Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1881-11-02
Los Anweles Couuty ss u T~rrn'"e
Region.

Los Asweles Counsy ~s u T"rsn'"e
Region.
Owing to the very active and re-
munerative market created by the
completion of the Southern Pacific
Railway through Arizona and
New Mexico our farmers find
themselves confronted by very
peculiar state of things.
First. From Denver and clear
to Kansas City there has been a
demand for even our cereal pro-
ducts. Wheat has been shipped
from Los Angeles rs far East IS
Denver, Colorado, while our vege-
tables, oranges. fruits, and many
other products, have commanded a
market az far East as Kansas
City, and In the case of our fruits,
wines and brandies, clear to New
York, embracing all Intern ediate
points. To give specific instance,
the firm Of Stern 4 Rose, whose
New York and Los Angeles
houses have agencies in Boston,
Chicago and indianapolis, were
not able either during the last or
current year to supply the demand.
Az regards Arizona and New
Mexico, Los Angeles garden
truck, fruit, barley, -four and
other products. including hay,
have found q specially remunera-
tive market.
SECOND. Owing to this unprece-
dentsd demand. which promises to
increase in an arlthmetrical ratio,
tho farming community finds
itself able to ask what 1t pleases
for Its produce, and to command
the extortionste prices it chooses
to demand. Thus, to-day, gilt
edged butter commands from dol.
lar to . dollar and quarter roll
of two pounds, and so of other pro.
ducts of the farm.
However it may be with other
interests, 1t cannot be claimed
that farming, during the past two
years, has been Improbable. AS
n matter of fact the granger has
been getting rich. He has been
paying of his debts at an unheard
Of rate, and there has been no time
In the memory of the oldest inhab.
liant when the horny handed son
Of toll has been more independent.
These facts, which are of current
note, lead to conclusions which we
desire to impress upon our people.
The present excellent markets are
likely to last for all Los Angeles
products, although it will not do to
calculate on the extreme prices
which rule to-day. The truth is
that these prices can be greatly
discounted and still leave the Los
Angeles farmer In q most envlable
condition.
Our cheese and butter interests,
which have developed greatly dur
ing the past four or five years, ad-
malt Of indefinite expansion. We
confidently expect, at no very dis
tant day, TO see Los Angeles
county the very finest and most
productive dairy region on the
American continent. When re-
gard is had to the immense extent
OF moist and irrigsble lands In this
county there ought to be no limit
to our production OF all the staples
of which milk is the basis. IL only
requires the proper'amount of m DIST
ure to insure in our soil from six to
eight crops OF alfalfa yearly. From
eight to fifteen tons an acre is the
range Of the production of this nu-
triti0us erase, as against the ton
and half to two and half tons
per acre of the best regions Of New
York, Pennsylvania and Ken.
lucky.
Nor does that tell the whole
story. The dairy man who Guilt
Yates alfalfa can feed green stuff
all the year round, and thus guar
sntee the deep yellow butter OF
May, over which the fastener
smscks his lips.
OF minor feed for cows the yield
OF the squash, beet and turnip in
this section is simply without pre-
cedent elsewhere. Eighty tons of
squashes to the acre is a quite usual
experience with our farmers.
Alfalfa, which is such an excel
lent feed for cows, fattens hogs and
cattle also. With our practically
unlimited ability to grow corn,
thus giving the stabilized finish to
hogs and cattle, Los Angeles coun-
~ ought to be the Paradise of the
stock raiser.
But the whole has by no means
been told a. yet. Not only is there
this prodIgality of cultivated feed
In Los Angeles county, but the
lush, spontaneous grasses which
spring up on all our mesAs and
hillsidss, and which cure them
aalysa Into an excallant and nutri-