The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1871-12-28
IDAHO WORLD.
CALIFORNIA VEGETABLES.

talk" about the agricultural productions
of the Pacific coast which one hears il
these parts:
'0"Two weeks ago started on visi
to the 70 Semitic Valley. I arrived a
the wharf a moment too late to get OF
board, and instead of waiting until mex
day, / determined to go Immediately tt
Stockton on horseback. / accordingly
crossed the bay to Oakland, or as it is
better known Little Peddlington,' pro
cured a horse and rode over to the Liv
ermore valley, where l stayed all night
with rancher, who was known in the
valley as "Clamps" They call him that
because he got rich by holding on to
his money with degree of fortitude
not universal in the country. AS sup.
perfume approached Clamps asked me
if would like some eggs, and how /
preferred it, hard or soft, boiled or fried.
| told him I would like some eggs, and
that it would suit me best to have them
soft-boiled.
"In few moments there came Clamps
and his wife, rolling an egg the size of
flour-barrel, which they boiled in a
short time in large cauldron, and then
set it up ON end by madam's chair at
the table. A hole was made in the top
of the shell, and the egg was dipped
out with long handled ladels. l was
astonished at the size of the egg, and
observed that his hens must be enor-
mously large. "By no MEANS" he re-
piled. You will not be so much sur
prised when tell you that one hen did
not lay this egg alone; it took seven or
eight hens almost week to lay it. 1t
was a joint-stock production of the
chickens, but still it is better thar the
individual responsibility PLAN
Eat breakfast the next morning we
had more egg, and then / went on the
road to Stockton. | reached San Joa-
quin river at noon, and was ferried over
in an unique-looking craft While the
terryman was Juggling silently at his
big oars, | inquired whether the ferry
was profitable?
Doesn't scarcely pay for raisin' the
boat" he replied.
Raising the boat?' l replied, what
do you mean by raising the boat?'
Mister" said he, resting for a while
on his oars, you be stranger in these
parts, bean't your"
| replied that l had not been long in
the country.
"Then," said he, pointing to the shore,
this ere boat crowd in that pumpkin
patch over yonder."
Grown in that pumpkin patch!7 l
exclaimed.
Grown in that pumpkin patch, on a
pumpkin vine. Mister, this boat is a
pumpkin shell, cut in two. That patch
S where it growed."
'"Where, over by that barn?' in
Iuired.
THAT amt no barn." he answered;
unless you choose to call it so. That's
pumpkin, too. But l made hole in
he end ont and let the stock inside,
nd when the wet seasons set in, why,
'ou see, plug up the hole and let 'em
Winter there. They come out awful
at in the Spring That big green look
ng squash over yonder, | am hollerip'
tut to live in"
"Are these the growth of the sea-
onw / asked.
"We don't have no SIGH difference .
ere on the San Joaquin as CROWN
easons and them others; things keep
n CROWN all the time till we pull 'em :
r they die"
As | was taking leave of the ferry :
IAN ne gave me pumpkin seed, with ;.
he remark that might astonish the =
olks in the East with it; but before .
hours had elapsed l came
ear having calamity by reason of it {,
lyself.
1t was in this wise: After riding >
everal hours in the sun | was so over !.
ONE by drowsiness as to find it impos-
BILE to keep in the saddle, and dis y
lay down on the ground, in !
ending to take short nap. I had the =
nmpkin seed in my vest pocket. Dur > :,
g my slumbers it fell on the ground u
I'd | rolled over it. My great fatigue !,
fused me to oversleep myself, and / :
woke in the morning by being roughly