Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, April 12, 1915, Page 2

How Strawberries Are Construction in | stood up, tottering a little, Grown in Lakeland| Work Goes | U. W. IVERSEN, OF THIS CITY, GIVES INTERESTING FACTS RELATIVE TO COST OF PRO- DUCTION, PROPER CARE, ETC, AND DETURNS FROM ACRE OF ‘BERRIES ; ‘(By U. V. Iverson, Lakeland, in the Florida Times-Union.) Strawberries are one crop of southern Florida that is grown and harvested so differently than in the North, that a description is almost unbelievable. A crop of berrieg here is plated every year, and when through bearing is plowed under and another crop planted after them. Imstead of producing during a period of say three or at most four weelds, our berry crop lasts from November to July, if so desired, al- though usually they are plowed un- der in April and a crop of corn or cowpeas put in their place, the ground being again planted to ber- ries in September or October and producing merchantable berries by November 15 to December 1. It does not necessarily take an ex- perienced grower to make good ber- ries here. A little common sense mixed with such book learning as can be obtained will shortly make a good profitable berry man or wom- an, providing, of course, that always behind the grower is a goodly amount of energy and elbow grease, 80 essential in any business enter- prise. The growth of a berry crop is an all-year round business. During the month of January preparations are made for the coming year’s crop, in that Northern-grown plants are purchased and planted for runners to be used as plants for the fields in the fall. Such plants not having been used as berry makers in the North will begin almost immediate- Jy to set runners, they came a8 they ‘do in the North during the fall, and each plant will make from fifty to one hundred plants according to how well grown they are and, of course, somewhat as to climatic conditions during the summer. Plants, as a rule, cost the grower from $2 to $2.50 per 1,000, plus ex- pressage. The plants made by the grower usually gell for the game: price locally in the fall, and most growers have more plants than are needed for their own use, and in this way they make something on their first investment for runner plants. A black sandy loam, fairly low land, well drained, usually makes the best berries and in some locali- ties it is found of advantage to have an irrigation system in connection, though aboyt the Lakeland section an irrigation system is not at all necessary for the best results, as land hereabouts has that moisture- retaining quality very seldom found elsewhere. About August 1 to 10 prepara- tions in the fleld begin, in that the ground is thoroughly broken and well mulched and by September 1, weather conditions permitting, the first application of fertilizer is made, consisting of a 5-6-5 formula. One thousand pounds to the acre is the usual amount for best results and the cost of this is about $26.50 per ton. Allowing about ten days for thorough assimiliation with the soil, plant setting begins and two men should easily set an acre a day, or 20,000 to 30,000 plants according to a single or double row system. Single Row System the Best A word about the single or dou- ble row system. It is contended by some that the double row system is better in that the same amoun of fertilizer will do for double the number of plants, but in actual practice such has not been found to be the case. Plants should be set one foot apart in the row and the rows, if planted single, should be at least three feet apart and double four feet apart. Admitting for the sake of argument that the same amount of fertilizer will fertilize two rows, which the writer contends it will not to give the proper amount to each plant, it costs more in the end to cultivae a double-row field, and the work is not so clean and satisfactory as where a single row is planted, as it is much harder to get between two rows of plants than between the plants in a single row, and that being the case, some of the plants do not get the attention they should and in consequence do not bear the amount of fruit that they would if each plant were kept per- FLORIDA’S HEALTH TRAIN Seeing in convincing! Visual education, from child- hood to old age, is the most im- pressive, the most lasting, the 'most convincing. | Reference has already been made in this press service to Educational Health Exhibit, which was prepared originally by the State Board for the Southern Health Exhibit, in Jacksonvile [ last December. Since that time it has been shown to the people of Tampa, Sanford, Orlando, Lakeland, Pa- latka, Ocala, Pensacola and Tal- la hassee. It was seen and studied in these eight cities by an attendance equal to three- quarter of their estimated popu- lation. The panels photographs and| models that make up this exh bit, illustrate practically and vi ually the work that is being done by the Board in gathering nec- essary vital statistics in Florida; the work' of the state laborato- ries; the fight against malaria and typhoid and tuberculosis; carry disease germs; studies in against the fly and mosquito that smallpox and vaccination, in measles, whooping cough, hook- worm, glanders, and rabies; the work that is being done for Flor-} ida’s iindigent crippled children; the way to feed and wash and dress young babies and man other subjects that nedd practi- cal illustration to have their im- portance understood and appre- ciated by the taxpayers and citi- zens of the state. It is safe to say that the State Board has never inaugurated a more valuable or a more widely appreciated method of education than this. It has aldery been proved more impressive and im- pressing that the splendid liter- ature that has been sent out by the Board in its work of educa- tion. The question now is, How shall it be made more useful by bringing it to more people—to all the people of the state? It is' not planned to set it up at some central place and keep it there, but fo put it on wheels and take it to the people, to the big cities and the little ones, to every vil- lage and hamlet where the rail lines of Florida reach. The Board is ready. The rail- roads ar thought to be willing to furnish free service, the equip- ment is not difficult to provide and the cost of maintenance would be a fraction of the cost of hog cholera serum, which by direction of recent legislature, is distributed free to the swine owners of the state. It would cost less per annum than is a recommendation to divert fifteen thousand dollars from the health funds, to fight cattle tick, a prop-} osition not akin in any way with human health or human life. The only obstance i the way is the present lack of authority from the legislature, which meets this week, permiiting the railroad companies to give and the Board of Health to accept free transportation for the health train and attendants over the lines of the state, A former legislature granted sicilar privileges for handling free a special train for agricul- tural education. Just now it is the question whether the legis- latre of 1915 will rise to the op- portunity to do something really useful and beneficial for the peo- ple of Florida. With such a train, consisting of a car rebuilt to accomodate the exhibit, another to providc| living quarters for those who must accompany the exhibit,! free transportaion for train and attendants, Florida would be in the lead of all states in the Un- io nfor the education of its peo- ple in sanitary and health mat- ters, and the results would be the vast betterment of such con- ditions in this state. Tt would be a splendid invest- ment for the railroads, a better one for Tlorida, and instead of one person in ten being given the the opportunity to be benefited, as has been the case so far, nine on in Berlin SUBWAY BEING BUILT UNDER MAIN STREETS; PRINCIPAL RAILWAY STATION BEING ENLARGED Sydney, April 12—American in- e terest in the Australian regulation of prices for food and articles of common usage is evinced by a let- ter which has been received by the Necessary Commodities Control Commission of New .South Wales from Joseph E. Davies, United States Commissioner of Corpora- tions. Mr. Davies asks for information regarding the law which created the Necessary Commodities Commission and for reports unon its work. “These will be of considerable val- ue,”” he says, “in connection with the organization of the Trade Commission of the United States recently provided by law. T am sure that your experience will be helpful in throwing light upon some of the problems which the Fed- eral Trade Commission is liely to en- counter. WOMEN PATROLS DO A GOOD SERVICE London, April 12—The National Union of Women Workers has issued an appeal for more volunteers to look after the welfare of girls in the neighborhood of soldiers’ camps. The work was started about three months ago and has met with the cordial support, both civil and mili- tary. The Union now has 1,200 volunteer patrols engaged. TLord Kitchener recently issued a genera] order informing officers that these women patrols were doing good service and should have every possible co-operation from the army officials, CLERYGMAN ASSISTS IN MANUFACTURE OF SHELLS Glasgow, April 12—A call for re- | hl; cruits here to assist in the manufac- ture of shells broyght forth a clergyman, who wu‘promptly ac- cepted. Te {s the Rev. Stuart Rob- ertson of Pollokshield church, a tall, athletic figure who now serves from 6 o’clock in the morning until & at night in a large engineering shop. His day’sqgork over, the Rev. Rob- ertson atterids to his pastoral duties as his evening's recreation. FAMOUS BALL DODGER ASTONISHES THE SHERIFF. Atlanta, Ga., April 12—If you want to know how a baseball feels when it is swatted on the nose by Ty Cobb or Joe Jackson, just ask the sheriff of Greenville, 8. C. He knows. Joe Jackson, the famous Cleve- land batter, who keeps Ty jumping: to hold his honors in the American league, was in Atlanta when the Palmetto state officer arrived with a warrant sworn out by J.ckuon'l: wife to bring him back on a personal | charge. “All right,” said Jackson, and everything went all well en- ough until the sherift made the mis- | take of trying o ptut a pair of hand- | cuffs on the big baseball star. 'In- stead of holding out both hands at once, as the prisoner does in the movies, Jackson first handed out his left alone. It caught the sherift on the point of the jaw and caused him to stagger back. Then Jackson of- fered his right, and the sheriff tumbled,after which Jackson broke | away, and fled to the railroad sta- tion where he boarded the train himself and went to Greenville. CORPSE NOT AN ASSET. Des Moines, Iowa, April 12—The body of Miss Dollie Morgan after death should not be considered an asset or liability in settlement of Federal | | l i e By Kathryn Jarboe 52525252 5253 (Copyright, The Frank A. Munsey Co.) Under the yellow August sunlight ! the fields lay deserted; here a scythe leaning against a half-completed stack, there a sickle rusting on the stubble. The twilight fell upon deserted hearths where women, with trembling fingers, cooked their scanty meals. | The round, full moon looked down upon scattered homes where only the children slept, where the women wept and shuddered and waited. For the men had marched away un- der the brilliant, flaunting colors. None had been too old to go, none too young. Their lips had shouted the raucous notes, the valiant words— Honneur, Patrie, Gloire—but every eye was wet, every heart heavy with despair and terror. Bibi had watched them go, the tiny staff in his clenched fingers beating time to the brave music, to the hur- rying feet, but, in the nameless ter- ror that had descended upon the land, he clung to the old grandmother’s hand and, when all were gone—fa- ther, uncle, brother—he flung himself | sobbing upon the ground. The wom- an, left alone in the world save for the small grandchild, watched with eyes too old for tears until there was no longer even a cloud of dust upon the horizon; then she turned and hob- bled into the empty house, leaving the child still lying there upon the lonely road. Before the hearth she sat, seeing the long procession of all the others who, under that same tricolor, had marched out, away from her life, never to return. Hours later, when Bibi came in, his little tragedy all for- gotten, his face reflecting only the golden glory of the summer day, he found her sitting there, dry-eyed, her shriveled lips muttering prayers for those already dead, for those about to dlg. Into her shaking hands he thrust s offering—a nosegay of bluets, the color of the sky, of fleld-poppies, a flame of red, and mullein, white with the dust of the road—the tricolor that had taken from them grandfather, father, husband and sons. A choking sob slipped across her lips and she flung the flowers from her on to the hearth, where the red petals of the poppies lay in mimicry of the fire that might never again blaze thereon. A Days passed; only a few—Bibi could not count them, Mere Craquette would not. The heavy-headed blades of grain lay prone upon the ground, ungarnered by the hands that were too tiny, the hands that were too old. There were others, of course, in that deserted land, as lonely as these two, but there were no other quite so helpless—a child of six, a grandam of eighty-six. Indoors, the woman could only sit and pray. Out of doors, the child played with his flowers—bluets, bits of the sky, popples, red as blood, and mullein, a dried and ghastly white. , The short-lived poppies drooped and fell to the earth, the mullein crumbled to dust, only the bluets were left. And then there dawned the day of horror. For hours of light and dark- ness the roar of cannon had filled the universe, for hours of light and dark- ness the grandmother had knelt quiv- ering and trembling before the cruci. fix. At daybreak the low horizon stretched—a long line of fire and smoke; flames licking up the parched flelds with the hovels that stood im their midst, black smoke creeping like a pall across the sky. In the gray light before the sum had risen Mere Craquette stood in the doorway and watched the oncoming devastation, a foeman that feet, how- ever young and agile, might not out- distance, that no human hand might stay. Clutching Bibi by the wrist, she re-entered the house and closed the door. Better to die crouched before the cross, with suppliant hands upom its succoring feet, than to be caught creeping and crawling through the , fields of matted grain. For a little time Bibl lay quiet in her arms, listening to the ever-n- the business of Mose Levich, bank- rupt, according to a decision recent- ly made by H. H. Whitaker, fereree of bankruptcy. Levich came possession of a bill of sale over Miss Morgan's body in 1907, when the young woman entered his pawn shop and as security for a loan of $10 of- fered him the right to her body after | her death. Toads. There is nothing very attractive looking about toads. If you should find one of the homely little fellows I | into ! 1 | i creasing roar, watching the light that even now was redder than any rays windows of his home. Soon, though, from the feeble hands that, with the passing of all things earthly, had al- most forgotten to hold him. Out of doors the horizon was still only a line | of red and black, and Bibi could not know that it was a score of miles nearer to his home than it had been‘ | a short hour before. Here and there above the broken grain there waved | atiny flag of blue. Upon his baby lips . fragments of “Honneur, Gloire, Patrie,” + he ran to and fro gathering his be- loved bluets. feet of He but still Jutching in his bands his bluets. i Then ‘he saw, rushing lown upon him, horses, more horses than in all | is life he had ever seen and, mounted on them, men, different from any men hat he had ever beheld. Did he 00k ! for the tricolor? Did he know that {only under the tricolor might friends i be found? High above his yellow head I 'he held the bluets. Perhaps it was only fate, perhaps .w. was the God to whom the grandmere's prayers were rising, but the man who saw the baby hands and the blue coran- flowers was the man of war. A sud- | den word and there was a sudden halt "of all the pounding hoofs. Bending ! down from his horse, the man of war ! took the blossoms, and on his lips was 'a word the childish ears had never . heard spoken in a tongue he could not | understand: “Kaiserblumen!” “Honneur, Patrie, Glofre.” The va- liant words rested curiously upon the baby lips, but in an instant the intel- i lect before which the entire world was | trembling understood. Honor—Glory— | Fatherland—the same in every heart— ! for which every man must lay down | his life, whatever helpless atom be might leave behind him. | There were orders quick and clear and then the pounding hoofs passed on, but around the fields of Mere Craquette was a double cordon com- posed of the flower of the army, the emperor's personal staff. It was theirs to obey, whether it might be a phalanx® ot fellow creatures that was to be mowed down, whether it might be a conflagration lighted by their own torches that was to be stayed. The August moon was well past the tull, only a little crescent of gold that L m Ty g o Watched the Oncoming Devastation. preceded by a few hours the rising of the sun. It looked down upon a scorched and smoldering territory. To the north, to the south, to the east and west it stretched, but in the cen- ter stood Bibi's home, the small thatched cottage, surrounded by its field of grain, trampled, perhaps, a lit- tle under the feet of its zealous de- fenders—fallen here and there—but gheltering everywhere clusters of blos- soms blue as heaven itself, Bibi's blu- ets, the “Kaiserblumen” beloved by the man of war. MAKES ATTACK ON DESSERT Ohio Newspaper Classes It Among the Undesirable Superfiuities of Human Life. A man has come to this country from abroad to advocate vegetarian- fsm. He is a hale and hearty fellow who has never practiced anything but vegetarianism. It is a good thing and we are in favor of everybody not eating any meat who doesn't want it. of sunlight that had ever flooded the | he grew restless and slipped away But there are other reforms just as good. We might discard the dessert and fare better. The reason for re- sorting to dessert is to enable one to eat more than he ought to eat. For Instance, after eating roast beef, po- tatoes and bread, can a man resist a piece of pie? Morally he ought to, but physically he couldn't. Eating too much is materialism in its worst form, and it does more to blunt the senses and to squelch noble ! aspiration than any of the othor habits, and the dessert is its guardian | angel. So dessert is a superfluity, it | | one has had enough of the plece de | resistance et cetera, and the super- | { fluities are the danger points of life. | Mere than enou physical ill. Socrates was ; dessert when he praveq: grant me what I need and po Ohio State Journal Er i SR G DB more Squirrel Wisdom., The squirrel knows better than depend on luck frem day to day bring him his food in the season w that food is to be found only in E age, says the Cleveland Plain De The squirrel has a lesson to ‘lxo;(:halt‘:; POES SOMEBODY » a4 42ass THE MONEY YOU EARN? DO YOU GET I, WHO GETS O LSE WHO DOES NOT EARN IT? “ YOUR “EARNING POWER” CANNOT LAST ALWAYS, WHILE YOU ARE MAKING MONEY BANK IT AND BE Fixgp FOR OLD AGE. JUST DO A LITTLE THINKING. BANK_WITH _US. WE PAY 5 PER CENT INTEREST ON TIME DEPOSITS, :American State Bank ‘EE FNIFMERICAN ONE OF US.” SR Flour! Flour!| F Now is the Time to Lay In a Supply &R Sacks Best Plain Flour - $3.8) Sacks Best Plain Flour 1.00 Sacks Best Plain Flour 50¢ Srlf-Rising Fiour 400 E. 6. TWLEDELL PHONE:59 FEOSB DB 98 Ib. 24 Ib. 12 1b, 08 Ib. of every ten would have the chance. Shall Florida have its train? fectly clean, a thing impossible to do except at a cost higher than the fesults warrant. Plants will usually begin to show hopping about among your flowers and | plants do not allow anyone to disturb | Bim, as they are invaluable to farm-; ers and gardeners. They destroy proud but shorter-sighted brother of the human race. All the fal] the bushy- tailed fellow, what time he could sl;ll:P from eluding the guns of hunters Tired, stifled by the heat, the source of which he could not understand, he sat down at the edge of the road. And We Know Not What's Before Us health But you'll know that you have bloom in from sixty to seventy dars after being planted and then it is time to apply another lot of fertili- ger, but of a different formula. The first application is made as a plant grower, whereas the second is put on as a berry hardner and, there- fore, must contain more potash to attain this esult. It is necessary to have a berry that will retain its hardness unil it reaches the market, which is from two to five days from date of shipment, therefore an ap- plication of 3-6-10 is made, 500 pounds to the acre. The cost of this is about $38 per ton. Some- times, if prices are holding good, and the crop has been particularly heavy, it is well to make another application of 500 pounds of the same formula late in January, this carrying the crop over to the end (Continued on page 4) What is your answer? CRIME TO SELL TOOTHLESS HUNTING DOG Atlanta, Ga., April 12—Uncle Sam doesn't like a toothless hunting dae. The federal grand jury has just in- dicted George Lawhorn, of Carters- ville, for selling a hunting dox whose teeth had all dropped out. A | witness swore he had ordered a {hunting dog by mail from Lawhon, |and that he got a fine dog, with the exception that a short ime afer i arrived all its teeth dropped out. The toothless dog, however, is not the only point at issue, as it is al- {)eged that in several cases Lawhon failed to send any dog at all. many insects and bugs that would oth- erwise ruin plants. Had Mis Uses. “That man doesh’t seem to do much but stand arounc and look important,” sald the manager. “Yes,” replied the proprietor. “He’s naturally gifted that way. All the rest of us are hustling in soch a hurly-burly fashia that [ thin¥ ¥ well tn 7 to giva a tourh of ease and digaity to the scene.”--Washington Star. German Scieatific Distdvery, German experiments have indicated that drainage waters do not take any more plant food away from fertilized eolls than from unfertilized. First Folding Pocket Knives. Pocket kmives with blades to fold into the handle by 2 spring, were first made in the middle of the eighteenth century. now there was a new sound in the air “—not the deadly roar of the cannon that had thundered for two whole days, not the rush of flame, but a ! steady, rhythmic throb that, with ev- ery instant, grew nearer and louder. Bibi’s mind, already confused by the difficult breaths he drew, could not Subject for Congratulation. Mavbe a man is lucky if his wife . takes an interest in politics instead o readine hest sellers and feeling hurt Soeanse he can't act like one of the aerocs. Insect Pest Causes Meavy Loss. It is reported that the blowfly Gauses an annual loss of more tham 11,000,000 sheep in Australia. Victoria bas not yet seriously suffered from this pest, owing, no doubt, to the compulsory dipping of all sheep, and to the starlings, which are here found in large numbers. licensed by law, gathered tree and ground and put t::v: lh:.m safely for the winter uge. He knewy somehow, that a long season was at| hand when nuts could not be found; when it would be impossible to roam | at large in search of Provender. | ————— : Uncie Eben, “Dey say dat opportunity knocks omce,’ said Uncle Eben. “De man dat misses t s lishie L P 2N e put in de res , B :Metime gnociin’, o | | | you will have a finely polished glass, ‘without the use of numerous Qo the work. S - A Load of Good Sound Lumber behind you, when perched on your wagon, homeward bound, after having been Loaded in our Yards WE SELL THE BEST e G L Lakeland Manufacturing Company | LAKELAND, FLA. I ~————_ PHONE % = L i persons Charles Lamb rems™® 1y that he “should like to K% —+to ask them to dinner. Dot ait with them?” asked solemnly. “Yes, I would &it thing but a hen or a ta'lo”