Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, September 17, 1914, Page 2

PAGE TWO grow oranges in M. E. Gillette Talks 57, oenses Of Orange Conditions"v-af paid 0 e roves on cold nights. e, I was satisfied that e much colder weather FLORIDA GROVES COM- PARED WITH CALI- FORNIA. to prove it. “The groves in California are, ( I think, as a rule, better cared,that Flor- as they seem to take a great (Florida Farmer and Homeseek- oty for than most of those in leal oi pride in keeping their grounds in beautiful condition. ,As a rule, however, the trees at Mr. M. E. Gillette, of Tampa, one of the substantial business men of the State, and an expert on citrus culture, who has re- d from a business lifornia in an interview fornia orange con- ditions, says: “1 was much surprised to see how their groves recuperated frofn the cold of two years ago, but conditions in California are so different from what they are'in in Florida; it is hard for a Flor- has gotten so, idian to conceive of a tree living,weather bureau predicts 1 aiter having gone through a tem- in Georgia, Alabama, or any of perature of ftwelve or fourteen the southern States, for that degrees for several nights. Their matter, the Los Angles papers soil conditions, however, are 'at once come out with big head- much different from ours. We lines claiming that Fquida is have an open. porous, sandy soil | ireezing out again. When I into which the heat penetrates told them that we keep a very rapidly and it is easily \\'urxflCdfaCclfif:flQ accv;)unlt( of tihe lweathex‘ up so that our tree never become!at Lucerne Park and that we n? thoroughly dormant as theirs'had seen growing cucumbers, do. Their soil, on the Cumrary,‘.tlomatocs, p]clppcrs} and oltlhcr_tctn- is heavy, with quite an admix-!der vegetables there all winter ture m'.cln_\' nndl it takes a long|right out in the open without time for the heat to penetrate.|any protection whatever, they They have their rainy season in;cnnld hardly believe it, as they the winter and these rains are supposed th.:lt we had been seri- generally cold. If thev have a ously injured. few warm days, the ground does| “At another large packing not become sufficiently heated to house they said they were sorry start growth in the trees as is|to hear that practfcally all of the case in Florida, cOl'chuentl_\';xhe. crop for next year had }‘)een when a cold spell strikes them,|whipped off the trees by a as it does many times each win- terrible storm which passed ter. the trees are absolutely dor-!cver Florida. 1 told them I mant—much in the condition of!had heard nothing of this and our oaks and withstand a degree|that we had the biggest bloom I of cold which would not be pos-{had ever seen Csi;lcfe I lived in sible in Florida. the State. alifornians are “It looked strange to me, as great boosters and it is a very I drove by the different groves, | difficult matter to ggt tfil;e trgth to see 30 many heaters among from the rank an e, ut the trees and these are not mere! friends of mine with whom I smudge pots, but great big had a heart to heart talk told me heaters which will hold twelve that the industry \\"135 a; a }10‘3 to fourteen gallons of oil. It ebb in California—that they ha looked to me as though it would received very little for their than in Florida and are planted a good deal closer together. “I visited a number of largest packing houses and in ‘nearly every instance they wanted to know how badly we were hurt by last winter’s cold I told them we had no cold whatever except what they saw the Los Angeles papers. It however, if the a cold the the same age are much smaller ' South Georgia some growers got good prices,' DegeusososostsnsastDitssdstsetdos e 12 much attention | the bulk of them received prac- heating of the!tically nothing and At any thc_\‘| in the fertilizer California than we have in Flor- ida. and everything I saw went they were very much discouraged. I talked with a friend of mine who is in business and he that growers told him there no use to figure with them, they needed fertilizer, there no qustion about it, but they were getting nothing their fruit and they could not afferd to pay for fertilizer and really they saw no use in | putting it on to produce *more fruit unless they could get bet- ter prices for it. “Another layge grower told ime the only hope he could see for the California grower was that Florida should freeze out again. I called on a friend of mine in Los Angeles who is in the real estate business. One or two other real estate men were in the room and they questioned me regarding relative value in Ilorida and California. One of them said, “You, of course, have had long years of experience in Florida and you have visited California several times and are |somewhat familiar with vons. Suppose you were ing in Chicago, knowing what vou do, where would vou go if vou wanted to go into the cit- rus fruit business, and why?”’ I told them that the answer to that was very easy. “ ‘Now,” said I, ‘suppose we ‘make a few figures and I think {I can convince vou why a man should go to Florida. Suppose |that 1 wanted to buy ten acres faround Los Angeles. What ‘would the raw land cost?” “They said ‘about $700 per jacre. “=Then this land has to be leveled so that it can be irri- {gated, which would cost $25 to S50 per acre more. After every- thing is in readiness to plant vou would plant your trees and in thecourse of time they would ‘begin to bear fruit. We Florida could grow as large a tree in four years as you can in six. and ready to ship it is 3.000 miles from the big markets, ours is about 1,200. Time of deliv- try from Florida ought to be about one-half what it would be said was | that {was 1 i i for | Our freight AIRFOG condi-. liv- |(‘.uring the past season in pretty [very large part of our business {Land in Florida suitable for cit-, in When your fruit is grown, THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAWELAND, FLA., SEPT. 17, 1914. —— ¥4 & OB IR BT NS B CP B B EATE B SIS B IR BT B I BT BT BT B0 BT S B0 B B0 G0 G AR S DO (L, We can save you money on Wagons. and 2-horse Wagons is complete, and if you need a Wagon for hauling fruit thisy fall, see us. A We sell the “COLUMBUS” make and the name is a guarantee of quality. MODEL HARDWARE Go. Phone No. 340 C. E. TODD, Mgr. We Want YOUR Business DO OO Our stock of | DS O3B BB BN SR POPONOTOT GGG o @ o> rates are 33 I-3 per cent less. years, giving the owner the ben"l"'”“; In California thcir After the fruit reaches the ¢fit of the iruit which is PTO',]?CU\"Y And pigeer, fo th market Florida outscld yours YORKE. SENGE DO S 7 such large amount of feeding roots and the result is that i they try to take up a tree and yplant it with naked roots they 'loose a large proportion of them and the only way in which the can successfully make a tree live is to dig around it and put a duced during that time and turn €quire this bearing grove over to him at the end of five vears at $630 per acre , which is less than the first cost of your land. “"One party said if they had nothing else they had more beautiful scenery, as they had the mountains, which we did not A Rkl Lt sack under the roots, bringing it hiave 1 Dloslds. Thiue 1 lied )00 g the trunk of the t admit, but I called his attention | P around Jt) b . land tying it there so as to hold to the fact that in place i . and &1l the earth around the roos mountains we had lakes One Geel Wb bout. fite that one party in California had | S oogtrsee:a\'(llllll iy acre to clear it and get it ready, told me he would trade all the | Pounds 5 e PG b stitute a carload, while here we to plant. Now, said I, ‘can you,K mountains in. the State for one can ship from 7,000 to 10,000 in show me one good reason \\'h}""‘f our beautiful Iakes.. 1‘ e easil, i I should come to California, af-' “I, of course, was interested I inZ i dy'a ey ter all the reasons I have shown also in the nurseries, as T want-| their hes-tpe '1cekln hum):r b:;z vou why I should go to Flor-|ed to compare their work with“ d >th'p:" b t% flL ‘ ida? !whnt we do here and I wrote ]ouvn ARoMUE ; erf Ly ‘,e * ‘Myseli and son are plant- home that T was very well sat- ls\enmha .nun:n. e;.lo id our’nex\-' ing a thousand-acre grove at isled that I was doing a nur- c an,,e‘ el _Orh T fae'{ Lucerne Park, one hundred ten- sery business in Florida instead :Eettne(' q]mt; s}ll\rprlse .tu 'vm: acre tracts. We furnish the of California. In our loose, '_ah “fi ]}? e land, clear it, plant it with the andy soil we grow a magnifi- “\ ‘tv : 1 ; ?l necefsaq lh]f“ R very best grade of trees, fertilize cent root svstem and the trees ©TY t0 handle fruit in the mos and care for these trees for five can be transplanted with naked (Continued on Page {.) nearly every case, which in con- clusive evidence that Florida grows the better fruit. “*And then you grow no grapefruit whatever, while grapefruit is getting to be a and a very profitable partof it. rus culture can be bought at $25 to S125 per acre according to location. 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