146 ORANGE CULTURE IN FLORIDA. 



among the orange trees, both for bread and forage. 

 It is better, however, to grow it for forage, as it is 

 not so exhaustive to land when cut in a green state. 

 Indeed the names of crops that may be grown profit- 

 ably, if the land is kept rich, is legion ; as our cli- 

 mate and soil will grow almost everything that can 

 be grown in the temperate zone as well as all the 

 semi-tropical plants. Sheep and poultry can be 

 raised with great profit in Florida. In almost every 

 neighborhood sheep will find an excellent range in 

 the pine forest. They should be penned at night 

 in the grove. For this purpose a movable pen of 

 light boards four inches wide, the sections of twenty 

 and sixteen feet in length, so that when sections 

 are put together they will be self-supporting, is a 

 great convenience. The writer has one such which 

 requires only a few moments to move, so that stock 

 penned can have fresh land on which to rest every 

 night or two. It is a good way to fertilize a grove, 

 if the pen is not allowed to remain too long in one 

 place. A similar arrangement can be had for poul- 

 try, so that they can always be confined at the 

 right spot. If too heavy to lift, they can be made 

 to roll on wheels made of sections of a round log. 



