{"1": {"fulltext": "v^H\\nHill Count y\\nFloVido/.\\n1^94\\nf^.^", "height": "1821", "width": "2588", "jp2-path": "featuresofhillco00long_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "Class U:2", "height": "1811", "width": "2656", "jp2-path": "featuresofhillco00long_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "1821", "width": "2588", "jp2-path": "featuresofhillco00long_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "1811", "width": "2656", "jp2-path": "featuresofhillco00long_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": ".A\\niOO OCi\\n^tv-", "height": "1821", "width": "2588", "jp2-path": "featuresofhillco00long_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "Copyright 1894\\nBY\\nA. S. Harper\\nPhotographkr, Tallahassee, Fla.\\nli\\nf", "height": "1811", "width": "2656", "jp2-path": "featuresofhillco00long_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "ANNOUNCEMENT.\\n-C M S\\nThe subscribed committeemen of the Board of Commissioners of the County of\\nLeon, in the State of Florida, announce that the preparation of the accompanying pages\\nhas been accomphshed under their auspices, and they are issued with their approval. The\\npurpose of the pubHcation is in the interest of Immigration. Additions to the number of\\npeople engaged in industrial purposes in Leon County only are needed to place it\\namong the most prosperous parts of the country.\\nIt is intended in these pages to present reliably some of the leading facts con-\\ncerning conditions prevalent in the region of which they treat, trusting that any interest\\nthey may awaken will lead to personal inspection of the premises by readers.\\nThe illustrations are photographic representations of actualities, made expressly for\\nthis publication.\\nWe commend perusal of the book, it being trustworthy, and extend a cordial wel-\\ncome to all such persons as may be attracted by it to visit the Tallahassee country.\\nW. R. WILSON,\\nJOHN BRADFORD, Cotnmittee.\\nF. T. CHRISTIE.", "height": "1821", "width": "2588", "jp2-path": "featuresofhillco00long_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "FLORIDA.\\nFeatures of the Hill Region.\\nTEXT BY RICHARD C. LONG.\\nOWARDS the southern edge of temperate latitudes, a Httle away from the\\nMexican sea, rises out of flat pinewood surroundings in Southern Georgia\\nand Florida an unique bit of upland; at once the most fertile, the most pic-\\nturesque, and the most salubrious, south of the mountains of North Georgia.\\nIn autumn, wildfowl, wingmg their way out of the North, descry, outlined against\\nthe southern sky, profile of this elevation topping adjacent lands and sea. Thereaway,\\nin perpetual sunshine, tempered with refreshing trades and pulsating monsoon, lies\\nspread about the beautiful land face of the\\nTallahassee Country\\nin Leon County, Florida.\\nFertility of soil and salubriousness of climate are prime factors in fitting a region\\nfor occupancy of human forces; add to these mildness and equability of temperature,\\nregularity of seasons, facilities alike for industrial activities or recreative loiterings, amid\\npicturesque surroundings, with bounteous food supply, and the essentials of social estab-\\nlishment are secured.\\nIn the vicinity of Florida s capital, amid the charming hill region of Leon, such\\nconditions prevail.", "height": "1811", "width": "2656", "jp2-path": "featuresofhillco00long_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "Tallahassee Country From Leon Heights.", "height": "1821", "width": "2588", "jp2-path": "featuresofhillco00long_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "Aspect of the out-country is attractive in the extreme. Mr. Maurice Thompson,\\nin his pleasing Httle romance, The Tallahassee Girl, describes the locality as beauti-\\nfully rolling forest and field alternating; a genuinely Piedmontese landscape, the like of\\nwhich cannot be found otherwhere in America. There are strewed prodigally abroad,\\nin endless variety of effects, fine skies, translucent air, undulating distended surface lines,\\ntree-grown acclivities, husbanded valleys, lighted here and there with glistening water\\nbits, all decked in lavish wealth of Southern light and color.\\nHere is a land delightful to drive over and to walk upon. Broad, well-kept road-\\nways that are hard and smooth ramble wantonly over the hills and away. Along their\\ntrend, whether down the shadowy dales, athwart the sun-lit slopes, or across the tilled\\nplateaux, enchanting prospects keep actively alive sense of the beautiful in an enraptured\\nbeholder.\\nScarce elsewhere occurs such variety and profusion of plant life as among the\\nchocolate hills of Leon. Trees, shrubs, and climbers of countless kinds, severally typi-\\ncal of widely dispersed habitats, are here assembled in a very congress of their king-\\ndom superb specimens of their species, prodigies of a sun-warmed forest product, to\\nbe seen here and among the bayou lands of alluvial Louisiana only.\\nNor is this summer aspect of things altogether a fleeting show, as in most other\\nrealms. Chill winds that may break over Appalachian barriers to the northward mingle\\namid the Leon foothills with kindlier breath of southern seas. In such tempered airs\\ngo forth husbandmen with Christmastide to sow. Glossy-leaved tree growths, in per-\\npetual green, then spread dancing shadows athwart the paths as merrily as when the\\nsun hangs higher in the sky. Herds, grazing, tread the ever-springing sod, innocent of\\nsheltered care, while the well-lunged people of the genial clime are out and abroad.", "height": "1821", "width": "2666", "jp2-path": "featuresofhillco00long_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "", "height": "1821", "width": "2588", "jp2-path": "featuresofhillco00long_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "Reception and entertainment in Florida, during the winter season, of jkople seek-\\ning relief from indoor confinement and ungrateful temperatures elsewhere, have assumed\\nenormous proportions. The region of Leon County has given less regard to this under-\\ntaking than most parts of the State.\\nIn recent years a knowledge of conditions existing in the Tallahassee country\\nhas gradually crept abroad, attractive in many particulars to the several classes of visit-\\nants who, from one cause or another, are accustomed to sojourn in Florida. With the\\nimprovement taking place in railway and hotel service, quite respectable numbers of\\ntourists or winter visitors have come to frequent surrounding here. Chiefest among\\nthese, perhaps, have been gentlemanly sportsmen, with their families, from Eastern,\\nWestern, and Middle States, to whom the most excellent quail-shooting, from Novem-\\nber to February inclusive, has proven attractive, with abundance of snipe on the mead-\\nows until May.\\nMany people, too, have come to seek in Tallahassee conditions considered en-\\ntirely with reference to salubriousness, and special fitness of the environment to one\\nparticular ailment or another; and very general approval has resulted, among sick and\\ndelicate folks, as to the beneficial eftects of Tallahassee airs and artesian waters. There\\nis a quiet, peaceful tone pervading the surroundings of the quaint, dreamy little city,\\nmost gratifying to persons in ill health, who find among flowery, sun-bathed gardens,\\nparks, and tree-grown avenues a yestfidness that is especially grateful. A pronounced\\ndifference exists between the air of the elevated region hereabouts and that of many\\nparts of Florida. The sea air that reaches the Leon plateaux comes from the warm\\nbosom of the Mexican Gulf, but eighteen miles away. It comes, too, through and over\\nthe resinous boughs of intervening miles of dry pine woods, reaching the Tallahassee", "height": "1821", "width": "2666", "jp2-path": "featuresofhillco00long_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "OCKBELOCKEE,", "height": "1821", "width": "2588", "jp2-path": "featuresofhillco00long_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "terraces, three hundred feet above the sea level, impregnated with curative properties of\\nrecoo-nized value. Great wealth of genial temperature and comfortable sunshine accom-\\npanies these medicated waves of ozone, devoid of chilliness and fog.\\nIn the possibility of out-of-door existence for the most delicate ones for so much\\nthe greater part of the time, and the diversion and attraction of the beautiful gardens,\\ndrives, and promenades, probably lies much of the healing virtue of sojourn among the\\nhospitable surroundings of Tallahassee.\\nYet another sort of folk who of recent years have been attracted to the Leon\\ncountry are a score or more of gentlemen from American States, England, Scotland,\\nand France.\\nThese have become purchasers of larger or smaller tracts of plantation lands, and\\npermanent all the year round citizens, surrounding their homes with the countless com-\\nforts and embellishments that delightful conditions here admit of\\nSomewhat further along in these pages and pictures will recur the subject of\\nattractions in Leon County for sportsmen, a class of visitors who, when of a thoroughly\\nwell-bred type, find great favor and fellowship with the plantation and covert owners of\\nthe region. Some account was given in the Travel Colunms of the American Field for\\nJanuary, February, and March of 1894 of the character of shooting and fishing to be had\\nin Leon County, Florida, reference to which will impart reliable information to those\\ndesiring it.\\nImmediately this publication must concern itself with setting forth some facts about\\nthe indtistrial relation of things in this country of ours.\\nSerious-minded people will want to know how we make a living amongst all\\nthis picturesqueness and delightful lounging.", "height": "1847", "width": "2630", "jp2-path": "featuresofhillco00long_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "", "height": "1841", "width": "2588", "jp2-path": "featuresofhillco00long_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "Agriculture for seventy years has been the chief industrial purpose of Leon\\nCounty people. Throughout that period success has attended here all well-directed\\nefforts at husbandry. There was a time, thirty years ago, when plantation purposes of\\nbroadest intent prevailed on Leon s fertile uplands. Estates of hundreds of negro slaves\\nand tliousands of tilled acres gave affluent incomes to proprietors. Slave labor bestowed\\non crops of grain, sugar cane, cotton, and tobacco, yielded an aggregation of produce\\nvalued at millions annually.\\nFor twenty years after the civil war there j)revailed, in all farm purposes con-\\nducted with newly freed labor, an element of risk and waste hugely discouraging in the\\nundertaking. Out of the mass of well and ill directed effort under the changed condi-\\ntions were gradually evolved clearer senses of things. A generation of younger men,\\nrespectively sons of old masters and slaves, awakened to a knowledge of mutual depen-\\ndencies, and, together, learned by observation and experiment of a diversity of farm purpose\\nunconsidered by their sires. W^ithin the last decade the once prevalent system of large plan-\\ntation tracts, operated by tenants paying rent in kind and inxariably in cotton, has fallen\\ninto disfavor. Where practicable, smaller areas, more thorough tillage, improved implements,\\nrotation, fertilization, and diversification of crops, have become the prevailing tendencies.\\nSuch temper of things induces want of immigration. Need is felt of more people, a practical\\nclass of farm folk, disposed to settle in the country-side, and by infusion of new ideas and\\nenergies give additional impetus to the newly awakened tendency of affairs.\\nThousands of acres of excellent farm lands, heretofore indispensable for the use\\nof tenantry, have, under a new direction of purposes, become surplus holdings, and are\\npurchasable at fair values and on easy terms.\\nIt is to those persons of practical farm knowledge and usage throughout the\\n10", "height": "1847", "width": "2630", "jp2-path": "featuresofhillco00long_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "^_5)iii igonLheli-^^-", "height": "1821", "width": "2588", "jp2-path": "featuresofhillco00long_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "country, likely to contemplate, from one cause or another, removal to new fields of action,\\nthat the people of Leon County, Florida, are anxious to present the facts set forth in this\\npublication. An earnest and general desire prevails among the people of the county for\\nthe coming among them of clever and industrious men and women, with every assur-\\nance of finding here favorable conditions for home-making in a bountiful land with civil-\\nized and disciplined surroundings.\\nThere are not in Leon County, State, or United States lands of any value subject\\nto Homestead entry or purchase. The generally fine quality of the soil, and its adaptability\\nto supporting slave forces, led to its very early settlement.\\nLitending settlers for forty years past have bought their lands from private hands.\\nSuch purchases will be of parts of, or entire, plantation tracts, ranging from five or ten\\nto several thousand acres, for the greater part cleared and under cultivation, but having\\nalways preserved areas of woodland.\\nNo speculative inflation of prices has ever obtained in connection with Leon County\\nreal estate. In some localities of the county values have greatly enhanced of late years,\\ncommanding several fold the prices of ten years ago, but such advances are invariably\\nbased on actual demand and boiia-fide bargain and sale, and that, too, for ordinary, gene-\\nral farm purposes, and for no boomed project of easily made fortunes.\\nA radical difference exists between the nature of the soil in the greater part of\\nLeon County and that of most other parts of Florida. In place of a sandy flatness, so\\ncommonly associated with ideas of the State, occur here, over an area of about two\\nhundred square miles, an alluvium of red and chocolate colored clayey loams, piled in a\\nrambling outspread of terraced hills and dales a drift of finely ground and commin-\\ngled secondary limestone measures, fetched hither from the northwestward, in compara-\\n12", "height": "1847", "width": "2630", "jp2-path": "featuresofhillco00long_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "", "height": "1821", "width": "2588", "jp2-path": "featuresofhillco00long_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "tively recent geological time, by some prodigious cataclysm, and laid down immediately\\non the undisturbed face of the Pleiocenc. It is of great uniformity of texture through-\\nout an average depth of forty-five feet. Fertile on top, fertile in the middle, and equally\\nso at the very bottom, it, like an oilstone, is good all the way through and does not\\nwear out. Sand greatly predominates over other properties. In the first foot of topsoil\\nabout twenty-nine times as much sand exists as clay. It is entirely free from stones\\nor boulders, nor does it clod or sun-l)ake. There is in the surface soil sufficient clay to\\ngive decided consistency, many indigenous permanent pasture grasses and clovers taking\\na firm roothold and making deep, strong, tough sod, while under the plo\\\\\\\\ the earth is\\nfriable, puh-erizes thoroughly, and scours the share. Of the three prime elements of\\nplant food, official analysis by the State s chemist discloses, in an average sample of\\nunfertilized surface soil, the presence of one measure of potash, two and a half of phos-\\nphoric acid, and three of nitre to each one thousand measures of soil.\\nSoda, lime, and magnesia are present in slightly less proportions, with car-\\nbcmic acid at a rate of about one and three-cjuarters parts in a thousand. Coupled\\nwith these chemical conditions there are incidental ones, such as prolonged period of\\ngrowth, equability of temperature, regularity and copiousness of rainfall, all of which\\nbecome potent factors in the problem of plant propagation and nutrition.\\nThe general averages of crop products for the entire county, as estimated from\\nstatistics compiled under Florida statutes b\\\\ the Assessor of Revenue, are low. But a\\nperfectly fair account of what the good farmers accomplish as average products per\\nacre, on the qualities of soil described above, in the several customary crops of their\\nfarms, according to favorableness of seasons and thoroughness of cultivation, are, of\\ncorn, from fifteen to twenty-five bushels of oats, twenty-five to forty bushels of sugar-\\n14", "height": "1847", "width": "2630", "jp2-path": "featuresofhillco00long_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "y^ojj*^", "height": "1821", "width": "2588", "jp2-path": "featuresofhillco00long_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "cane products, from four hundred to five hundred gallons of syrup or two thousand five\\nhundred pounds of sugar; of sweet potatoes, from three hundred to five hundred bushels;\\nof cigar tobacco (Havana, Sumatra, or Nicaragua), from six hundred to one thousand\\npounds of peanuts, from forty-five to seventy bushels of rye, from twelve to fifteen\\nbushels; of rice, from fifty to one hundred bushels; and of hay, from one to three tons.\\nThese accounts of soil capacities and crop products, let it be remembered, are\\ngiven of unfertilized soil of good qualities, in its natural condition but well worked, and\\nthe results are general averages, exclusive of all high-class methods.\\nUpon about such results for seventy years past, together with a cotton crop, the\\ncivilization and social establishment of this region have rested.\\nA population of twenty thousand souls, together with their work animals, are\\ncomfortably maintained in Leon County, abundantly supplied with choice food of home\\nproduction, with a large surplus of these and several special market or money crops to\\nsell.\\nNo more marked departure from old-time methods has of late years occurred, in\\nthe region under discussion, than in the matter of grass culture.\\nWithin a decade the section has become a hay-producing one, and that, too,\\nsimply by utilizing natural resources that, while neglected, have been quite as available\\nthese sixty years. None of the commonly known domesticated grasses of the North\\nand West are found to be of high value in Middle Florida. Orchard grass, blue grass,\\ntimothy, and red clover, all grow with luxuriance on the chocolate loams of Leon, provided\\nhuman agencies are lent them in the struggle with native varieties of fitter survival.\\nIndigenous to the section are four annual grasses, especially fine hay producers.\\nThese abundantly seed themselves, spontaneously springing up when and wherever\\n16", "height": "1847", "width": "2630", "jp2-path": "featuresofhillco00long_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "??.f Cud (tfewiMs i n rne SHflOt.", "height": "1821", "width": "2588", "jp2-path": "featuresofhillco00long_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "land surfaces are stirred from February to October.\\nNo setting aside of time or place is necessary for their accommodation in farm\\neconomy. But the same year, and every year, along with, or as immediate successors to,\\nmost other crops, theirs is an assured presence, necessitating only good husbandry, at\\na minimum cost, to reap benefits and values attainable elsewhere with domesticated\\nvarieties at an enormously greater expense.\\nCrab grass [Panicitm Sanguinale), Crow-foot grass [Dactylocteniwn Egypt-\\niami), Barn grass [Eleusme Indica,) and Water grass [Paspalum Lceve), are the\\nfour chief native grasses, among the annuals, most generally and profitably turned to\\nfarm account.\\nTo these four grass types farmers are here indebted for hay supplies. Land may\\nbe put down to grass simply by breaking and harrowing the seed are already there.\\nIt depends upon when the land is turned down which kind of grass will come. Before\\nJuly ist crab grass will habilitate treated surfaces; after that time crow-foot is apt\\nto take possession.\\nOat stubble, left unbroken, will produce from one ton to a ton and a half of crab\\ngrass in July. If turned down and harrowed in early June it will produce two to three\\ntons crab hay in August or September.\\nIllustrations on page 15 are of the cutting, during the first week in August, of\\ngrass produced on stubble land without breaking up the ground after removal of the\\ngrain crop in June. In the picture Crab grass, taken upon the beautiful Lake Annie\\nstock farm, the preceding crop was of German millet. Three tons per acre were taken\\noff this close in June. The August mow was estimated as likely to furnish a ton and a\\nhalf of crab hay. In September will come off another cut of aftermath entirely of crab\\n18", "height": "1847", "width": "2630", "jp2-path": "featuresofhillco00long_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "grass, and of about one and a half tons weight when cured. Another picture, Crow-foot\\nand Barn Grass, is a scene on Ethel Meadows farm, where on August 7th an esti-\\nmated cut of two tons cured hay is being taken from a surface where fifty bushels of oats\\nper acre were harvested in early June, and the stubble left unturned to promptly reha-\\nbilitate itself by spontaneous seeding of crow-foot and barn grass. This close will also\\nfurnish another mowing in September heavier than the one being removed in the picture.\\nPeas and beggar-weed show about four tons of cured forage being taken, in\\nlate August, from land yielding oat crop in early June, stubble then turned down and\\npeas sown broadcast. There will be October aftermath.\\nEvery second year, in the course of customary rotative methods, only the August\\ncuttine of crrass occurs on these unbroken stubbles, after which the areas are turned\\no o\\nover and broadcasted to cow-peas, which latter crop, after producing seed for another\\nyear, are turned down in November for manure and the fall planting of oats sown upon\\nit. Two market crops, one of grain and one of hay, and a valuable quid pro quo re-\\nturned to the land in manurial peas, all the same year, is a reciprocal ride-and-tie ar-\\nrangement that keeps a man, a beast, and an acre fat.\\nThere are also indigenous in Leon County several perennial grasses, which are\\nnot only bountiful hay producers when desired, but bear treading admirably, forming\\nclose, heavy sod, and constitute permanent all-the-year-round pastures for horses, cattle,\\nsheep, or hogs.\\nChiefest among these are three varieties of Sedge [Andropogan Virgiriicus, A.\\nFurcatus, and A. Macrourus), Bermuda grass [Cynodon Dactylon), and Smut grass\\n[Spombulus Indiciis). These several pasture grasses are veritable mud-sills, upon\\nwhich rests a solid superstructure of diversified farm purpose and prosperity in this\\nVd", "height": "1821", "width": "2588", "jp2-path": "featuresofhillco00long_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "delightful region. Among the illustrations on page 17 is shown Bermuda pasture at\\nClavo farm, and Andropogan or sedge pasture at Knuck an Nimma, both of\\nwhich speak for themselves in the appearance of the herds.\\nA unique feature of the methods pursued on Knuck an Nimma is that, exxept\\na few acres in sugar cane, there is not an acre in cultivation on the farm. The whole\\nbusiness is in sedge pasture, divided in twain, a winter and a summer walk. The herd\\nis never penned except to be milked night and morning. Not a shelter on the place.\\nThe herd graze all night in the summer time, and lie in the shade cud-chewing by\\nday. The proprietor told us his herd paid him net, on his entire farm of four hundred\\nand eighty acres, five dollars per acre per annum.\\nTo those unfamiliar with the character and value of native Florida grasses, the\\nfollowing table of analyses of nutritive content and estimated market values, compiled\\nby Mr. Peter Collier, of the Agricultural Bureau at Washington, may prove of in-\\nterest\\ntii\\n6\\ntn\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0J-.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2a\\n2\\nX\\nc\\n2\\nrt\\ncd\\n.c\\nc\\nJ3\\n3\\n3\\nL.\\nSi\\nQJ\\n3\\nS\\n5;\\nV\\nt^\\nen\\nM\\nu\\nca\\nm\\nU\\n\\\\r.\\np;\\n1\\nm\\nCarbohydrates..\\n64 21\\n6173\\n63.10\\n72.17\\n60.08\\n66.76\\n53-31\\n6. .38\\n61.08\\n63.28\\n62. 78\\n54-09\\nAlbuminoids\\n7.21\\n987\\n9.70\\n6.90\\n2-57\\n6 90\\n8.38\\n10.59\\n1 1.05\\n10.39\\n12 92\\n26. 14\\nCellulose\\n2 -35\\n23-94\\n22.70\\n14.85\\n28.35\\n21 98\\n27 50\\n22.00\\n10.96\\n19.27\\n20 32\\n13.06\\nAsh\\n7- 23\\n4 46\\n4-5\u00c2\u00b0\\n6.08\\n8.00\\n4-36\\n10.81\\n6.03\\n7.81\\n7.06\\n3-38\\n7.71\\n-potal\\n100.00\\n100.00\\n100.00\\n100.00\\n100.00\\n100.00\\n100.00\\n100.00\\n100.00\\n100.00\\n100.00\\nValue per ton\\nas hay food.\\n$15-65\\n17.07\\n13.80\\ni6.oo\\n10.64\\n15.62\\nJ4.45\\n17-35\\n7-5\u00c2\u00b0\\n17-50\\n20.35\\n2 I 02", "height": "1868", "width": "2620", "jp2-path": "featuresofhillco00long_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "", "height": "1821", "width": "2588", "jp2-path": "featuresofhillco00long_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "Comparison of relative qualities of grasses indicated above shows that in carbo-\\nhydrates and albuminoids, the valuable parts of forage, more than half of the native\\nFlorida varieties named are richer and more valuable than the three well-known do-\\nmesticated kinds orchard grass, blue grass, and timothy; and in the constituent\\ncellulose, a non-digestible and valueless propertv, the proportion is less.\\nEvolution and development of hay-cropping and sod-setting gave new direction\\nto the management of live stock in Leon. Along with stack-building and loft-filling\\ncame better herd making and tending.\\nDairying\\ndeveloped into an established industry. There are in Leon County more than fifty farms\\ndevoted in part or in whole to the production of butter for market. Jersey cattle, regis-\\ntered, thoroughbred, and of high grade, predominate in the herds.\\nApproximately three thousand head of such cows and heifers constitute the butter-\\nproducing force of the county, estimated to be an increase in ten years of not less than\\nfour hundred per centum.\\nThe invariable custom in the management of these herds is with ojjen pasturage\\nthroughout the year, supplemented in winter and spring with daily rations of hay, stover,\\nensilage, fodder corn, bran, cottonseed, corn meal, potatoes, turnips, millet, or pea vines,\\nbut in every instance the extra feed stuffs are the product of the farm where fed. Esti-\\nmate, based on as exhaustive data as are attainable, places the average annual product in\\nbutter per ccnv at two hundred pounds.\\nPrices realized for this product are from twenty-fi\\\\ e to thirty cents per pound. It\\nis estimated that the dairies of the county will market, during the year 1894, 140 tons\\nof butter, of a value of $75,600.", "height": "1868", "width": "2620", "jp2-path": "featuresofhillco00long_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "Watei^ Oah Hef^^ j,", "height": "1847", "width": "2588", "jp2-path": "featuresofhillco00long_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "This is an encouraging showing for a young industry, and gives great promise\\nfor the future. Rapidly as the dairy business has grown of late, not one-tenth of the\\nterritory in the county best adapted to such purposes, having running water and mea-\\ndows, has as yet been appropriated to that end. The enterprise might assume twenty-\\nfold its present dimensions before choice locations for the purpose will become scarce.\\nIntroduction of mechanical separators in cream-gathering has given impetus to the industry.\\nAn item of good profit has attended herd-owning in a demand from East, West,\\nand South Florida for milch cows in winter, to supply milk to the great crowds of\\nwinter visitors frequenting those parts. Butter-makers are enabled in that way to cull\\ntheir herds annually of copious milkers who produce little butter.\\nPractical dairymen readily recognize advantages attending shaded pastures. The\\nmagnificent trees that invariably dot the pasture lands of Leon may be counted not least\\namong the favorable conditions of dairying there.\\nThe projectors of this publication unhesitatingly recommend to industrious people\\neverywhere, as a well-tested project, dairy farming in Leon County, Florida.\\nLands, cattle, grass, water, shade, kindly climate, inexpensive appurtenances, health-\\nful condition of herds and herders, with ready market, amid civilized and neighborly\\nsurroundings, await those who may choose to come.\\nThis is a business whose income begins with its establishment. No waiting weary\\nand expensive years for trees to come into bearing golden fruit drops off the\\ndasher at the first churning. One of the largest and most profitable dairies in Leon\\nCounty twelve years ago consisted of two cheap old cows, while the covered end of a\\nhorse trough at the well was the dairy for the first year.\\nRearing of Horses and Mules, while carried on upon a less extensive scale\\n24", "height": "1868", "width": "2620", "jp2-path": "featuresofhillco00long_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "by individuals than in the antebellum days, attains now very considerable proportions in\\nthe aggregate of foals dropped annually in the county. Several proprietors have made\\nthe breeding of standard horses and mules a leading feature of their farm purpose.\\nExcellent types of both animals are practical results under prevailing conditions. Abun-\\ndant supply of rich, nutritious pasture grass for ten months, with cheap oats, corn, and\\nhay, are calculated to insure good results in horse-breeding. Most excellent qualities\\nof wind and bottom are proverbially characteristic of Middle Florida bred stock. There\\nare in the county, in stud, many good stallions thoroughbred and standard, and several\\nJacks of high degree. Much of the riding, driving, and work stock of the section is\\nnative born, and their propagation is steadily on the increase. On the 27th of June, while\\nengaged in securing photographs for illustrating this work, we saw in a pasture on Lake\\nJackson five handsome brood mares and ten mule colts, half of whom were coming\\ntwo-year-olds. These animals were in fine condition, the colts well grown and shapely,\\nthe lot quite equal to anything of the kind we have ever seen in Tennessee or Ken-\\ntucky. Speaking admiringly of them, their owner assured us that neither the dams nor\\ncolts had eaten grain or hay since November of the previous year, but had subsisted\\nentirely on the grass of the pasture where they ran, and that during that time no day\\nor night had been spent under a shelter. There were about four hundred acres in the\\npasture where they ran, along with three hundred head of catde. Walking over and\\ninspecting its character disclosed among its growths Bermuda, smut grass, numerous\\nsedges, Japan clover, maiden cane, crab grass, crow-foot, water grass, barn grass,\\nnimblewill, carpet grass, and other unknown or unnamed species.\\nIt is the universal impression among all Middle Floridians whose experience has\\noffered opportunities for judging, that in matters of wind, endurance, pluck, and heart-\\n25", "height": "1847", "width": "2588", "jp2-path": "featuresofhillco00long_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "iness of constitution Leon County bred horses, especially among thoroughbreds, are\\nincomparably superior to the average class of stock fetched hither from the North and,\\nWest. Many hundreds of the mounts among Georgia and Florida cavalry durino- the\\ncivil war were Leon County bred, and within the familiar knowledge of the writer is the\\ninvariable reputation such stock bore in the several commands for great superiority. It\\nis certainly among the assured accomplishments of the future that the rearing of horses\\non an extensive and approved scale shall obtain among the hill farms of the Leon\\nregion.\\nNo character of live stock have ever been more successfully handled in Leon\\nCounty than\\nSheep.\\nTheir care since the civil war has fallen into disuse rather than disfavor, owing largely\\nto the system of tenant-farming becoming prevalent with the emancipation of slavery.\\nIt is the assurance of flock-owners in the county that their flocks are the best\\ninterest-bearing property on their tax lists. Sixty years experience has demonstrated\\ngreat immunity from disease among Middle Florida flocks, and their attendance with as\\nsmall percentage of loss from misadventure as in any part of the world, perhaps.\\nThe dry, friable character of the soil avoids the dreaded foot plagues. The pure,\\nwholesome character of water supply, with sandy margins and bottoms, prevents innume-\\nrable maladies derived from polluted sources of drink among Western flocks. There are\\nno chilly winds and freezing temperatures to decimate the new-born lambs. Young are\\ndropped with impunity at any season in the open runs. Barns and shelters are non-\\nessentials, and grass is attainable the year round. Sheep may be as carelessly and\\neconomically handled as in Southwestern frontier or Mexican regions, with the advantage\\n2ft", "height": "1868", "width": "2620", "jp2-path": "featuresofhillco00long_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "j^KS-L^ND COLt 5-", "height": "1847", "width": "2588", "jp2-path": "featuresofhillco00long_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "over conditions there in the matter of early lamb and fat mutton supply of being at\\nthe very doors of centres of demand like Tampa, Jacksonville, Savannah, Augusta, etc.\\nAn idea now beginning to take form among certain farmers is sheep on permanent\\nsod of Bermuda, over acres set to orchards of pears or pecans. It seems an unique\\nfeature in sheep-walking, this planting over hundreds of acres great groves of pecan trees,\\nfurnishing a protecting shade to the flocks, while the flocks in turn make grow and\\nabundantly productive the nut-producing trees. Both Bermuda, smut, and mis-\\nsion grass grow luxuriantly in the shade. Experimentation in a small way in this\\ndirection has been attended with such satisfactory results as are likely to rapidly popular-\\nize the scheme and give rise to quite extensive conversion of old cotton plantations\\ninto sheep pastures and nut or other fruit orchards.\\nHogs have for these many years been veritable entities among the corn-growing\\nacres of Leon hogs indeed, without a suspicion of razor-back taint in their\\nswinish veins, lineal descendants of as Berkshireish progenitors as ever elsewhere sought\\nthe mire.\\nIn past times immense supplies of pork and bacon, necessary to support great\\nslave forces, were produced here on the plantations, besides quantities of bacon and\\nhams made for sale.\\nMeat production on no such scale prevails now, yet no good farmer in Leon\\nCounty would feel his year s operations a success did he fail to make meat to do\\nhim. Hog products can be produced in Leon perhaps as cheaply as on the corn\\nlands of the West. The grain-food supply, had there at minimum cost, is substituted\\nsuccessfully in Middle Florida by the limitless and inexpensive production of farina-\\nceous roots. Sweet potatoes, chufas, peanuts, artichokes, and cassava are available\\n2.S", "height": "1868", "width": "2620", "jp2-path": "featuresofhillco00long_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "", "height": "1847", "width": "2588", "jp2-path": "featuresofhillco00long_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "crops at minimum cost of production, and in Florida latitudes remain in the ground\\nduring winter, the hogs harvesting their own keeping.\\nWith corn at thirty-five cents per bushel to harden off in January, there are\\nno drawbacks to hog production.\\nPoultry forms a conspicuous item in a schedule of Leon County farm produce,\\nbeing a source of universal home comfort and luxury, as well as one of no mean\\nprofit. Equable temperatures insure perpetual supplies of insect and plant food, and\\nobviate the necessity of elaborate housing. Fowls run at large and forage the year\\nround, and, where well fed, yield eggs at all seasons of the year. Besides a most gener-\\nous supply of chickens, eggs, turkeys, ducks, geese, and guineas for town and country\\nhome consumption, large quantities of each are exported to supply demand in East,\\nWest, and South Florida.\\nIt is in the combination of General Farm Purposes that consist the customary\\nsurroundings and occupations of Leon County country people. Farmers families consist\\nhere, as a rule, of intelligent, well-bred folks, polite and kindly in manner and feeling,\\nwhile typically Southern in habits and customs. They are generally domiciled in com-\\nfortable, roomy homes of a structure best suited to the climate, surrounded with spa-\\ncious, shady groves of stately trees flower-yards, vegetable gardens, and orchards are\\ninvariable features of home environment. There exist throughout the region liberal\\nsocial sentiment and pronounced hospitality.\\nGreatly the majority of the farming people are the descendants of early settlers\\nfrom the rural districts of the Carolinas, (jcorgia, Tennessee, and Alabama. Of recent\\nyears there have settled at points throughout the county occasional immigrants from\\nWestern and Northern American States, with now and then a representative from\\n30", "height": "1868", "width": "2620", "jp2-path": "featuresofhillco00long_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Holland, or Germany. No element of Scandinavian\\norigin is as yet to be found here.\\nNowhere are there special fruit, vegetable, poultry farms, or any other one-purpose\\nenterprises. The custom is to live abundantly and comfortably. A variety of food com-\\nmodities for man and beast, with a surplus for sale, is the established order of things,\\nand then to supplement such prime essentials with some one or more special crops as\\nmarket or money features, to be sold off the premises.\\nHeretofore for sixty-odd years cotton has been the chief commodity looked to for\\nsupplying cash. It still remains an almost invariable feature of farm purpose, notwith-\\nstanding the low prices prevailing for some years, which is owing to its being always\\nsalable, at some price, at any and every store, and of the further fact that it occupies, in\\nits cultivation and harvest, time of regularly employed labor that would otherwise be idle.\\nWith the constantly improving facilities of railway transportation and quick transit,\\ninnumerable side industries have become possible profitable pursuits. So that, along with\\nthe regular occupation of the general farm, every one fosters some little special scheme\\nfor which he niay have a fancy or particular knowledge. It may be a few hundred\\ncrates, at a particular season, of some one vegetable or another Irish potatoes in April,\\nat from five to ten dollars per barrel in New York; an acre or two of egg plants in\\nlate June and early July, worth a like price per bushel crate. Cabbage, cucumbers,\\nbeans, beets, onions, tomatoes, and lettuce are all possibilities of good profitableness\\nwith Leon farmers to the extent of a few hundred dollars annually.\\nSo the growing of seeds for seedmen is sometimes a moneyed adjunct of a farm.\\nCorn, oats, rye, hay, fodder, sugar cane, potatoes, peanuts, with millet and sor-\\nghum, are staple crops invariably looked out for, while hogs and poultry as universally\\n31", "height": "1847", "width": "2588", "jp2-path": "featuresofhillco00long_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "accompany them and on every farm are cows and abundant milk and butter.\\nFruit-growing, except in the matter of Le Conte, Chinese, Sand, and Keifer pears,\\nhas not assumed marketable proportions among Leon farmers. Home supplies, how-\\never, of plums, peaches, figs, and oranges are to be had very generally, with quantities\\nof blackberries and strawberries.\\nOf the three varieties of pears mentioned above very extensive plantings have\\nbeen had. There are possibly one thousand acres in the county set to this fruit. An acre\\ncarries fifty trees. At seven years and upwards, three barrels to the tree is a good ave-\\nrage yield, and two dollars per barrel net is about the experience of ten years projecting.\\nThe conversion of large tracts into pears and grass, or pecans and grass, with sheep or\\nAngoras tcj under-tread, is likely to become a popular and successful scheme in these\\nparts.\\nIn the matter of vegetable supply Leon possesses unique advantages. Generally,\\nelsewhere in Florida, surfaces are poor and sandy. With cosUy fertilizing and irrigating\\nvegetables are grown during the winter and early spring. With the opening of summer\\nthe sand gets dry and as hot as newly roasted coffee, and vegetation of a succulent\\nnature disappears from the face of the earth. In Leon County, with her more tenacious\\nand fertile clayey loams, and regularity of rainfall throughout the summer, growing gar-\\ndens are not only practicable, but are established and indispensable features of every farm\\nsurrounding. Indeed, at whatever season of the year one tests the hospitality of the\\nfarm homes in Leon, he must be impressed with the bountiful and varied food supply of\\nthe inmates, and particularly with how little of such luxuriousness is attended with a\\nmoneyed outlay.\\nRepeatedly, during the taking of the photographs for this publication, the author", "height": "1868", "width": "2620", "jp2-path": "featuresofhillco00long_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "", "height": "1847", "width": "2588", "jp2-path": "featuresofhillco00long_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "and his artist companion were recipients of a bounteous entertainment at boards literally\\ngroaning under a burden of viands. Fish, flesh, fowls, and fodder stuffs of delicious\\nqualities, delightfully prepared, were proffered us everywhere and, positively, salt, black\\npepper, and coffee were the only commodities among the lot not a product of the farms\\nwhere we were entertained.\\nTo people unaccustomed, in other less fortunate parts of the country, to rely on a\\ngarden and orchard every day in the year for an abundant and varied food supply, there\\nis scarcely a just appreciation of what figure such resource cuts in the living expense\\nof a farmer s household. To be thoroughly well fed the year round, and no occasion\\nto put out money to secure it, means just the difference between profitable and unprofit-\\nable farming.\\nA feature of natural conditions existing amid the admirable farm lands of Middle\\nFlorida is the presence there of an indigenous growth greatly supeyior to red clover as a\\nRenovator of Worn Lands.\\nDesmodiitiii, or beggar weed, as termed in the South, is a slender-stem plant\\nwith spreading, seedy top, growing often ten feet in height. Belonging to the Legu-\\nuiinoscc, pre-eminently among its kind is this plant rich in potash, phosphoric acid, and\\nnitre, and peculiarly fitted for extracting these several plant foods from the subsoil and\\natmosphere. Whatever, in agricultural experiences elsewhere, red clover may have\\naccomplished as a renovator of exhausted farm lands, is greatly surpassed in these South-\\nlands by the prodigious capacities of beggar weed in this regard. An enormous\\ngrowth of tap-root penetrates deep into the subsoil, and through stout lateral feeders\\nfetches from the subsoil rich stores of inorganic properties, while the dense, rank growth\\n34", "height": "1868", "width": "2620", "jp2-path": "featuresofhillco00long_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "of foliage gathers abundantly of nitre.\\nThe Agricultural Department at Washington has published the following com-\\nparative analysis of these two plants\\nCarbohydrates, per cent\\nAlbuminoids,\\nCellulose,\\nAsh,\\nRed Clover.\\n4 -o\\n16.1\\n35-1\\n7.8\\nIn these figures the albuminoids contained in desmodium, as to those in red\\nclover, are 132 to 100, or nearly one-third greater. In comparative bulkiness of product\\nper acre, desmodium, which averages six feet high, is to red clover, growing at an\\naverage of two feet, as 300 is to 100, or three times greater.\\nIn comparative cost of production desmodium is an indigenous crop, sure to\\nspring up spontaneously in Leon County, Florida, in June of every year, w^herever sur-\\nfaces are stirred is an annual, and by the end of the year leaves a crop of stems,\\nleaves, and roots weighing an average of ten tons per acre.\\nMr. Collier, of the Agricultural Department, estimates as among the available con-\\ntents of one ton of desmodium, eight pounds of potash, sixteen pounds of phosphoric\\nacid, and forty pounds of ammonia. An acre, then, of average beggar weed growth\\nwould approximate tenfold those amounts, or relatively eighty pounds of potash, one hun-\\ndred and sixty pounds of phosphoric acid, and four hundred pounds of ammonia, wiiich at\\n35", "height": "1847", "width": "2588", "jp2-path": "featuresofhillco00long_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "market prices for these commodities that is, five and a half cents per pound for the two\\nformer, and fifteen cents per pound for the latter would amount to seventy-two dollars.\\nOr, approximately, to secure so much plant food and supply it upon an acre, by the pur-\\nchase of commercial fertilizers, as is contained in the natural product of an acre of average\\ndesmodium, a farmer would have to expend seventy-two dollars in fertilizer and then\\ntransport and apply it. The fact that there is an annual repetition of this extraor-\\ndinary manurial application to cultivated lands in Leon County, without cost, and actually\\nin spite of a farmer, is of itself a feature of sufficient value to attract hitherwards pracd-\\ncal agriculturists who know something of the reciprocity of tillage. On page is of this\\nwork the picture Peas and Beggar Weed shows a nine weeks growth of cow-peas\\nand desmodium being mown for forage and on page 33 Desmodium to turn under\\nis a squint at a forty-acre field of beggar weed which has come voluntarily on oat\\nstubble since the cutting of the grain, middle of June, and the land not stirred or broken\\nafterwards. Just seventy days have elapsed since the beggar weed in the picture\\nsprang up. The crop was about four and a half feet high when photographed, and\\nwill double its height during September. Imagine turning under such a crop, in which,\\nper acre, accurate scientific analysis says there are of potash eighty pounds, phosphoric\\nacid one hundred and sixty pounds, and of ammonia four hundred then, on the same\\npage, look at the picture Corn 40 bushels per acre, without fertilizer and compre-\\nhend how it all happens. Without fertilizing means, in that place, without any outlay\\nof time, money, or labor in securing plant food merely utilizing the natural condi-\\ntions already there.\\nIn the foregoing glance we have taken at some of the salient features of indus-\\ntrial purposes as they present themselves in surroundings here, conservadve views", "height": "1868", "width": "2620", "jp2-path": "featuresofhillco00long_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "N.y. y", "height": "1847", "width": "2588", "jp2-path": "featuresofhillco00long_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "have been taken of all matters. We might have spoken boastfully of the great enter-\\nprise of growing cigar tobacco at two dollars per pound, and given photographs of per-\\nhaps fifty large, substantial tobacco barns that have been erected within three years last\\npast. When that industry becomes better understood and established, when the country s\\nproduct shall have acquired an uniform quality and found a ready and regular market,\\nit will be ample time to advertise the industry as a reliably fixed resource in Leon\\nCounty farming. No doubt such conditions are in store for us. But production of cigar\\ntobacco, especially the Nicaragua and Sumatra leaf, for wrappers, embraces a process of\\ncuring and preparation by the farmer, before it is marketable, that as yet is but slightly\\nunderstood by the majority who have tackled the business. So, too. we have studiously\\navoided enumerating among the ordinary well-established and practical farm industries so\\nimportant a matter as wine-making, for instance. Not because no wine is made in Leon\\nCounty, but because Leon farmers generally know nothing about grape culture.\\nA half dozen or more vineyards in Leon, in the hands generally of Europeans,\\nhave yielded most satisfactory results.\\nExcellent grapes of numerous varieties are by these gentlemen successfully and\\nprofitably grown for market, and many thousand gallons of both red and white wine\\nare annually produced by one of them. Nevertheless, wine-making is far from being one\\nof the recognized resources of Leon County.\\nHundreds of former visitors to Tallahassee can recall the native claret and sauterne\\nserved at the Leon to its guests, and testify to its excellence, as well as did the\\njudges at Chicago last year when they awarded numerous prizes and diplomas to\\nM. Dubois for the extensive and attractive display he made there from the sunny hill-\\nsides of San Louis and Andalusia vineyards in this county.\\n38", "height": "1868", "width": "2620", "jp2-path": "featuresofhillco00long_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "", "height": "1847", "width": "2588", "jp2-path": "featuresofhillco00long_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "What we have striven to accompHsh in these pages and pictures is simply to\\nintroduce our beautiful and attractive surroundings exactly as they now are.\\nThey are by no means as they once were, nor, indeed, as we hope and con-\\nfidendy expect they will be in the future; but we want help in the good work of pushing\\nforward the development of things hereabouts. We want good earnest folks to come and\\nassist us. Perhaps when fair-minded people come amongst us and grow familiar with the\\nenvironment, their wonder will be, not that we have prospered no more of late years, but\\nrather that through all the embarrassments and perplexities of political and social reconstruc-\\ntion and financial stringencies we have been so well preserved in conditions of well-doing.\\nSo much, then, of these pages as treat of topics interesting to home-seekers of a\\npractical farming turn of mind, are sent out with confident assurance that whatever repre-\\nsentations they contain, the same are simply facts, touching which, and in further\\ndetail, people from every quarter are invited to inquire or inspect for themselves.\\nOf the general healthfulncss of Leon County seventy years of civilized settlement\\nrender good account. Throughout that period of time, experience of differently con-\\nditioned and habituated people show a phenomenal freedom from prevalence of bronchial\\nor pulmonary complaints. In the absence of hereditary tendencies towards weakness in\\nthe organs involved in that character of disease, appearances of such troubles are exceed-\\ningly rare, while it is recognized that rapid recovery and generally permanent relief\\nfrom that class of ailments results to sufferers from elsewhere who seek asylum in\\nLeon County airs.\\nOf that doctor-born class of distempers popularly termed malarial, Leon County\\nhas quite a fashionable proportion, since the catalogue embraces usually every physi-\\ncal distraction that may arise from abused digestion and brutally overtaxed nerves, for\\nm", "height": "1868", "width": "2620", "jp2-path": "featuresofhillco00long_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "which two typical causes are injudicious eating and drinking. But that there prevails in\\nthe atmosphere of the beautiful, dry, sea-fanned hill-tops of Leon County an insidious\\nmiasmatic exhalation, winter or summer, that is poisonous and deleterious to human\\nhealth, is as preposf:rous as that the breath of the Goddess Venus should smell of\\nonions or small beer.\\nThere are in Tallahassee and surrounding country gentlemen of the medical pro-\\nfession whose methods are as modern and whose physic is as noisome as otherwhere.\\nClimatic conditions are exceedingly equitable 15\u00c2\u00b0 Fahr. is the difference between\\nmean winter and summer temperatures. The maximum summer temperature in Talla-\\nhassee has been 95\u00c2\u00b0 Fahr., but that only for an hour or two on a single day in\\nexceptional years, while 19\u00c2\u00b0 Fahr. is the lowest register for years at a time. The sea-\\nson of storm and rain is not in winter. Sunshine and warm airs from the Mexican sea\\nhard by are prevailing conditions then, with an occasional ugly drizzle, but without cold.\\nIn summer the nights in the Leon hills are always cool, and cover is a neces-\\nsity to health and comfort. With grass-grown surfaces everywhere, endless canopies\\nof shade, and the regular pulsation of the Gulf monsoon, we feel justified in awarding\\nthe palm to Leon highlands, for delightful summer wear, over any Southern realm we\\nwot of.\\nEducational matters are on a satisfactory footing. There are separate free schools\\nfor whites and negroes in every neighborhood in the county. The West Florida Semi-\\nnary, a co-educational institute under State auspices, with primary, high school, and\\ncollegiate departments, is located at Tallahassee while in the city, as well as at several\\ncountry centres, private schools with competent instructors are established.\\nTallahassee has two commodious hotels, the Leon and St. James, and numbers of\\n41", "height": "1847", "width": "2588", "jp2-path": "featuresofhillco00long_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "regularly conducted boarding houses offering comfortable accommodations besides which,\\nmany families are accustomed during the winter season to furnish private boarding, etc.\\nGas and artesian water-works, artificial ice, and horse cars are among the con-\\nveniences of the place, and an excellent fish-market is not to be forgotten. Well -sup-\\nplied stocks of merchandise are to be found in all the usual lines.\\nThe exceptionally enjoyable driveways over and around the picturesque country\\nhave fostered a livery that would be creditable to centres of greater, importance, and the\\nreciprocal relations of moderate charges and generous patronage have tended to make\\nriding and driving an habitual and inexpensive pastime with every one.\\nThe negroes of Leon County are, as a class, sober, law-abiding, amiable, working\\npeople. Under the crude methods of agricultural purpose that obtained in the South\\nunder the institution of slavery, these people became trained to a high state of indus-\\ntrial proficiency. The race is just as capable of being taught and directed now as\\nthen. Those earnest, fair-minded farmers in Leon County who themselves know how,\\nexperience no insurmountable difficulties in teaching colored laborers to perform satis-\\nfactory and skilful labor in field, orchard, garden, dairy, or elsewhere that docility,\\nendurance, and ordinary intelligence are required.\\nPromise was given heretofore of saying something more of the facilities offered in\\nthe Tallahassee country for shooting and fishing.\\nCultivated people with a taste for field sports, who come with their families and\\nsojourn among our coverts, have found great favor among Leon County people, and\\nhave come to be specially considered by proprietary interest in the extension to them of\\ninvitation to shoot the preserves. Indeed, such game preserves as are kept are chiefl)\\n42", "height": "1868", "width": "2620", "jp2-path": "featuresofhillco00long_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "", "height": "1847", "width": "2588", "jp2-path": "featuresofhillco00long_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "maintained with a view of securing good shooting to winter visitors who come to\\nTallahassee.\\nQuail are abundant throughout Middle Florida. The cover is generally heavy\\nand it requires strong, windy dogs to work it. Extensive cornfields, ordinaril} in the\\nlower places, bordered with sedgy hillsides, interspersed with copse, bramble patches,\\nditch and hedge rows, are prevailing conditions, with plenty of water for dogs. There\\nare no fences in the county except wire ones about the pasture lands. Vehicles can\\nturn out from highways at all points and drive in any direction for miles, unimpeded,\\nthus enabling greatly extended areas to be gone over in gi\\\\ en time. Livery men are\\nwell supplied with hunting outfits, arranged for hauling dogs and shooters, and the\\ndrivers are practical guides, familiar with the covert, etc.\\nThe season of the year in which have been prepared the illustrations for this\\nwork has precluded the insertion of illustrations of the hunting field. But happy fortune\\nenabled us, one day, to come upon a local disciple of Sir Izaak T. B. and his friend\\nRichards, while on one of their predatory outings after bass in the deep pure waters of\\nOcheelochee when we scooped them in the act. It was around their camp fire\\nunder the magnolias that the real qualities of an Ocheelochee six-pound big mouth\\nimpressed itself upon our soul. T. B. is an artist with a fish skillet.\\nWhen the quail season closes on the last day of February, the shooting at jack-\\nsnipe remains excellent for six weeks. Wide areas of snipe meadows occur in the lake\\nvalleys around Tallahassee. Bags counting well up into the hundred are not uncommon\\nto a single gun..\\nProximity and ready accessibility by rail of the Gulf coast, twenty-odd miles\\naway offers an inexhaustible field for water-fowl shooting and sea fishing, both of which\\n44", "height": "1868", "width": "2620", "jp2-path": "featuresofhillco00long_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "sports involve there the taking of a variety and supply of fin and feather to be found\\nnowhere else at that season. Comfortable hostelries at St. Mark s, New Port, Lanark,\\nCarrabelle, and Appalachicola offer.\\nTransit east and west of Leon County^ by the Florida Central l v: Peninsular R. R.,\\nwith widely diverging connections at either end, has for years made available to a\\nmajority of her people facilities for reaching markets on generally satisfactory terms.\\nCircuitness of route from populous centres to Tallahassee has, however, somewhat mili-\\ntated against the regularity and extent of tourist travel and sojourn to the flowery cap-\\nital. Subject of most determined congratulation in this connection has arisen within the\\nyear last past to the people of Leon County, in that William Clark, the great thread-\\nspinning Scotchman, together with some associates, foreign and American, has found\\ninterest in parts hereabouts.\\nA syndicate of New York and Paisley, Scodand, by the investment of large cap-\\nital in Leon, Wakulla, and Franklin county lands, have at once, as if by magic, converted\\nthe whole southern part of Leon and the coast country beyond into industrial centres\\nof lumber manufacturing, production of naval stores, and awakened farm purpose. A\\nthoroughly well built and equipped railroad of fifty miles Carrabelle, Tallahassee Sz\\nGeorgia southwest from Tallahassee to deep water in a grand harbor at Carrabelle,\\non St. James Island the establishment of a line of steamships from that point\\nto the several trunk-line connections at Mobile, Ala., with the erection of capacious\\nmills, stores, and hotels along its line and the blufty shore of the Mexican sea,\\nhave simply converted a wild, big game range into a busy, noisy, industrial\\nterritory, while the natives stood staring agape. The crowning glory, to Leon County,\\nof these Scotchmen s scheme is to be realized immediately in the determined purpose of\\n45", "height": "1847", "width": "2588", "jp2-path": "featuresofhillco00long_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "extending their railway line northward from Tallahassee, through the magnificent farm\\nlands of North Leon, to the popular winter rendezvous of Thomasville, Georgia, connect-\\ning there with the Plant system of railways and hotel entertainment. The accomplish-\\nment of this achievement has for years been the crying need of Tallahassee, the one essen-\\ntial requisite to her establishment, as the most desirable and attractive point for winter\\nvisitation and sojourn, not only in Florida, but veritably in the entire South the one\\npoint where, high up amid dry, resinous waves of sea-fanned sunshine and ozone,\\nexempt from chilly fogs of Atlantean influences, and alike sheltered from blizzardy tenden-\\ncies by Appalachian barriers, tired and enfeebled mortals mav seek sanctuary and go\\nforth again to usefulness and joy.\\nAmong the pleasant things of life in Leon, whether for a winter visit or perma-\\nnent abiding, is the prodigal grandeur and loveliness of floral surroundings. Amids\\nbewildering wealth of ornamental plant life, roses, camellias, and jasmine here eclipse all\\ncompetitors in luxuriance of growth and blossom.\\nThe last group of illustrations is Bits among the Shrubberries, Camellia Trees,\\nis of plants twenty feet high, forty feet in circumference, maturing from ten thousand\\nto fifteen thousand magnificent camellia japonica blossoms in a season. Rose vines\\nclimb to housetops and are decked with a profusion of bloom indescribably beautiful, and\\nare far from being least attractive among the Features of the Hill Country of Florida.\\n46", "height": "1868", "width": "2620", "jp2-path": "featuresofhillco00long_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "", "height": "1847", "width": "2588", "jp2-path": "featuresofhillco00long_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "", "height": "1868", "width": "2620", "jp2-path": "featuresofhillco00long_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "How TO Get to Tallahassee:\\nFROM THE NORTHWEST,\\nTake any of the roads leading to St. Louis, Louisville, Evansville, or Cincinnati, and\\nthence by the Louisville Nashville to River Junction, where direct connection for Tallahassee\\nis made via the Florida Central Peninsular.\\nOr, after reaching Nashville, take the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis, the Western\\nAtlantic, the Central and the Georgia Southern Florida to Lake City, and thence direct to\\nTallahassee. There are through sleepers on this route from Nashville to Lake City.\\nIf coming from the Southwest take the roads leading to New Orleans, or Mobile, and\\nthence the Louisville Nashville to River Junction, thence the Florida Central Peninsular to\\nTallahassee.\\nFrom Eastern points, take any of the roads leading to Washington, thence by the Southern\\nRailway Co. to Columbia, South Carolina, and thence direct to Tallahassee by the Florida\\nCentral Peninsular. This also is a through route with cars running between New York and\\nJacksonville without change.\\nBy steamers from the East, go to Savannah by Ocean Steamship Co., and from Savannah\\nto Tallahassee by the Florida Central Peninsular,\\nOr take the Clyde steamers to Jacksonville, and thence to Tallahassee by the Florida\\nCentral Peninsular,\\nOr the Mallory steamers to Fernandina or Brunswick, from which points there are con-\\nnections direct to Tallahassee via the Florida Central Peninsular.\\nAny information furnished by\\nO. AMES, Agent, Tallahassee,\\nJ. L. ADAMS, General Eastern Agent, 353 Broadway, New York,\\nDr. LOUIS BARKAN, Immigration Agent, 13 State Street, New York,\\nW. G. COLEMAN, General Traveling Agent, 353 Broadway, New York.\\nSend for maps, pamphlets, etc., to\\nA. O. Mac DONELL, General Passenger Agent, Jacksonville, Fla,\\nMEXICO", "height": "1873", "width": "2588", "jp2-path": "featuresofhillco00long_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "^TkAoSS", "height": "1853", "width": "2620", "jp2-path": "featuresofhillco00long_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "", "height": "1873", "width": "2588", "jp2-path": "featuresofhillco00long_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "", "height": "1842", "width": "2615", "jp2-path": "featuresofhillco00long_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "", "height": "1853", "width": "2583", "jp2-path": "featuresofhillco00long_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "^i Kij-\\n014 497 134 6\\n...L.", "height": "1868", "width": "2620", "jp2-path": "featuresofhillco00long_0060.jp2"}}