Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-11-13
"A very Attractive Opening. L.

"A verv Attractive OPcndne.
The late election has demonstrated be-
yond the peradventure of q doubt that
Los Angeles county has population OF
easily one huadred and sixty thousand
souls. This enormous increment is due
to the last five years, practically. 1t is
not to be wondered at that, under such
circumstances, all the conditions of agri-
culture have been disorganiaed in Los
Angeles county.
1t should be borne in mind that when
this great movement of development be-
gan Los Angeles county was really one
of the "oow counties" Or to speak
more accurately, this region had so
recently emerged from this condition
that we were not ia plight to meet the
demands of this enormous new
population
In many respects, at the date after
this new departure, Los Angeles county
was really the most artistically developed
region iu America. The tourist could
ride for twenty miles through avenues
aligned by orange groves and vineyards.
These opulent lands produced fruit
which was sold in every market in the
United States, and wines and brandies
which had attracted the favorable COM
mendation of the gourmet in all the lands
of earth.
But in all the essentials of the vulgar
but profitable market garden we were
away behind. The tourist could get
into the very midst OF twenty-thous-
and.acre wheat and barley fields,
he could lose himself in the most
luxuriant fora and the most po-
etical vegetation OF the world, but
our people had had no timet devote to
the commonplace kitchen garden, to the
dairy or to the thousand and one de-
mands of the luxurious palate.
And yet the advantages which confront
the truck gardener here are simply un-
speakable. TO begin with, through the
aid of irrigation, an industrious man
can here raise vegetables straight along,
irrespective of season. He can grow
them just as freely in the open air as his
Eastern competitor can in hot house.
All he wants is judicioUs alienation.
The spontaneous richness Of the soil is SO
great that artificial fertilizers are not
needed. In the prolific bottem lands of
Los Angeles county the husbandman
can raise three crops of pota-
toes a year. Or he can raise
a crop of corn and follow it with a crop
of potatoes, and in many sections the corn
has been known to yield from 100 to 125
bushels to the acre, and the potatoes
which followed this unheard of yield
have far exceeded the standard returns
of the East and Northwest.
Nor is that all, by any means. The
farmer who has set out orange or lemon
trees or vineyards, while these are COM
ing to maturity, can crop the ground to
the homely vegetables of the East, and
without any danger to his growing plan
tations. Certainly nowhere else on the
footstool is the lavish bounty of Mother
E6ILu 81 RIOllOuACCo do hOAC.
When it comes to the dairy, the situa-
ton is even more inviting to the
industrious man. If he has facili-
ties for irrigation, which he can easily
command in many sections, he can raise
from six to eight crops of alfalfa to the
acre, with yield of two tons to the acre
at each cropping. Alfalfa is Chilian
clover quite as rich and as sweet as the
Eastern clover. The Los Angeles dairy
man is thus at an advantage of from six
to eight hundred per cent. over his East
ern competitor. But that does not tell
the whole story. In the East, in the
fall, winter and spring, large proper
tien of the food fed to the COW goes as
carbon to supply the animal with heat.
In Los Angeles county the climate is SO
mild in winter that the COW may de-
pasture the fields every month of the
year, and produce what is known as
May butter all the months through, as
readily in January as in May. Very
little of the nutriment is needed in this
climate to supply the animal with
natural heat. The weather clerk him.
self attends to that.
Where irrigation is moi necessary in
the alfalfa fields the rich bottoms will
produce from four to six crops of alfalfa
yearly, the yield varying from eight to
twelve tons per annum. Here, as in
irrigated alfalfa fields, the clover can be
cropped by the COWS, instead of being
cut and fed dry.
Here we have conditions for success
Ful prosecution of the dairy interest not
riyaled elsewhere on the globe. The
ield for labor awaits the newcomer. Our
1airymen are limited in numbers. They |
,ught to be shortly increased to tenfold |
heir present numbers, with compe-
encies ahead in all cases for industrious
nen. The local market is here,
nd a most remunerative one. If
be production should ever increase
argely the Pacific ocean front ofLos AMI