Los Angeles daily herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1873-1876, 1874-02-06
Agricultural Items.

The FoOthiU Tidings predicts that
the day will come when silk culture
in Nevada county will equal if not
excel in Importance our present gold
production, and be one Of the leading
interests of the foothills. Then why
would 1t not be good plan to plant
out mulberry trees i'll every nook and
corner, in order that when the time
comes we may be prepared, having
taken time By the forelock. .#.
The Pacific Slope Wool Growers
Association incorporated Monday. OBJ
ject: to raise, purchase and sell sheep
ranges, and to acquire such real estate
and other property as may be neces-
sary for the purposes Of the Associa-
ton, and to grant, bargain, sell and
convey it, as may be deemed proper.
Capital stock, 100000. Directors -
Joseph b. Houghton, VIM. G.. Sleeper,
Samuel d. Keith, Edwin II. Black
and John +. Aver.
About a year or more ago Henry NJ.
Allen leased what is known as the
Slaughter House Point property, and
has been since making the necessary
arrangements for establishing a dairy.
He has progressed favOrably with his
enterprises, and will commence bust
ness in the comming season. Mr.. AL
len, this winter, planted twenty-five
acres of alfalfa, which is all up and
growing finely. 1t has always been
mooted question with agriculturists
whether frost would injure this plant.
Mr.. Allen is satisfied from his own ex-
perience that it does not. Notwith-
standing the cold and severe season,
with its frequent frosts, which the al
falfa has had to encounter, it is look
ing as thrifty as it we'll could under
any condition of the weather. VAL
lejo Chronicle.
The Real Estate Reporter has the
the following: AS q State we have
increased in population of about 49,
600, including surplus of arrivals
over departures of 30, 900; and of births
over deaths of 10000. Our specie ex-
ports have materially decreased, while
our other exports have largely in
creased. Our exports seward have
increased about 100000 over 1872,
and now aggregate about $4,000, 900;
while our exports by rail for the past
year foot up, in value, about 500, O0O,-
00O-a material increase over the pre-
vious year. To improve matters still
more, our imports show slight de-
crease. Our trade with Great Britain
has nearly doubled during the past
year, reaching now about $4,000, 900,
largely made up in direct trade in
case goods, salmon, flour, wines, and
many other articles of Pacific coast
production, other than wheat. This is
truly encouraging to us as State, and
speaks in eloquent tones of material
progress.
The Santa Clara argus has the fol-
lowing: An interview with gentle
man who is cultivating large field of
these vines on the MERGED river bot
toms, has furnished us with some in
teresting facts. In the Eastern States
generally the vines do not yield the
first year; the second year crop of
1000 pounds to the acre is expected;
and in the third year the full crop of
1900 pounds per acre is obtained. But
on the MERGED river bottoms field of
hops yielded, the first year, 1900
pounds, and will give 1000 this year.
The expense of cultivation and pick
ing amounts to about twelve and a
half cents per pound, while the price
paid for the crop varies generally from
twenty to sixty-fve cents per pound.
This margin for profit is immense.
The Gilroy Advocate says: In our
last issue were given some particulars
about the cultivation, the yield and
the profits of annie, and this not on
hypothesis merely, nor at second hand,
but from living words, as communi-
Gated to us by gentleman who has
been growing the plant for the last
four years in this State. That gentle
man came to Gilroy last week with
his money, his experience and his en-
terprise, to buy land, to settle, to grow
this extraordinary plant, to prosecute
new industry, to establish here, ulti-
mately, a factory to manufacture the
fiber, and he couldn't get land to buy.
There are here thousands of acres of as
good land as the sun shines on, fit to
produce anything, but they are locked
up and lying idle in the hands of mo-
nopolists, and so this gentleman could
not obtain so much as one acre of it,
although ready to pay down any rea-
sOnable price that was demanded. If
ever there was o case demanding the
immediate attention of the Legisla-
ture for sweeping out of sight this
hateful monopoly, it is this and such
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