Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-02-20

,stance OF conversation lately
by us with gentleman who
i been pretty largely over the
limited States, and who is familiar
with farming in the Northwestern
Estates. He returned the other
day from q close inspection of the
|eeuthern portion of this county.
[Ho has no hesitation In saying
shat, take 1t for all in all, it is the
1fnest farming section he ever saw.
He found that the farmer about
17ospel Swamp can raise from
] lightly to one hundred, and, in ex-
[1reme cases, one hundred and
tfwenty-five bushels OF corn to the
= -e In Missouri, and on good
IN srage lands, the farmer is con-
1ent with from forty to fifty BUSH
els to the acre.
Nor does this statement begin
TO tell the whole story In favor OF
Southern California. In Los An
Eeles county the farmer gets for
his corn from three to four, and, oc-
DAsIonaIIy, even i've times as much
- his Missouri brother. Here, be-
slides, he Is obliged to do scarcely q
fithe Of tho labor necessitated In
tho States of the North and South
west. The laborof the Southern
s.sIfOrnIa farmer, as compared
with the Eastern and Northwestern
Granger, might really be called
play. The corn may almost be
eald to cultivate itself.
sS IA addition 10 the ease of euiti-
!. walton, the farmer in Los Angeles
county has absolutely no trouble
: with his stock. He is not obliged
to fill great barns with hay, bar
Icy, oats and corn for their mainte.
nance during the winter. He can
cultivate q few acres of alfalfa,
have it always ready for the
scy the, and keep both his horses
and cattle on green feed all the
year round. The climate is so
mild that fuel is not here the abso-
iutely essential thing 1t is in
the East. Probably, taking
the year round, the Los
Angeles county farmer gets
along with one-fifth of the fuel
used by the farmer in any portion
Of the Northwestern or Eastern
States. He is not only thus ena-
bled to be economical, but lie shares
xfa delights of what is certainly a
climate not surpassed, it is even
approached, by that Of Nice or
Mentone, to enjoy which wealthy
people yearly travel thousands Of
miles. OF course, to people who
are without flaw in their pbysi-
cal constitution, climate is not
everything. Bat Bat in hundreds Of
1housagaass-of households through
991sS the United States there is at
least one cherished member of the
family whose health has been un-
dermined, and who would benefit
by q climate which, for quite two
hundred and fifty days in the year,
IL absolutely perfect, not single
cloud fecking the heavens. The
Temainer Of the year, with the ex-
ception of q score or so of rainy
days, is also almost faultless.
Economy of fuel, comparatively
trifiing labor, inconsiderable
trouble and expense as to stock,
absence of the need of expensive
barns, enormous yield of the soil
and the high price obtained for the
crops;-all these invite farmers
of means and energy to Los Ange-
les county.
To return to our informant. On
his trip to the Southern section of
Los Angeles county, the other day,
he visited an old Missouri friend
who has tried farming near Santa
Ana. After full survey Of the
tield, and careful estimate of the
possibilities, this gentleman traded
one hundred and thirty acres of
land in one OF the largest and most
prosperous counties in Missouri, on
which was barn that cost
$4,000, for fifty seFes of bare
land near Santa Ana. He is
entirely pleased with his bar
gain. He is making money
and pro poses to himself not only to
create happy home but formid-
able bank account, at the same
time. He can rely upon hundred
bushels of corn to the acre, and corn
here always commands what the
Missouri farmer would regard as
an extravagantlylhigh price. From
the few chickens which run around
his yard his wife sells seventy-fi five
cents worth OF eggs day, without
going off the place. In interior
Missouri they would be worth six
cents dozen. While he is per-
4ectly aware of the fact that he paid
a considerable price for his land,
he yet summarized the whole situ-
ation by saying that If boot OF
$4,000 were needed to place him
exactly where he is now he would
cheerfully pay it.
An abundance of just such open