The record-union., 1897-06-13

nedQllneS ana IN a pauQeQ DoQy or nau-
seating descriptive matter.
For news and for newspapers of this
character there are undoubtedly read
ers. Otherwise yellow journalism could
not exist The dwellers of the slums take
certain interest in the happenings of
the slums Indecency is not lacking in
attractions for indecent people. The in
dividua who possesses "a nose for scan
day shifts the rank breeze of rotten
journalism and his nostrils are re-
freshed. For every carrion there are a
dozen buzzards, who surfeit on their diet
of outrefaction.
Fortunately the newspapers which
cater to this abnormal and abhorrent
taste are in the great minority, as are
their clientele Men and women with
normal instincts and average moral at
tributes do not go out of their way to
seek the fostering spots of social filth,
nor do they wish to have sensational ac-
counts of the vile happenings of the
twenty-four hours thrust upon their
attention at their firesides, within the
sacred circle of their homes and famil-
les. The proportion of indecency that
exists in any community is small, yet
yellow journalism SO magnifies it that
if one did not know better he would be
led to believe that every community is
given over to corruption and licentious-
ness. Even the proofs of the licentiouS-
ness that may exist are not essential to
the diabolical art of the yellow journal,
which picks up every Police Court
charge that is made against an indi-
vidual, and not waiting to learn by the
evidence at the subsequent trial whether
it be false or true. garnishes it's pages
with the alleged loathsOme details.
WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH THE
HENS?
Los Angeles Herald: 1t is currently
reported that California sends $1,000
coo out of the State annually in ex
change for eggs. This State annually
used about 5000, 900, 900 worth of sugar
and manufactures about one-half
enough for home, consumDtion.
What is the matter with the hens of
this State that there should be such
deficiency in the egg crop? Or rather,
what is the matter with our people that
the chicken industry is not brought up
to a point where the egg crop will sup
ply home consumption? California is
one of the best poultry States in the
Union. The severe winters of the
Eastern States make this business
much more difficult there than it is
here, and yet the people living in that
country, laboring under these unfavor
able conditions, are producing the eggs
for the people living here under more
favorable conditions.
A gentleman residing south of Los
Angeles reports himself as the owner
of twenty acres of good valley land.
A flowing artesan we'll furnishes the
water for this tract. which is covered
with alfalfa From this field of alfalfa
he cuts several crops of hay each year.
He also keeps on that twenty-acre tract
about 1000 chickens. They are kept in
fiocks of about fifty, with a coop for
each flock. These fowls, with plenty
of green feed and an abundant water
supply, are easily kept healthy, and
as a result the farmer gets a good
supply of eggs daily, and these he is
enabled to sell readily at top prices,
because the purchaser knows they are
always fresh and good. He also raises
large flocks of chickens every year, and
from the sale of chickens and eggs he
gets an income of about $4,000 year,
to say nothing of his crops of hay
Southern California this season re-
ceived about S3O00,000 for it's orange
crop, and the State of California sent
this same sum back East again for
eggs Next season the orange crop.
it is estimated will bring $6,000,000
to this State. The State will send
that money back East again for eggs
and sugar. Fortunately the orange
crop gives the State the money with
which to buy its eggs and sugar.
Instead of trying to extend our
orange plantations, why should not our
people turn their attention partially to
eggs? People can go into the egg bust
ness when they cannot go into the
orange business for lack of capital and
for lack of proper soil, climate and
other necessary conditions. Again. the
egg business has many advantages
over the orange industry Sometimes
an orange crop is injured by an un-
usual cold wave; the egg crop is never
injured that way. Sometimes the
orange crop overstocks the market;
California will never produce too many
eggs. Orange growers are compelled
ton; the chicken business needs no
such protection.
All ranchers and fruit growers in
California can keep chickens enough
to supply the family table and sell a
large surplus to the cities and towns
for the use of people who cannot keep
fowls-just as the farmers in the
Eastern States do. The surplus egg
crop in the Eastern States comes from
small fiocks of chickens, and not from
chicken ranches, where the business
is conducted on a large scale. The
chicken business should be popular
lied in California as it is in the East.
California people should be able to get
enough California eggs for home con-
sumption. There is no sense in paw
ing 500 freight on a carload OF oranges
and then paying 5000 freight on a re-
turn carload of eggs. 1t is more es-
sential to produce articles which we
now import from the East than il is TO
produce articles that we must export.
The one saves freight, the other makes
the payment of freight necessity.
This rule of course only applies to
products which we can profitabIy pro-
duce.