Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-09-24
ONE MANS WORK.
what Can be Done In Eight Months by
Man who Works Earnestly and
Tnderstandingly.


ago you published very creditable
showing of what had been done by an
industrious man on eighty acres in
five years. / propose to show what
one man has done in eight months on
forty acres of land, on Coyote Creek,
on the Stearns Rancho.
John GoedeLpurchased his land and
built his house and corral in January
last, and commenced plowing on Feb
ruary Sd. This may be said to have
been the commencement of cultiva-
.tion on the tract, and from that time
to date is seven and half months.
In that time he has planted one and
three-quarters acres of alfalfa, fifteen
acres of corn, ten acres of castor beans,
one acre of beans and pumpkins, AMI
one acre of potatoes. In addition, he
has small lots of ground-nuts, tobacco,
tomatoes, beets, parsnips, carrots, and
other vegetables, all of which exhibit
the same remarkable luxuriance of
growth and productiveness that is
seen in everything he has planted
His Languidoc almond trees, orange
and lemon trees were planted in April
and May. The trunks of the almond
have increased from one-half an inch
to two inches in diameter, and new
branches on the orange trees are
twenty-eight inches long. Apple and
peach trees show corresponding
growth. Locust trees from seed
planted in May range from five to
nine feet high. He has tested every
thing he could think of, and every
thing has succeeded beyond his most
sanguine expectations.
The secret of all this luxuriant
growth is that he has q fine flowing
artesian we'll and that he has worked
steadily, but not hard; has kept ahead
of his work all the time, and says that
this has been the easiest Summer that
he remembers since he was boy.
RESULTS.
IL acres corn, 40 centals per acre, 81 per
Genital
10 acres castor beans mot irrigated, poor
crop, say 400 bs per acre, 1900 lbs, at 3
. acres beans, potatoes, tobacco, etc......... 50
Total $500
In addition, he has sold and will sell
alfalfa hay, of which there has been
no account. The figures given above
are within the mark, but they show
that the 40 acres of land, purchased at
$50 per acre, has paid for itself the
first year, from the product of twenty
seven acres. The above sum repre-
sents his labor and living expenses for
his team. Wagon and farming tools
are worth cost and his land and arte-
sian well are to-day worth 100 per cent
above cost.
His Florida tobacco seed was planted
eight months ago and the seed stalks
stand from eight to nine and one-half
feet high and measure three inches in
thickness one foot from the ground.
The leaves will average 30Xl5 inches.
Plants set out ninety days ago topped
for tobacco stand four feet high and
five feet across from tip to tip of the
leaves-a solid mass of vegetation.
The seed stalks of his Havana tobacco
are over seven feet high, with leaves
two feet long.
His potato crop "bangs" anything
ever before heard Of They are now
just mature enough to dig. He dug
and weighed what had grown on a
space 73xll feet, or nine square yards,
ana the WelSnt was HI pounds. An
acre would at this rate yield 539 times
III pounds, which is 95, 226 pounds, or
over Az tons. This is big story; but
if any man doubts it, and will come
to Anaheim, will take him to John
GoeddePs place, and we will have an
other piece of ground measured off
and the product weighed.
1t would pay man to travel long
distance to see what one man has
done in eight months. Goedel makes
light of his crop and says that if he
had known at first what he has learn
ed by experience, he could have done
twice as well.
Joyn GoedePs land is very good, but
not more than an average of the
greater part Of the 1901 900 acres of ar
tesian we'll land in the valleys of the
| Santa Ana and San Gabriel, in Los
Angeles county. His artesian we'll
water and his land are not so very re-
markable, but the real difference is IN
the man. 1t is the difference between
a man who works sensibly and with
determination to do something and
barley-scratcher whose only aim is to
do the least possible work. "That's
what's the matter"
WIN. II. OLDEN.