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VOL. XXXI.
INDIANAPOLIS, IND., MARCH 7, 1896.
NO. 10
More About the
olony Lands.
[/hat They Produce.
select trade, will be very scarce In Cuba
for some time to come, all the section
where it is tlie special variety having
been devastated   by  the raids of the in
the western half of  ihe  State  in  such
large numbers.
The tobacco crops of last year and year
before, from the  seed of* fine  Cuba to-
peach, which is now proving one of the
most profitable. A gentleman from near
Lexington, Ky., was among the first to
show what eonld be done at peach grow-
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Iversiflcd Farming,
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t used to be oranges, morning, noon
1 night in Florida. They put their
•j all in one basket too generally there,
,-jj Jack Frost last year gave an object
son. In the Highlands of western
rida the farmers have gone about
tl ir new and arduous task of raising diss, r.-iiied crops with a determination that
b '. plainly they are indomitable.
Tobacco Culture in Florida.
Vinds from, the Cuban war have not
&   n so ill as to blow Florida no good, as
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surgents.
There is evi-y reason to believe that
Florid.*. if> goir. to have quite a vast tobacco boom, w ich will play a great part
bacco, demonstrated what could be done
in the way of quality and profit. An extensive grower told us that he was erecting a large packing and curing house on 1 year after plantinir.   Laat year **
from   this  orchard  was  shipped
ing. Five or six years ago he put out his
first trees, and he told us that they bore a
little over a bushel to the tree the sec    I
ELBERTA PEACH ORCHARD.    THE ORE.VT MARKET I'KAOH.
great boom  in  the   culture of high's cigar tobaccos  in   this State so re-
"y begun may testify,
"veral colonies of Cubans have settled
lorida which  is  considered so well
!«d to the growth of the finer tobaccos,
i as are necessary in the manufacture
•?h grade cigars.   These Cuban col-
-ts declare that the Florida lands are
:»"good  for   the  culture of these to-
'-<-■ as much of the soil over on their
u'e island, and   they  have  come   to
"ida for the purpose of permanently
^fishing great tobacco plantations.
h" Cuban colonists who have come to
"ida to revolutionize the tobacco cul-
? of the State have brought the very
'Cuban  seed with  them, the variety
?*-ed to be best for the soil being the
*'"a tobacco.   This  variety  has  al-
3 grown  with  more  satisfactory re-
' >n Florida than any other kind.   It
'".*- high grade of tobacco, such as
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cigar   manufacturer  and
a very  thin,  fine  leaf  that
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j'i >n Cuba, as well as for the manu-
're of the very fine Havana cigars for
in the work of agricultural development
begun within the past few years. There
have been more than a thousand applications for tobacco seed at the department
the railroad over east of the Apalachicola
river, and will iucrease his own area in
tobacco 250 per cent this year. This and
other curing and packing houses will af-
north
6omel0days before peaches ripened in
Georgia and other favored sections, and
sold at a large profit.
Noticing that the peach trees were so
glossy an vigorous,weasked what fertil-d
izers they used on them, and the reply was,
only tobacco stems, which are so full of
potash when they rotted, after being covered about the tree with a little soil. One
very remarkable thing we saw was the
setting of 87,000 peach trees on a new field
from which the green pine timber had
been removed this winter. The grouDd
was broken for the first time among the
pine stumps, replowed and cut to pieces,
and the trees planted. The plowing can
be and is done within a few inches of
these green stumps, as the roots go down
rather than spreading out on the surface
as our Northern timber does. Thus farming of all kinds can begin and go forward
at once.
. The early peaches begin to ripen in
May, and two or   three varieties of these
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of agriculture at the State capitol, which
is an indication that the farmers throughout the State are going to follow suit with
the Cuban planters who  are settling in
ford a good market for the farmers.
Peach Growing.
Several years ago the great craze was
for other crops  to  the  neglect of  the
were out in full bloom in February, while
the temperature at Indianapolis was
seven degrees below zero. Once in a
while these very  early  ones get caught