The tall tool with a fin-shaped blade was discovered under the DeFuniak-Walton Library building. It was used to scrape the inside of a grain silo. [Donated by Dan Owens, then Head Librarian, Walton County Library System] [Accession No. 2012.19.1]
Continue readingCategory: Agriculture
The Sunny (?) South: Interesting Florida Letter.
DEFUNIAK SPRINGS, FLA., March 12, 1890. Leaving home on Christmas day, which in old St Clairsville was ushered in by the roar of Jackson crackers and the hurrying and scurrying and the hilarity of the small boy, which may not have been in honor of our leaving, but simply, I
Continue readingTung Oil Grove Near Mossy Head, 1937
“Tung oil grove near Mossy Head, Florida. This is a new development in the cultivation of naval stores for oil The trees came from China, the nut, when pressed, yields an oil used in paint manufacture.” Photographer: Dorothea Lange [Source: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division]
Continue readingTobacco Farms
The following item appeared in The Marlboro Democrat of Bennettsville, South Carolina, on July 19, 1889: Large tobacco farms, to be worked and managed by skilled Cubans, have just been established at De Funiak Springs, Fla. Tobacco grown there from Havana seed is said to be even finer and more
Continue readingNational Forest Headquarters
This item appeared in the Bradford County Telegraph (Starke, Florida) on September 30, 1910: The headquarters of the [Choctawhatchee] and Ocala National Forest will be moved from DeFuniak Springs to Pensacola and the supervisor in charge of these forests is making preparations to [transfer] the office. This will be done
Continue readingPeach Farm with Pecan Trees
The following note appeared in the American Nut Journal, published in Rochester, New York, in January 1921: [Contributed by Robert Daniel]
Continue readingSan Jose Scale on Deciduous Fruit Trees
The following report appeared in The San Jose Scale: Its Occurrences in the United States by L. O. Howard and C. L. Marlatt, published in Washington by the Government Printing Office, 1896, pages 19-20. Prof. Rolfs was in charge of the experiment station in DeFuniak Springs when he discovered the
Continue readingPoultry Farms
This was in Poultry Success magazine, November 1921. McCaskill used advertisements similar to this for many years. [Contributed by Robert Daniel]
Continue reading