December, 1908 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



than a shakedown. I found that nearly all 

 Northern vegetables, including Irish potatoes, 

 thrive here as well as they do in Jersey or 

 Ohio. One of my neighbors has taken up two 

 thousand pounds of honey from here in the 

 winter, returning to the North to take up two 

 thousand pounds more in the summer. The 

 soil is so easily worked that one man can do 

 the work of four in our Northern clay. The 

 supply of fuel is unlimiited. The pines, if you 

 can secure those that have not been tapped 

 for turpentine, are growing in value, and must 

 continue to do so. 



There is a strip of land up and down the 

 center of the State, absolutely free from ma- 

 laria and nearly so of mosquitoes ; and it is 

 this strip of land to which the Northerner 

 who seeks a home should migrate. Most of 

 this land can be bought, as yet, for from ten 

 dollars per acre to thirty. A few improved 

 places, specially well located, will sell for 

 forty or fifty dollars per acre. Ten or twenty 

 acres will be quite enough for most people to 

 hold, leaving a part of this to pines. Among 

 the crops which a migrant can raise are cas- 

 sava — a huge root, liked by cows, horses, hogs 

 and hens; sweet potatoes, which can be left 

 in the ground indefinitely; chufa nut, a de- 

 liriously sweet ground nut, good for hens or 

 for human use ; carrots and mangel wurzels, 

 sugar beets — in fact nearly all the vegetables 

 of a Northern garden ; eggs, which he can dis- 

 pose of at thirty cents a dozen ; very early 

 peaches, which will ripen before he needs to 

 go north, and others that will not ripen till 

 he returns in November. Mulberries consti- 

 tute a superb fruit, ripening in March, while 

 the loquats and oranges and grape fruit are a 

 specifically winter crop. If the orange grower 

 gets there by the middle of November, or even 

 the first of December, he will be in time to 

 handle the whole of his crop. The last of 

 these citrus fruits will be disposed of by 

 March. 



Florida is endowed with legumes unlimited. 

 Among the best of these are beggar weed — a 

 capital food for horses ; soja beans — also good 

 for nearly all animals ; cow peas — excellent 

 for sheep, cattle, hens, and even human use ; 

 vetches — which can be used for almost all 

 sorts of foddering ; but above all else the velvet 

 bean. This grows fifty to seventy feet in a 

 season, can be cut two or three times for hay, 

 can then be foddered, then used for a cover 

 crop, and finally plowed under. A cover crop, 

 however, is needed in Florida during the sum- 

 mer against heat instead of during the winter 

 as it is in the North. 



An orange orchard is a good thing to have ; 

 a grape fruit orchard is still better; that is, if 

 already in bearing ; but Florida does have its 

 frosts, and about once in ten years it gets the 

 end of a Northern blizzard, hauling its ther- 

 mometer down to eighteen or twenty above 

 zero. This kills citrus trees, unless protected 

 by fires, which are kindled up and down the 

 rows. Such orchards are as beautiful as any- 



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