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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



December, 1908 



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HEATERS 



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WINTER FARMING 



By E. P. Powell 



WHAT to do with the long, severe 

 Northern winters became with me a 

 very serious problem. I think it is 

 with a large majority of our people. New 

 England and New York and Michigan and 

 Illinois, I have tried them all, and what do 

 we went better than such homes for summer. 

 It is a different question when the coal bills 

 begin to increase and the whole summer profit 

 is poured into the hopper to carry us through 

 the freezing weather. I tried a good many 

 expedients before I decided to go to Florida. 

 I used to look up at the birds, and wish that 

 I had wings to follow them. I could not see 

 that there was any other way of migrating 

 that would not cost too much for my purse. 

 I had not thought through the problem, when 

 my friend President Ward, of Camp Hill In- 

 stitute, in Alabama, offered me ten acres of 

 Florida land, facing a lake, as he told me, 

 for "one hundred and fifty dollars." I bought 

 it on the spot, but for three years did not see 

 it. An unusually cold winter following an 

 unpleasant summer forced me to venture 

 southward in December. 



This is what I found out: First, I found 

 that central Florida, instead of being flat like 

 the land the tourists touch, is full of lakes and 

 rolling land. I found the lakes to be mirrors 

 of splendid pines standing eighty feet to one 

 hundred feet high. I found the soil debilitated 

 by reckless culture, and devoid of humus, ow- 

 ing to the annual burning over; but capable 

 of almost anything in the hands of a skilful 

 farmer. I found that Florida was marvelously 

 endowed with legumes, that would make 

 splendid hay, and could be plowed under to 

 make humus. I found a climate beyond de- 

 scription for health and the beauty of the 

 scenery indescribable. Second, I found that 

 I could grow my own vegetables, keep my 

 bees, raise my own chickens and eggs, and 

 have the honey harvest and egg harvest all 

 winter. I could pull my cabbages and cut my 

 lettuce in January. I could dig my sweet po- 

 tatoes at any season and leave those not wanted 

 in the ground. I could reduce my coal bills 

 from one hundred and twenty-five dollars to 

 twenty-five at my Northern home; while I 

 could pick up all needed fuel in Florida with- 

 out any expense. The cost of hired help was 

 lowered about seventy-five dollars; and doc- 

 tor's bills were forgotten. It cost a good deal 

 less for clothing where one could go in bath- 

 ing at Christmas and walk in his shirt sleeves 

 through most of January. Oranges and sweet 

 potatoes made the bulk of food, with honey, 

 egg« and vegetables. My savings covered at 

 least my round trip ticket by Clyde steamer 

 from New York, and the railroad expenses at 

 each end of the route. 



So nowadays I undertake to have my corn 

 husked, my apples sold or stored, and all the 

 other items in the way of winter preparation 

 closed by the middle of November. This can 

 be done by any Northern country man, unless 

 he be a dairyman. I let out my horse and 

 cow, leave my collies with a neighbor, dispose 

 of my hens, lock up my house and go. I have 

 bought more land, until I own most of Lake 

 Lucy and between two and three hundred 

 acres around it. I have planted some citrus 

 fruits in the way of oranges and grape fruit, 

 but mostly I have set peaches, quinces, grapes, 

 figs, loquats, pears, cherries, plums and ap- 

 ples. I am told that apples are a failure in 

 Florida ; but I am told a great many other 

 things that I do not believe. My Staymans, 

 Winesaps and King Davids gave me four to 

 five feet of fine wood last year, with a system 

 of careful mulching. I have built a com- 

 fortable house, for it is much better economy 



