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Clippings From State Papers. The Florida Orange Growers’ Company. A meeting of representative orange growers was held at Tampa on Thurs day of last week, when an organiza tion was partially perfected under the above name. Mr. E. F. Sperry, of Orlando, was elected president, and Mr. E. S. Anderson, .of Auburndale, secretary, and a committee appointed to prepare a charter and perfect the organization. The capital stock is to consist of SIO,OOO divided into shares of $5 each. The purposes of the organization were explained by Mr. J. Varn, of Bradentown, who declared that though other industries had organized for their mutual protection and ad vancement, the orange growers of Florida were without proper combina tion and he urged them to come to gether on the matter, though they are Democrats, Republicans or of other parties. Perfect an organization, call it what you may, trust, if please to so name it, but so effective that it will protect the growers from unjust competition, commission men’s op pressions, railroad overcharges and delays, and the kindred ills which the orange growers of Florida have ever suffered. He claimed that if the grow ers would unite in a stock company or corporation with even a goodly sized minority of the orange men in it at the beginning, it would prove of vast benefit to the grove owners and soon enlist the entire orange growing interest of the state into so effective an organization as to protect it and market the crop with profit. The Best Florida News. The best news getting into the Florida papers these days is that which tells about the rich returns from the truck crops. The Hastings sec tion, for instance, has harvested and marketed at good prices 90,000 bar rels of potatoes, and C. H. Kennedy, of Palatka, made a net profit of $330 on less than one acre in celery. He made $250 per acre on beets, two crops on the same land each year, and on lettuce and tomatoes he has also made large profits. These are but typical instances from all over the trucking belt. If the Lord has built a man so that he has a reasonable amount of brains and he doesn’t sit down in helpless collapse before the practical problems of life, there is no reason why he shouldn’t dig his independence out of Florida soil in a very few years. But he won’t do it farming along the old lines. He’s got to read up on the literature of the subject, post himself on new methods and learn how to do some sure-enough thinking as a tiller of the soil before he can realize on the opportunities of the new agricuF tural era now opening up in this state. Investigation will doubtless show that all of these many citizens of Florida who are every year making handsome profits at truck and fruit farming, are well informed men who make a special study of their business, keep their minds open for new facts, are bound to no fixed system and are always experimenting with a view to improvement.—Live Oak Democrat. Great Possibilities. The editor while waiting for con nection one day recently, spent the day in Sanford. While there he took a ride through what is now known as Celery Avenue, which reaches from town to the St. Johns River, three miles east of the city. Along this avenue he saw the possibilities of a vast vegetable garden covering thou sands of acres and under the hands of sturdy settlers rapidly being trans formed into productive fields. The secret of all this fertility is water. One passes a dozen flowing wells along the avenue belonging to truckers, and others are being dug constantly. This land when tilled and sweetened produces abundantly, with plenty of water supplied at the proper time and in proper quantity. There is a gradual slope to all this land to ward Lake Monroe and the river, which with the artesian wells make it an ideal spot. Land has gone up to SIOO and $l5O per acre and is selling readily at that. Celery, lettuce, cucumbers, tomatoes, sweet corn, beans, beets, potatoes, cabbage, in fact no vegetable but grows at its best under these conditions. There will be a tremendous influx of growers to this point so that in five years Sanford will double her present popu lation.—Eustis Lake Region. Millions of Pounds of Fish. The spring fishing season closed last Saturday and all our fishermen and the dealers are observing the law and taking a rest. The season was up to the average in the amount of the catch and the financial returns, and all concerned are well pleased. Since Jonuary first and up to the close, the shipments from this port amounted to eighty-six carloads in bulk and 4,804 barrels. For the fall season preceding, which began Aug. 15th and closed Nov. 15th, 1906, the shipments amounted to 125 carloads in bulk and 2,582 barrels. Adding these shipments, the total for the fish ing year of eight months included within the dates, Aug. 15th, 1906, and June 15th, 1907, amounts to 211 car loads and 7,386 barrels. As each carload contains 24,000 pounds net (some few have contained as much as 28,000) and each barrel 200 pounds, it follows that the total shipments of fish from this port for the fishing year just closed aggregate 6,541,200 pounds. This is up to the average. The above figures are taken from the railroad books and are not guess work or estimates by The Herald re porter.—Punta Gorda Herald. Successful Truckers. Salter & Starmont, who came here from Tampa, two years ago, closed a successful trucking season Wed nesday. They have been gardening on four acres of muck land belonging to Mayor Northrup, lying alongside the railroad tract, west of the city. The latter part of last August they pre pared the land, and early in the win ter began marketing their products. All of the land raised two crops, and some of it three crops of vege tables. They had a half acre in straw berries and from this gathered 3000 quarts, which netted them S6OO. All of the products found a ready market in St. Petersburg except $l5O worth of celery which was shipped North. The gentlemen cleaned up $2500 for the season, and are highly gratified with their first year’s work. Next season they will increase their strawberry acreage, and go in more extensively on celery—the Nye Pack ing House contracting to buy all cele ry that is not in demand locally.—St. Petersburg Independent. Manatee Vegetables. Forty-four thousand, eight hundred and twenty-four crates of vegetables or 149 solid cars. That’s the number of crates shipped from Manatee in ninety days, or from February Ist to April 30. Of this number, 34,824 crates were shipped over the Seaboard, while 10,- 000 crates went forward by the boats. At least three-fourths of the above was celery, which shows the extent our truckers are raising this tooth some vegetable. Had it not been for the drouth doubtless the above figures would have been almost doubled. Estimating conservatively, that the 44,824 crates shipped netted the grow ers an average of $1.50 per crate, it would mean $67,436.00 put in the pockets of the truck growers of Manatee.—Manatee Record. THE FLORIDA AGRICULTURIST. A pack of dogs all afflicted with rabies recently attacked a herd of thirty pure-bred Shorthorn cattle near Des Moines, lowa, and killed all of them. —Denver Field and Farm. It is reported that the tomato grow ers of Boynton have had the most successful season in the history of that section, the yield being large and of good quality. Most of the crop was sold for spot cash oh board cars at Boynton.—St. Augustine Record. That the strawberry industry at Starke pays the growers handsome profits, is well known. If any proof is needed the fact may be cited that the Bradford County Bank at Starke cashed checks remitted for strawber- FREE EXCHANGE COLUMN. Advertisements of twenty (20) words or less will be inserted in this column free for regular subscribers who have products or other articles they would like to exchange. Regular business announcements will not be permitted under any circumstances. I WISH to exchange Rhode Island Red chickens for a Collie dog, or a cornet for the same. C. FRED WARD, Winter Park, Fla. TO EXCHANGE —Letters patent on heating device. Will exchange for poultry, live stock or anything of equal value. JACK SON W. FOSTER, R. F. D. No. 2, Jack sonville, Fla. I WOULD like to exchange nice, ripe pine apples for some peaches, pears, plums or canteloupes. A. LAMONT, White City, Fla. [4 4 4 EVERY 4 BVSINESS NAM I 4 4 4 SHOULD 4 4 4 I Sch ol cirsM/bs SO. 7J-, £O. Not only a good hand, but a good busi ness letter as well. The place to do it is at a good business school, and the Tampa. Business College stands pre-eminently above others as a successful institution. Terras reasonable. Open all the year. Write I#. M. HATTON, President, Krauß^Building^-Tampa^loridJEu I J 1 MACY WAGON CO , - - THE Hagan GAS and GASOLINE ENGINES With iAll Latest Scientific Improvements. These NEW ENGINES have ground joints. No gaskets to blow out. and require no packing. Have PATENT CHAIN FEED, NO GASOLINE PUMP, to leak, causing trouble and danger. Have THROTTLING GOVERNOR, perfect at any speed or load. Speed ry shipments this season, in excess of $329,000. Great is Florida. —St. Au g ustin eßeco rd. OH EAR GO LUM /W Twenty words or more I V* cents per word. For three or more insertions 1 cent per word. No advertisements taken for less than 25 cents. WANTED —Someone to inform me as to where I can obtain California Beer Seed. C. E. CHAMBERLAIN, Binghamton, Tenn. NO MORE' SAN JOSE SCALE —Red head fungus sure and speedy death. For in formation address F. P. HENDERSON, Arno, Fla. FOR SALE—Part or whole of breeding stock (-7) of pedigreed English Berkshire Hogs. Also gcod horse and two seated surry, low price to early purchaser. Address C. A. BALLOU, Melbourne, Fla. FOR SALE —A four acre celery farm with two-story seven room house, good barn, on Celery avenue. Sanford, for $6,000. Address C. B. H., care Florida Agricul turist. _ FOR SALE —A fine piece of farm land of thirty acres, of which fifteen acres is or ange grove, two miles from Eustis, Lake Cos., for $4,000. Address C. B. H. care of Florida Agriculturist. FOR SALE —Cow peas, all varieties; cotton seed meal and hulls. Special prices. J. LINDSAY WELLS CO., Memphis, Tenn. BICYCLES and bicycle supplies at SHANI BERGER’S, Orlando, Fla. FOR SALE —Twelve acres of land, 200 or ange trees; under irrigation; especially adapted for strawberries. Address BOX 20, Pinecastle, Fla. FOR SALE —Banana Plants. The Bananas will oroduce more nourishing food to the acre year by year than any food grown. BEARHEAD FARM. Orlando. Florida. FOR SALE —Latest Victor Talking Machines and Records. Perfect musical instruments, wholesale and retail. Everything in Victor goods. Catalogues free. METROPOLITAN TALKING MACHINE CO.. 323 Main St., Jacksonville, Fla. FOR SALE The cheapest little place in Marion county; 20 acres, all cleared; small house and other improvements. Will take $3,600. Address OWNER, care Agricultur ist. FOR SALE —Several hundred very fine grape fruit buds, two years old. Address BOX 21 7 , Orlando, Fla. FOR SALE —Rough Lemons. WILSON & FLYE. Miami, Fla. CUT-AWAY HARROWS and repairs. E. S. HUBBARD. Agent. Federal Point. Fla.. 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