Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-02-26

reap this in June and get 15 to 20
tons of hay off his patch. This is
worth $3.50 to 5000. A man, with the
help of a half-grown boy, can do al!
the work and not occupy third OF
his time. After the barley hay is
harvested the land can be plowed up
and put in corn. This will yield 100
bushels to the acre. Corn here is
worth one cent a pound, as surely as
double eagles are worth $40. The
crop will sell for 5000. There will
be besides $25 worth of pumpkins on
the ten acres. That will do.
But this is not the best use to put it
to- The ten acres can be made to
Weld more than 1925. Let us lay it
down to alfalfa. We will cut this
crop six or eight times year. We
will get ton and half to two tons per
acre at each cutting. This will give
us as extremes nine to sixteen tons OF
hay year for each acre. Take fair
average, twelve tons an acre year.
That is 120 tons year for the little
farm. 1t is worth $40 ton. Now
we get $1,000 as the gross result.
That is 500 a month. But there is
better use to put alfalfa to than to sell
it for $40 per ton. If this
crop is properly handled it will
feed very respectable dairy.
Any practical farmer knows that a
little herd of ten COWS can be main
tanned ON this. He can easily COM
pute how many pounds of butter can
be made from ten Jersey cows. Butter
will sell here at 25 to 50cents pound
all the year. This will give us at
least fifty per cent. more profit than
by selling the hay. A good farmer
will not follow the advice given above
in any OF its phases. He will wisely
divide up even his little ten acres.
He will devote an acre to oranges and
market $500 to $500 worth Of fruit
a year. He will have couple
of acres in the best deciduous
fruits, five acres in alfalfa which he
will feed to stock of various kinds. He
will have bit for barley hay to be
followed by a crop of corn on same,
and potatoes on the rest. There will be
chicken yard the profits of which
are very large. On this plan the 1926
made on first plan will sink into
insignifcancy, the $1,000 made by the
sale of the alfalfa crop will be utterly
eclipsed, the $500 produced by the
butter making will be surpassed. On
the little ten acre farm an industrious
and intelligent man will pocket 5000
a month.
It will, as certainly as can be, be-
come the pleasure of all concerned
at no distant day to point to Fruit
land as one of the rewards of devel-
opment in this sunny land of South
ern California. 1t need not surprise
any reader of this article to see this
in few years, with all the features Of
prosperity here outlined developed
to magnificent proportions. In addi-
ton to this it need not surprise any of
us to see Fruitland the center of
large manufacturing industries. Fair
view is only about three miles from
Fruitland, aud at the former point
has been developed we'll of natural
gas whose possibilities cannot be over
estimated. Tne we'll is not very deep
yet. 1t taps only a stratum of wild"
gas. When the well is sunk to tap
the "pocket" great stream of illumi-
mating, heating and power-producing
gas may be expected. That the gas
bearing belt underlies Fruitland is not
to be doubted. The opinion of ex-
perts has been had on this subject.
Experiments are to be made in the
way of testing the correctness of these
views. That the experiments will be
sllccessful can hardly he questioned
And, by the way, Fruitland is at
once to have railway communication,
The Santa Ana, Fairview and Pacific
Railroad will pass directly through
Fruitland. The contract is let to
grade the road from Santa Ana to
Newport harbor. The ties are on the
spot and the iron expected in few