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W.
E. Mackay of Summerfield
was in town today
as was Marion L. Payne of Fairfield, while J. J. Brinson is serving as
a juror.
Mr. Brinson says he has 300 stands of bees and later on honey would
flow like
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Capt., J. B. Martin killed over 100 fine hogs and has the meat all cured. He will not have to buy any bacon this year for his turpentine farm. He will also turn his attention to farming and will plant 60 acres in corn besides other farm products. We wish him much success. Source:
Ocala
Evening Star: 2-19-1909 |
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We have in our office a sugar cane, with branch stalks, each having eight matured joints of more than ordinary length. It was grown on the plantation of Mr. Jesse Willis of this (Marion) county. The soil of Marion is so fertile that one stalk cannot appropriate more than half the nourishment its root affords so it has to branch. It can be seen at our office. Put this in your pipe Mr. Era. Source:
East Florida Banner: 2-4-1871 |
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Mr. Tilly Hickson was down from McIntosh Monday and says that the orange trees are putting on a vigorous growth and look very lovely with their verdure of green and fragrant blossoms. The vegetable growers are daily in receipt of pretty looking checks and their bank accounts are becoming quite respectable in appearance. In a word, the people of McIntosh are quite buoyant and their skies are brightened with a radiant rainbow of hope and promise and each one is expecting that fabled bag of gold. Source:
Ocala Banner: 3-30-1906 |
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Cane
Grinding at the Marion Farm Mr.
Walter A. Taylor, manager of the
Marion Farms, is making
preparations for the cane grinding and syrup making business. They
will begin grinding about the
fifteenth and will be
very busy at this work for at least a
month. The Marion farms have about thirty acres in sugar cane of the
finest
varieties grown and they expect to make large quantities of syrup this
year. The
Marions Farms almost entirely
supply the various
turpentine camps of the entire state with this necessary article of
food,
besides making an immense amount for the use of the convicts and
employees of
the farm. Source: Ocala
Banner:12-21-1906 |
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Perry
Edwards, our up-to-date colored
farmer, who won so
many premiums at the fair and so much notoriety, brought in two
thousand pounds
of pork yesterday to be placed in cold storage, and left the editor of
this
paper, a backbone of immense size and expects to feast high this
Christmas. Friends
are remembering him in all sorts of shapes. He has received presents of
syrup,
sweet potatoes, oranges and backbone and Governor Gilchrist is sending
him a
box of delicious pineapples. Is it not nice to be remembered by
one’s friends!
Source: Ocala Banner: 10-25-08 |
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William
Martin, the pioneer the pioneer
settler of Moss
Bluff, was in town today. He came to get sage to make Martin Sausage.
He said
he had finished grinding cane and made twenty-five barrels of syrup,
but his
three boys were still at it and would make seventy barrels. That is
some long
sweetening for you. Source:
Ocala Evening Star: 12-14-1909 |
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Mr.
T. A. Langley, of Leroy, one of the
thrifty farmers of
Marion County, slaughtered last week, five pigs eighteen months old,
that dressed
net 1045 pounds. These animals had very little extra feed and
demonstrates that
razor-backs among the intelligent and progressive farmers are the
exception and
not the rule now-a-days. Source:
Ocala Banner: 1-14-1889 |
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C.
H. Dame had the first strawberries
of the season
yesterday. They were the finest ever seen here, many of them being as
large as
Peento Peaches. They sold rapidly at 40 cents a quart. Source:
Ocala Evening
Star: 2-7-1900 |
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The
First Load W.
O. Parker, colored, of Ocala,
brought the first wagon
load of saw palmetto leaves to the Fiber Factory. The company wants
100,000
tons of the leaves and will pay the cash for them. Source:
Ocala Evening Star:
6-7-1900 |
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We
are informed that the son-in-law of
the late Maj.
Henning, at Summerfield, will plant fifty acres in cotton. This is a
move in
the right direction. If the waste lands in Marion county were put into
cotton
in 1901, it would grow the biggest money crop ever heard of here. Source:
Ocala
Evening Star: 1-9-1901 |
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Doings
at Fort McCoy…Mr. J. J.
Brinson, the
bee king of this section reports that his bees are dying at a rapid
rate. He
having lost nearly sixty colonies already and they are still dying. He
does not
know the cause. There seems to be some kind of disease that destroys
the whole
swarm. Source:
Ocala Banner:
5-7-1909 |
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A
Ten Pound Rutabaga Major
L. T. Izlar placed on our table
Friday fresh from his
garden, a ten pound rutabaga turnip. It was solid to the core, sweet
and
delicious. Florida soil is certainly peculiarly and magnificently
adapted to
all kinds of root crops and is especially the home of the turnip. This
vegetable seems to be one of the aborigines and was here when Ocala,
the
original indian chieftan was monarch of this section. Source:
Ocala Banner:
3-2-1906 |
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Crops
in Marion – The Banner of
the 18th says: The
weather has been for the last week
or so, unusually cool
and pleasant; and the crops, both corn and cotton are flourishing. The
cane is
doing very well. The corn is wanting a little nourishing just
now---something
like rain. With this exception, everything in the line of crops are
encouraging. The merchants are not so despondent this season as they
were last
year this time. Source:
Weekly Floridian: 5-28-1872 |
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Mr.
Tilly Hickson was down from
McIntosh Monday and says
that the orange trees are putting on a vigorous growth and look very
lovely
with their verdure of green and fragrant blossoms. The vegetable
growers are
daily in receipt of pretty looking checks and their bank accounts are
becoming
quite respectable in appearance. In a word the people of McIntosh are
quite
buoyant and their skies are brightened with radiant rainbow of hope and
promise
and each one is expecting that fabled bag of gold. Source:
Ocala Banner:
3-30-1906 |
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C.
J. Johnson, colored, who is farming
on the Dr. Wilson
place west of town, raised a fine crop of potatoes this season, one of
which he
brought to town the other day and it weighed twenty-two pounds. Source:
Ocala
Evening Star: 12-11-1908 |
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Col.
L. P. Miller was in town this
morning and said he had
finished planting his oat crop and would soon begin on his 100 acre
cassava
patch. At present he is slaughtering his pork crop and has already
brought into
cold storage 35 porkers. Source:
Ocala Evening Star: 1-15-1902 |
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William
Martin, the
pioneer settler of Moss
Bluff, was in town today. He came to get sage to make Martin Sausage.
He said
he had finished grinding cane and made twenty-five barrels of syrup,
but his
three boys were still at it and would make seventy barrels. That is
some long
sweetening for you. Source:
Ocala Evening Star: 12-14-1909 |
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McDuffy,
the hustling colored farmer
west of here, is
shipping his twelfth car of melons today. He expects to have half a
dozen more,
but the crop was cut short nearly 50 per cent owing to the wet weather.
Returns
so far very satisfactory. Source:
Ocala Evening Star: 6-26-1900 |
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Mr.
A. E. Burnett’s pinery has
passed successfully through
the freeze and he feels quite happy over the result. He says so far he
has sold
400 pines and has sixty fine ones now ripening for the market. Source:
Ocala
Evening Star: 1-7-1902 |
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Oranges Captain
DeLong of Candler, who saved
his grove from the cold
snap of last winter, has trees that have a hundred oranges on them. His
grove
is a beauty and a delight to the eyes. There are other fine orange
groves in
Candler. Source:
Ocala
Evening Star: 7-18-1900 |
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Genial
Ben Freyermouth is in town today
from his farm in the
Blitchton section. Ben says he raised a splendid crop of corn and
housed the
last yesterday and now he will take a rest for a month. He will visit
friends
at Micanopy and then visit the Peace river country and inspect the
pebble
phosphate mines in Polk county. Mr. Freyermouth is certain the
socialists are
attempting to capture the colored vote in November and if possible land
their
ticket. Ben thinks the democrats better be getting busy. Source:
Ocala Evening
Star:8-26-1908 |
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Churchill…Miss
Theresa
Williamson has a fine garden now. I
had the pleasure of taking dinner with her the other day. She had
turnip
greens, squash, okra, potatoes and tomatoes. In June she cut branches
from the
old tomato vines and set them out and now they are full of fruit and
during
these nice rains she is transplanting cabbage plants and if the editor
will
come over about Christmas she would likely give him cabbage for dinner.
Source:
Ocala Evening Star: 10-25-1900 |
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A.
J. Albritton and his son Andrew, of
Daisy, were in town
this morning closing a trade with J. W. Gordon, for a tract of land in
their
section. This is the second tract they have bought within a short time,
the
other being a purchase from C. Priest. The Albrittons will use these
lands for
farming purposes, mostly for velvet beans, to feed stock. Source:
Ocala Evening
Star: 1-4-1902 |
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Will
Pelot has temporarily given up the
produce commission
business in Jacksonville and is with his family in Ocala. He expects to
go into
the growing of melons, but has not yet picked out his field. Source:
Ocala
Evening Star: 1-20-1902 |
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Mr.
Len
Griggs, who occupies the
Maj. Tom C. Hall farm on the Silver Springs hard road, is rejoicing
over the
fine shower, as he has forty acres in cantaloupes. The farmers have
melons on
the vines as large as a quart measure and the latter are matted all
over. Source:
Ocala Evening
Star: 5-27-1908 |
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Mr.
A. D.
Mitchell of Summerfield
was in the city yesterday. He reports that he and Mr. Joe Davis have 75
acres
in oats, which are looking fine; that they will also put in 25 acres of
melons
and several acres of cantaloupes, with their usual corn and pindar
crops and a
whole field of tomatoes. Source:
Ocala Evening Star: 2-10-1904 |
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Summerfield…A.
H. Andrews, who
resides on his farm southeast of here, is having much trouble with
foraging
cattle that broke down his fence and have destroyed ten acres of velvet
beans.
Mr. Andrews gives warning that he will pen up the cattle in future and
will
charge the owners with damage. Source:
Source: Ocala Evening Star: 8-31-12 |
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Mr.
W. F. Blesch returned this
afternoon from a visit to his
stock farm and peach orchard at Lady Lake. He said he thought from the
state of
the thermometer Monday night, the peach orchard was a goner, but they
came out
all right. The melon vines caught it however. Source:
Ocala Evening Star:
4-5-1907 |
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Everyone
who has seen his fields says
Mr. H. H. Whitworth
has at his Hiawatha Lake Stock Farm, two miles southwest of town, the
most
advanced tomatoes, Irish potatoes and cucumbers they have seen in the
county.
Many think the yield of potatoes and tomatoes, besides being the
earliest will
be the heaviest per acre, ever raised here. This is Mr.
Whitworth’s first year
planting these crops for market and the land used was intensely rich
and has
been well worked. Source:
Ocala Evening Star: 5-5-1914 |
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Mr.
Charles
Howell with the big
Howell and Chambliss farm, north of Ocala, shipped to Hastings last
week to be
put in cold storage, fifty-eight young hogs raised on the farm in the
last two
years. These porkers averaged 180 pounds apiece and are not all the
farm will
ship this year by any means. Source:
Ocala Evening Star: 2-11-1914 |
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A
Star reporter today saw a fine bunch
of rice raised by Mr.
Francis Kuhne near Burbank. It was as fine looking rice as one could
wish to
see, and he has three acres of it. There are thousands of acres of land
in the
Oklawaha river valley that will
grow as
good rice as can be raised anywhere. Source:
Ocala Evening Star: 11-15-1911 |
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George
Easterling’s Farm Mr.
George W. Easterling’s big
farm at Martell is looking
well. He has in two hundres and twenty-five acres of melons and
cantaloupes and
they are doing as well as any in the county. The melon vines are
running nicely
and the ‘lope vines are great big plants, starting to run
nicely.
Mr.
Easterling says the season is the best he has ever known and crops of
all kinds
are fully three weeks ahead of last season. Source:
Ocala Evening Star:
4-5-1912 |
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Will
Pelot has temporarily given up the
produce commission
business in Jacksonville and is with his family in Ocala. He expects to
go into
the growing of melons, but has not yet picked out his field. Source:
Ocala
Evening Star: 1-20-1902 |
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James Cribbitt, now actively engaged in orange culture at Largo, is on
a visit at Martel and looking after his plantation at York. Source: Ocala Evening Star: 10-23-1900 |
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Reed, the old veteran from Boardman was in town a few days ago and made
the
Star a pleasant call. He said he had just finished packing Barton Keep’s crop of oranges, which the dry weather had greatly reduced in quality and size. The coming week Mr. Frank Sampson, who owns the largest grove in that section, will begin gathering and shipping his crop, which with a fair rainfall would have been 30,000 boxes, but owing to the drought the crop will only be about half that amount. The ground is so dry that the leaves of the orange trees are badly curled. Source: 11-27-1909 |
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Marion
County Wheat Buford Leitner paid his old home a visit last July in South Carolina. He brought with him a half a peck of wheat, which he sowed last fall, probably covering a quarter acre of ground. The grain is now ready to cut, being of good stalk and well filled head and will yield about six
bushels. Buford is very proud of his crop and will thresh it and make Graham flour of it and be prouder than ever when his good wife presents to his guests delicious Graham wafers. Who says
wheat wont groe in Marion
county. Source: Ocala
Evening
Star: 5-24-1900 |
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Dr. Abshire, of
Belleview, is a famous honey raiser. He sent
up a lot yesterday which is exceedingly fine and almost
transparent. He uses
the new hives and the honey is made in little square frames, a pound in
each.
The honey is on sale at L. S. Black’s. Source: Ocala Evening Star: 9-1-1897 |
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Ocala’s Vegetable King George Close, of Ocala, made a trip to
his Montverde
property this week and is much pleased with the looks of his orange
trees. He
is much encouraged and we think he will now go to work in earnest to
rebuild
his grove. Mr. Close is the vegetable king of Florida. While he has
abandoned
vegetable growing at Montverde, he is extensively engaged in it at
Ocala. He is
also a first class farmer; raises nearly everything that he needs. In
fact, he
lives at home and boards at the same place.—Leesburg Commercial Source: Ocala
Evening Star: 11-26-1900 |
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George Close has dug and
shipped 2000 barrels of Irish
potatoes, and despite the fact that he will lose 40 percent, of his
crop on
account of the heavy rains, he has not dug half of the crop and will
have over
4000 barrels. Source: Ocala
Evening Star: 5-11-1900 |
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The finest field of corn
seen on our trip to the Fairfield
picnic, was that of David Payne, son of Marion L. Payne. It would show
well in
length of stalk and size of ear beside corn grown in the Mississippi
bottom
land, and when it comes to a slightly and thrifty orange grove, we have
not
seen its equal in Marion county. Source:
Ocala Evening Star: 7-14-1898 |
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Anthony... The sweet
potato crop will be short in this
section. The velvet bean crop is not so good as last year, partly on
account of
caterpillars. Farmers say the weather is very dry, but not withstanding
that
they are reaching out for heavy crops. The corn crop being rather
short, oats
will be planted largely. Source:
11-22-1900 |
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A Mr. Bennett in the Shady
neighborhood has an unusually fine
crop of sugar cane. There are stalks on exhibition in Frank
Ditto’s real estate
office that count forty joints and they are the average. Source: Ocala Evening
Star: 12-11-1908 |
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T. J. Barnes, one of
Marion county’s most successful
farmers, brought in and
presented to this office today, six of as fine, smooth and uniform
sweet
potatoes as we have ever seen. The six weighed just eighteen pounds. Sounds
Ocala Evening Star: 2-10-1896 |
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Profitable Hens J. F. Barrett of Santos,
brother of our former citizen,
Captain Barrett, during last year realized from thirty-five hens an
income of
$68. There are other good hen farmers in Marion county. Can they make
as
profitable a showing? It would be interesting to know Mr.
Barrett’s treatment
of his hens to make them so productive. Source: Ocala Evening Star:
1-10-1898 |
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Mr. W. J. Norsworthy, of
McIntosh, has shipped one hundred
and ninety boxes of grape fruit, for which he received the fine price
of $7.50
per box. No wonder people are anxious that our citrus fruit trees shall
again
come into bearing. They seem to be more valuable than ever. Even with
an
occasional freeze they are more valuable then gold bearing bonds. Source: Ocala
Banner: 11-8-1901 |
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J. A. Thomas, a farmer at
Benedict, says that his corn crop
this year will average at least seventy-five bushels to the acre. Mr.
Thomas is
a reliable citizen and what he says can be depended on. Source: Ocala Evening
Star: 7-7-1896 |
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Fat Razor Backs The Star takes pleasure in
publishing the following report of
the killing of fine, fat, razor back hogs. We hope other farmers will
report
the nature of their pork crops. These hogs were grown by Capt. Jno. H.
Brooks
of Cotton Plant, than whom there is not a clever or more honorable
gentleman
living in Marion County: “How is this for Florida razor backs.
Six two year old
hogs, the smallest of which weighed 225 pounds, and the largest 285
pounds, the
average 250 pounds. Twelve eight months
old hogs netted 125 pounds each. All were fattened exclusively on
pindars.” Source: Ocala Evening Star:
1-5-1898 |