The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
559 
A Veteran in Florida 
This is a country where they farm both 
i mis of the year. In a dispatch from 
Plant City, which is the great strawberry 
center of Florida, under date of Jan. 17. 
is stated: ‘‘C. D. Simmons brought in 
145 quarts of strawberries Monday, for 
which he received $130.50. This sum. 
added to previous sales by Mr. Simmons, 
gives him $237 for 249 quarts of straw¬ 
berries—less than eight bushels. Sounds 
fabulous, doesn’t it? It is said truth is 
stranger than fiction, and this is one of 
those cases.” 
In the last three days of January there 
were shipped out of Plant City 31,000 
quarts of strawberries—970 bushels. For 
most of these the growers received 50 
cents per quart. I know nothing of the 
acreage or cost of picking, but do know 
that during the last three days of the old 
year there were heavy frosts in the straw¬ 
berry section, and that growers who had 
not covered the vines over night with pine 
needles lost most of the crop, so it seems 
that Southern sunshine has to be backed 
up by careful attention to details, just as 
the Northern brand does. Just now all 
classes of stuff that require refrigerator 
cars are suffering for lack of a sufficient 
supply of these cars. Most of the oranges 
which are shipped are bought by firms 
who scour, wrap and box the fruit, and a 
few days’ delay does not affect them, only 
as California fruit supplants the South¬ 
ern. The dealers in vegetables buy from 
hand to mouth, or to take all a man 
grows at the market price, and when a 
glut occurs from car shortage the price 
drops and the grower shoulders the loss. 
In this city of Tampa two Southern 
trunk line railroads run through the heart 
of the city, partly occupying two streets. 
From the window of the room where I 
write I overlook numerous switches of the 
Seaboard Air Line and see much loading 
and unloading. I notice that all drivers 
of both horses and auto trucks help load 
and unload. Up North, in Ohio, drivers 
sit idle while the load is being shifted. 
Even in emergencies, when the help of one 
man would help carry out heavy lifting. I 
have seen drivers sit and wait until extra 
help was brought from elsewhere. This is 
one of the cases where farmers should put 
in a protest, as the new Commissioner 
Meredith suggests. Farmers do not carry 
an extra man for all their teaming. 
Since writing the above I happened to 
look out of the window and saw three 
negroes handing bricks from a car to the 
driver of a wagon who loaded them, and 
there is a dressed-up white man bossing 
them. At the North the men would boss 
themselves. However, as a rule, labor is 
handled with much less efficiency here 
than at the North. There is a terrible 
lack of education in what the school books 
know as practical physics. Only a small 
per cent of the negroes have any idea of 
making the head save the hands, and 
white foremen make no attempt to show 
them. They claim that whereas all help 
is more or less transient it does not pay. 
Somewhere the whites have heard the 
false assumption that it would take 400 
years to bring the colored people up to 
even a mediocre state of mental efficiency, 
and they fling that at you if you suggest 
educating the working classes to anything 
along the line of labor-saving methods. 
As a matter of fact, the colored people 
far outclass the whites in physical 
strength and endurance, and many of 
them I notice are quicker-witted when a 
perplexing problem arises. The colored 
children are in many cases bright and 
agile, and while the white boys are lolling 
on the ground at recess the colored will 
be playing some active game. 
The present colored porter at this hotel 
dresses nicely, has expensive shirts, sports 
a good watch and hat, and generally com¬ 
pares favorably with white men who have 
had no better advantages. lie is decided¬ 
ly black. Of the two maids, one is black 
and the other coffee-colored. Both are 
good dressers and ladylike in man¬ 
ners. However, they are what is called 
temperamental, especially when it comes 
to sticking, and some odd morning wheu 
K o’clock comes the landlord is liable to 
find himself short one, perhaps two cham¬ 
bermaids. The term of service of a porter 
is generally two weeks, whether white or 
black. The white isa. youngish man, dead- 
broke and getting a job for a grub stake. 
The black may be professional, but in 
either case they stay only a little while. 
One was pointed out to me as a curiosity, 
because he worked at this hotel for four 
months. When I saw him he was driver 
on a horse express wagon. This uncer¬ 
tainty of the colored people is not only a 
hindrance to all employers, but a terri¬ 
ble handicap to the people themselves. 
L. B. PIERCE. 
Housing Economy of Small Breeds 
To George A. Hill’s very interesting 
presentation of the case of Leghorns vs. 
B. I. Reds iu The R. N.-Y.. page 336, I 
should like to add what seems to me a 
very important consideration. A poultry- 
house of any given size will accommodate 
more Leghorns than they will fowls of 
the heavy breeds, iu the proportion, I 
should guess, of about five to four. Sup¬ 
pose one has 400 heavy birds in a house; 
would it not give him pause for thought 
if he knew he could keep 500 Leghorns 
in the same house? Melvin brandow. 
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