FLORIDA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 
soils, we are going to make some of the 
fertilizer men find more customers if they 
handle the same amount of business. And 
we will make more and better crops than 
have ever been produced in Florida. 
Our state is now a large producer of 
truck, and I expect it will continue to 
grow along this line. That is we will 
produce more truck each year. We pro¬ 
duce some livestock, still we are not 
counted as a livestock state at present, 
but we are going to soon be one of the 
most foremost in this line, and the truck¬ 
ers of the state are going to fatten a large 
part of this livestock. When they do this 
they will not belong to the bankers and 
fertilizer men of Florida. 
A great many are already starting in 
this business. The Sanford section will 
have erected before this year is out ten 
to thirteen silos, the Hastings section 
several, and a few others all over the 
state. When they get these up and feed 
cattle and hogs, even though their vege¬ 
table crops do not bring in any clear 
money they will have some clear money 
at the end of every year, and it is the 
follow-up crop that is going to turn the 
trick, too. 
There are a great many growing truck 
and vegetables on a small acreage, and 
they may think that they will not be able 
to carry out any of these plans that I 
have mentioned. It may be impossible 
to erect a silo, but they can put some le¬ 
gume on their land after vegetables, turn 
this crop in the soil, and have their land 
producing more and be reducing their 
fertilizer bill too, thus getting more clear 
money on their acreage no matter what 
the size of their patches. 
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If you are doubtful about this way 
of handling your land paying, just take 
part of it and try handling the new way 
while you handle the balance as you have 
always done. You may not see any big 
difference the first year, but just try it 
three years and you will be satisfied. 
You would never let any more weeds 
grow up in your fields to be burned. 
THE KITCHEN GARDEN 
There is just one other thing along 
this vegetable question that I would like 
to mention, while I am on the subject, 
and it is the most important, but still the 
most neglected in the state, especially 
since everything has got so high, and that 
is the kitchen garden. 
In this beautiful sunshine land of ours 
where we can have vegetables of some 
kind growing during the 365 days in the 
year there is not any excuse for not hav¬ 
ing fresh vegetables on our table right 
from our own gardens every one of these 
365 days. 
Still you may go on one hundred truck 
farms and take dinner with the owner and 
at least ninety out of that one hundred 
will serve you canned vegetables shipped 
in from some other state, or if they have 
fresh vegetables they will be some that 
they have bought, and very often which 
were shipped in from some other state, 
too. 
LOCATION OF THE KITCHEN GARDEN 
One of the most important things to 
be considered about our kitchen garden 
is its location. Two things need to be 
taken into consideration when we are 
