Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-12-16

1.-THE soil to the marts where the cor
sumer purchases the daily supplies fo
his table.
This is decidedly an attractive displa,
OF advantages. The city will 60 o
growing for long time to come. Their
will be no interruption to its develoL
ment until it reaches a quarter OF mil
lion of souls. The various other town
will grow in like ratio, and there Wi
always be found large city and suburba
population which must draw its supple
from the surrounding country.
| WHAT THE SOIL PRODUCES.
| What will grow on these lands? l
would be easier to detail what will no
grow. There is not month in tn
year when our market is no
Supplied with fruits from our owl
orchards. Beginning with January
and one finds the orange crop jus
beginning to come literally into market
This fruit is found in the markets unit
June and July. The main portion o
the crop is marketed in February
March, April, May and June. Lemons
and lines mature all the year. In Janu
ary strawberries are found in our mar
kets. This fruit is in its prime in
March and April and all the months un.
til October sgain. 1t is found in small
supply in all the other months. By
June and July early pears. peaches,
cherries, apricots and apples are found.
Nectarines come on little later. In all
the months following until November
! these fruits are in their prime. Apricots
and nectarines drop out in August, but
peaches are good until November. Apples
and pears are now on the trees, and
the winter varieties grow here to
perfection and the markets should
be supplied with them until the
early spring. Grapes are ripe in June
for some varieties and all through July
and the succeeding months until Thanks
giving day they are abundant. Black
berries and raspberries appear in July,
and there were some of the latter fruit in
the markets two weeks ago. Thus, there
is continued succession of fruits during
all the months in the year. And the
crops of all sorts of fruit are as heavy as
they are in any, the most favored part of
the world, and the fruits in their single
specimen attain as great perfection as
elsewhere. In fact there are few places
WAcIc Iu0 pTOuuClb VI tu6 OTCQarQ can
at all compare with ours.
OF course all the vegetables known to
modern life grow here. Not only that,
but they all grow to absolute perfec-
ton. And, strangest of all, they mature
at all times of the year. One is not
limited to one crop year. The farmer
in this section can crop his land every
month or two in the year if he SO de-
sires. He can have three or four
crops of potatoes. He can have cab.
bages coming to market every day in the
year. Green peas, beans and tomatoes
are ripening these December days Just
as they did in June. Cauliflower, celery
and all the other choicer varieties of
mature here all through the
winter. The farmer can harvest q crop
of potatoes in the early spring, then
plant the land to corn which he NAV
gather in the fall, in time to plant pota-
toes again and gather these when his
Christmas dinner comes.
Turning to the coarser sorts of hus-
bandry, of course barley and wheat are
harvested but once a year. This sort of
agriculture pays here as we'll or better
than elsewhere. Forty sacks of barley
that is eighty bushels-to the acre is not
an exceptional yield. Half that amount
of wheat is not unusual. Corn is one
of the most profitable of our crops. 1t
does not come to absolute perfection in
all localities, but in the proper ones it
yields more abundantly than in any of
the best sections of Illinois or Missouri.
Hay is one of our crack crops. The fa-
vorite fodder plant here is alfalfa, sort
of clover brought from Chill. It will
grow on any of our mesa lands and pro-
duce one crop as heavy as the best clover
crop known in the West. 1t is, however,
usually sown on damp or irrigated lands.
Here it is perennial, and yields it's
crops nearly every month in the year. 1t
is certain for from six to eight crops each
year. The yield is about two tons at
each moving, or ten to fourteen tons per
acre each year. There is no fact more
indisputable than these about our alfalfa
lands. There are thousands and hun
dreds of thousands of acres in this county
suitable for this sort of industry. 1t has
no parallel in the world anywhere.
There is no such land on the footstool for
dairy purposes as this. 1t is good for
hogs, turkeys, poultry, or any sort of live
stock.
All the nutritious roots, turnips. car.
rots, parsnips and beets grow here as
they grow in no other section. Like the
alfalfa, beets are perrenial-they grow on
year after year until they attain gigantic
proportions. Melons, pumpkins and
squash attain size and perfection here
which astonishd all beholders. Water
melons reach 100 pounds. Pumpkins
grow to twice that weight. Beets that
make the beam kick at 100 pounds are
not rare. Los Angeles county is noted
for its fine horses. 1t will become as
noted the world over for it's other live
stock. 1t will be the great dairying
region of the Union in few years.
WHAT WILL THESE CROPS PAY?
The great point is what will these
crops pay the producer? They will pay
as such enterprises pay nowhere else in
the world. The citrus fruits are the most
profitable of all. Let no one
imagine this poetic and profitable
industry is at an end in this
section. The scale has made great raw
ages in the orchards, it is true, but by
no means universally. This section will
market as many oranges this year as in
any one in its history. Not less than
1000 carloads, each of 800 boxes, about
175 oranges to the box, will be exported
this winter. At Riverside, at Pomona,
in some orchards in the San Gabriel val
ley, at Santa Ana, Orange and Anaheim,
the yield is as large as ever. AT River
side and Pomona the scale is not known.
In many small orchards in the infected