Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-01-28

coo acres OF bearing orchards, owned by
about fifty different proprietcrs. AS
rule these orchards are small, each pro-
Pretor having Only few acres The fol-
loving Is list of the principal orchards
and vineyards, Gil planted within the past
ten years: McWilljams 40 acres Williams
1913, Lumber 30, Armstrong 80, Miles %,
Reanls 20, Clayton %. Campbell 90, Nc
Nuiiy 60, the Bassfords 10, the Wolfskills
80, Burkmeister 40 Hickmot 10. Halle 40,
the Scaflelts 40 Switser Is. Bronson Is,
F'5daie %, Mckwen " Morrison % Drake
80, Blake 10. the Pierce estate So Miss
Monroe 20. Baldwin 10, Abernethv 40
Sheldon 40. Stewart 60, Mrs Chadbourn
l2o, Brian 10, the D4visons $40, HONEYWELL
20, h. Harper estate 10, Barnes 10, Russell
II, Wilson 20, Pangbprn 5. Danielson So
Mrs Berry 60, Collins 80, Robbins 100
the Waterman estate 20 keyms 80, Shelly
10. Martin 80, Mangels %, Hale 10, and A.
[. Hatch ISL
TREE ANG VINE PLANTING
Is going on AZ q rapid rate and in the
course OF a few years there will not be an
acre OF land in Suisun valley adapted 10
| fruit or vines which is not in orchard or
vineyard The owners of lands, even those
who have had neither faith nor experience
I'D fru''. gsspving, will be compelled to plant
! pAt VI vi sen 10 tADSe VINO Will Dllnt
them. Land has been so enhanced by the
! results of fruit-growing that neither graz
! ing nor grain raising will pay an interest
upon the money for which the land ca oe
| sold Tor orchard purposes. II is safe to
| predict thai the whole of The Suis3n valley
| Will De continuous area of orchards and
vineyards within ten wears.
THE ORCHARD OF T HATCH
| Consisting Of see acres, all planted ia trees.
| IS perhaps tue largest continuous aad COM
| pact body az fruit trees owned by one per
! son in the United States, or in the world.
| T5is orchard is noted not only for the
number OF acres il comprises. but also for
the Jndlclous adaptation of the different
4 kinds of fruits 20 different soils for the
> selection Of only those vari, ties of eecf,
I KIND oi fruits which are il demand in the
Est. and which via carry long distances
for the thorouGhness of the cultivation and
! the skill displayed in pruning; for the
/ sarge and uniform tree-gro~rAs. and for
! tsc great annual fruit lsro5nc: and the higa
/ fssees reslized. Ii is al these exceiIencies
| wiAich has made it neted and given il aud
ste owner so high re,aSistio;i 4 history
s'i tbs orchard, from tue inception of the
ices 49i the first tree-plagtiug. through each
successive step till it has reached lis present
! ininease proportions. will BE of grea; inter
!
SOME S.sooUSI OF THE cAeEER OF A. T.
HATCH,
! The ieprs entative orcharSist and the
largest izssiyidual fruit-prcGScer on this
coast; hoY he struggled ia his early boy
hood and nsSuhood; his journey overland
to California On foot; his iabofs here as a
! sheepherder. 2liner and eraIn-fsiser, to the
J day he foresaS she profits of growing,
! and commences tree planting aud the
! great work lie iss accomplished Is devel-
| oping the fruit interest OF The State, and in
producing the revolution in our agriculture
which IS now taking plsce; all these viii
| be OF absorbing interest to thousands q
/ present and prospective oFchardisis.
QUE FUTURE ogcHAEo NAGSATE
/ Was born in the tosn OF Elkhart, Indi-
ana. in 1887. His parents we're among the
early settlers of IndisDa. which at that
time was new State in the far West. Al
. though the soil was rich, II vas a difficult
country to settle and subdue. There were