Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, April 30, 1915, Page 3

DENSBIVIVIVEVED|AP0E0PVI0S0SQSD ® Ldhd + & AMERICAN ASSOCIATION ~~fl3 NATIONAL LEAGUE o o * @ DEOPRIVIVIVPVIV|0IVIVSVITOOEIBSD Standing of the Clubs Standing of the Clubs W. L. Pet. w. CE R E-EE-EE-EN-TN-¥Y LR-X X1 LR * 3 SOUTH ATLANTIC < (E-ER-EE-EE-E N TN RN Shndingolthg‘SInhll : . L. Pet. Pet. indianapolis .. .. ..10 4 .714 |Philadelphia .. .. ..11 2 .846 Charleston .. .. ....12 5 .706 st. Paul .. .. .. .. 9 5 .643|Cincinpati .. .. .. .. 9 5 .643 .Alblny e e <11 6 .647 Louisville .. .. .. .. 9 5 .643|Boston .. .. .. .... 7 6 .538 iMacon .. . .10 7 .588 Cleveland .. .. .. .. 7 7 .500(Chicago .. .. .. .. 7 6 .538 Savannah .9 8 529 Minneapolis .. .. ... 6 7 .462(St. Louis .. .. .. .. 7 9 .438|Columbus 49 8 .529 Kansas City .. .. .. 6 7 .462 | Pittsburgh . .5 8 .385 jAugusta .. e eee T 10 412 Milwaukee . . I | 8 .429 | Brooklyn .. . B 9 .357 'Columbuu e se se .06 11 363 Columbus .. ... .. .. 2 12 ,143|New York-.. . E ] 9 .250 Jacksonville .. .. ... 4 13 .235 At Columbus 3, Cleveland 6. Results Y At St. Paul 7, Kansas City 10. At Brooklyn 7, Philadelphia 4. Results Yesterday At Louisville 5, Indianapolis 8. At Minneapolis 3, Milwaukee 10. At St. Louis 9, Cincinnati 10. GerBsBeVIVODITIGN . * 3 AMERICAN LEAGUE o a . LEER-ER-EE-RE-RE-RX-1 i bs S ""\5."‘ L. Pet. L EE-EEEE-ER-R2-RN-T 8] * * 4 FEDERAL LEAGUE < * * R A2 S R-ER-EE-RE-R8 At Columbus 3, Macon 0. At Charleston 1, Savannah 0. At Augusta 7-12, Columbja 3-2. At Jacksonville 3, Albany 9. TIELD OF JAPANESE - CANE WITH DIFFERENT Qe0r0e0eVeDEO & ) SOUTHERN LEAGUE V400 OQEIOSOF QSO Standing ottheClu'bsl W. L, PGP0 | . Nashville .. New Orleans Birmingham .. .. Memphis.. . Chattanooga Mobile .. .. .. ‘Atlanta .. .. .. Little Rock .. . cowe - Results Yesterday : ! At Chattanooga 7, Little Rock 11. At New Orleans 12, Atlanta 1. At Mobile 9, Birmingham 11. i At Memphis 2, Nashville 7. “WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH FLORIDA?" (Arcadia Enterprise.) _|sending millions of dollars out 4 |of the country annually for the most of our citizens would either display cold feet or laugh out- right in his face at the thought of such a preposterous pipe dream. | Does it not seem as though the spirit of home pride and seli- dependence characteristic of our | people in other respects would revolt at such conditions? With all the natural resources of wealth which Florida affords it is almost a disgrace that we are B R O OB OB ORI ORI T R The Best is None T 00 Good. . &9 For each graduateof the Public Schools. The BEST place to buy is always the BEST and LARGEST stock to select your gift. @ Cole & Hull bave at this time the largest stock of Graduation Gifts to offer in Lakeland or Polk Co. with a Guarantee that is established ordinary necessities and com- forts of life whe hare available at home when conditions could be easily reversed and we might have the millions coming into the state for the same products. Let us resolve to cultivate a new spirit of economic patriot- ism and enter upon the great work of developing Florida with renewed energy and with more confidence in ourselves and our great country. Individuals here and there may stand in the way of mater- ial advancement. If so we should | not let them block our way. Get them to join the procession if possible; if not possible then find a way around them, or if|l “A Pleasure to Show Goods.” Cole & Hull JEWELERS AND OPTOMETRISTS LAKELAND : - . . . FLORIDA R S WY Wiing o fl“\s,hhl.,. Pet. :«:t;ol;;r.k it e : :, ';;g mmm e i ; necessary, flatten them out with NewsERGZS Lo (L .10 6 .035 |Chioago i .. .. .. ..9 T 568 _This is a_ auestion you hear|the steam roller of progress and e p Chicagd .. - 8 5 615 | Washington .. .7 6 .538 By John M. Scott. discussed quite frequently and keep up the onward march over On 5. Bisioits Beala: To Keep Butter. Brooklyn .. cv v 9 6 .600 |Bogton .. .. .. .5 6 .455 ":l‘:jei:t: dlgeren:swe\\- ‘]))fea th_e‘ every opposition. Shortly after the reconstruction pe mzv‘?::“th’:r:“i:;;o‘;c:en t:h:o:;.,. Faree - 2 s furin i i s often you ¥ i tod began x ;‘::‘:rg:ty 3 5 : ; j:: :::l‘l’:;::‘dm-a' . Z : 4381 (Press Bulletin 234, University | discussed. One will say we need |gpouLD COME TO TAMPA, | met Gie ot b nzlgd,.o:(;m“l,’:;::‘ ::I:';::; :: nt“t: neavy enough to hold a po- BRI . 8 9 4008 Teals . . .5 11 .313] of Florida Agricultural Ex- |good roads, another a better sys- "| mot seen since the latter's liberation. §5 510 Saron Baltimore .. .. .. .. 6 10 .375 7 i : S tem of marketing our fruits, an- et ek ‘Well, well!” gaid the planter. “What Ty ' st. Louis .. B e asy periment Station) other more publicity, and so on INewspapers fl_"’““fi the cen-| are you gly.ing now, Uncle Josh?" “I's Not So as to Be Noticed, : Results Yesterday down the line. tral part of Florida are agitating| a-preachin’ of de Gospil.” ~What! You “Pa. when You say vou're laying fop At Boston 4, New York 6. The fact is there sis nothing |2 movement to have a new Dixic| preaching?” “Yassah, marster, I's a- ® person it means you have a grudge Results Yesterday At Detrait 8, Bt.| Iauls 1. The fertilizer experiments |the matter with Florida; not a|llighway, planned to run from | Preachin’” “Well, well! Do you use 8gainat him, docen’t it?” “Generally, St. Louis 2-9, Pittsburgh 8-7. At Washington 1, Philadelphia 3. | 1€ : . . hi i th 1d. T Chicago to Florida, so laid out| botes? Nossuh. At de fust I use my son Well, has the hen @& Baltimore 1, Brooklyn 11. At Chicago 4, Cleveland 5. with ]apa}leae cane were begun|tarnation thing in the world. It that it will pass this way. The|2ot* but now I demands de cash."— &rudge against the farmer, pa?"—Boge in the spring of 1909. Observa-|is the greatest state in the Union HhLy s ll :;I be tlk d of JTudue. ton Transcript, look like a “busted” k. tion and notes have been kept|in a thousand different ways. It f““f‘ ‘-5;.-\’ruu\\;' been ta }:_y() flm"m M‘)RNIA 00! 1~e‘.1 usted” market on (M experiment each year |is a land where every prospect A\I{ld’ C l(‘-l}{tkt-. iami Ig{: way. “r‘wgc"l o fius.i that twith- Since. Hence we have the re-|pleases and the only fault we can Atz ‘““I‘.‘T“N“_ it B 8 _l‘(‘“g‘?i ms mpm BY | S 180 R 18K LPEWARIE . Sitite Sromy sk crops from which|find is with her people. Florida |, #mPa highway they ask, and standing the general California tosdtaw lusions. Eight plots|would be by far the richest state|l¢t it pass down through the The Secret of a G % mmm ml[n growers’ idea that the retailers|'C ¢raw conclusions. Eight plots b ¢ e |heart of the State by way of Or- e Sec a Good Figure Letter in California Daily Paper From Prominent New York Fruit Broker Extols Juciness and Superior Quality of i Florida Product. are making all the money, Cal- Iifornia oranges have never, in our estimation, been retailed as cheap as they are at present in New York. One of our largest retailers, who has a number of fancy branches in New York and New Jersey, Messrs. Acker, of Japanese cane were used iniiu the Union today if her peo- : i ol this work. On an average fur'plv would only have it that way, Ilml(\’”l l‘\.""lf”"l- ,k‘”""“{:;" six years the yields from the!and when we set about to reme-! ! c'f"l‘ A ‘l‘“ “'; r_“ml‘cfl'mrcl various plots varied from 7:351dy our own faults all the good|?'¢ With you, brothers. Centra often li the brassic Hundreds of thonsands of women wear th n-Jolie Bra iere for the reason that they regard it as necessary as a It supports the bust and back and gives the figure the youthful outline fashion decrees. BE“ nrlv‘ the daintiest, most serviceable ~JOLIE £ Florida with its fertile lands is Merral & Condit, have been ad- vertising lately in the New York The following from the River- daily papers “Sunkist oranges side (Cal.) Press of the 9th iqst. T will l(Je found interesting reading 20" 2'h cents pc}r3 (llozen.h }llve by Florida orange growers. Note|find that James Butler, who has that the writer has been handling ab_out one Ahun.dred and forty re- California oranges “exclusively”[tail groceries in Greater New for years. York, is advertising in all of his Editor Riverside Press: The|stores today 18 Cghfprma nayels writer notes with much interest|for 25 cents. This is certainly the new marketing plan suggest-|getting California navels to the ed by the Riverside Heights ex-|consumer as cheap as any grow- change in your paper of March er could ask for, and when the 23. We also note Humphrey. J. Rlvefsnde exchange talks about Coughlin’s remarks concerning|running push.carts, we saw on same, Fulton street near Broadway, The writer has spent the last| Wednesday afternoon, thl:ec twenty years exclusively hand-(peddler’s wagons, laoded up with ling California oranges at New|906s to l265_ of ?ahfprma navel York which proves that our up-joranges, with blg“sugns on ithe to-date ideas have met the ap-]|wagons, reading, Famous"5un- proval of our clients in Californ- kist oranges, 5 for 10 cents.” We ia. also understand th'a\t peddlers In our estimation, there are are selling Porto Rico oranges several reasons for the present :uld_ ofl'ern_uz them as Sunkist. deplorable condition of the Cal-' The writer has kept house iforniz orange grower. The pr.m-;tlnrn'-!l_wcc years, and we have cipal one is Florida. Flondalzl §lnndmg sign on our house, orange crop this year has been, “No peddlers :.I!nwcrl. Tt does exceptionally large and fine andlnut' mkac any .(llfie\‘(.‘“(‘t‘ to the sweet. California’s have been writer's wife, if a peddler came sour. A large part of the con-‘fllu[\u our street, and offered éum{ng trade in the East buy or-'California navels off the wagon anges for the juice they contain. | for 10 cents a doz'eu, we would By actual tests here we find that; not h|.n' them. We buy at our take a 200-size California navel, grocer’s, whgrc we are sure of re- it takes 5o 1-2 oranges to pro- liable quality. With peddlers duce one gallon of juice, while there is no such assurahce. Or- it only takes 34 1-2 Florida or- ange growers cannot afford to anges, 200-size, to produce the | raise California oranges and sell same amount of juice. them to a man back East work- Another thing, during Decem-'ing for $1 a day. ber, January and February, es- . H. Robérts, one of our most pcciaily the Florida orange is|prominent fruit jobbers, return- much st'veeter than the navel;'ed a week_ or so ago from.an ex- and another thing, there has tended trin through California, been any quantity of Florida or- and he told the writer the other es put into this market this day that he went through several el l,wei hing as high as Riverside orange groves and o nd: %o the box. The con- could not find any sweet fruit x?nm tr:de naturally would, while he was there, aqd this was prefer a Florida orange during the first of March. We have ad- h inter months for reasons vocated for years that no one ;t:te: Ic;m estimate the amnll:ntcofr?am- , i on account of age done every year by Californ- \v::‘:lt:l‘e;\/i‘l‘:;li\g'tin?es back East,|ia s.hlppinz scve@l thousand cars this year the consumers buy less of immature fruit to Eastern fruit. The fruit dealers in New |markets. Times are not what York have had the poorest sea-[they used to be, and a consumer son they have ever experienced,|who puts up 40, 50 or, 60D cents and the general price on not on- for a dozen of navels in ccem- lv oranges, but apples and pota- bcr. 'Ianua'rv or_even February, C d 'Mg everything in the in New York, is stuck and he P ?n ul'us been the lowest does not forget it because of the — been. With ap- sourness of the fruit. j they have ever . Gl ples oran; The writer has been priees“ S‘I:S P ge;forniax a great many times, and Thgt:lis .one question we he has vet to find what he calls an eatable navel in Califor:iahin s exchan; that is: Miarch, and he believes, an as Wh; :t’n;x havegs:\i;:‘e‘d no fancy |believed for years that if there Bl -4 Globe oranges this year?|were no navgls slglpped out of Th“bulk of their fruit that has|southern California = before the Me put into this market has | first oflz‘lhrch, the zeneralfqrol:'!'-. been secon: irds.|er would get more money for his iched. e R e fruit. What’s the use of work- ing for the railroads exclusively? You might better cull out one- third of vour crop in California than sell in the East at the Jan- would like to ask the Riverside § was given an application of 112 4 W rients jmaginable, Only the tons to 13.7 tons of green mater-|things which we look forward to|! A A H Al N st of materials are used—for in- ial per (u}rz ! will come of their own volition. l"“l ok ',“_"“.If :}ntltl(]“fl .‘to C;:: n?_fisfsrg%{n‘- hS' :'-'-:I'.’:?’;m.“’dm‘mifly‘i:h".h‘...m Incomplete fertilizers _were|Some of the conditions which we ::;:l( i‘:laf"w‘:h \1\ :):-Llic\'(:ai: is mm;c They comr:ln all :tylu. n'dn"“hh::mmm deall used on plots 1, 2 and 3. Plot 1'must remedy before Florida can entitled to it fh:m the: consls will'show them to you o% requont. 1f e ocs Bow oy e take her place in the front rank are given below. Walking down the street of a Florida town you will see cold storage eggs shipped in from the North, when Florida winters make conditions ideal for egg producing and this state should be supplying a dozen northern states throughout the winter. pounds of muriate of potash per acre each year. On an average of six years this plot gave a yield of 109t tons of green material per acre. Plot 2 was fertilized with 84 vounds of muriate of potash and 224 pounds of acid phosphate per acre each year. On an average of six years plot 2 gave a yield of 9.65 tons of green| We know a man who owns a material per acre. Plot 3 was|thousand head of cattle in given an application of “ziSnuth Florida who goes to the pounds of dried blood and 224 butcher shop every day and pays pounds of acid phosphate per““")"fi"e cents for creamery acre. Om an average of six|butter and twenty-five cents for lyears plot 3 produced a yield of |packing house meats shipped in only 7.55 tons of green material jfrom the North. This same. man per acre. ) ships his cattle to the northern taken Floriga will be found to | B lhesc' results'would' mdlcal:e mar!(e!s by the train loads. have a million and a quarter peo- that potash and ammonia are the| We know a man who has pl Jrlando Sentinel. important fertilizing elements : hushels of lemons rotting under ineeded in producing a sntisfac-‘his trees. We have alos seen tory yield of corn. One im]lt)l'-l Florida limes—the finest that tant point to consider is that'grow—going to waste in the plot 2 which received no amon- wild groves of the jungles in nia gave a better yield than did [this county. And yet you will plot 3, which received dried | find on sale in almost every city blood and acid phosphate, in the estate lemons wrapped Plots 4 and 6 were given com-|\ith Italian labels. iplete fertilizers as follows: Sul-] Florida spends thousands of |phate of amonia, 72 puur!ds; Pot-idollars every year for imported '-'h'h. 84 pounds, and acid phos-1hay when South Florida lands phate, 224 pounds, per acre. The|can produce better hay and jonly difference in these two|more of it to the acre than al- iplots was that muriate of POt-imost any section of the United ash was applied to plot 4 and|States. We let our own hay go sulphate ,of potash was applied to waste and pay the northern to plot 6. For an average of six|farmer $25 per ton for his hay. years plot 4 produced 11.87 tons Recently we saw a party tak- and plot 6 produced 12.54 tons ing a lunch on a dock in this per acre of green material. ThiS‘cmmtr\-_ They were eating shows a difference of only .67 of Norwegian sardines and Alaska 1a ton in favor of sulphate of pot-|salmon with Kansas City crack- ash, ers, Baltimore catsup and St Plot 5 received dried blood,|Louis pickles. The - sardines 112 pounds: muriate of potash,|cost ten cents, the salmon twen-[ 84 pounds, and acid phosphate, |ty cents, the crackers five cents 224 pounds, per acre, Plot 7land the catsup fifteen cents and was given the same fertilizer ex- the pickles twenty-five cents, cept that sulphate of potash was making a total of seventy-five applied instead of muriate. On|cents, Tt is safe to estimate that an average of six years plot §|the luncheon party paid a tri- gave a yield of 1091 tons of hute of fifty cents to foreign in- green material per acre and plot|dystries. But the worst feature 7 gave a yield of 11.99 tons of of it is that from this very dock green material per acre. This|\where the lunchers ate shipped gives a difference of 1.08 tons of |ped hundreds of carloads of mul- green material per acre in favor let, mackerel, trout and other of sulphate of potash. fine fish every day. Mullet are From the results obtained 'the most abundant in Florida from this work on the soil On iwaters and the fishermen have which this cane was grown (pine ' <old them this season as low as land) potash is most beneficial.'one and one-fourth ents per It seems to make but little dif-' pound. Canned dried. or pick- ference as to which form of pot- led, they will compare favorably ash is applied. The important it anv other fish prodyct on point is that to produce the best'the market. Our sardines are vield the crop must have potash. cecond to none. large quanti- Next in importance to potash is |ties of tomatoes go to waste in ammonia. It seems to make no|oyur figlds after the shipping sea- difference which source of amon-|<on ie over which should go into ia is applied. Phosphate seems catsup and supply not only the potash and amonia in a fertilizer | port trade as well. The same is for Japanese cane. Ground lime- |jargely true of and stone acted as a temporary stim- kinds of and ulant only. No results were ob- tained from limestone after the application. Plot 8 was fertilized the same cucumbers other vegetables fruits. Thse are only a few of many like conditions that prevail throughout the length and uvary and February prices this at as a large pro-|vear. N portion m ijs extra| Mr. Coughlin hit 3he nail on . 'h:nd it isl:mpossi- the head when he said, “Who is going to nush the exchange carts good jin New York?” If the exchange adopts the push-cart %I:n, the Thursday week the|writer would suggest that d&: the first one right in River- . and make the first stop at (Continued on page 4) as plot 7. In addition an appli- tion of 2,000 pounds of ground limestone per acre was made in 1909, 1911 and 1913. On an av-| We can find oodles of dollars erage of six years plot 8 show-|for the anto factories in the ed a vield of 13.7 tons of green|north and the oil kings of Wall material ver acre. This shows!Street, but if some one of us a difference of 1.71 tons of greenichould sugpest putting money material in favor of the use of into a home manufacturing en- ground limestone. terprise to convert our raw ma- State papers plese copy. terials into marketable products breadth of the state. Every state) has a label disnlaved on our grocerv shelves but our own. to be of less importance thanldnmgqic demand. but a large ex- ’ Oak and Pine Wood Orders handled promptly. 2hones: Office 109; Res.. §7 Green he can easily get them for you b, rit Send an {ilustrated booklet ahowing sryres thet os Lo high sovicy BENJAMIN & JOHNES 80 Warren Street Newark, N. J. mmee Gazette. MORE THAN 1,000,000 POPULATION. No state east of the Missis- sippi river is increaging as rapid- Iv as Florida in population, and few if any in the United States are increasing so rapidly. A correct census for the state would show a population of about 950,000—possibly a few: more or a few less, but the fig- ure named would not be far from correct, says the Times- Union. Ti is safe to say that; when the, next federal census is & . SANITARY PRESSING CLUB CLEANING, PRESSING. REPAIRING and DYEING. Ladies Work a Specialty. Satisfaction Guaranteed. GIVE US A TRIAL Kibler Hotel Basement. WHEN YOU FIGURE ON BUILDING, COME IN AND LET US FIGURE WITH YOU ON YOUR BUILD- ERS’ HARDWARE. BUT BEF (1) SCUCCNT 1 11CW THATOU Phone No. 393 WILL FIND OUR BUILDERS' HARDWARE TO BE WATSON & GILLESPIE, CORRECT INSTYLE AND HIGH IN QUALITY. WE Proprietors ALSO MAKE THE PRICE RIGHT. - — WHENEVER YOU NEED ANY KIND OF HARD- l w YARN[I-'. WARE,IT WILL PAY YOU TO BUY FROM US. o a8 & LIGET AND HEAVY HAULING Lakeland Hardware and Plumbing Co. HOUSEHOLD MOVING A VAN HUSS' PLACE SPECIAL Has moved their Plant to their new site corner of Parker and Vermont Avenues. Mr, Belisario, who is now sole owner of the company says that they will carry a full line of Marble Tomb Stones in connec- tion with their Ornemantel Department of this business. KELLEYS BARRED Plymouth Rocks BOTH MATINGS Better now than ever before The sooner you get your Biddies to growing the better, Let me. furnish the eggs for s Kg:d(;:d?et. Special price per I also have a large bunch of nice young Cock Birds at reasonable prices. H. L. KELLEY, Grifin, Pla. ISTOUR MOTTO Which is proven by our six years success in Lakeland. Maker of the National Steel reinforced concrete Burial Vault ; Building Blocks of all discrip- tions. Red Cement, Pressed Brick, White Brick, Pier Blocks, 3 nd 4 inch Drain Tile, 6, 7 and 8-ft Fench Post; in fact snything made of Cement. FLORIDA IATIORAL VAGLT