Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1879-10-16

sure that their crop will be abso-
lutely free from "rust.n This fact
has been shown in all sections of
Los Angeles county. The Ana
helm Gazette, of last week, has the
following sensible reflections, which
we heartily endorse and should
like to enforce, upon this matter:
Notwithstanding the too appar-
ent fact that the county Is now and
has been for some time past in the
very depth of business depression,
there Is at present among all class
es more hopeful feeling than has
ever at any time obtained here.
People feel intuitively that the bot
tom has been reached, and that
henceforth the course will be on
ward and upward. Nor is it alto
gether intuition which causes this
| feeling; there is more substantial
basis for the prevalent belief that
better times are at hand.
The fact is just as firmly and in
controvertibly settled that Los
Angeles county can grow wheat as
1t is that it can grow grapes; and 1t
10 the production of wheat and wine
that will bring wealth into the
county hereafter. Given a wet
winter, and the farmer who has
had sagacity and foresight enough
to sow his farm in Odessa wheat
will next year realize the truth of
the saying that Wheat is as good
as gold.n He will make more
money from his hundred acres OF
wheat than he would from all the
barley he could raise in the next
decade. These facts cannot be con-
troverted, and it is the knowledge
Of them which causes the hopeful
feeling spoken of to pervade the
whole community, and which has
infused new life into every depart
ment of business. A failure OF
crops is felt as keenly by the mer-
chant as by the farmer, and the
success of the latter means pros.
perity to the former. In the words
of the song, "The farmer ruleth
ALL" and if crops are good and
prices high, there is no branch oil
business that does not feel the fav.
orable effects.
Under the extraordinary demand
for Odessa wheat for seed, the
price, we learn, has gone up to five
cents per pound. Some farmers,
who from various causes failed to
secure their seed in time, now de.
clare it to be impossible to make
n Il inn II of n In ~
figure, and announce their inten-
ton of following the same old rut-
planting barley. If they will stop
to think for minute, they will see
the supreme folly of any such pro
ceedipg. There is no more risk in
sowing wheat than in sowing bar
ley. Less; because wheat will ma
ture with less moisture, and will
stand up when barley will lodge
The only difference is In the price
of seed. Now, let us see the differ
wheat and an acre of barley:
WHEAT.
40 pounds OF seed at s cts.............S2
Yield, Is centals at $3.50 per cental-S27 Of
BARLEY.
10 pounds Of seed at 75c. per ctl...52c.
Yield. Is centals barley at rs cts. per
sI3 sc
SIS SC
Difference In cost OF seed ................ l Al
Difference in favor of wheat per
acre.... Sl@ w
Or $1,000 for every hundred acres.
AS q matter of fact, wheat will
yield 20 centals to the acre and
will next year at least) bring 81
per GENITAL, which would increase
the above figures very materially.
With these plain facts before
them it seems to be the height OF
folly to demur at paying five cents
per pound for seed, high though
that nrica undOubtedIV is