Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-09-17
TUEssAx. SEPT. II, 1850.

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TUESDAY. SEPT. II, 1850.
we should Realize Our True Mis-
stem.
The fact that aimstter has been often
in q newspaper is no reason
why 1t should not be adverted to again
and again. 1t is the privilege of daily
journal to indulge in that "damnable
which has really worked out
most of the great reforms of all ages.
There is one thing that in this county and
section just now needs reformation. We
aliude to our urtmake-shift methods of farm
ing. Some time ago we gave the state
ment of the Superintendent of the Ice and
Gold Storage Company of Los Angeles,
which was to the effect that that corpora
sion alone had imported into this city
$89, 900 worth of hog products from the
East monthly. This company was willing
to pay handsome price for pork on the
hoof-as much, if our recollection serves
us right, as eight cents pound. And
yet there were no hogs here to buy in
any considerable quantity. When one
speaks to farmer about this great open
ing, he at once responds that as soon as
his class begin to raise pork in any con.
siderable quantity there ia no demand for
it, the price falls and the pork raiser is
"cinched."
Admitting that there is some truth in
this, the fact must be borne in mind that
pork is staple product in all the mar
kets of the world, and that the art OF
making "mess" pork is by no means one
of the 'lost arts.' IL is quite possible
that we may not be able to reach at once
the perfection in curing and picking the
hog that half century's practice has
given Chicago, Cincinnati and st. Louis.
But there is no hardship to our farmers
in starting at hog raising at eight cents a
pound. They can afford to drop consid.
erably lower. They can even afford,
when the "cinch" is sought to be ap-
Piled to enter into cooperative associa-
tions, and provide themselves with the
facilities for curing and picking their
own hogs.
Considering the abundance OF hog
feed of all kinds in Los Angeles county,
the raising of pork should develop into a
great interest. Alfalfa is capital food
for hogs, and from six to eight crops a
year can be grown on irrigated and bot
tom lands. Corn grows in this county
with a luxuriance surpassed nowhere
else on the footstool, and the hog raised
on alfalfa can be finished off with corn.
In properly appointed pork packing
establishments the natural temperature
counts for nothing, and the fact that this
is semi.tropical climate counts for
nothing. In addition to corn and alfalfa,
beets and pumpkins, both excellent food
for hogs, can be grown with bountiful
yield incredible to the Fastener.
Eighty tons of pumpkins to the acre
have been grown on the irrigated lands
of Los Angeles county, and some of our
moist lands have done nearly as we'll.
When we shall have achieved really
industrious class of farmers-many of
our horti culturists have been both in.
dustrious and prising-we shall
develop productive wealth in Los An
geles county at an absolutely astonish-
ing rate.
Diversified farming is the demand of
the hour in Los Angeles county. To-
day our pc ople are consuming large
quantities of butter and cheege made in
San Luis Obispo county, although our
ability to grow corn ard alfalfa are in
finitely in advance of that county. In
the glamour of our orange groves and
vineyards our people have overlooked
the homelier products which enter 80
largely into the wealth OF country.
Those who have not devoted themselves
to making wines and brandies, and to
growing the orange, lemon, fig and olive,
have generally rushed into the business
OF glutting the market with wheat and
barley. Having loaded the market
down with these staples, which they ex-
pect to sell to merchants who
ship to Europe, instead of feed
ing them to chickens, turkeys,
geese, hogs and graded cattle, after the
manner of Che diversiied farming of the
East, our half-hearted farmers stand
around discOnsolately, proclaiming that
there is no money in barley and wheat,
andsthey point dispairingly at the price
of barley hay. They do not even take
the tronble to plant a brewing grade of
barley, which always commands good
price.
Although natuse has pointed out Los
Angeles county as the garden spot of the
American continent for early vegetables,
and although Denver, Kansas City, st.
Louis, Chicago and the whole East,
stand ready to buy Que mid-winter green
corn, green peas, tomatoes and January
spring lamb, scarcely G beginning has
5sen made in line of business which
will ultimately bring millions of dollars
'early into this coGnty. Thus
ar the California shipments from
1os Angeles to the East have
'een mainly confined to fruits, fresh,
lriei and canned. The day is not dis
ant when f0 atr roa nf r M ApoaIoa oh;o