Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-03-20
An Ins,r.csive Comparison.

democrat detailed corps OF reporters 10
look into the question of the profits OF
farming in the country Immediately trib-
utary to that city, the inquiry embracing
Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, and other dis
tinctively agricultural States. The result
was embodied in three pages OF inter
views, and was by no means such as to
encourage any enc to select farming as
calling. Nineteen out of twenty OF the
farmers gave the most dlscour-
aging account of their experiences. FIRE.
quently the proprietor of three and four
hundred acres would not make as much
net money as some California orcnaro-
lists realize off of single acre even in
the deciduous fruits. Where corn
brought twenty.fi five cents bushel there
was bare living in farm OF several {
hundred acres, but even then the sltua-
ton was gloomy considering the capital
and labor invested. But over EXTENSIVE /,
areas of the country embraced in t. 40
inquiry corn by no means bror .Oht
twenty-five cents bushel. In NOR.
tions of Kansas during the past season
the price has frequently gone sa1v as
fifteen and in some extreme cessa fen
cents a bushel. Where sto' A and. hoo
raising have been combin Al With tho
growing of corn, in few CT .ss.s,a nrotit is
figured out. But in no J ,srtion of this
voluminous exhlolt 10 etfnd anything
to encourage man TO embark his
capital and muscle in the business Of
farming in the re zion indicated. In
most cases the surroundings of the
farmer were bare and unattractive, anc
a whole family nay work from morning
till night, day in and day out, and barely
earn q subf istenoe. If. at the enc
of the y ear, few cattle and
horses ar d hogs have been carried
through the winter, and the family
{ have be sn comfortably clothed and fed
, that is the most that is looked for. Al
the c'.ops not needed for the mainte
| nance of the family and to carry the farm
| stock over the severe winters, 60 into the
o hands of remerseless middlemen ane
= grasping transportation companies. Ye
+ we are writing of the favored territory
a | that has built up such superb cities al
v st. Louis and Chicago. No wonder tina
+ fthe cities are crowded with eager con
o testants for positions rs clerks ans
9 counter jumpers. One incident related
% in the %lobe- Democrat is particularly re
d markable. The owner of well-improveG
q farm of three hundred acres in Missouri
told the interviewer that it was as muct
as he could do to maintain his family
!. and that if he had been obliged to pay
10 for his help he would have been working
n at dead loss, and considerable one. II
d that region big and little-every ont
l. about the farm-turn in and work like {
:. house-a-ire, and consider themselves re
= paid by a frugal livelihood fo cd
g fuel and clothing.
"A The same state of facts which il
!. graphically portrayed in the region ives
n of the Missouri river by this journal il
"a substantially repeated in the Mississippi
10 valley.
"a The parallel which we are about t,
L draw has already doubtless suggestet
l. itself to our readers.
Y A man can come to Los Angeles anL
;. buy ten acres of land, with water-right
q adapted to the growth of the citrus fruits
q He can set out orange trees three year,
q from the seed. In three years more, with
r. approved budded oranges, he can rely
+. upon an income ranging from 500 te
% $500 an acre. On these ten acres he car
}. grow alfalfa and vegetables while hi
d fruit trees are maturing. At the end O.
n his short probation he will make more
d net money off his ten acres than the Mis-
q souri, farmer can hope to realize from hii
" three hundred acres, and hs will, in addi
Ition, have pleasant and even poetica
home. This result will be accomplished
,r with one-fiftieth part of the labor of the
ia Missouri farmer.
20 Or he can come to Los Angeles an6
n buy ten acres of good alfalfa land. From
q these ten acres he can cut one hundred
!. tons OF excellent Chilian clover yearly
. and if he cares to run a dairy he car
# make more money off his miniature farm
of than bis Missouri rival off his three hun
m dred.
AL Or he can do the same thing with
n. twenty acres of good bottom land planted
10 in corn.
IA Or, if he has fancy for truck raising
=. he can take five acres of the rich lands
as of the Cahuengs, San Felipe Lugo o.
4 Rapchita, and make more money by
D. raising early tomatoes, potatoes and cauli
10 flower than the Missourian can clear of
=. his hundredg OF broad acres.
Last but not least, ne will accomplish
st these pleasant and profitable results in &
h. climate where it is perfect delight te
II live, and where every inspiration, bar
90 ring twenty days out of the three hundred
10 and sixty five, discounts anything that il
a recorded in Nice, Mentone or the othel
m famous health and pleasure resorts o
ID the world.
A These are the truths that will make
10 Southern California and it's Queen City
d and County, Los Angeles, in a few years
% one of the most densely populated regions
=, of the earth. and which will make thit
= city stretch eastward and northward tt
tho foot of tho M Mountains opd woet w q rr