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time to haul this mulching, as much as I would like to, 1 have 
occasionally bought a few tons of fertilizer because it is so handy. 
I think I have been a fool for doing it. I should have bought 
another horse and kept him hauling old vegetable matter. 
1 think I would have saved money. Use every means that 
you can to save money and keep it in the family. I do 
not wish to make any remarks, but I believe in humus. They 
have some beautiful groves at DeLand. I go to different parts 
of the east coast and I see such beautiful trees, and the rows 
are so straight and the fences so pretty; but they do produce 
large quantities of good fruit? I believe not. I say I believe 
in humus, and if we keep our ground covered with this we will 
have good results. With an orange grove completely covered 
by decayed vegetable matter, will not potash keep that grove 
in good condition ? 
Several members —Yes; yes. 
Mr. Mott—I believe in cow penning. I feed my cow with 
crab grass, hay, cotton seed meal, and throw a little lime in the 
tub in which she drinks. Yo fertilizing manufactory could 
mix a better fertilizer than that cow does. 
Irrigation in Florida. 
Paper read by A. J. Kingsbory, of Winter Park, Orange County, 
Chairman of Standing Committee on Irrigation, 
I believe there is an irrigation plank in the platform of this 
State Horticultural Society. But in the minds of many still 
lingers the question: “To irrigate or not to irrigate.” To 
others who have settled affirmatively this first question, a sec¬ 
ond one presents itself: “How to irrigate,” and perhaps a third 
one: “What to irrigate.” 
Of these three practical phases of the subject I propose to 
speak particularly in this report. I wish, however, at the 
outset, to call to your remembrance the very instructive and 
in every way admirable paper on irrigation read before this 
body last year by Mr. Hamlin. 
This paper was the initial report on this all-important sub- 
