New-York tribune., 1872-04-12


=. h srcoosa,vo cuttings In year. II I can support
two covs from quarter OF acre OF bees II my peach
trees bear n peck to treo In tho second year rom INC
pit; my apple trees give full crop h nVe years my
vines Yield grapes the second year nIter pah' tneh
and ~ my kitchen garden Is green ana productive al 'hc
year round and need not provide stcr ior s'och OF
rcwood for my house, Why am foolish to pay 200 per
acrei" said another
CIOps AND IRRIGATION.
T reserve for another letter somo detailed ana trtt
worthy statements regarding tic prohtapehcsS Vi 'Do
culture OF such fruits the almond, inc oraneo o'o'
and English walnut. These are now descr'euiy "''eF
ing attention I'm this and other Of the Southern counties
OF California. When como to tell you Oh .ho ae'"
yield Of orchards Of these trees 10" IN cc"is
shall surprise you; and mean, therefore, 10 DC Oh my
guard, and g1vc you, hereafter iuii put uus'"oin'
account. Tn the mean time may say thnt .hc r"l''y
and certainty with which trees grow IN this regio -
amazing am writing this letter In the open ar, uhuer
the shade Of an acacia tree which Is SIX Ihcn-b III
diameter at tho base, and comes from seed pihten
tIree years ago, and never watercd. The pepper
tree, an evergreen, and oDe or tho hos.
beautiful shade trees, can be transpiahtcd sacy anu
easily when nine inches In diameter, ana Deh9 cioseV
trimmed will make grateful shade the hrst seusoH'
Vines do actually bear at two years from the cutth'.
Strawberries rpen abundantiy in January hr oSe at
the Mission San Gabriel, has a Eucalyptus tree Uho
Australian blue-gum which in eight years from tho
cutting las made sound and stately growth OF 70 feet
with trunk proportlOncd to its hight accepted tho
invitation Of farmer TO field OF mangel wurzeis'
half acre. which he said as big round as na[og
and mostly two feet and half long,, and saw them. u
should ndd that they had been 1s months growingD IL Is
tho universal testimony that yields from 30 to loo
bushes an acre on moist land and wbeaths county Is
not wheat countryrom TO 80 bushels IL the habit
OF farmers to put barley when the Winter rains beSh,
cut that down for hay In April or May ana pait crop
OF corn on the same field without manure, with GER
tanty if the good of 40 or TO bushels TO the
acre for this CROP OF when men ask $50
or 500 per acre for land it Is "wth water Land which
has no water Is sold for from 50 to 50 per acre,
in large quantities, for herding sheep OF
cattle. "If you buy In our county bo moro
particular about how much water than how much lana
you get" said sbrcwd and successful farmer TO me-
Grain crops not yet irrigated here but they might
be with advantage, told 1t is usual to plant corn
only low ground Fruits and vegetables are all rri'
gated and though at a distance tlls seemed to inc
troublesome thing now that have seen u practced,it IL
appears me- 1t does TO the farmers hereabout,
very great convenience and benefit. In the first place,
the testimony universal and strongest from the most
intelligent and Oldest farmers that II you irrgae lana
you need not manure it, The water they say restores
the soil in way it's fertility. and have actuay
seen fields whereon grain raised for dozen years
without any decrease the yield after the second
crop. They do not pretend to manure the olive ana
orange orchards or the vineyards
THE RICHEST GRAIN LAND IN CALIFORNIA
Next, irrigation means a dry Summer, which Is one OF
tho greatest possible convenences to the farmer From
the of May till November the skies are serene and
there is ran Crops put in here in December and
January. The barley already sproung In some fields
When grain rpens and is harvested the farmer has no
ransorm to fear He does not cut In haste or ut the
wrong time for fear of storm he need not hire an OK
tracrdlnaiy force TO get his into barns In the
Sacramento and San joaquin valleys well as here the
grain f. thrased the field put into bags and lies
there in the open air until II Is sold Hay in the same
way, when 1t is cut in Spring is stacked in the field or
barnyard, and rests, without shed, until Novem-
Der. The harvest may last n month or six weeks Nor
is irrigation difficult troublesome Lazy people have
complained to that 1t necesstaes frequent plowlng
but when You consider that orange orchard Is rrl
gated IN five or ix weeks, and powed only after
every irrigation, and when tell you that, according to
the best accounts 1 have from experienced men,
one plowman can irriglte and plough from 10 10 90
acres of such an orchard without haste d1culty,
will not, think. for the lazy mans complaint.
The Congress land which remains unOcouied in this and
adjoining counties has been reserved from sale until
the Southern Pacific Railroad line Il determined, and
that Company which works, believe, with the help OF
land grant, shall have located it, alternate sections
There Is, tOld great deal OF good land In this
uart OF the public domain-hOw much am unable TO
tell The soil in this county Is mostly rich, loose,
clay FORMS with cultivation the very richest
grain land OF California IL Is on the ADOBE SOIL about
Wais0Bye and Santa Cruz that the enormous crops OF
wheat have grown, farms averaging Tor R"Vcral
Yeyrs in from co bushels OF wheat per
acre. CHARLES NohDhoff'