Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-02-13
TnURsDAY. FEsROARY ls, 1890.
The Sections Needs.

From all parts of the section comes
the cheering news that fruit trees of all
kinds are being planted by the million.
There is healthy demand for good lands
suitable to this industry in all ita
branches, at fair prices. So far this is
well but it is only one of the duties Of
the hour being attended to. Fruit rails
ing will always be the ideal industry OF
this section, but it will not be the only
one. There are others that require less
capital and less time to reap the harvest
in, that are very inviting. The section
needs now large number of industrious
farmers to 60 into the dairy business.
Butter and cheese are being brought in
here all the year round from the East to
supply the local demand. Here is one
of the finest climates under the sun for
dairying. The mild climate makes this
pursuit as much more pleasant than it is
at the East as is the rule of any other
vocation. Cattle need but little housing
or feeding at any time of the year. The
pastures are perennial.
With butter and cheese we are heavy
importers of meats of ell kinds and of
eggs and poultry. Eggs got down to Is
cents a dozen here last week, and at
once the farmers stopped shipping them
in so as to force the market back to a
more remunerative price. They are now
ut II cents, and not coming in rapidly.
Poultry is worth here this week and last
81 to $S dozen. Geese bring 81 apiece.
With dairying would naturally go the
raising of hogs and poultry, the refuse
milk being invaluable in this industry.
Every animal raised on the farm brings
q better price than in any other part Of
the Union. With butter at c5 cents a
pound, eggs at 20 cents dozen, poultry
so cents apiece, meats to 10 cents a
pound, dressed by the carcass,
and all the lard, hams and ba-
con used here brought from Chi.
cago, there is a fortune to be made
in producing these commodities on the
spot. Lands suitable to these pursuits
may be had much cheaper than those
adapted to the growth of the orange,
lemon or fig, and the returns from the
investment is immediate, while it re-
quires number of years for fruit trees
to pay.
Side by side with the development of
all our industries there will be field
steadily opened for the use OF large
amount of capital to handle the products.
This is the second demand of the hour.
Capital can find no more remunerative
field to operate in than in taking care OF
the fruit products of Southern California.
There will forever be q market at the |
East for these fruits in their natural state, |
dried, canned, preserved, candied, made |
into jams, jellies, syrups and all the
attractive shapes that fruit packing has |
taken in late years.
There will be as prolific field for the |
of capital in the handling of
The animal products of our farms.
Cheese factories will be needed to con-
vert the milk of our dairies into that
form of food. With more attention paid
to hog raising there will be call for
large packing establishments, to convert
the fat porkers into lard, hams and ba-
con.
Here are channels that will draw into
them a large amount of capital in the
next few years land capital go invested will
pay large interest on the investment.
These are matters that all citizens should
give thought and energy to. The needs
of the section ought to be we'll under
stood at the East. The knowledge of
what is wanted ought to be spread
broadcast over the country, with the
view of drawing capital and labor here to
develop the many latent resources of the
section.