The record-union., 1899-10-08

needed for family use and surpluses of
the same things for exchange or sale
in small amounts. Soil and climate
which favor a great diversity of pro-
ducts are an incalculable advantage in
giving the family varied and whole
some food, and they open a wide field
for an Industrious and intelligent man
to use his labor to the best advantage
in producing crops which buyers desire
to pay money for. He can surround
himself with farm animals and poultry
which will turn the food he grows for
them into products which are in sharp
demand Owing to the large acreage
given to special farming for export
products, there is a fine opportunity in
nearly all parts of the State for butch
ers' meats, for cured meats, for choice
dairy and poultry products and for
garden vegetables so that he who se-
cures good land and works earnestly
and intelligently to follow methods
which suit the locality, is apt to find
himself out of debt and with money
in bank when his more venturesome
neighbor may be suffering for some en-
ror or miscalculation in his larger oper-
ations.
ment of her resources and her advance
ment as a State, larger population OF
thrifty, hardworking and close-calcu-
lating farmers. There are plenty of
opportunities of investment of capital
on a. large scale, but this fact does
not need urging. Large capitalists and
syndicates are usually awake to their
own opportunities and the fact that
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ed more freely than ever before in pro-
ducing enterprises in California is of
itself demonstration of the chance in
that line. The more there is done in
such development the greater is the
demand for labor and the greater the
consumption of all home supplies. This
opens more widely the opportunity for
the farmer who comes to use moderate
capital and ample energy and common
| sense in the various lines of agricul-
tural production which he understands
and along which he desires to train his
family to self-respecting manhood and
Womanhood in a free and progressive
country.
| HOW TO BEGIN IN CALIFORNIA.
| Conditions were never so favorable
| for beginning in California as they are
now. The era of fictitious values and
| unreasonable expectations has passed.
away. Land values are nearer wb at
| the lands are actually worth. It is a
good time to invest in improved prop
critics for those who have ample capital
and it is good time also for those of
moderate means to buy unimproved
land and devote their labor and knowl-
edge to its Improvement. There is every
prospect of success to those who merit
it by diligence, intelligent effort and
business-like thrift and economy. To
pay high prices for Land without
knowledge of its quality and adaptable
| ity, for the purpose of growing crops
with which they had no practical ac-
/ quaintance, has yielded loss and dis
appointment to some who have invest
ed in California. Such undertakings
are not wise speculative ventures; they
are not even fair games of chance-they
are traps for the unwary, and they
who walk into them are not wise.
| In all parts of the State it is posi-
bic to buy land on the basis of what
| it may be reasonably expected to pro-
duce and so much has been learned by
| experience that it is now possible to
select crops and locations with very lit
tie danger of mistakes which cannot
be readily corrected. There is of course
great variation in the price of land. not
SO much according to it's quality as to
its situation. In districts famed for
special products higher values natur-
ally rule, but just as good land, and
| IN some cases better lands for other
products, can be purchased for low
prices If one is willing to locate at a
little distance from populous centers
and thlckly settled districts he can still
obtain as good land as there is in Cal
lfornia at price which the land will
soon repay if it is handled wisely and
it's earnings carefully husbanded.
Most Californians who are succeed
ing best in persuading the land to pay
for itself are those of European birth
They have habits of constant labor and
careful economy in expenditures which
the Americans have not formed. The
American counts much upon his
/ 'shrewdness and ingenuity and shapes
his activities to employ them, while the
| European loves the land and to own
it is the end of his ambition. AS a
natural result the land responds liber.
ally to his self sacrificing effort and
soon makes him it's satisfied proprietor
AT the present time there is a bet.
ter demand for agricultural laborers
in California than there has been fol-
many years and the chance of earning
something by working for others whils
getting some acquaintance with the
State is very good. Still none should
come empty handed. The laborer is
compelled by local conditions and ira.
ditions to shift for himself more thar
in older countries and the experience
is sometimes unpleasant. The one
who comes prepared to buy his home
though it be a small one, or to provide
himself with team and tools for
leased farm, is at once independent anG
can advance rapidly if he have the hao
its and purpose which have been de-
scribed.
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