Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1851-03-13

Potatoes. -.-...-.- -.... .%lIo,OUO
Onions 10000
Cabbages. 10000
tomatoes. ...-.............. $500
Pumpkins ....-.........-... .a,600
Total product. 2lS,050
Exclusive ofmany minor articles ofgardon
truck.
Mr. Horner proposes the present season
TO plant four hundred acres OF potatoes,
four hundred acres barley, &c, and to this
end is ordering twenty Of Bryant x Co.'S
California ploughs," NJ $50 each. for his
own use. and says he has just received an
importation of "ten miles" Of iron fencing,
ordered year since by him in Liverpool.
England, and which item alone costs him.
put down here, over $4,000. From these
two items your readers viii readily per-
ceive that capital is required here to cn.-.
on farming as well us any other enterprise.
thought is said that there arc farmers who
made 100000 to Sl50,000 off their land
last year. This looks large, but give you
the figures.
Mr.. Horner is young man, and ro-
marked to me to-day that he hoped ano-
ther year to be able with others who are
going into the business extensively)to drive
of all foreign importation Of vegetables
from the islands Of the Pacific and tho
southern coast; and Judging from the yield
of the above one hundred and fifty acres.
we have every reason to suppose that i
can be done. The fact Is, the farming in
terests and capacity OF Caliiornia have
been altogether overlooked and nis-stated;
but the farmers are now beginning To
wake up, and realizing The truth as It IS,
that the best NINE IN California is good
farm.
Good farming lands, in rich valleys. and
within 80 miles of this city, can be purchas.
ed at about SO per acre, or leased out on
reasonable terms upon shares---the owner
furnishing all the stock. implements Of
husbandry, &c, and the laborer returning
half the product Of the soil. know Of .
harm upon the opposite coast Of 100 acres
when Is olieFed to rent Tor sooo the first
year. and ior the two succeeding years Tor
one MN The crops
There is one fact connected with farm
ing in California that is entirely overlooked
by agriculturists in the Atlantic States.
which is this that cattle are not required
to be '.foddeyed" in the winter months, AZ
with you. The "winiers" Of California
are more like the spring Of the year witt,
you. The grass here begins to start i'm
mediately on the setting in Of the ruiny
season, about the last Of Noncmber or DE-
celnber, which is our seed time, and this
continues for five or six months. Then
the wild oats upon thousand hills arc
sufficient, with the native grass, to supply
| all their need, without any assistance from
man. Hogs, too, are being raised here IN
immense quantities, acorns being very a
bundant, on which they feed and grow fat.
Barly will yield here from so to 70 bush
els per acre, and thousands OF acres will
DC so"n ~ th's state the present season.
warmers ana shiPPers wiii DO well to bear
IN mind the influence which home produc-
,,on must nave on future prices OF grain.
&c. FROM present indications, potatoes
VIII be sold here another year for one dol
lar per bushcl, mot five dollars, as the
average Of the last six months, though tho
present prlce Is live to six cent. Pls
pound, or what is equal 70 500 per bush
ely
The increased attention which tho cx-
travagant rates obtained for all kinds Of
vegetables, and the enormous profits real
ized BY those engaged in the raising and
exportaiionof them from the Sandwich
Islands Van Deman's Land and other
poipfe nm fbe Pacific In Califnrp1a fs,r <x.,x.