The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1881-04-14

| lie has pald ms taxes, suppIlea hlnlsel
with farming utensils and during these
seyen years has supported family OF five
persons respectfully. He is now in debt
only $40
Take the following, from the Sem.Trop'
ic California:
Ardreas Bristwater of Los Angeles, es
Inmates his orange crop at 1000, 900 this
year. which at Sl5 per thousand on the
trees present prices would amount 10
So, 800 His grape crop has realized him
So, 900, making S3l 900 net from l20-acre
farm
The writer has been in Mr.. Briswater's
orchard and believes the estimate correct.
but does not know how much acreage is iii
oranges probably much the smaller part
of the one hundred and twenty acres. The
writer has also been through the orchard
mentioned below, and believes from his
own eyes that the statement and estimate
are correct:
"By careful estimates in 1874 OF the
GabrieD, 309 Of which being twelve years
old from the seed (the balance being too
young to bcar) | obtained as net result
over and above cost of transportation to
San Francisco, commissions on sales, etc,
$40 30 per tree, or an average of Sl435 per
acre do not claim this as an average
crop or result, but do think that with
proper care and attention the average can
be made equal to 81, 900 per acre Of trees
twelve years old. have trees on my prop
erty which yield over three thousand
oranges per tree, which if sold at $40 per
thousand would give per acre result Of
81, 40 The average price throughout
tho country for the past five years, to those
who have shipped their fruit, has been $50
and S25 per thousand, see no reason to
doubt that the market will remain the
same.
1t is useless to multiply instances, but
useful to mark the few occasions of fail
uIt. We are III u NEW N'HHiiNi
and as yet but fairly tested
gentleman in Pasadena has figured
that the oranges planted aud to be planted
in this county will, after ten years, yield
fruit to lca,l one hundred cars per day for
three hundred days in the year. aud that
il the population OF the United States in
crease as in the past liity years, there will
at the end OF ten years be only oranges
enough 10 supply one orange per day to
every tenth inhabtnnt. This illustrates
the impossibility Of Cutting the markets.
This estimated product viii not be realized
for many tracts will fail for want Of knowl-
edge and care, aud many will fall far be-
low the average yield because misplaced
in soil not fit for oranges
San Gabriel valley, twenty five miles
long by ten wide, fertile aud fayorably sit
uated, has as yet population that hardly
reaches twenty five hundred, aud ten hun
dred OF them hardly abeneft II is capa-
bic Of supporting in aifluence thousands or
one-half as many as the entire county now
contains, aud yet it is only n corner of all
the expanse 10 be filed Ii has future,
and not distant, when it will rank first
among inhabitable regions for every charm
Of society and prosperity, as it does in nat.
ural beauty and saiubrity.
Would any keep posted on affairs Of this
land. they win do well to procure the
press aud horticultural Riverside, San
Bernardino Co, Cal or, better yet, the
Seine. Tropic California, Los Angeles,
Cal. VIM. H. DrER