Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 294, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1913 — Raising Things; in Florida; Read What Hoosier is Doing. [ARTICLE]

Raising Things; in Florida; Read What Hoosier is Doing.

A good many years ago a lady, and we believe it was Helen Lease,' advised the farmers of Kansas to raise less corn and more hell. She did not mean any disrespect, either. Kansas was in its infancy and Helen' Lease was destined to be of a great amount 'of benefit to it. This remark of hers has very little to do with the matter here discussed, but it occurs to us that hell is about the only thing that Dr. Bernie Maloy is not raising in his garden in Florida. From a private letter which his wife wrote to bis "aunt, Mrs. Mary E. Travis, we quote the following: “I am sending you a branch of oranges which Bernie pulled from a tree this morning. Hope you get them all right. I am almost tired of oranges. Bernie has about 35 acres, some of them 25 years old or older and they are literally loaded with fruit. Bernie has about 4 acres in one piece, on which fie intends to build. It is as beautiful a location as can-be found in the whole state of Florida. It is part of an old estate, which accounts for the large orange trees. It faces Palm Bay, a most beautiful body of water. Bernie is cultivating the ground in the meantime until he builds. I told him it looks like an experimental station. He said he was experimenting to find out just what grew best in this soil. He has one of the finest gardens you ever looked at. Everything you ever heard of and everything you never heard of he has planted. I’ll just give you a list of everything he has planted if you can take the time to read it:

Radishes, lettuce, beets, carrots, parsnipsi, white turnips, rutabagas, tomatoes, 3 kinds of beans, 3 kinds of peas, 3 kinds corn, salsify, okra, cucumbers, sweet potatoes 552 hills, cabbage 212 plants, 4 kinds Irish potatoes, 4 kinds squash, 3 kinds watermelons, 3 kinds muskmelons, ’4 kinds onions, cauliflower, egg plant, 2 kinds peppers, sage, celery, 3 kinds cabbage seed, 1,000 pine apple plants, rhubarb. Next week he is going to sow: vetcfti, crimson clover, rape, rye, barley, oats, wheat, miracle wheat, .red clover, alfalfa, alsike clover, burr clover, white clover, meadow fescue, orchard grass, oat grass, arctic grass, timothy, rye grass, meadow mixture, blue grass and lawn seed. Soon be will plant: 4 kinds strawberries, ginseng, Rhodes grass, velvet bean, soy bean, cowpeas, Japan clover, Mexican clover, Montreal muskmelon, Guinea grass, para grass, calabash, dasheen, peanut, cotton and emmer. He has 12 cocoanut trees already planted in half barrels, and 85 or 90 rare trees and ■shrubs. Among vthe latter ar tea, coffee, pepper, canphor, cinnamon, date and fig. The tree plants and dasheen are on the way. -The strawberries will be here next week from Oregon. Everything from the radishes to rhubarb is up and growing beautifully. I wish you could see those plants. It is a pretty sight, indeed, at this time of the year. The weather is glorious or has been, though it is raining now, but this is needed for “our garden.” The remainder of the letter is personal and not intended for publication, but we know that the many friends of Bernie will be interested ih his “experiment” station and that they will be pleased to have a letter published later in The Republican telling of the, success which he is meeting in his research work.