “Then vou recommend the adopt their own methods of Northerners to come to Florida planting and cultivation, and and live=you think a Il;ml‘ frequently fail to make a \wp‘ wv'ki’\s:. level-headed man from exeept @ crop ol experience. | he North can make good here? I'h Northern farmer in} ! asked 3 I'lorida should be an imimtor’ “1 certainly do.,” he said, :‘it hefore trving to be a creator. «he’ll work—don't forget that’ l.et him know that Florida has Tippecanoe Council Fire. a different climate working conditions than in the North. 1i he will] carnestly study Florida condi- tions and adapt his methods of farming to them, he will not ‘put before the horse’ as I'his is just @ word of \nd while 1 am speak- SULlS, ditterent and ditterent 1¢ cart some do caution ing of this, let me say further that it is not wise for a man to come down here with only his car-fare, aud expect to return the pext summer in his own steam vacht, paid out of his first year’s farm returns. Many Northern settlers make the mistake of building expen- residences on their farms, -annot afford to tie 1P 3 & in that way. vht put their into more productive few vears until establis} this part S ra roughly noin reneral advice I can condition, than on a ¢ Northern farm, because our soils tv in casier to werk, and i for Qiven me, though, for sett is, provide food for the home ta- IDle first, then sell the excess pro-' else. ductions to somebody That's a safe rule for beginners i Florida, and those who follow it will not go far wrong. “In a year's time, they will be familiar enough with our cli- mate, the farm soill and other matters, to branch out and go into raising crops on a larger My success has been due, I believe, to my conservative methods. 1 have never been a plnn“u in my farming, and I manage to “d 'llnngY .fl)out as well as the average, I guess.” is farm u-nnnl\ looked as if seale, he was getting along all right. It was well fenced, and every field seemed to be in the pink of The barn and nearby sheds were in good repair, and verything looked like prosperi- capital letters, T thanked the information he had and told him I pro- osed publishing the interview. Tust before T left, he said: remarks will dis- coming to farm, hope not, Iorida cood rs, and she has the room for OO | “Maybe my ourage ]D\" lorida to ple from ! needs SUNFLOWER SEED FOR FOWLS. The plain old sunflower seems be forgotten by many people. o others, especially of the vounger generation, it is not known at all. This should not he. when farmers and poultry aisers can grow it at small cost. It vields large quanities of seed xeellent for producing, and M egg Suntlowers can be casily as corn. Plant the planting time, rilling or putting them in hills way rut ‘kl"i‘ corn either each eral seeds in a hill and when and cultivate the fget apart well up thin me as corn. like to have a patch planted the chicken s shade during the hot | State are a change of diet in win-| grown as i house. It af- Two Doors South of City j AILORS” Foes - o & ARG ) A AT R P AT MO - — O months and the plowed dirt makes a good wallowing place for the fowls. When the seed heads have ripened, I like to Dave some of them broken down <0 the fowls may help them-, selves. The rest of the seced may Dbe shelled easily when dry and kept for winter use. A good wayv to shell the seed is to make a club about fifteen inches long,! take the heads by the stem, and! with the club strike several hard blows on the seed side of the| head. This makes the seed fall out. Five quarts of seed will| plant an acre and should yield 10 to 20 bhushels—Bertha Wil- <on in Northwest [Farmstead. BIG CITRUS CROP HOR THIS SEASON SOME FIGURES SHOWING GROWTH OF ORANGE INDUSTRY. Although no formal c~t|m.xlc" " the size of the citrus fruit crop' of the state for the 1914-15 yet Business Manager L. D. season ot have been made.! Jones, | of the Florida said a Citrus exchange, days that he would not be surprised if it ran to as much as 9,000,000 boxes or perhaps more, which will make it the largest crop of fruit the state has ever harvested. “And despite the efforts of our California friends to show to the contrary, it will be one of the hest erops of fruit this state has cver grown, Will Be a Fine Quality. “Reports from all over the to the ecffect that the crop will be of unusual quality. few ago IFrom California sources our iriends in the northern markets have been told the Flonda crop ‘his year had suffered severely 'm the drouth in the carly part {of the season and that it would @ neighborin *ob very poor quality I'his 1s 1 1 Joar £ 1% 't going to be the case. We'the only one w \ ] I to show the world one Southern States the largest crops we have evgr wl and one of the best as well.,” Otheials figures for the total ool 1913-14 are not at hand the crop will run close to 7 ,. hoxes \ppro \um lv YOO, 000 fruit 225 boxes to the car Hve 0,087,300 1,500 cars of were wlr‘\u vhich at boxes of fruit The shipments for the tw cm_\'- prior to this ent below : Crop of Former Years. Output ! {: { [nine seasons vear ‘ . are lYl\ Year in boxes 188-3 600,000 \\'\'\ 6O " ‘)m,.\fln.‘ 1‘\"\‘4\», 1.260,000 | Q78 .. . 1,260,000 188R.0 1.030.000 | 1889-00 .2,150,000 1R00-01 .2,450,000 [ 1801-02 .2,664.701 1R02-03 .3.357,507 1R02-0 1.163.840 N 0s 2, 174 1803-0) 000 R06-07 216,379 R0=-0fR ¢ 1208-00 1R00-1000 1000-01 1001-02 1902-03 emergencies by lalways the 100304 1,050,023 1O)O4-0§ . ¢ 2,001,105 1900-07 2,800,390 I(.)I);'*U\\' BRIy ”1‘[){‘ {6 101s o b SRR e ~Y““” 19DO-10 . . ..0,100,00 cxperience and the weight of Na By 1911-12 . 4,250,000 IL:Mi]HI'il.\. to combat IhC.CmC?‘ Lakeiand. Ty 1910-11 cov 00,000 gencies of threatened epidemic ) TOE2ET 8128 340 dud towatd ot isueh Udinger J. D TRAMA IOTANT b e .0087,500 Trom foreign sources. Attorneyatly Unofticially ~11mm11 I'he position of Florida’s| van Huss bldg, L RESPECT FOR EXPER. IENCE. lLvery man is a law unto him- seli until he leels, appreciates or Das foreed upon him the necessi- ;1_\ for a higher authority. A trespassing upon his legal [rights brings an appeals to the courts. In his hes 1]1]1 and phy- sical vigor he disregards the aws uf but when sick- uess threatens, he sends for the doctor ina hurry, And the idea oceurs, Why doesn't he ward off having in mind fact that stons of established law are quite likely to bring punishment? Most of us have to learn by ex- erience, our own, because we are unwilling to profit by the ex- hygiene, lave to come to it anyway. In times of peace prepare for troubles, \We cannot all be spectalists —in all directions. Afe 18 too short. In our ex- twemes we turn to those who know more than we in these ines in which we are Lhen why don't we turn before ur necessity forees us to it? The affairs of Florida's Board i Health are directed by skilled orkers. That they are men of espertence 18 proven by the tact that they fill these places of responsibility ¢ filled them through ERlt1s roved also by ird of the N80 I'his von the mment by t S ng hments N i 1 ;- b \ g 8 ~ 1 v' 1 e e e sometimes attacked r belittled g 1 5 clitt] ) b )t ( iching p \ the ) I the public calth hes not specia < 1 l\'~ Federal Government, it s Iwith the highest medical author- Raymondo Bldg. La transgres-| eriences of others. 1t is a slower process and much more. expensive and in the end we ignorant, ! close intimacy between the Residence plione 17y, State and the United States Office phone, 27y py health authorities, \\ml\mg lm DR. SARAH E a perfect harmony, llnnda of alll OSTEOPm the states is the best equipped by [Munn Anney, | this Board during the present sum- mer, when plague has menaced 5 EPPES TUCKR the State, has been in accord LAWYER ity and experience in the world. I'lie urgent advice that seaport and inland cities of the state should — take every ])'1'0\‘imt‘i01'l‘ Suite 212-215 Drane against the invasion of plague, been backed by this authority. i Lakeland, fi [t has llulm«l the situation not Phosphate Land Exany alarming but serious and has Plant Designs, karthwo T precautions accordingly. ! Surveys. carnestly recommended medsures not as an abso-! LOUIS A, 2| ite prevention of plague, but as| ARCHITEC Hdectdely toward the <h~nnmslmg| Kibler Hotel, Lakelui| of the chances of its reaching lorida. In this position the' [ Bvard has had the almost unani-| mous support of the Florida press, inn this support of these olicy hx\ been mared by an oc- casional ‘helfttling of these ef- forts, which has had the moral' cffect of direct u]\[ln\iti()ll. [ 1i Florida's newspapers do not give the heartiest support of the | work and methods of the Board, in its work for the State, its ef-| ficiency must be lessened and the G. D. & H. D My CONSULTING ENGj ged t has 1 1t " these I DR. C. C. WK PHYSICIAN AND Special Attention G DISEASES OF WMl CHILD?EN Deen-Bryant Bldg. o Office ¥hone ! Residence Phone ] DR. W. R. GR PHYSICIAN ANDY Rooms 6 and 4. Kentuf Takeland, Flrifi progress of the State in sanita- ton slackened, ! A. X, ERICES e ! ATTORNEY-AT ‘ MINE EXAMINING BOARD Real Estate Que i ——— Drane B “ ilinsville, 11 A28 =T lin ‘%i‘ 0I5 State Miners' Examining DR. R. B. HAM Board is conductine its inquiries, DENTIST wnd on the day folloy 1vesti } 1 on the day folloy nvestiga- Room No. 1. D \ \ Ctntralis. The I,"«k and, I on \ many impor- | Offica Phone 1 Resides 811 ( th past — shortly be ready to | D. 0. Rogers i i ; ds befor I proper | ROGERS ¢ witi Attorneys . y Bryant B Th Lakeland. e Professnons e AAAAAA & Established in S % DR W S IRV THE EGYPTOAN SANITARIU o OF ('I{RO\IIC DISEASES Smith-Hardin B (‘m Main and Room 14 and !5 & Phone: Offi Flo u Phone e a7 i X-Ray, Light, Heat, ATTOR Lo Turkish Baths, Phys Office : ( Massage, Dietetics Lakela: il you get iL| W. S. PRI Office Upstairs Lest ° BARTOW, £ Springs and PETERSON & OWENS Examination « ATTOR NEYS AT LAWw tate L.av Dickson Building DR H ME% £R JEREMIAH B, SMITR b T NOTARY PUBLIC Lakeland vy Phones: Office 4y naDs in clty 7 ¥, \4'1"Y\=. ete, ‘ FRANK r n easy ,)r | trade, NOTA I ch & Gentry Bldg Dickson B Office phone Special attent w. HERMAY 7T Morgan-Groo™ 7} Between | Telephones: O | Lakeland ‘ Marriage | | | | |