Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-01-01


various necessities or comforts and luxu
res of life. The total population of tn
county is now about 175,000, of whic
| three-fourths are found in the cities
There is no part of the country which i
out of reach of railroads. Nearly ever,
farm in it is within few miles of sta
ton, and most of them are close to tw'
or three competing lines, anxiou
to transport the products o
the soil to the marts where the con
sumner purchases the daily supplies TO
his table.
This ia decidedly an attractive display
OF advantages. The city will go OF
growing for long time to come. There
will be no interruption to its develop
ment until it reaches quarter of mil
lion of souls. The various other town:
will grow in like ratio, and there viii
always be found large city and suburban
population which must draw it's supplies
from the surrounding country.
WHAT THE SOIL PRODUCES.
What will grow on these lands? II
would be easier to detail what will moi
grow. There is not a month in the
year when our market is not
supplied with fruits from our own
orchards. Beginning with January,
and one finds the orange crop just
beginning to come literally into market.
This fruit is found in the markets until
June and July. The main portion of
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 egain. 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
where the products of the orchard 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 80 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. Caulifower, celery
and all the other choicer varieties of
vegetables mature here all through the
winter. The farmer can harvest crop
OF potatoes in the early spring, then
plant the land to corn which he may
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 year. This sort of
agriculture pays here as well 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. Thief
vorite fodder plant here is alfalfa. sort
of clover brought from Chill. 1t will
grow on any of our mesa lands and pro-
Quce one crop as heavy as the best clover
crop known in the West. 1t is, however,
usually sown on damp or irriga-
ted 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 X