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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 15, 
“ A MIGRATION TO THE SOUTH.” 
Apropos to your article Tinker the above 
heading on page 893 1 will relate one case 
that came under my observation first in 
1885. A French market gardener located in 
southern Illinois, having a greenhouse and 
about 500 hotbed sash, growing early vege¬ 
tables for Chicago market. But no matter 
how early his vegetables were in market, 
vegetables grown in the South were always 
ahead of his, though grown in open culture. 
This disappointed his ambition—or, as he 
stated it made him, “think mad over it.” 
and led him to form a plan to take his 
frames and glass South so as to be sure of 
getting his crops in ahead of the southern 
ers, and get the higher prices. So he di¬ 
vided his forces, and his apparatus for 
crops under glass, leaving his wife and son 
to operate the northern end of the business, 
while he loaded half of his glass and garden 
tools into a freight car, with horse, cow, 
hay, grain, and plcwty of other provisions, 
carts, plows, harrows, garden hose, force 
pumps, etc. and with his nearly grown daugh¬ 
ter he boarded the freight car and started 
for Florida where he had already purchased 
some land of moist, dark color out north of 
Jacksonville some miles on the “plank road" 
called the “King's Highway.” lie had built 
a neat cottage dwelling and barn and a 
small greenhouse, and had 100 or 200 hotbed 
sash 3x6 feet left for his outside frames. 
He was just beginning his horticultural work 
when I first met him. He was full of en¬ 
thusiasm and confident of great success. The 
next year when in Florida I looked him up 
and found him and his daughter still hard at 
work and ful 1 of hope that much profit was 
to be the result of his enterprise. But he 
admitted that one year was not enough time 
to enable them really to begin to reap pro¬ 
fits. A few years later on a visit to Jack¬ 
sonville I took a walk out on the “King’s 
Highway” to see how my French market 
gardener was progressing in his divided en¬ 
terprise. But lo, he was not to be found ! 
He had “pulled up stakes” and gone. 
Whether he had failed at the southern end 
and “thought mad” over his folly of leaving 
Illinois, and returned thither I did not 
learn, but was left to guess both as to the 
cause and his whereabouts. But having 
carefully and somewhat extensively since 
studied the soil in different parts of Florida, 
my guess would be that he was disappointed 
in the productiveness of the soil he had 
bought. Florida has some very fertile soil, 
both pine land and “hammock” (i. e., hard- 
w T ood land). But Florida land is apt to be 
what is termed “spotted,” so that I should 
feel unsafe to select any land until I had 
seen the different crops growing on it. 
Soil looking equally rich differs greatly in 
quality, not only in two adjoining fields, but 
only a few feet apart in the same row of 
vegetables. The plants will often be twice 
or three times as large and thrifty as the 
same kind of plants will be in the same row, 
and the soil looking the same not ten feet 
away. Some spots they call “sand sinks 
no amount of manure or fertilizer will make 
anything grow on such spots. But on Flor- [ 
ida’s best soils it will make a market garden¬ 
er’s mouth “water” to see lettuce, cabbage, j 
egg plants, celery, etc., grow under skilful 
cultivation. s. h. r. 
Massachusetts. 
and lance it with the razor. Think of get¬ 
ting up in the late Fall at 5 o'clock- in 
the morning, going after the cows when the 
frost sparkled on every blade of grass, 
driving up tiie first cow and sitting down 
in the place where she lay to warm your 
feet, one after another until all were 
started for the barn, then getting on stones 
that surely felt warmer than the frosty 
ground and thus work your way back home, 
and I had to be lively or I would hear a 
voice calling out, “Hurry up.” Yet my 
father was no cruel master I can tell you. 
Our Winter garments were a little more 
comfortable, but no underwear, wrappers 
or drawers, or overcoat. A pair of stoga 
boots had to last through the Winter; if 
the soles wore tlirough and the toes off 
they had to go just the same. Sometimes 
I would cut cord wood for a neighbor in 
the Winter (when I got older) and got a 
little pocket, money; the price was 25 cents 
per cord and board yourself. No get-rich- 
quick scheme about it; 25 cents per day 
was good wages for a boy of 12 or 14. 
You may ask, did you ever go to school? 
Yes; over half a mile through snow in Win¬ 
ter with no horse to ride or ox to make the 
track for me. J. f. c. 
EVERYTHING COMES HIS WAY EXCEPT— 
The farmer still retains the prosperity he 
has enjoyed for several years. In fact, every- 
t hing seems to come his way except good labor. 
Farm labor is getting scarcer every year, 
which largely results from the exodus of 
country boys to the cities. 
The effect of this condition would be quite 
serious if it were not for th<; increasing effi¬ 
ciency of farming implements. The lat ter are 
unquestionably keeping pace with the ad¬ 
vance along all mechanical lines. A trucker 
or farmer can now do the work unaided that 
formerly required the hands of several men. 
Compare, for instance, the old method of 
sowing seed with the present-day 
possibilities for those who use a 
Planet Jr. tool—one of those I 
modern devices that sow seed accu¬ 
rately as fast as a man walks. A 
No. 4 Planet Jr. is not only a hill 
and drill see \ but in moment it 
can be mad., into either a wheel 
hoe, cultivator, or plow. It is 
easy of adjustment, lias won¬ 
derful strength of 
parts and farmers 
and truckers who 
use it consider it 
as Indispensable. It 
is certainly a time 
and labor saver, the 
price is moderate, 
and it deserves all the popularity 
it has created. 
But this is only one of of the Planet Jr. tools 
that smooth the lot of the farmer. There are 
many others. All are fully described in the 
catalog issued by S. L. Allen & Co., the 
makers of Planet Jr. tools. 
There is one particular point alxmt these 
tools that recommend them before they are 
tried. They were invented and perfected by 
a farmer, 8 . L. Allen, Mr. Allen invented 
them for his own use, and then brought them 
before the world to fill the proverbial “long 
felt want.” The fact that they have been 
used for over twenty-five years, and are gain¬ 
ing favor every day is pretty good evidence 
that they are eminently practical in design 
and thoroughly capable of doing the work 
expected of them. 
You ought to know more about Planet Jr. 
tools, and if you will write to 8 . L. Allen & Co.. 
Box 1107V, Philadelphia, and ask them for a 
catalog, you will receive a collection of beau¬ 
tiful photographs showing the various ways 
in which the Planet Jn tools are used. 
A Handbook on Gardening 
Free 
THE OLD-TIME FARMER BOY. 
An article written by F. D. Squiers, on 
page 917, brought to my mind similar 
experiences which I passed through over 50 
years ago. Boys of to-day know hut little 
of hardships. Work was no 10-hour system, 
and no machinery such as is used to-day. 
The old hand scythe and rake were the 
main implements for haying. Think of boys 
and girls spreading hay with forked sticks. 
Tire man and boy with the hoe were the 
power behind the implements they used. 
The work was of that nature that headed 
the brow and bronzed the skin with sun 
and weather, knitting the frame into elastic 
firmness, giving to the fingers deftness, to 
the arm girth, to the eye keenness, to the 
touch delicacy, to the stroke precision, to 
the soul force, to the will resolve, to the 
whole boyhood vigor, agility and endurance. 
And when the day’s work was completed 
we were off to bed and slept the sleep of 
sweetness. We were not off to the village 
store or saloon where so many boys of to¬ 
day spend their evenings. M.v only holi¬ 
day was the Fourth of July, and mind you, 
I did not have a large amount to spend. 
If I got five cents and a bunch of fire 
crackers I was contented. What was the 
hoy I speak of to wear in Summer? A 
cotton shirt of the most simple kind, no 
stand-up collar or blue necktie, trousers 
light weight and rolled up above the knees. 
Nature’s stockings had to be washed every 
night; no shoes from Spring to Fall. Bare 
feet were all the fashion; driving the oxen 
on the old V-drag among the stumps and 
roots and woe be to the toes if the ox 
got his foot on them. Stone bruises were 
a oommon thing on bare feet, and how I 
would cry when my mother would hold me 
After gardening for market for twenty 
years, and learning a few of the ins and 
outs and pitfalls of the business, I have 
boiled down my experience in my 
Garden Manual and I give you the 
benefit of it Free. This may seem 
strange to you, but I have combined my 
advice and instructions, with my seed 
catalog. I am a seedsman as well as a 
gardener and of course I want all the 
seed business I can get honestly and 
fairly. I find that the more I can be of 
help to my customers, the more success 
they will have and the more seeds they 
will buy, so you see it is really selfish¬ 
ness on my part. 
I am rather proud of my Manual or 
Catalog whichever you please to call it. 
I wrote it and illustrated it all myself, 
and good judges of such things tell me it 
is really worth while. 
Anyway, I want you to write for it 
—It’s free—and tell me what you think 
of it. Also I will gladly send you free 
samples of anything you are interested 
in, in the seed line. 
An if I can help you any in the way of 
advice, fire away with your questions. 
Henry Field, President 
Henry Field Seed Company 
Box 25, Shenandoah, Iowa 
Strawberry Plants 
*aud up. 
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Paint Without Oil 
.Remarkable Discovery That Cuti 
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A Free Trial Paokage is Mailed to Every¬ 
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High Grade Brass 
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Single and double act¬ 
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> Best and most complete pump_ 
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Second Early Sugar Corn 
Is a week or ten days 1 ater Ilian the earliest com, but 
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Write for Field Seed 
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A BUSINESS BERRY 
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Medium, Mammoth, Alsike. Alfalfa, Clovers, clean 
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Direct to farmers. Price list. Write. 
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14 Main St., Antrim, N, H.| 
