Los Angeles herald., 1891-09-20
Typical Facts About Southern
California Farms.
The Value of the Little Farm
Well Titled.
Onion Exports to Soon Excel the
Potato Output.
General News About Agricultural Mat
ters-AnOther Starch Factory.
News Notes of In
terest.

of the great state of California went
down with crash, and many pocket
book was bruised or killed outright by
the flying debris. During the past few
months the world has witnessed resur-
rection in California almost as wonder
ful as the historic boom and the subse-
uuent collapse. The California editor OF
The Age, who was the historian OF the
former boom, has followed the later de-
velopments faithfully in these columns.
He has pointed out the fundamental
difference between the old boom and the
new, and shown that the new one rests
upon the solid foundation of irrigation.
Land values are rising again in the
southern half of California. Money and
people are flowing back again into the
channels from which the riotous tide OF
sDeculation receded but three or four
years ago. The rich smile of prosperity
plays again on the beautiful face of the
landscape. The fact is that California
took her medicine, learned her lesson
and is now getting the benefit OF 1T.
She learned that no enterprise is worthy
to prosper which does not produce
something useful to mankind. She
learned that no house could stand
unless grounded on a sure footing,
but that with a good foundation the
stateliest edifices could be builded. And
so, with vivid recollections of her former
experience, with lively appreciation of
her soil and climate, and with full
knowledge of the fructifying power OF
irrigation, she presses forward to new
conQuests over a sure pathway. The
cultivated area of the state is steadily
increasing, and now thousands are max
ing new homes as the sagebrush falls
back before the garden and the orchard.
We do not know Of any country that
has shown such recuperative power as
California. With all her friends we re-
joice in her new prosperity, but our
present purpose is to hold her up as an
example for the rest of the arid region,
What California is doing in her resur-
rection days, the inter-mountain coun-
try and much of the region east of the
Rockies can also do in large measure.
California is showing them every
day the advantages of colony
life, of diversified production, OF
the profit of fruit culture, of the
wisdom of ''the little farm well titled"
She is also showing them how much
better life is worth living in pretty
house which stands in the midst of
trees and flowers. About three-quar-
ters of the charm of California may be
put down to the good taste of its inhab-
itants. Other regions share with her in
a measure the blessings of good soil and
rare climate. But they can sit at her
feet and learn how to make the most of
them, both from the commercial and
the aesthetic standpoints.
ONIONS TO SUCCEED POTATOES.
Before very long the crop of onions
raised here and shipped from this county
viii probably exceed the potato exports.
The soil is the very best in fertility, as
witness Anton Cuneo's HOO bushels pro-
duced this season from little less than
one acre, says the Bakersfield Cali
fornian.
A change in seed will be needed, for
the onions raised here at present are too
large and will not bring that price in
market which is commanded by the
medium sizes. But as far as flavor, firm
ness and shipping qualities go, our large
ones hold their own with any, no matter
where raised.
AS 70 the eastern crop, the New En-
gland Grocer reports fair yield assured
in New England and New Jersey, but a
short crop in New York, Ohio and Illi-
nois. The 6000 acres reported upon will
yield 1,576,000 bushels, or almost 263
bushels per acre, while last year $3.50
acres yielded an average of 298 bushels
per acre, making $50 900 bushels in all.
The Grocer believes that If growers
ship steadily and in light lots to avoid a
glut the crop will net from sixty to sew
enty-fiye cents busnel at least.
Six thousand acres yielding as the
Cuneo acre did this year would produce
5000, 900 bushels, as against the eastern
yield of /, SIC, 900. And Cuneo's tract,
though fertile, is not Naboth's vine
yard, for there are thousands of acres
in this valley which could do equally
well.
STARTING A STARCH FACTORY.
Doubtless q starch factory in this
county would prove paying investment
and it would be welcomed by the farmers
most gladly, says the Santa Ana Press
It seems one is to be established al
Westminster, as the following from the
Tribune indicates:
The enterprising proprietors of the
creamery will put in starch factory at
once and run it in connection with the
creamery. All the necessary machinery
has been ordered and is now on the road
This will be glorious news to the farmers
OF Westminster as it will give them q
chance to dispose of their immense croT
of potatoes. We have been informed
that the company will pay thirty-fve
cents hundred for potatoes from the
start. This will no doubt prove to be
another grand enterprise for Westmin-
Eter. What next?
RANCH NOTES.
Ten acres OF bearing Sultana grapes
says the Covina Argus, we're recently
sold at Hermosa colony, on the foothills
north of North Cucamonga, for $7500-
sacrificed, so the owner said. That land
so valuable now, producing crops thai
warrant business man in paying sucI
price as an investment on which be
expects to receive good returns, only
ten years ago cost SO per acre, and the
buyer and intelligent and far-sighted
German named Pierce. was called a
t'crazy Dutchman" for paying that
price.
There is some talk in the department
of agriculture, of the Gala lily becom'
ing an agricultural industry of the fu
ture. Farmers OF Florida have begun
to raise the roots for market, following
the Egyptians who for centuries raised