Los Angeles herald., 1891-08-16

at large cost. In speaking to .
farmer upon this subject a couple
OF days ago, he asked the ques-
ton, "What is the use Of tending to
garden when l can buy vegetables
enough for my family the year round at
SLIPS week ?' Now this looks like .
small item, but when we consider that
in fifty-two weeks he pays $3.50 and IN
| five years 1926, for what he could raise
at yearly cost of two or thee days
labor put in at odd times in the even
| ing, it is quite sum of money, and
| this ia one OF the slightest expenses Of
| his household. His meat, butter and
lard bill is treble that and we are put
| ting it lightly when we say that the
average farmer pays out $500 year for
edi5les that he could raise himself,
were he 30 inclined.
| WADE TALKS OF CALIFORNIA.
General Manager K, H. Wade Of the
Southern California lines Of the SAINTS.
Fe system, who spent a few days in
Chicago this week, says the Railway
Age, gives some very glowing statements
in regard to the productiveness of
Southern California, and the business
which his system is developing. He
says that the shipments to the east of
potatoes in July by his road, mostly
from Los Angeles county, will reach
700 carloads, while the Southern
Pacific has sent nearly as many.
The yield of potatoes to the
acre is enormous compared with that
in the eastern country, and as the price
to- the producer is about 65 cents per
100 pounds, potato raising is profitable.
/ Moreover the prolific soil will yield an
other crop this season. The land can
! also be made to raise two kinds of prod
ucts at the same time. For example,
| Mr.. Wade mentions farmer who
planted potatoes among the trees ON
300 acres of walnut orchard and har-
vested last June about 600 carloads of
| potatoes.
Walnut raising is OF itself very profit
| able, but it seems that the enterprising
California planters are not satisfied with
less than two different kinds of products
on piece of ground at the same time,
nor with less than from two to six crops
falfa, during the year. As indicating
that Southern California is prosperous
and that the people are disposed to
travel for pleasure, Mr.. Wade mem
tions that during the four days that
the steamer Charleston was lying at
Redondo his road carried 5000 people to
visit her, the number carried in one day
being $500. MIR. Wade has built new
home on Coronado beach, which he
named Casa Abara, or house of rest, and
here on the shore of the Pacific ocean,
in a delightful summer climate the year
round, with rose trees perpetually
blooming under his windows, he enjoys
his Sunday rest.
: BEET PULP FOR CATTLE.
Richard Gird now iIas his stock yards
south OF town completed, with capacity
of 1000 head of cattle, says the Cham
pion. The spur track of the Chino Val
ley railway will soon be finished from
the east side of the sugar factory, where
the beet pulp will be loaded on the cars,
to the yards. Mr.. Gird will feed beet
pulp extensively this fall, and there is
no doubt that the beef turned out will
nard has written the following regard
ing the utility of of the pulp:
Beet pulp is the refuse of the sugar
beet after the sugar has been extracted,
and is highly priced in Europe as a cattle
food, so much so that the farmers are all
very anxious to obtain it, and the fac
tories there could easily dispose of twice
their output.
1t is considered much better to feed
the pulp to sheep or cattle for the pro-
duction of meat than for milk. Horses
will not eat it. The daily rations of beet
pulp given to sheep and cattle vary. but
the amounts generally considered most
favorable are about five pounds per head
for sheep and fifty pounds for cattle,
mixed with chopped hay, corn-meal or
other food.
The pulp can be easily preserved and
kept in good feeding condition by stor-
ing it in trenches or siios dug in the
ground and it is advisable when storing
it in trenches or silos to mix with it
about one per cent. its weight of salt to
prevent it from entering into putrefac-
tive fermentation. This pulp can be fed
fresh from the factory or be kept one
equally good results. Feeding pulp to
hogs has led to satisfactory results.
Experience shows that at first it is ad
visable to give the animals five per cent.
of their live weight per day. later this
amount should be increased to 10 per
cent. 1t is in all cases essential to add
to the above corn meal, dried peas, or
some other dry food. The results OBJ
tanned in pork fattening in Europe have
been most encouraging.
DOUBLE CULTIVATION.
At the old San Jacinto place on sec
ton IL south OF town, many years ago
an orchard was set out, the trees COM
ing from the Britain nursery. There
has been no irrigation nor any attention
whatever paid to the orchard for the
past eight years. The fig, apricot, peach
and plum trees are all dead and gone,
but the apple trees are strong and vigor-
GUS and produce the best favored ap-
Piles of any place in the valley. The
orchard is overrun with dense
growth of weeds and alfalfa, which
completely cover the ground all around
the apple trees. This seems to prove
that the proper conditions for apple
growth in this locality are the same that
prevail in the northwest. In New Eng
land the apple orchard is almost always
the pasture land of the farm, and the
idea of cultivating the land between the
trees, and of raising some other crop
amid the rows is something that never
seems to be practiced by the New Eng
land farmer, and he to be successful. as
everyone knows, must of necessity be
yerv thrifty and fully understand his